ESCAPE FROM LA "Ending" Clip (1996) Kurt Russell 

Escape from NY was the best,, landing on the world trade center... escape from LA was lamo...really Carpenter ? wonder how much his agent said he'd make on this bomb ? The ending was classic though

The ending makes the movie so much better at least...

What do you mean"lamo?" It's brilliant. It's literally the same movie as the first but goofier

Let's make smoking great again

@@colinmerritt7645 Nah Im happy with having red meat.

Its an old French saying, nothing new.

@@mjremy2605 Remy! MAN BITES DOG

@@ianmangham4570 🤣🤣🤣

It's Bible, it is all Bible: "The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. " Read and believe: " ...Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:"

@@gracebeliever127Donkeysmell

How did hologram Snake hand him the detonator? Doesn’t make sense

​@@h2w25 He never did.

Yep, it was a FUN film. Never took itself too seriously (Although the message at the end was spot on). I enjoyed it.

@@h2w25 It didn't. They took the fake one off the girl. Watch again.

And begging to him like pussies, while they tried to execute him moments before. @@outsiderzzzz Wait, isn't that actual footage of a woke mob?

This was the purge of its time

You mean this isn't actual footage?

So many cities became dumps.

Big government thrives on human suffering.

You mean how they captured Mike Pence in the President? He's too polite and intelligent to be Donald Trump

Honestly yeah. Save for rendering every electronic device useless, the world needs a Snake Plisskin.

The name is Plissken; Asshole. "Pushes Button."

It was symbolic. He was done with warring and took back his humanity. Part of why this ending is so cool.

"Hey Robocop" "My name is Murphy" "Hey Murphy" "My name is Robocop"

Preach man, preach; there's a huge difference between a dick and an asshole, people don't get it; an asshole is just being him/herself; a dick always has a reason for being a dick.

Trump ,Biden.....

This movie came out in the 90s

@@masumuel Obama, Biden, Obiden...

no plastic, no oil, no planes, no sex unless gay sex for kids, no borders no values no religion and no freedom if don't have 6 jabs

1996

Hopefully that was the real him and not a..."thing".

Then I'll get a "HomeAlone" photo with a M.Culkin signature, with the writing: "And keep the change, you filthy animal!"

i worked for a zine that did an interview with him, he truly is a kind and gracious person, glad to have interacted with him

That is epic!

At least he didn't write " Go f#$k yourself " . He did that to Frank Darabont

With a wishful ending.

Do you realize it has prophecied the fascistic theocratic system implemented by conservatives and Trump called Project 2025 to outlaw cussing, veganism, polytheism, homo/transsexuality, muslims, etc?

Boy do yall snowflakes love to exaggerate and cry about nothing 😂😂

what do you mean? like los angeles sucks? like it's a city of sin?

@@kamranshah-f1x Do you live under a rock? Have you seen how bad it is in LA? Have you seen the crime wave spiking? Have you seen the homelessness?

"The Four Horsemen shall rise again to cleanse the unworthy masses and strengthen the bold." Funny how we are starting to live that now. The shutdown wasn't an EMP, it was the reaction to the coof.

Its not even true. Its not like the EMP destroyed libraries 🤣 I always thought that was a stupid line. If anything, the world would be back up and running in a couple of months.

@@mr.raslyon6626 eh. That's debatable. Idk if you've ever been in a natural emergency where supply lines and emergency services aren't readily available, but people devolve into savagery pretty quickly when they don't know where their next meal might come from. New Orleans during Katrina, for instance. Actually, scratch that. Look at anywhere hit with a devastating hurricane or tsunami. It doesn't take more than a few days, a week at the most. 2 months without tech? Yeah, we wouldn't be getting much of anything up and running that soon, if we can even get organized enough to do so. Far too much of modern tech is built on a house of cards. It would be pretty bad. It already HAS gotten bad, in temporary situations where greater whole of society was still functioning and online. The whole world at once? Nothing but the most hardened of facilities would survive, and you can bet your ass that they A. wouldn't advertise their piecemeal or of sheer survival instinct, and B. they wouldn't be so quick to volunteer help.

@@mr.raslyon6626 Unless this version of the US banned books along with just about everything else because they couldn't be easily edited or amended online for 'political errors'.

@@mr.raslyon6626 Maybe in this world they did the stupid thing of converting everything "important" to the information highway and burned all the rest. Even then, I am sure some of it was protected in F. cages and books that didn't get burned.

'welcome to the human race' , indeed

I thought he would be taller

was this movie released in canada?

