10 Weird Things You Never Noticed In Escape From New York!

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  • @davidquatermass789
    @davidquatermass789 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +256

    Loved this movie when it came out, because I am old!!!

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Me too!

    • @JF-uf5jg
      @JF-uf5jg 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      And it’s the best antihero whatever the hell that means😢

    • @adamr9720
      @adamr9720 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Right there with you brother. The music was perfect for the movie too.

    • @albertcastillo4466
      @albertcastillo4466 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I’m so old I loved the movie but I actually read the film adaption that tells the actual scene that was cut that tells how Snake was caught!!

    • @gregandy4277
      @gregandy4277 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And as hard as F! 💪

  • @noelhernandez363
    @noelhernandez363 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    "Snake plissken, I heard you was dead"!! 😂

    • @Micofitness
      @Micofitness 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah you and everyone else 😂

  • @robreich1264
    @robreich1264 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    There was a deleted scene in a futuristic subway station- it was filmed in an Atlanta Marta station.

    • @ssaraccoii
      @ssaraccoii 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is here on youtube. Search for it.

  • @trevormillar1576
    @trevormillar1576 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +131

    Most non-New Yorkers thought it was a documentary.

    • @Mrtwowongs
      @Mrtwowongs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Almost reality

    • @valdivia1234567
      @valdivia1234567 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Most St. Louisans were thinking, "Hey, New York looks pretty nice."

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I remember New York in the 1970s... it was almost a documentary! Even the cops were scary... really hardboiled MFs.

    • @michaelwelter9509
      @michaelwelter9509 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😂😂

    • @marcussinclaire4890
      @marcussinclaire4890 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Wait, it's not real!? 😂

  • @highdesertutah
    @highdesertutah 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

    Jamie Lee Curtis is the public announcement voice in the beginning of the movie.

    • @graydenday3760
      @graydenday3760 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      She also played Buckaroo Banzai's mom in a deleted scene

  • @tbone9912
    @tbone9912 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    The green computer vector graphics of the buildings when Snake is flying the glider weren't made on a computer. They were cardboard models of the buildings outlined with white tape and then shot with a green filter to make it look like computer graphics.

    • @pirobot668beta
      @pirobot668beta 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yes!

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That is too cool!

    • @rhatikeo
      @rhatikeo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wow didnt know that

    • @BillWendell-y5c
      @BillWendell-y5c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When they MADE movies. TRON shot in black and white, then every frame hand colored. Scanner Darkly tried digital, fail, shot in black and white, then cartooned over it every frame.

  • @adamr9720
    @adamr9720 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I saw this film in The old gym at boarding school in England on a Saturday night, sitting on rickety wooden in 1983 when I was thirteen. I was mesmerized. Couldn’t get enough of it, the characters, the story etc. and the music was perfect too.

    • @SlartibartfastTheFourth
      @SlartibartfastTheFourth 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Ditto - 15 when I saw it in England - one of best films ever !

  • @TodaysDante
    @TodaysDante 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    LOL - I never realized that the US President had a British accent. Great list!

    • @rockero1313
      @rockero1313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      2nd favorite Carpenter movie after Halloween.
      seen it 100+ times since I saw it in theaters when it came out and never thought about that either until now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I totally agree with you. Halloween was awesome! I think Carpenter movies have amazing appeal because of the music he composes for them. It really sets an incredible mood... that I can't get enough of...

    • @eyellgeteven9928
      @eyellgeteven9928 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

      That is funny...I've seen it at least 20 times and it never occurred to me that the prez had a British accent, lol.

  • @Malbeefance
    @Malbeefance 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I loved the movie's title music!

  • @SkotiM
    @SkotiM 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    I did indeed miss all of these things in the movie, but to be fair Adrienne Barbeau's fantastic bust is in the movie and that absorbed all of my attention as a young man.

  • @markcastelletti483
    @markcastelletti483 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The blonde punk is a brilliant character. He steals every scene that he appears in.

    • @chrispalmer9838
      @chrispalmer9838 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      His name is Frank Doubleday and he also appears in Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13...👍

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Doubleday was great. He's gone now unfortunately.

