Death Wish (1974) - 50th Anniversary Review
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- For the 50th anniversary of its release, it is time to revisit Charles Bronson's classic revenge saga 'Death Wish' directed by Michael Winner.
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I love how you weave together a collection of cinema options surrounding the movie being discussed. You really put us viewers onto top notch films
Always a pleasure singing the praises of some of my favorite movies from the Seventies. By far my favorite decade of filmmaking.
Great film. Fifty years wow! Charles was the Punisher of the 70's and 80's cinema.
100% I still have a ton of movies of his movies left to see but it is tough to beat 'Death Wish'.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock It's a masterpiece. I'm glad I watched it a few years back.
Thanks for the revisit. A classic film.
Have people forgotten how bad crime was in the '70s & '80s, especially in NYC? It's easy to see why Death Wish and other vigilante films struck a cord with audiences. If you've been victimized, these films can be cathartic.
High recommend for Street Law (1974) starring Franco Nero. It's a solid Italian Death Wish "cash in" for those inclined.
I totally forgot about Street Law but thanks for the reminder. Director Enzo G. Castellari doesn't get nearly as much love as he should.
Death Wish is a nice little time capsule. My dad was a cop when movies like Death Wish and Dirty Harry came out. He had mixed feelings about vigilante pictures, especially Dirty Harry. On the one hand, he understood their appeal, but on the other, he also understood why we don't just empower randos to "clean up" the city, since people ultimately have their own definitions of "undesirables."
One thing is undeniable, my dad, who was always the tallest or one of the tallest people in any photo you will find him in, always had a hell of a lot of respect for Charles Bronson. Bronson might have just been 5'9", but he was a total badass.
I still need to watch 10 to Midnight. Thank you for this review. You make me want to watch Death Wish again just to hear the score. I am not sure that I truly appreciated the score the first time that I watched the film. I was young and stupid. That is my only defense.
10 to Midnight is a mean and nasty movie but undeniably entertaining. As far as Herbie's score goes, all I can say is enjoy!
Micheal Winner was a bit of a joke here in the UK as he was mainly known for his adverts that included his catch phase "Calm down dear". Winner mainly made B movies so I didn't like his films but I do remember watching and enjoying The Mechanic in the 80's
I just learned that he also became a famous restaurant critic late in life. Ironic that he would become that which had been so critical of so many of his movies.
I saw the first Death Wish last year for the first time, or rather for the first time in its entirety. You can really feel Bronsons character go through all the stages to becoming a vigilante and that is what makes the film great for me, it adds to the violence so to speak.
100% agree. That ingredient is pretty much gone in the sequels but his gradual metamorphosis in the original film is a huge part of what makes the film so eerily compelling and addictive.
Great movie. I saw it weekend it came out at theater in lower Manhattan . You got them right, retired Newark cop an x Army Ranger 😢. Big Bronson fan. Met him in Vermont. Though had many of copies. It inspired the Subway shooter
Oh man, I'd have loved to have met Bronson. They truly do not make them like him anymore.
Love these anniversary reviews. Keep them coming!!
Will do! Lots of juicy options on the horizon.
I haven't watched it in decades. Maybe early 80s with my Uncle and his best friend. Once a year we would clean guns, watch Dirty Harry & Bullitt, their two favorite movies. I watched Chinatown on its 50th anniversary day.
Tough to beat Dirty Harry and Bullitt. San Francisco was rarely used better apart from Hitchcock's Vertigo. As far as Chinatown goes, Hall of Fame. Cinematic perfection.
Awesome take on the original classic flick! They don't make industrial strength bad-asses like Bronson anymore, and they certainly DO NOT make first-rate crime dramas like this and the other '70s classics, particularly the vigilante sub-genre. "Thriller: A Cruel Picture" was certainly intense and, well, different in its uncensored version (all for films in their uncensored versions BTW--that's the way the director made it, that's how it should be shown!). Another top-notch NYC vigilante flick of the period is Abel Ferrara's "Ms. 45," with Zoe Lund; typical grittiness for Ferrara's flicks. Not sure you've done one, but I'd love to see you do a retrospective on Ferrara's NYC stuff--"Fear City" and especially "King of New York" are masterpieces--plus there's "Bad Lieutenant!" Keep it up--I stumbled onto "Fear City" because of one of your Erotic Thriller retrospectives--you're one of the best film RUclipsrs out there!
