Y-You are the... Duke of New... New York. You're A-Number One.

Escape from New York is one of my favorite John Carpenter film's. The cast is great he teams up with Kurt Russell and a who's who of veteran actors like Lee Van Cleef, Harry Dean Stanton, Ernest Borgnine and Donald Pleasence who plays the president. The film also stars Isaac Hays as the main villain the Duke of New York who is pretty bad ass in this film. I think this has to be one of the strangest casts in a movie When Carpenter and Russell join forces you know it's going to be a good film. At the start of the film it says that in 1997 the crime rate rose 400%. So to control all of the criminals they turn the United States biggest city in one large jail. First off where would all the people of New York be re located. They don't really tell you why the crime rate is so high. One of my favorite Carpenter films and my second favorite of the Carpenter/Russell films.

There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting.

I went and saw the Good the Bad and the Ugly in the theater  last week.  It could be called the The Bad The Badder and The Baddest. Because at one point or another each man Cleef, Wallach and Eastwood are bad. Lee Van may be the bad but at some points the other two can be just as nasty. The Score by Morricone  is one of the greatest scores ever written. There's not a bad scene in the movie. When Lenone and Eastwood work together you know the movie will be good.