Sentences with phrase «death wish movie»

There's bad timing, and then there's releasing a new Death Wish movie right now.

As mass shootings invade American life on a terrifyingly routine basis nowadays, the November 17 launch of Marvel's The Punisher brings a conflicted cacophony of gunfire and blood - dripping militarism and nihilism that makes Charles Bronson's Death Wish movies look like a philosophical pillow fight.

Grandpa, Murder and the American Dream, by Amanda Hudgins Amanda revisits the Death Wish movies and, surprise, the populist vigilante at their center is more terrifying than you remember.

Not exact matches

The trick for a movie of this type, at least one that is aspiring to be more than just a simple - minded exploitation film (such as the original Charles Bronson «Death Wish,» a far more complicated work than usually given credit for, especially in comparison to its tacky sequels), is to create a narrative that somehow justifies such actions without completely overdoing it.

Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is rated higher in international film circles than «Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.

Wish I Was Here is definitely a sadder movie than Garden State, as it's largely about death, of dreams and of people.

That's a serious question; I'm sincerely curious: Why are you sitting there, right now, reading a review of the movie Death Wish?

«Death Wish,» make no mistake, is a movie that has its heart in the wrong place.

Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R - rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).

Roth, no stranger to pouring on the reckless boundaries of surrealistic and sadistic porn imagery of torture, fuels his edgy, yet sluggish, edition of Death Wish with a tiresome and nostalgic regurgitation of the late action star Charles Bronson's urban movie series from yesteryear.

The truth is that a movie like this one doesn't matter anymore (the way the Charles Bronson «Death Wish,» though scuzzy and rather listless pulp, did), because even its rabble - rousing feels market - tested.

But «Death Wish,» more than those other movies, foreshadowed the moment we're in now, since it was so much about the mythological trashing of the rule of law.

Eli Roth's best movie since Hostel Part II, Death Wish follows Bruce Willis» Paul Kersey as he embarks on a campaign of uncompromising vengeance after his wife (Elizabeth Shue's Lucy) and daughter (Camila Morrone's Jordan) are attacked and left for dead - with Paul's revenge - fueled exploits eventually garnering the interest of two overworked detectives (Dean Norris» Kevin Raines and Kimberly Elise's Leonore Jackson).

In what is quickly looking like Bald Men: The Movie, news has come that Vincent D'Onofrio and Breaking Bad's Dean Norris have joined Bruce Willis for the upcoming Death Wish remake.

The movie may not turn 66 - year - old Danny Trejo, a longtime supporting player who brought his bronzed biceps and ravaged look to disposable thrillers like Death Wish 4 and Maniac Cop 2, into a Bronsonesque leading man.

Understanding the jaw - dropping effort that went into this movie, it's tempting to wish that Kobiela, Welchman, and their army of animators had come to the same conclusion that old Albinus reached before he scrapped the whole idea: A film made in this way, he reckoned, «would bore most people to death and be a general disappointment.»

With the appointment of Parent, MGM will enter its new phase of evolution by focusing on its major movie franchises highlighted by JAMES BOND and PINK PANTHER sequels, THE HOBBIT, THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR 2, THE OUTER LIMITS, ROBOCOP, DEATH WISH and FAME, among others.

Bona fide westerns have become completely hippefied (Little Big Man, McCabe and Mrs. Miller), while the values of the traditional western have been transplanted whole into a new genre of gritty law - and - order cop movies (Death Wish, Dirty Harry).

Headlines Death Wish Trailer Disney to Use Facial Recognition to Gather Data in Theatres Al Gore's Top 5 Movies

Instead, Kersey turns himself into another faceless gunman, through a handful of meh montages, transforming Death Wish «s plot into another painfully wash - rinse - repeat «scorned dude out for blood» trip down Hollywood movie memory lane.

Yahoo Movies has debuted four first look images for Eli Roth's upcoming remake of the 1974 revenge thriller Death Wish featuring Bruce Willis and Vincent D'Onofrio; check them out here... «A mild - mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.»

Following on from the first look images of «Death Wish» comes the trailer and poster for the Bruce Willis action movie.

For every Knock Knock there is an unwatchable Green Inferno, and his latest movie, the ill - advised Death Wish remake, fell on the «thoroughly unwatchable» end of the scale.

Staunton is so smug and prissy, you will quite literally find yourself wishing for her gruesome death ten minutes into the movie.

MGM has launched the second official trailer for Eli Roth's new remake of the 1974 action movie Death Wish, which originally starred Charles Bronson.

The movie was shot by co-directors with a death wish Sebastian Junger (A Perfect Storm) and Tim Hetherington (The Devil Came on Horseback) who embedded themselves with a 15 - man, U.S. military unit stationed at a remote outpost in the Korengal Valley from May 2007 to July 2008.

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Al Pacino, Andrei Tarkovsky, death wish, Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Rocky, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, The Conversation, The Godfather

Movies.com proposes Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs from Lethal Weapon, Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan from Dirty Harry, Chuck Norris as Colonel James Braddock from Missing in Action, Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey from Death Wish, Jean - Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux from Bloodsport and Carl Weathers as Action Jackson from the movie of the same name.

Death Wish joined Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Serpico, The French Connection and other socially - conscious movies of the era in putting New York under the microscope, revealing a screeching subway system covered in graffiti, trash - strewn streets and an omnipresent criminal element.

Characters are drawn broadly, the meshing of the «real» and «fake» portions of the movie are shoddy, but Steve Irwin is Steve Irwin, handling animals like he has some sort of death wish.

The failure of Death Wish is more than just bad timing, it's an offensive movie with no moral compass.

Owing a deadpan debt to Chopper, this mortifying movie centres around Daniel Henshall's smiling, patrician psychopath, a narcissistic maniac with delusions of avenging angel grandeur, who feeds upon family insecurities to fuel his insatiable death wish.

Death Wish, Cobra, The Boondock Saints, Dirty Harry, Taxi Driver, Sin City and Mad Max are just some of the films that the Punisher movies have been compared to and, in most cases, they blow Frank Castle out of the water.