Ben O'Shea: Are You On A Treadmill?

Resident movie reviewer Ben O'Shea phoned in to review Running Man while... running and it was hilarious. Tune in to hear what he thought about this new Glen Powell film.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great the flick when Ben ashe Hi, Ben, morning band.
Good Bring guys, We're going to talk about The Running
Man today And I don't know who's idea it was,
are you running? They get me to I'm literally the
running Man, literally the Running Man. And just like the
movie itself, I would recommend like going in with low expectations,

(00:23):
like people seeing me around the street at the moment,
who maybe think is that Glenn Powell has expectations because
you'll realize pretty quickly that it's not so. The film
stars Glenn Powell. It's a reboot of the nineteen eighty
seven kind of cult classic starring Arnie Arnold Schwarzenegger. It
probably wasn't really that amazing, but it was a very
fun film for the eighties and they're rebooting it now

(00:45):
with British director Oh Gosh Edgar Wright, who is the
guy who gave us Sean of the Dead and Baby Driver.
He's famous for this very kinetic, fun style, but in
this film, honestly, it feels like it's kind of been
done by committee by the studio. It's watered down a
lot of the things that make Edgar Writs films very special,

(01:08):
and Glenn Powell, who I think is fantastic. I'm not
one hundred percent sure that he's really, like, totally at
the leading man level yet. And so some of this film,
some of this film feels like the tone is a
bit all over the place. Sometimes it's like serious action,
sometimes it's sort of slapstick. And it tells the story
of this guy in a sort of a post apocalyptic

(01:30):
near future America who has to take part in a
dangerous game show like running around the neighborhood while you're
trying to do it, Ben Radio, Ben, Benn, I know you.
I think you really want me to play the playout music,
but I think you've got some more in you. Come on.
This is not a remake of what I thought it
was a remaker. I think I was getting it confused

(01:52):
with marathon. Manh I see what I'm very declined to
not marathon me a marathon in me? Come on? Keep going?
Is it any good? It's fun, It's not amazing. I
think I think some of it doesn't make a lot
of sense. The problem, the biggest problem is it exists

(02:13):
in a world where the Hunger Games is real, and
so it's so hard, it's so hard not to compare
the two, and I think and common Domingo, who's good,
He's no Stanley Tucci in basically basically the same role,
So I know a bit. So you have not only
gone to see this movie so I don't have to,
but you've gone for a run so I don't have to.
How many I'm going to put him out of his misery?

(02:35):
How many, splinty you're giving it? Oh? Three? Three? So
it's a good time. I'm stubbing. Okay, so it's a
good time wasting movie, right, but nothing too deep? Ye,
you want to tread Miller on the street that the
three of the three. I was doing some very strange Look. Well,

(02:58):
when I answered the phone and you were here in
the studio, I thought maybe you were running late and
running here. Ben, you are such a method reviewer. Thank you,
and thank you. We shall we shall speak to you
next week. Get yourself a smoothie. Yeah, it won't make
you work quite up up quite the same sweat next week, Ben,

(03:21):
what he'll do for a movie review? So there we go,
running man, It's okay, it's okay. Theme here of getting
Ben to live the movie as he reviews it