Jeez, don’t let them see the original Charles Bronson version — they’d have to be hospitalized!!!
The original caught a lot of grief as well. The author of the book was really ticked at the ending because in the book he starts killing people for very little. It was supposed to be about vigilantism being a very bad thing in the end.
But the movie painted a different picture entirely.
To say that Charles Bronson was a “bad ass” would be an understatement.
>>Jeez, don’t let them see the original Charles Bronson version — they’d have to be hospitalized!!!<<
IIRC Bronson was steely-eyed all business revenge-killing-with-businesslike-ruthlessness, which was FANTASTIC!
It looks like Bruce Willis plays this with a lot of sarcastic humor, which is a great spin and looks FANTASTIC.
Mrs FD hates blood and guts and I don’t care for them (we stopped watching CSI and Criminal Minds) so I suspect she won’t want to see this. But I will get it and watch it on the plane after it goes to DVD.
I haven’t been to a movie theater since “Tron Legacy.”
The Bronson set of “Vendetta” movies were all enjoyable. I have them all.
The reaction of the critics to this movie will ensure it’s success.
In the 50’s the Catholic Church would often “ban” Catholics from reading certain books (Peyton Place)or watching certain movies (To Kill A Mockingbird). They quit doing it when they realized by banning books and movies they made them more successful than they otherwise may have been.
A journalist interviewed Michael Winner, who directed the original. “Why is there so much violence in your films?” he sneered. Winner grabbed the guy’s tape recorder and smashed it against the wall.
Most leftie critics hated the original version too.
http://www.metacritic.com/movie/death-wish-1974/critic-reviews