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Things I Learned From Death Wish 3

posted 18 years ago by SithLord03
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1) Dramatic scenes are drowned out with Jimmy Page Synth....
2) Rocket Launchers are only good on enemies who are in groups..
3) Doing crimes in private means witnessing public executions
4) A zip gun has the range and accuracy of a hundred or more feet
5) Backgroud checks aren't needed to secure a postal address
6) Getting high before a night of crime always is productive
7) Chicken is good and likeable
8) Stuffed Cabbage smells wonderful
9) A firearm is illegal within city limits
10) It's okay to violate constitutional rights
11) Due Process doesn't exist when it comes to gang members
12) The unidentified shooter was a "good shot"
13) And he was better than anyone in the department
14) Sometimes you can't have both
15) An elephant gun leaves a big mess
16) When constitutional rights are violated, you can sue.
17) Grand Theft Auto is capital offense
18) When someone has a nail go through their foot, they are "hurt man"
19) You can die from a broken arm
20) When faced with a riot, instead of using a gun,bat,or knife, a plunger is a suitable weapon

Carry on...

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[–] tgs333 18 years ago

My favorite: 4) A zip gun has the range and accuracy of a hundred or more feet

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] ljb581985 18 years ago

1: Gang leaders have a Gangs R Us. They can call up another gang and get more "guys" whenever they feel like it.
2: Kersey can get any women after a total of dull converstaion for 3 minutes. He can also be 30 years her senior too.

[–] tgs333 18 years ago

21. Harassing a man and his wife for 5 dollars doesn't always net you 5 dollars.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] They_Killed_The_Giggler 18 years ago

22. They had no business in killing the Giggler. None at all.

About 20% of dollar bills have traces of cocaine. The other 80% is in Dennis Hopper.

[–] tgs333 18 years ago

23. When it is 90 degrees outside, wear sweaters and long sleeve shirts and coats.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] LunchTruckProductions 18 years ago

25. when falling from a 6 story building one flails their arms behind their body. (obvious dummy)

26. when searching for someone on a roof. Look in only the lit areas. Kersey can't be in the only dark area, can he?

27. when you are being chased by a gang of thugs, don't forget to fall and throw your gun on purpose so that you can't find it.

28. a lady should never get involved with Kersey because they always end up dead.

29. when someone is shooting at you from an apartment with a machine gun, you should always have a dude looking out for everyone to let them all know if the guy that's shooting from the apartment's gun jams or not. If it jams, the dude can simply say "his gun's not working" or something like that and everyone can rush the dude in the apartment assuming that his gun won't get unjammed or the dude won't have another gun in his posession.

[–] tgs333 18 years ago

30. If you have an apartment window next to a fire escape, leave it open so people can walk through it. In addition, leave the front door to your apartment open, so not to inconvience them with having to open it.

31. Tire Irons respawn magically in the most desperate of situations.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] tgs333 18 years ago

33. Push-Brooms are an effective weapon at ridding your home of creeps.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] tgs333 18 years ago

35. A .38 caliber revolver never runs out of ammo.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] gabeschechter 18 years ago

36.) If you decide to pay for something in "cash," very strange music will play.

[–] noetta 18 years ago

37.) Eating Ice Cream and swinging your camera around nets you a free kill.

[–] They_Killed_The_Giggler 18 years ago

38. Rape scenes lose all emotional impact when Bill Prestone Esquire is involved.

About 20% of dollar bills have traces of cocaine. The other 80% is in Dennis Hopper.

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[–] tgs333 18 years ago

40. Switchblades make good stickies.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] LunchTruckProductions 18 years ago

No we haven't. I haven't even seen the movie in like 12 years. I'm gonna watch it this weekend. I'll learn a plethora of new ideas and share them with you all.

Check out the things i learned from watching cobra thread. I can't stop laughing at some of the replies.

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[–] tgs333 18 years ago

You really need to get this movie on DVD. Freeze framing scenes will have you rolling around laughing!

