It's Bible, it is all Bible: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. " Read and believe: " ...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
I met John Carpenter at Galaxycon live last year. He was such a nice guy. I even got a signed "Escape From LA" photo from him. He even wrote "Welcome to the human race" like I asked.
Escape from NY was the best,, landing on the world trade center... escape from LA was lamo...really Carpenter ? wonder how much his agent said he'd make on this bomb ? The ending was classic though
If you think about it the loss wouldnt be permanent. We wouldnt need to reinvent everything. Just rebuild some stuff. The knowledge would be still there.
Even a not-so-good John Carpenter movie is miles more inventive, intelligent and entertaining than most modern Hollywood blockbusters. Worth watching just for the ending alone. And any movie with Steve Buscemi and Pam Grier can't be all bad...
I think it would still have a lot of problems even if the visual effects were better (this is one film I genuinely wouldn’t object to getting the George Lucas treatment) but it’s still a lot of fun and much better than people give it credit for. As a film it’s scraping past OK for me, but as an experience it’s a good time, nowhere near the level of the original on either counts though, but then that was always going to be tough!
"The Four Horsemen shall rise again to cleanse the unworthy masses and strengthen the bold." Funny how we are starting to live that now. The shutdown wasn't an EMP, it was the reaction to the coof.
Its not even true. Its not like the EMP destroyed libraries 🤣 I always thought that was a stupid line. If anything, the world would be back up and running in a couple of months.
@@mr.raslyon6626 eh. That's debatable. Idk if you've ever been in a natural emergency where supply lines and emergency services aren't readily available, but people devolve into savagery pretty quickly when they don't know where their next meal might come from. New Orleans during Katrina, for instance. Actually, scratch that. Look at anywhere hit with a devastating hurricane or tsunami. It doesn't take more than a few days, a week at the most. 2 months without tech? Yeah, we wouldn't be getting much of anything up and running that soon, if we can even get organized enough to do so. Far too much of modern tech is built on a house of cards. It would be pretty bad. It already HAS gotten bad, in temporary situations where greater whole of society was still functioning and online. The whole world at once? Nothing but the most hardened of facilities would survive, and you can bet your ass that they A. wouldn't advertise their piecemeal or of sheer survival instinct, and B. they wouldn't be so quick to volunteer help.
@@mr.raslyon6626 Unless this version of the US banned books along with just about everything else because they couldn't be easily edited or amended online for 'political errors'.
@@mr.raslyon6626 Maybe in this world they did the stupid thing of converting everything "important" to the information highway and burned all the rest. Even then, I am sure some of it was protected in F. cages and books that didn't get burned.
Do you realize it has prophecied the fascistic theocratic system implemented by conservatives and Trump called Project 2025 to outlaw cussing, veganism, polytheism, homo/transsexuality, muslims, etc?
I think as he said " The America I fought for died a long time ago.” If you look at the context of the movie it’s true. If you see the beginning of the movie President declares a lifelong term. President can only have two terms…also it didn’t go before legislation did it? Probably not now later in the movie you see them on a your life going to LA. There’s no jury no defense so there is no 14th Amendment on not taking a persons life liberty or property without the right to due process. The next one a lady thrown in LA because she was Muslim so much for the First Amendment. Finally the guy saying no guns so no Second Amendment. So to sum up you got a dictator with a serious I am god complex.
I remember perfectly when I went to see this film in 1996 together with my school friends in a small village cinema, I was thirteen... this film left a strong impression on us, greetings from Italy to Maestro J. Carpenter!
Love how Kojima admitted to pulling direct references and inspiration for Big Boss/Solid Snake from Escape From New York and LA's "Snake" Plissken. And that alone just makes this character so mysterious, and far more interesting. Say what you will about these movies being janky and corny...it's intentional, and it's just a frickin' blast.....truly a movie from another era.
Yup! I caught on to the inspiration way back when the game came out in the 90s! The Solid Snake acted, the way he talked, I said to myself; "Wait a minute.... Solid Snake.... Kurt Russell... SNAKE PLISSKEN!!! lol. You got to be an early 80s or 70s baby to catch the similarities. Millenials, and Gen Z will not get the reference. I wished Snake Plissken character was seen more on the silver screen. I don't think know any other actor that can pull off Snake Plissken like Kurt Russell. If they restart the ESCAPE FROM NY again, they will most likely cast a female as Snake Plissken. I will NOT watch it!
Wow you guys helped i always suspected that there was too much of a similarity with this snake kojimas snake coz i remember back in 97 watching this and later on playing MGS1 in the early 2000s i had a feeling there was some kind of link. Now you saying kojima admitted to pulling some ideas from the movie 🤯
@@jarrrr69 it would be very hard to pull off the talent of Kurt Russell. Jason Straten is the only actor I can see as a Solid Snake on the silver screen. But, he's getting older too.
Haven't seen it in over 20 year's but I come here just to see the look on his face when the music start playing. . One of my favourite scenes in movie history.
You have to admit, Kurt Russell is a really good actor. He went from being a badass in this movie, to being the vulnerable Jeffrey Taylor character in the movie Breakdown.
"Hey Plissken!" "The names Snake" "Oh, okay. Hey Snake!" "The names Plissken" Makes me laugh every time. The dick we need to deal with all the assholes.
Preach man, preach; there's a huge difference between a dick and an asshole, people don't get it; an asshole is just being him/herself; a dick always has a reason for being a dick.
