 Editor in Chief Bill   | 11 Jan 2024 9:09 a.m. PST |
You were asked – TMP link 44 years ago today, The Warriors opened. I've been having a grand time modelling a number of the movie gangs for gaming with Mean Streets. What's your favorite street gang movie? And in the final round of voting: 25% said "Warriors, The (1979)"
21% said "Big Trouble in Little China (1986)"
17% said "Mad Max (1979)" |
35thOVI  | 11 Jan 2024 10:25 a.m. PST |
Does "Gangs of New York" count? Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting was great. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 11 Jan 2024 10:53 a.m. PST |
Does "Gangs of New York" count? It came in #4. |
| 14Bore | 11 Jan 2024 10:54 a.m. PST |
The Baseball Gang was real, not sure if they were exactly. Likethe movie version. There is a behind the scenes YouTube on Warriors
It was my pick |
| 0ldYeller | 11 Jan 2024 2:12 p.m. PST |
What?! No love for West Side Story? Best gang song ever – "Jet Song" (including the version by Alice Cooper in "Gutter Cat vs The Jets"). 1961 version of movie only applicable. 2021 remake horrible. |
| rvandusen | 11 Jan 2024 2:54 p.m. PST |
I saw The Warriors when it first played in cinemas 44 years ago. I remember that there was some hysteria about possible gang violence erupting in theaters. Learning of that "threat." I rushed to see it in the hope of witnessing audience brawls.At 14 I was an edgy little bastard so felt disappointed when no violence erupted. I still watch that film once in a while. |
| rvandusen | 11 Jan 2024 2:57 p.m. PST |
The dumbest gang has to be those roller skate lameoids. One could easily escape them buy running down a flight of stairs. |
 gamertom | 11 Jan 2024 5:33 p.m. PST |
I thoroughly enjoyed The Warriors when it came out, but admit I haven't watched it since. A few years after it came out, I realized it essentially was the same as the "trapped behind enemy lines" WWII movies I watched on TV as a youngster. |
| Prince Alberts Revenge | 11 Jan 2024 7:12 p.m. PST |
I think Warriors is very loosely based on Xenophon (to include them being invited by the foreign leader "Darius"). It's a classic for me. I first saw it as a kid in the early 80s and purchased the Directors Cut DVD. It's incredibly campy but still very enjoyable. Can't argue with that winning out. |
| Grattan54 | 11 Jan 2024 8:22 p.m. PST |
The film did lead to a high level of violence. So much so that the pulled the movie from the theaters. |
| rvandusen | 12 Jan 2024 5:37 a.m. PST |
Xenophon also inspired that other 70s action film; The Wild Geese. The scenario where a small group must make its way out of danger while fighting off attacks by hostiles is Wargaming 101. |
