KK's Korner

I've seen every Death Wish except for the last. Didn't Bronson take on The Mafia instead of the usual street thugs in that one? And yeah, that street punk who used his boom blaster as a shield in the 2nd one is fucking hilarious.

Yeah, although if what was shown was "The Mafia," then I have to question how that organization has stayed in business for so long. I forgot to check and see if "V" was a direct-to-video release. If you watch it, you wouldn't be able to know.

 

It did have a box-office release.

When I saw this entry's title on the blog main page, my first thought was that you had another encounter at the grocery store to tell us about...

Now that I have my personal shopper scanner thingy, my interaction with cashiers/customers is minimal.

Guess what?

 

Sylvester Stallone is going to remake Death Wish. Don't laugh, it may be good. "Rocky Balboa" was very good. Stallone (correctly) feels that the villians, muggers, scum, etc in the DW movies were lame and dated and just don't work today. He envisions really sicko, serial killer type bad guys that piss off a former violent person who spent time in prison. Said person goes Roman on the baddies.

 

Stallone interview:

 

The idea in the original of Jeff Goldblum as a mugger who breaks into an apartment seems very simplistic. It gives you an idea of how bad the elevation of violence has become. I want to focus on defense attorneys, on the people who are really allowing this crap to happen. Not so much the guy out in the street, but who permits it? What if it happened to you? What if your daughter down the hall was grabbed and her eyes were put out, would you want to defend that guy? There's moral questions here that are being presented that have not been asked in 30 years. So it's not the pacifist. This fella I see, and I'm giving you a little hint here, he was a very violent human being. An ex-convict who walked the walk, was accepted back into society, did everything he could to be clean. When the incident happens, he reverts back, and it's like "My God." Now you've unleashed a man who really understands the world of violence. He isn't burdened with this passive-aggressive conscientious objector thing that's been done. It's really what happens when the wolf in sheep's clothing goes back to the wolf.

 

 

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