He not only got to New Mexico in one piece, but he found the woman who liked him before he was famous, the woman who made him wonder, “what if?” I love Escape from New York, its one of my fave movies. I'd only seen clips of Escape from LA, so was keen to finally see the whole thing. It's 2013 and L.A. is now an island maximum security prison off the coast of California. The Cast Showoff: Kurt Russell practiced playing basketball between scenes as he wanted to make all of his shots legitimately in the basketball scene later on. But the action is clumsy and unimaginative: lots of shootouts and very little suspense.
Escape from L.A. Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. Reconstructing a basketball scene from Escape from LA We got sent this by Eugene Panfilov. Russell growls his way through the role but can only blame himself: He cowrote the script with Carpenter. Actor-Inspired Element: The character of the President was Kurt Russell's idea. Fifteen years after John Carpenter squandered a great idea on a mediocre movie (Escape from New York), he does it again--this time on the Left Coast. He and his buddies decided to recreate a scene from a not so good movie shot for shot, in the literal sense given it’s a basketball sequence. Snake has 10 hours to find a doomsday weapon that's fallen into the hands of revolutionaries before he dies of a virus with which he's been injected. The sountrack to the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York focuses on alternative metal and industrial music; among the contributors are Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. For those of you who may not be aware, Escape from LA is the painfully inferior sequel to Escape from New York. Even the bad guys aren't particularly inventive; only Pam Grier, as a transsexual gang leader, strikes any sparks. From the very beginning, “Escape From L.A.” warns you not to get comfortable. I was left feeling that it had all been a spoof, a big 'in joke'. Escape from L.A., along with the rest of Season 2, premiered on July 17, 2015. The ending of “Yes And,” which showed BoJack driving away from his toxic life in Los Angeles, was more hopeful for BoJack than not. Kurt Russell is back as the terminally cynical one-eyed action hero Snake Plissken who, this time, has been coerced into saving the world in Los Angeles. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Escape from L.A.: Music from and Ispired By - Original Soundtrack on AllMusic - 1996 - The sountrack to the sequel to John Carpenter's… --Marshall Fine The expression 'jumped the shark' has never been more apt. 5 He based him on televangelist Pat Robertson. BoJack goes on a road trip to visit an old friend, and gets a … Escape from L.A. is the eleventh episode of Season 2 of Netflix original series BoJack Horseman, and the 23rd episode overall. John Carpenter's “Escape From L.A.” is a go-for-broke action extravaganza that satirizes the genre at the same time it's exploiting it. Box Office Bomb: Budget, $50 million.Box office, $25,477,365. It's a dark vision of a post-apocalyptic Los Angeles--leveled by a massive earthquake, cut off from the mainland by a flooded San Fernando Valley, and converted into a prison camp for the nation's undesirables.