I am not a fan of director Eli Roth. I think he’s a torture porn peddler. Was that clear enough? It’s not like Death Wish needed a remake…any of them, but if you’re going to remake it and “remiagine” it, as MGM puts it, guess what you’re going to get when you put Eli Roth in charge of it. Yeeeeah. There was a reason this was not placed on the “Most Anticipated Fall Films Poll”. Bruce Willis, you’re lucky you’re working on Unbreakable 2, because between this and a lot of direct to video movies you’ve been doing lately, I’d be willing to call your career pretty much done. Death Wish also starsde Vincent D’Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone, Dean Norris and Kimberly Elise. Death Wish opens November 22, 2017, in case you thought this went well with turkey.
In the film, Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER – until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts his family’s assailants to deliver justice. As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media’s attention, the city wonders if this deadlyvigilante is a guardian angel or a grim reaper. Fury and fate collide in the intense, action-thriller Death Wish.
Paul Kersey becomes a divided person: A man who saves lives, and a man who takes them; a husband and father trying to take care of his family, and a shadowy figure fighting Chicago crime; a surgeon extracting bullets from suspects’ bodies, and the vigilante called “The Grim Reaper” who detectives are quickly closing in on.
Joe Carnahan (The Grey, Narc) penned the screenplay for the film, which is based on the 1974 Motion Picture by Wendell Mayes and the novel by Brian Garfield. The film is set to debut in theaters on November 22.
Charles Bronson starred in the original 1974 Death Wish film as Kersey and reprised his role across four sequels over the course of the next two decades.
Bruce Willis will bounce back. He always does after going through a slump. This movie on the other hand I will pass on.
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I am gonna take a pass myself
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My pleasure!
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The same story done a thousand times. Pass.
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Here is what puzzles me about Mr. Roth. I could see making a film like Green Inferno if you were going to get rich off of it. I mean, I would not do it, but you can wrap your mind around the concept. But Green Inferno was never going to be a huge hit, so WHY?
WHY? WHY? WHY?
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……that is your only and one Eli Roth question?
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My question is, what is wrong with a human being that makes him want to contribute to a genre informally known as “tourture porn”? And you really have to grasp at answering that question when the financial remuneration is not that great.
We have free speech in this country and people like Roth must be allowed to peddle whatever they want to peddle. I am not arguing against that. But it is always worth remembering that if Roth had tried to show Green Inferno to kids back in the early days of this country, George Washington would have lined him up against a wall.
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Sorry, that sounded way more controversial than I meant. I just meant that culture has deteriorated.
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Yes that’s for sure
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I’m not sure why Willis is doing this movie and working with Roth, but the sequel to Unbreakable and Split will make up for it.
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Willis seems to be completely indifferent to what movie he’s starring in with barely few exceptions in last, probably, 15 years… (like the Wes Anderson movie he did, “Moonrise Kingdom”)
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