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Escape From New York [1981]
from Momentum Pictures
starring Isaac Hayes, Harry Dean Stanton, Donald Pleasence, Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef
directed by John Carpenter

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Bad attitude and no future! The greatest hit of John Carpenter
  This movie, together with "Mad Max", started a new sub gender of SF movies - the "post apocalyptics", which describe the humanity gone back to the barbary, after the collapse of civilisation. EFNY and "Mad Max" are also the best of them - in the 90-es there were some attempts to imitate their success, but they all finished with disasters ("No escape" with Ray Liotta, "Waterworld" with Kevin Costner, and the sequel to EFNY, "Escape from L.A.", with Kurt Russell). John Carpenter made some important movies... more info

• great show hey!
  released in 1981,escape from new york is a film with huge ideas and maybe not the budget to match those,a remake is being made,vast sums of money will be put into that,but can the atmosphere of this be recreated,somehow i doubt it.
  Like i said,this isnt a vast budget,7 million dollars to be precise,but what an idea,the island of manhattan in new york is now a place where all the criminals serve their time,an utopia of sorts.The place is wall to wall with vermin so when the president crashes into the... more info

• "a place where the worst of humanity is sent to rot"
  Exactly - like people who think `Rome' the series was good.
  This is a great film, Kurt Russell is perfectly cast in this dystopian futureworld thats doesnt take itself too seriously.

• See the birth of the Legendary Hero
  This film is a must see for all MGS fams. The main character is called Snake Plisskin, which Solid Snake was based on.
  The film also plays out like a MGS game. Constantly changing, and a twist with the high ranking people.

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