One of my colleagues in grad school went to high school in Kentucky. He hated Math, but his Math teacher was pretty cool. One day, his teacher called him after class about his poor grades and gave him a lecture. The teacher said, "I once had a student much like you. He never paid attention and drew comics and wrote bizarre stories in his notebook. He ended up directing movies in Hollywood." My friend asked, "Who was that?" The teacher answered, "Have you ever heard of John Carpenter?"

@anibalsalcedo3907

3 жыл бұрын

read this lines bro is the best ! thx for this history !! hugs

@anibalsalcedo3907

3 жыл бұрын

Carpenter for me is a hero and Snake is the salvation of the world!

@royalerathcliff5703

3 жыл бұрын

😎👍

@ericsantana1184

3 жыл бұрын

That should be part of a John Carpenter biopic.

@miguelthenyfan0363

3 жыл бұрын

When did this happened, and what was Carpenter's film at that time?

breaking out is impossible. breaking in is insane. love this movie.

@johnmoore690

2 жыл бұрын

Totally insane

@druunderwood5602

Жыл бұрын

With all due respect Mr President you're both fucking idiots.

@druunderwood5602

Жыл бұрын

Now get me out of this god damn bio bed!

@mikegarrens5286

8 ай бұрын

Still on my top ten films of all time!

@sharptoothtrex4486

2 ай бұрын

This is like Kurt Russell's Escape From North Korea example reference. Kathleen Blanchard: The entire North Korean nation becomes the new worldwide maximum security prison. Imagine such a Korean banned movie.

You knew this was going to be a bad ass movie with this opening score .

@donberry6079

Жыл бұрын

Amen!

@axel4196

Жыл бұрын

Indeed!

@alphabarre9096

10 ай бұрын

Right away indeed.

@waseem23

5 ай бұрын

All of John Carpenters movies have a great score.

'There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: Once you go in, you don't come out.' - So wonderful how so few words can haunt our imaginations with the nightmare that New York becomes in this film.

@jerryr3752

2 жыл бұрын

Once you go into Central Park at night, you don't come out!!!!

@el-kiote

Жыл бұрын

@@jerryr3752 I almost did that last time I was there to test the theory. Glad I didn't.

@markelijio6012

Жыл бұрын

That was Jamie Lee Curtis (Mrs. Christopher Guest), who did the narration for the 1981 hit film.

@robertcarmosino6563

11 ай бұрын

WAIT

@zippymufo9765

2 ай бұрын

​@@markelijio6012That's just a Internet rumor. Carpenter has always denied that it's Curtis, and she's never been asked AFAIK.

My heart soars whenever I hear this track.

@rojaws1183

7 жыл бұрын

Indeed. One of the best intros ever.

@Bhatt_Hole

6 жыл бұрын

My bowels soar.

@aurex8937

6 жыл бұрын

Same. Wait, that might be a stro-

@demon-ui8ui

6 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the good old 80s

@MRJK87.

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully in a stealth glider

For some reason, I love John Carpenter's opening title sequences. Not just for the music (which is awesome) but just how simple and slow paced they are. No fancy graphics or effects, just the names and crew positions. Nothing more to set the tone.

@ScreamingScallop

7 жыл бұрын

True. Compare this to the opening of Escape From L.A., which tacks on a bunch of pointless and annoying green-vector graphics, wipes and sound effects that suggest a video game from over a decade prior.

@Don1970

6 жыл бұрын

Always liked the font style too. And of course his name come up followed by movie title.

@mikemcglasson1286

6 жыл бұрын

I get what you're saying. I like Kubrick's opening title sequences for the same reason

@johnnymidnight2982

4 жыл бұрын

@@Don1970 That font is Albertus MT. Epic specimen.

@evanfehr3819

4 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of law and order

Oh gosh this takes me back to my childhood. Seeing this in '82, aged 10 blew me away. Just love Snake.

@kenweser4773

7 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Dickens My all time favorite movie, saw it in 82 and it blew me away. Wonderful music too, love it.

@planetofthegapes

2 жыл бұрын

Happy 50th

@dtvjho

Жыл бұрын

Saw it in the theater in Philly at the time. I was an older teen. The graphics and music were very futuristic for the time, music synths weren't common, neither were vector graphics.

@patwiggins6969

Жыл бұрын

Probably one of the last movies I saw in a drive-in. Good times!

@AndrewTubbiolo

9 ай бұрын

... The name's Pliskin!

