Some movies should never be remade. The best remakes are from movies that weren't very good the first time around. The most recent example I can think of is 'Ocean's Eleven.' But now comes the sad news that one of the best cult movies of all time (I'm not even sure if the label of 'cult' movie fits), 'The Warriors', directed by Walter Hill is going to be remade by Tony Scott ('Top Gun', 'Crimson Tide').

Why?

'The Warriors' is one of those rare movies that is good and bad at the same time. The action, tension and great band of characters allow us to overlook the huge plot holes, cheesy dialogue, and wooden acting. It's also great to watch now, because some of the cast have gone on to bigger and better things. For others, it was the end of the line after that.

For those pop culture heathens who have not seen it, 'The Warriors' is about a gang from Coney Island in Brooklyn who attend a 'super-gang' meeting in the Bronx. They are there to listen to Cyrus, a charismatic Black Panther type who talks about the gangs taking over the city and shouts "Can you dig it?" to the adoration of the thousands of gang members in attendance. Well, Cyrus is shot to death by one of the gangs there (we never find out why really. The shooting is done by the little weasily guy who played 'Luther' in 48 Hours. Oh and his name is 'Luther' in this movie too) and The Warriors are blamed. From that point on 'The Warriors' are determined to get back to their turf, but now they have all the gangs in New York chasing them. Their route takes them everywhere from the subway to Central Park and finally back to Brooklyn where the final showdown is to take place.

It's a cheesy good time and the cheesiness starts right away when one of the Warriors, 'Cowboy' (Tom McKitterick in his first and only role) is asking "What do you know about Cyrus?" The answers are things like, "He's the one and only." and "Magic. Pure magic." Well that explains it for me.

After Cyrus is capped, the guys realize they are going to have to "bop" their way back. No, not dance. Bop. That's the word used instead of 'fight' in this movie. "We may have to bop are way back" and "This is for all you boppers out there" are just a few times it is heard. I guess if you truly did want to fight some guy, walking up to him and saying, "Do you want to bop?" would do the trick.

The gang is full of cliched members of course. The leader (the second leader - the first, 'Cleon' gets lost in a crowd of Gramercy Riffs right after he is fingered as the gunman) Swan (played by Michael Beck in his greatest role), is a quiet type, but you know he can kick ass. There's the wiseass, Vermin (played by Terry Michos who went on to have a starring role in a 'Simon vs. Simon' episode) who at one point asks, "What the shit are we gonna do?", which has to be the first and only time I have ever heard the word 'shit' used that way. There is also the member who thinks he should be leader, Ajax (played James Remar who has actually gone on to have a pretty successful career as a character actor in quite a few productions) whose always "Sick of running from these wimps" and thinks everybody's going "faggot." Then there are the 'other' members. The ones who are there, but are just there to fight. Finally, there is the weakling. For whatever reason, in the movies all gangs always have one guy you know could never make it into a gang in real life. Yet, in movieworld, there's always room in the gang for a wuss. The character of 'Rembrandt' is that guy. He's given the duty of spraying the Warriors 'mark' wherever they go. One would think he'd be able to come up with this elaborate mark since his name is Rembrandt, but all he does is spray a big 'W' the one time they show him do it. Maybe the other guys can't read. However, they know where the subway stations are. That's one of those little plot holes I talked about earlier.