ESCAPE FROM L.A. (1996) | First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Snake is Badass!
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- The adventures of Snake Plissken continue as The Mrs. checks out Escape from L.A. (1996) for the first time. Here's her reaction.
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In the book John Carpenter: Prince of Darkness, he explains that he and Kurt Russell set out to write a different film, but when they started reminiscing about how fun the first one was they accidentally wrote the same movie.
The ending made it worth it though!
It’s amazing how LA came out 15 years after New York and Kurt Russell looks pretty much the same.
He'd had that leather jacket for 15 years.
There's a story that John Carpenter was at Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn's house having dinner with his family. Carpenter brought up the idea of a sequel and flippantly said something about not sure if Kurt could fit into Snake's outfit.
Kurt excused himself and came back a few minutes later wearing it. That was the sign to John that he was going to make the movie.
I'm sure it's exaggerated, but yeah, Kurt kept the outfit and was still able to fit into it
Snake’s outfit in the beginning was the original wardrobe from the first movie. They wardrobe people were concerned about re-creating the clothes. Luckily, Kurt had kept the outfit after the first film.
They need to make a new Snake Plissken movie where Snake’s son (played by Wyatt Russell) has to rescue him from the government officials he pissed off in Escape From NY and Escape From LA.
Ooh, love that idea. Wyatt has become a great actor and I think he could pull off Snake Plissken Jr. It'd be great to see them work on something like this with Carpenter if he's still making movies.
nahh has to be starlord! XD
I always enjoyed the satirical, over-the-top, tongue-in-cheek nature of this one. Everyone is almost a complete caricature. Blow up the world instead of submitting to tyranny. It's fun and funny.
I disagree, everyday I wake up realizing that the world is making this movie a perfect prediction, and that's not funny at all...
But I supose that's what also makes the movie so great
The one thing I always remember about this film positively is that basketball scene. The idea of his last shot was not about BS or not. Its about, when you truly got nothing else to lose, just make one last impossible shot. Either way, one in a thousand chance is better than no chance at all.
Take the shot and hope the CGI budget takes the wheel.
It's not about how how BS the last shot is, it's been done numerous times even in real life. It's just that it's mathematically impossible to pull off 10 points in 10 seconds with no 3 point shot, especially if you were doing layups for most of the points like Snake was. Even if you were doing Lillard style half court heaves each time successfully you'd still be burning too much time getting the ball back.
@@SuRoFo I think you missed the point. In this context of making 2 points with 10 seconds each time (not just 10 seconds in general) its about the idea of if you gonna lose, throw your "Hail Marry" final attempt and whatever comes of it is what it is. Any chance is better than no chance, and I think that is a lesson that is important sometimes.
@@Nester665 Kurt Russell actually made that Last shot no CGI needed
@@Nester665 Why do people keep saying...CGI did not exist to a degree that this could be done convincingly. He simply practiced and shot the scene for real.
Carpenter pretty much made this as a parody of the first film and action films in general in many ways. When viewed like that it makes the film enjoyable IMO.
Legend has it that Kurt Russell sank that full-court shot in a single take. No special effects, no multiple tries. It was one-and-done.
And what if Snake hadn't tried shooting at them before he left for L.A.? They gave him a gun loaded with a clip of blanks. He could've immediately died in his first gunfight if he tried shooting at hostiles with those blanks and their hopes that Snake would succeed his mission would've been dashed in a hurry.
If he didn’t try that they could have just told him I guess.
Legend has it? In showbusiness? So there is a rumor, enforced by fans who just want to promote their opinions? I call bullshit.
@@Gnossiene369 He did do it. You can see he made the shot since they didn't need to cut around it. As for it being the first shot or not I can't say for certain. That's probably the legend has it part.
John Carpenter and Kurt Russell collaborated on a comic book series, The Snake Plissken Chronicles, that picks up right where Escape From New York ended and covers the time period in between the two films. I found it to be pretty interesting.
They were going to do another. Escape from Earth - In the 2000s, there was a proposed second sequel, often mentioned by Carpenter and Russell in interviews prior to the release of Escape from L.A. The concept was that Earth was the only place left for Plissken to escape. After Escape from L.A. failed to attract much business, the project never materialized.
In August 2006, an Internet rumor suggested that the project was actively being pursued by Paramount at Russell's urging, but the rumor was revealed to be untrue.