    • @SlartibartfastTheFourth
      @SlartibartfastTheFourth 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@movieswelove99😢😢😢

    • @SlartibartfastTheFourth
      @SlartibartfastTheFourth 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Me and a friend used to impersonate his death gasp for years afterwards .
      You can get his creepy head on t shirts

  • @stevendimmock4791
    @stevendimmock4791 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    God!!! Joh Carpenter is so good!! I'm 64 years old and John's films have always been a part of my life. And everyone of them has been brilliant. Thank you John, You are more than a little bit that makes up my psyche!

  • @Sierralara
    @Sierralara 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    James Cameron worked in the special effects department on this film at the time and painted some of the matte boards used in the film.....

  • @Strategory76
    @Strategory76 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    "On the floor of John Carpenter's garage..." That shot was from Christine.

  • @amateurantix1865
    @amateurantix1865 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I remember, when this first came out, I threw fit because I realized I would be out of the country with my mom on opening day. That Friday night I begged her to call my dad so I could ask him how it was. When I got back the following week, he took me to go see it and I've watched it probably 200 times since then. #2 of my top 3 favorite movies. Bestest EVER!

  • @wonkawilly5573
    @wonkawilly5573 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    Id love to see Wyatt Russell play a young snake with both eyes intact.

    • @spidey-67
      @spidey-67 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      And then we would get to see how he lost his eye! My money is on a really bad cat scratch

    • @daleupthegrove6396
      @daleupthegrove6396 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@spidey-67 There was a paperback novelization of the movie that stated Snake lost his eye during a chemical attack during the war.

    • @francis3221
      @francis3221 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Great idea

    • @leeroderick
      @leeroderick 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I want this prequel too. Wyatt is a dead ringer.

    • @biggiemal
      @biggiemal 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He can't be far off Kurt's age here,... If not older?!?!

  • @RingKing5150
    @RingKing5150 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    The female narrator at the beginning of the movie is Jamie Lee Curtis

    • @imthebadguy3225
      @imthebadguy3225 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why does she market that laxative yogurt specifically to women?

  • @davidl9507
    @davidl9507 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    #11 A kid saw the movie and felt cheated that the head of the statute of liberty wasn't in the street as the movie poster showed -that young fan would grow up and create Cloverfield which did show the head of the statute of liberty in the street

  • @MATTNMEMPHIS
    @MATTNMEMPHIS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

    You mean Adrian Barbeau's beewbs? No, I didn't miss them at all! How could you?

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Not very missable... I bet John Carpenter didn't miss em.

    • @MATTNMEMPHIS
      @MATTNMEMPHIS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@movieswelove99 No doubt about that. LOL!

    • @theknightofdoom260
      @theknightofdoom260 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lost my own body weight due to those boobs as a 13 year old when I got it on tape.

  • @Workerbee-zy5nx
    @Workerbee-zy5nx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    You are the Duke and your A#1.

  • @SteveBueche1027
    @SteveBueche1027 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    And here I thought Kirt and Goldie had been together forever.😮

    • @shawnhensley4884
      @shawnhensley4884 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Not until Overboard. But it is weird to hear Kurt's first wife.

    • @christermyrberg3661
      @christermyrberg3661 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@shawnhensley4884Swing Shift

  • @jasonsoleil
    @jasonsoleil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Correction: the nail was already embedded in the piece of wood strapped to Baker’s neck; Russell just had to swing hard enough to drive the nail into the bat.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Really? That makes sense! Thanks for that.

    • @LastBastian
      @LastBastian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Kurt's accuracy with a bat was probably helped by the fact that he was reportedly a pretty good minor league baseball player.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No doubt!

    • @Dianikes
      @Dianikes 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought that was a bit suspect that would have been a ridiculously stupid idea!

  • @bobsmith6079
    @bobsmith6079 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    4:11 Apparently they also shot parts of Big Trouble in Little China at the same time. Who knew?

  • @trickydicky2908
    @trickydicky2908 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Kurt also wore an eye-patch, in his hillarious comedy, ‘Captain Ron’.

  • @robhersey1796
    @robhersey1796 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I sure noticed how gifted Adrienne Barbeau is .

  • @waltski4375
    @waltski4375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    You mean there were other stuff other than Adrienne Barbeau??

    • @MATTNMEMPHIS
      @MATTNMEMPHIS 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and her BEEWBS! Magnificent, weren't they! They should have gotten an Oscar.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nah...

  • @sardaukerlegion
    @sardaukerlegion 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "Plissken what are you doing?" "Playing with myself"

  • @amberlopez7477
    @amberlopez7477 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Fast and to the point. Thank you.😊

  • @maxpiemuse9584
    @maxpiemuse9584 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    NYC in this movie looks cleaner and probably smells better than NYC today.

