Runaway (1984 film): Difference between revisions

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* [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted - there ''is'' no AI, just machines doing what they are programmed to do, or malfunctioning because somebody ''didn't'' do what ''they'' were supposed to do.

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Averted - there ''is'' no AI, just machines doing what they are programmed to do, or malfunctioning because somebody ''didn't'' do what ''they'' were supposed to do.

* [[Chase Scene]]: A fairly memorable one - Luther attacks a police convoy with roving smart bombs by dropping them from a trapdoor in his car, so the heroes can't even see where he's attacking them ''from.''

* [[Death by Genre Savviness]]: Luther - he knows all the angles except the one Ramsey makes a living on; ''any system can fail.'' {{spoiler|Ramsey thus kills him by [[Hoist by His Own Petard|feeding him to his own killbots.]]}}

* [[Dueling Movies]]: With one of the biggest actors at the time and written/directed by a science-fiction legend, this film was projected to be the major sci-fi film of 1984. Instead, it got overshadowed by a [[The Terminator|B-movie about a robot assassin played by an Austrian bodybuilder who barely spoke English, co-starring alongside actors who only had theater experience, and written/directed by an unknown]] (whose last film credit was ''[[Piranha|Piranha II]]'').

* [[Homing Projectile]]: the infrared homing rounds.

* [[Made of Explodium]]: Luther's creations.

* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: The skyscraper construction site. Justified because only robots are meant to be there.

* [[Painfully-Slow Projectile]]: The homing bullets of Luther's gun.

* [[Pistol Pose]]: Used on the posters and video covers.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Ramsey is scared of heights. Knowing this, Luther sets the exhange in the climax to happen in an unfinished skyscraper.