Escape from Mars
It was rumored that in 1996, the script to Ghosts of Mars originally started off as a potential Snake Plissken sequel.Entitled Escape from Mars, the story would have been largely much the same; however, after Escape from L.A. failed to make much money at the box office, the studio did not wish to make another Plissken movie.Snake Plissken was then changed to "Desolation Williams," and the studio also insisted that Ice Cube be given the part.Except that it was confirmed in a tweet that this is all completely false and Ghosts of Mars is not a repurposed sequel.
I have always liked Escape from LA more than escape from New York. It would be cool to see a snake plissken movie about the earth with all of the electrical things fried from emp.
I think I'm also one of few people that prefers LA to NY... After you watch LA it actually makes NY look a bit boring imo.
this movie is such pure unadulterated '90s camp it's perfection.
Anyone noice the time jump from when Snake launched to when he arrived on LA. Almost eight and a half hours to seven hours forty five minutes. Must have taken the Hollywood tour.
omg, you said "Bruce Campbell" and it immediately came to me.. BURN NOTICE!!! you guys would LOVE it.
Kurt actually made the final throw.
A 3rd snake pliskin ? YES PLEASE
Cheek-Chillers is my new favorite phrase!
I would love another Plissken movie. In the 2000s, there was a proposed second sequel, often mentioned by Carpenter and Russell in interviews prior to the release of Escape from L.A. The concept was that Earth was the only place left for Plissken to escape. After Escape from L.A. failed to attract much business, the project never materialized. It was rumoured that in 1996, the script to Ghosts of Mars originally started off as a potential Snake Plissken sequel. Entitled Escape from Mars, the story would have been largely much the same; however, after Escape from L.A. failed to make much money at the box office, the studio did not wish to make another Plissken movie. Snake Plissken was then changed to "Desolation Williams," and the studio also insisted that Ice Cube be given the part. Except that it was confirmed in a tweet that this is all completely false and Ghosts of Mars is not a repurposed sequel. I call bullshit.
Call him Snake...
From what I've read, when they discussed making this film they were at Russell's home they told him he would have to go and get fitted for a new outfit. He told them to wait a few minutes and came back in his original outfit from the first film. He had kept it all those years in hopes of making a sequel and he still fit which was all the better.
@@RebelofAH Haha. Awesome🙂
I always wanted to see an Escape from Cleveland since...apparently... so much crap went down there. Basically a prequel to the character of why he became so disillusioned and such.
It makes sense. As bad as Ghosts of Mars, it's still WAY better than Escape From L.A.
That last scene of Snake that you guys thought he was looking at us, he was really looking at the Match wondering if Stacy Keach's character was in on it the whole time and wanted Snake to shut down the world. That speech he gave to Snake was about how everything is illegal sounded more like contempt than Pride.
"Cheek Chillers"...Glad the Mrs is a Pauly Shore fan. Gotta love Son In Law!
29:03 “He’s a hologram.”
Catches on quick, doesn't she? 😜
Fun fact: Jamie Lee Curtis was the voice of the narrator in both films. Also, Kurt Russell practiced basketball between takes so he could make every shot in that scene.
Also, there was a "Escape From..." movie planned. The rumor was it was "Escape From Earth". However, the second did so poorly, it never happened. John Carpenter first used C.G.I. in "Memoirs Of The Invisible Man" (1992) with Chevy Chase, Darrell Hannah, and Sam Neil. Though, it hasn't aged well, at that time, it was pretty incredible some of the effects they used.
Lastly, there has been a remake of "Escape From New York" planned for a few years now. Last I heard, Robert Rodriguez ("Dusk Till Dawn" (1996), "Sin City" (2004)) was on board to direct with John Carpenters blessing. However, much debate has sparked over whom will play Snake. Rumors were Gerard Buttler, and Kurt Russell's son Wyatt Russell. Then Wyatt said he'd never take the iconic role.
No, Jamie Lee Curtis is not the narrator in the second film. She was replaced by Michelle Forbes, who also plays Lieutenant Brazen.
@@Rocket1377 pretty sure Michelle Forbes did the watch, not the narration
19:47 The villain in this movie is a 99 Cent Store Che Guevara.
The inside joke on the theme park was Knott's Berry Farm. Which changed hands several times in the 1990s. It shut down for COVID but has re-opened.
To each their own, but honestly I enjoyed this movie for what it is despite the special effects not being the greatest and the movie kind of rehashing the first one. Escape from New York will always be classic, but L.A. is a fun "bad" movie and not as bad as some say it is imo.
I agree. I like this one more than the first and I know it's the opposite for most but oh well.
It's just bad, and infuriatingly so because of all the money and talented actors they wasted on a lousy premise and joyless camp.