  • @SMDoktorPepper
    @SMDoktorPepper 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I remember when they were filming in St Louis..and many of the sites they usee

  • @JamesB-mg9pk
    @JamesB-mg9pk 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Kurt and John are just legends!

  • @frankgaitan2702
    @frankgaitan2702 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Adrian Barbeau looks so good in this movie

  • @landonfinnerty2391
    @landonfinnerty2391 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You did a great job. No BS.

  • @George-pp2hr
    @George-pp2hr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I loved that movie cause im getting old and a big fan of Kurt Russell and there was some classic actors for one Lee Van Cleef, Donald Pleasance, Earnest Borgnine and other i can't remember all names. Great John Carpenter movie.👍🇭🇲🇭🇲✌️

  • @mikes5637
    @mikes5637 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Want to rewatch it now.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      One of the films that can be rewatched... over and over.

    • @shawnhensley4884
      @shawnhensley4884 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Pluto TV for free or I think it's on Tubi.

  • @baronwarborn9107
    @baronwarborn9107 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Did u mention the movie inspired Metal Gear Solid's main charachter Solid Snake. Also decades later Cyberpunk 2077 uses the same story line for uts dogtown dlc

  • @col.greasebagmcqueen9933
    @col.greasebagmcqueen9933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the greatest movies and greatest soundtracks ever. I watch this movie at least once every few months.

    • @fredmartin328
      @fredmartin328 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Theme is my ringtone

    • @col.greasebagmcqueen9933
      @col.greasebagmcqueen9933 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fredmartin328 that's awesome. Mine is "My neighbor's baby" by Guttermouth but I might have to change it. You've inspired me

  • @erichowry9356
    @erichowry9356 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in1970 and loved watching this movie whn I was young! I even had the nickname Snake in college!

  • @dadachimbo
    @dadachimbo หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of my all time favourite films, I loved watching this one!

  • @djcjr1x1
    @djcjr1x1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Now I know why stopping in St Louis was such a bad idea in Vacation!🤕

  • @MarkAhlquist
    @MarkAhlquist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    There's no way they risked that guy's life with the baseball bat

  • @SFRosebuds
    @SFRosebuds 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for your video!
    Nice list of weird things.
    Great movie.
    Set in 1997.
    Saw it in the theater in 1981.
    Both a long time ago now.
    Fun fact: Soylent Green is set in 2022, and A Boy and His Dog is set in 2024.
    We did not have faith in the future, as evidenced by wicked cool sci-fi from the '70s.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nice! Thanks for the cool info!!!

  • @GuyRiendeau-n8w
    @GuyRiendeau-n8w 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Today, this appears to be the best option for the city.

  • @markb4366
    @markb4366 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The ChockFull Of Nuts, top of the World Trade Centre and glider take off scenes were constructed and filmed in the middle of Indian Dunes Ranch near Valencia in LA County. The same ranch where Vic Morrow and the two children died during the making The Twilight Zone movie in 1982.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Really? Thanks!

    • @luisderivas6005
      @luisderivas6005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh, wow. I remember that. The SFX crew forgot to remove the top covers on the 55 gallon barrels during the helicopter scene in the Twilight Zone Movie. Since the director insisted on flying the chopper low for the shot, one of the covers struck the blades when the charges were set off for fireball effects. The chopper went down, decapitated Morrow and crushed the kids, who weren't even supposed to be allowed on set under these conditions.

  • @p.bateman7033
    @p.bateman7033 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This movie was the first thing that came to my mind on 9/11, with the similarities of flying a plane into a skyscraper. Eerie!

  • @citadelgrad87
    @citadelgrad87 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Actually, EAST St. Louis, across the river, is where they filmed the exterior shots because it was so destitute. I was in high school and remember newspaper ads for extras.

    • @brainfat1
      @brainfat1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Some.

  • @davidfrederick1971
    @davidfrederick1971 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    With the story of a (supposed) plane crash in St. Louis, a similar thing happened in Chicago. In the first season of NBC's Chicago Fire, a plane crash rescue was filmed. The local news was reporting it as actual breaking news. Then came back on air to report it was a tv film scene.

