Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: 2019 AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK
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- It's knock-off time again as I review the Italian made Escape From New York cash-in "2019: After The Fall of New York" (1983), because who needs Snake Plissken when you have...Parsifal?
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If your name is "Parsifal", and you're not a knight at King Arthurs table, you'd better prance around in thights and sprinkle flowers on peoples heads.
Lancelot would have worked better as hero name
As someone from the 2020's, I can safely say they missed the Fall of New York by a year.
For 2021 they missed 2 years and the title since it should be called the Fall of U.S if I count the capitol riot as a near fall.
I wouldn't really wouldn't call either of those a fall.
Eh, Faux News nonsense. Violent crime is actually down substantially, continuing a 30-year trend, and is anyone surprised that a pandemic in which the vast majority got zero support to, y'know, live through it might produce an uptick in unrest?
@@fightingmedialounge519 Hold onto your butts; the attempted fascist coup is still rolling. Rule of law is very much in peril, as are elections themselves. GOP's replacing independent election officials with partisan "45 won in 2020" truthers
in a swath of states; be prepared to see an unfavourable result for Republicans arbitrarily thrown out in the near future.
@@michaelccozens That's certainly an option.
It's a poor attempt to recover the legend Parsifal and his search for the Grail. A dying world plays the role of Amfortas and the rest of the legend's just strapped out. Still scratching my head with this one, though.
The Cyborg-phobia at the end never really added up for me - if Ratchet had been a double agent planning to deliver the girl to the Eurax, or decided the world would be better off without human life, then yeah, it makes sense to fight him. But the script missed this opportunity, so it just seems Parsifal has some irrational and unmentioned hatred of cyborgs. However, I know expecting coherent plotting from this gloriously inane movie is kinda unreasonable!
The cyborg was there to kill Parsifal after getting the girl.
@@TBOTSS yeah, It's not well explained but it makes sense if he was a plant who was always gonna betray him at the end. Let's face it... he's not exactly Percival's friend.
One of those guys is a bandanna wearing 'badass', one has an eyepatch, and one has a robotic arm... they divided Venom Snake into three different people for this movie.
Yeah, that's an odd way to go about things, kind of a reverse J.J. Abrams approach to character development.
Venom doesn't wear a bandana.
ARX 351 You can unlock one
@@arx3516 Yeah, I unlocked one and wear it
FYI: the not-so-bad-ass name Parsifal is a Wagner opera based on the 13th-century epic poem of the Arthurian knight Parzival (Percival) and his quest for the Holy Grail.
jlovebirch ha-ha, came to make this exact comment! :)
Doesn't mean it's a name that brings weight. Now he's Player1 "yay"
Wow, you are right! "Parzival" appears in the trailer! :)
To be fair, considering these things are made just as much to cash-grab American audiences, it might not have hurt the dubbers to pick a name the average podunk American might have even recognised.
Scrolled down to make this comment. If I may complete the allusion: the Holy Grail grants eternal life (Matthew 26: 27-29); whereas the descendants of the fertile woman for whom this Percival is searching for could continue on indefinitely, giving life back to the world. So the name does makes sense, although the reference may be too high-minded for a B-movie.
Actually, Parsifal is the German pronunciation of Percival, one of King Arthur's knights.
I knew that but… it’s STILL a prissy sounding name, lol!
“So, the whole world’s Detroit. Got it.”
No. This is nicer.
Were literally getting there
@@socuteandsilly OOOH WOOOOAH WE'RE HALF WAY THERE!!!!!
Dude. No Snow White references? Dwarves guarding a woman in a long sleep in a glass coffin?
damn it. i should read other's comments first.
Holy fuck that never occurred to me
Exactly!!
Happy new year 2019 everyone a bit late !
Happy late new year 2018, February 11, 2019
Happy new year buddy! May the four remaining months bring joy and prosperity!
even later
What a schlocky little thread going on here..
now even later
I came back to this in 2019. Oh boy.
Parsifal, the "pure fool", Holy Grail knight and hero of Wagner's last opera. Can't say this fellow reminds me of him.
Ironically, coming across this review in 2019
Yep....and though New York is intact...the movie's opening does look like Detroit
I'm watching it in 2020.
I'm from the future year 2020 and i can tell this movie only missed by year
2021, also not sure why you say Ironic, there isn’t anything ironic about it.