Same. I get why people don't like it, but watching Kurt Russell having fun as Snake is always a good time.
I always got the feeling they made this film just for the fun of it rather than a serious sequel.
Definitely check out John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars.
The budget was about $1.50 but the story is brilliant.
The one thing missing from the end scene with the holo-snake was Kylo Ren shouting "MORE!"
always said Escape from LA was what Carpenter wanted for NY if he had the effects technology and budget.
At the beginning of the film, Kurt Russell wears his costume from the original film, which still fits after fifteen years.
10:52 -- Back when this came out, people still recognized Peter Fonda. 23:35 -- And Pam Grier.
Legendary Director,, Producer & Writer Frank Capra Gave Us SOOO MANY MUST SEE CLASSICS ("It's A Wonderful Life",, Etc..Etc.) This Uplifting Classic & Great Story Is Also Absolutely Loaded With Acting Legends,, "POCKET FULL OF MIRACLES" (1961)..A TRUE MUST SEE CLASSIC.
The ending of this one is awesome
Kurt Russell actually did all of that basketball stuff in 1 take including that last shot.
i saw this movie when i was 11 or 12 and i took it at face value. Like Starship Troopers a year later, all the satire went over my head. Now seeing them as an adult i appreciate them on another level ps one of my favorite movie endings ever
Funny thing. Carpenter came with the idea of a sequel to Russel. As an answer Russel asked for a few minutes.He returned with his original Snake Plissken outfit on and it still fit.
This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. The graphics look like they were made for a PS 2 but otherwise it's a pretty fun movie. Not good but definitely fun
What a great follow up to Escape From New York
This was a fav of mine. I love the song at the end. Those who are curious, the song is called, "The One," by White Zombie.
3:30 Uncle Ben. "With great Snake, have great escape".
I absolutely love how it ends.
Fun fact: A.J. Langer, who played the President's daughter in this film, is now the Countess of Devon. She married Lord Charles Courtenay in 2004, who subsequently inherited the Earldom upon his father's death in 2015. They now live in a no-s**t castle in England.
It's not the amount of time it would take to rebuild, it's the chaos that would ensue in the meantime.
"It's literally the same movie, just 15 years later."
Yup, basically. But it's still a lot of fun.
Snake Plissken seems like the 80s action hero that would be made up for Rick & Morty or for a quick clip to be on a character's tv.
Like "Dirty Angels" from Home Alone
I find it funny seeing Martok and Ensign Ro together in the hologram scene at the beginning.
One of my favourite films! Thanks for checking this one out!
I just find it funny how in both Plisken movies, everyone thinks Snake is taller. Makes us short guys feel better. :)
An EMP wont -shut down- destroy a GENERATOR ... so producing power wont be a problem ... as long as your generator has no microchips or other electronic components in it. The task of rebuilding is basically "getting chip factories up and running again" ... and then replacing what was lost. You could also put an emergency supply of "your favorite chips" in a bunch of layers of a Faraday cage (depending on how "paranoid" you are about the strength of the attack); dont break the cage though, i.e. dont have any power / data cables go into it.
You should see "The Postman". Great post apocalyptic vision of the futue. Kevin Costner
Agreed. Have on DVD. Only problem is it's a long movie to do
One of the best Carpenter films from the 90's is In the Mouth of Madness. The last truly great film from Carpenter.
watching you both a lot lately, love your takes on movies! keep it up!
I'm just a jag-off in Australia but I would have loved to have talked to Peter Fonda, Jeff Bridges, Kurt Russell, and all these other actors who played post-apocalyptic characters just to see their own POV on everything they thought it might go.
2:59 - PREACH, SISTER!!! PREACH!!!!
This ABSOLUTE MUST SEE CLASSIC Is Also By Frank Capra ("It's A Wonderful Life",, "Pocket Full Of Miracles",, Etc.) Comedy + Crime + Drama + Mystery =
"ARSENIC AND OLD LACE" (1944)..This Classic Is Fun & Serious At The Same Time,, As Well As Being Really Funny & Just Plain Bonkers,, But In The Best Of Ways..One Of Those Classic Movies That You Will Watch Again & Again Over The Years..I Can't Praise This Classic Enough.
One of the all time great, fun, bad movies, I enjoy Escape From L.A. so much
Underrated sequel, i loved it
As bad as this movie is, I love it! I especially appreciate the basketball scene, because Kurt Russel actually made everyone one of those shots.
FYI: The dvd commentary is a lot Kurt Russel and John Carpenter talking about their friendship and kids. :D
That's pretty much the Big Trouble in Little China commentary too. Just two buds hanging out, watching a movie and catching up.
