Death Sentence

tireironsaint - 9-2-2007 at 03:08 AM

No, it's not a band with a cheesy name (well, it probably is, but that's not what I'm talking about), it's a GREAT fuckin' movie.

If any of you grew up watching the old 70s movies on late night TV like I did, you'll love this shit. It's a modern version of the Charles Bronson "normal family man pushed too far" type movies. Vigilante justice straight up with some serious fuckin' bruatality on display. Yeah, it has Kevin Bacon as the lead, but he is absolutely amazing in this.

I heard somewhere that it was actually based on a book that the same guy who wrote Death Wish wrote, but I haven't looked that up to see for sure. Either way, it has that same style to it and it really makes me want to revisit some of those movies I haven't seen in ages.

There were a couple of things that pop out as unrealistic that they could have done better, but there's always something like that in these movies anyway.

It really does make me think about what I would do if I was thrown into that situation, although I am far from being as removed from the dirty side of life as Kevin Bacon's character. Anyway, it's definitely one of those movies that makes you leave the theater thinking about the need for a real rain to come and clean all the scum off the streets, if you know what I mean. I honestly had the urge to look for some scumbags to fuck up on my way home. I love it when movies actually make you wanna be like the protagonist, it makes me feel like I did as a kid when I wanted to be every heroic ideal I stumbled across.

Anybody else see this yet?

Dave - 9-2-2007 at 06:39 AM

Death Sentence

we're a cool CDN hardcore band from the mid 80's

DaveMoral - 9-2-2007 at 10:30 AM

You know, isn't there a movie with Jodie Foster coming out with a similar theme? The Brave One I think it's called?

JawnDiablo - 9-2-2007 at 11:32 AM

this sounds like something that would be of interest to me.
thanks 'saint

Discipline - 9-2-2007 at 11:51 AM

I saw a preview for this the other day. It looks amazing.

tireironsaint - 9-2-2007 at 12:55 PM

Yeah, I just recently saw the preview and thought it looked great so I figured I'd go check it out. It went way beyond my expectations. It's cool to see a movie like this where they actually put effort into things like acting and getting a good cast. John Goodman is awesome in this too.

I just looked the movie up on imdb and it says it is based on the novel by Brian Garfield, who wrote Death Wish. The book was a sequel to Death Wish as well, but I can't really see how this could be a sequel so there must have been some changes made.

Here's a link to the trailer for those who haven't seen it yet...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804461/trailers-screenplay-E339...

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 9-3-2007 at 12:48 AM

I saw this last night. It's pretty good.

BKT - 9-3-2007 at 11:02 PM

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Originally posted by Dave
Death Sentence

we're a cool CDN hardcore band from the mid 80's

yes they were. LOL that is the only reason I clicked on this topic. I have both their albums on tape somewhere. That shit was good.

MM.

upyerbum - 9-3-2007 at 11:54 PM

I've got "Not a Pretty Sight" on vinyl, didn't much care for the second album, the first one is stellar though.

Murk - 9-4-2007 at 12:23 AM

already planning on seeing it

MyOwnWay - 9-4-2007 at 07:24 AM

Saw this yesterday. Loved it. I can see a lot of myself with what I would do, in that movie.

Murk - 9-6-2007 at 03:44 PM

saw this yesterday.

good flick.

very raw and gritty.

fair balance of story, characters and action.

fight and shootout scenes were pretty realistsic and intense.

i got "goosebumps" when Kevin Bacon says, "you ready?"

John Goodman nailed his part, but i wasn't real thrilled with "the bad guys".

i will definitely watch this on DVD.

JUICE MAYNE MSHC - 9-6-2007 at 05:33 PM

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Originally posted by Murk
but i wasn't real thrilled with "the bad guys".

the bad guys were slightly corny. In real life, more likely than not, that gang wouldn't be interracial, wouldn't drive matching muscle cars (how inconspicuous!), have tribal tattoos all over themselves, or wear that nu metal garb that some of them wore...BUT...the movie is still good.

tireironsaint - 9-6-2007 at 06:16 PM

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Originally posted by JUICE MAYNE MSHC

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Originally posted by Murk
but i wasn't real thrilled with "the bad guys".

Yeah, this was the worst part of the movie to me. It seemed like they got caught between not wanting to make it a racial issue and have the gang be black and wanting to kind of follow in the whole thing of movies in the past several years that have had white inner city gangs. It seemed like someone was trying to hit all the "urban youth styles" at once without really doing any research on the subject. They still managed to make a pretty damn good movie and I guess I didn't mind the bad guys too much just because the people I see that look like that in real life all need a serious beating anyway.

Six66Mike - 9-7-2007 at 04:48 AM

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Originally posted by upyerbum
I've got "Not a Pretty Sight" on vinyl, didn't much care for the second album, the first one is stellar though.

Here I was thinking the band name was "Death Sentence Not A Pretty Site"... haha noob.

I got the unlabelled mp3 of this in 160kbps and have never even heard it.

clevohardcore - 9-7-2007 at 02:15 PM

I wan tot see this absed on your guys opinions.

My cuz saw it the past week and said it was over the top and weak, but he's a douche.