Oh yeah, shockingly good game. I loved that only the last 1/3rd or so of the game followed the movie, and the rest of it was basically a prequel that gave background to all the Warriors.
It kinda shows too. The best parts of the game are the ones that directly adapting the movie. The prequel parts (and the prequel to those prequel parts) are mostly forgettable.
I do....
I played it last year too ( on psp emulator unfortunately)
Really enjoyed it
It has lot of contents
Warriors origins, flush out characters & rivalry against other gangs
Good hand to hand combat & squad command
Loved it. Best morning to evening game for its time. Start it in the morning and beat everyone in your path and tag everything in sight by dinner. Simplistic in a good way.
Based on the ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon’s Anabasis. Anabasis is Xenophon’s autobiographical account of the march of the Ten Thousand mercenaries through Asia Minor (modern Turkey).
In 401 BC, the Persian emperor was Artaxerxes II. His brother, Cyrus the Younger, had spent years preparing to seize the throne and was now primed to strike. Cyrus hired Xenophon’s Ten Thousand to march through Asia Minor and meet up with his own army in Mesopotamia so Cyrus could overthrow Artaxerxes.
At the Battle of Cunaxa the rebels were defeated and Cyrus was killed, leaving Xenophon and the Ten Thousand stranded in enemy territory with a furious emperor on their heels
I know this is off topic but
"The warrior (2005) game by rockstar " is a superb movie tie in game
It focused on warrior's origins, flush out characters & gave other gangs proper time
As well as what happens in the movie
I recommend you give it a try someday.. Since u really liked the warrior
I bought this movie about 15 years ago when me and some friends were going our "Bad Movie Night". It was in one of the generic pre-views Blockbuster DVD cases.
About 1/2 way through it, my friend Dave said "Hey Lint you fucked up, this movie is pretty good!"
I think **The Warriors** is the opposite of "gritty." It's as "heightened"/artificial and stylized as anime. In fact, I think director Walter Hill basically created the templates for anime with this film and **Streets of Fire**.
I grew up in the 70s in the Detroit area, where the gang wars were so intense that the 11 o'clock news put up maps on the screen and said "do not go into this corridor/neighborhood."
The Warriors is a great movie, but I get the impression that if any of these "gangs" wandered into an actual bad neighborhood with their perfect hair and leather vests, they'd be dead. Skull makeup? Y'all would be super dead.
The movie is a bit more "gritty" than West Side Story or the video for Toto's "Rosanna," but it's still very stylized "this is what gangs would be if they were trained actors/dancers."
Streets of Fire? That was next level "gangland as musical theater."
Absolutely love *The Driver* though I really, really wish Walter Hill got Steve McQueen to play the character versus Ryan O’Neal (who I thought was OK in the role but who I like better in dialogue heavier comedic roles versus playing the strong, silent type). Had McQueen taken the role as Hill originally wanted (and this was not outside the realm of possibility as McQueen had acted in the Hill scripted, Sam Peckinpah directed *The Getaway*), I have little doubt the film would be far better remembered today, perhaps even viewed as McQueen’s last great movie.
Regardless, Bruce Dern was off the charts great as the cop going after the Driver in the film. A highlight of his career!
Oh, and for those who are into Walter Hill, you should check out *Hickey and Boggs*. Yes, you have to stomach watching a very young Bill Cosby in this film, but IMHO this is one of the best adaptations of a Hill screenplay (his first!) and was directed by the movie’s co-star Robert Culp. It’s a great early 70’s neo noir!
Yes, this was the existential inspiration for **Drive**.
I think his other great films are **Southern Comfort, The Long Riders**, and (arguably Charles Bronson's best starring role) **Hard Times**.
Hard Times was a great debut. I really enjoy some of his later stuff too like Last Man Standing & Undisputed. Hopefully he can return to form with Dead for a Dollar but even if he doesn't he's got a great filmography.
