The Warriors - Page 2

I only own the director's cut, so I watched the original cut again a few days ago after recording it from TCM.

This was one of the first movies I ever saw on video, probably in 1982 and it blew me away. I've loved Walter Hills stuff ever since.

I also remember seeing it late night on BBC2 [here in the UK] as part of MOVIEDROME hosted by Alex Cox.

It had an odd bit at the beginning where The Warriors were discussing the big gang meeting. They walk towards the subway station and Link Wrays "Rumble" starts playing on the soundtrack.

I did record this version on video, someone borrowed it and lost the tape - Man, I got JAPPED!

Anyone else seen this version?

I refuse to buy this DVD until the original cut is re-released.

I'm an activist. For DVDs.

Some of the local US cable stations play that version more than the theatrical, I think.

American Dad (Seth McFarlane's series) had an amusing nod to The Warriors last Sunday. The son and his geek friends had to escape the high school, travelling through the sectioons controlled by the various cliques - stoners, goths, etc. - while the principal gave updates over the PA system.

I noticed that too.

I actually just watched this for the first time on TCM On Demand. I wanted to see it for years and could never get my hands on a copy, and then forgot about it. Anyway, glad I caught up. I love the concept of old school gangs, even the fictionalization of them. These days a gang is more or less a collection of loosely associated drug dealers (at least in my neck of the woods), so it's interesting to see what the landscape of those organized groups resembled back in the day. Not that I think there were gangs like the baseball furies roaming new york back in the day, or even like the Warriors, but groups like the AC Turnbulls, Rogues, or even Gramercy Riffs seem a lot more believable. It was the groups like this that also caught my attention in Gangs of New York.

Anyway, I wished I could have seen Cleon mix it up more before he got wrecked.

Showed this clip of Cyrus when teaching my students about persuasive speeches. It felt good to introduce a hundred thirteen-year-olds to this greatness.

The bathroom fight scene at the end was great.

Please tell me you also showed Alec Baldwin's monologue during that class.

My brother raved about this movie when he came home for Thanksgiving, so I had to move it up from 95 to 1 on my Netflix queue. Just got done with it and it didn't disappoint. It was the director's cut and I've never seen the original, but I could tell that the Greek prologue was tacked on. I had no idea the panels were as well. Didn't bother me that much, but I suppose if I had been a fan from the beginning I'd be protesting.

Loved the Lizzies escape and the bathroom brawl. Just some incredibly cool, badass shit going on. Swan looked like a dangerous Woody Harrelson. Loved that stone-cold, chiseled stare.

Also, David Patrick Kelly has one of the greatest screams I've ever heard when the Riffs take him down at the end.

Having just watched the film again for the 1000th time, there's something that's fresh in my mind. I was always kind of curious about Rembrandt. Maybe it's just me reading sexuality into everything, but Rembrandt, young, pretty, sensitive artist type, was the only one of the Warriors that seemed to pick up on the fact that something was up with the Lizzies, I mean beyond the fact that they intended he and his friends harm. Cochise: "Where's the dudes? Chicks like you always got dudes around". No Cochise, chicks like these don't always have dudes around, they in fact never have dudes around if they can help it.

Yeah, I'd read about that, but I didn't know and I didn't want to assume that it was sexually transmitted, he could have just as easily been a drug user for all I knew of him. However, I'm thinking it was intentional, it almost meshes to well not to be.

I thought Rembrandt looked fruity from the beginning. His rejection of The Lizzies advances only solidified it for me.

 

My favorite Walter Hill films are the ones with casts filled with great actors just going wild (Southern Comfort, Extreme Prejudice), and I think my main problem with this one is that we don't spend enough time with the fun, interesting characters. I loved watching guys like Vermin and Cochise, but I felt they got sidelined by that terrible romance plot between Swan and the hooker. New York looks insane though, I've never seen it look so messed up. 

When I was in high school, I used to think it was fun to view the following as a pseudo-trilogy...........................Assault On Precinct 13, The Warriors, and Escape From New York.

 

Kinda crazy, but they do make for one badass triple feature.  Anyway, The Warriors is an absolute classic and it is a shame Hill never really made anything similar.  Streets of Fire attempted it, but didn't quite get there....though it is entertaining in its own way.

A brilliant triple feature there. Love that.

 

Nothing but love for Walter Hills The Warriors. The directors cut not so much.