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User Reviews for: The Warriors

wolfkin
9/10  4 months ago
I waited so long to see this movie but it lives up to the hype basically. I mean 900 people representing 10 gangs is a little silly. Like you won't have enough non-gang members to make up a city.

It is a late 70s movie so you have to content with slurs you might no longer be comfortable with. It's a bit rapey not in a way that condones rape but in a way that casualizes it. Suggests that it's just a thing some dudes do.

But surprisingly the narrative editing feels modern in a way some movies from this era don't. The fight choreo is alright but the action editing is a bit sloppy but honestly not much worse than any modern action scene that's filled with smash cuts so you can't actually see the action. I like the characters. They're a bit bombastic and slightly larger than life. They feel like characters in a picture book. Which considering the framing doesn't feel anachronistic.

I said at the time that Project X does a fantastic job of making _the party_ into the main character even though on paper it's Thomas the host. The Warriors does the same thing keeping The Warriors as the main character without making any specific warrior it's focus. It means when they start dying. You don't really feel like any of them are safe. The Warriors however take a lot from their namesake. They don't go down easy. It kind of suggests that maybe it was intentionally to scapegoat The Warriors to take out two big players at once. Cyrus and The Warriors.

On top of the quotable quotes the costuming is excellent because those leather jackets are incredible. They're so stylish. They fit the characters and the environment perfectly.
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