The Warriors? (1 Viewer)

[arnhem44mad]

Anyone seen that old movie about a bucnh of gang members who need to make it through fellow gang territories without getting caught?

Saw it the other night on ITV3 or something, but I thought it was amazing!

But gang fighting is not really like that anymore, it's more deadly

 

[theBaron]

It's a cult classic. Came out in 1979. The most memorable scene is Luther (David Patrick Kelly, also played a character named Luther in "48 HRS", and was Sully in "Commando"), driving around trying to lure the Warriors out, with soda bottles stuck on his fingers, clacking them and chanting, "Warr-iors, come out and play-ay!"

 

[Ragnar]

I watched it way back in the early 80's and loved it (about 12yrs old at the time).
picked it up on DVD a few yrs back and if you can get the soundtrack simply fantastic .
Baron yes what a great scene that was......Warriors come out and play...Warriors come out and play-ay.

 

[Deitz]

I saw at when it first came out. I was 17 at the time and living in Chicago, at the Friday night showing everyone was frisked before they were allowed in to see the movie. I have not seen it it years. Watched a few scenes on UTUBE.
I really liked it back, in the day. It is a big cult classic now.

"Can you dig it"

 

[The Military Workshop]

My son saw this recently on DVD and was impressed (hard to do !) and more importantly told me somebody looking to do a re-make.
Regards
Brett

 

[theBaron]

I don't think I'd want to see a remake, for me, the original is good as it is, and really should be understood in the context of pop culture in the US in the last year of the Malaise Days.

Kind of like "Kelly's Heroes" or "The Dirty Dozen", or "The Great Escape". Sure, someone could raise the money and remake them, but the originals are just so unique, it's really not necessary to remake them, in my opinion.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Alexdakar]

I saw it as a kid and thought it was cool. I liked the Baseball Furies.

 

[eborris]

I saw it as a kid and thought it was cool. I liked the Baseball Furies.

As Ajax said, "I told you they were wimps."

 

[Rob]

This was an 'infamous' film from my youth,it had a profoundly violent effect on myself and my friends who after arming ourselves with pickaxe handles and baseball bats quickly found ourselves in trouble with the local Police,an episode best forgotten!

Rob

 

[UKReb]

I also had read that someone in Hollywood was attempting to hawk a remake around the studios which didn't surprise me too much as the story has it's origins in Ancient Greek history.

Can't remember the exact details but a band/army of Greek mercenaries (The Warriors) threw their lot in with Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to take the Persian throne. Cyrus was killed (as he was in the film) and the Greeks had to bop their way back to Greece across northern Persia pursued by various armies of Persians.
The mercenaries leader- a Spartan general I think- is killed in their first scrap (as Cleon was in the film) and a leadership quarrel then ensues between the various war chiefs (as Swan and Ajax argue in the film). The Greeks know that when they reach the sea they would be amongst Greek communities and relatively safe (as per the Warriors and Coney Island).

It's a good story guys and you could use the template to fit all kind of historical scenarios and deliver a stirring movie.

Reb

 

[Rob]

I also had read that someone in Hollywood was attempting to hawk a remake around the studios which didn't surprise me too much as the story has it's origins in Ancient Greek history.

Can't remember the exact details but a band/army of Greek mercenaries (The Warriors) threw their lot in with Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to take the Persian throne. Cyrus was killed (as he was in the film) and the Greeks had to bop their way back to Greece across northern Persia pursued by various armies of Persians.
The mercenaries leader- a Spartan general I think- is killed in their first scrap (as Cleon was in the film) and a leadership quarrel then ensues between the various war chiefs (as Swan and Ajax argue in the film). The Greeks know that when they reach the sea they would be amongst Greek communities and relatively safe (as per the Warriors and Coney Island).

It's a good story guys and you could use the template to fit all kind of historical scenarios and deliver a stirring movie.

Reb

Reminds me of the days i used to frequent the Clubs and bars of Hendon North London,then make the long and dangerous journey back to Watford on the night Bus!

Rob

 

[UKReb]

Reminds me of the days i used to frequent the Clubs and bars of Hendon North London,then make the long and dangerous journey back to Watford on the night Bus!

Rob

Reminds me more of the guy who frequents London TS Shows and tries to get back home without an underground map

 

[Rob]

Reminds me more of the guy who frequents London TS Shows and tries to get back home without an underground map

LOL! I just choked on my coke there mate!!

