075 - Rebooting: Escape from New York [1981]

Its the FUTURE... but the future is the past, specifically 1997. And the FUTURE is FULL OF CRIME. So much crime, in fact, that Manhattan is walled off and turned into the United States' version of early Australia... a prison island.

 

By complete coincidence, the president is crashed into this mega, super secure, never escape prison - at around the same time - SUPER CRIMINAL and possible War Hero, Snake Plissken arrives to be imprisoned and is tasked to retrieve the president to earn his freedom, AND LIFE! (were there too many commas in that last sentence? too bad)

 

Snake goes in - wanders around, asks if anyone has seen the president before being chased by cannibals for a short period of time. He finds an old acquaintance in this prison who helps him get to the president, but is snitched on... again.

 

In the end, a bunch of stuff happens - and Snake gets the president out, but it takes fighting in a weird wrestling match, driving over a bridge filled with mines, chased by "the Duke" who runs the society in this prison, and do it all within the amount of time given before his neck blows up.

 

Joe, Ken, Andy, and Dan talk about this film and its possible reboot that has been in the rumor mill. Is the film good? Is it a product of its time and budget? Does Plissken live on in video game form?

 

Come and listen!