Eli Roth remade Death Wish

thoughts?

>“We wanted to bring back that great, classic Bruce Willis we all know and love and just do a fun, badass update of a revered classic,” Roth told Yahoo Movies. “I wanted to bring Bruce back to that Fifth Element, Unbreakable, Die Hard glory and have him craft another iconic performance, and I really think he did it. I mean I really think this can be his Taken. The fun is watching him go crazy and watching someone slowly move the moral goal post.”

>Roth specifically looked at Cronenberg’s work on A History of Violence and Eastern Promises in crafting impressive set pieces and escalating moments of tension. Other influences he cited are Unforgiven, Sicario, Taken, and especially, Tony Scott’s 2004 thriller Man on Fire.

>“What’s interesting about Death Wish is it’s not a CIA guy who’s coming out of retirement, you know, he’s not John Wick, he’s not a professional assassin,” Roth said. “He’s a normal guy, he’s a surgeon, he’s a dad, he’s never picked up a gun in his life.” This Paul Kersey learns how to handle steel by watching YouTube videos and at one point almost gets merked by his own ricocheted bullet.

>“And with each kill as he gets closer to finding the people that did this to his family, he gains a new skill. He gets better and better and better. So by the end of the film he’s really much closer to John McClane… The very things that make him a good surgeon are what eventually make him a great killer.”

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>“We wanted to bring back that great, classic Bruce Willis we all know and love

I 100% guarantee they instead got lazy and bored doesn't give a shit current day Bruce instead.

Do you think he's back?

I would have loved to see LITERALLY ANYONE in this role except Bruce Willis. Somebody who's not known as an action star, just some older dramatic actor. Imagine how hard Mickey Rourke would crush this role.

and desu I actually like Eli Roth. all of his movies except Green Inferno are good.

okay now that I think of it as much as Rourke would be GOAT he looks too weird. The lead as to be someone who looks like an ordinary family man.

Bruce Willis does direct to VOD movies now?

this is probably his first not vod movie in a while

This has a little bit of potential

this unironically should have been a Eric Roberts movie

let's not forget Joe Carnahan's email to the studio head when he left the project

>You had a potential Oscar-winning film with maybe the best script in Hollywood but because you're a coward and a dumb cunt you now have an untested, second-time director and an arrogant, lazy, aging action star that will run that poor kid into the ground,"

> "Good luck, asshole. You're a spineless, gutless turd who doesn't belong in the business. Enjoy your run as a 'studio head,' Glickman. It's going to be a short one. Fuck you, Joe Carnahan."

Casting a guy whose career has been unflappable action heroes as Kersey feels like getting something fundamentally wrong about the material from day one.

Before those movies went full retard Kersey was meant to look and act like a guy who did your takes not a guy who jumped out of exploding skyscrapers. Even before he stopped caring about acting would you ever be convinced Willis didn't know how to hold a gun?

every director before Roth has left the project due to creative differences. Roth probably went straight to the shlock of Death Wish 3 which ain't a bad thing but yeah I would have loved to see a serious, dramatic version of the story. Carnahan would have fucking killed it. I think he had either Liam Neeson or Frank Grillo attached.

i respect carnahan

We can all agree Death Wish 2 is Kino and severely underrated yes?

>>Roth specifically looked at Cronenberg’s work on A History of Violence and Eastern Promises in crafting impressive set pieces and escalating moments of tension. Other influences he cited are Unforgiven, Sicario, Taken, and especially, Tony Scott’s 2004 thriller Man on Fire.
How about he fucking look at Death Wish that fucking faggot.

>we just wanted to do a fun movie!

Love it when directors admit they've made a shit action flick

Nah fuck off, Charles Bronson or no one

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Roth is an annoying hack.

If there's a scene with Jeff Goldblum raping the MCs wife, like in the original movie, then I promise to buy the bluray.

I don't get why eli still makes movies. he hasn't gotten any better

>all of his movies except Green Inferno are good.
Knock Knock is SO much worse than Green Inferno my dude

>look at everything except the original movies
Why even bother with a remake at that point? Just make your own shitty ip instead of coasting off something else
>but muh brand recognition schekels

Yeah but like, what about the hardcore rape scenes? There has to be at least 3 or else it will be shit.

