Obviously Fake Running Performances in Movies and TV

"Running" a Michael Douglas movie where he trains for the olympic marathon. It was pathetic.

It was pathetic, yes. The thing with St Ralph was that it wasn't real but it was still a cool movie. My daughter watched it when she was young and it actually inspired her to run. She eventually got a D1 scholarship. OK, not because of the movie but it did get her, as a little girl, to want to run.

"On The Edge" 1986

Terrible movie even though actual good runners were used for the race scenes. I believe one of the guys who helped make the movie was a good runner. Pam Grier was the best thing in it, and her scenes had nothing to do with running.

But the movie had the silliest scenario.

Michael Douglas actually trained for "Running" and stopped smoking for a time but the running scenes were terrible.

"The Games" 1970. One marathoner hits the wall literally by running onto a wall.

Coopington wrote:

If you do not watch the last 10 minutes of this, your life will not be complete.

jordanian wrote:

[quote]Push Alt F4 wrote:

It's on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KerRVrAHhE&feature=related

That is the greatest example of clueless moviemaking I have ever seen. At least they got the part about the jigh school kids taking it out in 63 then then a 67 right.

Montage at 13:40 is very inspiring. He trains with midgets to and pwns a Somalian!

the sprinting scene in billy madison. west wing's josh limon as a geeky skinny jewish guy who was 'all american in the 100m at Harvard.'

St. Ralph

Kind of along the same lines in the movie Swimfan. I forget what the distance/time of the race was but I remember he got out of the pool, looked at his time and was pissed off even though he swam a time that was somewhat unrealistic.

You'd never see a basketball movie where the main character drops 100 shooting granny-style or kicks an 80 yard field goal for the win in football. Why make a mockery of other sports? I know they do little things wrong in those movies, but these would be the equivalent of some guy breaking 4 minutes like it is an easy task.

Whenever I see someone running on TV for exercise, I get the impression that they run in some exaggerated manner because they think that is the way they are supposed to look while running. Or maybe that is what the director thinks a runner looks like.

Michael Cera in 'Juno'

I think he won the district meet or something in the movie, it looked like a casual jog. He wasn't even tired at the end.

Woah. "Chasing a Dream" will never be topped. I knew I was in for something special when I saw those kids lacing up their cross-trainers set to dramatic music.

That movie deserves to be linked to the front page for eternity!

m runner wrote:

Michael Cera in 'Juno'

I think he won the district meet or something in the movie, it looked like a casual jog. He wasn't even tired at the end.

In his defense, I think they said his time was somewhere around 2:01.

There is some sci-fi movie where these real life soldiers are being decommissioned by younger genetically engineered soldier, they fight on some chains and some other challenges...one scene involves running and there is a 15-mile run, the protagonist(real soldier) takes off running, about 15 minutes later the commander of the genetically engineered soldiers looks at one of his guys and says, "15 miles, you have 1 hour...go!" and he does it passing the real soldier on the way, but they still finish around the same time....given the genetically engineered soldier just ran 4:00/ mile for 15 miles strait, it assumes the real soldier ran about 4:05/mile for 15miles... completely unreal...anyone know what movie I am talking about???

I have mixed feelings about "The Games." Yes, the entire Ryan O'Neal character was preposterous. "The Games" had the same writer as "Love Story" and O'Neal was supposedly a marathoner even though he had his "Love Story" hockey player physique. And he ended up taking amphetamines right before the marathon and ran into a concrete abutment ... leading with his head.

But I thought Michael Crawford as the British runner was interesting. His coach is essentially a slavedriver and a delusional one at that, but the scene where Crawford actually discovers he LIKES running is a memorable one.

And I thought the portrayal of the Aussie aboriginal runner was well-handled.

Pretty sure it's Soldier..

Unless you just did a terrible job explaining the scenario, the real soldier ran 5 minute miles.

15 miles, taking 15 minutes longer, means once extra minute per mile, see?

Here is one that definitely DOES NOT suck!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk-cXFgna-A

latently homosexual teenager wrote:

Montage at 13:40 is very inspiring. He trains with midgets to and pwns a Somalian!

^^^ rocks 4:16, 4:18 miles in a workout during that montage while, ironically, still looking like he could star in Heavyweights. I can't get enough of this movie