Eli Roth's "Death Wish" Remake gets torn apart by politics

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https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/death_wish_2018

It asks nothing, and offers only the blanket assertion that feelings of masculine inadequacy - "The most important thing a man can do is protect his family, and I failed," Willis declaims - can be obviated ballistically.

In the end it's just another macho fantasy about "good guys" with guns.

This is a wish-fulfillment fantasy the NRA will celebrate - and that's what's truly disturbing.

There's something distinctly odious about a storyteller exploiting both a city's tragic reality and a country's debate about firearms to make a film that thrives on violence.

Eli Roth's ultraviolent revenge trip adds nothing worthwhile to the gun laws conversation... it chooses to exploit the situation for the sake of violence and macho entertainment. Just roll with the throwback 80's action vibe and mindless carnage

Now is such a terrible time to release a movie about a white vigilante "taking out the trash" that I expected it to justify its existence somehow. It never did. If anything it's *less* satirical than the original.

It's very obvious that Roth doesn't really care about the film's political baggage - he just wants an excuse to have Bruce Willis shoot battery acid into a guy's sciatic nerve and watch the blood.

To criticize Death Wish for its indelicate timing would be to suggest that there might ever be an appropriate moment to see it.

It's the absolute wrong movie at the absolute wrong time.

Death Wish is an NRA member's wet dream, a perfect film for the America that only exists in the poisoned imagination of the pathetic would-be bully in the White House.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bruce-willis-death-wish-vigilante-is-batman-for-the-breitbart-crowd
https://www.thedailybeast.com/Annoying Orange-used-death-wish-to-argue-for-more-guns-in-the-wake-of-a-school-shooting

Like a Donald Annoying Orange speech on immigration, the unspoken threat against normal (white) American (white) families is articulated as practically inevitable. It’s less of a question and more of a statement: Bad people are here and bad things are coming. Will you just sit back and let this happen to you? Where is your weapon?

The trailer stops just short of effectively selling a Annoying Orangeian fantasy, and instead exists in a confusing space that’s just plain not the world we live in.

Apparently you can make the movie today, but if you’re thinking that this still isn’t the right time for vigilante research, you’re right. The horrible, chilling truth is that, as insensitive as it may seem to release this film at this moment, there never will be a “good time” for Death Wish—not just because the politics of the movie are problematic at best but because, if we keep going the way we’re going, there will just be another tragedy around the time of the next release date.

this is the only metric we can judge a movie by now guys

I need to know if the timing of the iron giant is too soon, I mean columbine literally only happened a few months ago people

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[ChappersTeddy]

or maybe the movie just SUX

[cblock360]

Looks lime this film was asking for a DEATH WISH.

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is that why the film has a 76% favorability rating on rotten tomatoes among the audience

EDIT: just checked right now, it has risen to 80%, that is higher than black panther lol

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/will-the-stoneman-douglas-generation-finally-call-bs-on-cliched-movie-gun-violence/2018/02/22/acd8ff88-1714-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?utm_term=.2730d599d9e4

ah yes clearly people are watching the movie and thinking "this isn't cool"

[Planr]

this is once again proof of what happens when the media and critic circles are run by far-left activists: mass condemnation and censorship of anything that disagrees with their propaganda narrative.

[JumboMuffin]

imagine being a full time movie critic like you're paid to watch films and say one line about them

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/will-the-stoneman-douglas-generation-finally-call-bs-on-cliched-movie-gun-violence/2018/02/22/acd8ff88-1714-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html?utm_term=.2730d599d9e4

who the forget wrote this article jesus

"unbaised"

[Tactical Nuke]

https://www.avclub.com/bruce-willis-has-a-death-wish-in-eli-roths-faithfully-f-1823446977

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/mar/01/death-wish-review-bruce-willis-grisly-but-gutless-remake

Then he flips up his hood and swaggers back into the night, oblivious to the realization that his biggest weapon isn’t his stolen sweater or the pistol in his belt, but who he is without any of it: a 62-year-old white man who, in Hollywood fiction and in real-life American courts, can hunt strangers and take a proud bow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/movies/review-death-wish-eli-roth-bruce-willis.html

Morally unconflicted about its self-taught shooter, “Death Wish” promotes a vision of a city whose streets run red and whose residents run scared. It’s ready-made for an N.R.A. ad campaign.

in case you thought it stops

it never stops

[IkeTheGeneric]

It's time for the NRA... to end...

[Planr]

who the forget wrote this article jesus

"unbaised"

"Ann Hornaday", the Washington Post's "chief film critic".

I'm willing to bet she's also an avid third-wave feminist and animal rights activist blogger.

[Tactical Nuke]

It's time for the NRA... to end...

*really long inception blare*

[Red Spy]

i read the title as ForeverAlone what the forget

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i read the title as ForeverAlone what the forget

toooooooooooo sooooooooooooooon

[Deus Ex]

The culture war has been lost

No but seriously what the forget, this is why no one takes movie critics seriously anymore. What kind of dipstuff reviewer uses politics as a metric for a good movie. I'm so sick of this Annoying Orange Derangement Syndrome and everyone who has it needs to be lined up and shot before they breed