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Super Bowl, 'Death Wish 3': match made in TV heaven
Joshua Aromin
Issue date: 2/4/09 Section: Entertainment
02/04/09 - While Super Bowl Sunday is a momentous event in American pop culture, this year just didn't feel all that right. I simply went through the progressions: Super Bowl party, eating chili and having an ice cold one, but it just wasn't the same.
It's not to say the actual game wasn't entertaining or that some commercials didn't make me laugh, but with a growing lack of interest, the game just didn't feel the way it was supposed to. To be honest, I didn't watch the whole thing this year and to me, that's just fine.
But a short time after Santonio Holmes and the Pittsburgh Steelers won their record-setting sixth Super Bowl championship, Charles Bronson by himself, led a city from the ruins of anarchy to some sense of stability.
After channel surfing and landing on American Movie Classics, "Death Wish 3" popped up. Bronson, a legend in action flicks, reprised his role from the original "Death Wish" as a no-holds-barred vigilante with an eye for crime.
Bronson moves into a new city where the streets swarm with gangs while citizens are permanently at their mercy. A dwindling police force exists, but its effectiveness is comical and Bronson soon becomes a one-man wrecking crew.
"Death Wish 3" doesn't have the most compelling script, and if it were to be released in today's movie world, it would probably be considered an absolute joke. To be more accurate, the city in "Death Wish 3" is comparable to Liberty City from the popular video game series Grand Theft Auto.
The main gang in the movie was depicted as crazed groups of men that wore face paint and hung out in dark underground alleys while gathering around hobo fires. They had mohawks, ripped denim, and some even had awkward looking belly shirts- obviously the ultimate look of a badass.
The gang's leader wasn't a powerful man in a suit or a 'roided up beast of doom, but was more of a manlier, testosterone-laden Brigitte Nielson. To be led by Ivan Drago's wife from "Rocky IV" and Flavor Flave's one time love is a definite plus for any group of thugs.
It's not to say the actual game wasn't entertaining or that some commercials didn't make me laugh, but with a growing lack of interest, the game just didn't feel the way it was supposed to. To be honest, I didn't watch the whole thing this year and to me, that's just fine.
But a short time after Santonio Holmes and the Pittsburgh Steelers won their record-setting sixth Super Bowl championship, Charles Bronson by himself, led a city from the ruins of anarchy to some sense of stability.
After channel surfing and landing on American Movie Classics, "Death Wish 3" popped up. Bronson, a legend in action flicks, reprised his role from the original "Death Wish" as a no-holds-barred vigilante with an eye for crime.
Bronson moves into a new city where the streets swarm with gangs while citizens are permanently at their mercy. A dwindling police force exists, but its effectiveness is comical and Bronson soon becomes a one-man wrecking crew.
"Death Wish 3" doesn't have the most compelling script, and if it were to be released in today's movie world, it would probably be considered an absolute joke. To be more accurate, the city in "Death Wish 3" is comparable to Liberty City from the popular video game series Grand Theft Auto.
The main gang in the movie was depicted as crazed groups of men that wore face paint and hung out in dark underground alleys while gathering around hobo fires. They had mohawks, ripped denim, and some even had awkward looking belly shirts- obviously the ultimate look of a badass.
The gang's leader wasn't a powerful man in a suit or a 'roided up beast of doom, but was more of a manlier, testosterone-laden Brigitte Nielson. To be led by Ivan Drago's wife from "Rocky IV" and Flavor Flave's one time love is a definite plus for any group of thugs.