Rob

 

[eborris]

Reminds me of the days i used to frequent the Clubs and bars of Hendon North London,then make the long and dangerous journey back to Watford on the night Bus!

Rob

Reminds me of anytime I wandered out of my neighborhood in Chicago.

 

[The Military Workshop]

Reminded me of walking to the Greyhound Bus Depot in LA in 1981. Thought I would not make it !!!
Regards
Brett

 

[Gideon]

That movie is one of the greatest movies ever shot in NYC.

I'm a born and raised NYC kid. When I was in high school - around 1990 or so, my friends and I would catch the train up to the park in the Bronx where the movie began during Cyrus' speach to unite the gangs.

We'd then hop back on the trains and make our way to Coney Island with a lot of stops along the way.

I shouldn't have been doing that and we had plenty of close calls but it was always great to see the sunrise at Coney Island. NYC was closer in 1990 to what it was like when The Warriors was shot than it is now. That's for sure.

Glad you like that movie - it is a classic.

Turnbull AC's and Baseball Furies forever!

 

[Gideon]

I don't think I'd want to see a remake, for me, the original is good as it is, and really should be understood in the context of pop culture in the US in the last year of the Malaise Days.

Kind of like "Kelly's Heroes" or "The Dirty Dozen", or "The Great Escape". Sure, someone could raise the money and remake them, but the originals are just so unique, it's really not necessary to remake them, in my opinion.

Prost!
Brad

Most important, NYC is perhaps the biggest role in the movie. It was pretty unique that way - it was the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn all the way. Each had its own character.

If there is to be a remake, how will they handle NYC as it is now? It is so "refined" and jsut a pale image of the gritty place it once was.

 

[Gideon]

I also had read that someone in Hollywood was attempting to hawk a remake around the studios which didn't surprise me too much as the story has it's origins in Ancient Greek history.

Can't remember the exact details but a band/army of Greek mercenaries (The Warriors) threw their lot in with Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to take the Persian throne. Cyrus was killed (as he was in the film) and the Greeks had to bop their way back to Greece across northern Persia pursued by various armies of Persians.
The mercenaries leader- a Spartan general I think- is killed in their first scrap (as Cleon was in the film) and a leadership quarrel then ensues between the various war chiefs (as Swan and Ajax argue in the film). The Greeks know that when they reach the sea they would be amongst Greek communities and relatively safe (as per the Warriors and Coney Island).

It's a good story guys and you could use the template to fit all kind of historical scenarios and deliver a stirring movie.

Reb

Hey Reb,

Is this rooted in real history or is this what the remake is supposed to look like?

 

[lancer]

I also had read that someone in Hollywood was attempting to hawk a remake around the studios which didn't surprise me too much as the story has it's origins in Ancient Greek history.

Can't remember the exact details but a band/army of Greek mercenaries (The Warriors) threw their lot in with Cyrus the Younger in his attempt to take the Persian throne. Cyrus was killed (as he was in the film) and the Greeks had to bop their way back to Greece across northern Persia pursued by various armies of Persians.
The mercenaries leader- a Spartan general I think- is killed in their first scrap (as Cleon was in the film) and a leadership quarrel then ensues between the various war chiefs (as Swan and Ajax argue in the film). The Greeks know that when they reach the sea they would be amongst Greek communities and relatively safe (as per the Warriors and Coney Island).

It's a good story guys and you could use the template to fit all kind of historical scenarios and deliver a stirring movie.

Reb

The Anabasis by Xenophon? Also titled The March of the Ten Thousand, I think. -- lancer

 

[UKReb]

Hey Reb,

Is this rooted in real history or is this what the remake is supposed to look like?

Gideon

As lancer has quoted the story is rooted in real history-and the Warriors film/story was taken from the Greek story/saga-
lancer thanks for the proof I had forgotten the actual historical story the theme originated from but remembered it was either classical Greek or Persian history.

These threats of re-makes of classic films get an airing every now and again but very few finally make it in front of the cameras-3.10 to Yuma was a recent one that actually did. About 3 years ago there was a big splash in Variety that a remake of The Wild Bunch was ready to go-story would be updated into a drug robbery by a band of bad-arse ex-US marines working for a modern day Mexican crime lord-with the big redemption shoot out at the end. Unfortunately never made it to the final reel and got shelved

Reb