Steineded How sad is this?

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

PimpinAinttEasy The Wanderers is a really nice coming of age gang war movie that is mostly comedic but contains some commentary on race relations. The film had many cool actors. These were the ones that stood out for me - TONY GANIOS was really cool as the alpha male tough guy who always came to the gang's rescue. I'm surprised he did not become a big B-movie star. KAREN ALLEN looked gorgeous. JOHN FRIEDRICH is nearly as memorable as De Niro in Bang the Drum Slowly. A young LINDA MANZ makes quite an impression. Her role as the aggressive wannabe Peewee is almost like a precursor to her role as the murderous Cebe in OUT OF THE BLUE (1980). I also noticed KEN FOREE as one of the promoters of the football match.It is sort of a film of place. The chase scene at the beginning through the dark alleyways of New York with the jumps over the wire fences (might have inspired the chase scene in POINT BREAK), the garden-museum where Richie (KEN WAHL) and his girlfriend go to kiss, the bowling alley, the small apartments where the characters live. The film is full of these cool places (atleast from the viewers point of view).The film has eve teasing and groping scenes that would put most Bollywood movies to shame and make feminists convert to Islam. It is probably a bit long at 2 hours but its great entertainment.(7.5/10)

Sam_Fisher_024 Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle down Where pretty girls are well, you know that I'm around I kiss 'em and I love 'em 'cause to me they're all the same I hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my nameThey call me the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh well, there's Flo on my left and there's Mary on my right And Janie is the girl with that I'll be with tonight And when she asks me, which one I love the best? I tear open my shirt I got Rosie on my chest'Cause I'm the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh well, I roam from town to town I go through life without a care And I'm as happy as a clown I with my two fists of iron and I'm going nowhereI'm the type of guy that likes to roam around I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town And when I find myself fallin' for some girl I hop right into that car of mine and ride around the worldYeah I'm the wanderer Yeah, the wanderer I roam around, around, aroundOh yeah, I'm the type of guy that likes to roam around I'm never in one place, I roam from town to town And when I find myself a-fallin' for some girl I hop right into that car of mine and drive around the worldYeah, 'cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer I roam around, around, around'Cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer I roam around, around, around'Cause I'm a wanderer Yeah, a wanderer

nathanschubach I was delightfully surprised with this film. I wasn't sure what I was expecting, but I watched it after it was mentioned by "The Warriors" director Walter Hill because he had some worries that his film and The Wanderers would be coming into theaters around the same time, and he described them as two street-gang movies competing for box office sales. As much as the seniors in this movie had a "gang," the two movies were far different from each other, I feel.The Wanderers is a strange movie. At moments, intensely serious fighting and interpersonal problems exist amongst these teens in the community, and then in other scenes, the moments couldn't have been lighter (ie. Playing strip poker with a couple of the girls at a party). It reminded me more of "Porky's" and the relationships between characters in that film. The cast was an excellent ensemble, and even though most of them went on to other acting work, I'm surprised I haven't seen them in more roles.Watching the movie now is a little difficult due to political correctness and the way the movie tried to cut the racial tension with a knife. The movie has real guts by laying it out there for the audience to get uncomfortable by. The truly surreal moments involve a whole different gang that shows up a few different times during the movie; they don't seem to resemble a different neighborhood and its residents but more like zombies, and it was very difficult to take them seriously without understanding their true intentions and characters. In contrast, I really enjoyed The Baldies, the neighborhood skinhead gang that didn't seem to take life too seriously, which differentiates itself between the skinhead stereotype of white supremacists which most skinheads get labeled as.Overall, I really want to buy this movie after watching it. It reminds me of a movie that tried to get remade in the same style, "Dueces Wild." The characters were playful yet had real problems. The music is classic 60's tunes from the era, with a handful of originally scored pieces for the surreal fighting scenes. I feel that its good enough for a few more watches, but there are some odd choices for included scenes that I didn't feel fit the movie too well. Definitely check it out if you like gang movies like The Outsiders or The Warriors.

Wrapper30 I love this film. I remember this was one of the first videos I hired in the early 80's and loved it initially as a teenager for the fighting, humour and great soundtrack. I revisit it a couple of times a year and it grows on more even more and you realise there is a lot more to it. Turkey's death is more and more harrowing and most of the guys fight and play (american) football to escape from poverty and abusive parents. I am quite surprised that other than Karen Allen and Ken Wahl, none of the leads really went on to bigger and better things as there are some fine performances in this. I much prefer it to the better known "The Warriors".