"The Running Man" - Was this cheesy 80s gold actually kinda... prescient?

Okay, so I just finished watching "The Running Man" (1987). Full disclosure, Schwarzenegger movies aren't usually my thing, but I'm trying to expand my horizons and dive into some classics. I had NO idea what to expect going in. I mean, the premsie is wild – a gameshow where convicts are hunted to death? It's like a super dark "American Gladiators" meets "Squid Game" before either of those things existed, lol. What struck me, beyond the sheer 80s-ness of it all (the outfits! the hair! the music!), was how eerily relevant some of it felt today. The whole "bread and circuses" thing, the media manipulating the masses, the blatant government corruption... like, woah. Maybe I'm just being overly sensitive to political stuff right now, but it defintiely made me pause. Plus, Richard Dawson as the game show host? Absolute villain perfection. He was genuinely unsettling! I gotta admit, some of the dialogue was pretty corny, and the special effects are... well, they're from 1987. But even so, there was something really compelling about the story. Maybe because it felt like it was saying something more than just "Arnie beats up bad guys". So, my question for everyone else who's seen it: Did you feel that same sense of, like, "this is too close to home" when you watched it? Or am I just reading too much into it?