While this film is not as good as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, it is amazing how this film has predicted what we are going through in 2024, and thw possible future we might have. I had seen Escape From New York when it first came out. But only saw this sequel yesterday on Amazon Prime. Could not help but think about Mass deportations, Trans issues, the idea of how many look upon Los Angeles today. Snake Plisken in the end, decides to make the world that we live in totally equal.
@@redbarchetta8782 Yeah, those are my favorite kurt russel movies though. I think the thing was like 1984 and escape from la was like mid 90s. Kurt Russel is a great actor.
@@carlhicksjr8401 your joking tango and cash is the best comedy film ever, well not intentionally a bit like Sylvester Stallone lock up that was another classic comedy 🤣
@@Kraken160thMGS2 and MGS4 take heavy inspiration from EFLA. Ocelot's entire goal is to do what Plisskin does at the end of LA and the whole "the more things change the more they stay the same" is a central theme to both 2 and 4
Is that Nine Inch Nails lyrics? Sounds like it would fit in a song such as 'Mr. Self Destruct'. "I am a silencing machine. I am the end of all your dreams."
@@paullowman9131 no women.. what's a woman?? No red meat... less ur rich... no fire arms... almost there... no smoking... can't smoke in CA the flavored stuff.... no drugs... actaully we have alot of that
Thank you for posting this! It’s such a great ending. I wish they could have made another, with Carpenter directing, with the new dark world. Almost like a modern western. Something like The book of Eli, just with Snake.
That wasn't the plan snake was supposed to go to Mars and that's where the script for ghosts of Mars came from,they changed it around since this movie wasn't a hit.
Agreed.. Wish there was a device to "reboot", if you will..start over and take in account all the Horrific mistakes that were made. The 70's/early 80's weren't all that bad
It's because he picked up the American spirt and set it free (smoking) then tells the audience "welcome to the human race" He broke the shackles of the current government and brought the wild west back.
Loved this movie. Loved Plissken's final act of defiance and the world code 666, so something I would do and loved the guitar play during that button press moment.
Someone observed that in Big Trouble in Little China, Kurt Russell was channeling John Wayne. In the "Escape From movies, Kurt Russell was channeling Clint Eastwood.
1996! The year I was brought into this world. Not a “great” movie by any means but wow I love this movie. Just showed it to my old man and little brothers and they loved it! One of the best endings to any movie ever and my dad and I both love Kurt Russell. 16 years since New York and he hasn’t aged a day 😂 thank you John carpenter and Kurt Russell for your contributions to cinema/film.
@@ed9603 agreed. We’ve built a house of straw and it takes one match…people are sheep who have grown comfortable with the luxuries we take for granted. Even AC is considered something we cannot live without…scary
I like the movie ending also, because it was just a movie, but in real life, the whole world would suffer greatly because because of a shutdown electrical power, that's so many depend on but like I said this is just a movie so the director can take liberties with it, and Carpenter shows for Snake plissken to shut the power down all over the world. 😢
John Carpenter je t'adore toi tu fais quelque chose qui en bouche un coin tu étais vraiment un vrai génial à l'époque et tu l'es toujours pour moi, merci pour cette petite diffusion si mémorable comme toujours au revoir
The reality is that, no matter how many times we reset humanity, we will still end up getting to this same exact point eventually. Such is human nature.
The rest of this movie was honestly a pretty lame excuse for a sequel (from what I've read John Carpenter didn't really want to make it but the studio pressured him) but this ending is an absolute masterpiece. An even better ending than the Escape from NY in my opinion.....
@@benjaminlucas1635 there might be... There was talk about Escape from Earth but of course this was a yr after this came out.. They was talking about Aliens attacking an snake was a clone or something like that it's been forever since I've seen that
@@mamasboy9886 from what I understand now there have been plans for years now to reboot the whole thing with a new Snake Plissken. But we know the only true snake is Kurt.
Part one ending is a masterpiece with the music. Part two is an masterpiece sounding like metal gear. I salute hideo Kojima for keeping snake plisken legacy alive with a wonderful story
This movie wasn’t as good as the original mainly because carpenter didn’t want to do it but the end is great and there are many scene that I genuinely love
........Land of the Free ! So True, I have always had this opinion , He just confirmed it then.. George Carlin confirmed it again, but i realized this in the 80s
The special effects in this movie were atrocious, even by 1996 standards, but I think it adds to the charm. This is a great guilty pleasure movie and worthy of the first one.
Not everyone had the budget to contract ILM. California (and the rest if the US) had plenty of other capable SFX/VFX houses at that time, suited for every budget. These times a practically gone now.
It's one of my guilty pleasure movies. Sure it's bad, in a sense, but goddamn am I a sucker for some cheese ball movies. Same with Big Trouble In Little China. Might just be a man-crush on Kurt, idk 🤷🏼♂️
Not a great movie, but I did love the line "They're targeting Lynchburg!" All my relatives are from Lynchburg, so that line gave me a warm feeling inside.
@@ln7929 Lynchburg? Beautiful area of the country, but I never found anything interesting to do in the city itself. In all fairness, I was usually stuck with my relatives which mostly was not fun.
Or better yet, Escape From Miami, where most of Miami-Dade County becomes a prison after breaking off from Florida from a hurricane, and his grandson, Snake the Third goes there to rescue the VPOTUS, under orders from the President. Some parts of the world will have gotten it's function back by then.
