The Warriors

Believe it or not, I've only seen parts of this up until now. Although I didn't know it, this was the Directors Cut from a few years back, which adds a few really awesome comic book transitions and Sparta references that go a huge way to establishing the tone and that I wish was included in the original. A really fun movie that is the exact sort of comic book fantasy a 13-year-old boy would have of gang life in the late 1970s. I love stuff like this. Some pacing issues near the end, but the editing in this is superb, and it feels like a music video in some places (yet half a decade before MTV) and it has that larger-than-life comic-book style like you found in movies like TMNT: The Movie. Cheesy, not perfect, but pretty well made for what is essentially an exploitation film for early teenagers, despite it's R-rating. Took me a while to realize the guy who does the famous "warriors, come out and play-ay" is also Sully from Commando. It's strange in a way that this has such a huge cult following when there are quite a few films from the 80s that are just as cheesy and fun, but I guess it pre-dates that whole 1980s low-budget fantasy craze by a few years.