Ahhh..one of my favorite guilty pleasures in life has always been the Death Wish series starring Charles Bronson....The Death Wish series contains five movies about Charles Bronson going around beating up, mangling and killing bad guys that are somewhere between half his age to one fourth of his age...
The original from 1974 has always been critically acclaimed all of that good stuff...but the Cannon Years for Bronson..perhaps sentimental memories of renting them from the Dairy Bar next to Lloyds in the Passage or those numerous times they repeated on TBS or WGN or one of those channels...it seemed there was never a time where you could not find a Bronson or Chuck Norris or some other fine Cannon production on the ol boob tube...esp after 12 midnight...or 10 to Midnight (Another Bronson classic from 1983)
But right now...im talking Death Wish 3...from 1985...Remember when action movies contained blood and boobs worth an R-rating? When action movies had real explosions and no CGI? When action movies starred real men and not some model GQ pansy? This was the age when the manliest man of the twentieth century roamed the silver screen, his name was Charles Bronson and Death Wish 3 was the best of them all...
I remember watching it on VHS as i was too young to have seen it in theaters back in 85...however while having a Bronson marathon while i lived in Crowell Tower back in the good ol days at Acadia U was when Death Wish 3 really...i mean really took off...the only movie that got more repeats was when i purchased Shogun Assassin on an archaic VHS while at Mount A back in 2003... let`s get back to Death Wish 3...shall we?
I remember reading a review of Death Wish 3 where the reviewer stated that Death Wish 3 is not a continuation, nor is it an advancement of characters or plot lines; it is only a 90 minute turkey shoot. A madhouse of rape, torture, brutality, explosions, and savage murder without even a hint of story.....well ya i guess they got that part right... but hey this is all about the Bronsoninator and omg the body count in this puppy...i mean Death Wish 3 is not going to win any awards except the Old Man Robb Movie of the yr for 1985...the Cannon Memorial Award...gosh those crazy Cannon Pictures Golan-Globus guys were geniuses...
Well maybe not all the time...
The key to enjoying DEATH WISH 3 is to accept it for what it is. It ain't indoor bullstuff and it ain't art. So throw some Jiffypop on the stove and get some wobblepops and watch Bronson's finest 90 minutes or so...
Oh ya and by the way there is a documentary coming out about Cannon Pictures entitled "Electric Bugaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Pictures" A theatrical release is being planned for late 2012...
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