Rating: Summary: THE BEST OF ALL TIME! Review: THIS MOVIE HAS EVERYTHING A GREAT MOVIE NEEDS: ACTION, CHASE SCENES, FIGHT SCENCES, ROMANCE, AND EVEN A LITTLE HUMOR. ANYONE WHO HASN'T SEEN THIS MOVIE SHOULD. THE MOVIE DOENS'T DWELL ON THE VIOLENCE, BUT SHOWS THE TREASURES OF LOYALTY OF FRIENDSHIP. THESE KIDS FIGHT FOR THEIR LIVES THE WHOLE MOVIE. IT REALLY GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW FRIENDSHIP PULLS YOU THROUGH TRIALS.
Rating: Summary: awesome movie (a classic) Review: I saw this movie when it was released in the theaters years ago . I couldn't get enough of it. I saw it 5 times and I watch it everytime it comes on television over the years,so I knew I needed to add it to my library. It's a little cheesey,very funny and cool.What more could you ask of a 70's gang movie.
Rating: Summary: Cool original concept Review: I love this movie. It has one of the most unique and entertaining plot lines ever. Gangs run rampant in the night of New York City. One group, the warriors, must get back to there home territory. But to do so they must go through nearly every other gang in the city. Follow along on the journey, and whatever you do, don't stop running!
Rating: Summary: the greatest gang movie(not mob) Review: this movie is outstanding it should be up there with movies like godfather and scarface this is the best.
Rating: Summary: THE FILM IS GREAT, THE DVD STINKS Review: The Warriors is one of my favorite films of all time..it is one of the ultimate cult films ever made. How can they release this DVD with nothing more than a lousy trailer? Where is the deleted scene that was only seen on ABC TV in NY on the old Friday Night Movie (at the beggining they showed the Warriors, in daylight, hanging out on the boardwalk talking about the trip to the Bronx before the classic "wonder Wheel" night-train scene)? How could they have left all this out? Where is Walter Hill's commentary????? Where are the interviews with the actors? The photo galleries? The contest to get an official WARRIORS vest? (OK--maybe I'm pushing it a little bit here). PLEASE Paramount--re-release this. How can you have released such a lame DVD to a film with such a HUGE and LOYAL following?...
Rating: Summary: Perfect for the Time Review: I was in junior high school at the time of this movie release and didn't see it until it came on HBO a year or two later. At the age I was and the genre this movie oozed, this was some cool stuff. Being from a smaller town then New York City, I was in awe of this movie. I'm writing this review as I saw it and the way it made me feel at fifteen years old, although I just watched it again on a movie channel and it still brings back those feelings. The Warriors are blamed for something they didn't do and are on the run from every other gang in New York. To see what some of these gangs look like and what they are called is just mesmurizing to me. You really begin to hope they make their final destination to their turf. Fine acting, all around, and at least rent this movie if you don't buy it. I'm guessing after you rent it you'll want to buy it for your collection anayway.
Rating: Summary: Nine Guys, No Weapons Review: Are you kidding me? Is there anything better than this movie? Easily one of the saddest career trajectories in American movies, Walter Hill probably peaked with this absolute gem of a gangland melodrama, cementing his place next to Sam Fuller in the pantheon of genre filmmakers who probably could've been contenders (ok, yeah he directed '48 hrs.' but look at everything that followed). In a lot of ways, we're exploring the same type of post-apocalyptic, pre-Rudy Giuliani, hyperdrive New York City that John Schlesinger explored in "Midnight Cowboy" and Martin Scorsese tackled in "Taxi Driver". Except WAY cheesier. It's impossible to know what to like best in this film: Mercedes Ruehl as a skanky undercover cop? The Baseball Furies? The Lizzies? James Remar? The 'So-far-down-they-aren't-even-on-the-map' Orphans? What's amazing is, for all the crazy, whacked-out, cheesy elements, it hangs together brilliantly, and the social commentary comes through loud and clear. The soundtrack and costumes also kick heinie. But anyway, see this movie on DVD, even if the transfer doesn't do it any justice. Sure, you've watched it a million times on WPIX or TNT, but c'mon, it's all commercials where the good stuff should be. This film, more than "Beat Street," "Saturday Night Fever," "Krush Groove" or any other New York movie, makes me miss the nastier, messier NYC of the 70s & 80s. See it now, before Tony Scott sinks his teeth into it and casts Vin Diesel as Cochise.
Rating: Summary: Classic camp Review: This film is an adaptation of Anabasis by Xenophon, not The Odyssey by Homer, which tells the story of Greek mercenaries being stranded in Persia after the Persian leader Cyrus was killed in battle. Further, The Warriors and Anabasis share the same dramatic ending of finding safety by the sea (and Xenophon with his famous quote "Thalassa, thalassa! (the sea, the sea!)". The film was contoversial in 1979 when it was released, but it is good campy fun. I first saw it on Halloween on HBO in 1980 when I was in sixth grade. Far from inspiring my friends and me to participate in gang related violence, the film only inspired u to put empty beer bottles on the tips of our fingers and bang them in unison. The Warriors is a great, absorbing film with very broad acting and with lots of attitude. I wouldn't want to meet the leader of the Grammercy Riffs in a dark alley.
Rating: Summary: WARRIORS GREAT MOVIE Review: GREATEST STREET GANG MOVIE EVER.... THIS ONE IS A CLASSIC..IT CHANGED AMERICA
Rating: Summary: A modern-day odyssey Review: Loosely based on _The Odyssey,_ this movie is about a gang falsely accused of murder, which has to make its way back to its home turf through hostile territory. The violence, condemned back in '78, is really more cartoonish and stylized than anything else (think _The Matrix, or even better, any number of kung-fu films). The fight with the baseball bats is pure ballet. The film is not as well-known as it should be (although it's better-known than I thought, considering 105 reviews). Impressive film, definitely worth watching.
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