Goodbye Billy.

Back in the day, my friends and I were greatly disappointed with the movie,
it was promoted as a martial arts film, but was really about hippies.

We didn’t want films hyperbolically presenting social issues, we wanted Fist of Fury.

(12-17-2013 06:23 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  Back in the day, my friends and I were greatly disappointed with the movie,
it was promoted as a martial arts film, but was really about hippies.

We didn’t want films hyperbolically presenting social issues, we wanted Fist of Fury.

Your analysis is correct. It was just another in the "Easy Rider" genre. But with time, we did get Paul Kersey.

(12-17-2013 08:16 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(12-17-2013 06:23 AM)AngryAphid Wrote:  Back in the day, my friends and I were greatly disappointed with the movie,
it was promoted as a martial arts film, but was really about hippies.

We didn’t want films hyperbolically presenting social issues, we wanted Fist of Fury.

Your analysis is correct. It was just another in the "Easy Rider" genre. But with time, we did get Paul Kersey.

Last month the original Death Wish was on the retro channel.

I was thinking how the film seemed anticlimactic, but I had forgotten about that ending scene in LAX airport.

I love vigilante-type movies like this and "Walking Tall".

I'm not sure vigilante is the correct term, but you know what I mean.

(12-17-2013 10:33 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  I love vigilante-type movies like this and "Walking Tall".

I'm not sure vigilante is the correct term, but you know what I mean.

And Buford Pusser was real.

(12-18-2013 08:34 AM)QuestionSocratic Wrote:  

(12-17-2013 10:33 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  I love vigilante-type movies like this and "Walking Tall".

I'm not sure vigilante is the correct term, but you know what I mean.

And Buford Pusser was real.

Buford Pusser was real. I met the man when the first Walking Tall, starring Joe Don Baker, was released. He was killed about 6 months later, by the same folks he had been fighting all along.