re: Death Wish - Rotten Tomatoes Score 17%

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I mean, this is the villain...



Death Wish series sure had a disliking for Punks.

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Well he obviously was against equality!

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Sure he got his revenge but everyone around him died in every movie.

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He barely blinked when they pushed his new girlfriend into traffic, killing her in a fiery crash in DW 3. By then he was mostly dead inside.

Just got out of it

I guess me pointing out the "not equal" sign on that guy's forehead was too controversial for one guy.

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interrogates the original film's assumptions

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a.k.a. the truth.

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"we white straight men are under attack and thus are so completely justified in slaughtering — ah, defending ourselves — with extreme (and literal) prejudice"?

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This person sounds like a barrel of laughs.

For a mindless popcorn flick, I enjoyed it.


And those reviews are fricking hilarious for politicalizing it to the extent they did.

In no way shape or form did it blindly endorse gun violence. I liked the repeated media reactions to Willis’s character’s actions. For being a “tone deaf film,” they certainly had some real feeling evaluations and criticisms being brought up. Some of which being the same points the reviewers did. Which is making me start to wonder if they even actually earnestly watch the movies they review.

For being a...what was it? A “masturbatory conservative fantasy,” the parts of the movie that leaned closest that way felt more like a caricature than actual endorsement.

At most, this movie can be accused of offering a heavily dramatized depiction of why guns are useful tools, focused on a line early in the movie saying that people expect to wait for the cops, but they always show up after the fact. Never when it is actually happening or needed.

Which is true.


But because it’s against the desires of the groupthink, it is a racist and fascist film.

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And the irony seems completely lost of a white guy wearing a hoodie gunning down minorities in Chicago being a terrible look

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Leave it to Hollywood to think that a prevailing problem in America is white on black violence

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Given the reaction of liberal Hollywood, I’ll be seeing this movie.

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This.

I can't muster up enough interest in this to go see it but I do have note the irony that most of those reviews would have viewed it as more acceptable if Bruce were replaced by Samuel Jackson killing punks.

If a movie reviewer's stance on vigilante justice hinges on the colors of the people shot (or shooting) then his grasp on the underlying moral issues you should care most about is pretty weak.