One of the greatest movie themes of all times!

@markcastelletti483

Жыл бұрын

It is the ringtone on my phone

@user-ng4wt9bg4w

2 ай бұрын

@@markcastelletti483Brilliant ringtone 👍

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

@@markcastelletti483hey I like that where can I get that for my iPhone 11?

I will never stop loving this movie. Ever. I feel privileged to have watch Carpenter play this live. Only realised about 5 years back that Jamie Lee Curtis is the narrator here too😊

@sparky_boomstick

Жыл бұрын

John Carpenter denies it's Jamie whenever he's asked. Jamie has never confirmed it and she gets no credit in the movie. So it's nothing more than a rumor.

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539

5 ай бұрын

I feel lucky just to have seen it at a theatre at a retro screening even if some asshole brought their kid to a violent R-rated movie

@etienneleroi9515

Ай бұрын

She’s also in Halloween III on the phone

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Yes I like all of that. A synergistic combination.

any remake of this would be inferior to John Carpenter's original 1981 Classic!! I mean this film is perfect!!

@davidnetterwald1846

4 жыл бұрын

No argument here. Escape From New York is my favorite John Carpenter movie of all time. The movie is an absolute masterpiece.

@musicmanfelipe

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you can think of Escape from LA as a remake, since it’s the exact same plot.

@kyleshiflet9952

4 жыл бұрын

@@musicmanfelipe I really think the reason why its basically a remake is cause of the high ups at universal started sticking their nose in to much and basically nuttered John and told him basically remake New York with CGI cause john and kurt had an idea for Escape from Las Vegas and it was gonna be animated never happened now kurt helped with the screenplay for LA but I think it was for Snake so I cant blame him to much

@willnovak4173

3 жыл бұрын

It’s by no means a perfect film, but it doesn’t need to be because it excels at having a captivating atmosphere and a tone that couldn’t be replicated if they tried to remake it. I could see some people finding the film boring, that’s fair enough, but the thought of somebody remaking this to cater to those people is terrifying, especially since it’s rumoured they’re remaking Big Trouble in Little China with The Rock... **shudders**

@cptkerafreen3872

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah..nobody can remake a classic like this!

John Carpenter is one of those filmmakers that is very much like an artist. He paints such visually compelling worlds that you can't bear to tear your eyes off they for a second. That's one of the reasons why he is a pure genius.

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539

5 ай бұрын

Just like how the THING had no women just men. He cut all the bullshit and just made uncompromised movies without worrying about demographics

John Carpenter was way ahead of his time with this one

@johncreasy8752

6 жыл бұрын

CHI Nation ikr, lightyears

@ryan4ever956

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@Kamandi1971

4 жыл бұрын

oh yes

@Andor2022

4 жыл бұрын

Hell yes ..I have spoken

@TotallyGoodatGames

4 жыл бұрын

Can he truly be ahead of his time when no other movie themes sound like this even now?

As that ominous tone starts we all become Snake Plissken

@juliaturrentine2278

4 жыл бұрын

The Yorkshire Digger I thought we all were dead.

@cptkerafreen3872

3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!

@erickhart5741

3 жыл бұрын

Whispxering grass

@irwinisidro

2 жыл бұрын

President of what?

@DomPeriod

2 жыл бұрын

@@irwinisidro That's not funny, Plissken.

John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Brian De Palma made me proud to have grown up in the 80s! Boy, i miss those days!

@jameswilliams-zr8co

Жыл бұрын

spielberg, cameron, lucas, john mctiernan, clint eastwood, stallone, john hughes, scorsese, oliver stone

@No-Lie-I-Want-To-Die

3 ай бұрын

​@@jameswilliams-zr8coThe Breakfast Club 👌🏻

Brilliant film. Dark gritty 80s shit at its finest.

@mynameisawesomeman

3 жыл бұрын

Still feel it could have been a bit more gritty, but I guess it was already pushing it for the early 80s... still a great film

@DEthe5150

3 жыл бұрын

@@mynameisawesomeman *grittier. And I wholeheartedly agree.

@Leon_der_Luftige

3 жыл бұрын

@@mynameisawesomeman No, just put in more action scenes à la Rambo and it would have been perfect. This could easily have been a "Rambo in the city"- franchise and it could have been actually good.

@pamelqtaylor8335

2 жыл бұрын

I love late 70 early 80’s movie when they deal with the future they never bothered to sugarcoat the possibility of a shitty future for us

Once you go in you don't come out.