For a long time the rumor was Carpenter toyed with another sequel called "Escape from Earth" with Snake in space!
I love this movie....good times. Great vídeo, congrats from Brazil !
What’s cool is that in the movie the country’s capital is relocated from Washington, D.C., to the President’s hometown of Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynchburg, VA is my actual hometown.
There was a planned 3rd movie to be entitled ESCAPE FORM EARTH or something like that but this bombed so hard that it never happened.
These movies always put me in the mood to play a Metal Gear game
I grew up with this movie when my pops had it on 'bout 25 years ago, and I will always cherish it as a personal favorite and feel good flick. It solidified kurt Russell as my action flick hero ❤
If everything shuts down the problem is logistics. Getting all the things you need to the right places without any of the mass transit we currently rely on.
Shots fired with that LA statement lol
FUNNY + A LITTLE SCARY + GREAT STORY + SEVERAL ACTING LEGENDS =
"THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN" (1966)
..A MUST SEE CLASSIC.
Love this movie.
So cool you picked up on the Revenge of the Nerds actor having a role in this, most people miss it
Little did everyone know NY and LA would become exactly this in the future
I loved the first one too much to ever watch this sequel.
True story: a couple of months before this came out, I remember seeing the poster of Escape from L.A at my local cinema and thinking it was a sequel to Captain Ron ; I was thirteen years old at the time and weirdly had never heard of Escape From New York, even though I was a Kurt Russell fan by that point.
I must confess, I used to think this film was awful, but I watched "New York" and "L.A" both back to back about two weeks ago and I was struck by how well this film has aged (bad C.G.I notwithstanding) in retrospect. I found elements of the plot surprisingly resonant, with the president's wayward daughter being corrupted online (essentially) by a charismatic figure and the world becoming more and more closed off and castigating of the most basic of necessities.
As for Russell coming back and doing another one... Hey, If Stallone can do a Rambo film in his seventies... I don't see why Kurt shouldn't bring back Snake for one last mission.
If we're doing sequels this month, then maybe we'll get to see "48 Hours" and "Another 48 Hours". That would be cool!
EMPs would wreak havoc on power lines, phone lines, cable modems, and other long runs of conductive wire, and the transient voltages induced by the EMP would destroy anything plugged in that doesn't have a surge protector. But smaller battery-powered devices might be OK after a reboot, any generators that weren't hooked up to anything should still work, and anything that wasn't plugged in at the time or had a good quality surge protector should also be okay. I think it'd take a couple of decades to recover, but the world wouldn't be completely free of electronic technology during that period.
Interestingly, big solar flares can generate EMP-like transient voltages that destroy electronic equipment. Satellites in high orbits have to be EMP shielded because they don't have the Earth's magnetic field to protect them, but the Carrington Event of 1859 was powerful enough to punch through the Earth's magnetic field and cause damage on the ground. It did a decent amount of damage to telegraph lines at the time, and would probably have done substantial damage to modern power grids if they had existed back then. Higher latitudes, like Canada, Russia, and Antarctica would suffer the brunt, because the Earth's magnetic field is closest to the ground at the poles. Stuff near the equator would be at less risk.
And yeah, the CGI was bad even at the time the movie came out. Films like Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park had already shown that CGI could be much, much higher quality than this. Clearly the film's effects were done on a tight budget. Whoever did the effects would certainly have known that they weren't very good, but either they didn't have the time or the rendering budget to do them right.
We don't even need an EMP to crash the US. The joke is that because nobody wants to spend money, the Infrastructure is so old that it is unhackable... but that also means that there's only like 10 people in the country that know how to fix certain problems if they come up.
Super underrated sequel. I actually prefer it to the original.
29:17 I Love the background music they play here at the end...I wish it was a whole Song-Length though
A world wide emp would be catastrophic. No heat, no phones, no tv, all medical equipment shutting down, planes falling outta the sky, no youtube to watch reaction videos, etc.
I was really disappointed with this when I saw it on Opening Night theatrically because I loved the original so much as a kid, I was expecting a sequel not a remake. I still love Bruce Campbell’s Surgeon General character and Kurt kicks ass as usual.
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I saw it opening night too. I was so excited!....then the movie started :(
Its not a remake,but if thats how you want to see it and be dissapointed,go ahead. I dont see it at all like that,because its not. There might be similarities,but its enough differences and well done to make with more then worth the effort to watch it..