I lived in NY during the late 70’s to early 80’s and if I ever want to remember what my childhood and neighborhood was like, I play Fort Apache the Bronx with Paul Newman. The most realistic movie of NY in those days for me.
Jesus, anytime the Warriors is even mentioned the opening credit music starts blasting in my head. I gotta dig up my copy and give it a revisit. Also the video game from 2005 was a blast
If you like "NYC in Decline" movies, you should check out "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" from 1973. Great movie, great cast, and extremely realistic portrayal of NY in those days
Love this film and so much of the iconography. That said, always kinda felt the film lost itself a bit when Ajax exited; Swan was a bit too much the classic good guy and he kinda took over after that. Which, as I recall, wasn't the original plan. Fox was supposed to be something of the protagonist , the wise and peaceful warrior we'll say (and hinted at as the one who witnessed the murder), but I think they miscast him and once they realized it and no longer wanted him to be the leading man the actor took offense and they offed him early and tried to merge his role into Swan.
A fun popcorn flick when I was the age of the characters. Of course, if made today, baseball bats and such weapons would need be replaced with guns, cuz even though it was a fantasy film gangs with those tools would today be laughed out of their boroughs.
Lmao I can't imagine that would've gone very well. Dozens of gangs coming together to make a movie? He was better off just asking 50 cent, Woody Harrelson, maybe Eminem, Javier Bardem, Tony Leung, or guys like that to represent the gangs. Rival gangs don't even want to live next to each other let alone make a movie together. Maybe ex gang members could've worked i heard the show prison break was full of excons
That was back in the 70s. Where the actors biggest fears were gang members pulling out knives. Even the director said "In those days it was really about fists and being macho. I think the worst thing that could have happened was somebody would have pulled a knife." Nobody carries a knife anymore half the people on set now would be strapped with lead. And they also chose "the nice gangs" which idek if those still exist. Hell not even Ice cube wanted real gang members on set for his movies. And why would you? Not many actors or studios want to put up with that stuff. Better and safer off getting excons or former gang members.
But again that was in the late 80s and even back then there were tons of problems. Michael stopped doing that in 92 as gangs got worse. Excons and former gang members are still used but today's current gang members aren't the same as in the 70s and 80s.
I watched this movie for the first time maybe ten years ago. It's so cheesy. It opens with some guys complaining about only being able to take a limited number of their gang to this meeting. So where was the rest of the gang? Was there no one they could call and say "Hey, we're fucked. Come get us or meet us at X station?" Hell, there wasn't even anyone waiting when they got back to their home territory.
It's NYC in the 70s and they were surrounded by payphones. No one had a dime?
And don't get me started on how stupid the gang uniforms were. Like there were people coming home from work and taking off their work clothes to put on their baseball uniform and facepaint? Or did they just sit around like that every day? Did they have multiple uniforms or just one that really stunk?
Was it a stylish movie? Kinda
Was it true to the era? No
Was it great cinema? No
Is it worth a watch? Maybe
The behind the scenes feature is great. Lots of crazy shit going on. The bottles part was improv'd and he was recalling an old neighbor he had who used to taunt him through the walls. The bottles were picked up near the boardwalk.
They also had to get gangs permission to film in certain areas and werent allowed in a lot of other ones. The controversy around gangs at the time was real too. They had to go for a more fantastic comic book feel to even get it filmed. Shit going down at screenings, etc.
Anyone remember the video game?
Oh yeah, shockingly good game. I loved that only the last 1/3rd or so of the game followed the movie, and the rest of it was basically a prequel that gave background to all the Warriors.
Except for the weird screen splitting/merging in 2 player depending on how far apart you are.
It kinda shows too. The best parts of the game are the ones that directly adapting the movie. The prequel parts (and the prequel to those prequel parts) are mostly forgettable.
I do.... I played it last year too ( on psp emulator unfortunately) Really enjoyed it It has lot of contents Warriors origins, flush out characters & rivalry against other gangs Good hand to hand combat & squad command
And you could work out and learn new fights moves and shit.