Massive fan of Ms. 45 and we tackled it at the 04:44 mark in this video about movies filmed in New York: ruclips.net/video/dw8ckulrC7c/видео.html
Colossal fan of Ferrara. Proud owner of Bad Lieutenant and King of New York on Blu-ray. Thrilled to hear you saw 'Fear City' after my erotic thriller video and many thanks for the kind words.
I’m in my fifties. It was shocking to hear a friend who was 20 yrs younger tell me that those films were Conservative propaganda. Um, no.. Having lived in the big city as a kid in the 70s the streets were downright scary in comparison to today. 😱
Conservative propaganda! Haha oh man. That brings back memories, in the 1980's when Reagan was President The Dem's dumped all the Dirty Harry & Death Wish movies as Conservative Republican Wish fullfilment fantasies. So I see where the Conservative Propaganda comment came from.
I think one of the reasons this movie has had such a long shelf life is that it is tough to box it into a corner politically. Anyone watching it will be on Bronson's wavelength for at least part of the movie. As far as NYC goes, I love the movies made here in the Seventies, but I'm deeply greatly that I've lived here from 2008-2024.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Yeah I moved here from Detroit in 1996. I worked as a paramedic in Detroit during the early 90s before transition as an RN in forensics psychiatry by the mid 90s in NYC. Movies like Death Wish, Dirty Harry, and much later Robocop speak to me in volumes…
DW4 I really like. Classic 80s action romp. More sets and locations. Drug lords. Fun stuff. Bit of a message again too.
Sounds like it's time for me to see the Crackdown.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock * A little shitty. Maybe a little.
I was 20 when it opened and already a big fan of Bronson from his European films. I was fairly indifferent to it as the new Bronson movie because it was heavy-handedly manipulative. There was no denying the score was the best thing about it for me, although I will admit that Wendell Mayes' screenplay was more clever than the book by Brian Garfield. The sequel was an obligatory cash-in and unsurprisingly 2nd rate. The Cannon stuff was all 10th-rate, even with the reliable J. Lee Thompson directing. There's no denying how big a star Bronson had become by 1974, with no end in sight to his popularity.
I have a soft spot for Cannon movies thanks to my misspent childhood when my family went to see movies like Ninja III: The Domination and Breakin' without any knowledge of which company was making them. Lifeforce of course enjoys its own unique appeal.
Yeah, you can do a Rebel Moon Anniversary @ 5. 10, 15, 20 and so on...
Lol, after August 2nd, I washing my hands of Rebel Moon forever.
I have seen a few of the films in this franchise. I saw Death Wish 5 as a kid and it had the most horrific gang rape scene in it. Legitimately scared and disturb me, even to this day decades later whenever I hear about the franchise.
I haven't seen 5 but 1 & 2 are definitely disturbing as Hell on that front. At some point, I need to check 4 & 5 just to finish the journey.
@geekinwithJamesHancock some of those 80s action films are legit horror movies lol.
#1 was good ......but #2 was the best one of them all !!!!!
Well I'm a proud owner of the Blu-ray for the sequel but it is tough to top the first.
My uncle let us watch one of the Death Wish movies on the down-low as kids and we had a great time.
I'll rewatch at least one to catch what I missed back in the day.
The first is definitely the best but 2 and 3 are well worth seeing as well.
I just watched Death Wish last week. Was amazed to see Denzel Washington in there for 15 seconds and then Christopher Guest as the young cop at the end. It goes to 11!
I think Denzel has stated that his appearance is only a rumor and that he had not started acting yet but totally agree that Christopher Guest is incredible in his scene.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Denzel is in the movie and credits for about 20 seconds. He is the kid on the right in the alley, where the one guy runs and tries to climb the fence
My favorite movie celebrating its 50th anniversary now is The Godfather Part 2.