>poor kid

The writer?

Jeff Goldblum somehow looked like Prince in that movie

A History of Violence and Unforgiven are anti-violence
That is why they are so stark in depicting violence
Roth however revels in it

Using those examples make it pretty clear Roth doesn't get it

Not to mention the original author of Death Wish hated the movie because he wrote it to be deliberately anti-vigilantes while the movie flipped it to be the opposite and this will be more of the same

Is NYC even dangerous anymore?

No, that's why the new one takes place in Chicago, city of niggers

Carnahan is based but too old school, people like him just don't belong in Hollywood anymore. Mctiernan would have no career today. Fucking suits are ruining everything.

and yet i bet my life there will be no black criminals in the film

well I mean, Eli Roth was vocally anti-sjw when promoting the Green Inferno, so I don't think he'd be so keen to bend over.

>mfw I watch the screening for this
>mfw I won't spoil it

When I first applied to see the screening of this movie I thought it was based on a horror movie where people make wishes and the monkey paw effect happens. I'm also glad they didn't drop it like another movie I saw at a screening.
I also watched the screening of "Chappie" and gave it a good rating

Carnahan is referencing the directors that replaced him, the guys who made Big Bad Wolves, which is a reaaaaally good movie. But they would have been out of their depth with Death Wish and Willis. Willis needs to be handled by a veteran, he will grab young filmmakers by the throat and not give a fuck what they say.

You have bad taste my dude, Knock Knock is his second best after Hostel Part II

>Mctiernan would have no career today
>would
user, he HAS no career. Since Rollerball and the wiretapping thing he's been totally unemployable.

Why ya'll stressing it's the endless summer just go out and carve up some gnarly tubes.

If there's a scene where gangsta Lawrence Fishburne gets shot through a stereo like in the sequel

this. Green Inferno's pretty hilarious

yeah Knock Knock was great so I'm optimistic for this. only thing I don't like is the casting. Trailer should be up today so we'll see. I just hope it's really nasty and mean.

>Casting a guy whose career has been unflappable action heroes as Kersey feels like getting something fundamentally wrong about the material from day one.

Are you talking about Charles Bronson or Bruce Willis?

Bur seriously, young 80s Willis was a thin pretty boy, just like prime Mickey Rourke.

The deal breaker with this movie is whether or not he finds the people responsible. The whole point of Death Wish was that a liberal pacifist goes off the deep end and ends up loving the fact that he's a famous vigilante killer, and completely forgets about finding the people that attacked his family.

I wouldn't be surprised if this looks more like Law Abiding Citizen than it does Death Wish.

Why is the guy who hosted Shark Week making this?

>mfw if its just a movie about Bruce Willis killing dindus for an hour

I'd see it twice.

Oh, he's in it alright.

>This Paul Kersey learns how to handle steel by watching Youtube videos

Jesus Christ. In the original he learns to shoot from a guy in Texas because he travels a lot as part of his profession.

Oh! Another pointless re-make of classic movie.

And now it's likely you'd youtube that shit.

Such a kino poster. Why are movie posters so shit now? Where did it all go wrong?

His job is also changed from architect to surgeon for some cringey "the knowledge he uses to heal people makes him a good killer" shit too

That doesn't mean it will look good in a movie. Watching Bruce Willis get on youtube to search up gun videos is going to be stupid as hell no matter what.

>Roth also says that his horror background will provide some grisly kills, which was part of his pitch to the studio. “I said, ‘I can give you spectacular death scenes that no one else can give you,’” he recalled. “‘I will give you stuff that people will be talking about for years.’” Roth noted, however, that Death Wish isn’t about a body count, but “an awesome action-revenge,” movie

It's going to be a very minor portion of the movie, fucktard.

In the original Kersey was a combat medic in Korea, to showcase depth of his pacifist leanings.

Very valuable input, genius.

He was a medic? He called himself a conciencious objector but I never knew what that really way.

He has been for the last decade

he's a surgeon in this one

Charles Bronson was action star back in the day, action stars just weren't as buffed as 80's and 90's... or now.

>Such a kino poster. Why are movie posters so shit now? Where did it all go wrong?
In late 80's, when everyone had switched to proper full color printing and painted posters became a thing of past as photos and photoshop are faster, easier and cheaper to make.

