Agent ONE Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 It is an 80s movie, live action (that means not anime), featured these crazy robotic spiders that crawled around and killed people for some bad guy. There was a cop after the bad guy and he had a pistol that fired heat seaking rocket propelled grenades. What movie is this... This has been bugging me for months. Quote
batpinoy Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Runaway 1984, Science Fiction, PG-13 Director: Michael Crichton With: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Stan Shaw, G.W. Bailey, Joey Cramer, Chris Mulkey, Anne-Marie Martin, Michael Paul Chan Police Detective Ramsay (Tom Selleck) is assigned the task of stopping the killing spree of a rampaging robot. Quote
Agent ONE Posted August 29, 2003 Author Posted August 29, 2003 Hey thanks guys... I don't know how I forgot that Tom Selleck was in it... Probably a grudge I have against him becasue he is a Sigma Chi and they want me dead. LOL. Quote
EXO Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Michael Crichton directed that one??? LOL. All his movies and plots are the same. Technology out to kill people. Juarssic Park, West World, maybe he wrote that Simpsons episode where they go to amusement park and the animatronics go nuts. Quote
Agent ONE Posted August 29, 2003 Author Posted August 29, 2003 What is even crazier is that the bad guy is the same Gene Simmons as the Gene Simmons from KISS!! Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 You don't remember Runaway? Gene Simmons and his pissy girlfriend Kristie Alley? Tom Selleck disarming a trashcan house robot with a revolver? The highway chase scene with the reomote controlled bombs and the cop cars with HUDs? ... actually, this movie sucked now that I think about it. Bug detected! Quote
Agent ONE Posted August 29, 2003 Author Posted August 29, 2003 Hmmm. I just didn't remember it. The last time I saw it was probably in 88. Quote
Mechwarrior Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 Yah, that's right. Full body scan of Kirstie Ally is what I remeber from that movie. Quote
UN Spacy Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I remember that movie! I guess I was too young to notice Gene Simmons (as if the big tongue isn't noticable already), but once I saw ol' Magnum P.I. the movie got a lot better. I think the end of the movie took place in an abandoned skyscraper..........and Gene Simmons got . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . killed by his own spiders when he fell off the elevator. Quote
GobotFool Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I liked runaway, but patlabor had the same idea and did it better A police division made for rogue technology Quote
Agent ONE Posted August 29, 2003 Author Posted August 29, 2003 I liked runaway, but patlabor had the same idea and did it better A police division made for rogue technology Runaway and Patlabor, similar!?!?!? You sure about that? Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 He's talking about the first Patlabor movie where the Labor's HOS software is bugged to make them run wild on their own... at it's core the movie Runaway is about a special police squad that stops "runaway" robots from casuing havok. Quote
Apollo Leader Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I liked runaway, but patlabor had the same idea and did it better A police division made for rogue technology Runaway had Patlabor beat by 5 years or so. Quote
yellowlightman Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I liked runaway, but patlabor had the same idea and did it better A police division made for rogue technology Runaway had Patlabor beat by 5 years or so. And Blade Runner beat Runaway by two years. Quote
GobotFool Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 (edited) Hey I think Patlabor is way better than Runaway, I am just drawing the parrallel of the theme for a police force formed to stop rogue bots. Edited August 29, 2003 by GobotFool Quote
Mr March Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 I actually enjoyed Runaway quite a bit. I haven't seen the movie in years, but I remember very much enjoying it. I clearly remember those spiders. Damn they freaked me out when I was younger I can definitely see the Patlabor similarities. Guess it's little wonder that I like Patlabor too Quote
Agent ONE Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 Hey guys, I watched it last night, it was almost as awesome as I remembered. Quote
Spatula Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 As much as I am of a Patlabor fan, I'm sure there are many other movies with the whole robots going crazy, but none are coming to my head now. I blame Murphy's law. Quote
GobotFool Posted November 30, 2005 Posted November 30, 2005 my god, talk about a thread being raised from the grave! Quote
Agent ONE Posted November 30, 2005 Author Posted November 30, 2005 It took that long for the movie to get to the top of my Netflix list. Quote
Sundown Posted December 1, 2005 Posted December 1, 2005 I'd seen Runaway posters at a local video store as a kid long, long ago, and distinctly remembered the robot spiders and a cop (Seleck) with a big gun. For some reason, I got it confused with Bladerunner, also featuring a similar looking cop (Harrison Ford) with big gun. So I downloaded Bladerunner and watched it, hoping for robot spiders. Sadly, no spiders. What's even weirder is that Spielberg had originally approached Seleck to play Indiana Jones. Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted December 1, 2005 Posted December 1, 2005 Wow this thread is back? Funny Sundown should mention the movie poster from Runaway... Selleck is shown holding the heat seeking rocket gun that Gene Simmon's evil badguy character used in the movie (his character never used it)... Selleck's cop character Ramsey actually was using a Colt custom shop 1911A1 in the movie. He is also shown wearing the "Static Suit" from his encounter with the household trashcan robot weilding that .357 and with that suit he had a cool palm-sized laser pistol. For as stupid and goofy as Runaway is I loved that movie in the '80s. Quote
bsu legato Posted December 1, 2005 Posted December 1, 2005 Selleck's cop character Ramsey actually was using a Colt custom shop 1911A1 in the movie. 348722[/snapback] You mean like this? Quote
Agent ONE Posted December 1, 2005 Author Posted December 1, 2005 ^What the heck is that? Are those rifle rounds? 348729[/snapback] No they are heat signature guided rockets. Quote
JsARCLIGHT Posted December 1, 2005 Posted December 1, 2005 No they are heat signature guided rockets. 348733[/snapback] That only worked against non-hero characters in the movie. Ramsey dodges about a hundred of those things and the female partner he has, when she does get shot, the one that hits her has a dud detonator and they pry it out of her arm. Quote
Agent ONE Posted December 1, 2005 Author Posted December 1, 2005 No they are heat signature guided rockets. 348733[/snapback] That only worked against non-hero characters in the movie. ... 348738[/snapback] Yeah, that was so awesome... Nobody can dodge them, except for Tom. Quote
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