IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK AT POPMEMES....THIS IS MY FIRST ARTICLE IN AGES!!!!!! TODAY'S TOPIC IS THE BEST OF BIG APPLE CINEMA....THE MOVIE CLASSICS THAT BEST EXEMPLIFY THE SPIRIT OF NEW YORK & MY INSPIRATION CAME FROM THIS YEAR'S MSG SUMMER BLOCK PARTY...........MY #1 OF COURSE IS THIS MOVIE THAT'S #1 IN THIS OR ANY OTHER CATAGORY IS ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, STARS KURT RUSSELL AS SNAKE PLISSKEN AND DIRECTED BY JOHN CARPENTER............NEXT IS SERPICO, AL PACINO PLAYS REL LIFE NYPD DETECTIVE FRANK SERPICO(HONORABLE MENTION IS IT'S OFFSPRING 1981'S PRINCE OF THE CITY STARRING TREAT WILLIAMS).......TAXI DRIVER; MARTIN SCORCESE'S CREEPY FLICK ABOUT A NEW YORK CABBIE RESCUING AN UNDERAGED PROSTITUTE FROM HER PIMP;STARS ROBERT DENIRO, JODIE FOSTER, SYBIL SHEPPARD & HARVEY KEITEL AND A CMAEO BY THIS MOVIES DIRECTOR.................WALL STREET, FILMED IN THE DECADENT 1980'S MICHAEL DOUGLASS & CHARLIE SHEEN TEACH US GREED IS GOOD,DIRECTED BY OLIVER STONE..........BATMAN & BATMAN RETURNS; THE MICHAEL KEATON INCARNATIONS OF THE TIM BURTON/DC COMICS/WARNER BROS. FRANCHISE, WITH JACK NICHOLSON, DANNY DEVITO & MICHELLE PHIEFFER AS SUPPORTING CAST, WHO'S GONNA ARGUE?..............YEAR OF THE DRAGON(1985) PRODUCED BY DINO DELAURENTIS, SCREENPLY BY OLIVER STONE AND DIRECTED BY MICHAEL CIMINO....THIS FLICK ABOUT A NEW YORK COP WITH A VIETNAM SIZED CHIP ON HIS SHOULDER,PLAYED BY MICKEY ROURKE, WANTS TO HAVE GABAGE NIGHT EVERY NIGHT IN NEW YORK'S CHINATOWN, NUFF SAID..........THE WARRIORS9PARAMOUNT PICTURES;1978) REMEMBER THE TURNBULL A.C.'S? THE BASEBALL FURIES? THE LIZZIES? THIS GANG FLICK GIVES US NEW YORK AT IT'S BEST & WORST............FINALLY, SAM RAIMI(EVIL DEAD TRILOGY, HERCULES, XENA) GIVES US THE ORIGINAL SPIDERMAN FRANCHISE 1 THRU 3 WITH TOBY MCGUIRE AS THE WEBSLINGING URBAN LEGEND....AND DAREDEVIL WITH BEN AFFLECK AS THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR, JENNIFER GARNER AS ELEKTRA & VING RHAMES AS KINGPIN........LIKE BATMAN, SPIDERMAN AND DAREDEVIL GIVE US EPIC BATTLES AT THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS CITY....THERE YOU HAVE IT, NOW PRINT THE DAMN ARTICLE ALLREADY!!!!!!!!! HOW'S THAT FOR NEW YORK ATTITUDE?
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