2021 baby
Since somebody already mentioned that Parsifal is one of the more famous knights of the round table,
I'll just mention that the protagonist and the antagonist not being in the same room during the entirety of the movie is also one of the things that make The Fifth Element stand out.
Same with Wrath of Khan.
Kirk on Khan were never even on the same ship, much less the same room.
But I think you'll find the knight who you're thinking of was called Percival.
They sound similar but they aren't the same.
@@ericisprobablyfullofshit7797 Actually they are the same, it's just different ways to write the name.
Zorg and Dallas never talk to each other, they never interact directly, they are pretty much unaware of each other's existence. You can't say the same about Kirk and Khan.
@@davidwuhrer6704 It's a good way to write a big bad though. It's a mastermind pulling the strings in the background. He has no reason to directly confront the hero. Knowledge is power.... why give anything to the hero?
@@marhawkman303 Like Stavro Blofeld? Sure, but it's difficult to write a good hero that never confronts the villain. That's what makes The Fifth Element so unusual.
@@davidwuhrer6704 Sure, it's challenging to write. But when written well.... MWA!
Well it's 2022 and Argentina finally got that soccer trophy 🏆⚽👻
The death of Shorty had me laughing so hard. That and the decapitation joke.
2014 "maybe my parents are right. Maybe I have been doing this show for too long". me in 2022. Hell no you haven't!
fun fact, in the italian version of "Escape from NY", Snake is called "Jena" (meaning "hyena")
Funny, got this recommended a day after Argentina won the World Cup…
"If love had any meaning in this world,
you'd be the one I'd love." That's actually
pretty romantic stuff for a low budget
post apocalyptic exploitation flick.
I see that Italian directors haven't overcome their obsession with the zoom lens.
I laughed so loud on the Onion joke it's embarrassing. Thanks man.
It's 2019 now. I live in michigan and it's not like this. Can anyone who lives in new york tell me how accurate the movie is.
@Juliana Beatriz not to mention all those mysterious monolyths laying around since 2001 or the judgement day back in '94
Maybe they were confusing NY for LA.
Very accurate
Nahh New York kicked everyone who wasn’t super-wealthy out of the city. It’s now like Disney Land, except with lots of new Phallic Glass skyscrapers.
17:46 De-De-DE-DECAPTIATIOOOOOOON! COMBO
Here’s one Italian made Vietnam war movie called “The Last Hunter”. It has an Australian lead played by the late David Warbeck, And Tony King. The film claims to take inspiration from Apocalypse Now only it’s done differently with a surprise twist to it.
Oh yeah, and there was Cannibal Apocalypse AKA Apocalypse Domani (“Apocalypse Tomorrow”) with John Saxon and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (John Morghen) coming back from Vietnam infected by a insatiable hunger for human flesh. There’s a Vietnam scene at the beginning.
I died at Professor Jeff Foxworthy
The irony of Escape From New York..it was filmed in St Louis.
East St. Louis, if you please.
The movie is still accurate. Although I hear the place has gotten a lot more livable since Illinois legalized weed.
Funfact: Here in Germany, the Movie's called: "Fireflash - Der Tag nach dem Ende" Which means "Fireflash: The Day after the End"
Wait, a dwarf leads the hero to a young woman who sleeps inside a glass box? You sure this ain't Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs?
to be fair he killed the poisoned people near the start because he was putting them out of their misery.
Parsifal was a knight of Arthur's Round Table....
I Art Laughing run away!!
Brandon: Chuck E. Cheese gets weird in the future
Me: Wait it's not weird now?
5:42 just call him "Fake Plissken" like everyone else....that seen this movie......all 6 of us.
Parsifal, is one of King Arthur's legendary Knights of the Round Table. First made famous by the French author Chretien de Troyes in the tale Perceval, the Story of the Grail, he is most well known for being the original hero in the quest for the Grail, before being replaced in later English and French literature by Galahad
It's actually pussyfull!
This looks pretty good for what it is. I’m actually a big fan of Sergio Martino’s giallo cycle with Edwige Fenech and George Hilton.
I’m watching this in 2019 and I’m from New York 🤔
Get the fuck outa hereeee
You still alive?
Ive been cycling through these nonstop for a full week and counting
I remember an "Escape" knock off that I saw in the 00's, where the hero got captured by a female antagonist who got mad when she couldn't give him wood in sand crawler.
💪😂👍 This channel is gold. "Snake comes to frog town."
This was one of my all time favorite movies from the 80's but wouldn't this be a cross between Escape from new York and Max Max? Also it seems like Parsifal was a popular name in Science fiction back then. I remember the kid on the TV show Photon had the same name.
