{"id":302,"date":"2007-01-29T19:41:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T19:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=302"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:07:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:07:04","slug":"dvd_the_warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/dvd_the_warrior.html","title":{"rendered":"DVD: The Warriors."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a truly, truly great fucking movie and how have I never seen this, given that <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0088194\/\">one of Walter Hill&#8217;s other movies is one of my top-10 movies of all fucking time<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Loved this.  LOVED.  Loved the Baseball Furies, and the Lizzies, and the Orphans, and the crowds and the drama and the creepy creepy creepy bottle-tapping taunting.  Loved the rollerskating, overall wearing farmboys who get their butts kicked in the bathroom at Union Square.  Loved the &#8220;West Side Story&#8221; feel to some of the &#8220;running down dark streets, hoping not to get our faces beaten in&#8221; scenes.  Loved the stuff on the trains.  GO WARRIORS GO!  RUN!  Loved the DJ&#8217;s mouth. And her sass.  Loved.  (She is also in my favorite movie mentioned above. Hello!)<\/p>\n<p>Crazy realization while watching the extras:  Oh shit!  Now that they&#8217;re showing him 30 years later, we see that Ajax is&#8230;.the Richard guy Kim Catrall&#8217;s character was hooking up with on Sex&#038;theCity!  NO WAY!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a truly, truly great fucking movie and how have I never seen this, given that one of Walter Hill&#8217;s other movies is one of my top-10 movies of all fucking time? Loved this. LOVED. Loved the Baseball Furies, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/dvd_the_warrior.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flicks","category-recommending","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}