@@krisa990 I like the movie but it's a remake. John Carpenter himself, IIRC, said in an interview that Escape from L.A. was the movie he wanted to make the first time.
I've heard the reason why the FX worked turned out that way was because the studio pushed up the release by several months before the SFX was even completed.
There was supposed to be a third one called Escape from Earth, the script was written and completed, but because the box office ranking didn't reach John Carpenter's expectation they didn't go ahead with it, also Kurt Russle is supposedly planning a remake if the first one but a totally different story line this time, and he would play Halk instead of Snake
2:59 I'm with you on that! Lex Luthor was actually the hero in Superman the movie LOL
It's a lay up meta satire remake / sequel BUT .. I was always excited by the end of the film setting up a third film that would be very different. Sadly it never came to be. It takes all three more serious elements from the first that were cheesy or corny but didn't play then for laughs to clearly making it the joke. Both are fun in their own ways.
There was a planned 3rd sequel which would have been called Escape from Earth, but since this movie was a box office failure it got scrapped. A 3rd movie today, maybe, only if they make it RIGHT! I even heard a video game sequel was in talks back in the day, I think that could be more fitting now & have Kurt Russell do the voice of Snake Plissken. They should even let John Carpenter & his son Cody make the music score for different levels (& still have the theme song of course). But again, if so, they should do it right! No rush development, otherwise it's gonna be glitchy as hell like many other games today!
We had both the people and the knowledge to do both things, make everything by hand and reconstruct technology because people who know things is not dead. It would take a while but just a couple of decades. I don't think we will get into a post apocalyptic world without technology. I'm chilean, I'm a civilian but worked as an office man in a police station in 2003. We didn't had computers, I had to borrow my dad's old typing machine to do paperwork. By that time I didn't even had a ATM card... so at least Chile would do fine in that scenario, we would just have to write everything by hand, like we did just four decades ago 😸
20:47 That's pretty slick, for a 1-shot.
I'd be escaping too If I lived in LA. 😂
A car is basically a Faraday Cage. But if you were living in a world with no technology, how many people could make a nail from scratch?
Btw, told you. Basically the same story & early bad 90's cgi. Carpenter even used some of that early bad 90's cgi-effects on his anthology movie Body Bags, on the 2nd story.
At that range blanks can still be very dangerous
"New Movie with Snake....now" Check out Lockout. It has the same vibe as Snake Pliskin style movies but more futuristic.
EMP would probably be an issue for a month. Then a slow return to normal over the course of a year or so.
The impact of an EMP is a bit overstated outside of a few key things like power grids.
Machines will work fine, its electronics, not things that are powered by electricity but things that need processors and stuff like that.
A hit-and-miss engine requires no electronics
Steve "shut up Donnie" Busceme ... nice
I love this movie. Even though it's basically the first movie all over again.
Snake Plissken was supposed to have a trilogy but the THIRD film - ESCAPE FROM MARS - got re-purposed as GHOSTS OF MARS with Ice Cube. Not a recommendation, just FYI.
Mrs Movies laughs at CGI...
Me face waiting for the SURFING scene... 😅😂🤣
Ifshe hasn't seen The Good, The Bad and The Ugly you gotta make sure she sees the whole dollars trilogy.
A simple Faraday cage to seal extra electronic equipment and their batteries inside of a steel garbage can sealed with aluminum tape on the lid seam would be a prudent thing to do. If you have an extra older vehicle that have little to no electronic circuit boards in them with the battery disconnected would also be a prudent thing to do, because they'll still work. Ham radios inside a steel can is a good idea. Generators sealed in aluminum foil would also work. Problem is, you'd have to fight off everyone who would see you driving down the road.
*emp wont hurt mot things in most states.* -JC
Another Escape from movie was planned but because LA didn't do so well it was canned it was where he was going have to escape from the planet to the moon where the US set up a colony but it went independant some time ago and was taking in refugees from the shut down and the whole planet some how knew he shut it down and would gunning for him cos of what he did but this is what we know about the plot the source of this is the imdb forums before they got shut down.
Since he knew he wasn't infected with anything basically his whole ruse at the end with the hologram was just him trolling the people who used him.
This movie is 100% intended to be a satire/parody
It's annoying and has nothing all that clever to say, though. And I'm not entirely sure Kurt was in on the joke (he was in on the joke for Big Trouble in Little China, which was zany in a fun way).
Dr stone basically sets the bar at a few years for a team of scientists and craftsmen to go from absolutely nothing except lucky finds of certain materials to space race, and that is slowed down thanks to three wars!
so yeah a global EMP would be a few weeks at most.