Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Just walk with me a little longer.

The Long Walk — 2.5/5

Reading the wiki on 'The Running Man' >>> written by Richard Bachman née Stephen King >>> who also wrote this >>> sure, I'll bite. People tend to make good movies out of Stephen King's writing, if they choose to keep the premise and throw away everything else. I think the premise, unfortunately, doesn't quite feel updated enough to be relevant. I want to say it's unbelievable but, then again, it's everything Mr. Beast does, isn't it? And so could have used a bit more of that spectacle rather than just sort of the lonely sadness of doing the walk without the ostentatious television presenter to make it work. Richard Dawson that shit, my brothers. As is, it's a fun enough way to stick philosophically-hued conversation between bouts of violence, which I'm not mad at in theory, except I don't really think the conversation is forceful enough to have changed the heart at the conclusion.

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