So I signed up for Netflix the other day, and what's the first movie I got? Why, the 1979 classic The Warriors, of course. It’s a street-gang movie, and the guys who came up with Necromunda must have had this movie in mind. The setting is entirely different (this takes place in NYC) but the variety and…um… flamboyance of the gangs in the game has to have been inspired by this movie. I can’t believe I haven’t seen it until now.
The basic premise is this: there’s a huge meeting of all the major gangs in the city, and everyone comes unarmed. Someone, of course, sneaks a gun in and kills Cyrus, the leader who called the meeting to unite the gangs, and a small gang called The Warriors is blamed. They then have to fight their way home through enemy territory. Not a terribly complex plot, I know, and the acting is Terrible (yes, the capital T is called for), but it’s very entertaining. I have to recommend it.
And here’s some more Warriors info. There’s a game based on the movie coming out around the end of the year (by Rockstar, so it should be good), and MTV is supposedly working on a remake. Now that I’m an official fan of the original movie, I’m worried about MTV being involved with it, since they produce crap. (And yes, there is a difference between ‘70s B-movie crap and modern MTV crap.) But really, they’re probably the only ones who’d ever do it anyway, so go for it MTV. You gave me Napoleon Dynamite, a movie that shouldn’t be funny but is. Maybe you can give me a ‘modernized’, politically correct remake that I should hate but won’t. You’ll get my $7 either way, because if you make it, I can’t not see it.
12 years ago
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