@DragonBall-vg9dy

6 жыл бұрын

Nicole Leopoldine Staudigl Awesome!

@KManXPressTheU

4 жыл бұрын

That is one BIG Roach Motel...

@danpettis1675

4 жыл бұрын

just like a roach motel

THIS is how you open a movie, Hollywood!! A truly lost artform.

@PastorinoOlivier

3 жыл бұрын

Big John is the Man not only in movies but in music. This man is a genius so underrated in his own country. My little tribute to this great song if you have 3 minutes to spare : kzread.info/dash/bejne/dGV21Jhymaael9o.html

@kyleshiflet9952

2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree

@jameswilliams-zr8co

Жыл бұрын

80's flicks are still the best !

@worsethanhitlerpt.2539

5 ай бұрын

Theres a Genesis game called Subterrania that has very similar mission briefings maybe it was inspired by this or they just happened to use the same formula

Undoubtedly my favorite movie ever. I’ve seen this movie so many times that I know every single line of dialogue in the film. I can even listen to the original score and tell you when that piece is played in the film and exactly what’s going on in the film. I can’t honestly answer why it’s my favorite over other movies in my library other than the fact that I love dystopian films. They give it an Erie feeling in your psyche, making you feel uneasy. EFNY does all that.

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Yes I agree.

The intro conveys the greatness of this movie well.

@C-TOS

7 жыл бұрын

Jason Camp your avatar conveys the greatness of the 80's. 👍

@jasoncamp483

7 жыл бұрын

Crurned Travels and Other Stories Thank you. It's hard to represent such a decade. There is so much to choose from! It was a different world then but one I loved with very fond memories.

Carpenter's newer versions of this always leave out or minimize too much that incredible crescendo / high note that comes in on the 2nd chorus. Always gives me chills.

@TheCriticBoxReviews

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed! Managed to find a limited release of the soundtrack with both the original and remastered soundtracks. Always loved that high note. Just so perfectly executed

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Damn! Me too!

Great music...great movie.....great cast! I absolutely love this film. Everything about this film is great!!

Some of you may be wondering what the 80's were like. And if you had a time machine, you might pick a time to go back to. Well movies were popular. We had a lot more movie theaters. Chances are you had a local movie theater and could walk to one. Music was big. Bruce Springsteen drew a big crowd to his concerts. Popular movies included: _Top Gun,_ _Aliens,_ and _Batman._ The first _Batman_ was so popular, and part of which made it so, was in reality because wherever you went, someone was wearing a Batman tee shirt. Camouflage pants were also popular, and were often seen being worn. Denim jackets were generally in vogue. Quiet Riot was a popular band. Billy Martin was the manager of the Yankees. The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred. Mortin Downy Junior was spinning things up. Maury Povich had a popular news broadcast, for awhile. The _Wheel of Fortune_ and _Family Feud_ were even popular game shows back then, and are still on the air. Barbara Eden became more and more popular with her famous TV show being rebroadcast again and again and again. We had TV remote controls, but not everybody as yet then had them (worth mentioning that TV remotes were not a new technology, however). TV's still had a dial knob. Record players were standard equipment. Billy Joel was big. Yes, the 80's were a good time and, for me, the year was 1985. And yes, we still had Black and White televisions and the C-64, Atari 2600, and Coleco Vision were big with each new system progressively more popular. Our games were in 2-D. I could list some titles, but one of the big ones was PAC-MAN. As you can see, _Escape from New York_ was a memorable film. Cell phones existed, but nobody you knew had them -- too expensive. Perhaps the only way you knew such technology existed was because of Johnny Carson. Stallone and Schwarzenegger were making hit, money-making movies which are still popular and reinvigorated today. The Vietnam War did not end long before the 80's, so there was an interest in MIA soldiers and what happened to them. And some soldiers, who were in Vietnam, were in the first Gulf War in Iraq - liberating Kuwait. And I can't forget Chuck Norris. His _Delta Force_ film was a real force, because it was based on actual events. We were in the theater having had seen the _Delta Force_ .There was a real fight brewing in the movie house over respect for the actual soldiers portrayed in the film - he was probably a soldier (in retrospect). Some people thought it was a joke, it wasn't. Remember 9-11. Those things above were part of the 80's. I was there! *Addendum:* you can a see cell phone being used in the first _Lethal Weapon,_ an 80’s film.

