Maggie is the kind of woman every man needs. She's cool-headed, intelligent and dangerous. I don't think I'd settle for anything less than Maggie. John Carpenter knew how to write strong, confident women in the 80's more so than most filmmakers today.
@rosiebrooks76852 жыл бұрын
Ikr.
@quentinparker7404 Жыл бұрын
Adrienne Barbeau was smokin' HOT too!
@calowenby1654 Жыл бұрын
Agreed! Maggie is such a cool character.
@jeffanon1772 Жыл бұрын
Not to mention that she had big ( .)( .)'s..🤣🤣🤣🤣
@bigape5502 Жыл бұрын
Even when she has to go through trauma and get emotional, she doesn't break down into an emotional mess like almost every female character. She sucks it up and gets even.
@rockycoast83353 жыл бұрын
40 years later life imitates art.
@admiralsemmes6939 Жыл бұрын
Don't go down Broadway.
@THEBEARDEDTOOLGUY Жыл бұрын
This is CHGO DOWN TOWN now on the Weekends
@normanred9212 Жыл бұрын
No different than the commie rioters of the 1960s 1990s and 2020s
@pip121117 жыл бұрын
A normal day in Camden NJ
@kaithomas79207 жыл бұрын
One of the most apocalytical sequences in the movie. Audiences surely were pretty much blown away with it in 1981.
@billbates5475 Жыл бұрын
I was in awe of this flick at the time. I was 16 summer of 1981 when it was released in NYC. I saw this even before I saw Mad Max.
@aliwalil4160 Жыл бұрын
True. But they are like "meh" in 2023.
@SteinerArts6 жыл бұрын
One of the best movies ever made!
@semerahpadi44844 жыл бұрын
It's not the best, but definitely one of cult classic. Snake Plissken is such a character :) i just wish that there are more than 2 Escape From movies.
@llg3pe4 жыл бұрын
Steiner Arts agreed
@TVforyourCats7 жыл бұрын
REST IN PEACE, HARRY DEAN STANTON.
@brianforbes83256 жыл бұрын
and Lee Van Cleefe as the Police Commissioner.
@robzilla7305 жыл бұрын
And Ernest Borgnine as Cabbie AND Isaac Hayes as The Duke of New York A #1!
@cgh73376 жыл бұрын
Snake & the gang somehow got ahold of the Griswald's family truckster.
@anthonydesroches7854 жыл бұрын
The name of the bridge in this movie is called chain of rocks in granite City Illinois. Can't drive on it any more but u can walk on it
@billbates5475Ай бұрын
the griswalds had their wagon 2 years after this flick came out so maybe it was the other way around.
@coryallan6832 жыл бұрын
Pound for pound, one of the greatest scenes in 80s cinema
@boneeatingsilicate5803 жыл бұрын
Donald Pleasance "God save me and look after you all too" lmao as their plane nose dives 😆
@abdulqudz893 жыл бұрын
r.i.p. to: harry dean stanton (brain). isaac hayes (the duke). ernest borgnine (cabbie). frank doubleday (romero, the windswept haired henchman of duke). lee van cleef (hauk). donald pleasance (president).
@kevinluschak52412 жыл бұрын
I loved this movie it was pretty bad ass!
@calowenby1654 Жыл бұрын
For sure, it’s a classic.
@KTMSparky4 жыл бұрын
So memorable, one of the first 'grown up' movies I was allowed to watch as a kid. I can watch it again and again.
@andycooper36124 жыл бұрын
Like New York now!
@jpx87937 жыл бұрын
We will miss you, Mr. Stanton.
@jjrj85684 жыл бұрын
fictional 1997 broadway was in fact an accurate real life Bronx in 1981...
@user-wr7wk9rh1l4 жыл бұрын
Welcome to 2020 corona virus craziness people 😆
@cheeveka32 жыл бұрын
That’s what’s it’s like in the CHOP zone in Seattle 😂🤣 so called “safe zones “ 🤣🤣
@dashoneedward95254 жыл бұрын
TIMELESS CLASSIC MOVIE!!!!!!!!!
@scottreacher9 жыл бұрын
What's wrong with Broadway....
@paulwoods7866 жыл бұрын
everything
@CEOkiller4 жыл бұрын
The posse on broadway!
@cgh73374 жыл бұрын
0:46 lol Brain is too scared to handle the gun.
@maciejwarda19744 жыл бұрын
Driving out of NYC these days!!!
@SnakeMovies5 жыл бұрын
So finally one of my most favorite movies has been remastered on Bluray HD 1080p!
