Latter-day hippies applauded ex- Easy Rider Peter Fonda's appearance as an aging, AK-47toting surfer, while horror movie fans were cheered by the presence of Bruce Campbell from the Evil Dead series, here playing the ghoulish Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.īut though sequelizing a cult fave like Escape From New York and assembling this offbeat cast may put the fanboys in the palm of his hand, Carpenter proceeds to fritter away their goodwill by giving these actors nothing interesting to do. The Tarantinoids and blaxploitation fans cheered lustily at the sight of Pam Grier (here a transgendered warlord-er, warlady) and Steve Buscemi, playing a variant on his usual fast-talking sleazeball, and trekkies hailed Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro from Star Trek: The Next Generation) as she made use of her wonderfully throaty voice as voice-over narrator and sexy/steely screen presence as a government soldier. ![]() So far so good.Īssembled for the occasion is an eccentric supporting cast seemingly scientifically designed to appeal to every segment of male pop-culture fandom, to judge from the enthusiastic reaction of the preview audience to each of their favorites' on-screen appearances. fascist future America, Escape From New York hero Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) must this time infiltrate the quake-ravaged no man's land of Los Angeles to retrieve a doomsday device stolen by the president's daughter, all the while battling a rogue's gallery of cops, gangs and plastic surgery freaks. On paper, this sounds like a sure-fire winner, at least for science-fiction/action movie fans. ![]() Another case in point: John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. MARK TWAIN once described Richard Wagner's music as being "better than it sounds," an apt description of why some artistic works just aren't as satisfying as we feel they ought to be. He Should Have Taken Light Rail: Snake Plissken hitches a ride in "Escape From L.A."ĭirector John Carpenter and star Kurt Russell move to the West Coast and escape all over again
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