1/6 SSC Snake Plissken Figure

[Mr.E]

All I can say about EFLA is that Kurt Russell nailed it, as expected. Everything else can go to hell.

"Welcome to the human race..."

 

[Snake Plissken]

All I can say about EFLA is that Kurt Russell nailed it, as expected. Everything else can go to hell.

"Welcome to the human race..."

he was the only good part of the film.

 

[Tuskeraider78]

When do we get to see the rest of this figure? not until Thursday?

 

[Snake Plissken]

Thursday is the day of days.

 

[Deckard]

It had it's good parts, but that surfing scene with Peter Fonda

That is one of the few scenes I like. Sure, it's way over the top but at least it isn't something that happened in NY. And it's just such a 90's moment.

The real problem is the reoccuring plot. Snake working for the government because a young girl causes a near apocalypse event and he has to get something back from a place they can't go before a virus kills him are things that never should have been repeated. It simply should have been Snake choosing to goto L.A. on the run and getting caught in the middle of Quervo's plans.

[ame]https://youtu.be/2_E9ebt1a_s[/ame]

 

[Snake Plissken]

That is one of the few scenes I like. Sure, it's way over the top but at least it isn't something that happened in NY. And it's just such a 90's moment.

The real problem is the reoccuring plot. Snake working for the government because a young girl causes a near apocalypse event and he has to get something back from a place they can't go before a virus kills him are things that never should have been repeated. It simply should have been Snake choosing to goto L.A. on the run and getting caught in the middle of Quervo's plans.

https://youtu.be/2_E9ebt1a_s

I would of definitely taken that over what we got. It should of been another "Escape" film sure, but it didn't need the whole setup that NY had.

 

[MatchaJelly]

https://youtu.be/2_E9ebt1a_s

Not sure I want to watch Escape from LA anymore.

 

[Snake Plissken]

Yeah to me that's ****** chill inducing.

 

[Username]

I like the scene in EFNY where Snake limps into the bottom floor of the supposed World Trades and sees a car parked there. He does a quick double take, and i always assumed that was the car taken there by Brain and the president.
When they get back down after the glider is pushed off the roof, Snake tries to start the car. It won't start so he pops the hood.
Only to find a guy in there with a crossbow.
WTF????
Assuming that IS the car Brain drove there(If it wasn't, why does anyone waste time with it?), how could captain crossbow remove the engine in five minutes?
It's crazy moments like that i love in the Escape movies.
The underwater CG in EFLA is horribly cheap, even for it's day, but the film makes it by with many flaws.
I love them both.
And for all the bad story, rubbish effects, corny plot rehashing, i love EFLA just as much as i love EFNY.
Both are classics in my eyes.
I heard a rumour a couple of years back that Gerard Butler was going to play Snake in a new Escape movie.
I think he could have pulled it off.
I'd love to see more Snake Plissken.

 

[DGTWoodward]

That is one of the few scenes I like. Sure, it's way over the top but at least it isn't something that happened in NY. And it's just such a 90's moment.

The real problem is the reoccuring plot. Snake working for the government because a young girl causes a near apocalypse event and he has to get something back from a place they can't go before a virus kills him are things that never should have been repeated. It simply should have been Snake choosing to goto L.A. on the run and getting caught in the middle of Quervo's plans.

https://youtu.be/2_E9ebt1a_s

Sadly, by this stage his career (and as much as I admire him and his achievements) had already started heading south and he'd started getting lazy...so the entire framework from EFNY became the backbone of EFLA. All he did was create a somewhat different set of characters over that exact same outline.

In that respect, EFLA should never really have happened.

 

[Deckard]

The premise being the same makes you draw a constant comparison to NY which is the better movie.

You change the way he gets there (working for the government or something they injected will kill him) and you have a fairly solid sequel.