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

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[–] vincarlosb 17 years ago

it's not enough that 2 old people come running out of a bombed out building on fire, you still have to put them down with an uzi...they are just that tough to kill.

[–] vincarlosb 17 years ago

when you want to sneak out.. un-noticed by the police.. after a protracted shoot out with hoodlums, take two suitcases..one in each hand...and walk down the middle of the street as the cops are rushing to the scene.

[–] ldkusa 17 years ago

Horny Trekkies can find out how Marina Sirtis' boobies look out of her Star Trek: TNG uniform. >:)

[–] JackRussellDog 17 years ago

Cars can explode with all the velocity of a small atomic bomb when they collide with another car.

[–] jorgito2001 15 years ago

41. Jews still lived in the mostly black/hispanic ghetto sections of Brooklyn, NY.

42. You can stay in an apt free & clear with no worries, cause "the rent is paid through the end of the month".

43. A nerdy attorney can overnight into a hot as heck, horny chick!

44. No need to "take cover" even with 2 or 3 guys shooting at you at an obvious advantage point if you have a BIG GUN that makes LOTS of noise!

--
Strangers: 5/10
Twilight: 3/10
Hostel 2: 7/10
Spit On Your Grave:4/10

[–] vincarlosb 14 years ago

it is common practice that when a soldier leaves the military to empty the weapons room of powerful machine guns and ammo stocks.

[–] Roman-3 13 years ago

680. Bennett keeps a jug of Clorox bleach on his windowsill to show everyone how he gets his whites whiter and brighter.

[–] Roman-3 13 years ago

681. Bennett and the Kaprovs derive great satisfaction seeing their neighbourhood burn to the ground.

[–] jboling 18 years ago

41. Paul K (Bronson) can not throw a knife well.

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[–] SithLord03 17 years ago

lol, had to bring it back....

47. Children cheer when criminals are given "street justice"...

[–] DetRosaDiaz 18 years ago

The best. :)

[–] chipnauman 16 years ago

32. Gang members,although hooked on drugs and out of control,have plenty of time and money to keep their hair cut and their clothes clean.

[–] vince9 15 years ago

When being released from prison, you can openly tell everyone else, including the police officers who are letting you out, that it is your intention to immediately kill a little old lady once you get out, and you will still be let out of jail !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[–] cdthornton 15 years ago

32. All cars explode & busrt into flames when colliding with another car.
33. Molotov cocktails create explosions similar to a grenade.

[–] kcfan-3 15 years ago

34. Fraker has the sticker, and Hector is the stickee.

Not on the rug, man....

[–] immortalist 17 years ago

Team up with Paul Kersy & you have a:
75% chance of taking a Bullet
39% of dying
98% chance of killing Evils gang members, Mafiosas or rapists, and other deviants.

[–] raleighlatham 18 years ago

41. The police prey on defenseless Jewish people.

42. 80's gang members can prey on old people "ANYTIME!!!"

43. The only way to cleanse the streets of New York is with a huge ass elephant gun pistol.

44. If you run out of gangmember costumes just use Confederate costumes, no one will notice.

[–] danmartin212 18 years ago

45. Charles Bronson and Ed Lauter, when teamed together, can kill a small army of gangsters.

46.When fired from the hip, the .30 Caliber Air Cooled machinegun has no recoil. None.

"Come get some." Ash, Army of Darkness

[–] MorsePacific 17 years ago

47. Stuffed cabbage smells wonderful.

48. It's okay to wish death on someone who stole your pocket book three weeks ago.

49. Renting a P.O. box is as easy as walking into the place and simply saying you want to rent one.

50. Never pull a knife on a guy who has a gun and tell him now he's gonna die.

[–] statum106 17 years ago

51. Breaking into someone's home in daylight can result in getting shot by a screaming woman with a double-barrel shotgun!

52. A group of people living in mortal fear of organized bikers, can always spring a rope trap and shoot their quarry dead with .22's.

(I swear, remembering this scene brings has me thinking they got this bit after seeing the Ewoks fight back in "Return of the Jedi")

[–] rokyo 17 years ago

53. When two American cars from the 80s collide at a speed of about 30 mph, one of these cars is going to break in half, then both will explode.

