Already Dead

Escape from L.A. (1996)
directed by John Carpenter
rating: 1 out of 5 cravats
on DVD (a little late) from Netflix

Quotes from "Escape from L.A." include:

- "He looks so retro. Kind of twentieth-century."
- "Sooner or later they get everybody."
- "You're about to find out this fucking city can kill anybody!"

Anyone sense a pattern? No? When Carpenter's movies fail, he finds something (or somebody) to blame, and tries something new the next time.

So Snake - who once moved through matte paintings like light through a Rembrandt - plays basketball in a gladiatorial arena for his life, hang glides into the city, and, yes, surfs his way onto the back of Steve Buscemi's car (that scene was filmed at New Braunfels' own Schlitterbahn Water Park, by the way).

It isn't funny or even entertaining because it's just too sad.