@@MrCageinblood😅

Me too bro, around the same age. Exactly the same thing, I liked NY more, but this ending stuck to my head like some kind of hypnosis. Lighting the cig and "ending" the world. ..music too, the theme. .and now we are all witnesses what is going with todays world! It's weird man!

If you are reading this . . . YOU ARE SNAKE PLISKIN! It's Go time, war hero 🎱

Snake is in Hollywood living good with the other snakes

@@guysky3873 ???

Somewhere out there is a snake pliskan

The names Plissken

Yup! I caught on to the inspiration way back when the game came out in the 90s! The Solid Snake acted, the way he talked, I said to myself; "Wait a minute.... Solid Snake.... Kurt Russell... SNAKE PLISSKEN!!! lol. You got to be an early 80s or 70s baby to catch the similarities. Millenials, and Gen Z will not get the reference. I wished Snake Plissken character was seen more on the silver screen. I don't think know any other actor that can pull off Snake Plissken like Kurt Russell. If they restart the ESCAPE FROM NY again, they will most likely cast a female as Snake Plissken. I will NOT watch it!

Wow you guys helped i always suspected that there was too much of a similarity with this snake kojimas snake coz i remember back in 97 watching this and later on playing MGS1 in the early 2000s i had a feeling there was some kind of link. Now you saying kojima admitted to pulling some ideas from the movie 🤯

I wish they made MGS movie before Russell got too old.

@@jarrrr69 it would be very hard to pull off the talent of Kurt Russell. Jason Straten is the only actor I can see as a Solid Snake on the silver screen. But, he's getting older too.

There was going to be escape from earth?

We might even get it right this time. But, I doubt it.

The whole damn setup sounds a whole lot like America today, doesn't it?

At least there he won't have to worry about a thing

I'd leave at the no women unless married....

Agreed.. Wish there was a device to "reboot", if you will..start over and take in account all the Horrific mistakes that were made. The 70's/early 80's weren't all that bad

“Pretty good,” operative phrase here. Not balls-to-the-wall great like EFNY

Kind of ironically funny that the end of this movie is were we should be heading if we wanna survive.

Compared to Escape From New York, this movie sucked big, wet, hairy donkey balls. It was HORRIBLE!

That surly look Russel burns into the audience at the end was pretty great.

100%

I always loved the simplicity of his score. It is the whole less is more idea.

It's also Shirley Walker's 👍

Can apply that to everything nowadays. lol

I think as he said " The America I fought for died a long time ago.” If you look at the context of the movie it’s true. If you see the beginning of the movie President declares a lifelong term. President can only have two terms…also it didn’t go before legislation did it? Probably not now later in the movie you see them on a your life going to LA. There’s no jury no defense so there is no 14th Amendment on not taking a persons life liberty or property without the right to due process. The next one a lady thrown in LA because she was Muslim so much for the First Amendment. Finally the guy saying no guns so no Second Amendment. So to sum up you got a dictator with a serious I am god complex.

Could use a few snake plisskens out there.

this also applies to yet ANOTHER Great, but underrated Kurt Russell movie: Soldier

@@Aeis_Kalt And his role in Stargate.

Why does it get you ?

From Wyatt Earp in Tombstone

Shit few people remember Breakdown.

Ole Jack Burton

And Mr Nobody from the later Fast and Furious movies

Breakdown was definitely a good movie

Don't forget Bruce Cambell.

I think it would still have a lot of problems even if the visual effects were better (this is one film I genuinely wouldn’t object to getting the George Lucas treatment) but it’s still a lot of fun and much better than people give it credit for. As a film it’s scraping past OK for me, but as an experience it’s a good time, nowhere near the level of the original on either counts though, but then that was always going to be tough!

He's actually both when you think about it.

He destroys a source of limitless clean energy in the first movie and kills billions of people in the second movie. Hero?

If I were a hero, I would have an eye patch, call me snake

And anti-hero ?

​@bman_2024 a one-eyed snake?

welcome to the human race

agreed, that single guitar. give me chills

It is all around terrible ending for mediocre film.

Yep. I wasn't even aware that this film existed. But they DID nail the ending!

@@J--12 No. A great ending for a mediocre movie!

the ending of this one definitely assured that there wouldn't be a part 3.

@@benjaminlucas1635 there might be... There was talk about Escape from Earth but of course this was a yr after this came out.. They was talking about Aliens attacking an snake was a clone or something like that it's been forever since I've seen that

@@mamasboy9886 from what I understand now there have been plans for years now to reboot the whole thing with a new Snake Plissken. But we know the only true snake is Kurt.

Yeah the movie...sucked but the ending was boss.

Part one ending is a masterpiece with the music. Part two is an masterpiece sounding like metal gear. I salute hideo Kojima for keeping snake plisken legacy alive with a wonderful story

Indeed. I’m glad that such films can hold up in their own right.

Where’s snake when you need him?!?

A EMP AND ALL ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS GONE RESTART YOUR GREAT GRANDFATHERS WAYS OF SURVIVAL DO IT NOW WHILE YOU STILL CAN OR YOU'LL HAVE NOTHING

@@ed9603 agreed. We’ve built a house of straw and it takes one match…people are sheep who have grown comfortable with the luxuries we take for granted. Even AC is considered something we cannot live without…scary

We did it once we can do it again

It works out best for everyone.

The Thing was quiet a few years earlier.

@@redbarchetta8782 Yeah, those are my favorite kurt russel movies though. I think the thing was like 1984 and escape from la was like mid 90s. Kurt Russel is a great actor.

Not even close. Russell topped out in 'Tombstone'. THAT was his best acting gig.

@@Hogo69 'The Thing' was from 1982. xx

@@carlhicksjr8401 your joking tango and cash is the best comedy film ever, well not intentionally a bit like Sylvester Stallone lock up that was another classic comedy 🤣

Indeed!

mine prefers cigars over cigarettes

​@@kraigshallThat's a cigarillo.

@HisVirusness nah man. I'm talkin churchhills

Hideo Kojima is the true Big Boss

Metal gear started in the 80s this is a decade off

@@Kraken160th escape from NY 1981. Metal gear nes 1987. I'm talking about from the beginning including LA

Yeah, true, but I'd love video game with real Snake Plissken. 😢 Or another movie... or novel... Talk about wasted franchise potential.

​@@Kraken160thMGS2 and MGS4 take heavy inspiration from EFLA. Ocelot's entire goal is to do what Plisskin does at the end of LA and the whole "the more things change the more they stay the same" is a central theme to both 2 and 4

It's one of my guilty pleasure movies. Sure it's bad, in a sense, but goddamn am I a sucker for some cheese ball movies. Same with Big Trouble In Little China. Might just be a man-crush on Kurt, idk 🤷🏼‍♂️

@@JFinker73 HAHA, well i dont blame you, hes always been a cool dude

It was awesome!!

The whole movie was bad. NY was better. But The Thing was by far my favorite Kurt movie.

@@JFinker73 im kinda sensing the man crush thing from ya. 😂

Is that Nine Inch Nails lyrics? Sounds like it would fit in a song such as 'Mr. Self Destruct'. "I am a silencing machine. I am the end of all your dreams."

@@DeadPixel1105 it's from the song "Hell's coming with me"

Poor mans poison is perfect

​@@EldelturnodelatardeI love that song.

Asthma inhalers would be worth a fricken fortune in a time like that.

Return to monke.

Seriously

The reality is that, no matter how many times we reset humanity, we will still end up getting to this same exact point eventually. Such is human nature.

@Ara so what?

@Ara _"Billions!!! Once again the press under estimates me"_ Lex Luthor.

the only thing better was to have the government stooges die, still a great FU to this dictator of a "president"

Yeah I like the ending alot

Just wish Carpenter would have given us a sequel to the Thing.

@@sledgehammer9739 youre in luck, considering carpenter is considering getting back into film making and wants to do a thing sequel

Bullshit. That's a mishmash of things that both the left and the right hate. "No smoking. No drinking. No drugs. No women (aka no non-procreative sex). No cussing (aka no free speech)" are all right wing fantasies. "No guns, no meat" are things that all right wingers think all left wingers want to abolish completely. Not gonna lie, some do, but I love myself a good steak and I have no problem with people owning pistols and hunting rifles.

Got a smoke?

With great power, comes great responsibility. This was when Ben Parker first learned that before he [was forced to] abdicated.

I love that reference.

........Land of the Free ! So True, I have always had this opinion , He just confirmed it then.. George Carlin confirmed it again, but i realized this in the 80s

Don’t forget no red meat 🥩

@@chance2012rocks1 I think he purposely left out Red Meat for a reason :P

True. They all dropped like flies

Or people with Pace Makers, in the middle of surgery, or on life support.

don't blame snake, blame the guys that made it and gave him a good reason to use it.

@@danieldevito6380 But your'e not looking at the positive side of it there could have been some young bloke a petrol head in hotted up WRX like something out of fast and furious and he was just about to gun it down the road and hit the shit out of the NOS and just as he accelerates the cars computer dies and he comes to a crawling stop he would have just been saved from the cops around the corner that would have fined him and taken his car and his licence , possibly even saved the guy from killing himself and a few pedestrians What about a person who was in a self drive vehicle that malfunctioned and is run away and has the person trapped inside Snake just saved that persons life as well People always focus on the negative , on world destruction :P What about all the people that will no longer need to pay electricity bills ever again

@@martinkuliza I'm sorry, but I don't feel bad for idiots who drive like morons on motorcycles.

Favorite * Just so you stay American.

That’s a good name I approve

It's a great place to hang out

@@ln7929 Lynchburg? Beautiful area of the country, but I never found anything interesting to do in the city itself. In all fairness, I was usually stuck with my relatives which mostly was not fun.

Lynchburg Virginia

@@GAURAV25855ify yep, that’s it. Cliff Robertson’s character was loosely based on Jerry Falwell.

1996 was a great year for movies 🍿

1996 was a great year for movies 🍿

Deep down he did, he still had some morals not having Snake killed on the spot and didn't wanna do it anyways till pressured. He must have had enough of this stuff too. All that stuff he listed is insane that's banned cause of this "president".

I caught the same tone of voice. That quiet pleading, followed by the loud "don't do it" to cover his ass.

You know, if he would get a shorter haircut, go clean-shaven, get those big-lense glasses, he can become Cameron Alexander.

You mean Democrat control USA circa 2022, right?

@Brian Bosworth's Magical Manly Mullet Hour Except that the US in Escape from LA is controlled by a religious far right nut job

@Looking for a Girl with Green Eyes Which is ironically illiberal.

Dystopian futures. One with a lot future tech. The other with version of America that's barely holding together.

@Looking for a Girl with Green Eyes The American government spent trillions on war. China spent trillions on infrastructure. They have empty cities. The UN came in and did a report. That basically America has poverty not found in other western nations.

That wasn't the plan snake was supposed to go to Mars and that's where the script for ghosts of Mars came from,they changed it around since this movie wasn't a hit.

@@ericseitzler81 Weird...maybe I’m glad they didn’t do another. What happened to John’s movies around this time? Halloween H2O springs to mind.

@@facina3390 yea he seemed to lose his touch,maybe it's because he is more focused on his band at the time but idk that's just a guess.

@@facina3390 escape from Mars could a been cool if they left the monsters out of it.im not sure if that was in the original script or not.

call him Snake

The man with no name was the inspiration for Snake. The irony also is that Walt Kowalski was somewhat inspired by Snake (and Archie Bunker).

Might be hard without retconning this ending 😁

Or better yet, Escape From Miami, where most of Miami-Dade County becomes a prison after breaking off from Florida from a hurricane, and his grandson, Snake the Third goes there to rescue the VPOTUS, under orders from the President. Some parts of the world will have gotten it's function back by then.

This is an interesting idea...perhaps they undid the EMP pulse damage somewhat, and so probably would take about 20-30 years to recover. And make it some ultimate Climate Change monstrosity that needs to be taken down so Snake saves us from ourselves. Perhaps the people are trying escape Earth, after wrecking it. Ultimately, Snake is about saving Earth.

Soldier

Should have hooked him in The Expendables.

worked just fine, didnt it ? ;) :)

Not sure if the spelling's right but I think it was a canmega compass. Issued to our service men around the time this film was made.

I wouldn't shut down the earth but if there was a way to shut down both sides weaponry that would be a better outcome

​@@samanthapatrick4345good point.

Yeah, with a delusional old man who can't figure stuff out and will sacrifice his own child. Who would have thunk it?

@@isaned except biden is defending hunter.

Me after I have enough with Twitter users, youtube bullshitty and reddit:

you gotta be kidding me...!

It's one of those fun movies that made no sense. I personally enjoy it though

Do you realise that Carpenter is a progressive, right? All his movie is against the wacko bullshit that you are spilling right now.

Don’t ask such questions for those kind of movies. They’re just simple entertainment ☝🏻🤣

Hollywood is satanic and full of kid fuckers allegedly or maybe we are already in hell man.

While this might be over thinking the movie, it fits with the God-complex driven President. He hates not having control and wouldn't trust anyone with "his" ultimate power. Even the 666 makes sense as his behavior could make him a candidate for the Antichrist.

It was not the unit, it was the disc inside, a unique key, the unit is just a reader. Just like I suppose for nukes, I don't think they have multiple cards for the president, he has one and he is not supposed to loose it. The disc has red marking on it.

It is basically A final FU to the planet. If they were on the verge of defeat, with forces on the continental US, the only way to do anything to them would be to do it to everyone.

This movie shows what's wrong not just in America,but in every part of the world where some lunatic have to much power and use it against his one people.

😂😂😂💯

I can't unsee it

You're telling me...