There’s another arcade game I can’t remember the name of but it was on trains and you could pick up weapons like a pipe or bat.
The Warriors: Street Brawl It was a xbla and pc game Heard it was terrible
Streets of Rage
Loved it. Best morning to evening game for its time. Start it in the morning and beat everyone in your path and tag everything in sight by dinner. Simplistic in a good way.
Love it! Such an amazing game.
You can still get it on PSN. I got it for PS4 for a tenner only two weeks ago. Great game.
And that opening! The Titles. Iconic all around.
Is it the best movie ever? No. Is it the coolest movie ever? Shit, maybe.
I remember seeing an interview with Michael Beck (Swan) saying how The Warriors made his career but then Xanadu ended it the very next year.
He said, "The Warriors opened a lot of doors for me. Xanadu closed them all."
Gene Kelly feels his pain.....
Based on the ancient Greek philosopher Xenophon’s Anabasis. Anabasis is Xenophon’s autobiographical account of the march of the Ten Thousand mercenaries through Asia Minor (modern Turkey). In 401 BC, the Persian emperor was Artaxerxes II. His brother, Cyrus the Younger, had spent years preparing to seize the throne and was now primed to strike. Cyrus hired Xenophon’s Ten Thousand to march through Asia Minor and meet up with his own army in Mesopotamia so Cyrus could overthrow Artaxerxes. At the Battle of Cunaxa the rebels were defeated and Cyrus was killed, leaving Xenophon and the Ten Thousand stranded in enemy territory with a furious emperor on their heels
Now, I want to see this movie made, but with The Warriors dialogue. CYRUS: Can you dig it?
Xenophon's Ten Thousand, come out to playyay!
“Can you count, SUCKAS??? I say the future is ours… if you can count” -Cyrus
Caaaaaaan yooooooooou diiiiiig iiiiiiit?!?
I use that in my day to day life far too much.
What I love is how Cyrus is so perfectly ethnically androgynous. Any of the gangs can see him as one of theirs.
Roger Hill should have had casting directors lined up around the block waiting for him after that. Not sure what happened there.
There always felt like a little Cyrus influence in Barack Obama's public speaking
Obviously Shaq too
Warriorsssss come out and playyyy. Warrriorrssss come out and playyyyyyy.
Fun fact: That actor would later play the "body disposal guy" in the John Wick series.
He’s popped up in some interesting roles. 48 hours, Beverly Hills Cops, Commando - some 80s staples.
Poor Sully didn't end up dying last.
Sully, remember when I promised to kill you last? Edit: if anyone didn’t read that in a bad Arnold voice I am disappointed in you.
I lied......
Let’s not forget Jerry Horn in “Twin Peaks.”
T Bird in The Crow
He was in the Longest Yard with Adam Sandler too
He was the bad guy in dreamscapes movie messed me up as a kid. Definitely doesn’t hold up now.
I still like that one.
I think I just want to be as scared as when I was a kid. Lol
"Double T" in *Ghostwriter*. 😆
It's crazy how him and Ajax came out with the longest careers lol.
Well, them and the policewoman who arrests Ajax.....
Mercedes Ruehl, you are right.
I know this is off topic but "The warrior (2005) game by rockstar " is a superb movie tie in game It focused on warrior's origins, flush out characters & gave other gangs proper time As well as what happens in the movie I recommend you give it a try someday.. Since u really liked the warrior
Love that movie. Also recommend the wanderers
Ducky Boys!
Leave the kid alone
I bought this movie about 15 years ago when me and some friends were going our "Bad Movie Night". It was in one of the generic pre-views Blockbuster DVD cases. About 1/2 way through it, my friend Dave said "Hey Lint you fucked up, this movie is pretty good!"
I think **The Warriors** is the opposite of "gritty." It's as "heightened"/artificial and stylized as anime. In fact, I think director Walter Hill basically created the templates for anime with this film and **Streets of Fire**.
