Thursday 24 December 2009
The Warriors: One of the Best Pure Action Movies Ever ☀
Walter Hill’s 1979 film The Warriors is a cult classic, a veteran of innumerable late-night cable showings and movie nights at your older brother’s friend’s house. It came out in 1979, was rereleased on DVD as a director’s cut in 2005, was turned into a video game by the makers of Grand Theft Auto the same year, and will be remade by Tony Scott for release in 2010. It’s a hyperstylized movie, based on a Sol Yurick novel that envisioned itself as a comic book rehash of Xenophon’s Anabasis, set in New York City.
