[BillyBoy]

Really? I've never seen it but it got scathing reviews at the time and everyone involved in the film says they regret getting involved in it. For example, the character of Peter Fallow the journalist (and narrator of the story) is supposed to be a pompous British muckraker reporter who despises all things American. The author pictured John Cleese in the role. The studio forced the director to cast Bruce Willis in the role anyway, because of his name ID from the Die Hard fame.

The original novel, on the other hand, is considered to the be the quintessential 1980s American story... much the same way that The Great Gatsby is considered to be the quintessential 1920s American story.

I wouldn't mind if they took another stab at adapting the book into a feature film.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’ll admit I didn’t read the novel, so that would probably cause me to have a different opinion had I done so. I think the film was a time capsule of that late ‘80s/early ‘90s period of rapid decay and out-of-control crime in NYC. It would have to be dramatically reworked for today for it to have relevance (I’d rather tell the Ferguson, Missouri story from the perspective of the cop and make a sweeping indictment of the media/political class and debauched and corrupted Black “leadership” coming to the defense of a massive rampaging thug).