@AgeofPC

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this man, thank you so much!

@dionlicciadone8151

6 жыл бұрын

nailed it .

@barryserra2176

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Reaganomics, star wars ( the movies AND the anti-missile defense system), the iran hostages. The fall of the wall in berlin, the original MTV, Simon says, you know, the one with the brain? Robocop, all those one hit wonders we heard on the radio. When texting was taking a pen and a piece of paper and writing a letter to someone and networking was a bunch of friends and relatives getting together and hanging around socializing ( or shootin' the shit) your choice. Playing tag and hide n seek, even in the dark. Yeah, it was a damn good time and this younger generation has no idea what its missed. Damn shame!

@doctorx2105

4 жыл бұрын

Well done dude.

@Micktaylorify

4 жыл бұрын

Ahhh ... shades of my youth! I had a helluva GOOD time. Don’t forget “The Lost Boys”, “Monster Squad”, “The Hidden”, “Weird Science”, “Back to School” and on and on. Only in the ‘80’s could a band like Oingo Boingo make it big. If I had a crystal ball to see what the future was like I would have doubled down on living life back then before it was over. Before REALITY stepped back in ... Edit: Honourable mention for “The Adventures of Ford Fairlaine” with Andrew “Dice” Clay. Yes, it came out in 1990 but it was made in the ‘80’s.

John Carpenter was right,this is the future of America..

@kyleshiflet9952

4 жыл бұрын

And the president of the United States from Escape from LA sums up Trump's idea of America

@wildmanbeyond

4 жыл бұрын

We need a Snake Plissken right now🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

@Taztiger7272

4 жыл бұрын

The more I think this movie is exactly what is about to happen soon. NY is wrecked per the Pres'. It's ruined he moved to FL this can happen we already Have the USPF next a wall a wall around Manhatten.

@kyleshiflet9952

4 жыл бұрын

@YoMama get lost you racist asshole

@snackoman1577

3 жыл бұрын

@YoMama rent free

I remember this when I was a kid. the film was built up as this ominous, futuristic thing (I would come to learn was called a dystopian future) and this music, for then this came out ('81ish?) the style of it, the plodding credits, etc. totally set the tone. timeless yet specific to the early 80's. The music transcends what ultimately is not so much an action film as is this drama with a little violence. Snake is a boss in this.

@gochem3013

6 жыл бұрын

clank4001 You brake the law.

If ever an opening theme perfectly captured the feel of the movie, this is it.

@americarsqueensland1667

Жыл бұрын

yes, it does indeed.

@No-Lie-I-Want-To-Die

3 ай бұрын

Top Gun?

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Yes very haunting.

All I know is whoever did Adrienne Barbeau’s wardrobe in this movie gets my thumbs up.

@aurex8937

6 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA, would give you a thousand thumbs up if I could. Seriously though, Carpenter probably had something to do with that... him and Adrienne Barbeau were still married in 1981.

@BB-fd2rf

4 жыл бұрын

Tits! 👍

@albundy774

3 жыл бұрын

@@BB-fd2rf HOOTERS!!!

@davecoalwood9487

2 жыл бұрын

It's not My thumbs that are up!

@GFSagredo

Жыл бұрын

🤣man Adrienne was hot! So long for hot, badass, well-written female characters, now we have the She-Hulks and the Reys.

New York is not the same without The 2 towers of the world trade center.

@44excalibur

3 жыл бұрын

I know. What's Snake supposed to land his glider on?

@stephenlynch2193

3 жыл бұрын

TOATLY agree with u. Nathan Coleman..

@odinr0xx

3 жыл бұрын

King Kong

@robzilla730

3 жыл бұрын

I heard they were due to be condemned when they went down.

@T.R.R.Jolkien

3 жыл бұрын

@@robzilla730 maybe see someone about your hearing... 🤔

Jamie Lee Curtis uncredited cameo in this opening reading the intro

@007beck9

7 жыл бұрын

clank4001 Jamie Lee Curtis also did the the voice on the telephone operator and the curfew speaker in Halloween III Season of the Witch

@clank4001

7 жыл бұрын

ah nice did not know!

@hipsterdoofez8558

7 жыл бұрын

clank4001 everyone knows that duh

@gomphrena-beautifulflower-8043

7 жыл бұрын

clank4001 I didn't know either, so we must not be as "hip" as some ppl think they are

@janesgems7

7 жыл бұрын

Sounded like Jamie Lee to me.