  • @marcusphoenixish
    @marcusphoenixish 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Straight to the point, no messing about love it 😊

  • @MrSanford65
    @MrSanford65 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The biggest surprise is that the Secret Service men was Gerald Ford’s son . Probably his only acting job.

    • @jimmymckay73
      @jimmymckay73 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think he was in a day time soap opera for years.

    • @robertgeist3266
      @robertgeist3266 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He also played Joe, the boyfriend of Sally (Meg Ryan) in When Harry Met Sally. You know the one that didn’t want to marry her.

    • @Hellodarknessmyolefriend
      @Hellodarknessmyolefriend 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He starred in the soap The young and restless for a number of years also

  • @wes2819
    @wes2819 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    John's High School guy go's a long way. From Snake Pliskken in Escape from New York/LA to Solid Snake in Metal Gear Solid.

  • @Halpin2006
    @Halpin2006 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    And to think, all of this is based upon a TSR role playing game from 1981! "Once upon a TSR game ... "

  • @r.morris5589
    @r.morris5589 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the greatest movies ever from the 1980's. They keep trying to remake it but you could only improve special effects, but not the story, acting, and directing.

  • @charlestayon4178
    @charlestayon4178 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My cousin was in a punk band at the time. Got to be an extra. He crawls out of the sewer. Saw the Ramones on their Escape from New york tour at the Fox Theater where the theater scenes were filmed. The Ramones walked out to the EFNY theme. LOVED this movie. Still do

  • @lamontparkman518
    @lamontparkman518 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Still a movie that I go back & watch from time to time. I'm still wondering why, until about 5yrs. ago, I had never heard about a local St. Louis strip club being mentioned in the end credits. Truly a classic film from beginning to end.

  • @almanuel6140
    @almanuel6140 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    i thought snake plissen was dead....

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You and every other convict.

    • @pirobot668beta
      @pirobot668beta 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Everyone thinks he's dead.

    • @markcastelletti483
      @markcastelletti483 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He got better

  • @Michaelsurreal72
    @Michaelsurreal72 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    This film scared the dodo out of me when I was a kid 😮

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The Romero character (Frank Doubleday) scared me bad!

  • @criticalbill2090
    @criticalbill2090 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    While it’s hard to argue about THE THING being John Carpenter’s best work. Escape From New York will always be my favourite

  • @charlesratcliff2016
    @charlesratcliff2016 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There is a real Snake Plissken out there 😮

    • @s.n.a.k.e.plissken
      @s.n.a.k.e.plissken 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      🤫- ssssshhhhh...
      ...keep that on the downlow, Charles...
      ...let out that I'm real, next thing I know, some cop will want me to rescue some president, and I'm NOT doin' that s*** again!

  • @TommyRibs
    @TommyRibs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The movie was filmed in East St. Louis.
    That is a big difference from St Louis.

  • @adonian
    @adonian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Funny I have only seen escape from LA, not escape from NY... I gotta get this in my collection. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      It's a must. You'll love it!

    • @funtimefoxy6699
      @funtimefoxy6699 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      New York is by far the superior movie.

    • @adonian
      @adonian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@funtimefoxy6699 I’m gonna grab a copy next paycheck 👍

    • @fastdude2002
      @fastdude2002 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      As stated escape from New York is MUCH better. It has an authentic gritty feel to it.

    • @weswolever7477
      @weswolever7477 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Toss La, New York is all you need

  • @JeffTullock-yx1hd
    @JeffTullock-yx1hd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Fabulous Fox Theater before being renovated. The Union Station scene ring fight is now one of the nicest posh places in St. Louis. TH-cam it. It’s magnificent now.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks!

    • @brainfat1
      @brainfat1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The beautiful stained glass window is still in that room, called the "Grand Hall" and a few years after the movie, the entire station and "castle" was either renovated to its former glory (and it is glorious) or ripped out and replaced with a hotel and shopsand restaurants. Now the shops and restaurants are mostly gone but we have a nice aquarium and large ferris wheel out back.

  • @painkillerjones6232
    @painkillerjones6232 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember when they filmed this, they were partying on the East side (East St. Louis, home of 24 hour entertainment) after filming stopped at 6am!!

