Death Wish- the Remake

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I saw the trailer for this last night. I liked the original, and I like Bruce Willis, so when it comes to Amazon I'll probably watch it. After I've read a few reviews, of course.

I'm not a big fan of remakes, but there have been a couple worth watching. I actually liked the recent "Ghostbusters" better than the original.

What I wonder, though, is why they haven't remade "Soylent Green". It seems like it would be even more relevant these days.
 
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The first DW was very good. The followups, also with Bronson, not so much. I also saw the ad with Bruce Willis. No idea whether it is a fairly straight re-telling of the original or if there will be a different story line. I suppose Bruce Willis could do a good job of emulating Bronson, probably better than Tom Cruise, Mark Wahlburg, or Brad Pitt. I'll wait for the reviews.
 
I watched the trailer, and I got the feeling I had watched the whole movie, and not just once.

I’m sure it’ll be a good action flick, well-acted and entertaining.

But the difference is that back in the 1970s when the original came out, this concept was edgy and shocking and challenging.

Nowadays, it seems that every aging action star from Liam Neeson to Mel Gibson and Steven Seagal and even Michael Caine and whoever else has made one or more of these, and the concept of “Ordinary or not so ordinary guy avenges his friend or family because the cops can’t or won’t” has become the most tired of movie cliches.
 
Meh, the original was average to sub-par, sort of a dumbed-down Dirty Harry. Watchable popcorn movie, but not anything super-special. Bad stuff happens! Good guy gets mad! Good guy wins! Good guy wins! Good guy wins! Oh no, good guy suffers setback! Final shootout! Good guy wins!

Then they made...what? Three more?

I can't imagine it'll be improved any, but anything's possible.
 
I loved the first one. Paul Kersey made no effort to find the actual people who murdered his wife and raped his daughter. We never saw young Jeff Goldblum and his cronies again. Paul just went into the city and allowed himself to be victimized but fought back. He wasn't even very good at it at first. He becomes a hero, but doesn't really win in the end. He gets shot and run out of town.

In this one, Bruce uses script armor to hunt down the specific bad guys, so it will probably be another far - fetched standard revenge tale. That's too bad.
 
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sigp220.45 said:
I loved the first one. Paul Kersey made no effort to find the actual people who murdered his wife and raped his daughter. We never saw young Jeff Goldblum and his cronies again. Paul just went into the city and allowed himself to be victimized but fought back. He wasn't even very good at it at first. He becomes a hero, but doesn't really win in the end. He gets shot and run out of town.
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And actually, the original author, Brian Garfield (who btw. also wrote an excellent WW II book, "The Thousand-Mile War" about the Aleutian campaign), seems to have been worried enough by the possibility that people might misinterpret his book as cheerleading for vigilantism that he wrote a sequel, "Death Sentence", where Paul carries on in Chicago, but ultimately tries to pull the emergency brake, discovering however it's too late.
 
I looked it up and I guess I don't remember much about the original movie. It sounds like a plot thats been used many times in modern movies, westerns, and tv shows. I was thinking it was the one where Bronson was a trapper in the north and the Mounties were hunting him.
 
As for remakes and Bruce Willis I must say I watched The Jackal and you can´t compare it with the original starring Edward Fox.
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there is only one Paul Kersey......Charles Bronson.....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCnE0BfVNZE[/ame]
 
I was explaining the original to my wife. I told her that CB was on a revenge-fueled, murderous rampage. My wife said, "Wasn't that the plot of all his movies?"
 
RobertJ. said:
I saw the trailer for this last night. I liked the original, and I like Bruce Willis, so when it comes to Amazon I'll probably watch it. After I've read a few reviews, of course.

I'm not a big fan of remakes, but there have been a couple worth watching. I actually liked the recent "Ghostbusters" better than the original.

What I wonder, though, is why they haven't remade "Soylent Green". It seems like it would be even more relevant these days.
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I was going to post this a few days ago-along with others but battery died. Also, Willis is going to be a Doctor instead of an Architect. I love Charles Buchinsky in that role and highly doubt Willis can compare-BUT--I might give it a chance--maybe???

Just wait till Oceans 8 comes out? Frank Sinatra and the boys will be spinning in their graves over that one.:confused:

The next one for sure im planning seeing-is the Clint Eastwood made "Paris" movie.
 
Wise_A said:
Meh, the original was average to sub-par, sort of a dumbed-down Dirty Harry. Watchable popcorn movie, but not anything super-special. Bad stuff happens! Good guy gets mad! Good guy wins! Good guy wins! Good guy wins! Oh no, good guy suffers setback! Final shootout! Good guy wins!

Then they made...what? Three more?

I can't imagine it'll be improved any, but anything's possible.
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They made 4 more-the 5th was the lousiest. I liked all but the 5th-though the 3rd was actually kinda comical when Bronson didnt burn off his hand when holding that .30 cal mg by the barrel without hand protection of somekind? when firing it at the thugs. The first two were the best though.
 
brigeton said:
I looked it up and I guess I don't remember much about the original movie. It sounds like a plot thats been used many times in modern movies, westerns, and tv shows. I was thinking it was the one where Bronson was a trapper in the north and the Mounties were hunting him.
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I think that was Death Hunt-not a fave of mine but still a good movie.
 
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