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Summary: One of my Favs..
Review: This movie has got it all. It was made in 1979 so you know it has all the ingredients. From the first scene of the train coming up the Brooklyn subway to the final scene of the survivors strutting down the Coney Island beach to the tune "Survival in the City", it's a great ride. The different gangs are great, too. The Lizzies, the Baseball Furies, the Orphans...Each have their own distinct stlye that you can really get a feel for. And the running, everywhere. Subways, streets, through the parks, running for their lives! The music is great and crisp on the DVD and the picture quality awesome seeing how it was mostly shot at night. The fight scenes were done right like they should be in a movie that kicks as much tush as this one. I only wished they included the daytime scene, wish I really thought they'd put on the DVD. Oh well. Rock on, Warriors.
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Summary: CAN YOU DIG IT?
Review: Ok so what if some of the gangs look like refugees from the Rock Horror Picture Show? This movie is manages to be violent and just fun at the same time, this seems to be a hard trick for movies to pull off nowadays. Overall-Great movie, kinda reminds me of New Jack City meets Mad Max. If you want a good action flick get this one. Its just a shame we don't seem much more of many of these actors.
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Summary: the Warriors (great movie)
Review: Yeh this movie was always a personal favourite of mine being it delivers a fast paced non stop story. A coney island gang are wrongly accused of a murder when there out of town and to get back they have to run the gauntnet of police and all the gangs who are out there after them. The main fella "Swan" (Michael Beck) was a cool charracter. I'd have to say the violence is very tame compared to alot of movies now days.....basically its hand to hand punchups and as well as that the swearing which wouldnt be reccomended for kids. But this movie had me gripped i even started feeling like i was one of the warriors (lol) but to sum it up ...if you like fast paced adventure/action movies then this one is for you.
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Summary: Can You Dig It
Review: This Walter Hill Masterpiece, takes place on the mean streets of new York City in the 1970's. After a meeting in the Bronx that went totally wrong, after the Warriors were accused of killing the leader of the Riff's, there was no choice but to bop their way back to The Sand's of Coney Island. Ahh but this is no ordinary trip back home, as the Warriors are traveling with a price on their heads, along the way they encounter angry cops, punks, fires, baseball bats, knives and guns, all the ingredients, for the B-Movie enthusiast. Determination, heart, and street smarts, their only weapons, bring them back home, only to be met with one last challenge.
This is an awesome classic, grab your chips and soda, have a seat and enjoy, you will be glad you did. The KritiK
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Summary: "Who ARE the Warriors... I WANT the Warriors"
Review: "The Warriors" is perhaps the definitive cult film -- a flick you always enjoy seeing again. The story is about a Coney Island gang that gets wrongly accused of murder and must make it back home from the Bronx, fighting enemy gangs and police all the way. The 'feel' of the movie is part surreal, part realistic and wholly captivating! ... "The Warriors" is just a great flick full of memorable scenes and lines. I really love the ending where, after being vindicated, the Warriors walk down the Coney Island beach while the DJ offers them a tribute song -- "Survival In the City" by Walsh/Eagles. I also like the fact that the Warriors is a racially mixed gang -- a group of lost souls in the urban jungle, banded together perhaps for no other reason except for the obvious fact that they're from the same urban cesspool and have a need to belong. I stated that the movie is part realistic, but only in the sense that it never becomes campy; the creators and cast properly take it all quite serious. Other than that, the flick showcases a mesmerizing fantastical New York City, that could never be mistaken for reality.
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Summary: Kenetic Energy
Review: Rarely is there a movie like The Warriors. Why some people may call the story sloppy, its rather well though out when you dive into the gangs that still infest many cities today. A gang trying to make it to their turf while trekking through rival gangs areas. The Warriors moves at a lightning fast pace with tough as nails action scenes and a great chase scene through a park as well. Even with its age, The Warriors still runs with the best action movies to date by not doing something that so many others can't help but doing half way through, and thats "slowing down".
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Summary: Warriors.....Come out to play-a......
Review: In my opinion this is THE BEST gang movie ever made. I saw this movie when it first came out in the theaters, which would have made me 9 years old. My friends and I even dressed up as The Furies for Halloween in the 6th grade. And how funny that those same friends and I are going to do it for Halloween this year and we're all in our 30's! The soundtrack rocks and so does the movie. I won't go into detail, because I'm sure most of you know what it's about. If you haven't seen it yet, do so now!
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Summary: This movie tells the story of life
Review: Regarding "The Warriors", I see that story as symbolic for life. Many of us are born so innocent and trusting, just as the Warriors were "not packing" and thus going into incredible unknown dangers without weapons, only because they trusted those that had instructed them. Once they were caught in life's cycle of senseless troubles they fought hard and along the way back home, lost members (just like we all lose some of ourselves as we take life's blows), but the core just got tougher and never fell. They made it back.
"You Warriors are Good".
"We are the Best".
That is Life at it's most beautiful
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Summary: To watch it 100 times or more
Review: This is the most wonderful story I ever saw.