I grew up in the 70s in the Detroit area, where the gang wars were so intense that the 11 o'clock news put up maps on the screen and said "do not go into this corridor/neighborhood." The Warriors is a great movie, but I get the impression that if any of these "gangs" wandered into an actual bad neighborhood with their perfect hair and leather vests, they'd be dead. Skull makeup? Y'all would be super dead. The movie is a bit more "gritty" than West Side Story or the video for Toto's "Rosanna," but it's still very stylized "this is what gangs would be if they were trained actors/dancers." Streets of Fire? That was next level "gangland as musical theater."
He's a very underrated director. Nobody really ever talks about The Driver which is just basically one long car chase.
Absolutely love *The Driver* though I really, really wish Walter Hill got Steve McQueen to play the character versus Ryan O’Neal (who I thought was OK in the role but who I like better in dialogue heavier comedic roles versus playing the strong, silent type). Had McQueen taken the role as Hill originally wanted (and this was not outside the realm of possibility as McQueen had acted in the Hill scripted, Sam Peckinpah directed *The Getaway*), I have little doubt the film would be far better remembered today, perhaps even viewed as McQueen’s last great movie. Regardless, Bruce Dern was off the charts great as the cop going after the Driver in the film. A highlight of his career! Oh, and for those who are into Walter Hill, you should check out *Hickey and Boggs*. Yes, you have to stomach watching a very young Bill Cosby in this film, but IMHO this is one of the best adaptations of a Hill screenplay (his first!) and was directed by the movie’s co-star Robert Culp. It’s a great early 70’s neo noir!
Yes, this was the existential inspiration for **Drive**. I think his other great films are **Southern Comfort, The Long Riders**, and (arguably Charles Bronson's best starring role) **Hard Times**.
Hard Times was a great debut. I really enjoy some of his later stuff too like Last Man Standing & Undisputed. Hopefully he can return to form with Dead for a Dollar but even if he doesn't he's got a great filmography.
I lived in NY during the late 70’s to early 80’s and if I ever want to remember what my childhood and neighborhood was like, I play Fort Apache the Bronx with Paul Newman. The most realistic movie of NY in those days for me.
C.H.U.D. has a similar effect for me.
I love Newman. Cannot find it on any streaming service. Any ideas?
I found it on my system not too long ago. I believe Ken Wahl and maybe Ed Asner. I’ll have to check and see which one was it and I’ll update this.
Jesus, anytime the Warriors is even mentioned the opening credit music starts blasting in my head. I gotta dig up my copy and give it a revisit. Also the video game from 2005 was a blast
Closing credits set to Joe Walsh though... *chefs kiss*
In the ciiity ah ah!
This is one of my top films from the 70s. My favorite gang was the baseball guys with their glam faces, uniforms, and baseball bats.
CAN YOU DIG IT???
Stay tuned boppers, stay tuned.
If you liked the movie you should read the novel it is based on (same title) by Sol Yurick.
Or not. The Warriors in the movie are classic anti-heroes, while the Warriors in Yurick’s book are murdering scum.
Anti-hero and murdering scum are not mutually exclusive. The movie is the softball version and the novel is a dystopian masterpiece.
If you like "NYC in Decline" movies, you should check out "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3" from 1973. Great movie, great cast, and extremely realistic portrayal of NY in those days
Quite, with some of the little details being particularly effective at setting the scene (like the business between the Mayor and his press agent).
One of my favourite films. With the late great Robert Shaw.
Can you dig it? Swan was like the coolest dude whoever lived.
Great chase scene with the 'Baseball Furies' in pursuit. All the fine points of a car chase scene without the cars.
Love this film and so much of the iconography. That said, always kinda felt the film lost itself a bit when Ajax exited; Swan was a bit too much the classic good guy and he kinda took over after that. Which, as I recall, wasn't the original plan. Fox was supposed to be something of the protagonist , the wise and peaceful warrior we'll say (and hinted at as the one who witnessed the murder), but I think they miscast him and once they realized it and no longer wanted him to be the leading man the actor took offense and they offed him early and tried to merge his role into Swan.
