3. Escape From L.A. (1995)
John Carpenter isn't the kind of director to rehash old movies for the sake of it, which is why I think he must've had good intentions when it came to the rather pointless sequel to his awesome '80s flick
Escape From New York. The fact that Carpenter hadn't made a good film for a while when he mounted
Escape From L.A. probably didn't help matters, nor did the fact that he opted, for some reason, to replicate the plot of the first movie
entirely. If you've seen it, you'll know that
Escape From L.A. emerged as a bizarrely campy and strangely enjoyable B-movie homage, though I'm convinced that the "homage" part occurred entirely by accident: I'm not sure what Carpenter set out to create. The plot is unashamedly similar to that of the first movie: Snake must venture to a once famous city, now transformed into a prison island, to recover a Doomsday device. It seems unnecessarily shoe-horned into place to match up with the original, but Kurt Russell makes the ride bearable. Sort of.