Annual "The Warriors" (1979) is an absolute classic thread

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I agree on the vibe, the street, subway and some menacing shite, but tons of goofball stuff too.

But it’s still cool as hell.

It's an absolute classic. A long time ago, Tony Scott was working on a reboot to it. It was supposed to be a karate type movie set in LA instead of NY, which I thought would be a mistake because the dark city streets of NY are very much a part of what makes the original so good.

You might be able to pull off a reboot if you set it in a surrealist John Wick type of world but one where almost no one has guns, basically the opposite of JW. I'd watch it.

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Man, Wick steals so much from this film especially the 4th one where the entire second half of the film is basically just the Warriors plot line of getting through the dense city in one night alive.

Also steals the entire lore and vibe of the film that The Warriors barely scratched. It had an entire untapped comic book mythology, but never enet back into the well and elft it alone. That was why the 70s were so great... They didn't overexploit their stories

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Seriously timeless. Ages well

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Just goes to show how high level analog filmmaking of bygone era produces significantly more timeless pieces....even as the film screams 1970s. No effects shots. No digital camera work. No shots of Toronto or Atlanta trying to double as NY. And no British actors doing bad American "working class" Brooklyn accents.

Just authenticity in every way, even as the film is essentially an enhanced fantasy.

The first time I saw it as a kid my favorite part was that the chief from where in the world is Carmen Sandiego was the DJ

The video game from Rockstar was awesome too and stayed true to the setting and vibe. Wish they would remaster it.

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It's crazy to me that no film looks remotely close to this 'low budget' B movie from 1970s anymore. The vibe. The art design. The originality. Just insane.

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I love the movie. However, to characterize it as a "low budget", "B-movie" is probably overstating the case.

With a budget of $4m, yes a relatively young Walter Hill directing, and Paramount distributing, it would be an exaggeration at the very least.

They made Kramer vs. Kramer for $8m. The China Syndrome cost $6m.

Now, is it fair to say that they did A LOT with the $4m they were given (compared to, say, Richard Donner's Superman at $55m)? Sure. They had no high dollar cast which helped out. Even Walter Hill wasn't "the" Walter Hill yet.