Snake is back.
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device.
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Unpretentious, cool, epic and effortless.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
Who loves it, who doesn't
44 profiled raters. Loved most by The Ironists; disliked most by The Prestige Hunters.
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Cast
- Kurt RussellSnake Plissken
- Stacy KeachMalloy
- Steve BuscemiEddie
- A. J. LangerUtopia
- Cliff RobertsonPresident
- Bruce CampbellSurgeon General of Beverly Hills
- Pam GrierHershe Las Palamas
- Peter FondaPipeline
- Georges CorrafaceCuervo Jones
- Robert CarradineSkinhead
Crew
- John CarpenterDirector
- John CarpenterScreenplay
- Debra HillScreenplay
- Kurt RussellScreenplay
- Gary B. KibbeDirector of Photography
- John CarpenterOriginal Music Composer
- Shirley WalkerOriginal Music Composer
- Edward A. WarschilkaEditor
- Debra HillProducer
- Kurt RussellProducer
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Pairings
Companions we picked from the closest works, and how to take them.
Similar in taste
Closest on the same fourteen dimensions, from everything scored on Curator Co. Other media included when they land close.
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League 202575% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, epic.
Both epic, unpretentious, classical in form.
Goemon 200971% alikeBoth unpretentious, epic, classical in form.
Diamonds Are Forever 197171% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, epic.
Demolition Man 199370% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, classical in form.
Night of the Comet 198470% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, effortless.
Death Race 2000 197569% alikeBoth unpretentious, cool, plot-driven.
American Made 201768% alikeBoth cool, classical in form.
Peach Boy Riverside 202172% alikeSeries · Both unpretentious, epic, classical in form.
Game · Both unpretentious, plot-driven, relentless.
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