EPISODE · May 20, 2025 · 1H 16M
The Final Picture Show Ep 45: Escape from LA (1996)
from The Final Picture Show Podcast: Where the End times are Alive! · host Matthew Poland
Here we go again on our own, going down the only road we’ve ever know and like Snake Plissken we were born to walk alone and Ive made up my mind I aint watching anything other than Escape from LA! Tonight on the show we travel back to 1996 and drop in on Snake and learn about how this movie came to be, the genius of John Carpenter, spend some time talking about the rock hits of the mid 90s, and go through the plot of this misunderstood masterpiece. Next week we return to the 90s and to sequels, and to massive movies we haven’t reviewed yet: T2 Terminator 2 Judgement Day
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Here we go again on our own, going down the only road we’ve ever know and like Snake Plissken we were born to walk alone and Ive made up my mind I aint watching anything other than Escape from LA! Tonight on the show we travel back to 1996 and drop in on Snake and learn about how this movie came to be, the genius of John Carpenter, spend some time talking about the rock hits of the mid 90s, and go through the plot of this misunderstood masterpiece. Next week we return to the 90s and to sequels, and to massive movies we haven’t reviewed yet: T2 Terminator 2 Judgement Day
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