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"In 1988, the United States crime rate has risen to an unbelievable rate. To battle the resulting prison population, New York City (partially played by East St. Louis, Missouri) has been turned into a maximum security prison where the prisoners rule the streets. The prison guards, based out of Liberty Island in New York Harbor, are only there to keep the prison population, all of which are serving life sentences, in the city. Once in the city, you do not come out alive. Nine years later, Air Force One, en route to a summit, is hijacked and shot down. The "President of the United States" (the late Donald Pleasence) escapes in a life pod by the head of his personal security, and he lands within New York's city limits, where he is taken prisoner by the self-proclaimed leader of the city (music legend Isaac Hayes), who calls himself "The Duke of New York City". In response to the threat "The Duke" has issued against the "President's" life, prisoner and military hero "Robert 'Snake' Plis ... "
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"We don’t ask much from science fiction movies: entertaining plot lines, competent acting, huge explosions, and accurate predictions of the future. Many films fail to deliver on that final request, prognosticating about the world to come and screwing it up again and again. Many of these movies rely on the believability of their premise, but when that premise involves a prediction about the state of the world at a specific future date, they’re setting themselves up for failure when that day comes to pass without incident. Here are five films that forecasted doom and gloom that did not happen. The Time Machine - 1966 Nuclear War H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel, The Time Machine, was made into a feature film in 1960, and again in 2002. Wh "
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Carpenterian dread
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"Having re-watched Escape From New York after not having seen it all the way through in years, I was really struck how similar in tone this is to Halloween, particularly in how from when Snake first lands to the end there's that great sense of Carpenterian dread that death is lurking just outside of the frame, due to the figures dashing around in the shadows and the quick zinger music cues. I was also struck by how much good-natured fun the movie is. It's a fairly dark film, but filled with some really corny jokes, e.g. the recurring "I heard you were dead" line that almost make it a light-hearted romp. "
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"Neil Marshall's buddies: "Hey Neil, 28 Days Later, Escape From New York, The Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome kicked ass." Neil: "Hell yeah, they did!! I should make a movie like that." Neil's buddies: "That would be @$#@$@ sweet!!" (or mint or what ever those brits say). ****** 20 minutes later ******** Niel: "Ok, screenpay's done." ****** pulls out steno pad in which he's scribbled down a makeshift storyboard/amature comic book. "Here it is" Neil's buddies: "Where the hell did the midievil knights come from?" Neil: "I really liked Gladiator too!" Neil's buddies: "Mint!! It seems to be missing something though. What could it bee?" Neil: "I've got it! This movie needs more decapitations and cannibalism." Buddies: "Awesome!!!!!!" Ok, so don't get "
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The Dark Crystal
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"1982 may have been the greatest year ever. At least for a 9 year old movie geek it was. Sure, '81 brought us the births of Indiana Jones and Snake Pliskin and '83 would wrap up the Star Wars trilogy and introduce us to the glaive and Tom Cruise, but '82 gave us E.T., Fast Times, Rocky III, Conan, The Thing, First Blood, Tron, Wrath of Kahn and Blade Runner . To close out the year was a little movie called the Dark Crystal. I saw a few of these in the theatre, but as I was only 9 (and funds were slim), most would have to wait for VHS. I did get to see The Dark Crystal in the theatre however, most likely because it was from mother approved Jim Henson and company. And really, that's all I needed to know. It was by the father of the Muppets and the voice of Yoda. Does a kid need to know any more than that? For the uninitiated the Dark Crystal follows "
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"Giving credence to rumors that have been floating around for many weeks, IFC confirmed yesterday that they’re planning to move away from distributing moderate-budget festival acquisitions in order to concentrate more attention on their IFC FirstTake program. This can only be good news for VOD-loving indie film fans. FirstTake has brought some of the year’s best films to cable boxes, including Day Night Day Night, Lars Von Trier’s The Boss of it All, and current selection This is England; they already have plans to distribute highly-anticipated (by me, at least) festival holdovers such as Hannah Takes the Stairs and Gus Van Sant’s Paranoid Park. Can you imagine what they could do if they tried harder? Fox has struck a deal with what appears to be some kind of unofficial union called the Writing Partners, designed to lure top s "
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"WALL-E may look like the bastard child of E.T. and a backhoe, but inside he’s all Snake Pliskin from Escape from New York (1981). YouTube’s Sara Pollack on the most exciting thing to happen to short films since… well, maybe ever. 3:11 Sarah Pollack from YouTube 14:33 Wall-E vs. Escape From New York 18:23 Movies to watch filmcouch-77 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog "
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"WALL-E may look like the bastard child of E.T. and a backhoe, but inside he’s all Snake Pliskin from Escape from New York (1981). YouTube’s Sara Pollack on the most exciting thing to happen to short films since… well, maybe ever. 3:11 Sarah Pollack from YouTube 14:33 Wall-E vs. Escape From New York 18:23 Movies to watch filmcouch-77 Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Paul Moore "
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"Jonathan Levine’s crowd-pleasing (in terms of audience awards at festivals, not in terms of uplifting Hollywood endings) film The Wackness opens in limited release tomorrow. In case you haven’t noticed from the ads and the soundtrack, it takes place in the New York City of 1994, a special time for the place because Rudy Giuliani had just become mayor and was beginning to clean up the city, Goldie Wilson-stylee (OK, not really Goldie Wilson-stylee, but who doesn’t love a good BTTF reference?). NYC in the ’90s was quite special for me. It’s when I moved here. And moved here a second time (I’ve since moved here a third time), and watching The Wackness made me nostalgic for the decade. It also made me think of some of the other films from or set in that period, a number of which kind of define my experience with the city.
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Big Trouble in Little China
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"Big Trouble in Little ChinaFun and ridiculousness with John Carpenter and Kurt Russell just like Escape From New York only a little more supernatural and goofy.This movie plays off all kinds of stereotypes that must have been and probably still often are held by Americans about Chinese martial arts and Chinese culture in general. But because it's so goofy and so self-aware to that fact, it doesn't really anger me. But in the same way it isn't extremely impressive either. Maybe it would have been if I had been watching it when it first came out.One interesting thing that Carpenter and Russell mention on the commentary is how the studios just didn't understand the fact that Russell wasn't supposed to be a competent hero. They were mocking the skillful and competent hero who has to has all the moves, says the right things, and looks good doing it. Kurt Russell hardly ever makes his way into action, and when he does he only manages to survive by somehow getting ... "
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