Yep - remember that. Great movie.
Sly Stallone is supposedly going to re-make Death Wish. If it’s anywhere as good as the last Rambo, it should make for good entertainment.
My favorite scene in Death Wish is when Bronson is outside the hospital with his sissy son-in-law after visiting his comatose daughter. Charlie says something like “What do you call a man who does nothing when somebody comes into his home and violates his family?” and the son-in-law says “c..Civilized” in his best liberal whimper. Bronson shoots him this glance that says “I can’t believe I let my kid marry this wuss” and walks away.
Also that last Rambo movie was awesome. I hope Sly has a vision that honors the urban western theme of the original Death Wish. There was a movie called “Death Sentence” a couple years ago based on another book by the author who wrote the original Death Wish novel (he wasn’t happy with the film version and felt it glorified vigilantism). It starred Kevin Bacon as a guy who goes after the gang that murdered his son and ultimately ends up as depraved as his enemies. I think the silliest Hollywood convention in that movie and all the Death Wishes is the interracial groups of criminals doing the evil deeds. Last I checked gangs tend to be pretty homogenous, but I guess the film makers always felt they need to be politically correct with that aspect since the rest was not.
Sty’s last Rocky” was damned good. He seems to have got a second wind.