Death Wish 3, tonight ITV4 2210h

[Blumf]

The solemn meditation on crime, community, and redemption is perhaps Michael Winners greatest work (after defending some lesbians).

RLM review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgbPUHfBJA0

[Shit Good Nose]

Debut of the blue leather jacket, mail order rocket launcher, Martin Balsam using a full size howitzer, death of The Giggler, dreadful score by a newly sober Jimmy Page, villain death so good they did it again in another sequel. 

Masterpiece.

[Epic Bisto]

The Sistine Chapel should be painted over with stills from this film.

"How do you it was him?"
"Oh, it was him."

[A Hat Like That]

"I hope you like chicken. It's the only thing I know how to make."
"Chicken's good. I like chicken."

[A Hat Like That]

The one thing that would have improved it is replacing the guy who looks a bit like Ernest Borgnine with Ernest Borgnine.

[Epic Bisto]

MY SHOP!  MY SHOP!  MY SHOP!  MY SHOP!  MY SHOP!

One of my favourite things about this film is where it was shot.  If you're simple enough or just squint a bit, the first half does a good job of trying to look like a war-torn section of New York, rather than a patch of Sarf London.  The second half feels like London all the way.  All the stuntmen have a certain look to them (the one picking his teeth with a grenade, the one who gets a nail in the head), that sort of Newcastle-Brown-drinking, 3 packs of B&H a day, (to quote Taylor Parkes) sausage-sandwich-eating-motherfuckers look to them.  They all look like they're called Derek.

Also, Alex Winter's character is supposed to be Hispanic.

[A Hat Like That]

Yeah, I was not surprised to see Ricco Ross and Tip Tipping turn up, if that's what you're getting at.

[Shit Good Nose]

My favourite story from the making of the film is how Bronson had a top-end Jag with a driver all to himself to drive him from his trailer to the set.  Which was about 10 feet away.

Also always worth mentioning that Chuck was 64.



Obviously less entertaining is Marina Sirtis' experience of the shoot.  Perhaps save that for a separate thread...

[Epic Bisto]

Yeah, I was not surprised to see Ricco Ross and Tip Tipping turn up, if that's what you're getting at.

Definitely.  You spend most of your time waiting for Roy Kinnear to turn up as a chainsaw-wielding Yardie.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Also, Alex Winter's character is supposed to be Hispanic.

I worked with a young lad who looked the spit of him.

[Shaky]

Bronson is still the epitome of most-elderly-action-star-ever, even if the likes of Ford and Stallone have him beaten at this stage. I think his decrepit aura is enhanced by the fact he barely even moves in films from the early 80's onwards. The fucker literally just stands still in every scene. Maybe says two words. Genius.

[Phoenix Lazarus]

I remember catching the start of one of the Death Wish films, in which the main villain hurls a shop dummy into a vat of acid.  I didn't watch the film past it's beginning, but I have a feeling that was almost certainly foreshadowing some character's fate...

[magval]

Lads how class is this film? Should I watch it?

[Shit Good Nose]

Lads how class is this film? Should I watch it?

Debut of the blue leather jacket, mail order rocket launcher, Martin Balsam using a full size howitzer, death of The Giggler, dreadful score by a newly sober Jimmy Page, villain death so good they did it again in another sequel. 

Masterpiece.

[magval]

Should I watch it without the first 2

[Shit Good Nose]

Yes.  It doesn't matter.

[Mr Banlon]

New York graffiti artist visiting London is asked to graff up the Death Wish III set by Winner : https://youtu.be/uEbh97UbIgM?t=1103

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Bronson is still the epitome of most-elderly-action-star-ever, even if the likes of Ford and Stallone have him beaten at this stage. I think his decrepit aura is enhanced by the fact he barely even moves in films from the early 80's onwards. The fucker literally just stands still in every scene. Maybe says two words. Genius.

Absolutely, the aged Bronson's blatant "Couldn't give a shit, mate" attitude while wandering through those action films is to be applauded. Who here among us wouldn't follow his lead if, in our dotage, people kept throwing wads of cash our way while asking for no more than the barest minimum of effort? Nice one, Chas. The ultimate pension plan.

[Blumf]

Lads how class is this film? Should I watch it?

Yes.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

I honestly had no idea that Bronson wore a syrup until watching that RLM review, I've always assumed that he had naturally thick, lustrous hair.  It's a pretty convincing piece, no?

[Ant Farm Keyboard]

Debut of the blue leather jacket, mail order rocket launcher, Martin Balsam using a full size howitzer, death of The Giggler, dreadful score by a newly sober Jimmy Page, villain death so good they did it again in another sequel. 

Masterpiece.

Page didn't write a single note. They just reused his score from Death Wish II.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimmy-page-death-wish-soundtrack/

[George White]

The one thing that would have improved it is replacing the guy who looks a bit like Ernest Borgnine with Ernest Borgnine.

Martin Balsam?
Nah. He's just as good as Borgnine.
They did work together in an astonishing sounding Italian prison actioner called the Last Match, about a NFL pro named Cliff Gaylor, played by a dubbed Oliver Tobias whose daughter is ratted for drugs Midnight Express-style, so Cliff and his mates (Including a few NFL stars) team up and raid the prison in American football gear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA5gdep1axc
Also, Henry Silva and Charles Napier

[BlodwynPig]

Was The Giggler in more than one film? Hate that cunt

[Sebastian Cobb]

Page didn't write a single note. They just reused his score from Death Wish II.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimmy-page-death-wish-soundtrack/

Soundtrack wise DW1 with Herbie Hancock is the winner.

[PowerButchi]

Death Wish 2 is the best one.

[Egyptian Feast]

Death Wish 2 is the best one.

I was watching it a few years back and remembered somebody on here (possibly [banned troll]) talking about an inappropriate synth sting from Jimmy Page when Bronson returns home to the aftermath of the horrific gang rape and sees his daughter's unicorn ornament on the floor. So when it happened I lol'd a little too hard considering I had company. 3 is best.

[Egyptian Feast]

Previous post also qualifies for the 'Strange, random, out-of place things in films that make you laugh' thread.

[Ballad of Ballard Berkley]

Death Wish 2 is the best one.

Just tried to watch that, but binned it during the rape scene. Michael Winner was such a leering piece of shit, an incompetent, fatuous hack with no moral compass or artistic integrity. I don't care how many lesbians he defended against Richard Littlejohn.

The first film is more contemptible than the sequels, as it presents itself as a fairly serious, gritty piece of social commentary. Is it fuck, it's an offensive right-wing fantasia. At least Death Wish 3 doesn't attempt to be anything other than an utterly stupid action film.

[Shit Good Nose]

The first film is more contemptible than the sequels, as it presents itself as a fairly serious, gritty piece of social commentary. Is it fuck, it's an offensive right-wing fantasia.

Often wonder how the original Sidney Lumet directed version with Jack Lemmon would have panned out.  On the one hand Serpico probably wouldn't have happened, at least not with Lumet, but on the other - Sidney Lumet directing Jack Lemmon as a middle aged vigilante...

[Blumf]

Often wonder how the original Sidney Lumet directed version with Jack Lemmon would have panned out.  On the one hand Serpico probably wouldn't have happened, at least not with Lumet, but on the other - Sidney Lumet directing Jack Lemmon as a middle aged vigilante...

Was going to say, in Charley Varrick he showed some gritty chops, but no, you were talking about Jack Lemmon, not Matthau (thanks, brain!)

What's the grittiest Lemmon ever got on film?