Escape from New York - Patreon Version
Added 2024-09-24 16:00:07 +0000 UTCHey Everyone!
So many of you said we would love this movie, and you were totally right! It's hard not to love anything Kurt Russell is in though... he's got the looks and he's got the charisma! What else do ya need!
Comments
Oh! I didn't realize that was his wife at the time. That's so cool
Chandra
2024-09-28 05:22:04 +0000 UTCRight!? Might be the best ending to a movie I've seen yet haha
Chandra
2024-09-28 05:19:20 +0000 UTCI love that ending sooooo much.
Thomas Yanez
2024-09-26 20:26:34 +0000 UTCCarpenter is the man when it comes to saving scratch on film, second only to Cormac. Brain's girl, Carpenter's wife at the time, probably even took a pay cut only to make it up on the backend or something. Every little bit helps after all.
tkitez
2024-09-25 22:26:37 +0000 UTCHeck yeah!! Thank you so much for telling us to watch this movie. Soooo dang good haha
Chandra
2024-09-25 22:15:13 +0000 UTCYou could fit a heck of a lot of people, but it might not be very comfortable for them haha
Chandra
2024-09-25 22:14:33 +0000 UTCIt's so true, the music always really stands out to us as being very fitting and unique. And thank you for the recommendations!
Chandra
2024-09-25 22:12:09 +0000 UTCWhat!? That's so cool!! I never would have guessed that's how they got those shots.
Chandra
2024-09-25 22:10:30 +0000 UTCOne thing that may blow your mind about this flick: the computerized graphics for the city (rasterized lines in the briefing) are all painted minitures. No CGI, just lines on models filmed on a certain film stock with a certain lighting....and it looks like it's camera tracked in an early video game. Was trying to find a better breakdown of the VFX, the one I saw about this that blew my mind, but this is really one of the only ones that shows what I'm talking about: https://youtu.be/xwS45jpHJvs?t=226 Excuse the syfy wire video.
tkitez
2024-09-25 19:38:10 +0000 UTCWatching this reaction reminded me how much I love the scores and sounds of Carpenter's films. A very underappreciated aspect of his filmmaking. The sequel, Escape from LA is no where near as good as this one, and honestly one of Carpenter's weakest. But it is still worth a watch. It's the last film I can recall Russell and Carpenter did together. A couple of Carpenter suggestions, both in the horror realm. - Christine - Village of the Damned
Noah Vogt
2024-09-25 11:20:40 +0000 UTCI've wondered for years would it really be possible to turn Manhattan Island into one big prison for the country's criminals. Of course you would have to move everyone out of the city and relocate all the major financial institutions somewhere else in the country but theoretically speaking if the city was big enough could it house all the country's lawbreakers if crime got that bad?
Robert Durant
2024-09-25 03:52:25 +0000 UTCI LOVE Escape from New York! One of my favorite Dystopian films with a great cast. Lee Van Cleef who plays Hauk was a huge Western star for the majority of his career. After this he went on to star in Action films until his death in 1989. I know him most from a TV show called "The Master". The first two episodes were riffed on a show by the name of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in Season 4 as "Master Ninja I" and episodes 3 and 4 as "Master Ninja II." Donald Pleasence drew on his own wartime experiences as a prisoner of war for his performance as the imprisoned President. He was also Dr. Sam Loomis in the Halloween franchise. Kurt Russell had starred in a bunch of Disney films before this so he pitched himself hard for the role of Snake to get a new image. It was also his idea to use the eyepatch and based his performance off Clint Eastwood. For another Dystopian film I suggest The Running Man. Totally different tone from this but it's fun!
Wade Wallenstein
2024-09-24 21:31:47 +0000 UTCYou asked for more John Carpenter with Kirk Russel. Well, there is a sequel to this movie called Escape from L.A.
Justin Frechette
2024-09-24 18:42:04 +0000 UTCSo glad you did this one. Im about to watch the full length now. I believe I was one of the people who brought this title to your attention.
Justin Frechette
2024-09-24 16:41:11 +0000 UTC
