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Post by tartanphantom on Apr 25, 2024 8:21:09 GMT -5
Where did everyone first see The Warriors? Did anyone actually see it in the cinema in 1979? I wasn't born yet.
I first saw it quite by chance in the mid 90s, we had an early morning flight and I was excited about that but couldn't sleep so I switched on the telly...and there was freaky Rhonda Shear on USA's Up All Night. The late night movies were one of the Friday 13th films (I think Part 5) and....The Warriors! Mum heard the telly on and came over with some ice-cream and we had a girl's night out. Since then, I've watched it at least once per year. Too bad there wasn't a sequel....there was an imagined one in the comics called The Warriors: Jailbreak which actually had a good plot. After all the gang-arrests at Van Cortlandt Park (where Cyrus called the meeting), the jails are filled to capacity so Ajax is taken to a detention center that's not as fortified as a city jail. The Warriors learn this and plan to spring him by forming an (uneasy) alliance with The Riffs as some of their men are there too. Inside the detention-center, Ajax is defiant as ever and the target of a psychopath Baseball Furies member who wants to earn his stripes by killing Ajax. Might have made a great film....
I saw it at a drive-in cinema about a year after it came out. I was a senior in high school on a double date with one of my friends. On the double feature that night, the lead feature was The Blues Brothers, which is the one we mainly came to see.
Warriors was in second run.
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Post by Batflunkie on Apr 25, 2024 10:58:03 GMT -5
Where did everyone first see The Warriors? Did anyone actually see it in the cinema in 1979? I wasn't born yet.
I first saw it quite by chance in the mid 90s, we had an early morning flight and I was excited about that but couldn't sleep so I switched on the telly...and there was freaky Rhonda Shear on USA's Up All Night. The late night movies were one of the Friday 13th films (I think Part 5) and....The Warriors! Mum heard the telly on and came over with some ice-cream and we had a girl's night out. Since then, I've watched it at least once per year. Too bad there wasn't a sequel....there was an imagined one in the comics called The Warriors: Jailbreak which actually had a good plot. After all the gang-arrests at Van Cortlandt Park (where Cyrus called the meeting), the jails are filled to capacity so Ajax is taken to a detention center that's not as fortified as a city jail. The Warriors learn this and plan to spring him by forming an (uneasy) alliance with The Riffs as some of their men are there too. Inside the detention-center, Ajax is defiant as ever and the target of a psychopath Baseball Furies member who wants to earn his stripes by killing Ajax. Might have made a great film....
I think I saw it on one of the many movie channels on Direct TV that my grandparents had. They didn't pay for a lot of packages, but they made damn sure that they had the movies. It's how I discovered a lot of films that would go on to be my favorites (Hackers, Last Action Hero, The Last Dragon, Videodrome) While I liked The Warriors (especially how it looked), it wasn't a film that I particularly enjoyed or sought out through repeat viewings
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2024 12:27:41 GMT -5
Where did everyone first see The Warriors? Did anyone actually see it in the cinema in 1979? I wasn't born yet.
I'm trying to recall and find that I can't pin it down, which leads me to believe I probably first saw it on tv, possibly on video, sometime in the 1980s - because if I'd seen it at one of our local, hometown cinemas when it came out in 1979 I'm sure I'd remember.
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Post by Rags on Apr 25, 2024 13:14:26 GMT -5
The Jailbreak storyline was supposed to be a 4-part series, but after #1 was released in regular comic book format, the rest (2-4) went straight to TPB. And it is exceedingly hard to find, the print run was extremely low. I've only seen 2 copies in the past 5 years and I got the first one.
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Post by Calidore on Apr 25, 2024 13:17:12 GMT -5
I saw it on video but don't remember whether it was tape or broadcast TV.
I saw it at a drive-in cinema about a year after it came out. I was a senior in high school on a double date with one of my friends. On the double feature that night, the lead feature was The Blues Brothers, which is the one we mainly came to see.
Warriors was in second run.
That's a heck of a double feature! I've actually got the Blues Brothers 4K disc on order right now, so I'd be able to do that myself in (hopefully) a week or two.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 25, 2024 17:43:49 GMT -5
I've never seen The Warriors.
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2024 18:05:38 GMT -5
I've never seen The Warriors. Have you seen any other Walter Hill movies? He's made quite a few good ones.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Apr 25, 2024 18:16:22 GMT -5
I've never seen The Warriors. Have you seen any other Walter Hill movies? He's made quite a few good ones. 48 Hours is, I think, a terribly underrated action film. Pretty influential on films to come in the next decade or so as well. I suspect I first saw Warriors on either HBO or Cinemax when I was in college. So likely 1986-88 time frame.
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2024 19:06:40 GMT -5
Have you seen any other Walter Hill movies? He's made quite a few good ones. 48 Hours is, I think, a terribly underrated action film. Pretty influential on films to come in the next decade or so as well. I suspect I first saw Warriors on either HBO or Cinemax when I was in college. So likely 1986-88 time frame. Yeah, I've always thought of it as an 80s movie and didn't know or remember that it came out as early as 1979 until I learned it here in this thread.
