John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. [4K UHD]

Just the past couple of months, I've seen both Escape from New York and Escape from L.A. for the very first time. I happened across a clip from the L.A. movie online and was immediately intrigued. I saw people in the comments giving praise to both, but mostly to the first movie. I didn't bother trying to see anything else from either movie if I could help it, so I went ahead and bought both of the movies for the hell of it. Watching the first movie left me disappointed. I don't understand its cult following. Not much really happens. It isn't a complex plot by any means, there aren't much to the short-lived action sequences. Escape from L.A. is a copy-cat plot (and this is probably a foundational reason as to why the fans of the first movie tend not to like this one). Similar situation, same motivation to get in and get out, same character archetypes throughout. The difference is that they actually made this one fun, entertaining, and interesting. The action is a lot more prevalent and there were more jokes. The use of CGI is kind of terrible, but it's a bad movie to begin with not taking itself too seriously. Did it "jump the shark?" Sure, but I didn't think of the first movie as realistic to begin with, so I wasn't expecting it with this one. Both movies suffer from a severe lack of character development. Why should I care if somebody dies if they only had a few minutes of screen time? John Carpenter likely treated these scripts as a simple parody commentary on where he saw the United States heading politically. A devolution into anarchy as the growing police state came up with tactics to contain said anarchy as well as maintain its stranglehold on the country at large. I don't really consider him a great director/writer to begin with. His masterpiece is The Thing, but that was a remake and adaptation, so not an original idea.

I watched this for the first time when I was young in my grandparents basement. As a kid I love it, but now that I'm older I can appreciate what John Carpenter did. He essentially improved every aspect of escape from NY, with this movie. More action, and slightly more interesting plot. They are both similar movies with similar plots, but escape from LA brings more action, with a better soundtrack. Tool and white zombie along with Randy Newman. Gotta love that. This movie holds a special place for me bc it was one of those impactful movies when I was young that ignited my imagination. So I'm happy to finally own it, I could never find it on streaming when I wanted to watch it. Highly recommend this movie if you want a good 90s B movie with some cheesy CGI. This is for you. Kurt Russell at his best, not to mention Snake pliskin is the character inspiration for solid snake in the metal gear games! Which almost got Konami in some trouble when the Creator admitted that publicly. But that's another story..

follow-up to escape from new york excellent action some of the same characters from original great 4k picture Kurt Russell`s character Snake continues his adventure nice restoration if you liked the first one you`ll want to add this to your list thank you good value

A worthy sequel to Escape from New York. Kurt Russel is awesome as Sssssnake Pliskin

When I first watched John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. back in 1996, I automatically disliked this movie and I completely wrote it off. Several years later I began to read several reviews on Escape From L.A. and I saw that a lot of people hated this movie and a lot of people loved this movie. The reviews that called Escape Fom L.A. a masterpiece really caught my attention because these people had watched this movie more than a couple of times over the years and realized that it was a geat film, even though they really hated it the first time they had watched it. We'll the same thing has happened to me, and there's no doubt that Escape From L.A. is another John Carpenter classic that the mainstream doesn't even deserve to understand and appreciate. I'm even going to go out on a limb here and say that I believe that Escape From L.A. is even a much better film than the timeless original classic Escape From New York. I don't know whether to call Escape From L.A. a remake or a sequel or a much new and improved Escape From New York . All I know is that Escape From L.A. is a cut above the original. Even where there are scenes that clearly show reminders of some of the scenes in Escape From New York, Carpenter somehow makes major improvements on them. I'm so glad I made myself watch this movie again with an open mind in the last couple of years because now I really get it. In the last couple of days I have been watching this film on blu ray and just never gets old just like the first one. John Carpenter and Nick Castle should get together and make more movies based on the Snake Plissken character. There could be a prequel that tells the story when Snake became a warhero and won two purple hearts and flew the gulf fire over Leningrad.

.... for those who didn't, well... you may not enjoy this B-grade action flick. However these type of B-grade action movies could be glorious back in their time. Kurt Russel was just below Schwarzenegger and Wesley Snipes as favorite actors of mine as a kid in the late 80s early 90s so I wanted to have this in my collection even though I owned it on dvd. (This character he plays was actually huge inspiration for Hideo Kojima for his classic series Metal Gear!) If you grew up in this age of action movies and never witnessed it, give it a go, it might just take you back to an age where movies were meant to fun!

