Wastelands Radio Show - Episode 32 - Wastelands Idiot Box - Escape from LA

WASTELANDS - An Australian B-grade, Punk Rock, Street Trash online radio show hosted by long time partners in slime Adam (085c3n3) Obscene and Mark-O -Mark, pondering punk oddities, b grade movies, trashy treasures, life, culture and stuff.


 


In this episode Adam and Mark pay homage to the idiot box Monday night movie. This week they caught John Carpenter's 1996 follow up to Escape from New York - Escape From LA. The year is 2013 and Snake Plissken is back but this time it's L.A., which through the agency of earthquakes has become an island of the damned. But something has gone wrong in this new moral order, because the President's daughter has absconded to L.A. with a detonation device, and Snake is commandeered to retrieve it. But just below the surface there is a coiled Snake ready to strike.

Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is back, in this 1996 sequel to John Carpenter's Escape from New York. 2013 America has become even more dystopian than it was in the earlier film, having been taken over by a theocratic fundamentalist Christian President (Cliff Robertson). An airplane has crash landed into the penal colony/no man's land/landfill/roach motel that is Los Angeles post-The Big One. It had The President's Daughter Utopia (A. J. Langer) on it, and now she has sided with Cuervo Jones, taking the film's MacGuffin super weapon with her. The President drafts Snake into eliminating her and retrieving said MacGuffin. His reward, should he succeed, will be the antidote to a virus that has been injected into him. And so he enters the fortified and barbwired city of Los Angeles, a prison with no guards and precious little order. He makes his way through the slums (it's all slums), he gains and loses allies. Also Starring Steve Buscemi - Map to the Stars Eddie, Pam Grier - Hershe Las Palmas, Stacy Keach - Cmdr. Malloy, Peter Fonda – Pipeline, Bruce Campbell - Surgeon General of Beverly Hills.Total Kills - 32  Runtime - 98 minutes Kills per minute - .327


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