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Futuristic?

posted 9 years ago by Legendary_Badass
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Netflix has had some off description before, but when you highlight The Warriors it says something to the tune of "This futurist movie was ranked x out of a list of top cult classics."

I never saw The Warriors as futuristic in setting, though Streets of Fire does have an ambiguity to it and if you wanted to say these films are related then I can almost see the argument. However, to me The Warriors is just set in a late '70s NYC that has some stylized gangs.

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[–] romefan123 9 years ago

I could sort of see how they're saying that...

but for it's time...it was ahead of it's time...what, 1979? Was def fresh in the day...

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[–] jefgg 9 years ago

The Warriors seems surrealistic, not futuristic.

[–] adresher-1 9 years ago

I agree, I do not see it as a futuristic film. The movie was filmed in 1979 when NYC was a dangerous place. There were numerous gangs in NYC in the mid/late 70s and there were certain neighborhoods you simply did not go to, especially after dark. The Warriors uses real street names and neighborhoods.

I know in the directors cut it takes more of comic book feel. However, if anything I view the film as more dystopian than futuristic. There is a bit of "A Clockwork Orange" element.

Streets of Fire simply say "another place, another time" which leads to lots of interpretations.

[–] sillyspaghetti 9 years ago

It always seemed a little futuristic to me but that's because the style of it reminds me of Escape From New York/L.A.