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Rating: 7 stars

All movies seen on 07/19/2011

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Escape from L.A. (1996)

Directed by John Carpenter

Science Fiction

Most recently watched by sleestakk, schofizzy, ashe5k

Overview

Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.‘s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.

Rated R | Length 101 minutes

Actors

Kurt Russell | Stacy Keach | Steve Buscemi | A. J. Langer | Bruce Campbell | Pam Grier | Peter Fonda | Georges Corraface | Robert Carradine | Michelle Forbes | Valeria Golino | Leland Orser | Jeff Imada | Al Leong | James Lew | Breckin Meyer | Ina Romeo | Peter Jason | Jordan Baker | Caroleen Feeney | Paul Bartel | Shelly Desai | Julien Cesario | Cliff Robertson | Thomas Rosales Jr. | John Koyama | Leo Lee | Stuart Quan | Wyatt Russell | Jamie Lee Curtis

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

I have fond memories of watching a way-too-dark print of Escape from New York at a drive-in theater back in the day, but remember hating Escape From L.A. when I saw it at the theater. I decided to give it another chance and actually quite enjoyed it this time around.

The SFX don’t hold up so well, and maybe they didn’t even back in 1996, but still a fun post-apocalyptic movie. Have no idea why I hated it so much the first time round.

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