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Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:30 am
by MasterPayne
I was 16 and living on the streets of Toronto when I saw the movie in a all night theater. I would get enough money for the show and sleep there. It was better than the park bench. I fell in love with the movie because it was so familuar to me in so many ways. I never graduated from school because I had a gang that would wait for me to kick the crap out of me.
I would watch for my bus from 2 floors up and make a run for it when the bus came.
They would chase me but if I made the bus I was safe. I was brought up very poor and had to steal to survive so I know what it feels like to be without. I had my nose broken badly in a gang fight with hockey stickes be for I was 9. I learned to fight early in life because of nessety. I know it is only a movie but I can relate to it in so many ways. It reminds me of my life.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:35 am
by LEFTHANDED
when i first saw the movie i was sittin in my room playin with a knife flippin through channels lol
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:58 am
by Warrior_Swan
I can relate to your story man. I grew up much in the same way. I never actually lived on the streets, but we were poor. I did a lot of fighting though, and had to learn how to handle myself in tough situations at a young age. Anyways....
I was 14, and my dad had me look for a VHS copy of The Warriors on eBay. It was only a coupla dollars. It came in the mail a couple weeks later, and he was so excited. He had me sit down in the living room and popped it in... and I was immediately mesmerized. I immediately loved it... and I can bet that it does have a lot to do with the familiarity of my own experiences in the streets.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 7:08 am
by SoldierHeavyMuscle
LEFTHANDED wrote:
when i first saw the movie i was sittin in my room playin with a knife flippin through channels lol
and let me guess!
you used to be RIGHTHANDED!! LOL
(sorry man, i couldn't help myself!!)
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:03 pm
by BTW A.K.A the killer household appliance
'kay so i'm playing GTA:san andreas right, and my dad comes in the room and tell's me a good film to watch is the warriors. i asked him what it was about and i was suddenly interested. in easter 2005 i went down st. georges arcade downtown, found a copy and bought it.
i watched it with my brother, and it was the single, greatest film, i had ever seen! i watched it at 8.00pm and it finished somewhere around 9ish. a few days later, i went on the internet and found this site. my dad hooked me up with an email and sighned me up. and here i am, making my way towards 1000 posts.
i've had alot of problems with the warriors too though, i showed one of my friends the movie and, he just hasnt been the same since. he started creating gangs and, making weapons, i regret introducing him to it. before i watched the movie though, i was some shy blonde kid who got bullied alot, the warriors changed my life but not the way it changed my friend, it inspired me to never give up. i owe the movie alot.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 6:53 pm
by Muddy Waters
I was 6 when i first saw it, it seemed realy weird and scary ("why is that man gettin elbowed in the head, he didnt do anything" was my reaction to Cleon gettin killed). God, i saw all the wrong movies at that age... wot an eejit
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:14 pm
by cowboy rules
Well I was sitting in my house about 1am and everyone else was asleep. I was jsut flicking through the channels when I came to Sky Cinema, which normally shows old, very old, movies. So I turned it to the channel and BAM! This big creepy yellow face appears. I got the fright of my life!. Somehow i knew it was the Warriors and my friend had been talking about it the day before. So I watched the rest of the movie then bought the DVD.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:26 pm
by Furies4life
Well i was 12 and i was watching VH1 and they were showing I love the 70's and i been watching and wanted to see how it look back then. So i was busy then they showed the warriors and i was like wow cool movie. Going ahead one year and the hype of game coming out i was like cool and i knew there was a movie about it. So i asked my dad and he said he watched like 15 times when he was in a gang and they liked it. So i was like can u see if they selling it and he said sure. So it was a Saturday and i was waking up and he called and said " Ivan i got it" I was like yes. And he came home and the moments were awsome. I thank my dad eveyday he derves it.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:07 pm
by Cleon759
ok so me and my dad were watching some two chanels one was the warriors and i dont no wat the other one was. anyway me and my dad started watching the first one and then he was flipping channels during commercial and he saw the warriors and told me about it so we watched the baseball furies fight and i love it.so then we watched the rest of it and i eventually saw the beginning part by renting the movie
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:15 pm
by Vermin16
me and my friend nolan were sitting in his basement eatin pizza and flippin chanels when we saw a bunch of dudes dressed like baseball players chasing some other dudes. we watched the rest and we went out and bought it the next day.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:36 pm
by Juniper
Y`all two I can relate to your story I grew up the same way when the gang came by i would hide in the freakin trash can and I learned to fight on the streets I saw it on Spike Tv and saw it at theatres in 1979 anyways back to my story like the Turnbulls chased The Warriors the gang chased me with a bus and I had to run like hell they beat me p on a playground while in a volvo one night I then taught them a good ass whuppin when I was around nineteen I then carried around a baseball bat wrapped in barbwire and wore it in a case around my back for if the thugs ever messed again.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:58 am
by ajaxman
It was this last October, I had watched VH1's I love 1979 and they talked about the Warriors. I went and rented the movie, watched it at my girlfriend's house and have been hooked ever sense.
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 8:27 pm
by LEFTHANDED
SHM wrote:
LEFTHANDED wrote:
when i first saw the movie i was sittin in my room playin with a knife flippin through channels lol
and let me guess!
you used to be RIGHTHANDED!! LOL
(sorry man, i couldn't help myself!!)
lol it cool

Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:21 pm
by turnbull_badger
i was round my friends house and he said he had a really good film that was made in 1979 called the warriors.
at first i thought " oh this is probably going to be crap!" but i loved it. its the greatest movie ever!
Re: Where were you when you first saw THE WARRIORS?
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:00 pm
by andy_man
First time I saw it was when I was 13, I hanging with my cousin and he let me borrow this movie, i had for a couple weeks and never watched cause i thought it was gonna be bad. One night i was hanging out with my friends we got so bored, we had nothing to do so I popped in the Warriors and we watched it. I've been hooked on the Warriors ever since!