FRANCHISE ME: DEATH WISH 3

A glorious film best double featured with Commando.

You can't take it seriously at all. Its just so over the top.

Bananas, indeed. You'd have an easier time believing the film was directed by 1990: The Bronx Warriors-era Enzo Castellari than the guy who directed the first Death Wish. All those zooms and that near-apocalyptic neighborhood.

I also love the accidental Death Wish tradition of Not Yet Famous Punks: Jeff Goldblum, Larry Fishburne, Alex Winter...I'll let you discover/unveil the rest, though by 5 it's more like "Not Famous Punk Who Managed To Work Again." And feel free to appropriate my soccer ball-related screencaps from 5 over in the Bronson thread.

I have to confess that this is easily my favorite Death Wish. I have to agree with Phil that this feels more like a post apocalyptic Italian movie at times than anything else. So I think its similarities with westerns are by proxy.

Anyway I loved the "wash the streets with Travis Bickle rain" line. I really loved that.

One of the funniest scenes from the movie (actually all the husband's scenes are hilarious, he's SUCH a terrible actor). Other contenders include Kersey's genius "I'm going out for an ice cream" trap, the "it's MY car!" bit where more than anything he seems pissed that the thieves interrupted his meal with that nice old Jewish couple and just nonchalantly murders them so he can get back to that incredible matza ball soup, his homicidal grin at Wildey's arrival which seems far more geniune than his horror at witnessing his girlfriends car roll down the street and blow up (at this point in the series even Bronson knows these scenes are just a formality), the creative ways this movie tries to make London look like Winner's idea of New York... I mean, I could go on.

Also hilarious- that article comment with the Winner/Winter and Giggler/Bronson anecdotes.