This is basically what Australia was for the British

@danpettis1675

4 жыл бұрын

exactly

@danpettis1675

4 жыл бұрын

so...if you really think about it .most Australians 6 times great grandfathers were criminals

@dceufan

4 жыл бұрын

@P S - RRRRRROOOOOOOFFFFFFLLLLLLLL

@Ugh000

3 жыл бұрын

It was

@Ugh000

3 жыл бұрын

2100 the Manhattan Republic rises

This is one of my all time favorite movies so much fun to watch from beginning to end. The begging credits may be simple but the music just made it so much more interesting.

2:53 Narrator (Jamie Lee Curtis): In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York, becomes the one maximum security prison, for the entire country. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.

You can always tell it's a John Carpenter film, not only by the music and his name above the titles, but his use of the widescreen panavision camera, he had his own unique style.

The characters were so bad ass in this film they didn't leave a shadow, from Lee Van Cleef's 'Halk'' to Russell, Borgnine,Pleasence, Issac Hayes, Dean Stanton, Tom Atkins, Charkes Cyphers, Adriana Barbeau, Frank doubleday and even Season Hubley...brilliant casting...Carpenter ruled the 80's..ahh fond childhood memories

You know i never thought growing up this would ever happen. After 9-11 The miltary actually did close off Manhattan for a couple days. They blocked all bridges and tunnels, there was no way in or out. For a brief moment it did feel like we were closed off.

This is exactly what we need today in my opinion

This is just the best version, hands down. That wavy synthetic tone fits into the movie's futuristic dead-end setting so well.

When you see John Carpenter's name anywhere on a movie (except a few) it's a stamp of good quality filmmaking

When Kurt played major league baseball b4 his career in movies he made the greatest catch in baseball he jumped on the left fielder s back and catapaluted into the air to catch a sure game winning homerun

2020....NOW.....

@JamesSmith-si7ts

3 жыл бұрын

Escape for COVID nyc 2020

One of my fondest memories was on Christmas day in 1998 I got a portal TV with a VHS player as my gift, along with a few films. There was Total Recall and Escape from New York. I had watched AOP13 the previous year on BBC2 with my parents, who absolutely love John Carpenter's films, and always spoke about the music. I saw this not knowing what it was, watched it and loved it as a kid. Such a classic film and I'm so thankful for my parents being cool and introducing me to JC's films from an early age. For me, my top five films would be Christine, AOP13, Big Trouble (again, this was on one night and they remember the music and the big hats and love it), Escape from New York, and The Thing of course (which I watched with my older brother back in the early 2000s, and became one of my favourite films of all time. I hope that when I have children one day, I can introduce them to some amazing films.

Thanks for adding this. I love this movie. Kurt Russell was great as Snake,

This should be made into a video game! Play as Snake trying to Escape from NY! It would be awesome!

@zanzalot

4 жыл бұрын

It's called Metal Gear Solid.

@bonglesnodkins329

4 жыл бұрын

We actually approached Kurt Russell about the idea when I worked at Radical Games in Vancouver.

@skylinefever

4 жыл бұрын

Batman Arkham City could be considered similar to Escape From New York.

@atiqurrahman4034

3 жыл бұрын

@@bonglesnodkins329 have any idea what happened? The entire premise could be an excellent for a cyberpunk themed game.

@bonglesnodkins329

3 жыл бұрын

@@atiqurrahman4034 Wasn't my sub-team that pitched the project. My understanding is that we just couldn't put a deal together for it.

Should be reclassified as non-fiction at this point

@P5kr

Ай бұрын

It was proven that you can't land a pane on top of the World Trade Centre.

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

No, future history without Yeshua of Nazareth. What Satan plans for the World. “As in the days of Noah” man’s imagination was violence all the time.

1981 NY fictional state 2020 NY reality state Sadly,we don't have a Bob Snake Plissken

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Or a Jack Bauer.

Literally everything about this film is amazing. Watching this opening is like being at a rock concert. Watch this film if you haven't seen it, and if you have, watch it another 500 times because it never gets old. Escape From LA is awesome too. But this is legendary.

Coolest opening to a movie ever! Change my mind.

@bentramer682

3 жыл бұрын

Halloween 1979

Recently bought the 4K blu ray to this film. Been obsessed with it ever since !l Update: This opening sequence on the 4K blu-ray is legendary. Especially if you have a sound system. The bass and surround sound is so good.

