joz
04-06-2011, 12:09 PM
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Plot
Cyrus (Roger Hill), leader of the Gramercy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy,_Manhattan) Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, calls a midnight summit of all New York area gangs, requesting them to send nine unarmed representatives to Van Cortlandt Park. The Warriors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28gang%29), from Coney Island, Brooklyn, are one such gang. Cyrus proposes the assembled crowd a permanent citywide truce that would allow the gangs to control the city. Most of the gangs laud his idea, but Luther (David Patrick Kelly), leader of the Rogues uses a smuggled gun to shoot Cyrus. Panic ensues and the NYPD rushes in. Fox (Thomas G. Waites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Waites)) one of the Warriors, sees Luther commit the shooting, but in the chaos, Luther screams that the Warriors are responsible. While the Riffs beat their leader Cleon (Dorsey Wright) to death, the other eight Warriors escape the melee and debate their next move, knowing they are deep in enemy territory.
Meanwhile, Masai, second-in-command of the Riffs, takes charge, and declares a bounty on the Warriors. This sets the city's gang population out hunting for them, with a radio DJ (Lynne Thigpen) reporting live on the events.
~c/o Wikipedia
Trailer
YouTube - The Warriors Trailer
Review
This movie kicks ass! Set in various locations of New York, The Warriors will keep you entertained all the way till the credits start rolling. If you haven't seen this movie yet, do so. It's full of great fight scenes that are realistic without any of the modern Hollywood effects and like any good action flick, there's even a car on fire! :victory: But it's not all blood and violence. There's also a sort of love story that develops midway the movie.
The movie was a bit too much for it's time, as it might have caused a bit of influence on the masses inciting violent acts, but not ultra violence, and vandalism. Paramount actually offered to pay for extra security at the theaters and allowed for theaters to get out of their contracts and stop playing the movie if they felt the need to do so.
Twenty four years later, the movie was brought to your house as a game for the PS2 and XBOX. You can read the game review here http://retrouprising.com/video-games/reviews/warriors/t11516/
There is also talk about a remake last year, but I've not read of any confirmation.
Plot
Cyrus (Roger Hill), leader of the Gramercy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy,_Manhattan) Riffs, the most powerful gang in New York City, calls a midnight summit of all New York area gangs, requesting them to send nine unarmed representatives to Van Cortlandt Park. The Warriors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warriors_%28gang%29), from Coney Island, Brooklyn, are one such gang. Cyrus proposes the assembled crowd a permanent citywide truce that would allow the gangs to control the city. Most of the gangs laud his idea, but Luther (David Patrick Kelly), leader of the Rogues uses a smuggled gun to shoot Cyrus. Panic ensues and the NYPD rushes in. Fox (Thomas G. Waites (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_G._Waites)) one of the Warriors, sees Luther commit the shooting, but in the chaos, Luther screams that the Warriors are responsible. While the Riffs beat their leader Cleon (Dorsey Wright) to death, the other eight Warriors escape the melee and debate their next move, knowing they are deep in enemy territory.
Meanwhile, Masai, second-in-command of the Riffs, takes charge, and declares a bounty on the Warriors. This sets the city's gang population out hunting for them, with a radio DJ (Lynne Thigpen) reporting live on the events.
~c/o Wikipedia
Trailer
YouTube - The Warriors Trailer
Review
This movie kicks ass! Set in various locations of New York, The Warriors will keep you entertained all the way till the credits start rolling. If you haven't seen this movie yet, do so. It's full of great fight scenes that are realistic without any of the modern Hollywood effects and like any good action flick, there's even a car on fire! :victory: But it's not all blood and violence. There's also a sort of love story that develops midway the movie.
The movie was a bit too much for it's time, as it might have caused a bit of influence on the masses inciting violent acts, but not ultra violence, and vandalism. Paramount actually offered to pay for extra security at the theaters and allowed for theaters to get out of their contracts and stop playing the movie if they felt the need to do so.
Twenty four years later, the movie was brought to your house as a game for the PS2 and XBOX. You can read the game review here http://retrouprising.com/video-games/reviews/warriors/t11516/
There is also talk about a remake last year, but I've not read of any confirmation.