Escape From L.A. (1996) - Movie Review
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Escape From L.A. is the follow up to the Carpenter classic, Escape From New York. Kurt Russell is still awesome as Snake but this is one of the most carbon copy sequels I've ever seen.
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so hollywood then is same as now same stupid unoriginal recycled movies & remakes of remakes... What is your point..... Fast & the Furiously literally same thing different city.
I'd call it a guilty pleasure of mine. It's nowhere close to New York or anything but i can have dumb fun with it. Kurt Russell? Ash himself as a crazy surgeon? Steve buscemi chased by Snake riding a fucking tsunami?! It's the definition of mindless fun.
A fan at a Q&A told John Carpenter that he thought Escape From LA and Ghost From Mars were disappointing and John Carpenter said “F*ck You”. If you haven’t seen the clip go watch it.
That's awesome
I'd be fine with Snake Plissken being done, but I need some more Jack Burton!
The soundtrack is a 90s hard rock must have.
Escape from Mexico Robert Rodriguez to direct lol would carpenter direct again
John Carpenter is an all time fav but yeah this movie was mid lol. Especially following up the fantastic Escape from NY
Yes!!! Finally you review this film Cody! I love this film and how cheesy it is! Loved the Tsunami Surfing, Basketball and all Pam Greer scenes!
I always say the first is better but the second is great fun and arguably imo has the better ending actually
I actually enjoyed this movie. Despite it's flaws.
Pascal's plan in Johnny English was the same as Escape From New York.
I feel like the tone is perfect in both movies because of the setting. New york has a darker, more grimy feel as a city and that movie reflects that tone. LA has a fun, sunny vibe and escape from la represents that
I feel this film is a bit misunderstood. It's poking fun at the genre and is intentionally tongue in cheek. It's not for everyone but its unapologetically dumb fun by design.
I agree. It's like the sequel to Gremlins. Except for I think that when was even more heavily handed a parody.
Yeah Gremlins 2 really was great as well. @@kylemendoza8860
I think the basic plot of the movie should be just about snake getting captured by the government and they throw him into the LA Prison and he tries to escape while also trying to prevent the main villain from Shutting down the world. Then i think the movie wouldn't feel as much of a rehash as it does!
As a Disneyland worker...it's always interesting to me that the hang-glider scene takes place in what is obviously a visual representation to anaheims disneyland
Do you think a John Carpenter Compendium (like the one you did for Nolan) could be possible?
I’d love to see you and the other lads break down and discuss these movies together.
It's not a great movie but it's a fun film to slump on the couch and sink a couple of beers with. Sometimes, that's all you need on a Saturday afternoon.
True
This has more ACTION!
IT feels like an Ghost Rider movie! ❤😂
Cody, what day do you plan to drop your John Carpenter ranking? I’m asking because I’ve watched the majority of Carpenter’s filmography over the last five months to participate in that ranking and would like to know when the culmination of your Carpenter coverage will be released.
I just had to laugh at this film watching it at work. The CGI was terrible 🤣🤣😊🐾👍👍👋
Same AWESOME shit!
I want a escape from detroit story.
lol.
The CGI was dogshit when the trailers came out in 96"
There was a talk of a TV show too. This movie was the last time Sugar Ray rocked. 10 Seconds Down was a good song, but they sucked after that. I found the movie to be fun, but I probably haven't watched it in more then a decade. The 90s was a great decade for action movies. It was the last decade before CGI completely took over FX, stunts, and green screened sets.
If this movie never happened I'd love to see an "old man" Snake return to New York. But alas, that kind of got ruined by EFLA, not to mention civilization would have crumbled after that movie. LA was so bad I actually started thinking maybe JC wasn't as good as he was cracked up to be. Maybe he needed Dean Cundy, Nick Castle, other entities that made him shine.
Great review as always @CodyLeachYT! BTW that is a SICK Freddy shirt! Where did you get it??
Not my favorite by carpenter. However I like watching it for the basketball shot and ending alone
I think Robert Englunds said in a 2010 Documentary favourite Freddy Movie is Wes Craven's New Nightmare!
Watched this movie for the first time last month. I think this one actually uses the L.A. setting better than did Escape from New York.
There's a video of someone taking John Carpenter to task about Escape from L.A. at a Q&A and he responds by both flipping the guy off and giving him the "up yours" gesture. Granted, the guy was being a dick about it but, even though much of the crowd was behind him, you can tell that Carpenter was legitimately pissed off and remained so afterward.
I hope so ... this movie SUCKED.... I was so heartbroken.. I was so into Kurt Russel in the 80's... this felt like.. oh God... please no... thank God Hateful 8 came out... restored my confidence.. ;)
The ending reminds me of one of Deus Ex 1's endings
The GOAT video game
This is one of my guilty pleasure movies. I actually like it better than the first one
Escape From LA is my sh*t!! I was maybe 7 when I saw it and it was my first introduction to Kurt Russell, Pam Grier, Steve Buscemi AND White Zombie. Heavy heavy nostalgia for this film.