@FrankNFurter10005 жыл бұрын
Have you seen the 4k transfer? The best I have EVER seen the film!
@calowenby1654 Жыл бұрын
I love that Maggie grabs Brain with her left arm and shoots the grabbing guy with her right arm. It just represents their relationship so well imo!
@Kehwanna4 жыл бұрын
0:37 When you got a new car and Murphy's Law kicks in.
@robzilla7305 жыл бұрын
This song needs MORE COWBELL!
@shawndenis28405 жыл бұрын
I Love The Music
@brianforbes83256 жыл бұрын
All those inmates had to do was puncture the tires on Snake's station wagon, and the three of them would have been toast! None of them seemed to think of that.
@brianforbes83256 жыл бұрын
I mean the inmates didn't think of that somehow.
@TheMrPeteChannel3 жыл бұрын
Inmates tend to be dumb.
@bigedt29855 жыл бұрын
Was looking for "honky lips " spray painted on side of the griswold family truckster
@llg3pe4 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha
@TrevyTrev-andTheFunkyPets Жыл бұрын
You can find Carpentar & Kirk commenting on the movie. Kirk said he had the task of trying to look tough while driving a station wagon
@chanvudaka7443 жыл бұрын
Snake plisken by far Kurt Russell s best role with tango & cash,the thing & tequila sunrise
@magic4478 Жыл бұрын
dont forget big trouble in little china.
@oldgreg11844 жыл бұрын
i mean its kinda like driving down a roadway through any major city in the US in 2020
@Frankie2012channel4 жыл бұрын
Anywhere where ANTIFA is, yes.
@roflman Жыл бұрын
Portland resident's average commute to work
@Allen-P4 жыл бұрын
Could they be moving ANY slower? FLOOR IT, SNAKE!
@TheMrPeteChannel3 жыл бұрын
The car sucks.
@donlarocque51573 жыл бұрын
Barely crawling in drive. Put er in reverse and here we go.
@KILLERDEVIL132 жыл бұрын
What there is on Broadway ? Oh, uh... nightmare of Broadway basically.
@juliennaoussi63098 жыл бұрын
Escape from Broadway
@jimmy1154 Жыл бұрын
Drive down Broadway today and you can have the Snake Plissken experience too.
@DRF10019 жыл бұрын
Broadway runs south from West 165th to FIDI . Clearly JC is poking fun at theatre critics who are thugs here
@PunkSlapper1235 жыл бұрын
This scene was actually filmed in East St. Louis.
@anthonydesroches7854 жыл бұрын
Accually the bridge seen was done in granite city, Illinois. The bridge is called chain of rocks.
@44excalibur8 жыл бұрын
There was no need to add a soundtrack where there was none in the movie. The Broadway scene worked better as it originally was, with no music until the end, where Snake drives through the barricade.
@SteinerArts6 жыл бұрын
What do you mean? Is there a different version of this?
@GabrielLopez-qe2od6 жыл бұрын
@@SteinerArts VHS and theatrical sorry for my English im from Argentina
@44excalibur4 жыл бұрын
@@SteinerArts The original theatrical version, along with the VHS and DVD versions, had no music during the assault on the car. All you heard was the sound of the criminals banging on the sides of the car. There was no music until the car reached the barricade.
@llg3pe4 жыл бұрын
Ford LTD... Built to handle anything...
@VAULT-TEC_INC.6 жыл бұрын
LOL Why don’t they just block the street instead of standing there waiting for random cars to drive down?
@danynumero65 жыл бұрын
Sunset Rider because they don’t want to get run over.
@markl556211 ай бұрын
i've owned cars that didn't look or sound much different than that station wagon....
@teddymarple10504 жыл бұрын
That's the south bronx right?
@TheMrPeteChannel3 жыл бұрын
It's East Saint Louis today.
@DarthVader-1701Ай бұрын
In the movie, only Manhattan was the prison.
@StephanieP-zj3df Жыл бұрын
Kind of funny that New York City is this way today.
@Cacowninja4 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of Anarchy: The Purge as well as Robocop.
@dannydanny47554 жыл бұрын
Live footage today
@timpriddy3493 жыл бұрын
Stuck valve on that 400 M
@llg3pe4 жыл бұрын
Everyone knew the Duke and his cars. Evidently, except for the kats on Broadway.
@EddieFelson7777 ай бұрын
Looks exactly like Broadway at 10pm every night
@archeur94006 жыл бұрын
Manhattan version apocalyptique par John Carpenter il est génial!!!