I have seen this movie almost 35 times and will 65 times more.No questions asked.
The first time I saw it I was 15 years old and probably is one of my 5 favorites until now. There are lots of stories created for a situation, but this theme is right from the streets.
You can write a story in front of a computer and let your imagination runs, but is in the street where you can find best stories, I mean real one.
Now I am 37 and everybody that see this movie today , feel the same emotion I felt years ago.
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Summary: CLASSIC CULT FILM FOR WATCHING OVER AND OVER AGAIN
Review: A city-wide truce has been called so that nine representatives of each of NY's thousands of warring street gangs can get to a kind of conference. In the claustrophobic precincts of a torch-lit park up in the Bronx at dead of night, the leader of NY's most powerful gang invites them to join together - an army of a hundred thousand soldiers - to take control of the city. At the height of his speech he is gunned down by a teenage psychopath who successfully pins the blame on The Warriors, a gang up from Coney Island. At that point the rally is broken up by riot police, and the Warriors have to make it the length of New York City back to their home turf through enemy-occupied territory. Not only are the police out in force to pick up stray gang-members; the successor to the assassinated leader has put a price on the Warriors' heads, and every gang in the city is combing the streets for them. Walter Hill's 1979 movie was based on a very downbeat novel by Sol Yurick, which was itself loosely based on an ancient Greek legend about a group of soldiers fighting their way home across enemy territory. It may not sound a promising formula, but Walter Hill turned it into one of the most entertaining and uplifting films of its decade and perhaps of his career. His successful strategy was to turn his back on the depressing realism of the book. Although the basic story-line and setting are from Yurick's novel, Hill turned to the original Greek tale for the broader atmosphere and moral tone of the film. Whereas Yurick was essentially writing about the dehumanising effects of peer group pressure and dysfunctional family life, Hill made a film about mutual trust and teamwork under pressure. You may not approve of his heroes - they are innocent of the main crime they are accused of but probably guilty of almost everything else imaginable - but you can hardly fail to root for them as the whole of New York is out for their blood and they are forced to find strengths they would never have suspected they possessed. They don't all make it home, of course, but for those who do it's a story of growing up in one night. This could have been just another street-fighting movie, but it was made with humour, sympathy and affection long before the genre was popularised by computer games and its conventions became cast in stone. Some of the gangs out to get the Warriors are just soulless thugs, but others are real people struggling with poverty, self-esteem and their sense of belonging. There is a certain amount of mostly well-choreographed violence, but it is all pretty cartoonish and violence is the last thing the film is really about. The real theme is group dynamics: who will take the lead, who will follow, who will rebel, who will be sacrificed, who will end up older and wiser. And if this sounds boring, remember that when the film was first released it sparked riots in NY theatres. The film boasts some fine character performances by young actors who have since gone on to wider acclaim, notably James Remar and David Patrick Kelly. It is crammed with memorable lines and unforgettable visual images, and a special word is required on its inspired use of the New York Subway - moody, dark, mysterious, enticing, threatening, Freudian. The trains constantly rushing through, scarred with graffiti, coming from and going to nowhere, are often a means of advancing the story, but they are so much more than that: Stopping and starting without warning, sometimes in the nick of time, sometimes a moment too late, they are a metaphor for the uncontrollable and fickle world in which the characters live. And just as often they seem to symbolise the world outside the tiny living space of these alienated kids and beyond their reach. The stations and tunnels are sometimes a protective womb, sometimes a battleground. We see no drivers, no ticket clerks, or indeed any humanising faces apart from the threatening presence of police officers prowling back and forth like monsters in a computer game - bump into one and you lose a life. In the end Hill cannot resist moralising a little: The blossoming gotta-get-out-of-this-place romance between the alpha-male Swan and Mercy, a tough/fragile runaway girl who falls in with the gang initially just for kicks. The taut and delicately directed confrontation with a handful of "legitimate" middle-class passenger on the train. The despairing line ("Is this what we fought all night to get back to?") as the surviving members of the gang emerge from the night train onto the grimy elevated station at Coney Island, and survey their home turf in the cruel honesty of dawn's early light. These sentiments are not just slightly clumsy; they betray a mildly patronising middle-class pity on the film-makers' part for the characters they themselves created. But paradoxically, this very flaw contributes to the film's success. There has been no shortage of gritty real-life streetwise film-making, and the depressing earnestness of that sort of film can deter the very audience that most needs to be woken up by it. In contrast, this film that has been made purely for entertainment, with no cold sadistic violence, no prostitution and most remarkably of all no drugs, doesn't put up any barriers of revulsion. And it does not date, because the stylized cityscapes and costumes do not belong to any specific era. Thus it gets right under your skin and very subtly gives a transforming glimpse of the dark side of urban life and the humanity that we share with even its most exotic life-forms. That's probably why "The Warriors" sparked off riots on its first release, and perhaps that's why it seems to get even better with age.
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