I love it.
My #1 guilty pleasure.
I saw Escape from LA in the theater - one of my friends was a fan of Escape from New York and he didn't need to convince me too hard to see LA, as I'm a huge fan of Halloween 1978. I thought LA was all right at the time - I saw NY like a year later and my opinion of LA declined sharply, so yeah, no John, NY is still the better movie. =)
Lockout, starring Guy Pearce, is essentially 'Escape from Earth' the third film in the 'Escape from' trilogy.
So much so that John Carpenter successfully sued Luc Benson for copyright infringement.
When they get to the surgeons, if you look really closely, you can see 2024 Kelly and Sharon Osbourne
I was 13 first time i saw it.
For real though, we know its not Shakespeare or Avatar.....
I think after watching "Escape From L.A.", I kinda prefer John Carpenter's better camp type movie "Big Trouble In Little China". Definitely made Kurt Russell a hero and it fit with the tone of the movie. I tell ya, Snake Plisskin is a bad ass hero but Jack Burton is that TRUE hero you don't expect him to be.
I like both New York and L.A., and I see L.A. more a parody of Hollywood more than anything. But, if you are after a spiritual 3rd Escape movie, check out Lockout, with Guy Pearce. That felt so much like a 3rd Escape movie that John Carpenter sued them over it.
I prefer Escape from New York and will until I die, this film was basically a carbon copy of the original beloved first film This Films big bad was just plain weak, The Duke was far more better as a villain, if we ever do get a third Snake Plissken film why not have Kurt Russell's Son Wyatt Russell (U S Agent from MCU's Falcon and The Winter Soldier) to play his dad's role
I agree with John that LA is the better movie, but I've always appreciated movies that don't take themselves too seriously. I saw LA first, and then NY. (I didn't know NY existed when I saw LA in the theater.) I kind of felt like you did about it just being a remake, but in reverse. I should've watched them in their proper order. I probably would've liked LA even more, but also appreciated NY more.
Ah well, such is life.
So would the threequel be escaped from Chicago?
Nobody is escaping Chicago without getting shot and murdered
I only saw this movie once. My grandma took me to see it when I was 6 and the only thing I remember is that basketball scene. I also remember leaving the theater and my grandma hating it
I like Escape From L.A. not as good as Escape From New York but I like it. Living in L.A. though I would like it if more people escaped from here.
I was a teenager when this came out in theaters, and had seen "Escape from New York" a couple times and enjoyed it. I will say that the tsunami scene looked bad back then and looks worse now. I was disappointed in the film for sure. I think Carpenter wanted to make a lighter more fun (dare I say more 90s) version of "New York. I think that was achievable, but that he went a bit too far with the comedic moments. The tone shift is too extreme and Snake contrasts too much with it. The whole film feels off. I revisited the film about 10 years ago with my wife. She had never seen "New York", and this was her first experience with the story. When it was over, she said, "I wanted to like it. But it just never came together". About a month later we revisited "New York" and she felt that was a much better film. I think they could have had focused more on over the top action, and less on the satire, and not copy/pasted the script from the previous film - well we could have had a film that people would remember fondly. Instead we got a movie that most people forget about.
Can't wait for you to finish carpenter's work he's one of my favorites. Please review Vampires Kiss that movie with your review style would be great! 👍
The Ending of Escape from L.A. is f*cking awesome!
Too bad that the rest of the movie sucks.
Hey Cody, I don't know if you'll see this but if you do, I have a question. I also have children and want to start a RUclips channel. How do you balance working on your channel as well as making time for family?
I can't remember being more disappointed in a sequel, except maybe Alien 3. I was pretty much obsessed with Escaoe from New York as a little kid. I even had the board game! I would make my parents rent the vhs tape a couple times a week. It's my second favorite John Carpenter film. But the sequel just did not live up to it. I think there are some good ideas there but for a long time, I actively hated this movie..
I remember when this movie was on HBO and as a teenager who loved action movies, I was flipping channels and I caught it right at the tail end of the basketball scene, when Cuervo grabs Utopia and you see her ass in those tight leather shorts. I knew there was at least one thing I liked about this movie. Steve Buschemi, Bruce Campbell, Robert Carradine, Pam Greer and even Al Leong were very nice cameos.
I watched this movie recently and I enjoyed it. Very similar to Escape from New York but it's very 90's in its self-awareness
I've always seen this as an ironic parody of the original film. I think it works (minus rhe CGI) although i still prefer the original.
Lmao. Let us get a 3rd one called "Escape from Alcatraz" with Snake Plissken
Rewatched this few months back let's just say I now have more taste than I did at 17 ha Great review Cody
I do wonder if certain Republicans saw this movie and thought 'hmm...' at the President.
