N’Sync is…The Warriors!
Can You dig it?
Let’s get down to it Boppers…
I’ve got to admit, it’s a guilty favorite of mine. Cheesy, escapist fun. I’ve been casually looking for Sol Yurick’s novel myself for a few years.
Joe Bob Briggs did host an episode of Monstervision on TNT while showing this movie and followed the gang’s progress through New York with a large map of the subway system. I remember he also said they must not be a very tough gang if no one could hotwire a car or hijack a taxi, but that kind of logic would ruin the movie.
I’ll just post a link, rather than say “Look for specials!” again, I never get sick of DPK quotes!
The best thing about it is that we might get the extended cut of the movie on DVD as a result. I saw it on TV a few years back but was unable to record it - I didn’t realise it was an extended cut until after it had begun.
There’s something that would unite all the gangs. A change to beat down N’Sync!
The thing I didn’t like about The Warriors, was that about 2 weeks before I first saw the movie I came up with an Idea for a really awesome movie. Unfortunatly my movie was almost exactly like The Warriors, the only difference was that it was filmed in the style of The blair Witch project (this was in 1994 way before BWP came out). To make things even worse, I turned the proposal into my TV Production teacher, went home for the weekend, and watched The Warriors. When I came in on monday my TV teacher said “A really good idea but its been done before.” ETC.
Widdershins has a better recollection than me.
That’s what I saw.
There’s a unconfirmed rumor that Paramount, while holding the rights to the theatrical version of The Warriors, does not have the rights to the scenes shown in the extended TV version. Sounds kind of strange, but considering that Warner Brothers was legally barred from including the extra TV footage of **Superman 2 ** on their DVD and Anchor Bay was equally prohibited from showing the extra TV footage from **Repo Man **on their DVD, I guess there’s a logical legal justification for it.
There’s a letterboxed pirate tape of the extended version that floats around Ebay every so often, and one website offers it for sale.
I tell ya, on any short list to separate folks into 2 groups, next time you are tipping a few put a couple of bottles on your fingers and start clinking them together.
Love this movie. I remember the hue and cry about this “subversive” movie (especially that poster!). Then I saw it on cable and I’m like, “What?” The Warriors are actually pretty cool, loyal to each other, aren’t total sociopaths unlike some of the other gangs (“No reason,” says David Patrick Kelly’s character, as to why he shot Cyrus, “I just like doin’ things like that!”). The fight with the Baseball Furies in Central Park, the all-out brawl in the trainstation men’s room, and the scene at the Coney Island Beach at the end – fantastic.