LOS ANGELES 2013 est la suite directe de NEW YORK 1997. Beaucoup décrié lors de sa sortie et encore maintenant par certaines personnes qui n'ont rien compris à ce phénomènale bras d'honneur au code hollywoodien et à toutes formes de censure, elle demeure toujours une oeuvre exceptionnelle qui va à contre-courant des productions ultra-moralisatrices US. C'est du très grand John CARPENTER épaulé par un Kurt RUSSELL au top de sa forme qui semble heureux de reprendre le costume légendaire de Snake PLISSKEN. Oui certains SFX sont ratés, le pitch central est un copier/coller du 1er film, les costumes parfois ringard et l'ambiance trop délirante. Mais c'est exactement ce que voulait Big JOHN pour mieux démonter l'aseptisation de l'art par l'outrance et le grossissement de traits afin de combattre le conformisme. Los Angeles est devenu la "cité du péché" devenant ainsi le dernier bastion de la liberté d'expression controlé par un révolutionnaire qui se prend pour le CHE et peuplé d'individus véhiculant toutes les formes de "déviance" (cheveux longs, cigarette, alcool, sexe hors-mariage, chirurgie esthétique, homosexualité, transsexualité,...) banni de la grande amérique croyante et puritaine. La seule façon de s'amender est de se faire frire sur la chaise électrique. Le délire!! Ce film aligne les scènes cultes (le BIG ONE inaugurale, le jeu du petit bangkok, le surf sur le tsunami, le quartier du chirurgien fou, le climax final...) avec une aisance sidérante. Un pur bijou!! Il bénéficiait jusqu'alors d'un très bon DVD qui datait du moyen-âge du support (définition excellente, couleurs vives et contraste superbe). Mais ici je vais vous parler du Blu ray import UK : - l'image est tout bonnement magnifique et ultra contrastée avec des couleurs éclatantes. Ce film a bénéficié d'une réelle remasterisation HD. Le niveau de détails est exceptionnel. C'est réellement impressionnant!!! - le son lui possède un classique mais très efficace dolby 5.1 en VF et la VO est juste un cran au dessus (DOLBY TRUE HD, What else?!): du rentre dans le lard!! - les bonus, c'est le point faible : juste une bande annonce (VO). Maigre vraiment maigre!! Ce blu ray atomise donc le DVD sans problème. Bref LOS ANGELES 2013 ( Escape from L.a. [Blu-ray] [Import anglais ]) est un film de SF atypique, violent et anti-conformiste qui change des productions actuels totalement aseptisé et épuré de tous messages subversifs. A cette époque il existait encore une forme de rebellion contre l'ordre établie même dans les gros blockbusters. Ce qui devient très rare. Surtout de nos jours!! Si vous voyez ce que je veux dire!! Un achat incontournable pour tous les fans de SF et pour ceux qui croient encore en un possible avenir alternatif !! A vous de voir. Spécificités techniques : Blu-ray "Toutes Zones" - IMPORT UK - Editeur : PARAMOUNT - durée : 101mn Image : 2.35 Cinemascope - 16/9 / HD 1080P Son : Anglais Dolby True HD 5.1 / Français (vraie VF d'époque) Dolby Digital 5.1 / Espagnol 5.1. Sous-titres : Anglais, Anglais pour malentendants, Français, Portuguais et Espagnol. Menu : Anglais

Non è per tutti, ma un appassionato del genere può apprezzarlo. Segnalo la mancanza della lingua italiana, non era chiaro dalle informazioni del sito. FA NIENTE, d'altronde Fuga da Los Angeles non è stato commercializzato in Italia in formato Blu Ray, Il titolo resta godibilissimo con i sottotitoli, anzi è auspicabile guardarlo in originale per lo slang e per giochi di parole difficilmente riproducibili in dialetto nostrano.

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Even after prior assurance from Customer support that the BD would be region 'B', it was region 'A'. So make sure you have a region 'A' or uncoded player if you order this item... (ASIN : B083MW5BFY) The film in itself - seen it maaany years ago (liked it back then), and was looking forward to seeing it again... but that will have to wait I guess. So, no review of the actual film...