The second half of the movie is just one thing after another. Ernest Borgenein throws a molotov cocktail at some hoodlums, Snake menaces a nerdy pretty boy, there's a handful of sneaky ninja stuff, they rescue the president, then he gets taken away again. Then comes the totally hardcore gladiator scene. Snake has to fight an enormous pituitary disaster in a boxing ring. But they don't box. No, no, child, they don't fight with their hands. They use baseball bats! until round two, when they switch to baseball bats with nails in them and trash can shields!!! Oh my god!...



Okay sorry, I had to step away from the keyboard for a second to change my pants. And for some reason the keyboard typed "br" four times while I was gone.
Anyway, after the gladiator scene a bunch more mayhem ensues. I don't want to give away the ending, but I will say that all of civilization will probably come to a bloody conclusion thanks to Snake Plissken.
One last bit of the movie I want to talk about is the fact that everyone in the film knows his name, even prisoners who haven't been out of New York in years, and everyone thinks he's dead. That could be two more rules for the drinking game too. Anytime anyone from out of nowhere knows who Snake is, drink, and also drink whenever someone says, "I thought you were dead". But back to what I'm talking about. The movie doesn't say why everyone assumes that Snake has gone to meet his maker, but I decided to do a little investigating, to see if I could figure out what happened.

I was sidetracked during the investigation however, by this: Siania's Vampyre Information Pages, (this link goes to her "About" page). You see, I suspected that Snake had been involved in some sort of death/rebirth situation, so I did a search for "Necromancy" in the hopes of finding some usefull info on the subject, but apparently, typing in "Necromancy" might as well be typing in "Every contrived freak show's homepage in the entire world". So instead of finding what I needed, I found a goth chick who forgot her party hat who actually writes and publishes things like:

I am a psychic vampire. I live on other peoples energy which I drain...it's the reason everyone always seems to get mad or depressed or extremely tired around me.

Or maybe you're just a bitch. Could be.

What am I? Goddess would be an appropriate term. I'm also a vampire. Woo F-in hoo.

Woo-Hoo!!! Escape from New York RULZ!!!

So I didn't find out why everyone says that to Snake, but I did find out one thing, the most important thing. I found out a little about myself, namely, that I love Escape from New York. Also, I learned that being a goth kid is the boringest thing you can do while living at home. But the thing is, it's not about what I learned, it's about what we learned, together. We're a good team kiddo. Now go rent the movie.




This is a map of New York from the movie. It gives you an idea of the hard work and attention to detail it takes to keep three million prisoners trapped on an island.



I don't give a FUCK!
Snake Plissken would just as soon eat the president as save him, and isn't that the kind of mentality that's missing from today's action movies?



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