OK, so I'm watching "Death Wish" movies on AMC and . . .

[Brigid]

Laughing my ass off. Does that make me a bad person?

[graywarrior]

1. No.

I do the same.

[Tom Ripley]

2. You will probably really like this...

Like the late Harry Crews, I also really dig the knuckles of Saint Bronson.
Nothing wrong with that.

[Brigid]

4. .

[Mendocino]

27. Stand your Ground!!!

Are these training movies for neighborhood watchmen?

Will Zimmerman use them in his defense?

Will "St. Charles" rise from the dead to testify for him?

[Major Nikon]

3. It just means you're going straight to hell with the rest of us

[Brigid]

5. Uh oh.

Bronson is ordering ginormous handguns through the mail and making his own ammo. There's gonna be trouble.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. They got progressively laugh-worthy...ESPECIALLY Death Wish IV

By this point Charles Bronson is, oh...I dunno...NINETY? And he SINGLE-HANDEDLY takes on THE ENTIRE COCAINE NETWORK OF LOS ANGELES.

Charles Bronson, weary and comatose, is trotted out again as the cocked crusader Paul Kersey in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Director Michael Winner has jumped ship for this installment, replaced by J. Lee Thompson (who has seen better days). Kersey is back in L.A. and dating attractive reporter Karen Sheldon (Kay Lenz). Of course, the clock is ticking, and the gong goes off when Karen's daughter overdoses on crack. Before you can say "kaboom" the drug dealer, along with a large cast of bit players, are blown to bits by the single-minded vigilante. An enterprising publisher whose own daughter has died from a drug overdose hires Kersey to wipe out the city's two rival drug dealers and their legions of flunkies. Kersey has no trouble agreeing, and using the technique limned in Yojimbo, he methodically eliminates gang members, first from one side and then the other, until one gang's paranoia about the other gang causes the two competitors to engage in a major confrontation that impacts both groups. ~ Paul Brenner, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 40 min.



http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_wish_4_the_crackdown/

[Brigid]

7. I think that one is next.

I may have to stay up for it.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Oh, TRUST me...it's a stinker on an EPIC scale.

It's been a while since I've seen it but it's one of those movies where elderly Charles Bronson, wielding some kinda bazooka or giant machine gun or something, keeps WALKING INTO A HAIL OF BULLETS from every crack addict in Southern California and blowing these guys away. Looks like they're showing all five films and DV4 is on in about 3-1/2 hours. I just turned it on, I'm IN.

[Brigid]

9. Oh shit. in the one that's on here . . .

The bad guys just killed his new girlfriend and then his buddy. And he's ordering stuff in the mail again. Yup, that means big trouble.

[Tom Ripley]

10. An architect/vigilante's gotta do what an architect/vigilante's gotta do

[Brigid]

11. OK, so . . .

The whole neighborhood is going up in flames, cars are exploding, gunfire everywhere -- and no SWAT team? What's up with that?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. WAIT until you watch III...that "whole neighborhood is going up in flames" thing gets EPIC.

[Brigid]

14. That was the one.

IV just started. Architectural consultant -- yeah, right!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

15. I'm still watching II...damn West Coast!

But you are in for a treat with IV.

[Brigid]

16. Lots of explosions and gunfire and stuff?

Oh goody.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. And a plot twist! A PLOT TWIST!!!!

You'll see it coming from a mile away.

[Brigid]

19. It has to do with . . .

That rich newspaper guy, right?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

12. It starts getting "cartoony" with III.

If you haven't seen it YOU HAVE TO SEE IT.

WHY, you ask?

Well, the "head bad guy" is none other than "Gavan O'Herlihy"...



...who played Richie Cunningham's brother "Chuck" on the first season of "Happy Days," but was replaced by another actor mid-season (holy Dick York / Dick Sargent on "Bewitched&quot , before they dropped the character together.

[Tom Ripley]

21. Chuck set up housekeeping with Eric's older sister on "That 70s Show"

a nice couple of kids....

[frogmarch]

18. He's dead, Jim

James Arness (Matt Dillon) killed Bronson in Gunsmoke ("The Killer" 1956).

(I first saw Charles Bronson in 1953 when he played a mute man in House of Wax. That was before he changed his name from Charles Buchinsky to Charles Bronson.)

[Brigid]

20. I think I'd have to change that name too.

[GReedDiamond]

22. The Death Wish franchise brought us - Death Wish 3...

...with original music by Jimmy Page - 1985.

So, if laughing your ass off makes you a bad person, then so am I.

[Tom Ripley]

23. And Jeff Goldblum as freak #1!!!

[GReedDiamond]

26. I would expect nothing less from Jeff Goldblum...

...being credited as freak #2 or a higher freak# would have been embarrassing to him.

In any case, a great bad movie worth being accused of being an idiot for watching.

[pokerfan]

24. Don't miss Jeff Goldblum

As 'Freak #1' in the first movie.

[Archae]

25. I tried watching the first movie. JUST that one.

Only about a half hour of it.

STOOOO-PID!