this is an absolute classic. Kurt Russell performance, its not an action romp its a man trying to survive and get the job done and its predictable because it helped start it all
I agree that it's a classic. People usually pick Halloween or The Thing as their favorite Carpenter movie, but I pick this one as my all time favorite of his films.
Did you notice that Cabbie said he'd been a cab driver in that area for 20 years? Means he's been doing this since before it was a prison! Did Cabbie just stay when they turned it into a prison?
John Carpenter generally doesnt do "fast action". He stuff is very slow, very modulated. For him the atmosphere is very important. Slow, lingering shots, creepy music. I think you sent yourself up to hate it by assuming it was gonna be something it wasn't. It's like going into a Quentin Tarintino movie expecting wall to wall action then being disappointed when you get characters talking 3/4s of the movie. If you want a fast Carpenter action movie then Big Trouble in Little China is about as fast as you're gonna get.
Spoiler alert: Everyone that says, "I heard you were dead" dies. British president? I think not. Maggie is so tasty. Snake is in trouble from beginning to end. Escape from LA is a watch once just to say you did but nothing more.
Snake Plissken is the first anti-hero. Konami ripped-off his likeness for Solid Snake character in the Metal Gear game series. Cabbie was played by the late, great Ernest Borgnine. Escape From LA is a smoking piece of shit - you were warned.
When this movie came out no one had even heard of Steven Seagal. Now what you call " slow " is known as character and story development. Leave the all action no real acting action movies to Seagal and Stallone. Yes it was dark because most of the story takes place at night and there is very little electricity there to light up the city.
He was complaining that it looked dark? I wish more modern movies, specially horror looked like escape from new york, movies look to clean and polished now which takes away from the athmosphereand and world building
Escape from LA is worth a watch. Better picture quality and effects. Other Kurt Russell classics are Stargate Tango and Cash Big Trouble in Little China Overboard
Kurt Russell, Isaac Hayes, Donald Pleasance, Lee Van Cleef and Ernest Borgnine made this a bona fide classic. The sequel is fun too. Did I mishear you? "Assault On Precinct 13 was terrible".....I'm never taking whatever drugs you're on lmao FYI The Cabbie was played by the incredible Ernest Borgnine and Hawk by the equally awesome Lee Van Cleef.
It’s Clint eastward it’s based on and again this is considered a classic masterpiece so you don’t know nothing about movies classic movies and John carpenter is also considered a masterpiece film maker
@@FlixTalk okay then. I guess it's a difference in opinion. I first watched it when I was 12 years old & I've loved ever since. I liked it because was different from most action movies I watched when I was a kid which was the late 80s & early 90s. I liked the slower pace of the first half & I really enjoyed the last half with the tense standoff. It's in my top 5 John Carpenter movies. Here's where it ranks in my list 1. The Thing 2. Halloween 3. Escape From New York 4. Assault On Precinct 13 5. Starman I liked it a lot but you hated it. Whatever you can hate it. It doesn't matter to me. I still love it.
@@FlixTalk please react to two movies of John Carpenter that aren't horror that I think you'll probably like because they are so different from what you normally see during the 80s. Starman(1984) Big Trouble In Little China (1986) Starman is a sci Fi movie starring Jeff Bridges & Karen Allen(Marion from Raiders Of The Lost Ark). Big Trouble In Little China is a fantasy martial arts movie starring Kurt Russell & a young Kim Cattrall(one of the girls from the HBO series Sex & The City).
@@FlixTalk look man, if I offended you then I'm sorry. I meant no offense. I simply couldn't understand why anyone would hate that movie but I totally understand why some wouldn't like it. I'm not offended by someone not liking something I grew because that's something a child would do & I'm 35 years old so I'm far from a child.
I like your take. Yet, I loved the movie. It is a B movie as in low budget. Rambo II was not low budget. So yah the action cuts only had one take the rehersal take. So it did alot for the budget it had. I look at B movies like video games. It is the gamepay that gets me not so much the graphics. The graphics and plotline are secondary. Nice to watch pretty graphis that is true yet it don't make or break it for me.
They tried to make a serious movie, but it's more like a comedy without the comedy! We already had Mad Max (1979), compare that with this?! 🤯 By the way, the curly brunette 😍 is also in The Cannonball Run (1981), a much better movie, just saying! 😉 And if you want to have that 80's pace, watch the '96 movie The Long Kiss Goodnight! 🤪✌🏼
Hell no, it is NOT overrated. It's a classic.
I saw this as a kid in the theater. I still remember when the narrator said crime grew 400 percent the entire audience when 'oooooooh'.
This was the movie wherein Kurt Russell finally and completely threw off the yoke of his early career, squeaky-clean Walt Disney image. lol
this is an absolute classic. Kurt Russell performance, its not an action romp its a man trying to survive and get the job done and its predictable because it helped start it all
I agree that it's a classic. People usually pick Halloween or The Thing as their favorite Carpenter movie, but I pick this one as my all time favorite of his films.
Mines Big Trouble in Little China
Anything with Kurt Russell is awesome and a classic. I've been watching Kurt Russell since his 'The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes' days.
Tango and Cash. You get Russell and Stallone in one movie.
The great Ernest Borgnine just a sidekick. LOL
Assault on precinct 13 1976 is considered a classic masterpiece with 98 on rotten tomatoes
yeah he is trippin
The game industry has really missed the chance to do something based on this film.
they did metal gear sold
Did you notice that Cabbie said he'd been a cab driver in that area for 20 years? Means he's been doing this since before it was a prison! Did Cabbie just stay when they turned it into a prison?
