Yes. He was also Rae Dawn Chong’s antagonist in Commado.
You might also have seen him in K-PAX.
Rather than list his complete filmography (which I could do from memory) I’ll just link to his IMDB listing.
Uh, capacitor, I appreciate the fact that you are going for humor with this, but you do realize that the Warriors is based on The Odyssey, don’t you?
An “army” ventures far away from home and has to figure out how to get back? The Lizzies are the Lotus Eaters…heck, isn’t James Remar’s character even named “Ajax”?
So, yeah, it’s about a subway ride, but it works because it is based on a pretty primal classic (okay, kinda the same way that Clueless works 'cuz its based on Emma by Jane Austen, but there you have it…)
And, Rilchiam, I was just walking up and down the aisle in the airplane with my then 2 year old son, trying to get him to go to sleep, and he was standing, hanging out in the first class flight attendant’s station. He said something like “you have a really cute boy” and I said “thanks” and he said “yeah, I miss mine”, and I said something like “aren’t you David Patrick Kelly” and he was pretty pleased that I knew who he was, and so we exchanged pleasantries - I named a couple of movies he was in - “Dreamscape” and one other (not the Warriors - too obvious) and he was really cool. We talked a little about guitar, too, if I recall - he plays acoustic…
He was wearing a fun crumpled up cowboy hat with a feather hat band that had a leather thong hanging off the back with some beads on it…
That’s all I remember…
Remember, Sully, when I promised to kill you last?
I lied
Hehehe. Love that line. And the later: “What about Sully?” “I let him go”
Weirddave, who has a thing for cheezy action star puns.
WordMan, that’s awesome! (He has a kid?! Dang! I did not know that!)
This is horrible news. The Rollerball fiasco was bad enough. They seem to be determined to ruin every guilty pleasure I have from my childhood.
Word Man, Ajax was a Trojan warrior.
Ol’ Gaffer, my wife and I, went out as Swan and Mercy a few Halloweens ago. We even got a couple of friends to go as a Gramercy riff and a Turnbull AC. Everyone got it. The key is diversity, plus the name of the movie on the back of your vest.
ahem
Well, Ajax was a Greek warrior, but he committed suicide when Odysseus got Achiiles’ armor, long before the journey home. I could have sworn he was a Trojan.
I’ve gone on record many many times, both here and over at LJ, that The Warriors is my absolute favorite movie of all time.
I saw it three or four times at the theater when it came out in the late 70s … in it’s first run on HBO, I watched it every single time, no matter what time of night it was on … I bought the tape as soon as it came out (now lost to the mists of time), … I used to have the soundtrack album (ruined in a flood) … and my only failing is that I haven’t yet picked up the DVD (I’m hoping for a “Special Edition”).
That said, I couldn’t care less if they remake it. It won’t take away from the original in the least. It may actually have a few redeeming qualities in how they update the themes and stories. It’ll be like seeing a child dressed up and pretending to be an adult.
The new one may be a pale imitation, and possibly a total abomination … but the very fact that my favorite film of all time (and I thought I was the only one who has ever said that) is being remade gives validity to my claim.
I say – make it. Cast Matthew Lillard as Swan, Verne Troyer as Cyrus and Will Farrel as Luther for all I give a shit.
My baby’s all grown up.
{sniff}
Close, but no cigar :). The novel was actually based on a far more historical account, the Anabasis by Xenophon. It’s actual account of a group of Greek mercenaries that got involved in a fratricidal civil war for the throne of the Persian Empire. After their patron, Cyrus ( “Cyrus” ), was killed at the battle of Cunaxa fighting his rival and older brother, the emperor Artaxerxes II, the Greeks ( who had won, more or less ) were left stranded, purposeless, in the middle of a hostile empire. After the top five Greek generals, including Clearchus ( “Cleon” ) were treacherously seized and slaughtered at a parlay, the army nominated Xenophon ( “Swan” ) to lead them out ( supposedly some 2500 miles of circuitous fighting retreat ).
- Tamerlane
You can’t blame Hollywood producers, they always…
…wait for it…
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Ugh! Does that mean there’s gonna be a Britney Spears remix of Joe Walsh’s “In the City” soon on TRL and Carson Daly as “the DJ?” Oh, the humanity.