I liked this movie but I loved escape from NY
A NUMBA 1!!!
It’s weird, I saw this one before I saw escape from New York and I actually prefer this one
I had that newspaper clipping on my wall as a kid! Silly movie, but imo its perfect camp...of the time lol
I would love an escape from something in a video game series.. voiced by Kurt Russell.
A third entry would be named Escape from Kansas City right?
I never hated this movie that much, just make sure you don’t watch it back to back with escape from NY
Grew up with the original was told by my stepdad to never watch this movie and I ended up watching in about 6 years ago and I'm not going to lie I have grown to love this movie
Grew up with the original was told by my stepdad to never watch this movie and I ended up watching in about 6 years ago and I'm not going to lie I have grown to love this movie
Grew up with the original was told by my stepdad to never watch this movie and I ended up watching in about 6 years ago and I'm not going to lie I have grown to love this movie
The original was a classic. This one was a popcorn movie. I liked it. Cuervo Jones was lame.
this movie is still a classic for me. Yes the visual effects are tacky but it has 2 of really great scenes in movie history. the basket ball scene and the final scene between Kurt Russell and the US president are all time great scenes.
I unapologetically love this movie. I know it has many problems. But I still love it!!
I remember when I went to go see this movie on my birthday back in August 1996
Sorry you had to watch this on your B-Day... I did too at the theater... Ugh....
@@kentkatchem It was somewhat tolerable I left the movie and didn’t remember anything that happened in that movie except Kurt Russell’s eye patch
I feel like we got those sequels in the METAL GEAR SOLID, franchise.
It's close enough.
Man, lol, stop giving away your thoughts in the thumbnail. :D
Haha you talking about the movies in the paper made me remember calling up moviephone to hear the run down
Lol I used to love this movie
More of the same isn’t a bad thing to me, I hate when the formula is changed for sequels.
Where Solid Snake's biggest inspirations came from. I wonder what a remake would be like in today's world and who would be a good new Snake Plistskin.
I really like Kurt Russell if he's in it I love it I've watched him since the Disney days and he did a a movie for them computer wore tenne shoes.
Finally seeing that light at the end of the tunnel, when we could put this to rest. For me, maybe because believe it or not, but I've never gotten around to seeing New York, but I did enjoy Escape From LA myself. Someday I'm sure I'll find the time to check out New York, and maybe I'll change my mind then, but until then, did like this movie. Anyways, enjoyed this video as well. Thank you, Cody.
The CGI never looked good in this movie. I remember as a kid thinking that lol
I LOVE Escape from New York... wore out the VHS tape back in the 80's... L.A.??? HATED THAT MOVIE!!! EVERY SEC. ABOUT IT! ... talk about heart-broken... I loved Plisken so much... felt like I was watching someone completely diff...
THIS MOVIE ROCKS. I MIGHT LIKE IT MORE THAN THE FIRST. FOR GOD SAKES DONT DO IT SNAKE. THE NAMES PLISKIN
I think this movie has some good moments but not enough to rewatch it like I do the original.
Robert Englund is trippin big time.😂🤣🤣🤣
Bro your a legend for reviewing “The Collector “
Ive always liked this one better than New York.
if your a kid watch LA if your an adult New York
I've always liked this movie, one of my favorite Kurt Russell movies. I was born in the 80 raised in the 90s and I always heard that escape from New York was better. when I finally did see it... yeah it was a copy paste for me. Because I saw escaped from La first escape from New York just has that stigma of " I've already seen this. "
But come on snake playing basketball to save his own life, wearing nothing but leather, and surfing in the middle of La streets, that's classic 90s 👌🏾. 5 Star
I would like to hear the comparison opinions of zoomers and Alpha generation. I will always recommend LA over New York.
I love this movie 🍿 just a dumb fun action flick
This movie is better than the best "Saw" film. Yeah.
Another picture of how things have changed. I've seen this one so many times because it was on the movie channels constantly growing up. This and the Fifth Element have to be somewhere in my most watched movies because of that.
3rd most disappointing movie I have ever seen!
Misunderstood satire disguised as an action movie
This was a decent movie. Great review.
I thought for your next video - once I noticed, I couldn't unsee how misogynistic Vampires is. Was JC going through another divorce? Kind of ruined it for me (the book is excellent).
So are you reviewing his TV movies too?
Escape From New York definitely better. This is a decent movie. I hoped for a 3rd movie but I'm far past that point now.
Yes it's a carbon copy but it is way better.
The Carpenter Series Lives!!!!!
Cody please give us your top 10 John Carpenter movie characters before(or after) your ranking… even in a short vid. I really love your character ranking!
Great great movie, better than the first!
Ooooh Double Toasted this recently 😊❤
I own EFNY. Don't own this one.
Cody stop reviewing. Bullet point here 😂😂
What?