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Originally Posted by Sculpt
What'd you guys think of The Brave One (2007), starring Jodie Foster? That's basically Death Wish again. I thought it was alright. It was fairly realistic. It doesn't torture us with a graphic opening attack on Jodie. It deals with Jodie dealing with the attack eventually, and first her being a vigilante.
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Not yet, but it's goign on my watchlist.
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Originally Posted by Sculpt
I'd rather just except your assessment that Death Wish was a sucky film, but otherwise there's the notion the pace and shots of 70's films at the time can be rather slow and mostly undynamic.
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This reminds me of something I heard on the Dead Meat channel on Final Destination. According to James, the test audiences were so shocked by the scene with Terry being run over by a bus that the filmmakers had to insert 40 seconds of footage in order to give them time to recover. Maybe filmmakers in the 70s also purposely gave the audience more time to take in the action.
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Originally Posted by urgeok2
after recently watching Death Wish for the first time in a long time .. I'd call it the poor man's Death Sentence.
I remember thinking Death Wish was a cool iconic film... but after watching it again .. i thought it was pretty crappy. It made a huge impression at the time because there was nothing really like it before. It was very raw - something i normally like .. but this viewing has me wondering why i ever liked it. Both films were based on books by the same author - Brian Garfield .. although apparently Death Sentence wasn't much like the book at all.
Kevin Bacon acts rings around Bronson. And I thought Goodman was fantastic.
Its probably not going to be a popular opinion here but personally - i think the newer film is a dozen times better than the original Death Wish.
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I see where you are coming from. Death Wish is one of those films where the iconic status perhaps makes it better than it actually is.
I also agree that John Goodman makes for a good villain. I wonder if he had any other villain roles and I don't include 10 Cloverfield Lane because that one left it a bit in the middle.