So...who's seen Escape from L.A.?

Funny story: When I first saw this film a few years ago I would have called it flawed to a crippling extent but with some interesting ideas. But man, in the years since it's started to age well.

A natural disaster turns an American city into a gang-infested hellhole populated mainly by "minorities." The President of the United States, a hypocritical, pious fraud with a spitfire daughter he cannot control, manipulates others into trying to find a doomsday weapon for him.

Meanwhile, time is running out for such "heroes" as we have left, and there seem to be more bad guys than good. All in a supercharged, high-testosterone fantasy that both looks back to what America probably never was and ahead to what it might possibly become.

In 1996 they thought it was satire. Heh. Funny.