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Escape from New York (1981) [Blu-ray]
Escape from New York (1981) [Blu-ray]
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3Escape to Campiness
11%Looks absolutely dreadful
5The name's Plissken! Six Stars for Adrienne Barbeau
30%Good Idea, a Little Hokey
51%The greatest movie ever made. No, I'm not kidding.
41%Kurt Russell Rocks
51%"Call me Snake."
51%Like A 911 Ahead Of It's Time!
51%A Cult Classic
51%A GREAT CULT CLASSIC MOVIE!!!
51%Ahead of it's time!
20%Why didn't Hayes also do the music?
31%Kurt plays the anti-hero role really well
51%Prison As It Ought To Be...
41%Wicked cool movie
51%You're the Duke of New York...You're A Number One!
41%Very Good...But
41%GOOD, NOT REALLY GREAT
50%Snake, Brain, Maggie
51%Top Ten of All Time
51%One of the great movies of all time
51%I LOVE CABBIE!
51%One of John Carpenter's best on a great 2-Disc set!
51%Call me Snake!!..............
41%SINGLE DISC SP.ED. IS THE SAME TRANSFER! COOL FILM!
40%DA DUKE OF NEW YORK!!!!!!!!
51%Escape From The Imitators--Treat Yourself To A Thrillingly Original Cult Classic
51%Snake Pliskin on the PSP
51%Dark, gritty action flick, but just camped up enough
41%"Escape from NY" is Pure Escapism
40%Good Movie, Good DVD
40%[Really Three-and-a-half out of Four] Snake Plisken, take a bow!
50%(;D)....(:D)...(:D)
51%Classic
41%Starting in 2003, SE and single-disc transfers identical
41%Call Him Snake...
51%John Carpenter's "Escape From New York" - Cult Classic!
51%SNAKE PLISSKEN, THE COOLEST AMERICAN OUTLAW!!!
51%"Air traffic control-- this is Remmy, south of the battery, 2 in the water dead, confirmed"
51%1997.New York City Is Now A Maximum Security Prison.Breaking Out Is Impossible.Breaking In Is Insane
41%enter the "snake"
51%One of my all-time favorites
40%Consider Me Sheltered
41%I don't givef a f*ck about your war, or your president."
20%I Just Don't Get It
51%Selfless patriots life story.
51%The names Plisken
51%Mr. Carpenter's Opus
51%I Thought New York Was Already The Place For Criminals!!!
41%Call me snake...............
40%The Future Is...Eight Years Ago
51%amazing from start to end
51%The Name is Pliskin
51%John Carpenter, take me away!
51%Awesome sci-fi action flick
50%Still classic!
51%"You mean I can't count on you?...Good!"
51%Snake Plissken - Add Him To Your List of Movie Heroes!
40%The real New York City, replicated
51%Call him Snake...
51%Man, I miss the 80s...
40%Special Edition has mix of old and new extras
51%"The name is Plisskin."
51%THE KING OF HIGH CONCEPT ACTION MOVIES!!
51%Awesome Carpenter flick!
40%A Not So Fresh Look Back at a Campy Classic
50%"The name's Snake!" "I thought you were dead!"
51%"Get a new president..."
41%Fun for the whole family!
41%One of Carpenter's better films finally on a good DVD
31%One of my All-Time favorite movies.
51%A Trip to New York Worth Taking.!!!
30%Escape From New York (Special Edition)
51%I heard you were dead...
51%Snake Plissken Escapes from DVD Hell...
30%a good old time
50%Escape From New York The ONE and ONLY
51%Carpenter's seminal science fiction effort
5post-apocalyptic genius!!
41%ANOTHER KURT RUSSELL CLASSIC
40%Good movie, below average DVD.
51%The greatest anti-hero of them all
41%Snake! Snake Pliskin?
51%A Modern Day Spaghetti Western
31%A Dark Future and the President Has Crashed in Manhattan
30%original
50%Huh? Alright, alright it's a cult classic
5One of the Greatest Kurt Russell Movies Ever!!!!!!!
41%an interesting futuristic action movie from the past
41%Great film...but wait for the serious DVD release TBA soon.
5Great Action-Packed SCI-FI Movie
40%The president of what?
40%New York a Prison?
41%The Greatest Escape
5Another John Carpenter Gem!
51%Entertaining Movie!
51%Best Movie Ever
40%The best escape...EVER!
51%Some say that he is dead
50%I thought he was dead....
51%supercool
20%Great premise and lead performance, that's about it.
41%Carpenter's Escape ... 1 of his Finest
50%another john carpenter classic....
51%Kurts claim to fame
5One of Carpenter's best movies!!
30%Escape from NY (Big Apple is a Maximum Security Prison)
4Fun movie, if you ignore the glitches
41%Great movie now made poignant by Sept 11
5A gem
31%A Very Original Action Film!
41%In 1988 the world goes to hell and NYC is a one-way prison
11%A new transfer on the way!
5Dark race against time
51%"Escape" Rocks Again!
51%The Name's Plissken
41%Head for New York, it'll be fun.
31%Good Old Fashioned Escapist Fare
5Plissken
5Fast Paced dark action thriller by director-Carpenter.
10%Great fun movie.... but the DVD ruins it.
21%Great Movie, but a really disappointing DVD
21%Wait for the 'collectors edition' to be released...
30%Silly, but fun
40%A bit dated, but a decent film.
51%"The Name's Plisskin!"
51%Carpenter's Classic Returns To Video (But What About DVD?)
51%THE BEST JOHN CARPENTER FILM EVER!
51%The King of all Anti-Hero's!
50%This film is one of the best and should be seen by everyone.
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