Classic! 🖤

I went as him one year for Halloween. Almost no one got it but it was infinitely worth it for the one guy in the bar who came out of nowhere to drop a "I heard you were dead!"

(Obviously bought that fine fellow a beer.)

Escape from NY (and LA too) was the most popular at my old film club. Kurt Russell is very beloved down here. And I mean it - folks demanded to show 3000 miles from Graceland level of beloved.

Perfect blend of camp and dark. Kinda formula, but not enough to know what's coming next. That ending is just... inspired.

Wheres Kurt? All I see in Snake Plisken.

Makes sense, that guy is a damned legend! So many ridiculously good movies to his name.

Escape from NY is amazing. I only saw Escape from LA in theatres and was pretty disapointed even as a kid but I've heard people say it's actually pretty good and like a lot of Carpenter's stuff, people didn't get what he was going for...

Great flick.

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Escape from LA is wacky and pissed off which is an odd combination but it makes a good movie. Think of it like this - there's this Spike Lee movie called 25th Hour and the Edward Norton character has 5 minutes of hate speech - so this movie is John Carpenter motherfucking everything he hates about Hollywood and American culture in general - pretty much everything you see is some kind of "fuck you". On the other hand, this movie feels like lost Metal Gear Solid 2 adaptation at times - chances are Kojima's MGS2 rethread was inspired by EFLA

Speaking off - have you seen Boom studies Jack Burton/Snake Plissken crossover series? It was... something

the ending with the president being all big bad motherfucker only to turn on some broadway tunes instead of his weapon of doom is such a chef's kiss it always make me giggle. Have you read Boom Studios sequel comics? They were a lot of fun - Snake goes full Man with no name/Mad Max and it surprisingly works. There's also an earlier comic book in which the government made a Terminator Snake understudy - so we get Snake vs The Terminator basically and Snake wins because he's an asshole

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Yeah, I've sort of heard this is a big fuck you from Carpenter, which flew way overy pre-teenage head.

I've got a couple weeks of involuntary sitting around coming up (minor surgery) and I think a basically "new to me" Carpenter would hit the spot quite nicely, I'll have to get this ready. (And one of the awesome Orson Welles I think you told me about!)

No way...I heard he was dead.

The best actors on this movie were Adrienne and the Barbeaus.

"You know a lot about science, but you don't know how good a cigarette tastes in the morning."

You should try watching Howard Hawks and John Carpenter movies back to back. He was a major influence on Carpenter and his directorial MO is all over Carpenter movies.

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