I think my favourite Walter Hill movie is Hard Times, which I think is also Charles Bronson's 2nd best movie, with Sergio Leone's One Upon a Time in the West at #1.
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Post by Rob Allen on Apr 25, 2024 19:12:46 GMT -5
I've never seen The Warriors. Have you seen any other Walter Hill movies? He's made quite a few good ones. I'm pretty sure I've seen 48 Hours, Crossroads, Aliens and Alien 3.
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2024 19:28:21 GMT -5
Have you seen any other Walter Hill movies? He's made quite a few good ones. I'm pretty sure I've seen 48 Hours, Crossroads, Aliens and Alien 3. I've never seen Crosswords but a friend of mine loves that movie. I think Hill worked on those two Aliens in some capacity but didn't direct them - Cameron did Aliens, of course, forget who directed Alien 3.
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2024 20:38:40 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I've seen 48 Hours, Crossroads, Aliens and Alien 3. I've never seen Crosswords but a friend of mine loves that movie. I think Hill worked on those two Aliens in some capacity but didn't direct them - Cameron did Aliens, of course, forget who directed Alien 3. David Fincher
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2024 20:59:22 GMT -5
Where did everyone first see The Warriors? Did anyone actually see it in the cinema in 1979? I wasn't born yet.
I first saw it quite by chance in the mid 90s, we had an early morning flight and I was excited about that but couldn't sleep so I switched on the telly...and there was freaky Rhonda Shear on USA's Up All Night. The late night movies were one of the Friday 13th films (I think Part 5) and....The Warriors! Mum heard the telly on and came over with some ice-cream and we had a girl's night out. Since then, I've watched it at least once per year. Too bad there wasn't a sequel....there was an imagined one in the comics called The Warriors: Jailbreak which actually had a good plot. After all the gang-arrests at Van Cortlandt Park (where Cyrus called the meeting), the jails are filled to capacity so Ajax is taken to a detention center that's not as fortified as a city jail. The Warriors learn this and plan to spring him by forming an (uneasy) alliance with The Riffs as some of their men are there too. Inside the detention-center, Ajax is defiant as ever and the target of a psychopath Baseball Furies member who wants to earn his stripes by killing Ajax. Might have made a great film....
I recall seeing the commercial spots, on tv, back in '79, and some news reporting about disturbances at some screenings; but, never saw it in theater. I caught maybe 15 minutes of it, on cable, in St Maarten, when we made a port visit and I crashed, for the night, in the hospitality rooms that the wardroom rented, for just such a thing (rather than going back to the ship, which was at anchor, since they didn't have a pier that could accommodate us). I didn't watch the entire thing until a few years ago. Good movie, though a bit uneven in spots and the fights get a little repetitive. I personally prefer Escape From New York, for that kind of story, though their plots aren't that similar. As far as films he has directed, I have seen: Warriors Southern Comfort 48 Hours Streets of Fire Crossroads Red Heat Another 48 Hours Geronimo: An American Legend Last Man Standing and a few minutes of The Long Riders. For ones where he was just a writer, I have seen: The Mackintosh Man Aliens (he is credited with Story and Executive Producer) Aliens 3 (writer) As producer only: Alien Rustler's Rhapsody Alien Resurrection Prometheus His biggest strengths are as a writer, but he does some interesting stuff, as a director. To my mind, his biggest problem, as a director, is in the editing of his movies. Streets of Fire was one where I really wanted to walk out, after a while, because the best stuff was at the beginning and the very end, then you go through a long slog in the middle. Casting Michael Pare in the lead didn't help. Another 48 Hours was all over the place and nowhere near as good as the first and mostly held up by the leads. Red Heat was Arnold's usual nonsense. Crossroads has good moments, but is really uneven and Ralph Macchio was never convincing as a guitarist. I really liked Geronimo and it got the history right (and used a Native American actor, with Wes Studi). Last Man Standing was decent; not a patch on old Warner gangster movies or Kurosawa; but, decent. Mackintosh Man, which he wrote, and which stars Paul Newman, is a great story and a great film. He also did Assistant Director and Second Assistant work on Take The Money and Run, The Thomas Crown Affair, and on tv westerns, like Gunsmoke, The Wild wild West and Bonanza
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Post by codystarbuck on Apr 25, 2024 21:00:52 GMT -5
ps I've been trying to catch Long Riders for a bit, to see the Keach vs Carradine dynamic.
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Post by berkley on Apr 25, 2024 21:03:16 GMT -5
The Long Riders is really good, one of the best "modern" westerns - not really so modern now, of course, 40+ years later. But it felt like it at the time, as westerns were even then no longer as widespread a genre as they had been a decade or two earlier.
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