The original Death Wish was probably one of the most brutal films of it's era.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdgiii
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The original Death Wish was probably one of the most brutal films of it's era.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdgiii
I’m going to put this in my watch list. I just threw out a large family size can of Cap Stun a few weeks ago. It was still in the package. I think I saw that sliding into a pouch on his duty belt. Probably not. I think it was invented in the ‘80’s.Quote:
Originally Posted by WillBrink
Included with Prime and made the year I was born!
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+1. I was a real Charles Bronson fan too back in the day.Quote:
Originally Posted by jdgiii
I’ve been watching movies with my kids. My especially youngest, she’s 12. It’s made me think of watching Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson with my Dad.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThirdWatcher
Theses are some of my favorite Jose Wales clips.
https://youtu.be/eyPZFi2b380
https://youtu.be/atzmdijMfRY
https://youtu.be/e63Tk-5UKPc
Marathon Man
Serpico
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
I think two movies from the 60's set the stage for gritty 70's movies.
Easy Rider and Bonnie and Clyde were late sixties movies that took drug use and violence to a new level. I remember the hoop la when they first came out and all the Ladies in the suburbs were a little upset as they went too far.
And yeah, the folks loaded us up in the station wagon and took us to both of those too. I think my Mom and Dad guess I was asleep when Billy got hit by the shotgun at the end, but I let out a "WOW" from the dark part of the back of the station wagon when it happened.
Holy cow, Marathon Man is a great movie, and scared the crap out of the first time I watched it (circa 1980...I was 12, 13 or so).Quote:
Originally Posted by titsonritz
Serpico is a classic.
The original Mad Max from 1979. It's not post-apocalyptic or sci-fi, it's a gritty film set in rural Australia. The writer-producer based a lot of it on his personal experience as a traveling ER physician in the same area.
'The Friends of Eddie Coyle' is one that comes to mind.
Beat me to the punch.Quote:
Originally Posted by titsonritz
I'll add Dog Day Afternoon and Mean Streets.
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Also technically preceding the 70's but Battle of Algiers is an excellent faux-documentary...fair warning...you have to read subtitles and listen to French. IMO it is worth it.