For me, it’s one of the first movies I think of when I hear the term cult classic, it’s like quintessential. It’s a film I’ve always dug because it gets you right into the thick of the story immediately. The grimy, underground look and feel of 70’s New York bounces right off the screen, and in that sense it’s set in a world I’ve always wanted to explore more of. Which made the game for the PS2 so fun because you got to see more of the city, the different gangs that were either background players or non existent in the film, the backstory of the characters and how the group came to be. And in an unintentional way, I think the game almost became an essential companion piece for the movie.
I think it’s a different kind of classic. Is it in the same vein as say, The Godfather? No, but it’s got it’s own distinct look and style, it’s got quotables that ended up being apart of the pop culture lexicon, and even all these generations later it’s endured. Personally, I loved the game a ton as a kid and me and my friends played it all the time, and my dad was always fond of quoting Luther’s famous line, so I’m voting yes.
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