@erickyle5604

10 ай бұрын

Send me your copy and I'll confirm this. 😂

@ANDRE1mang

10 ай бұрын

Lmao i got the 4K blu ray from Best Buy. My speaker system is a Vizio 5.1.2 soundbar dolby atmos set up haha@@erickyle5604

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Get a pair of Von Schweikert Audio VR-4 Second Generation speakers and an Audio Research SP-9 Preamplifier through an Emotiva XPA 200 power amplifier, and be blown away!!! Flat to below 20 Hz and up to 28 KHz for that sweeping high note and a few background sounds you won’t hear with other speakers.

Absolutely *amazing* track!!! I remember seeing this for the first time as a really young kid one dark and rainy Saturday evening in early Autumn, 1981. I can't recall if the modern film censor ratings were in effect back then or not, but I went with my dad to see loads of early-eighties SF and no one ever stopped us going in. I think back then the small local cinemas in Britain were just glad to get paying audiences on seats and so long as it wasn't a really notorious 'video nasty' style title they turned a blind eye. I wish so much that Carpenter hadn't become disillusioned with Hollywood and just stopped caring. In my opinion he had more genuine talent then either Spielberg or Lucas, a true artist with an amazing eye for cinema. Maybe he'll make a comeback one of these decades!

John Carpenter is THE MAN! Who else writes, directs, and composes the music for their movies? Especially movies that are as original as this.

@fritzwalter4660

4 жыл бұрын

Charles Chaplin!

@libertariorock8235

4 жыл бұрын

Anthony O.S.

I love the Escape film openings, they always start with the signature theme with wireframe graphics explaining the setting.

A mostly unknown fact: Jamie Lee Curtis' voice is that opening scene dialog (as well as the computer's voice later in the movie).

@drlight6677

2 жыл бұрын

She also supposedly did the "Curfew! Curfew!" voice as well as telephone operator voice in Halloween III Season of the Witch, but it's never been confirmed.

Jamie Lee Curtis does the narration in case anyone was wondering

@ANDRE1mang

Жыл бұрын

Wow just noticed that! So cool.

This movie may not have been well reviewed by critics during its release back in 1981. But today, I would consider Escape From New York a cult classic and up there with the first Halloween (1978), as one of John Carpenter's better films.

@DC322

2 жыл бұрын

John and Kurt team up with The Thing. Also a good classic horror film.

@kendallrivers1119

2 жыл бұрын

All of Carpenter's amazing classic were poorly reviewed at the time and then went on to become considered classics that now everybody loves. Just proves how stupid critics were then and can still be now.

The Stark simple intro, the crisp font, the semi futuristic driving melody, reading the cast, enter the VoiceOver. You know instantly that this movie is going to be something you have to see.

Another all time favourite love John Carpenters movie themes

Watching this as a New Yorker when it first came out must have been hilarious.

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

No, I would think for a middle aged New Yorker, chilling.

"President of what?"

Not many people know that is Jamie Lee Curtis' voice.

And now it's slowly happening,John Carpenter has warned us many times....Stacey Keach's dialogue with Snake in the sequel movie (escape to L.A.).."America is no smoking,no drinking,no red meat no sex out of licensed marriage.....".....don't say Carpenter did not warn us

That music is so ominous and foreboding, as good as Assault on Precint 13 or The Thing. Carpenter is so good on synths.

2022 is when this movie should have of been set.

In 2022, inflation rises 400 percent.

The COVID-19 pandemic gives a whole new meaning to Escape From New York

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Plandemic

"Once you go in, you don't come out". Not if you're a Badass like Snake Plissken, my favourite Anti-Hero of all times!

Escaping NY is even tougher now. Imagine snake at the U-haul depot trying to rent a van.

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

A little prophetic.

Long live John Carpenter

Badass for ever : hello from France.

I really want this song to be played at my burial. Love it.

@ddm7833

2 жыл бұрын

It does feel fitting mood wise. It's solemn and foreboding, but as it goes on it sort of become more, hopeful, I guess? I agree wholeheartedly

@johnf.kennedy7339

Жыл бұрын

That honor (usually not allowed) goes to Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” though some have gotten away with it in church.

I love this original version of the song, it seems so hard to find. I can't put my finger on it, like it sounds so muted and almost reserved, while all the "Remasters" and fan remixes are just so over the top.

