The Warriors (1979)

[Russ Smith]

OK ,my post on the Cards board brought this movie back to me. Anybody else watch this thing over and over growing up? What made it great was all the unintentionally funny things:

Cyrus yelling "CAN YOU DIG IT?" and then getting shot.

The crazy dude who shot Cyrus yelling "the Warriors did it".

The classic wanna be tough line "what the **** are we going to do?"

The lady on the radio giving the play by play as they fight their way back to Coney Island.

Classic gangs like the baseball furies, the turnbull AC's, and the Riffs.

FWIW I'm told by people who know New York that they screwed up the chronology in the movie, that is if you really ride the subway from where they started to Coney Island, you come to the cities in a different order than they do in the movie.

Also a great soundtrack ending with my favorite Joe Walsh song "In the City."

 

[jf-08]

"Warriors come out to pla-aay!"

LOL that is a great movie.

The dude that gets busted by the undercover cop in the park - funny as hell.

 

[Mulli]

Warriors was one of the first VCR movies we could watch. I can't tell you how many times we watched it over and over. The bottles clinking together at the end creeped me out. War- eeee --yars. Come out and play ee- aye!!
Don't make movies like that anymore.

 

[Russ Smith]

End of highschool and right after my friends and I used to go to costume parties as the baseball furies. the movie wasn't that popular until it hit "midnight movie" status and then became a cult hit.

We watched it so much we actually started analyzing the storyline.

When they run into the Lizzies they mention their men are all in the bronx at a big gang meeting, we always thought their men were the gang that shot Cyrus.

We thought the Riffs were supposed to represent the black panthers or something similar.

We always laughed at how scrawny a lot of the gang members were.

the guy who gets busted in the park is James Remar who was in the original 48 hours and a lot of other movies, always played a bad guy. He was in that Hawaii show on FOX recently, hotel owner or something.

I remember reading where the director (walter hill ?) said he'd had a lot of discussions about a remake or even a sequel but it just never came together.

That movie and Fletch were the 2 movies I watched so much growing up I got to the point where I essentially knew the whole dialogue, I guess Sixteen Candles too.

 

[CardLogic]

Warriors is being made into a video game, it will be released this year. I can't remember if it will be XBOX or PS2.

 

[Assface]

Warriors is being made into a video game, it will be released this year. I can't remember if it will be XBOX or PS2.

I watched that movie for the first time last year and loved it.

 

[thirty-two]

I thought this was gonna be a thread about Marquette

 

[Assface]

I thought this was gonna be a thread about Marquette

The thread is titled "The Warriors" not "The Gold."

 

[BleedRed]

I love this movie.

 

[CardFan67]

I remember loving this movie, in my memory I thought it was one of my favorite all time movies... I went out and bought it because I heard a friend talking about it, I was so excited, brought it home, told my wife about it and put it in for a flash back to the past...

I still like it but it was about a tenth as good as I remembered it... I was so disappointed and my wife absolutely hated it... There have been other movies that this has happened to also it is just amazing how you mind gets programmed with new angles, lighting and film quality to expect so much more...

Great movie still, more from a memories stand point now, and also has been dropped off of my favorites list....

 

[Russ Smith]

I remember loving this movie, in my memory I thought it was one of my favorite all time movies... I went out and bought it because I heard a friend talking about it, I was so excited, brought it home, told my wife about it and put it in for a flash back to the past...

I still like it but it was about a tenth as good as I remembered it... I was so disappointed and my wife absolutely hated it... There have been other movies that this has happened to also it is just amazing how you mind gets programmed with new angles, lighting and film quality to expect so much more...

Great movie still, more from a memories stand point now, and also has been dropped off of my favorites list....

I haven't watched it in a while and I imagine you're right that it wouldn't be nearly as good today. I watched Escape from New York not long ago, same deal, loved it as a kid, wondered why when I watched it now.

Even Fletch one of my favorite lines is his dream sequence when he's on the Lakers where they say something like "5 million dollars a year sure that's a lot of money, but he's worth every penny of it." at the time whatever the amount was, was 2-3 times the highest salary, so it was funny, now there's probably 50 or more guys in the league making more than that, some double it, so that line wouldn't be funny.

 

[CardFan67]

I haven't watched it in a while and I imagine you're right that it wouldn't be nearly as good today. I watched Escape from New York not long ago, same deal, loved it as a kid, wondered why when I watched it now.
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I remember when it was new thinking "man these other gangs are Crazy and Bas A$$"... especially the guys with baseball uni's, face make up and bats... This last time watching it I was thinking, "boy that's just dumb"...

 

[Chaplin]

DVD RUMOR:

The Warriors: Special Collector's Edition will arrive on 10/4.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I remember watching it (on television) way back when, when it first aired.

My uncles argued with my grandparents over whether or not it was "too violent" for me to watch.

Only seen it a couple times since then. I'd own it!

BTW: Who would have thought that an Oscar-winner would come out of that cast?

 

[Bada0Bing]

I recently re-watched it. This film blew my mind when I saw it as a kid, I was probably 10 or 12. The entire movie is just awesome, one scene after another.

I love what they did with the blue ray version. They added some stuff between scenes to make it a little comic bookish, like the director originally intended.

The score was so perfect. A total guy's movie.

Warriors was one of the first VCR movies we could watch. I can't tell you how many times we watched it over and over. The bottles clinking together at the end creeped me out. War- eeee --yars. Come out and play ee- aye!!
Don't make movies like that anymore.

That was such a creepy scene! What makes it even crazier is that it was improvised.

 

[Russ Smith]

I recently re-watched it. This film blew my mind when I saw it as a kid, I was probably 10 or 12. The entire movie is just awesome, one scene after another.

I love what they did with the blue ray version. They added some stuff between scenes to make it a little comic bookish, like the director originally intended.

The score was so perfect. A total guy's movie.



That was such a creepy scene! What makes it even crazier is that it was improvised.

It's been on IFC and Sundance Channel so I've seen it twice recently and it still holds up well.

I still laugh at some of the dialogue, but still a great movie.

The problem with them showing it on tv is they always cut the end off too soon, just as it goes into Joe Walsh "In the City" they cut the sound for some reason.

 

[Bada0Bing]

Haha, this is pretty cool.

https://youtu.be/MMioYmZE2vU