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I'm going to grab Escape from L.A. if that's all right? Escape from L.A. had a budget of almost ten times the amount of the original Escape from New York, but ended up only taking in two hundred thousand dollars more at the box office, and that's only if you don't adjust "New York's" box office for the fifteen years in between. And yet, Escape from L.A. is one of the most scathing, satirical indictments of post 9/11 society that has even been produced. Which is especially amazing, since it was released five years before 9/11. John Carpenter, Debra Hill, and Kurt Russell seemed to have some sort of crystal ball to see into the future (or maybe they all had those weird visions from Prince of Darkness), because watching the film in hindsight, it seems that they were riffing on society in 2006, not 1996. Plus, it had Snake Plissken surfboarding with Peter Fonda. Davros1 fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Sep 11, 2013 |
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