I'll definitely be giving it a shout out in December when we hit the anniversary, but I also discussed it in detail with my recent video on Coppola's career: ruclips.net/video/mFTCrIXLJzo/видео.html
Peter Boyle is unbelievably good in Joe
I'll definitely be watching it before I do my 50th anniversary review for Young Frankenstein later this year.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Right on! Good music too, Tarantino has a little snippet about it in Cinema Speculation
Great retrospective as usual 🙂 Have you thought about doing one for Godfather Part II? It's a 1974 film 🎩
I'll definitely consider it when we get closer to the release date of Dec. 20th but for now I have a whopper of a video covering Coppola's entire career: ruclips.net/video/mFTCrIXLJzo/видео.html
Your upcoming videos are right up my alley. And yes, Bronson is one of my favorite actors of all time. Some of my favorite movies of his are once upon a time in the west, the Mechanic, and hard times. I specially prefer the Mechanic to Deathwish as a Bronson action vehicle. I also find it more interesting philosophically. Cheers.
My dad is a massive fan of Hard Times and gave me the VHS back in college. My buddies and I were enthralled. As far as Once Upon a Time in the West goes, Hall of Fame perfection.
@@geekinwithJamesHancock Awesome man. My pops was a big fan of Bronson too.
Great soundtrack on Death Wish 2 also.
one of my favorites. it’s actually a love letter to the city :’)
Definitely makes me look at the Upper West Side in a completely new light.
The music in Death Wish makes me wish that Herbie Hancock did more film scores. Also, you can't beat the atmosphere of nyc in the 70s.
Absolutely. His music goes together perfectly with the photographic style. He just nailed it.
Death Wish is one of those holes in my 1970s viewing diet.
Definitely a strong contender for any future videos we might do on the Films That Define New York.
I've always thought films like Dirty Harry and Death Wish really took the place of the western in the '70s, when that genre had run out of gas.
The Seventies was truly a Golden Age for hardcore revenge movies. Coffy is another personal fave which doesn't get nearly enough love.
Brilliant. Seeing a man on screen brutalising the brutes is cathartic in itself. There is a feeling of guilt and pornographic enthusiasm linked to it. Of course you shouldn’t do it in real life: but aren’t films supposed to show you how it would be if you did? And harmlessly?
I have never seen this film.
Wild time capsule of early Seventies NYC. Required viewing if you like the revenge flicks of that era.
It’s been a minute since I’ve watched DW but despite doing so on numerous occasions, it took your video for me to realize Jeff Goldblum was in it.
On a side note, I don’t understand why you don’t have more subscribers.
Excellent content as always.
Much obliged for the complement and if you know where I could scoop up some new subscribers, just let me know, lol!
Gotta love Jeff Goldblum as one of the thugs..We want money mother!!
And a legendary career was officially underway.
Quail Hunting what are you an English Aristocrat :)
Just someone who likes the taste of quail and bacon cooked over a fire.
DW & DW2 are both class. End Of .
Proud owner of Death Wish II on Blu-ray. I'll definitely scoop up the third at some point.
Yes fair enough but i dont include that.
Don't Fuck with Jack Murphy either !
How have you not seen j lee thompsons Dw4 and how can you not know tere are only 5 films
I've seen a ton of Thompson's movies including Ice Cold in Alex, The Guns of Navarone, Cape Fear, Mackenna's Gold, his two Apes movies, St. Ives, The White Buffalo, 10 to Midnight and Kinijite. Did a whole podcast on his career: wrongreel.com/podcast/wr541-from-wwii-to-cannon-films-the-cinema-of-j-lee-thompson/
But I look forward to seeing DW 4 & 5 at some point just to finish the journey. And the reason I said 6 Death Wish movies is due to Eli Roth's remake.
DW4 is one of my favs Bronson s fabs
The evil that men do and cabo blanko are also great
Jeff Goldblum is one of the freaks, in fact he is freak #1 lol