I am not sure how John Carpenter gets the credit he does and pretty shocked to see an average review here of 7/10. I think you get an extra 3-4 stars just be putting "My Name Here" presents: "TitleName" on every movie you do.
I really enjoy sci-fi and in particular post apocalyptic still themes. Quite a few posts review this as a B movie, but it had a decent budget and known cast and don't think it was designed to be a B movie.
Personally I only enjoyed The Thing from Carpenter and was really disappointed with Escape from NY.
Kurt Russel was absolutely terrible and fumbled around from scene to scene muttering 1 corny line at a time.
The characters were weak and poorly directed. The sets were great and you could see that a great effort went into the construction.
Considering that movies like Alien, Mad Max & Mad Max 2 etc came from the same period and didn't feature cheesy dialog and poor acting I think there are better choices from the period.
I really enjoy sci-fi and in particular post apocalyptic still themes. Quite a few posts review this as a B movie, but it had a decent budget and known cast and don't think it was designed to be a B movie.
Personally I only enjoyed The Thing from Carpenter and was really disappointed with Escape from NY.
Kurt Russel was absolutely terrible and fumbled around from scene to scene muttering 1 corny line at a time.
The characters were weak and poorly directed. The sets were great and you could see that a great effort went into the construction.
Considering that movies like Alien, Mad Max & Mad Max 2 etc came from the same period and didn't feature cheesy dialog and poor acting I think there are better choices from the period.