This is an interesting idea...perhaps they undid the EMP pulse damage somewhat, and so probably would take about 20-30 years to recover. And make it some ultimate Climate Change monstrosity that needs to be taken down so Snake saves us from ourselves. Perhaps the people are trying escape Earth, after wrecking it. Ultimately, Snake is about saving Earth.
@@IronWolf277 That's the intent. Kurt Russell is old enough to play Old Snake Plissken. TBH, he isn't getting any younger, and he's no longer a spring chicken.
Most of this movie basically does straight up riffs/retreads of escape from new york's beats with updated/changed visuals. This ending though. Masterful.
Objectively, power doesn't corrupt you it just amplifies the best or worst of you. And absolute power is magnetically attractive to the wrong people. If you bring up the Stanford Prison experiment your argument is invalid.
My thoughts exactly. Especially when the character was labeling all the things that are banned. Even though these things are not illegal in today's world, they'll still be some sort of consequence. "No foul language". For example, social media and TH-cam quick to remove comments just for bad language. If I typed "f*cking @sshole" in this comment (without the * and @), I would get a pop-up asking me to edit my comment. It's stupid.
My favorite movie!!! This is a true masterpiece. I get that a lot of people hate this movie but I never understood why. It’s very clever. In the beginning, I absolutely love that he’s wearing the exact same clothes from the first movie, like he hasn’t changed, the world has. Carpenter makes a film that is a sequel that is totally parallel with the prior one until the very end, at this time the movie makes a sudden turn in a different direction where snake gets revenge on the people who screwed him over with a double switcheroo and at the same time, in many ways, probably saves humanity in the long run by forcing them to start over and hopefully get it right this time. Then throw in the L.A. culture nods of basketball and surfing like he did in NY with the baseball culture nod. it’s completely underrated on like every level. Amazing movie and one of russels best performances. If your a fan of the first one and of the legend snake plissken, this should be up on your list. It’s a love letter to the first film and a continuation to one of the greatest sci-fi characters of all time.
@mikebasil4832 yeah believe me I'd like to show you all the movies that Hollywood made but because of legal issues you can't see it even though it's already made from a couple thousand dollars threw a couple million dollars there are all good but you can't see them you're just going to have to settle for what you seen just like if you think I'm joking that I look younger now than in my picture I'm not seriously 25 years later but didn't even want to meet him literally 📜👈🏼🙅🏼♂️😑😾
Last week, I watched about 1 hr of 'No Time to Die'. I tapped-out when Bond and his Temp Co-Worker..."The Agent Formerly Known as 00WTF?", launched from a plane, then approached an Island in a craft that both appeared and FUNCTIONED in true '2-for 1' style. Took me all of 5 seconds after they submerged offshore to recognize Snake Plissken's 'Modes of Infiltration' from both 'Escape from New York' AND 'Escape from L.A.'. The more they reveal, the less they conceal.
@@davidcopplestone6266 There should be a Smithsonian "Sellout" display with: 1) Smith v Rock: "Pimpin' at the Oscars". 2) Saturday Morning Cartoons: "Touched" by 'Hammerman'. 3) MTV honors Metallica: with Avril Lavigne. 4) Scooby-Doo Reveal: 'Kane' v The San Diego Chicken/"Stroker Ace"-Pete Rose. 5) 'Ice Cube' Griswold: "No Vaseline Here Yet?"
I had forgotten how awesome this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is. This finale in ESCAPE FROM L.A. was the biggest middle finger to twisted America that you don't Fuck with Snake Plissken
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"The More Things Change The More They Stay The Same"
Truly the hero we need!
Its an old French saying, nothing new.
@@mjremy2605 Remy! MAN BITES DOG
@@ianmangham4570 🤣🤣🤣
It's Bible, it is all Bible:
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. "
Read and believe:
" ...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"
@@gracebeliever127Donkeysmell
What's amazing is how these "unbelieveable" '80's dystopian flicks are becoming more like reality every day.
Trump ,Biden.....
This movie came out in the 90s
@@masumuel Obama, Biden, Obiden...
no plastic, no oil, no planes, no sex unless gay sex for kids, no borders no values no religion and no freedom if don't have 6 jabs
1996
I met John Carpenter at Galaxycon live last year. He was such a nice guy. I even got a signed "Escape From LA" photo from him. He even wrote "Welcome to the human race" like I asked.
Hopefully that was the real him and not a..."thing".
Then I'll get a "HomeAlone" photo with a M.Culkin signature, with the writing: "And keep the change, you filthy animal!"
i worked for a zine that did an interview with him, he truly is a kind and gracious person, glad to have interacted with him
That is epic!
At least he didn't write " Go f#$k yourself " . He did that to Frank Darabont
Carpenter's score doesn't get enough credit. It elevates this scene so much.
100%
I always loved the simplicity of his score. It is the whole less is more idea.
It's also Shirley Walker's 👍
@@stefjevtic This ☝☝
For Snake Plissken, there is always a third option: Everybody loses.
So don't screw with him.
Escape from NY was the best,, landing on the world trade center... escape from LA was lamo...really Carpenter ? wonder how much his agent said he'd make on this bomb ? The ending was classic though
The ending makes the movie so much better at least...
What do you mean"lamo?" It's brilliant. It's literally the same movie as the first but goofier
Let's make smoking great again
@@colinmerritt7645 Nah Im happy with having red meat.