I'm watching this review on 08/06/2020. Only this afternoon NYC reports a "130% increase in shootings and violence". Coupled with the other news reports today that people are fleeing the City and DeBlasio is defunding the police by $1 billion, I would say that now marks the actual beginning of The Fall of New York (name drop).
🐙 giggling about this in 2022...☠️
This Year is 2019
What a Coincidence
Even Princess Peach is cringing at how often Parsefal gets kidnapped.
Your commentary is so funny (I'm newly subscribed) Keep it up Mr. Tenold.
I never understood why they kill Ratchet at the end. All throughout the movie he saved Parsifal countless times and he was helpful to the end. So what if he is a cyborg? Technically, so was the other guy with the robot hand.
Spaghetti Pliskin
Hahaha. That is a way better name.
In the italian version he is called "Iena Pliskin" Why did the change Snake for Hyena, i have no clue.
@@gafrers because "serpente" doesn't sound well, they could have used cobra though.
"Professor Jeff Foxworthy" really got me, lol.
Help me recall the name of a similar movie. It had many of the same elements; a post apocalyptic setting (everyone smokes antidote cigarettes because of radiation), a hero trying to find/deliver the last fertile woman (this time from a destroyed America to Europe, and cyborgs fighting one another (the hero is like a renegade cyborg). It was probably made in the 80’s too.
What was this movie called?
Better late than never : American Cyborg from 1993 directed by Boaz Davidson starring Joe Lara and Nicole Hansen
+Brandon Tenold Are you familiar with a Escape from New York/Mad Max hybrid called 1990: Bronx Warriors? Witch came out one year before 2019 After The Fall Of New York.
You gotta check out Society(1989). It's right in your wheelhouse.
There are worse woman death scenes.
*ahem*
"I should've been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIIIIIIGHT!" lol
Lmao! You have no idea how hard I cringed when I first heard that line...and every time I heard it afterward. It's embarrassing enough alone, even worse when there are other people around and your the one playing it.
WHAT AM I FIGHTING FOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRR
"Man! Chuck E Cheese got "effing" weird in the future".
I almost spit my coffee. 😂
This movie has a lot more in common with _Hell Comes To Frogtown_ , especially with the whole fertile woman plot line.
Great review.2019 is one of my favorite sci-fi flicks.Seen it as a kid and loved and still do to this day.
Yeah it's a Escape from NY/Mad ax rip off in the best italian way possible but it's original and enjoybale.
Also thought you were too hard on Parsifal-he was really in control most the time.
It's insane that this episode is 9 years old
As a (health reasons) retired LARPer and a D&D player, I call shenanigans on your explanation for the lack of births in this movie. The LARP scene is full of nerd-on-nerd bow-chicka-wow-wow. Chicks with elf ears are hot, y'all.
Old DnD player and sca member, can confirm.
You haven't been doing this show to long! You're just getting started!
This seems less like "Escape from New York", and more like a bad remake of "Hell Comes to Frogtown".
+Dennis Mahon Hell Comes to Frogtown came out in 1988.
How dare they ripoff Hell Comes to Frogtown five years before it came out!
@@jeffreycoogan09 So that means that Hell Comes to Frogtown is actually the remake. And, as terrifying as it is to type... actually the better version. I mean, this provided a pretty low bar, but even so...
@Mitzi Bartlett I never got a chance to see Hell Comes to Frogtown from beginning to end.
@@jeffreycoogan09 Some friends of mine have a Saturday night movie night via Skype, and there's a bit of a competition for how bad the movies are. Hell Comes to Frogtown is one of the milder ones, to give you an idea.
Ratchet's eye patch looks like he's wearing a leather G-string on his face, must have been a trophy from a good lay
You want pink eye? Because that's how you get pink eye.
Maybe thats why he's a cyborg, got a cataclysmic cas of pink eye/Ocular herpes and had to undergo partial reconstruction,
This early version of Children of Men is weird.
that's the title of that movie i was trying to think of!
@@ryanbarker5217it's like hell comes to frog town , escape from New York and the true story of sleeping beauty rolled into one
What the Bloody Hell?! It's General Hassan at 3:38 from Tiberian Sun.
Would love to see your take on Logan's Run!
That would be good.
Parsifal is not a sissy name, he was Galahad's son and the king after Arthur and the one who found the Holy Grail, Wagner even wrote an opera about him!