  • @zanethomas6865
    @zanethomas6865 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There was some questions if Russell, who had been in Disney movies less than a decade earlier and had previously played Elvis Presley could be taken serious as Snake Plissken. During filming one night, Russell and John Carpenter went walking away from the set in St. Louis as the crew was setting up a shoot. They didn't realize they left the designated film area and were in a real neighborhood. When some young men hanging out on a building stoop saw Russell as Snake and Carpenter with his long hair walking toward them, one guy got defensive and said, "Hey, we ain't looking for any trouble here." It was at that time, Carpenter knew Russell was perfect as Snake.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow... how do you know such details?

  • @howardb.6205
    @howardb.6205 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love this kind of stuff!
    I just stayed on the Queen Mary and the Farris Wheel out front for the Halloween event was Micheal Jackson's from Neverland, wow!

  • @davidfrederick1971
    @davidfrederick1971 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Ive listened to commentary and interviews, never heard the director make that claim. That Snake Plisken was based a someone he knew. Though Kurt Russell said his character's looks he inspired himself.

  • @SidneyBroadshead
    @SidneyBroadshead 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The rifles carried by the US Police Force troopers were selective fire M16A1s or semi-auto Colt SP1s with the forends replaced with a plastic tube. (This was so they would look futuristic.)
    The submachinegun carried by Snake in the beginning was an RPB MAC-10 with a SIONICS suppressor and a rifle scope, chambered in 9mm Parabellum. It had a holster and three 32-round magazines in a 3-cell magazine pouch. It's later captured and used by The Duke of New York.
    The scoped stainless steel revolver carried by Plissken is a Smith & Wesson M67 chambered in .38 Special. It was issued with two speedloaders. It's the gun Maggie fires at The Duke's car during Plissken's escape.

    • @luisderivas6005
      @luisderivas6005 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Man knows his firearms...

  • @SidneyBroadshead
    @SidneyBroadshead 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The punk Romero was named for George Romero, the director of _Night of the Living Dead_ . That's why he looks so unusual, like a zombie.

  • @jameswelch7403
    @jameswelch7403 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE THIS MOVIE CLASSIC

  • @alanmacpherson3225
    @alanmacpherson3225 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw this at the cinema in 1981 I was 11 years old. I don't imagine a kid of the same age would be allowed to see it if it was released today. I also saw American Werewolf which was released the same year I think. It scared the hell out of me.

  • @jerryrichardson2799
    @jerryrichardson2799 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    They changed the beginning of the movie after 9/11. Nobody wants to mention that.
    I agree, it's an excellent movie, and I bought a digital copy of it recently.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh? Never heard that.

  • @Lifeisshortby
    @Lifeisshortby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I didn’t know Donald pleasence had a sense of humor. He’s one of my favorite actors.

    • @AbeStephan
      @AbeStephan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was also a war survivor from the second world war . He was a POW of Japan .

  • @michaelleblanc7974
    @michaelleblanc7974 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I knew all of this already being a super fan, but thanks for putting it all out there in one place. I also subscribed to your page.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you so much!

  • @AbeStephan
    @AbeStephan 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Debra Hill was an awesome producer . Her work made this low budget independent movie look like a big budget film . I believe the special effects team became the same family business that did on ALIENS . And Jame Cameron worked for them during EFNY .

  • @tzeffsmainchannel
    @tzeffsmainchannel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Whoah! 2:09 💕

  • @karlepaul6632
    @karlepaul6632 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If you catch when Snake hits Slag with the bat, Snake lets it go, it's momentarily stuck in Slag's head, then drops out...then afterwards in the shot where the gang members start approaching the ring, you can see the bat is stuck back in Slag's head again.

  • @christophertadeo6120
    @christophertadeo6120 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow who knew the flinch issac hayes kept on doing throughout the movie 🙄.. Never knew hes doing the eye twitch on purpose😳

  • @williamwalker5326
    @williamwalker5326 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Like "Blade Runner", "Escape from New York" did not do well at the box office. However, both films are now considered iconic. Ridley Scott's sequel to Blade Runner was a box office darling but, "Escape from L.A." is sadly, absolute trash of the highest order. Trying to "catch lightening in a bottle" continues to be one of Hollywood's greatest blunders. Maybe they should give Scott a crack at Escape from New York.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yea... I couldn't get through it. I really tried to enjoy it. But just couldn't.

    • @melvert33
      @melvert33 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Blade Runner 2049 was directed by Denis Villeneuve. I thought it was great but it was a massive flop at the box office.

    • @sisulart
      @sisulart 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Ridley Scott didn't direct Blade Runner 2049 sequel, Denis Villeneuve did. Scott was just one of the executive producers.