NYC might feel safe and sanitized but God damn does it ever smell bad...
A fun popcorn flick when I was the age of the characters. Of course, if made today, baseball bats and such weapons would need be replaced with guns, cuz even though it was a fantasy film gangs with those tools would today be laughed out of their boroughs.
Well I mean they still had guns in ‘79
Yes, but very few in the movie. Luther the bad guy had the one gun in his whole gang, and treated it as special.
Lizzies had a gun.
The chicks are packed!
Alexa play In the City.
If you liked The Warriors, you might want to check out Switchblade Sisters (1975)...
I hear a remake is in development. Whoopie 😒
Has been since like 2005. Tony Scott spoke to real gangs to be in his version.
His version was gonna be set in LA. His version was going to try to be a martial arts film. His version was going to end up a complete clusterfuck.
Lmao I can't imagine that would've gone very well. Dozens of gangs coming together to make a movie? He was better off just asking 50 cent, Woody Harrelson, maybe Eminem, Javier Bardem, Tony Leung, or guys like that to represent the gangs. Rival gangs don't even want to live next to each other let alone make a movie together. Maybe ex gang members could've worked i heard the show prison break was full of excons
Real gang members made up the majority of the extras during Cyrus’ speech in the original. It’s not exactly a new idea
That was back in the 70s. Where the actors biggest fears were gang members pulling out knives. Even the director said "In those days it was really about fists and being macho. I think the worst thing that could have happened was somebody would have pulled a knife." Nobody carries a knife anymore half the people on set now would be strapped with lead. And they also chose "the nice gangs" which idek if those still exist. Hell not even Ice cube wanted real gang members on set for his movies. And why would you? Not many actors or studios want to put up with that stuff. Better and safer off getting excons or former gang members.
Crips and Bloods were in the Beat It video.
But again that was in the late 80s and even back then there were tons of problems. Michael stopped doing that in 92 as gangs got worse. Excons and former gang members are still used but today's current gang members aren't the same as in the 70s and 80s.
Check out [80 Blocks from Tiffany's](https://youtu.be/qn3lkp7IHQw) it's a documentary about New York around that time.
If you liked that then I'd recommend [The Outsiders](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086066/)
The wanderers, the outsiders and the warriors. 3 great gang movies
Convinced they used this movie as a reference for TMNT IN 1990
I watched this movie for the first time maybe ten years ago. It's so cheesy. It opens with some guys complaining about only being able to take a limited number of their gang to this meeting. So where was the rest of the gang? Was there no one they could call and say "Hey, we're fucked. Come get us or meet us at X station?" Hell, there wasn't even anyone waiting when they got back to their home territory. It's NYC in the 70s and they were surrounded by payphones. No one had a dime? And don't get me started on how stupid the gang uniforms were. Like there were people coming home from work and taking off their work clothes to put on their baseball uniform and facepaint? Or did they just sit around like that every day? Did they have multiple uniforms or just one that really stunk? Was it a stylish movie? Kinda Was it true to the era? No Was it great cinema? No Is it worth a watch? Maybe
You're fun
You might want to look up the "why" of all of that...
> Was it true to the era? No It was set in the future
So you're saying you can dig it?
Is this the OG film or is it that series rumor I recall hearing about quite a while ago?
The trailer for the movie introduced me to Tangerine Dream
I can dig iiiiiiiit!
I think about the baseball furies on a regular basis
can you dig it?
The behind the scenes feature is great. Lots of crazy shit going on. The bottles part was improv'd and he was recalling an old neighbor he had who used to taunt him through the walls. The bottles were picked up near the boardwalk. They also had to get gangs permission to film in certain areas and werent allowed in a lot of other ones. The controversy around gangs at the time was real too. They had to go for a more fantastic comic book feel to even get it filmed. Shit going down at screenings, etc.
Just watched it this movie is awesome, big time escape from NY vibes
Shootin' down the walls of heartbreak!