2:16 "cabum" is how we write "kaboom" in Portuguese. O_o
"Johnny, use the name Oliver Onions in a sentence!"
"My dad's new girlfriend's dress was so low-cut, I could see Oliver Onions."
"Parcifal & his Love-Slave, passionately slopping sushi in the High Desert! THESE TWO ARE ONE!"...
Welp looks like we're in for a rough year
Daaaaaaaamn a Front line Assembly reference!? This guy just keeps getting cooler!
The guy in this is named after the knight who found the Holy Grail.
This is the future calling. This is exactly how 2019 was.
I don't remember cyborgs.
@@fightingmedialounge519people with prosthetics
Lol douche did you ever see new york in the 70s and 80s? It was way worse
@johnlawful2272 Lol did you ever see new york in the 70s and 80s? It was way worse
@@fightingmedialounge519 Well you don't remember them now, that's how mind wipes work... Oh heck, I've said too much, a technician will be with you soon...
Parsifal is the title character of a Wagner opera. The opera is loosley based on the story of the quest for the Holy Grail. Only recently found your channel and thoroughly enjoying it.
2019 is only 7 months from now, so the depiction of New York is pretty accurate :)
Of all the reviews I've seen of yours, I almost hurt myself laughing at this one.
This is Snake Pliskin, if Snake Pliskin was Jack Burton, with Jack Burton as Parselmouth!!! >XD
When it comes to D&D: I think Brandon Tenold would make a convincing fighter-bard, and possibly the best Dungeon Master (?) in a decade. Just for the records... ;-)
Ok. Whatever we do, don't show Greta this movie, she'll freak out even more.
Dude... Oliver Onions was a great Known Musicact in europe in the 70s and 80s. He made the Musik for all the Bud Spencer Movies. Bud Spencer was the Europen/Italian Chuck Norris if you will so 😆
"At least Miles Davis survived the apocalypse "...😂
2018 and i still am listening to Front Line Assembly. And will always be a sub of Brandon Tenold
. Lol.
Ow, that David Bowie Joke hurts right now.
I watched FLA's Mindphaser video a few days ago and got a chuckle from the reference you made about them. :)
you should do don't open till christmas. It's got caroline munro in it.
I did not expect shorty to kill himself, the way he went about it...so unexpected lol
i know a lot of people might hate me for this, but i honestly wasn't crazy about 'Escape From New York' either. Snake acts like the president is an asshole for not having a huge overreaction to the people who died on the mission, but then HE goes and makes their deaths completely pointless by switching the tapes.
also, that whole 'call me Snake'/'the name's Plissken' thing seemed less like a character arc and more like a moody teenager changing his mind for no reason other than just being difficult for everyone around him.
😝 Brandon sounds legitimately sounds angry at how much Parsifal gets his ass handed to him 😝
Parsifal was one of King Arthur's knights.
@@JB-ym4up you know Google is right there. It would have taken you less than a minute to avoid making yourself look like a fool.
The part with the apes is hilarious, especially Big Ape actor
3:52 I'd go for Brazil after germany game but this will work too
2019? Oh no! That's next year!
Yeah I know what you mean. Fuck.
Well hell, I saw 1984 come and go then 2000 (...party over. Oops out of time) then 2012 and all were complete duds. If 2019 happens and there's still zip I'll blow up the world myself.
Now I want to see you review don't open till christmas
Our hero, ladies and gentlemen.
Sorry to contradict you but Indiana Jones charachter is a remake from Alan Quatermain character ( Not Richard Chamerlain's movies but James Stewart ) as the novel by itself .
10:00 Hey, that's Valentine Monnier, who was also the blonde girlfriend in Devil Fish!
I would 100% watch a movie where Bigfoot becomes a pirate.
Does anybody else notice that "Parsivol's" outfit is basically what Arnold ripped off of the street punks and wore for the entire movie of Terminator?
Brandon's Futurama reference isn't getting nearly enough love in the comments section over the years.
Front Line Assembly and MST3K references? I'm home.
If you've watched Escape From New York too many times and still want more then I'd suggest reading the BOOM comics adaptation they did some years ago. It's set before Escape from LA and it's freaking great. Any fan of the original movie should give it a chance.
Yay Frontline Assembly reference!
watching this in 2019...
Never heard of Bradnon before. But, damn, this guy is fantastic! Btw, I love 2019, so no hard feelings.
OMFG this is the move i couldn't remember the name of for like 30 years now