It's amazing how well they captured the likeness of LA 2022 way back in 96.
This was the purge of its time
You mean this isn't actual footage?
So many cities became dumps.
Big government thrives on human suffering.
You mean how they captured Mike Pence in the President? He's too polite and intelligent to be Donald Trump
"...Our way of life - everything will be lost"
"Oh, now I have a good reason to push the button, thank you"
We might even get it right this time. But, I doubt it.
If you think about it the loss wouldnt be permanent. We wouldnt need to reinvent everything. Just rebuild some stuff. The knowledge would be still there.
The forth wall break at the end always gets me.
Why does it get you ?
I think most of us agree that this is an irregular film... with a perfect ending.
How did hologram Snake hand him the detonator?
Doesn’t make sense
@@h2w25 He never did.
Yep, it was a FUN film. Never took itself too seriously (Although the message at the end was spot on). I enjoyed it.
@@h2w25 It didn't. They took the fake one off the girl. Watch again.
And begging to him like pussies, while they tried to execute him moments before. @@outsiderzzzz
Wait, isn't that actual footage of a woke mob?
Even a not-so-good John Carpenter movie is miles more inventive, intelligent and entertaining than most modern Hollywood blockbusters. Worth watching just for the ending alone. And any movie with Steve Buscemi and Pam Grier can't be all bad...
Don't forget Bruce Cambell.
I think it would still have a lot of problems even if the visual effects were better (this is one film I genuinely wouldn’t object to getting the George Lucas treatment) but it’s still a lot of fun and much better than people give it credit for. As a film it’s scraping past OK for me, but as an experience it’s a good time, nowhere near the level of the original on either counts though, but then that was always going to be tough!
"Everything we've accomplished in the past 500 years will be gone!"
"You say that like it's a bad thing."
"The Four Horsemen shall rise again to cleanse the unworthy masses and strengthen the bold."
Funny how we are starting to live that now. The shutdown wasn't an EMP, it was the reaction to the coof.
Its not even true. Its not like the EMP destroyed libraries 🤣 I always thought that was a stupid line. If anything, the world would be back up and running in a couple of months.
@@mr.raslyon6626 eh. That's debatable. Idk if you've ever been in a natural emergency where supply lines and emergency services aren't readily available, but people devolve into savagery pretty quickly when they don't know where their next meal might come from. New Orleans during Katrina, for instance. Actually, scratch that. Look at anywhere hit with a devastating hurricane or tsunami. It doesn't take more than a few days, a week at the most. 2 months without tech? Yeah, we wouldn't be getting much of anything up and running that soon, if we can even get organized enough to do so. Far too much of modern tech is built on a house of cards. It would be pretty bad. It already HAS gotten bad, in temporary situations where greater whole of society was still functioning and online. The whole world at once? Nothing but the most hardened of facilities would survive, and you can bet your ass that they A. wouldn't advertise their piecemeal or of sheer survival instinct, and B. they wouldn't be so quick to volunteer help.
@@mr.raslyon6626 Unless this version of the US banned books along with just about everything else because they couldn't be easily edited or amended online for 'political errors'.
@@mr.raslyon6626 Maybe in this world they did the stupid thing of converting everything "important" to the information highway and burned all the rest.
Even then, I am sure some of it was protected in F. cages and books that didn't get burned.
I never thought Escape From LA would turn into a documentary about life in Los Angeles today.
With a wishful ending.
Do you realize it has prophecied the fascistic theocratic system implemented by conservatives and Trump called Project 2025 to outlaw cussing, veganism, polytheism, homo/transsexuality, muslims, etc?
Boy do yall snowflakes love to exaggerate and cry about nothing 😂😂
what do you mean? like los angeles sucks? like it's a city of sin?
@@kamranshah-f1x Do you live under a rock? Have you seen how bad it is in LA? Have you seen the crime wave spiking? Have you seen the homelessness?
The best soldier, betrayed by his own commanders who haven't been in the field. So his revenge just feels natural.
Can apply that to everything nowadays. lol
I think as he said " The America I fought for died a long time ago.” If you look at the context of the movie it’s true. If you see the beginning of the movie President declares a lifelong term. President can only have two terms…also it didn’t go before legislation did it? Probably not now later in the movie you see them on a your life going to LA. There’s no jury no defense so there is no 14th Amendment on not taking a persons life liberty or property without the right to due process. The next one a lady thrown in LA because she was Muslim so much for the First Amendment. Finally the guy saying no guns so no Second Amendment. So to sum up you got a dictator with a serious I am god complex.
Could use a few snake plisskens out there.
this also applies to yet ANOTHER Great, but underrated Kurt Russell movie: Soldier
@@Aeis_Kalt And his role in Stargate.
I remember perfectly when I went to see this film in 1996 together with my school friends in a small village cinema, I was thirteen... this film left a strong impression on us, greetings from Italy to Maestro J. Carpenter!
Love how Kojima admitted to pulling direct references and inspiration for Big Boss/Solid Snake from Escape From New York and LA's "Snake" Plissken.
And that alone just makes this character so mysterious, and far more interesting.
Say what you will about these movies being janky and corny...it's intentional, and it's just a frickin' blast.....truly a movie from another era.
