Ran across this on cable last night. Holy Crap!!! "Death Wish 3" ranks way up there in the pantheon of movies that are so bad they're good. Director Michael Winner's profile on the IMDb says that he "tends to get his films done on time and under budget". I'm betting he set a personal record on this one. The neighborhood "thugs" in the movie all wear face paint, mesh shirts, and look like Broadway dancers. The "dialogue" would make any aspiring 12 year-old screenwriter proud. And the movie takes "violence on film" to new heights - because it looks like it was edited with a meat cleaver. Bronson and Martin Balsam must have owed some serious back taxes in 1985. I've never seen Death Wish 2, 4, or 5 - but there's no way they can come close to this one for just pure bizzaro badness. If Mystery Science Theater ever comes back, this movie should be the first one on their list. :thumbsup:

Ha!! I caught that crapfest last week or shortly there about and I have no idea how my wife got through it. I came in sat down to work on my current Tiger Tank kit, made it 15 minutes or so, layed my glue down and went out to my woodworking shop. I couldn't even listen to that one, let alone literally watching it.
Walker, Texas Ranger looks like high art compared to that. :freak:

I couldn't even listen to that one, let alone literally watching it.
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Yeah. Forgot to mention the Jimmy Page "synthesizer score". Probably took him two whole days to write and record it. It matches the dialogue to a T. :p

I never saw Death Wish 3, but I do remember watching Death Wish 2 when it was on cable back in the day, and "2" was such a cheap amateurish violent misogynist mess it's hard to believe "3" could have a whole lot worse!

I'll take your word for it though!

I never saw Death Wish 3, but I do remember watching Death Wish 2 when it was on cable back in the day, and "2" was such a cheap amateurish violent misogynist mess it's hard to believe "3" could have a whole lot worse!

I'll take your word for it though!


Philip - it's "Showgirls" bad but without any of that film's technical competency or production budget. It's "Plan 9 From Outer Space" bad but without any of that film's charm or quirkiness. It's "mouth agape" bad. I'm telling you, $1.99 from Netflix is well worth it. This movie deserves it's own special Golden Turkey Award.

Most of the movie was filmed in England, not to say that, that made it bad, even Charles Bronson intensely disliked the movie. On interesting thing is that according to TCM when they showed it, the Wildey Magnum that Charles Bronson used was his personal weapon.

David.

England, huh? I wouldn't have guessed.

I love this:

"According to the book 'Bronson's Loose' by Paul Talbot, the original working title "Death Wish III" was changed to "Death Wish 3" because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals."

LOL. Thelma, what's this mean: Death Wish eye-eye-eye?

England, huh? I wouldn't have guessed.

I love this:

"According to the book 'Bronson's Loose' by Paul Talbot, the original working title "Death Wish III" was changed to "Death Wish 3" because the Cannon Group conducted a survey and found that nearly half of the U.S. population could not read Roman numerals."

I, somehow, am not the least bit surprised by this.

What's sad is the sequel to the original novel, 'Death Sentence' was a really good book which would have made an excellent movie.

So of course Hollywood threw it away and wrote a horrible script.

Why can I remember the author of a book I read 30 years ago (Brian Garfield) but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday? Memory is so WEIRD.

What's sad is the sequel to the original novel, 'Death Sentence' was a really good book which would have made an excellent movie.

So of course Hollywood threw it away and wrote a horrible script.

Why can I remember the author of a book I read 30 years ago (Brian Garfield) but I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday? Memory is so WEIRD.

I feel your pain. And I didn't realize Garfield ever wrote a sequel to his excellent novel Death Wish, I was a big fan of his books back in the day, especially Hopscotch. The movie version of that one didn't totally suck, though I would have rather seen a serious version that more accurately reflected the book's tone. Walter Matthau was perfect casting though, and was exactly who I pictured as Kendig when I first read the book.