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The young whippersnapper who worked on the matte paintings for this film goes by the name of James Cameron (on loan from Roger Corman's studio)
unluckyandbored
And then a dozen or so years later they made the movie again, but set it in Los Angeles..
anaberration
In the fighting ring the eyepatch actually flew off, it's right after the scene where he reaches throught he ring to activate the locator. Luckily Kurt had his back to the camera and they didn't have to reshoot it. You can just see it fly off to the right side and you see Kurt react briefly reaching up to his face, but he keeps his back to the camera.
Tenzil
#2 Great poster layout but the people are painted terribly.
ravenousj
If I remember correctly, saw this at theater with Time After Time in a double feature. Miss those double feature showings.
SitkaFox
Never been able to find a behind the scenes photo of Cabbie's taxi. I wanted it as a reference for a post-apocalypse cab driver character I was making.
Anaphriel
I was 6 weeks old at the time, definitely a Hallmark moment in my life.
DownUpUpDown
Here is towards the beginning with his plane flying to the twin towers......
memeseeks
"SNAAAAAAAKE!" Plissken
AliceInjection
I don't give a fuck about your war or your president.
RosaElefanten
Fantastic film, I love it
ISayShenanigans
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1cG83MGhraXZ6cm5kd2hna2VwMDRqeGs2NTY3MDA4a3Fha3Y4b2Y1YSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/OrFmkOFx7PVK/200w.webp
RARusk
Also one of his best soundtracks alongside the original Halloween and Halloween III: Season of the Witch.
DrSharkbite
CyberWizard252
My sister rented this on a SelectaVision disc in 1982, along with a CED player that came home in a giant case. We had it for an entire weekend. I watched it so many times before we had to return it that I had it memorized.
Huor
Good ol' Lee Van Cleef. He was so great.
ch1ckensandw1ch
I love how many “accessories” the weapons have in this movie… like everything has either a laser site or a scope or a silence….. or all 3!
RElGNMAN
Do I look high?
No man, you good.
Me (far left)...
CyberWizard252
That dude creeped me out every time I watched the movie.
OregonComputerGuy
#24 Two Snakes
ProfessorMuChao
Schadwen
#24 Dick Warlock
Syxcfaq
I heard you were dead.
IamMadeOfShamrocks
Call me Snake
weidermeijer
“No, that was my stunt double.”
adamlstf9
“Rumors of my demise and such…”
lurkerthatoccationallywantstocomment
I haven't seen it since it first came out. Time for a revisit. Always liked Kurt's roles
ProfessorMuChao
Kurt Russel + John Carpenter = fucking awesome
SlamCampbell
For a while Kurt Russell was the hottest man on earth.
See image #1 as proof, and then see The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China as supporting evidence
CallMeMcGyver
Back then NYC was really falling apart, so growing up there the vibe of this movie didn't really seem that far fetched. Especially if you had to ride the subways at the time.
TheDildoOfConsequences
Lead poisoning is a hell of a thing.
TheWombatStrikesAgain
Also back then saving the US president was a thing most people considered to be a good thing. Crazy times, the 80s.
GimcrackGewgaw
This and Warriors are great, entertaining caricatures of that rough phase.
Pasquinelthe2nd
"Wolfen" is another good capture of NYC, filmed in the roughest part of the Bronx back when it really did look like a warzone.
GimcrackGewgaw
Oh, I don't know that one. I'll have to grab a copy from my local distributor of linux install images. Thanks!
5v4297j9fj1
Adrienne Barbeau was one of my favorites. Not a great actor but I thought she was cute.
VanGhoul
Agreed. Was fun in Creepshow (1982) too. "The Crate" segment.
CyberWizard252
I remember standing at the magazine counter at Zellers as a kid reading the Creepshow magazine adaptation. "The Crate" segment was my favourite.
joeyecho101
So did John Carpenter
OldBikerDude
TuckerCarlsonWarnedYouTheredBeGirlsLikeMe
So glad he has a playground named after him.
GodHelpMeToBeGood
Call him Snake!
adamlstf9
Snaaaaake
ch1ckensandw1ch
Call me snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake
darkninja2992
Just not solid snake, that's a different continuity
lordyhalvey
Probably unpopular but this is my favorite movie. Thanks for the post.
GodHelpMeToBeGood
Call you Snake?
tigerliketoightness
An awesome choice for a favourite movie! Mine is also a Kurt Russell John Carpenter movie: Big Trouble in Little China
GimcrackGewgaw
I think of this movie every time I use an umbrella. It's awesome.
davebarton315101
The Thing
PostHartmann
Looking at the comments on your comment. That is a good day of movie watching.
randomwalrus
Is Escape From L.A. your second favourite movie, since it is basically the same movie? (no shade, just saying)
lordyhalvey
Omg no lol. Total stupid remake. Surfboarding thru the streets etc.
BHPaperstacks
I absolutely loved Escape From L.A. when I was like 11 and 12 in the early 2000s and didnt care much for Escape from New York as much maybe because the dark film style felt a bit dated to young me w/ ADD or something. I remember I zoned out on two separate watch attempts. But then when I rewatched closer to 20, I realized EFNY was much better, especially since like other dude said L.A. is same movie but with some Buschemi added for flavoring. L.A. still has nostalgic feels for me though.
TOSDoesNotApply
#9 i had forgotten how many "computer" graphics were actually practical effects back in the day.
TheDreadPirateMontoya
Pretty sure #26 is James Cameron.
1Megaton
Yes, the glow tape was/is pretty convincing!
agonarch
The issue was a computer could draw wireframe, but what you want was wireframe with 'panels' (so the black sections obscure the back line sections, you only see the 'front' of the wireframe, they're not seethrough). It's cool because the art/graphics guys on this worked out what we needed to see for legibility before it existed.
This movie was 1981, that technique in computer graphics was 1984 (Elite on the ARM- then Acorn- BBC Microcomputer).
weidermeijer
#8 & #9 are pretty amazing when you remember how that looked on the screen.
marsilies
GimcrackGewgaw
I made my kids watch this movie last year and was like "that's what computer graphics looked like back in the day" and I was totally wrong. Computer graphics couldn't actually quite do that back then.
Pasquinelthe2nd
It could. But John Carpenter couldn't *afford* those kinds of graphics. So he improvised.
penzar
It could. Tron came out in '82. It's just that to do that scene with actual computers would have been too expensive. Far cheaper to buy a couple of cans of black spraypaint and some reflective tape.
seehemewe
+1 to this. I think the Star Wars Death Star computer graphics were actually computer, but Lucas owned the special effects company that had an amazing collection of super talented and ambitious people.
seehemewe
Video on how they did the Death Star https://youtu.be/yMeSw00n3Ac
Filanwizard
And when Disney did pull it off with Tron, The Academy called it cheating.