Yup! I caught on to the inspiration way back when the game came out in the 90s! The Solid Snake acted, the way he talked, I said to myself; "Wait a minute.... Solid Snake.... Kurt Russell... SNAKE PLISSKEN!!! lol. You got to be an early 80s or 70s baby to catch the similarities. Millenials, and Gen Z will not get the reference. I wished Snake Plissken character was seen more on the silver screen. I don't think know any other actor that can pull off Snake Plissken like Kurt Russell. If they restart the ESCAPE FROM NY again, they will most likely cast a female as Snake Plissken. I will NOT watch it!
Wow you guys helped i always suspected that there was too much of a similarity with this snake kojimas snake coz i remember back in 97 watching this and later on playing MGS1 in the early 2000s i had a feeling there was some kind of link. Now you saying kojima admitted to pulling some ideas from the movie 🤯
I wish they made MGS movie before Russell got too old.
@@jarrrr69 it would be very hard to pull off the talent of Kurt Russell. Jason Straten is the only actor I can see as a Solid Snake on the silver screen. But, he's getting older too.
There was going to be escape from earth?
Haven't seen it in over 20 year's but I come here just to see the look on his face when the music start playing. . One of my favourite scenes in movie history.
Favorite * Just so you stay American.
The vibe in these movies is unrivaled, love carpenter
You have to admit, Kurt Russell is a really good actor. He went from being a badass in this movie, to being the vulnerable Jeffrey Taylor character in the movie Breakdown.
From Wyatt Earp in Tombstone
Shit few people remember Breakdown.
Ole Jack Burton
And Mr Nobody from the later Fast and Furious movies
Breakdown was definitely a good movie
"Hey Plissken!"
"The names Snake"
"Oh, okay. Hey Snake!"
"The names Plissken"
Makes me laugh every time. The dick we need to deal with all the assholes.
Honestly yeah. Save for rendering every electronic device useless, the world needs a Snake Plisskin.
The name is Plissken; Asshole. "Pushes Button."
It was symbolic. He was done with warring and took back his humanity. Part of why this ending is so cool.
"Hey Robocop"
"My name is Murphy"
"Hey Murphy"
"My name is Robocop"
Preach man, preach; there's a huge difference between a dick and an asshole, people don't get it; an asshole is just being him/herself; a dick always has a reason for being a dick.
Clearly a movie ahead of its time. Fast forward to 2022.
While this film is not as good as ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, it is amazing how this film has predicted what we are going through in 2024, and thw possible future we might have. I had seen Escape From New York when it first came out. But only saw this sequel yesterday on Amazon Prime. Could not help but think about Mass deportations, Trans issues, the idea of how many look upon Los Angeles today. Snake Plisken in the end, decides to make the world that we live in totally equal.
Kurt Russel unbeatable, brings back " the good old times"
Indeed. I’m glad that such films can hold up in their own right.
Greatest movie ending of all time. Kurt Russel was at his peak here and in the thing.
The Thing was quiet a few years earlier.
@@redbarchetta8782 Yeah, those are my favorite kurt russel movies though. I think the thing was like 1984 and escape from la was like mid 90s. Kurt Russel is a great actor.
Not even close. Russell topped out in 'Tombstone'. THAT was his best acting gig.
@@Hogo69 'The Thing' was from 1982. xx
@@carlhicksjr8401 your joking tango and cash is the best comedy film ever, well not intentionally a bit like Sylvester Stallone lock up that was another classic comedy 🤣
He's not the hero we deserve he's the hero we need
He's actually both when you think about it.
He destroys a source of limitless clean energy in the first movie and kills billions of people in the second movie.
Hero?
If I were a hero, I would have an eye patch, call me snake
And anti-hero ?
@bman_2024 a one-eyed snake?
*that bass line is still one of the most iconic ever written, up there with seven nation army and the opening riff from They Live*
This was the best movie for me as a young adult. Seeing the ending now reminds me that sometimes, it is best for everyone to lose.
I wouldn't shut down the earth but if there was a way to shut down both sides weaponry that would be a better outcome
@@samanthapatrick4345good point.
I salute you Hideo Kojima for keeping snake pliskin legacy alive onto a video game with a wonderful story 👏
Hideo Kojima is the true Big Boss
Metal gear started in the 80s this is a decade off
@@Kraken160th escape from NY 1981. Metal gear nes 1987. I'm talking about from the beginning including LA
Yeah, true, but I'd love video game with real Snake Plissken. 😢 Or another movie... or novel... Talk about wasted franchise potential.
@@Kraken160thMGS2 and MGS4 take heavy inspiration from EFLA. Ocelot's entire goal is to do what Plisskin does at the end of LA and the whole "the more things change the more they stay the same" is a central theme to both 2 and 4
"I am the righteous hand of god, and i am the devil that you forgot", that phrase really fits here
Is that Nine Inch Nails lyrics? Sounds like it would fit in a song such as 'Mr. Self Destruct'.
"I am a silencing machine. I am the end of all your dreams."
@@DeadPixel1105 it's from the song "Hell's coming with me"
Poor mans poison is perfect
@@EldelturnodelatardeI love that song.
Hands down still one of the best endings in all of the cinematic history 🤘😎🤘
welcome to the human race
agreed, that single guitar. give me chills
It is all around terrible ending for mediocre film.
Yep. I wasn't even aware that this film existed. But they DID nail the ending!
@@Mad_Dog_of_the_Regime No. A great ending for a mediocre movie!
I love Snake Plissken. He's the hero we don't want, but need...