54. When you lock an American Browning machine gun into your closet, it will magically turn into a German MG3. (Okay, I should have watched the whole movie, but at first I though: "wtf?")

55. The official title detectives use to address vigilantes is "dude".

56. When you have a really REALLY bad haircut, you will become the leader of a gang (probably because the other thugs are all afraid that your hair may attack them).

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

57. If a creep calls you at work and says "it's your wife, somethings wrong." Odds are she's dead.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] MorsePacific 17 years ago

58. Police station offices look NOTHING AT ALL like reorganized school classrooms.

[–] jbcoops 17 years ago

59. N.Y. detective who knows all about Kersey and has a chance to let him get blown away by punks, will yell at him to save him to ensure there will be a Death Wish 3, but then fire his service revolver from out in the open against automatic weapons fire so that he'll get blown away himself and not have to suffer through any more sequels.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

60. If you have any free time on your hands, head up to Sutter and Belmont.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] Aylmer 8 years ago

50 1/2. Saying "No!" to someone threatening to stab you will have no effect on the outcome of the situation.

[–] tgs333 8 years ago

This thread is going to die soon :(

THEY KILLED THE MESSAGE BOARDS!

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] BobGunn 8 years ago

That won't be smart... Nah, not too smart.

[–] gotham23 17 years ago

61. Urban gangs feature whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, all killing and stealing side-by-side in racial harmony.

[–] remmy_870 17 years ago

Anti-armor weapons can be used in close proximity indoors!

[–] vincarlosb 17 years ago

"giggler" had to make an early exit....he was also making "breakin' 2.. electric bugaloo" at this time.

[–] anfinke 17 years ago

All gang members look like they belong in Michael Jackson's "Beat It" video.

[–] jenld1029-1 17 years ago

62. It's easy to smuggle large machine guns back to the U.S. after your discharge from the military.
63. Paul Kersey seems like very nice man.
64. Paul Kersey will buy you ice cream before he wastes a creep.
65. You can ax a man to death in clear view of the public walking by in vroad daylight.
66. It took the cops at least 12 hours to recover the Giggler's body after he was killed.
67. The most Molotov Cocktails used in a film -- ever.

[–] dealer35811 17 years ago

68.? An increase in police street patrol results in an increase in reported crime.

69. When a rape occurs in a supermarket parking lot, the security gaurd will always be refilling his coffee.

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[–] echo-45 14 years ago

re number 66. by jenld1029-1 . . . . not only does it take 12 hours, but when the police do recover him, there's not much left of him.

[–] jenld1029-1 17 years ago

71. No matter how out of shape or old you are, you can score with a hot chick 30 years younger than you.
72. Never stare at Fraker when passing in a cab. He is sure to remember you and eventually kill you.
73. Never open a door in an abandoned apartment complex; there could be a springboard device with a six inch blade attached to it.
74. Push brooms are effective in ridding your house of creeps.
75. If you want to get back at someone who has terrorized your neighborhood, you can simply clothesline them with a chain as they ride by on their choppers.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

76. After having your wife murdered, your daughter raped and murdered, your house maid sadisticly rapped and murdered, your best friend (an old war buddy) murdered, your friend's wife raped and murdered, a girlfriend murdered in a firey car crash... you can still rest peacefully at night and not turn out to be a manic depressive person or an alcholic. And folks, we haven't even gotten to Death Wish IV and V yet.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] MorsePacific 17 years ago

