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Post by harmonica on Dec 1, 2018 9:22:59 GMT -5
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Post by harmonica on Nov 28, 2018 18:09:46 GMT -5
but Bronson used to work out at the age of 50 when hard times was produced. Looks like he used do train mainly with weights or body-weight, for strength etc. and didn't do cardio by that time. In that way it makes sense what Walter Hill stated: that he was in great shape(muscular) but he wasn't in good condition(aerobic stamina).
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Post by harmonica on Nov 28, 2018 18:00:55 GMT -5
Yeah, Harmonica is Greek... Ellinas ki esi, e?
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Post by harmonica on Nov 13, 2018 1:34:54 GMT -5
1. Death Wish 3 - 10/10 2. Death Wish - 10/10 3. Death Wish 2 - 8/10 4. Death Wish 4 - 6/10 5. Death Wish 5 - 6/10 I love the original and 3 for different reasons. In my interview with Paul Talbot, he said, " DW4 and 5 I see as not sequels to DW but as sequels to The Mechanic with a retired skilled hit man assuming the name Kersey" That makes sense, right? That holds true especially in Death Wish V's case, because Paul's killings are very inventive...
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Post by harmonica on Nov 10, 2018 16:59:38 GMT -5
By the way... I'm really curious to know your preferences on Death Wish series... Would you like to rate the five death wish movies from best to worst? Mine is more or less like so... 1)Death Wish (9/10) 2)Death Wish II (9/10) 3)Death Wish V: The Face Of Death (7/10) 4)Death Wish 3 (7/10) 5)Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (6/10)
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Post by harmonica on Nov 10, 2018 3:03:54 GMT -5
Thank you, mate. I just read all of them and I found many interesting points and info I wasn't aware of. By the way, the link about the body-count, you posted in your article about Death Wish 3, deserves its own post, so I post it here: www.ruthlessreviews.com/28791/the-deaths-of-death-wish-3/
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Post by harmonica on Nov 10, 2018 2:05:14 GMT -5
I'm so excited to be on this board! Thanks for having me! Welcome, mate...
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Post by harmonica on Nov 4, 2018 2:27:10 GMT -5
"Hard Times" director Walter Hill once said in an interview that Bronson could only fight for 30 seconds because of his smoking. That's true.
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Post by harmonica on Oct 17, 2018 14:10:09 GMT -5
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Post by harmonica on Sept 23, 2018 12:57:46 GMT -5
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Post by harmonica on Aug 24, 2018 5:48:08 GMT -5
This film is flawless, looks like everything here works perfect. It's a well-directed art-house thriller with a great script and a gripping plot from the first till the last second. Marlene Jobert's performance is amazing, so does Bronson's one. The characters are not only well-performed but really well-written too. No matter how much I like a movie I usually get a bit tired and I don't it to last long. However with Le Passager de la pluie it happened the oposite thing: I found the film so enjoyable that I wished it lasted more. This is one of my all-time favorite movies.
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Post by harmonica on Aug 6, 2018 6:56:42 GMT -5
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Post by harmonica on Aug 6, 2018 6:53:29 GMT -5
I found this while looking around the internet: Q. How come you haven't done an article on the passing of Charles Bronson? Matthew Anderson, Hicksville, N.Y. A. I was out of town and by the time I learned of his death, the paper's deadline had passed. Bronson was a straight-ahead kind of guy, with genuine screen presence that contributed to his good movies and helped him get through the bad ones. I liked him. He said exactly what he thought and had little patience for the movie publicity machine. I spent some time with him on the set of "Death Wish" for an Esquire magazine profile, and quoted him saying he was capable, like his character, of killing anyone who harmed his family. When Johnny Carson asked him why they ran quotes like that, he said, "Because that's what I said." I have a favorite Bronson story. Both Bronson and the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman had the same agent, Paul Kohner, and the same publicist, the legendary Ernie Anderson. When Bergman left Sweden in a well-publicized dispute with the tax authorities, he visited Los Angeles for the first time, and asked Kohner to arrange a visit to a studio. Bronson was making an action picture at the time, and Kohner assigned Anderson to arrange a meeting between the two clients. Anderson was hesitant, because Bronson sometimes kidded him: "I know this isn't a Bergman picture, but it may make a few bucks." After he introduced the two men, Bergman asked him to explain the scene he was doing. "This is the scene where I get shot," Bronson said. "I have these little squibs that explode to make it look like bullets are hitting." "Fascinating," said Bergman. "I never knew how they did that." "You mean," asked Bronson, "you don't use machine guns in your movies?"
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Post by harmonica on Jun 16, 2018 0:29:45 GMT -5
This is a still from "The Red Skelton Show", season 1, episode 15 "Fancy Footwork"
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Post by harmonica on May 5, 2018 2:47:13 GMT -5
Director:Jerrold Freedman Writers:Jerrold Freedman, Steve Kline Actors:Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo
Borderline is one of the most underrated Bronson's movies. It's a solid action-adventure-drama movie, based on some real events, with a well-written script, a gripping plot and some interesting characters. The few action scenes of the movie are very short but well-shot, suspenseful and effective. The movie has a great soundtrack composed by Gil Melle and a fascinating, love-or-hate, documentarish cinematography by Tak Fujimoto(Badlands, The Silence Of The Lambs, The Sixth Sense). Ed Harris is really great as the tough vilain. I was expecting a bad movie like Caboblanco but I was pleasantly surprised since the movie has no significant weaknesses, it actually enters the top-5 list of my favorite Bronson's movies of the 80's(besides Death Hunt, The Evil That Men Do, Death Wish II and Murphy's Law).
Bronson once stated: "I think that films can be educational and entertaining. Borderline (1980) fits both of those categories." I think that statement holds true.
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