I forgot about the "No red meat." Shit, I'll move to Antarctica.
The whole damn setup sounds a whole lot like America today, doesn't it?
At least there he won't have to worry about a thing
I'd leave at the no women unless married....
@@paullowman9131 no women.. what's a woman??
No red meat... less ur rich... no fire arms... almost there... no smoking... can't smoke in CA the flavored stuff.... no drugs... actaully we have alot of that
Back in the good old days when movies were all masterpieces
Thank you for posting this! It’s such a great ending. I wish they could have made another, with Carpenter directing, with the new dark world. Almost like a modern western. Something like The book of Eli, just with Snake.
That wasn't the plan snake was supposed to go to Mars and that's where the script for ghosts of Mars came from,they changed it around since this movie wasn't a hit.
@@ericseitzler81 Weird...maybe I’m glad they didn’t do another. What happened to John’s movies around this time? Halloween H2O springs to mind.
@@facina3390 yea he seemed to lose his touch,maybe it's because he is more focused on his band at the time but idk that's just a guess.
@@facina3390 escape from Mars could a been cool if they left the monsters out of it.im not sure if that was in the original script or not.
The inspiration for Metal Gear Solid! We wouldn't have Solid Snake without this movie, or the previous. So that justifies their existence.
Who knew these movies would be so accurate for where we're headed.
John Carpenter seemed to have a most unique understanding of such topics which he especially showed in They Live.
The expression he gave after asking “you got any smokes?” 😂😂😂😂😂 “land of the free”
I don't care what Anyone Says! This is a Pretty Good Movie! And I Totally Love that Snake gives the Whole World a Big F-U Ending!
Agreed..
Wish there was a device to "reboot", if you will..start over and take in account all the Horrific mistakes that were made.
The 70's/early 80's weren't all that bad
“Pretty good,” operative phrase here. Not balls-to-the-wall great like EFNY
Kind of ironically funny that the end of this movie is were we should be heading if we wanna survive.
Compared to Escape From New York, this movie sucked big, wet, hairy donkey balls. It was HORRIBLE!
That surly look Russel burns into the audience at the end was pretty great.
One of the best cinematic bad-asses of all time. Fuck the noise. I enjoyed the film and the ending.
the 90's is truly the best decade for movies
so you're not just an idiot, you're an old idiot?
80s
Still a great movie after all these years.
The most outlandish part about this entire video is that he randomly finds a smokeable cigarette in that random field
It's because he picked up the American spirt and set it free (smoking) then tells the audience "welcome to the human race" He broke the shackles of the current government and brought the wild west back.
Where's Snake when you need him? Sure could use him right now!
If you are reading this . . . YOU ARE SNAKE PLISKIN! It's Go time, war hero 🎱
Snake is in Hollywood living good with the other snakes
@@guysky3873 ???
Somewhere out there is a snake pliskan
The names Plissken
still one of the best endings of any movie in my opinion
the only thing better was to have the government stooges die, still a great FU to this dictator of a "president"
Oh boy, in 2025, this movie Escape from LA really aged well. 😮
This film is so much better and smarter than it gets credit for.
Honestly that is what we need right now ...
Loved this movie. Loved Plissken's final act of defiance and the world code 666, so something I would do and loved the guitar play during that button press moment.
call him Snake
Someone observed that in Big Trouble in Little China, Kurt Russell was channeling John Wayne. In the "Escape From movies, Kurt Russell was channeling Clint Eastwood.
The man with no name was the inspiration for Snake. The irony also is that Walt Kowalski was somewhat inspired by Snake (and Archie Bunker).
Clint was the inspiration for Arnold, Kurt Russell, Stalone ,...and so many actors
Kurt Russell would have been a GREAT wolverine at the time. Hell, he'd be a great "old man Logan" if he wanted to.
Apparently Kurt wrote this ending himself. It remains his sole writing credit.
One of the best movie endings of all time.
I love this ending, they keep fucking with him through the whole movie & he outsmarted them in the end LOVE YOU SNAKE
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Got a smoke?
With great power, comes great responsibility. This was when Ben Parker first learned that before he [was forced to] abdicated.
Why can't we get that kind of movies today...
1996! The year I was brought into this world. Not a “great” movie by any means but wow I love this movie. Just showed it to my old man and little brothers and they loved it! One of the best endings to any movie ever and my dad and I both love Kurt Russell. 16 years since New York and he hasn’t aged a day 😂 thank you John carpenter and Kurt Russell for your contributions to cinema/film.
1996 was a great year for movies 🍿
1996 was a great year for movies 🍿
The music in this movie, the cowboy scifi feel of it all....amazing!
What a way to put the entire world back to square one.
Where’s snake when you need him?!?
A EMP AND ALL ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS GONE RESTART YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS WAYS OF SURVIVAL DO IT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN OR YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING
@@ed9603 agreed. We’ve built a house of straw and it takes one match…people are sheep who have grown comfortable with the luxuries we take for granted. Even AC is considered something we cannot live without…scary
We did it once we can do it again
It works out best for everyone.
Love that guitar playing in the background
"Plissken, what did you do? Snake? SNAAAAAKE?"
👍🏾
One of the best movie endings ever.