77. Paying with cash is apparently very EEEEVIL, as evidenced by the music.

[–] kwork64-2 17 years ago

78. Creeps always brush their teeth with grenade pins still in the grenades.
79. Creeps always wear German WWII helmets.
80. Creep hangouts--no matter how decrepid and abandoned--apparently always have a working phone line.
81. Wooden-board traps will always be able to collect teeth from their creep victims.
82. Hospital rooms have beds in the middle of the floor with a window next to a fire escape.
83. An old man takes a 3 story fall and will survive and be resting comfortably shortly after.
84. People in apartments have dresser bureaus in their living rooms with shirts and guns in them for protection.
85. People in apartments allow their children to get their guns for them.
86. Street gangs leaders all have their own lawyers.
87. You can order LAWS rocket launchers and have them delivered.
88. One blown-up creep leader can stop stop a gang-fight between creeps and civilians.
89. In bombed out, depressed neighborhoods, you can always get a cab.
90. Always people just milling about a crime-filled neighborhood.
91. In a crime-filled area, it`s always safe for a woman to go grocery shopping at night--by herself.
92. Creeps available by one phone call.

Thats all I got for now.

[–] jeffuary 17 years ago

93. 64 year olds can beat the hell out of extraordinarily ripped 28 year old men.
94. Hey, Cabbie, I'll give you 20 dollars to us out of here.
95. Old friends dying is freaking hilarious.
96. All of the good people in NYC circa 1985 lived in one apartment building in the middle of a gang war.
97. Neighborhoods cheer public executions.
98. They killed..the giggler...man
99. They had no business doing that.
100. Cops can't even drive through the neighborhood without getting attacked, yet have no problem ropin off an entire block for a homicide investigation.
101. Chicken's good. I like chicken.
102. All gang members have maniacal high pitched laughs.

[–] bombsniffingdog 17 years ago

103. WW2 machine guns tend to jam...especially when the ROUNDS ARE LOADED FACING THE WRONG WAY!!!!!!!!!!

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

104. Charlie never quite understood what "COLLECTION TIME!" meant.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] davepu92 17 years ago

105. Apparently there was a time when midriff shirts were something tough guys wore to look menacing.
106. Chuck Taylors leave tracks similar to work boots.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

107. Wanting to have oral sex with a woman so bad, a creep is willing to throw himself on the hood of a moving vehicle and subject himself to a "tire iron" beat down.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] zauis1234 17 years ago

108. After killing a man at close range with a rocket launcher, romantic jazz music will start playing.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

109. When flashing the Brights on a early model 1980's Chevy Malibu, they'll make a distinct "blink blink" sound.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] monsieurbibo54 17 years ago

110. A multi-story building can easily be destroyed with a couple hand grenades.

[–] bmovieexpert 17 years ago

Cockroaches are never seen in NY unless someone needs one to smash

[–] jenld1029-1 17 years ago

112. You can step into the line of fire of 20 creeps firing on you and not get hit once while wiping them all out without reloading.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

113. If you wake up one morning and find yourelf in Jail and a fellow inmate says "I want a move put on that one..." Get ready for a beat down.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

114. This thread can't end at 114.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] Huskie_Jon 17 years ago

115. When you get discharged from the Army, you get to keep your weapons.

116. Looking out a hospital window and watching people get shot and burned alive while your neighborhood gets blown up and shot to hell in a big shootout by gangs, vigilantes and cops can be hilariously entertaining.

[–] armakedong 12 years ago

"charlie's dead just like your gonna be. i'm watching you" that gives kersey a warm fuzzy feeling inside, knowing that theres someone out there who cares enough to watch him

[–] ran67187 17 years ago

116. Much to my surprise, multiracial gangs do exist!
117. Brooklyn has a lot of burnt-out old buildings and empty lots.
118. Creeps have nothing to do all day but roam the streets and harrass people as they walk by (unless, of course, they are chopping up their enemies in broad daylight).
119. No matter how old Charles Bronson gets, he is still fast enough to catch up to an 18-year-old creep.
120. It is important to have a rocket launcher in your apartment in case a creep stops by.
121. Old Jewish people make lousy-looking dinners.
122. Never go onto Fraker's turf; if you do, you're a goner.

[–] Jriff87 17 years ago

123. It was a nice neighborhood...until it changed.
124. That was Bennett's shop!!!

[–] jessenoyes 17 years ago

125. The New York City Police Department wants horses.
126. Shriker hates creeps, too.
127. It costs $20 to get a cabbie to go around a car wreck.