John Carpenter generally doesnt do "fast action". He stuff is very slow, very modulated. For him the atmosphere is very important. Slow, lingering shots, creepy music. I think you sent yourself up to hate it by assuming it was gonna be something it wasn't. It's like going into a Quentin Tarintino movie expecting wall to wall action then being disappointed when you get characters talking 3/4s of the movie. If you want a fast Carpenter action movie then Big Trouble in Little China is about as fast as you're gonna get.
Tarantino films are just unadulterated plagiarism, nothing more nothing less.
The immortal Adrienne Barbeau. A huge boys of the 70s crush
Well that's the problem with with when you reviewing this movie you're comparing it to movies that came after it
I was comparing the director who is known for Horror trying to do a genre ,in my opinion isn't his strong suit
6:04 Come on join our convoy!
Thumbs up if you understood the reference
"Ain't nothin' gonna get in our way!"
C.W. McCall, "Convoy"
@@atraxos Yes and Ernest Borgnine starred as the cop in the Convoy film
Spoiler alert: Everyone that says, "I heard you were dead" dies.
British president? I think not.
Maggie is so tasty.
Snake is in trouble from beginning to end.
Escape from LA is a watch once just to say you did but nothing more.
Snake Plissken is the first anti-hero. Konami ripped-off his likeness for Solid Snake character in the Metal Gear game series.
Cabbie was played by the late, great Ernest Borgnine.
Escape From LA is a smoking piece of shit - you were warned.
and he was smart to do it
When this movie came out no one had even heard of Steven Seagal.
Now what you call " slow " is known as character and story development.
Leave the all action no real acting action movies to Seagal and Stallone.
Yes it was dark because most of the story takes place at night and there is very little electricity there to light up the city.
He was complaining that it looked dark? I wish more modern movies, specially horror looked like escape from new york, movies look to clean and polished now which takes away from the athmosphereand and world building
Check out Used Cars from 1980, Kurt Russell comedy
This is a great movie.
Escape from Los Angeles is NOT a great movie.
I think It is my favorite Carpenter movie. All the actors were fantastic.
Escape from LA is worth a watch. Better picture quality and effects.
Other Kurt Russell classics are
Stargate
Tango and Cash
Big Trouble in Little China
Overboard
Kurt Russell, Isaac Hayes, Donald Pleasance, Lee Van Cleef and Ernest Borgnine made this a bona fide classic. The sequel is fun too. Did I mishear you? "Assault On Precinct 13 was terrible".....I'm never taking whatever drugs you're on lmao FYI The Cabbie was played by the incredible Ernest Borgnine and Hawk by the equally awesome Lee Van Cleef.
It’s Clint eastward it’s based on and again this is considered a classic masterpiece so you don’t know nothing about movies classic movies and John carpenter is also considered a masterpiece film maker
Excellent franchise !
did you say Assault on precinct 13 1976 is terrible >>> yeah im out
Yeah we didn't like it , and our friends didn't like it either So im glad we weren't the only ones
Carpenter usually has something sly to say about America in a lot of his movies.
The girl in Cock full of Nuts was Season Hubley, Kurt Russell's ex.
You didn't react to the original Assault On Precinct 13(1976). You watched the stupid remake! Please react to the original.
No I saw the original 1976 trust me..just didn't record my reaction for the channel
@@FlixTalk okay then. I guess it's a difference in opinion. I first watched it when I was 12 years old & I've loved ever since. I liked it because was different from most action movies I watched when I was a kid which was the late 80s & early 90s. I liked the slower pace of the first half & I really enjoyed the last half with the tense standoff. It's in my top 5 John Carpenter movies. Here's where it ranks in my list
1. The Thing
2. Halloween
3. Escape From New York
4. Assault On Precinct 13
5. Starman
I liked it a lot but you hated it. Whatever you can hate it. It doesn't matter to me. I still love it.
@@jesselester9722 exactly. Difference of opinion . I absolutely love Halloween and The Thing..he's a master at horror
@@FlixTalk please react to two movies of John Carpenter that aren't horror that I think you'll probably like because they are so different from what you normally see during the 80s.
Starman(1984)
Big Trouble In Little China (1986)
Starman is a sci Fi movie starring Jeff Bridges & Karen Allen(Marion from Raiders Of The Lost Ark).
Big Trouble In Little China is a fantasy martial arts movie starring Kurt Russell & a young Kim Cattrall(one of the girls from the HBO series Sex & The City).
@@FlixTalk look man, if I offended you then I'm sorry. I meant no offense. I simply couldn't understand why anyone would hate that movie but I totally understand why some wouldn't like it. I'm not offended by someone not liking something I grew because that's something a child would do & I'm 35 years old so I'm far from a child.
this is why you got that video game metal gear sold
I like your take. Yet, I loved the movie. It is a B movie as in low budget. Rambo II was not low budget.
So yah the action cuts only had one take the rehersal take.
So it did alot for the budget it had. I look at B movies like video games. It is the gamepay that gets me not so much the graphics. The graphics and plotline are secondary. Nice to watch pretty graphis that is true yet it don't make or break it for me.
Liked the second one my favorite might watch first one
Girl in chock full of nutts was kirt's wife....filmed in st Louis after a big fire
"Imperialist, racist, police state"...where have I heard that rhetoric before?
didn t see donald pleasance taking out the duke did ya?-also- don t bother watching the sequel
Heard you were dead reference to John Wayne character Big Jake.
They tried to make a serious movie, but it's more like a comedy without the comedy!
We already had Mad Max (1979), compare that with this?! 🤯
By the way, the curly brunette 😍 is also in The Cannonball Run (1981), a much better movie, just saying! 😉
And if you want to have that 80's pace, watch the '96 movie The Long Kiss Goodnight! 🤪✌🏼