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Posted by: Backgammon Mar 26 2008, 06:31 PM

I caught a movie called http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080120/ on tv the other day.

If you are Wounded Ronin, you can stop reading here and go rent it. If you are not Wounded Ronin, you can continue reading about why you should rent this.

It's a 1979 movie about a Connie Island gang that ends up with a bounty on their heads, and as they try to make their way home from a multi-gang meeting in the Bronx they get attacked by a bunch of other gangs.

This movie is awesome because it was made at the height of the "OMG New-York is a murder temple" gang crime wave. The gangs featured in the movie all have a gimmick, like the one where they dress up as baseball players with creepy face paint. The Warriors themselves all have this tiny leather thing and bare chest, making them look ridiculous, weren't it for the fact its 1979.

It is so chock-full of early 80s New-York crime fear fetish that it is simply awesome. The gang members are so stoic its awesome.

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Mar 26 2008, 06:35 PM

It's very much a classic. Almost cross-genre. Also check out the recent video game from Rockstar.

EDIT: Last year in NYC I saw a man sitting at a cafe wearing a Warriors uniform.

Posted by: CircuitBoyBlue Mar 26 2008, 07:54 PM

Whenever my friends and I are feeling awkward at a party (read: any time we're at a party, because we're all dorks), we like to yell "the chicks are packed!" and run for the door. That way, the fact that the "chicks" are ignoring us seems like a good thing, because it's being compared to them trying to kill us.

Posted by: Sticks Mar 27 2008, 12:58 AM

Warriors, come out and PlAyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Posted by: Fortune Mar 27 2008, 04:41 AM

Is the video game any good?

Posted by: thiagão Mar 27 2008, 07:48 PM

I never played the campaing, but i really enjoyed the multiplayer mode.

Posted by: Dakka Apr 18 2008, 03:03 AM

I thought so until my 8 year old daughter asked my why I was beating up a girl in the alley.

Posted by: hyzmarca Apr 18 2008, 03:29 AM

An interesting and little known fact is that The Warriors is loosely based on a true story. It happened 2400 year ago in Persia instead of 70s New York and the Warriors were 10,000 Greeks instead of a small Conney Island gang,

Posted by: Critias Apr 18 2008, 03:33 AM

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Is it actually based on Xenophon's March? Like, they had that in mind when scripting it or whatever?

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Apr 18 2008, 05:16 AM

Because in the interests of postmodern feminism you're treating men and women exactly equal?

Posted by: Critias Apr 18 2008, 05:32 AM

"Because the alley is where I found her, sweetie."

Posted by: Fuchs Apr 18 2008, 08:34 AM

According to the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28film%29, yes.

Posted by: Critias Apr 18 2008, 10:36 AM

Huh.

Y'learn something new every day.

I'd long understood and appreciated the awesomeness of the two things, but wholly independently from one another (with Xenopon and his Greeks maintaining a clear lead, of course). Cool to hear about that little seed of an idea coming from history, though.

Posted by: DTFarstar Apr 18 2008, 04:04 PM

That is a neat little correlation. I never really connected them either except peripherally. Also, Critias and Wounded Ronin, your little comments made me laugh out loud in a classroom here at school. A guy was walking past and looked in at me very strangely sitting alone at a computer in an empty classroom laughing. It doesn't help that I have a very sinister laugh. Deep, rolling, and full of madness.

Chris

Posted by: Adarael Apr 19 2008, 07:31 AM

I hope you told her, "Bitch didn't have my money!"