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

128. If you hand a cabbie $20 to go around a wreck, he'll reply in kind: "Thanks Mac."

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] TheGiggler33 17 years ago

129. If you have a relative who lives in Bingemton NY, it's reason enough to hate them.

130. Forget Emile...He's done for.

131. Chickens good, I like chicken.

132. If you're going to throw a dummy off a roof...don't do it half-assed.

133. If you join a street gang; don't think for yourself... Hector will tell you what to do and when to do it.

134. If you think stuffed cabbage smells wonderful...you must be a psycho vigilante.

135. On the street, cameras are worth way more than jewelry and gold boullion.

136. The word "brandishing" needs to be taught in school.

137. Laughing while running apparantely gives you super speed and endurance.

138. The dude who rents Kersey the PO Box looks a hell of a lot like the soup nazi.

"Smokey this is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

139:

133. If you join a street gang; don't think for yourself... Hector will tell you what to do and when to do it.

Chaco can personaly vouch for this statment.

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] rossbro-1 17 years ago

140. if your name is Marina Sirtis, do not get gang raped in movies such as this.

unless you like being laughed at for hours by trekkies.

[–] MorsePacific 17 years ago

141. Killing creeps is like killing cockroaches. You have to kill them all, otherwise what's the point?

142. Discovering shoeprints inside your bathroom is apparently a comical thing (as evidenced by the accompanying music).

[–] gadjitfreek 17 years ago

143. Paul Kersey likes ice cream, but he likes killing creeps just a little bit more.

144. Cops can't do anything about street thugs.

145. Crime increases when cops increase their real effort by 15%.

146. Bennett apparently keeps TNT stored in his shop, or his locks are of the exploding variety.

147. He had to go someplace!

148. The hospital Bennett was in suddenly moves back into his neighborhood for his viewing pleasure.

149. Fraker always wins.

150. It's MANNY Fraker, not MANDY Fraker. His first name is Emmanuel or Manuel.

151. All Rodriguez has got is a zip gun.

152. The best place to hide a gun is under your shirts.

153. Cars scream when they explode.

154. Grenades will always fire in tandem even if their pins have been pulled at different times.

155. They're out of ammo.

156. Cars are EXTREMELY explosive. I don't know why anyone would ever get in one!

157. Fraker can sense when someone else is wearing a bulletproof vest.

158. If it's on his turf, Fraker will take care of it.

159. Creeps continue to burn long after they have been obliterated by rockets.

160. In Shriker's jail, you have no Constitutional rights.

161. Bennett is really Mr. Green, who helped to take Pelham 123. I guess he's retired now.

162. Wildy doesn't shoot through garbage cans.

163. You can't see the riots from the first floor.

164. Not once in this film do you see signs for Sutter or Belmont.

165. Uzis have no recoil.

166. It's legal to kill thugs on bikes from two feet away.

167. Molotov cocktails are high explosives.

168. All thugs carry crowbars down their pants.

169. Zip guns rattle when they are shaken.

170. Kersey doesn't run out of ammo until after all the thugs are wasted.

171. Shriker takes exception to having Molotov cocktails thrown at him.

Make no mistake...I LOVE this movie. It's one of my all-time favorites...but it is SO funny!!!!!

[–] tgs333 17 years ago

172. If you and your lover are "hungry" after having sex, expect your lover to die in a firey car crash.

173. If Paul had been smart, he would have elected to have GAP protection included in his auto financing. (or did he pay cash?)

"I'm a vehemently anti-nuclear, paranoid mess, harbouring a strange obsession with radioactive sheep."

[–] TheGiggler33 17 years ago

"148. The hospital Bennett was in suddenly moves back into his neighborhood for his viewing pleasure."

-One of my personal favorite moments...

"Smokey this is not Nam. This is bowling. There are rules."

[–] armakedong 12 years ago

kersey has his own version of "the message" by grandmaster flash it involves two slugs to the chest

[–] monsieurbibo54 17 years ago

"The dude who rents Kersey the PO Box looks a hell of a lot like the soup nazi."

^^hahaha so true