I'd have opened with Snake back to being a Fugitive becaues of the cassette tape from the end of NY. He's pulling a job at bank or federal reserve, maybe in Detroit so we get a look at regular America, and it goes wrong because the USPF was already watching him and intervened. He realises theres too much heat and he's gotta lay low so he goes to L.A. where the cops aren't. Only he finds out they are coming in to stop this Quervo guy who's ****ing up his ability to lay low. Then just play out the rest of the movie with very minor changes and a better ending. Snake wants to get close to see for himself whats going on and uses his status to buddy upto Quervo and eventually **** him over etc.

 

[Username]

The premise being the same makes you draw a constant comparison to NY which is the better movie.

You change the way he gets there (working for the government or something they injected will kill him) and you have a fairly solid sequel.

I'd have opened with Snake back to being a Fugitive becaues of the cassette tape from the end of NY. He's pulling a job at bank or federal reserve, maybe in Detroit so we get a look at regular America, and it goes wrong because the USPF was already watching him and intervened. He realises theres too much heat and he's gotta lay low so he goes to L.A. where the cops aren't. Only he finds out they are coming in to stop this Quervo guy who's ****ing up his ability to lay low. Then just play out the rest of the movie with very minor changes and a better ending.

Something tells me that we might be just ever so slightly late in suggesting this different storyline.

 

[Deckard]

obviously but what I'm getting at is the whole movie overall isn't terrible, but it feels alot worse because of the constant reminder of the base plot being a total word per word ripoff.

 

[Username]

obviously but what I'm getting at is the whole movie overall isn't terrible, but it feels alot worse because of the constant reminder of the base plot being a total word per word ripoff.

You, me and Texas Mike O' Shea..

 

[Snake Plissken]

obviously but what I'm getting at is the whole movie overall isn't terrible, but it feels alot worse because of the constant reminder of the base plot being a total word per word ripoff.

Yeah you got a point. One thing that bugged me was that Snake was wearing the EXACT set of clothing from NY in the beginning of the film.

 

[Deckard]

It neuters Snake. Doing it once in NY is interesting. Take the world's biggest bad ***, and force him to goto work for the man.

In L.A., I don't want to see him being forced to do everything he's doing again. I want to see him choose to be the bad *** that he is.

 

[Snake Plissken]

It became that way in the First Blood series. I liked it in FBII, but III I'm like, again?

 

[DGTWoodward]

I'd have opened with Snake back to being a Fugitive becaues of the cassette tape from the end of NY. He's pulling a job at bank or federal reserve, maybe in Detroit so we get a look at regular America, and it goes wrong because the USPF was already watching him and intervened.

That actually sounds a lot like the opening deleted scenes from EFNY that were on the special edition DVD and the R1/A Bluray.

Slightly OT

here.....But not the R2/B Bluray, because that was not even a 1080p transfer like the US one, it was a standard definition upscale recorded onto a Bluray disc!

 

[Magpie 7]

The premise being the same makes you draw a constant comparison to NY which is the better movie.

You change the way he gets there (working for the government or something they injected will kill him) and you have a fairly solid sequel.

I'd have opened with Snake back to being a Fugitive becaues of the cassette tape from the end of NY. He's pulling a job at bank or federal reserve, maybe in Detroit so we get a look at regular America, and it goes wrong because the USPF was already watching him and intervened. He realises theres too much heat and he's gotta lay low so he goes to L.A. where the cops aren't. Only he finds out they are coming in to stop this Quervo guy who's ****ing up his ability to lay low. Then just play out the rest of the movie with very minor changes and a better ending. Snake wants to get close to see for himself whats going on and uses his status to buddy upto Quervo and eventually **** him over etc.

They could've started with the deleted bank robbery scene from EfNY, then have Snake being up for Parole 10 years later.....only thing is he won't get parole unless he does this job. Now the job should've been to assassinate both the President's daughter and Cuervo Jones, i think the Sword of Damocles was weak link only in the film to be the 'tape' equivilent from the 1st film, the only thing is Snake being Snake figures out the "real" reason behind the Assassination and double crosses the authorities. The submarine is just lame compaired to the Gulfire so why not just have him HAHO in from across another state.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I like the robbery scene, but I prefer the introduction we got in the film.