    • @thepub245
      @thepub245 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I thought the blade runner sequel was bollocks, it was like watching paint dry FFS.

    • @chrispalmer9838
      @chrispalmer9838 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Allegedly Ghosts of Mars was originally written as a third Snake film...

  • @emccarty110
    @emccarty110 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw that movie at the drive in when I was ten. At the time I thought it was good. For 1981 it was dare I say good. Now I would watch it for a laugh.

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's got a mood few films can capture.

  • @Rob_1776
    @Rob_1776 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef! Oh hell yeah! This is a Damn good movie!

  • @djcjr1x1
    @djcjr1x1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Carpenter got to play with a world class set of ta ta's, never knew that. When they came out to play in Swamp Thing as a kid, a PG13 movie mind you, I was in blown away into heaven.😋😇

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      World class for sure!

  • @LaserRanger15
    @LaserRanger15 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Those were some goof facts. Didn't know most of them.

  • @WalterPeagin
    @WalterPeagin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They used a stunt double called Fake Plissken.

  • @newlam7958
    @newlam7958 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is strange they used M16 rifles without the protective barrel covers. In real life, it would easily burn their hands on the barrel. But I guess it makes the rifle look futuristic. Also, Kurt Russell purposely imitated Clint Eastwood's voice when talking to Lee Van Cleef because of the spaghetti westerns Clint did with Lee as kind of a joke for the movie. Another funny thing is that Kurt used an MAC-10 machine gun that holds 30 rounds, but seems to shoot over a hundred rounds per magazine.

  • @r.morris5589
    @r.morris5589 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is an actress named season hubley in one scene (when snake hides in what looks like a diner, and she gets pulled through the floor by the crazies coming out of the sewers). She was married to Kurt Russel at the time and I think that is the reason she was in the film.

  • @BillWendell-y5c
    @BillWendell-y5c 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You know, we saw it on VHS on a ratty old vacuum tube color tv set. We didn't notice a lot.

  • @Interstellar-in5wb
    @Interstellar-in5wb 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is the video thumbnail from? It’s not a still from the original movie, but a re-creation of the scene.
    What’s amazing about this is that the actors’ poses are perfect compared to the original movie scene .. right down to the angle of their heads (compared it directly to the actual scene).

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow... good eye. It's the magic of AI image creators.

  • @ASmK9412
    @ASmK9412 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    On one of the commentarys as I remember, the death sentence he has to get treated for at the end was going to be a hoax, which is what they did in the sequel

  • @pengele3
    @pengele3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your shot at 3:47 is Arnie in the Movie Christine....lol

  • @panicdispenser6586
    @panicdispenser6586 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I´am sure the real Snake Plissken was pleased by this movie

  • @muxmurki1497
    @muxmurki1497 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One of the great 80ies movies one is longing for today. They don't make those anymore, see others like Blade Runner, Alien, Star Wars 1st, and so on and so on...

  • @mlongpre100
    @mlongpre100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    did the real snake plissken get paid ?

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Only when he stole John Carpenter's lunch money.

    • @neilfloyd4812
      @neilfloyd4812 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He got his reward, the tape.......

  • @paulhargreaves5176
    @paulhargreaves5176 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Turning great Britain into this

  • @johncope4977
    @johncope4977 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Snake Blisken. I love Kurt Russel

  • @RobertSmith-lg7jp
    @RobertSmith-lg7jp 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You missed Adrian Barbeau being impregnated by a gun. 🔥🔥scene in the movie.

  • @rum8121
    @rum8121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This move was cool; they could do a remake but the way things are today; Disney probably do it

  • @darnice1125
    @darnice1125 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The garage scene looks like it's right out of Christine. Another one of carpenter's movies.

  • @cyrussoxlegion
    @cyrussoxlegion 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hope that we find out what happened to Iroquois Pliskin one day...🤔

  • @ryanspengler4877
    @ryanspengler4877 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Adrienne Barbeau is two things I always notice...

    • @movieswelove99
      @movieswelove99  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Two big beautiful things!

  • @markvito746
    @markvito746 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't remember other actors playing Snake and Maggie like the thumbnail suggests

  • @jimo3173
    @jimo3173 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    All in all, this was a pretty cool movie. I had it on VHS even. The sequel Escape from LA was a bit disappointing though.