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The Warriors (1979)
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:57 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 4:57 pm
I hadn’t seen this movie in decades and saw it on Epix recently so recorded it. Finally got a chance to watch it last night and holy shite times have changed 
There’s no denying that women have come a long way. Dexter’s dad should get metoo’d just based on his role in this
I still get the cult classic appeal, but I remembered it being a lot more violent though, and man all the tough guy stuff from that late 70s early 80s era comes off so painfully cheesy and homoerotic.
Those gang outfits were incredible
Any board thoughts on this one??
There’s no denying that women have come a long way. Dexter’s dad should get metoo’d just based on his role in this
I still get the cult classic appeal, but I remembered it being a lot more violent though, and man all the tough guy stuff from that late 70s early 80s era comes off so painfully cheesy and homoerotic.
Those gang outfits were incredible
Any board thoughts on this one??
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 5:00 pm
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Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:00 pm to Tiger Voodoo
The fight with the baseball team is one of my favorite movie scenes ever.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:01 pm to Tiger Voodoo
This is still such a great movie. I like that the gangs were eccentric without being too fricking ridiculous to be believable.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:03 pm to tWildcat
Almost posted this gif in OP
This post was edited on 3/12/18 at 5:04 pm
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:09 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Classic.
Lots of Baseball Furies that Halloween.
Lots of Baseball Furies that Halloween.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:34 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Movie is a classic and national treasure.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:41 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Remember they made a video game based on it, it was terrible. Still played the hell out of it.
Love this movie.
Love this movie.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:41 pm to Tiger Voodoo
quote:
all the tough guy stuff from that late 70s early 80s era comes off so painfully cheesy and homoerotic.
I don't think it's 80's. It still has a very serious 70's vibe and filmed like that. It wasn't tongue and cheek like 80's action flicks. I think if it had come out in the 80's it would have been like Breakin' or Beat Street...but it was basically filmed in 1978 and then came out early 1979.
The movie doesn't feel or look like an 80's movie to me at all - as you mentioned there's no over-the-top action...
If anything the film is a bridge to the 80's - a 70's wannabe "realistic" grimy film with a little cheese of the 80's coming around the corner.
But the movie takes itself seriously, even if the viewer might not - which was different from stuff in the 80's.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 5:44 pm to GeauxTigers_713
I actually enjoyed the video game. Would be awesome to see it redone on a grander scale that technology allows now. (And yes i mean the game not the movie. Keep your hands away Hollywood)
Posted on 3/12/18 at 6:39 pm to BCLA
Fantastic movie. I just watched it a couple days ago for the 100th time.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 7:21 pm to Coach72
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Coach72
Physically impossible for me to be near 3 empty bottles and not quote that scene
Posted on 3/12/18 at 7:36 pm to Tiger Voodoo
There are movies and then there are movies. This film takes extremely serious source material (Xenophon's Anabasis) and turns it into a work of art for the ages.
Just for the memories:
2015 - The Warriors ride the subway home again.
Just for the memories:
2015 - The Warriors ride the subway home again.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 8:07 pm to Ace Midnight
I wish that was a movie. Full length doc.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 8:43 pm to BCLA
quote:There was talk years ago about Tony Scott (Man on Fire) doing a remake, but it sounded really stupid. They wanted to move it to LA and make it into a gangland karate movie set in sunny CA, with a more "realistic" modern gang feel.
I actually enjoyed the video game. Would be awesome to see it redone on a grander scale that technology allows now. (And yes i mean the game not the movie. Keep your hands away Hollywood)
This movie, despite its superficial flaws, has a real mythical quality to it, and is clearly intended to. Characters named Cyrus and Ajax are not incidental. But you have to keep it in the dark of NYC and make it more like a video game, IMO and not try to give reverence to modern gangs by accurately portraying them. It's not about that. It's a modern quest movie, like Streets of Fire or the Blues Brothers.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 8:58 pm to Coach72
Villain was the same villain in Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 9:52 pm to Tiger Voodoo
Actually went to see it on Long Island (West Islep) while visiting a friend up there and after having heard about it several nights while partying at this massive club up there at the time ... Hammerheads.
The music made the movie IMHO ... one of the best soundtracks of the 70s.
Central Park and much of the city was fricked-up back then. Lots of gang stuff going-on and all the gangs were loosely based on real gangs, or so I was told.
Rudy cleaned-up the place in the 80s and there are some who claim that movie sort of illustrated the need. Actually, the movie sparked a ton of turf wars and gang fights at the time.
The music made the movie IMHO ... one of the best soundtracks of the 70s.
Central Park and much of the city was fricked-up back then. Lots of gang stuff going-on and all the gangs were loosely based on real gangs, or so I was told.
Rudy cleaned-up the place in the 80s and there are some who claim that movie sort of illustrated the need. Actually, the movie sparked a ton of turf wars and gang fights at the time.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:01 pm to PeteRose
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Villain was the same villain in Last Man Standing with Bruce Willis.
Yeah, David Patrick Kelly ... he's done a ton of those bad guy character roles over the years, and a good guy role here and there. He's pretty well known for playing Sully in Commando. "Sully, remember when I told you I was going to kill you last? I lied." and then Arnold dropped him over the cliff .... well, let him go. He also plays The Cleaner in John Wick. He played Truman in Flags of Our Fathers, etc. I wanna say he also played with James Remar (Dexter's dad) in one of those Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy flicks too ... 48 Hrs.
There were actually a few very decent character actors that came out of The Warriors.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:12 pm to Tiger Voodoo
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but I remembered it being a lot more violent though, and man all the tough guy stuff from that late 70s early 80s era comes off so painfully cheesy and homoerotic.
Aptly stated.
Seems like it came out around the same time as other urban street movies and while it had some fleeting elements of gravity it most mostly quite gay.
Posted on 3/12/18 at 10:19 pm to Ace Midnight
That's awesome!
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