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Post by MacReady on Feb 23, 2008 10:48:33 GMT -5
Bronson`s better than Head and Shoulder`s ever could be.
The demise of Bennett`s shop has always been a favorite moment of the series.
My shop!
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Post by Lord Chenney on Feb 23, 2008 11:13:43 GMT -5
he also does the same thing at the end of DW3. despite holding a newly loaded gun in his hand and only having a split second in which to operate, he puts the gun down and picks up the anti-tank rocket launcher and blows away not only fraker, but half the building he was trying to protect.
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Post by Kimble on Feb 23, 2008 12:01:47 GMT -5
"Do you believe in Jesus?" will always be my favourite creep demise along with the Boombox death & Frank Bauggs' post sandwich demise.
Haag, do you still have those Bronson pictures you made? Those were priceless.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2008 18:19:13 GMT -5
I love the dazzling new DW3 banner you guys have here now! It's positively terrific down to the guy with the plunger! Hey, even Rodriguez gets a peek in the corner! Speaking of which, I adore how Rodriguez is Hispanic for the first 5 minutes we see of him. After that he talks like a regular American citizen.
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Post by Let's Party on Feb 27, 2008 19:21:50 GMT -5
"What the fuck are you doing here?!?" "I was making a sandwich!" DW4 is underrated.
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Post by Kimble on Feb 29, 2008 12:44:20 GMT -5
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Post by sonofbronson on Mar 1, 2008 13:24:59 GMT -5
I just bought and read "Death Sentence" Brian Garfield's sequel to his novel "Death Wish"
Not bad. The whole story is about Paul moving to Chicago, getting to know the lay of the land and how he gets smarter about wasting creeps. Until he falls in love and realizes he can't go on doing this. Then there's the continuing subplot about a copycat who goes too far.
I wish they'd been able to turn this story into a movie, it would have complimented DW1 so well but I guess Brian Garfield hated what they did with his first novel and wouldn't sell the rights to this one. Too bad it could have been Paul Kersey's version of Magnum Force.
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Post by vigilante on Mar 6, 2008 3:41:13 GMT -5
Brian Garfield, the Death Wish author has given his blessing to Stallone's remake and has yet again taken the oppertunity to put the boot into Charles Bronson and the original series. www.moviehole.net/news/20080306_death_wish_author_approves_sta.htmlI didn't see Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon yet but I've heard it was pretty awful and had nothing whatsoever in common with the novel besides it's name. It didn't stop Garfield from praising it up and down and helping to promote it. I wish he'd stop trashing the Bronson movies as I'm certain they helped pay his bills over the last thirty years.
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Post by sonofbronson on Mar 6, 2008 8:31:36 GMT -5
He's just jealous because Bronson made those movies a success. Not some pantywaist author. Sure he might be responsible for part 1 but he's got no claim to the greatness that is DW3.
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Post by Cohaagen on Mar 6, 2008 8:42:06 GMT -5
I recall Michael " " Winner said something like "Garfield sold about two copies of Death Wish, one of which was to his mother". There's no love lost between Garfield and Winner, or Bronson for that matter. All I know of Garfield is that ill-advised photo of him posing with his miniature poodle. I had Death Sentence on my hands for about two weeeeeks but never watched it, which more or less says it all.
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Post by vigilante on Mar 6, 2008 8:46:04 GMT -5
He was very polite and gave lengthy answers to all the questions I emailed him for Death Wish Files. He got very excited when I mentioned the old DW3 video game. He never knew it existed and wanted any info I could give him. Good luck trying to get royalties out of Golan Globus & Gremlin Arcade....
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Post by sonofbronson on Mar 6, 2008 8:50:22 GMT -5
had Death Sentence on my hands for about two weeeeeks but never watched it, which more or less says it all. I know it's par for the course here but I have to tell you how much I respect the stretching out of 'two weeeeks'. That's a great reference. Okay back to the thread. I own the novels Death Wish and Death Sentence and I enjoy them both as separate entities from the films. Why can't Garfield just lay off Bronson already? Trust me, that is one ghost you don't want coming back to haunt you.
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Post by vigilante on Mar 6, 2008 8:55:04 GMT -5
On a seperate note, I always found this funny...this is from a 2001 DW3 review over on Amazon. A few years ago I took a Cinema Studies class at a major university and to my surprise, one of my classmates was Joseph Gonzalez, who plays Bronson's neighbor Rodriguez (the zip gun guy). For a whole semester I thought of approaching him and asking him about his work on the film, but I had the overwhelming feeling that he would simply glare at me and ask me not to mention this info to anyone else. I thought that having Death Wish III on one's resume was bad, but when I did some digging on the Internet Movie Database I found that Gonzalez's only other acting credit was the 1990 film Frankenhooker. I kept my mouth shut and decided to hold off on the Death Wish III trivia with my classmates.He must have hit the gym because this is the character he supposedley plays in Frankenhooker....
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Post by Kimble on Mar 6, 2008 10:28:25 GMT -5
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Post by Kimble on Mar 6, 2008 18:25:49 GMT -5
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