@mrcjc9298 Жыл бұрын
Reminds me of my bus ride home through Belfast in the 80s😂😂
@Hellodarknessmyolefriend4 жыл бұрын
Took my old man70s wagon with the big 460. Lol.🤣
@Frankie2012channel4 жыл бұрын
I had a FORD Country Squire station wagon just like that (1972) (it was my first car) but mine was a 440. Loved that car though. That V8 was amazing!
@justoldog3 жыл бұрын
Is this a documentary on N.Y. presently?
@christiane.g.41422 ай бұрын
This is actually happening in New York today, minus the 50-foot containment wall, the power outage, police commisioner Hauk, the Duke of New York, and Snake Plisskon
@raeray82453 жыл бұрын
The "crazies" of NYC- so appropriate.
@sgmaths9 жыл бұрын
I think they saw us...! TURN LEFT...! TURN LEFT...!
@Janet719909 ай бұрын
What’s popular taxicab station wagon or sedan
@saulvazquez893 жыл бұрын
for a moment there I thought It was Portland
@jeanpispisajr60646 ай бұрын
International Blvd and 198th in Oakland on a Sunday.
@johnhoward90463 жыл бұрын
Some tourist visiting New York complained in Craigslist's Rants & Raves 7/30/21 that New York was becoming like this movie.
@jackjones2986 жыл бұрын
The Broadway gang were punks. I'll bet the Baseball Furies could have stopped that car.
@mariusraab90765 жыл бұрын
Nah... They were professionell critics.
@Banana_Split_Cream_Buns2 жыл бұрын
I always wondered in _Escape from New York_ was set in the same universe as _Mad Max_ , though obviously _Mad Max_ would have to be set after Snake EMP'd the Earth in the sequel.
@joesweeney51973 жыл бұрын
Come on Sweet heart I would have said the same 👍
@snikeplassken Жыл бұрын
“What’s wrong with Broadway?”
@nevittwoods1730 Жыл бұрын
They that snake wont last too long on Broadway🔦🚬🕯
@LivingDeadBarbara Жыл бұрын
Maggie terrified me as a kid. And I also wanted to be her.
@ardjanhasanpapaj73956 жыл бұрын
Good Lucky
@PixelPusher14 жыл бұрын
It's a... quiet riot...
@EddieFelson7772 жыл бұрын
Broadway is about the same now
@ThatguyNice4 жыл бұрын
I don't get it. What's wrong with Broadway? 🤷♂️
@Mopache643 жыл бұрын
The irony
@christiane.g.41424 жыл бұрын
Bill DeBlasio's NYC is beginning to look a lot like this now. Heaven forbid President Trump's escape pod from Air Force One doesn't go down in Lower Manhattan and he's taken hostage by Isaac Hayes who forces him to recite: "You are... the Duke of New York... You're... A Number One!"
@MrEab201010 ай бұрын
we know now what a stink bomb Trump is under the slightest stress. Snake would aske their escape in separate cabs.
@Sangria Жыл бұрын
FYI avoid Broadway
@stevenspenneberg74073 жыл бұрын
It’s just a Mostly peaceful protest.
@reachforacreech8 жыл бұрын
they could just pop the tires...
@jackjones2986 жыл бұрын
Honestly, would it kill them to put down a couple spike strips?
@williampgalloway5 жыл бұрын
those are run flats, the mob knew that
@robertwalin98554 жыл бұрын
Of course Kurt Russell the besdt
@Tony-19719 жыл бұрын
They are remaking this, but snake is going to be a woman. Fuck that shit
@FrankNFurter10009 жыл бұрын
+AESCULAPTORmark3 Regardless of the sex of Snake Plissken, it's going to fucking suck.
@zenkaimusic548 жыл бұрын
+George Reid L
@Tony-19718 жыл бұрын
+George Reid Yes. It will suck balls. Its for a new generation though. And they will probably love it. Same as Fury Road and The farce awakens.
@Tony-19718 жыл бұрын
+Yllek Nidalap Theyre talking about a movie remake but with a female snake plissken.
@Tony-19718 жыл бұрын
+Hazel Paladin When you get old nobody wants you. Not sure if they asked him or if he just doesnt want to do it or if they want to appeal to a new audience with a younger female lead. But Look at Fury Road. No Mel Gibson. I just wish they would leave the classics alone and do something original.
@mattdrellishak17404 жыл бұрын
Antifa is on boradway
@MrEab201010 ай бұрын
I imagine the EFNY scenario occurring under a second Trump presidency.
@johncoontas72125 жыл бұрын
Some of those scratches will buff right out......Looks like every Democrat-run city right now.