• DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world
    8·
    1 个月前

    Honestly, if you don’t like this movie then you don’t like fun. Sure, it’s ridiculous and cheesy and campy af. That’s what makes it such a joy. I’m just sad there weren’t more of these movies. Would have loved a Cleveland prequel. How DID Snake get caught?

    Fun fact that you probably already knew; he actually made that last shot.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 个月前

      Ghosts of Mars has Snake-type character. But it is played by fucking Ice Cube even though there’s an actual Jason Statham right there not particularly occupied (Jason Statham with an eyepatch, huh).

      I kinda like the comic books about Snake. None of them are extraordinary - but Snake is consistently the best part about them. One of the early ones had him fight against The Terminator trained on Snake. There is also a Jack Burton crossover series that was legit glorious.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 个月前

    That’s a fucking incredible deal, for a new VHS release in the mid-90s.

    … oh, this is the sequel that bombed. Yeah this was the equivalent of showing up on TBS every second Thursday. They were desperate to break even.

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    1 个月前

    Movies were simpler back then…(which is good). I still have a copy of this flick, that I did back then. Now I feel old. Thank you OP.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      i’d say the opposite in a lot of ways - even such snarkfest as Escape from LA is packed to the brim with all sorts of cultural commentary - it is a magnificent movie if you like studying history of culture.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        1 个月前

        Actually I also last watched it as a VHS. So I can’t tell any more than “I liked it back then”. So I just take it as fact from you 😊

        • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2·
          1 个月前

          if you read a bit about John Carpenter mindset during mid 90s - it gets much more understandable why Escape from LA turned out the way it did. That man was fucking frustrated. If In the Mouth of Madness is Carpenter being fucking pissed and breaking shit, EFLA is him screaming “fuck you” over and over again into the void of hollywood.

          • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 个月前

            I totally wasn’t aware of that…only that I liked all of his flicks and even the music he did himself (as far as I remember). Guess it’s time for a re-watch with that new info in mind

            • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              1 个月前

              check out the book John Carpenter: The Prince of Darkness - it is a career-spanning interview that covers a lot of the ground and since it is zero-fucks Carpenter - he doesn’t mince words.

    • BilSabab@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      1 个月前

      i feel like its “notgoodness” was largely by design due to sheer quantity of snark in every facet of this movie. remember that Edward Norton 5 minutes of hate bit from 25th Hour - the one where he just says fuck this and fuck that - Escape from LA segment by segment is just that and it gets progressively funnier once you spot what gets fucked in which segment. EFNY still da coolest movie ever made and Kurt Russell is god-tier