Death Wish (1974)

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Death Wish (1974)

by Alan Smithee Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:11 am

The start of another movie franchise that shouldn't have been. Tough guy Charles Bronson as a liberal architect pushed into becoming a vigilante after his wife is killed and his adult daughter is left in a vegetative state after a home invasion. I liked the ending of the novel better.

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Re: Death Wish (1974)

by Shale Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:32 am

I never read the novel but loved the movie when I shouldn't have in the '70s.

Was trying that very spiritual non-violence stuff and actually felt guilty about enjoying the thugs getting offed in that movie.

I have since learned to control my benevolent nature.

I didn't like the ending of Law Abiding Citizen - think he should have escaped to another city and taken on the corrupt system there.

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Re: Death Wish (1974)

by CeCe Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:15 pm

Shale wrote:

I didn't like the ending of Law Abiding Citizen - think he should have escaped to another city and taken on the corrupt system there.

That would have been a much better ending.

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Re: Death Wish (1974)

by Alan Smithee Mon Jul 11, 2011 8:05 pm

CeCe wrote:

Shale wrote:

I didn't like the ending of Law Abiding Citizen - think he should have escaped to another city and taken on the corrupt system there.

That would have been a much better ending.

Spoiler re the Death Wish novel. In the movie, he's caught but not punished. At the end of the book, he's cleaning up after killing a bad guy and he sees a cop looking right at him and figures he's cooked. Until the cop just turns away.

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Re: Death Wish (1974)

by wants2laugh Tue Jul 12, 2011 12:03 am

yeah that would have been good. Would have been a very human reaction on the cop's part.

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Re: Death Wish (1974)

by Supernova Mon Feb 13, 2012 3:41 am

With Charles Bronson? Bits and pieces, though I think I've seen more of the...3rd, or 4th? Whichever one people say is the worst, more than the original.