“This is Jack Burton in the Pork Chop Express…”
Get ready to get your daily requirement of Kurt Russell because it’s John Carpenter bonus video day. Check out some of the best clips from Escape From New York, The Thing, Big Trouble in Little China and They Live.
Escape from New York:
Trailer:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o
A quick history lesson to find out what’s going to happen in the far off future of 1997:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMH3yKfj6Cg
Snake is brought in to find out what the mission is:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZIWJ1ySyHE
The main theme from Escape from New York, composed by John Carpenter:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cUiuaWFr2E
Ladies and Gentlemen, your Duke of New York:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E31HluCz6E
Snake gets involved in a death match with some huge, ugly dude:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrc-LVCuoHI
“You’re The Duke!!”
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfotQ1YQrvk
The Thing
Trailer:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouZkkIsLiNg
A couple of scenes showing off the crazy special effects:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liS2csDM25Y
The blood test:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNyC6MQMj0
Cartman steals this trick to test for lice:
Never attempt to defibrillate The Thing:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TevQS4qgE_Q
Big Trouble in Little China
Trailer:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM3-YO7qHs
Chinatown has some crazy street wars:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGLinT-Pdyo
Egg Shen gives the guys a magic potion so they can fight Lo Pan:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPGmE000WA
Egg Shen vs. Lo Pan in a magical battle:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMj3e4_XoOA
Of course, Egg Shen should have just through a knife at him:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiU1HcL7vCg
They Live
Trailer:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJC4R1uXDaE
Rowdy Roddy Pipper realizes the world is not what it seems to be:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-KU7MD_3Hk
Roddy causes trouble at a grocery store:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBY6pF42I-c
Argueably one of the greatest lines in movie history:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso
Damn Keith David, just put on the damn glasses!:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsZpdUUdd3I
Of course everyone knows the South Park spoof of this scene: