Escape from L.A.

I’m going to get so much shit for this. I mean all the shit. 100% of the shit. Oh, well. Here goes.

I love this movie. I unabashedly, unironically, and unashamedly love this movie. I think this is one of John Carpenter’s best films, and I think it’s a large step up from Escape from New York.

In my review for the first cinematic adventure of Snake Plissken I wrote that it was hampered by extreme budgetary constraints and some odd structural issues with its narrative, insisting that it r...