Escape from New York

A little silly in parts but a fairly good futuristic action film, made in 1981. Kurt Russell is awesome as Snake Plissken.

What’s striking about the film, in case you’ve forgotten since the last time you saw it, is the eerie similarities between the opening sequences and the Sep. 11th terrorist attacks.

A fanatical terrorist hijacks Air Force One and deliberately crashes it into a building just a few blocks away from the World Trade Center. You even see the Towers off to the left as the plane comes into NY in the suicide mission. And when Plissken enters NY to attempt to rescue the President, he (somehow) lands his hang glider on top of the WTC and works his way to street level to begin his search. And it was weird seeing all the rubble in the streets around the base of the WTC, so reminiscent of Sep. 11.