51: Death Wish 3

About this episode

The episode discusses the absurdity and entertainment value of the 1985 film Death Wish 3.

This week we take a trip back to 1985 for a movie of such staggering stupidity that we can hardly believe it. Death Wish 3 is the continuing adventures of Paul Kersey, played by Charles Bronson and where the first movie is a pretty solid action movie and the second movie is dopey and mostly boring, Death Wish 3 commits to absurdity in a way that'll really make you think. It's a movie of such moronic prowess that the filmmakers had to go out of their way to achieve such heights of idiocy. See a crowd of children literally jump for joy over the bodies of bikers dead in the street. Marvel at a doctor doing everything he can to not break character and laugh while telling a husband that his wife died from a broken arm. This movie is truly an achievement in a year already crowded with dumb movies from Cannon. As it happens, Paul Kersey is back home in New York City to visit an old friend but he arrives in time for the man to die in his arms when the local street gang of giggling maniacs beats him to the edge of his life. Kersey will team up with a cop to put the gang on ice in a film that was literally rushed into production to capitalize on the headlines about a subway vigilante in…

People in this episode

Hosts: Bryan White, Dave White

Topics covered

• 1985 film
• Death Wish series
• action movie absurdity
• vigilante justice
• Cannon Films

Keywords

• Death Wish 3
• Charles Bronson
• Cannon Films
• vigilante
• 1985 movie
• action film
• absurdity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cannon

Places: New York City

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