I like the movie ending also, because it was just a movie, but in real life, the whole world would suffer greatly because because of a shutdown electrical power, that's so many depend on but like I said this is just a movie so the director can take liberties with it, and Carpenter shows for Snake plissken to shut the power down all over the world. 😢
Funny thing is that LA looks so much nicer in this movie than the cess pool it really is today.
John Carpenter je t'adore toi tu fais quelque chose qui en bouche un coin tu étais vraiment un vrai génial à l'époque et tu l'es toujours pour moi, merci pour cette petite diffusion si mémorable comme toujours au revoir
This is the ending that we need right now in today's world.
Return to monke.
Seriously
The reality is that, no matter how many times we reset humanity, we will still end up getting to this same exact point eventually. Such is human nature.
@Ara so what?
@Ara _"Billions!!! Once again the press under estimates me"_ Lex Luthor.
Exactly what this earth needs right NOW!
Asthma inhalers would be worth a fricken fortune in a time like that.
Kurt Russell’s best sci-fi film ending since The Thing.
These escape movies, influence, metal gear, solid
The rest of this movie was honestly a pretty lame excuse for a sequel (from what I've read John Carpenter didn't really want to make it but the studio pressured him) but this ending is an absolute masterpiece. An even better ending than the Escape from NY in my opinion.....
the ending of this one definitely assured that there wouldn't be a part 3.
@@benjaminlucas1635 there might be... There was talk about Escape from Earth but of course this was a yr after this came out.. They was talking about Aliens attacking an snake was a clone or something like that it's been forever since I've seen that
@@mamasboy9886 from what I understand now there have been plans for years now to reboot the whole thing with a new Snake Plissken. But we know the only true snake is Kurt.
Yeah the movie...sucked but the ending was boss.
Part one ending is a masterpiece with the music. Part two is an masterpiece sounding like metal gear. I salute hideo Kojima for keeping snake plisken legacy alive with a wonderful story
This movie wasn’t as good as the original mainly because carpenter didn’t want to do it but the end is great and there are many scene that I genuinely love
Yeah I like the ending alot
Just wish Carpenter would have given us a sequel to the Thing.
@@sledgehammer9739 youre in luck, considering carpenter is considering getting back into film making and wants to do a thing sequel
"No smoking, no drinking, no women, no this, no that." Man Ken Titus must have hated saying that.
I love that reference.
........Land of the Free !
So True, I have always had this opinion , He just confirmed it
then.. George Carlin confirmed it again, but i realized this in the 80s
Don’t forget no red meat 🥩
@@chance2012rocks1
I think he purposely left out Red Meat for a reason :P
The special effects in this movie were atrocious, even by 1996 standards, but I think it adds to the charm. This is a great guilty pleasure movie and worthy of the first one.
Not everyone had the budget to contract ILM. California (and the rest if the US) had plenty of other capable SFX/VFX houses at that time, suited for every budget. These times a practically gone now.
This movies has been, and will continue to be prophetic.
its not a great movie but i love the ending, and Kurt never disappoints
It's one of my guilty pleasure movies.
Sure it's bad, in a sense, but goddamn am I a sucker for some cheese ball movies.
Same with Big Trouble In Little China. Might just be a man-crush on Kurt, idk 🤷🏼♂️
@@JFinker73 HAHA, well i dont blame you, hes always been a cool dude
It was awesome!!
The whole movie was bad. NY was better. But The Thing was by far my favorite Kurt movie.
@@JFinker73 im kinda sensing the man crush thing from ya. 😂
Not a great movie, but I did love the line "They're targeting Lynchburg!" All my relatives are from Lynchburg, so that line gave me a warm feeling inside.
That’s a good name
I approve
It's a great place to hang out
@@ln7929 Lynchburg? Beautiful area of the country, but I never found anything interesting to do in the city itself. In all fairness, I was usually stuck with my relatives which mostly was not fun.
Lynchburg Virginia
@@GAURAV25855ify yep, that’s it. Cliff Robertson’s character was loosely based on Jerry Falwell.
It`s been a long time I`ve never played this Metal Gear Solid game. How much I miss Snake.
The music from both movies is so good. Perfectly fitting.
Greatest ending I ever saw out of a movie.
Me too.
We need escape from earth, would be cool to see Kurt Russell take up his role as Snake Plissken 30 years later.
Might be hard without retconning this ending 😁
Or better yet, Escape From Miami, where most of Miami-Dade County becomes a prison after breaking off from Florida from a hurricane, and his grandson, Snake the Third goes there to rescue the VPOTUS, under orders from the President.
Some parts of the world will have gotten it's function back by then.
This is an interesting idea...perhaps they undid the EMP pulse damage somewhat, and so probably would take about 20-30 years to recover. And make it some ultimate Climate Change monstrosity that needs to be taken down so Snake saves us from ourselves. Perhaps the people are trying escape Earth, after wrecking it. Ultimately, Snake is about saving Earth.
Soldier
Should have hooked him in The Expendables.
Underrated sequel!
Snake Pilssken is a great movie Character, would love to see him again one day!
How about a descendant, like Snake Plissken Jr., or even Snake the Third?
@@redpyramid9697 Kurt Russel playing Old Man Plissken would be fine by me.
@@IronWolf277 That's the intent.
Kurt Russell is old enough to play Old Snake Plissken.
TBH, he isn't getting any younger, and he's no longer a spring chicken.
Most of this movie basically does straight up riffs/retreads of escape from new york's beats with updated/changed visuals.
This ending though. Masterful.