@ddm7833

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY RIGHT? Even in the official soundtrack posted on spotify it sounds different. My main gripe with that version is probably the... Well. What I can only describe as the "BUM. BUM BUM BUM. BUM BUM BUM." In the soundtrack on spotify or on youtube its being played on a piano. That doesn't mean this version sucks or anything. But the pure synth of the credits sequence sets the mood a lot more effectively (plus it sounds way cooler).

@fungo6631

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, it seems like our TV aired the original one then.

And that, my friends, is a CAST

This movie blew my mind when I was kid ...after 40 fuckin years it still does. Thank You John Carpenter for this MASTERPIECE !

The future then was 25 years ago. Jesus.

Who's watching this in 2020 as people are literally escaping from New York?

@afrules9097

3 жыл бұрын

Here!

@fratercontenduntocculta8161

3 жыл бұрын

A bunch of northern refugees has come to my state as well

@kellyedwards1635

3 жыл бұрын

Yep me

@DanielA-lb8td

3 жыл бұрын

Yo I'm obviously watching this

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

@@fratercontenduntocculta8161Hope they don’t bring New York with them.

"Snake......SNNNNAAAAAKKKE"

@sir_potoo

6 жыл бұрын

No.

@snakeplissken2396

4 жыл бұрын

The names' Plissken.

@rodiscie

3 жыл бұрын

Played like a fiddle

One of the best ever Damn Movie Director/Producer America had to offer John Carpenter 🎥😎🇺🇸‼️

@ThaiThom

4 жыл бұрын

Second only to Halloween.

@jsbcody

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThaiThom For me Halloween is in third place and Escape From New York is in a very close second place to the greatest film ever made, Big Trouble In Little China.

@ThaiThom

4 жыл бұрын

@@jsbcody Haha I'd put Big Trouble in Little China 3rd.. but hey... they are all excellent movies.

The best opening to one of the biggest bad ass films ever made. Escape From New York has been one of my all time favorite films ever since I seen it back in the early 80's... which was video rental and I was around seven years old. My dad wouldn't let me watch it but I waited for my parents to go to bed, snuck downstairs to the family room, set close to the TV with the volume barely audible and from that point on, I always wanted to be Snake. That opening and the music has to be played at my funeral with no context. lol...

The rules are simple...once you go in... you don't come out.

Was on tv last night and I felt compelled to watch even though I have seen it too many times to count since my first viewing as a child in the mid 80s!

Fucking best intro and intro song ever! Dam 80s movies retrospective of the future were awesome

This movie predicted New York’s rise in crime.

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

History repeats NY pre Guliani.

Carpenter was a God in the 80s.

If you have a good ear, you will hear that the version originally played here in the film differs in some certain details from the version sold/distributed as the "Original Soundtrack".

@ANDRE1mang

Жыл бұрын

Yes i hear ya! It sounds pretty distinct than from like the soundtrack on streaming apps

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

I agree I came here to download it and share to me in Messenger.

" I'm ready to kick your ass out of the World,Hero!"

Comfortably enough i find the opening theme to be calm and relaxing. The Opening is such a classic,No fancy Lights or Bold fonts..Just a simple opening in a slower form

2020 anyone?

Excellent movie

Love that this is Jamie Lee Curtis doing the voiceover.

I think this describes america at the moment

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Yes Paradise lost and even infiltrating “ flyover country”. What you get without the “ Beatitudes” and Yeshua of Nazareth.

Basically this is England...NOW!

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Yes a rotten shame, and although my name is Drake and illustrious, I am American. I feel for you.

I think we are headed toward this type of future (here in the USA).

@daviddrake6875

Ай бұрын

Ultimate evil of the great deceiver, father of lies, devil.

"The rules are simple ... once you go in, you don't come out." That is about as straight forward a set of rules as it gets.

Perfect intro & music

There WILL be a remake.. I can feel it... 1 thing I MUST suggest... The ORIGINAL theme song MUST stay in the remake. NOO redo of the ORIGINAL theme song.

The only thing wrong with it was it shouldn't have given the date when all this happened. Should have just said in the future.

There will never be a time when this theme isn't one of cinemas greatest themes of all time.

We need a prison like this today. Manhattan Island would be the perfect place for it.

I tell you Ridley Scott should’ve commissioned John Carpenter to do the music for Blade Runner instead of Vangelis.

Jamie Lee Curtis sounds cold as fuck... 😍

If John Carpenter hadn’t made movies like these Stranger Things would never have existed

The perfect theme for Chaz zone in Seattle