The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)

The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)
by Walter Hill

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Actor: Brian Tyler, David Harris, Dorsey Wright, James Remar, Michael Beck
Director: Walter Hill
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
Writer: Walter Hill
Producer: Frank Marshall
Producer: Freeman A. Davies
Producer: Joel Silver
Producer: Laurent Bouzereau
Writer: David Shaber
Writer: Sol Yurick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Director's Cut, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Paramount Pictures

DVD Reviews of The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)

DVD Review: Can you dig it?
Summary: 4 Stars

The Warriors ranks as one of the classics to me. Everything about the movie is just great, from the brawls to the cold stares that Swan gives just about everyone.

Personally, I prefer the regular version to the Ultimate Director's Cut, because the comic-style transitions greatly disrupt the flow of the movie and at one point, completely remove any sense of surprise that the scene would've had. Get the original version if you can, it clearly deserves 5 stars.

DVD Review: "The Warrior's" New Look
Summary: 3 Stars

I am a pretty big fan of this film and had been wanting to see it again for several months before I purchased it from Amazon. I got myself all ready to watch it...dark room, popcorn, Dots, etc. I was pumped. But the director chose to make some pretty serious changes to the movie. He, apparently, always thought there was a comic book flavor to the film (which I can see) and so he added comic book scenes into this version of the movie. I didn't care for them. Throughout most of the film I was able to get over it (although I found them jarring), but the ending of the movie was JUST AWFUL. One of my favorite parts of the film is watching everyone walk down the beach to "In the City". He removed this part and just had it end with a comic book scene of them on the beach. I hated it and am still very disappointed. I wish I could get my hands on the original version of this film.

DVD Review: One of the GREATEST "Cult Classics" of all-time!
Summary: 5 Stars

Released during the last year of the 70's decade, "The Warriors" is a bona fide CULT CLASSIC from that era. I was 13 years old when this movie came out, and I can remember young people that looked and talked like the Warriors!

I used to LOVE it when the GREAT Joe Bob Briggs would show this on "Monstervision" on Saturday night's on TNT! During the commercial breaks Joe Bob would hold up a map of the New York subway system and chart the Warriors progress trying to make it home to Coney Island! CLASSIC!

I don't know about anybody else, but my favorite Warrior is James Remar as Ajax. He has all the most memorable lines of the movie. (I'll shove that bat up your a** and turn you into a popsicle!) That is another thing I remember from those times, that in those days the WORST thing you could call someone was a "faggot". Ajax calls other people this SEVERAL times!

This is a CLASSIC that I NEVER tire of. And a CLASSIC of the Action genre.

"Warriors come out to play-ee-ay!"

DVD Review: the warriors
Summary: 5 Stars

one of my favorite, all time movies. I first saw it at the theater, and just had to have it on DVD. This is the second copy I have owned, since my first one was taken by one of my kids. LOL

DVD Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 4 Stars

The Bottom Line:

Though the director's cut detracts from the movie, The Warriors is an exciting and stylish urban western about a gang of Coney Island toughs who have to fight all night just to get home; a deserved cult classic, the film is a must-see for anyone who likes well-made action movies.

Description of The Warriors (The Ultimate Director's Cut)

A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; and tonight they're after the Warriors - a street gang blamed unfairly for a rival gang leader's death. This contemporary action-adventure story takes place at night, underground, in the sub-culture of gang warfare that rages from Coney Island to Manhattan to the Bronx. Members of the Warriors fight for their lives, seek to survive in the urban jungle and learn the meaning of loyalty. This intense and stylized film is a dazzling achievement for cinematographer Andrew Laszlo.

The Warriors combines pure pulp storytelling and surprisingly poetic images into a thoroughly enjoyable cult classic. The plot is mythically pure (and inspired by a legendary bit of Greek history): When a charismatic gang leader is shot at a conclave in the Bronx meant to unite all the gangs in New York City, a troupe from Coney Island called the Warriors get blamed and have to fight all the way back to their own turf--which means an escalating series of battles with colorful and improbable gangs like the Baseball Furies, who wear baseball uniforms and KISS-inspired face make-up. Pop existentialism, performances that are somehow both wooden and overwrought, and zesty, kinetic filmmaking from director Walter Hill (Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs.) result in a delicious and unexpectedly resonant operatic cheesiness. The Ultimate Director's Cut doesn't radically alter the movie--some of the editing is tighter, the Greek legend has been added as an introduction--with one exception: in transitions, scenes begin and end as scenes from a comic book. While The Warriors always had a comic book flavor (and Hill, in an interview, says he deliberately pursued that sensibility), this device--similar to The Hulk--seems a bit overkill. But it's a minor problem; the movie holds its own, even 26 years later. The dvd has no audio commentary, but there are four short documentaries (really, one documentary in four parts). These include excellent interviews with Hill, actors Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly, and Deborah Van Valkenburgh. The producers, the cinematographer, the costume designer, the stunt coordinator, and many others give lively and in-depth descriptions of how the movie came to be. One of these documentaries includes portions of a deleted scene that was used when The Warriors was screened on television; no other deleted scenes are included. --Bret Fetzer

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