That was the point. It's a parody/satire of the 1st film without the wink and nod of saying that it is.
This movie shows how power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely regardless of who you are or what you believe in.
Objectively, power doesn't corrupt you it just amplifies the best or worst of you. And absolute power is magnetically attractive to the wrong people. If you bring up the Stanford Prison experiment your argument is invalid.
This movie was prophetic in many ways.
My thoughts exactly. Especially when the character was labeling all the things that are banned. Even though these things are not illegal in today's world, they'll still be some sort of consequence. "No foul language". For example, social media and TH-cam quick to remove comments just for bad language. If I typed "f*cking @sshole" in this comment (without the * and @), I would get a pop-up asking me to edit my comment. It's stupid.
@@DeadPixel1105 There is no place for profanity in polite society.
My favorite movie!!! This is a true masterpiece. I get that a lot of people hate this movie but I never understood why. It’s very clever. In the beginning, I absolutely love that he’s wearing the exact same clothes from the first movie, like he hasn’t changed, the world has. Carpenter makes a film that is a sequel that is totally parallel with the prior one until the very end, at this time the movie makes a sudden turn in a different direction where snake gets revenge on the people who screwed him over with a double switcheroo and at the same time, in many ways, probably saves humanity in the long run by forcing them to start over and hopefully get it right this time. Then throw in the L.A. culture nods of basketball and surfing like he did in NY with the baseball culture nod. it’s completely underrated on like every level. Amazing movie and one of russels best performances. If your a fan of the first one and of the legend snake plissken, this should be up on your list. It’s a love letter to the first film and a continuation to one of the greatest sci-fi characters of all time.
Apparently those were the exact same clothes from the first one and 16 years later he still fit into them!
@@thesoicybroadcast9384you should look at both movies again, those are not the same clothes he wore.
You should look at both movies again, 😮 those are not the same clothes he wore.
@@albertrandall2271 true, the ones he’s wearing in the beginning of the movie was the same outfit tho ;)
When a sequel to a movie actually cares about the movie 📜👈🤠
It's amazing how few sequels, certainly in the sci-fi cinema, are most satisfyingly able to achieve that.
@mikebasil4832 yeah believe me I'd like to show you all the movies that Hollywood made but because of legal issues you can't see it even though it's already made from a couple thousand dollars threw a couple million dollars there are all good but you can't see them you're just going to have to settle for what you seen just like if you think I'm joking that I look younger now than in my picture I'm not seriously 25 years later but didn't even want to meet him literally 📜👈🏼🙅🏼♂️😑😾
Love these movies. Nothing like em today. Classics.
One of the greatest ending in cinematic history….”You get the device….”
The hologram projector prop for the movie was a US issue Army lensatic pocket navigation compass that was painted/modified.😆
worked just fine, didnt it ? ;) :)
Not sure if the spelling's right but I think it was a canmega compass. Issued to our service men around the time this film was made.
Last week, I watched about 1 hr of 'No Time to Die'.
I tapped-out when Bond and his Temp Co-Worker..."The Agent Formerly Known as 00WTF?", launched from a plane, then approached an Island in a craft that both appeared and FUNCTIONED in true '2-for 1' style.
Took me all of 5 seconds after they submerged offshore to recognize Snake Plissken's 'Modes of Infiltration' from both 'Escape from New York' AND 'Escape from L.A.'.
The more they reveal, the less they conceal.
I watched the whole movie, very disappointed. They clearly jumped the shark just like "Die Another Day".
@@davidcopplestone6266 at least they didn't name it "The Rise Of 007" 😣🤣
@@davidcopplestone6266 only thing RISING these days is concession prices.
People WILL pay
Bottom-line:
When "Q" appropriates from J. Carpenter, to quote from 'Thunderdome'...
"Dyin' time's here!"
-Dr. Dealgood
@@davidcopplestone6266 There should be a Smithsonian "Sellout" display with:
1) Smith v Rock: "Pimpin' at the Oscars".
2) Saturday Morning Cartoons: "Touched" by 'Hammerman'.
3) MTV honors Metallica: with Avril Lavigne.
4) Scooby-Doo Reveal: 'Kane' v The San Diego Chicken/"Stroker Ace"-Pete Rose.
5) 'Ice Cube' Griswold: "No Vaseline Here Yet?"
That 4th wall break at the very end was very cool
Hands down, the coolest 10 minutes of Kurt Russell’s career
2:40 - "You didn't finish the mission Snake"..... that definitely had Colonel Campbell vibes.
"I was wondering what kind of lame switch you'd pull this time,Plissken!" Hahaha-Up yours!:)
I had forgotten how awesome this sequel to ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is. This finale in ESCAPE FROM L.A. was the biggest middle finger to twisted America that you don't Fuck with Snake Plissken
There is a Snake Plissken in all of us.
Indeed!
mine prefers cigars over cigarettes
@@kraigshallThat's a cigarillo.
@HisVirusness nah man. I'm talkin churchhills
The ending soundtrack of this movie slays all the ending soundtracks I've ever known.
When it comes down to who my favorite action star is, Kurt's always been at the top.
Fantastic movie very few special effects but story line is awesome love both movies they are cult classics
Well done Kurt Russell. God bless you sir.
Russell in Solider his best work hands down
God I loved this movie as a teenager! The character is just friggin’ badass!!! 😃
I feel like this movie hits harder then ever for me fr 🙏❤️🌍