Jeff Goldblum isn't only one who started his acting career in original Death Wish. Denzel Washington also did that, but his role was smaller and uncredited.

Do you look at Death wish as a dark comedy?

I like Bruce, but yeah

I love that poster.

That and Death wish 3, it's a pure kino ride.

>Do you look at Death wish as a dark comedy?

Only the later ones.

Is that alex jones' "doctor" friend?

I'm sure it'll be treated as humorous

>but “an awesome action-revenge,” movie
For fuck's sake, did this guy watch Death Wish? Fuck Roth.

He's going to surgically torture people

eli roth has displayed time and time again that's he's an incompetent fucking moron who lucked into the industry

Place your bets: a jazz score a la Herbie Hancock's original music, or generic action movie Hans Zimmer horn farts?

>lucked into the industry
>Roth
good one

>hostel part 2

Nah hostel ended with the first movie, faggot. One of the best torture porn/revenge/unexpected hero film out there. Then they kill the MC off just for the fuck of it in the 2nd movie? The one who we rooted for, the dude who had finally found peace just decapitated? Fuck that. Also that #girlpower shit was fucking stupid. I hated part 2.

Probably the latter. Imdb says the composer is a guy named Ludwig Goransson, apparently best known for the shows New Girl and Community but he also scored the movie Creed.

>Do you look at Death wish as a dark comedy?
Sort of, liberal pacifist runs into real world and turns becomes more realistic and finds his inner sadist.

>I also watched the screening of "Chappie"
Anything different compared to the final version we got?

I think there is a serious realism problem with Death Wish set on modern day. Surveillance cameras and cell phone cameras everywhere.

is there a worse director ever than eli roth?

Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon was the Death Wish remake.

WHY

Was Death Wish such a creative and clever story that you want to copy it?

Zack Snyder

Death Wish is 43 years old, I think it's pretty safely past the point where it's fine to take another swing at it

I'd be more concerned about Willis being bad casting and Eli Roth being a hack who has no fucking idea what the point of the original was

Death Sentence was so good, this looks like trash

god forbid the kike read the book

abandon all hope. this looks absolute dogshit.

I like this guy mostly.

Guy could be at the point JJ Abrams is if he sold his soul at but he had the balls to pull out of MI3 when it became clear he was just going to be Tom Cruise's puppet

>10 years

Damn, I need to rewatch this

>I think it's pretty safely past the point where it's fine to take another swing at it

jesus christ

Tbh the original felt like it missed the point of the novel and just made a vigilante movie.

>Handle steel
>Get merked by a stray bullet

I cringed so hard I've broke my spine.

Death Wish was out of date before they even made a second one, fuck these self-important fuckers.

Pic related is the real Death Wish movie

I unironically think it looks pretty good

>and turns becomes more realistic

I guess, if you think everyone is a sadistic egomaniac deep down...

Death Wish was borderline racist and I know Eli (((Roth))) will insert Neo-Nazi thugs or something else that doesn't really exist into the movie

Yeah, it's clearly being its own thing, and they're obviously going for a more action oriented franchise vibe than remaking it with realism and the gritty down to Earth approach. Could very well be Willis' Taken and his ticket to a proper come back.

mickey rourke is underrated

Lol no kidding.
Jesus i want to like this, i mean deep down i know Bruce still has 1 last good performance in him.
But Eli Roth is just not good news.

If all he did is watch a bunch of other directors movies and copy them we may as well had Tarantino do this shit.

My actual drug dealer (he's black) will be an extra in this, genuinely hoping for this to be good.

Ok you fags then who should have done this film?.

Hold on a second, bruce willis has done plenty of dramatic roles, hell he became a star with his comedy/romance tv show.

The problem with him is he doesn't give a shit anymore and just do it for the money.

No one. It should not have been remade.

the first is a rather fine social comentary on the dire situation of New York and the citizens frustration with the crime
theres a reason guys like Bernie Goetz had a lot of support

Death Wish sequels take even more massive dump at original book than first movie. Writer of novel, Brian Garfield, didn't exactly like how Paul Kersey was portrayed as hero. He was supposed to be portrayed as sadistic anti-hero.

>I guess, if you think everyone is a sadistic egomaniac deep down...

It is the very point of the book.