This has to be my best find to date. Not only is The Running Man a great sci-fi action film staring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his prime, but the version I bought for $4.99 at Movie Stop is the Special Edition 2 Disc set with all kinds of extra features, including documentaries and audio commentary tracks. If you’re like me then you love extra features, but even if you don’t this is still a spectacular deal for a copy of this film.

Based on the novel of the same name written by Steven King, The Running Man takes place in the future, the bad kind of future with vastly depleted resources and a tyrannical military government. To keep people distracted from their terribly oppressive existence, the justice department has created a televised blood sport event where armed gladiators hunt down convicts for the pleasure of the masses. Arnold plays Ben Richards, a former military pilot that was framed and falsely imprisoned for massacring of dozens of unarmed civilians. After an unsuccessful escape attempt, he is conned into competing on The Running Man game show (the previously mentioned bloodsport) which is hosted by none other than Richard Dawson from Family Feud. Amazingly, Dawson manages to steal the show in this film with a truly villainous performance and is, in my opinion, one of the best bad guys Arnold has ever faced.