{"id":96942,"date":"2025-08-03T04:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=96942"},"modified":"2025-08-02T21:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:33:58","slug":"the-running-man-prescient-subversive-shlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/08\/03\/the-running-man-prescient-subversive-shlock\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Running Man<\/em>: Prescient Subversive Shlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUm9egbHAd0?si=fHZP0e07U8GYP2Rc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Feral Historian<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 1 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>Most of the satire in this film is so on the nose that commentary is redundant, but there are a few subtleties that are often missed in the bombastic spectacle of it all. More than that, many of the film&#8217;s best elements come from the ways it deviates from the book it&#8217;s based on.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd39 Patreon   | patreon.com\/FeralHistorian<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 Ko-Fi     | ko-fi.com\/feralhistorian<\/p>\n<p>Obligatory plug for <em>Ninti&#8217;s Gate<\/em><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0CYXH9BWD<\/a><br \/>\n\ud83d\udd39 and now on Kobo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGRrSUxwY3F1Z2xoRGg3RjF2aHJJOXJYVExHd3xBQ3Jtc0trbFBOWmNEY0s1ODlRNGFqNTloSjFzMUdtU2pIT0xxanhBWVhDUmZ0N0tYd2tTbF9HNzQyWGhYaU5lZVBLN29IMktvVGgxSlhmRWc1cHNJYS1RMHcxUjJ2WXpkNWNCMEFWQ1U0RWpMa1hWaWJzcVJoMA&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kobo.com%2Fus%2Fen%2Febook%2Fninti-s-gate%3FsId%3Df30f9d90-907a-449a-aeab-7b25215297f1&#038;v=RUm9egbHAd0\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/nint&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feral Historian Published 1 Aug 2025 Most of the satire in this film is so on the nose that commentary is redundant, but there are a few subtleties that are often missed in the bombastic spectacle of it all. More than that, many of the film&#8217;s best elements come from the ways it deviates from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[1593,122,85],"class_list":["post-96942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-feralhistorian","tag-movies","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pdA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96943,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96942\/revisions\/96943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}