[geobrad]

just started watching escape from new york in itv4, not aged very well has it.

[Nick_2005]

always looked a bit cheesy in places, and even more so as time's gone on


but still love it

[revolver44]

Classic film. Wash your mouth out with soap and water.

[sherer]

Originally Posted by geobrad

just started watching escape from new york in itv4, not aged very well has it.

sometimes I think this is the problem we get the cinema and new films these days and why we have pointless remakes.

No one is able to lose themselves in the magic of cinema an get drawn into the story like we used to. Watching old films you can tell the affects are all fake as you could at the time but if the story is great then you can just believe in that cinema magic and it doesn't matter.

These days everything has to be CGI this and that at the expense of any actual story or plot

[pauldowney]

Set to be remade as a trilogy -

http://blogbypaul.wordpress.com/2013...m-the-remakes/

[fink]

Shoot a cop, with a gun
The Big Apple is plenty of fun
Stab a priest, with a fork
And you'll spend your vacation in New York

[fink]

Originally Posted by pauldowney

Set to be remade as a trilogy -

http://blogbypaul.wordpress.com/2013...m-the-remakes/

That dude from LOST might do a decent job of playing Snake, what was his name.....Hurley?

I jest...

...Sawyer.

[mike65]

Escape from New York is one of the coolest "retrotastic" pictures ever made!

From the cool black helicopters to Carpenters bass synth score, the computer graphics, the fantastic character cast, mordant black humour (Kurt Russell channelling The Man with Dirty Harrys Name in all but name!) and action set pieces its a cracker.

I have not seen and will never watch the so called sequel.

[quirkyquirk]

I think it's aged pretty well for quite a low-budgeted movie that is 32 years old.The scenes where he flies into New York,and the part with the crazies are as atmospheric as hell.And Kurt Russell's Snake remains one of the best anti-heroes in cinema history.

He wasn't sure how to play the role and when Lee Van Cleef was cast alongside him,he decided to play it like Clint did with the Man with No Name character.And it shows.

[fink]

Originally Posted by mike65

I have not seen and will never watch the so called sequel.

It's for the best that you don't. You can never un-watch it.

[Kolin Klingon]

A classic of it's time, the 80s and I had it on Laservision disk to prove it!

Call me Snake!

[Gulftastic]

Originally Posted by Kolin Klingon

Call me Snake!

Thought you were dead...