The Warriors

One of my favorites. Period. It's a rousing, stylistic, masculine mash of ideas that could be considered a lot more dangerous and militant if the whole thing weren't soo comic book arch. But between the music, the costume design, and the set pieces, this is as entertaining as throwing on one of your favorite albums and just going along for the ride.

The whole film was shot at night with all roads jet washed to bring an eerie ness & gloom throughout. The blu-ray version truly now shows what the director sought. Seen it over 40 times and never gets tired. A true classic & in my top 3 films of all time.

10/10

I really love this movie, the pace is great, there is always something going on that keeps the plot going. Also, I love how they didn't focus a lot on each character, because each person is not important for the story, so it is almost like The Warriors are a single character, you don't root for Swan, or Rembrandt, you root for The Warriors.

I waited so long to see this movie but it lives up to the hype basically. I mean 900 people representing 10 gangs is a little silly. Like you won't have enough non-gang members to make up a city.

It is a late 70s movie so you have to content with slurs you might no longer be comfortable with. It's a bit rapey not in a way that condones rape but in a way that casualizes it. Suggests that it's just a thing some dudes do.

But surprisingly the narrative editing feels modern in a way some movies from this era don't. The fight choreo is alright but the action editing is a bit sloppy but honestly not much worse than any modern action scene that's filled with smash cuts so you can't actually see the action. I like the characters. They're a bit bombastic and slightly larger than life. They feel like characters in a picture book. Which considering the framing doesn't feel anachronistic.

I said at the time that Project X does a fantastic job of making _the party_ into the main character even though on paper it's Thomas the host. The Warriors does the same thing keeping The Warriors as the main character without making any specific warrior it's focus. It means when they start dying. You don't really feel like any of them are safe. The Warriors however take a lot from their namesake. They don't go down easy. It kind of suggests that maybe it was intentionally to scapegoat The Warriors to take out two big players at once. Cyrus and The Warriors.

On top of the quotable quotes the costuming is excellent because those leather jackets are incredible. They're so stylish. They fit the characters and the environment perfectly.

yo i knew that Ajax was like, the bad dude of the bunch, but i completely forgot that [spoiler]Swan straight up threatened to gang r*pe Mercy.[/spoiler] Fucked up.

This movie spoke more to me as a lifelong Lakers fan than it did a lifelong crime flick fan. I really found it more goofy than anything, but I had a lot of fun with it.

What a fun time. Grimy and over the top, it draws you in from the start and doesn’t let go. Like the many beat em ups it surely inspired, it plays with gritty urban environments only to crank up the wild unabashed fun. The action too feels like a beat ‘em up fight if it was scripted, with chair shots and chains aplenty. Plus young hot James Remar already showing considerable charisma, outrageously fun gangs, killer lighting, an ultra cool dj even John Wick 4 tries to emulate, and lines and performances that have lived on to this day. What more do you need?

Walter Hill always manages to make my dick hard...

The confrontation between youth gangs is very successful.

Like a jean jacket: you think it's old fashioned until you slide into it and it's way more stylish than you could have ever remembered.

I saw this once a long time ago and remember liking it a little before completely forgetting what it was about. Recently, one of my Letterboxd friends reviewed it so I decided to give it a rewatch and... wow.

From the opening scene of the Coney Island ferris wheel at midnight, the film manifests a rich 1970s atmosphere that holds up better than few of the other films from that period.

A truly rewarding rewatch.