Charles Bronson on Blu-ray

[laidbacklarkin]

This Bronson completist fetish is starting to add a lot of garbage into my collection. Thankfully, Prime Video has a ton of CB flicks out there for sampling before plunging for a purchase. Recently caught 'Borderline', 'Violent City', 'Love and Bullets' on PV and Jeessus, what a load of crap ! 'Love and Bullets' - how could you shoot on location in Switzerland and not have an eye for the landscapes' beauty, that cameraman had no business holding one

[gates70]

Originally Posted by Franz Propp

Although he's the main Villain, he doesn't have much screen time. I think he has more screen time in Drum Beat for example, or at least it was well spred in that case.

I see, thanks for the info!

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by laidbacklarkin

This Bronson completist fetish is starting to add a lot of garbage into my collection. Thankfully, Prime Video has a ton of CB flicks out there for sampling before plunging for a purchase. Recently caught 'Borderline', 'Violent City', 'Love and Bullets' on PV and Jeessus, what a load of crap ! 'Love and Bullets' - how could you shoot on location in Switzerland and not have an eye for the landscapes' beauty, that cameraman had no business holding one

Violent City is fantastic. Top 5 Bronson for me.

[seagal]

Originally Posted by laidbacklarkin

This Bronson completist fetish is starting to add a lot of garbage into my collection. Thankfully, Prime Video has a ton of CB flicks out there for sampling before plunging for a purchase. Recently caught 'Borderline', 'Violent City', 'Love and Bullets' on PV and Jeessus, what a load of crap ! 'Love and Bullets' - how could you shoot on location in Switzerland and not have an eye for the landscapes' beauty, that cameraman had no business holding one

But "Borderline" and "Love and Bullets" is not in HD on amazon prime, right?

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

Violent City is fantastic. Top 5 Bronson for me.

Bottom 5 for me.

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Bottom 5 for me.

Each to their own, but there is just no way for me that Violent City (with its Ennio Morricone score, Bronson at his peak, well-directed by Sergio Sollima and incredible car chase and locations) is worse than Love & Bullets, Breakout, Caboblanco and every film he made after 10 To Midnight in 1983.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Bottom 5 for me.

You must have not seen a lot of his films, or have horrible taste. To each their own, but Violent City has so much going for it to even be remotely considered bottom 5 of all the films he's made.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by grahams76

Each to their own, but there is just no way for me that Violent City (with its Ennio Morricone score, Bronson at his peak, well-directed by Sergio Sollima and incredible car chase and locations) is worse than Love & Bullets, Breakout, Caboblanco and every film he made after 10 To Midnight in 1983.

All of Charlie's Cannon pictures >> Violent City

[drush9999]

Originally Posted by Markgway

All of Charlie's Cannon pictures >> Violent City

The unpopular opinions thread is elsewhere

[Rzzzz]

Would this be in his bottom 5?

[filmo70]

Originally Posted by Markgway

All of Charlie's Cannon pictures >> Violent City

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by Rzzzz

Would this be in his bottom 5?

Definitely near the bottom. It looks like a TV movie, like an episode of Murder She Wrote but with more violence. Crap.

[Markgway]

Originally Posted by grahams76

Definitely near the bottom. It looks like a TV movie, like an episode of Murder She Wrote but with more violence. Crap.

Hey, I like Murder, She Wrote.

But imagine if it had been Murder, He Wrote and starred Charlie. Every episode would have ended with him killing someone.

Lt. Bumschmaker: Where's the suspect?

Jesse Fletcher: I shot him. He's dead.

Roll credits.

Seriously though, Messenger of Death is a pretty decent thriller most of the way, only the finale is a bit weak, as if they run out of money. It's not popular with the critics because, well, it's Cannon, or the fans because it's lacking the sleaze and ultra-violence of Charlie's other work from the era.

[seagal]

Originally Posted by Markgway

Hey, I like Murder, She Wrote.

But imagine if it had been Murder, He Wrote and starred Charlie. Every episode would have ended with him killing someone.

Lt. Bumschmaker: Where's the suspect?

Jesse Fletcher: I shot him. He's dead.

Roll credits.

Seriously though, Messenger of Death is a pretty decent thriller most of the way, only the finale is a bit weak, as if they run out of money. It's not popular with the critics because, well, it's Cannon, or the fans because it's lacking the sleaze and ultra-violence of Charlie's other work from the era.

I liked "Diagnosis Murder" more than the Angela Lansbury series but back to Bronson.

Of course, "Violent City" is much better than most of Bronson´s later films.

Top 10 Bronson film. My favorite Bronson movies however (where he´s the main star) are "Death Wish", Mr. Majestyk and Hard Times.

Of course, he was in many classics (The Magnificient Seven, The Great Escape, The Dirty Dozen and of course, "Once upon a Time in the West) but he wasn´t the main star in these great movies.

[drush9999]

The 70s are Bronson's best period, despite dropping off towards the end of the decade. But the 80s had the Death Wish sequels, The Evil That Men Do, Death Hunt, 10 to Midnight etc, and a lot of filler in between.

[CreasyBear]

I've watched a good number of Bronson films this year and by far the best was The Mechanic, followed up by Hard Times. I especially love the dialogue-free opening of The Mechanic.

[Tom Sharky]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

Kino Lorber will be doing new remasters of “Breakheart Pass” and “Mr. Majestyk” in the future:
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...2#post18876472

Hopefully they include a good number of extras with both releases. For Mr. Majestyk, I believe the current release only has a single trailer for the extras.

[TrentW1982]

Originally Posted by CreasyBear

I've watched a good number of Bronson films this year and by far the best was The Mechanic, followed up by Hard Times. I especially love the dialogue-free opening of The Mechanic.

Agree. The Mechanic is probably my favourite Bronson film other than Once Upon A Time In The West. And I have to say that I went into Hard Times not expecting all that much, and it turned out to be one of my all time favourites too. Excellent film!

[Dailyan]

Originally Posted by Tom Sharky

Hopefully they include a good number of extras with both releases. For Mr. Majestyk, I believe the current release only has a single trailer for the extras.

In regards to "Mr. Majestyk", I can see Kino probably porting over the Paul Talbot commentary from the Signal One Blu along with maybe the Fiction Factory-produced Lee Purcell and Richard Kline interviews.

[seagal]

Originally Posted by Dailyan

In regards to "Mr. Majestyk", I can see Kino probably porting over the Paul Talbot commentary from the Signal One Blu along with maybe the Fiction Factory-produced Lee Purcell and Richard Kline interviews.

I´m somehow skeptical that Kino Lorber new 2k remaster will be much better than their first blu-ray.Maybe only slightly better.