Episode 479: Runaway (1984)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

We are looking at the 1984 film from writer/director Michael Crichton, Runaway. It’s the tale of Jack Ramsay (Tom Selleck) a member of the Runaway unit who takes care of errant robots. He’s a single dad with a son and a robot at home and a new partner on his team, Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes). He’s put on a case which leads him to the dastardly Luther (Gene Simmons).

Carol Borden (The Cultural Gutter) and Josh Stewart join Mike to discuss this quasi-futuristic tale.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.5	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime.
0:15.3	People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters
0:22.5	in the projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:26.9	Turn it off.
0:32.5	Turn it off.
0:50.4	Andrew! It is the future.
1:00.0	Mysteriously spreading across an unsuspecting city, machines trained to serve humans are turning against them.
1:12.7	What are you got, turn? Model 912, cut up two people inside the house. I'm going in. You're going in. We can sit in a disarm robot. If you hit the floater, it'll hit the disarm. In any minute, it's going to decide to hit the kid.
1:19.9	An ingenious conspiracy has begun, and someone has to stop the madman who started it all.
1:24.7	We've got a non-standard chip here. I can turn any domestic computer into a killing machine.
1:27.0	Working late at night or I'll buy yourself.
1:28.4	I just had a few things to finish.
1:29.4	No, I answer.
1:30.3	Let me help you.
1:34.3	Buzz detected.
1:36.0	A lot of buzz, Jackie.
1:37.2	I thought it was clean.
1:39.2	Luther really wants to keep track of you.
1:40.6	Why's that, Jackie?
1:43.1	This is a bad guy.
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