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100 Things I Learned from DEATH SENTENCE

posted 16 years ago by effigyc
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1) If you have your throat slashed open with a machete, you will able to talk and will not bleed to death for at least an hour.

2) If your son has had his throat cut, and you are the only person around, by all means stand there and scream for help instead of calling an ambulance.

3) If you are apprehended by the police after being struck by a car while fleeing the scene of a double homicide, you will put in a police line up because they can't be sure you were involved.

4) You can follow the gang that killed your son from the courthouse all they way back to their apartment, and they will never notice you are directly behind them.

5) No one will suspect a man in a suit, waiting in a luxury car for hours in the bad side of town.

6) The police will not investigate the murder of a street criminal just released the day before for murder. They will certainly not suspect the father.

7) If you want to teach your criminal son a lesson, sell a *beep* load of guns to the man who's trying to kill him -- but don't tell him where to find him, because you love him.

8) When storming a criminal hideout, it is best to do so through the front door carrying a shotgun with two rounds in it.

9) When you escape from the hospital, the police will be unable to track down a man who is on foot and wearing a hospital gown.

10) They will also not be looking for your car, so feel free to drive it during your quest for revenge.

11) Finally, they won't even show up at your house until after you've safely stumbled home.

12) Female cops are unusually sympathetic.

13) If you get shot in the leg, you can stand on it long enough to kill empty a full clip on two men, walk over to a bench, and sit down.

14) If you are shot in the neck, you will not bleed to death until you stumble home and watch some home movies.

[–] jnoble11 16 years ago

75: The gang in this movie is made up of white black and latino members. It is quite the diverse organization. So tolerant.

76: The head honchos of the gang in this movie drive restored nicely modded rare muscle cars from the '70s in bad neighborhoods. But they never get stolen or broken into.

77: A car that is slowly rolling backwards will still have enough force to cause the railing on a parking garage ledge to immediatly give way

[–] ilya-polovets 16 years ago

78. When in a shoot-out with the baddest bad guy the black guy behind you, who had more than enough time to aim his weapon and blow your head off, will only graze your neck and than proceed to get shot in the face.

79. Tough gangster types are less in shape then a 50 year old risk managment expert.

80. People who are about to get their throat slit will stand there and take it because it is important to get the plot moving.

number 44 BRILLIANT!
by the way #80 was about kevin bacons son

[–] Justin_CTHforever 16 years ago

What else was he going to do? Run?
They had guns

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[–] ilya-polovets 16 years ago

hey........ shutup!!

[–] run_dbone_run 16 years ago

Uhh, Justin you didn't contribute to the thread.

81. It's amusing to thrash around grunting upon first waking up from a coma.

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[–] KryptoBot 16 years ago

82.) You wouldn't kill a man who is on a mission to kill your son even though you KNOW it and sold him the very weapons he's going to use and even beside the fact that you've probably figured out that he was keeping loads of cash in the bag he was holding.

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[–] asadkhan20 16 years ago

83.)"The Brave One" another movie about vigilante looks like a masterpiece compared to this steaming pile of you know what.

84.)The six degrees of Kevin Beacon continues to grow.

[–] jmodesto 16 years ago

85) A gang leader, after getting your son killed and then getting one of his gang members killed, will have a moral verbal fight with the other gang members and then look upon a CROSS in the small church and then be all sensitive about everything.

86) Being the only eye witness of your son's death will not assure that the killer is going to jail...

87) After getting shot in the street and be running around the entire neighborhood and inside of 4 bussiness, no one will call the police (even if the entire thing lasted like half an hour) (and I believe that a police siren was ringing at some point?)

88) the police will always put 2 fat policeguys in front of your house, so the gang members stalking you can get them out of the game quickly.

[–] jcasedc 16 years ago

89) When contemplating how to avenge your son's death, it's best to look around in the ol' shed, pass on the rusty machete, and use the smaller rusty knife as your weapon of choice.

90) When you get your hand cut open while murdering someone, it's best to wrap your entire hand in a lot of white gauze so as not to attract attention to the injury, especially when a police detective may very well be stopping by.

91) If you get your hand sliced open with a rusty knife, you don't have to worry about getting Tetnis.

92) If you're part of a gang driving around at night with your headlights off, looking for an opportunity to "initiate" a new member, and another driver flashes their lights at you, the gang-thing to do is turn around, zoom right by them, and drive off. That's apparently much more intimidating and gang-like than actually killing them.

[–] bah_humbug 16 years ago

93) People who are shot in the chest and have some sort of head surgery can wake up and immediately leap out of bed and run off without falling over, leaking blood, screaming in pain or puking.

94) When some Travis Bickle look-a-like leans over the bar and grabs your head, don't lean back or resist or grab your weapon from under the bar (it is the baddest bar in town, right?), just relax and let him bash your face on the counter. Then give him some respect, he's deserved it.

95) A car driven into a van so hard that the van breaks in half (what a cheap chop shop effort that was!) will have no damage to the front and both headlights will still work. Only later did they show a crumpled bonnet, and the lights still worked.

[–] MovieDewd 16 years ago

96. If you are going to kill a man in the middle of the street, make sure he doesn't have a briefcase.

97. If you get into a fight with a gang member in a parking garage that includes breaking into a random car, fighting inside that car, shifting that car into neutral (even though you don't have the keys), and then esacping from the car at the last second while it flips off the roof... there is no possbile way you would leave one finger print.

98. Bartenders don't give out information for just huge stacks of money. You must also slam their face into the bar.

99. Abandoned hospitals usually still have equipment in them.

100. When buying $3000 worth of guns, pay $5000.

[–] zeusgodz 16 years ago

101. Walking around with a gym bag full of thousands of dollars while vacating every shady place in town will not get you robbed. Letting people know that you need to buy guns and still holding the bag without knowing where to get guns will still not get you robbed.

102. When thinking about whether to bribe someone or to use violence or force against them, choose both. Offer them money and when they start speaking in a different language use violence, especially when outnumbered. If performing these acts against a bartender don't forget to tip them a few thousand or so for their troubles after their beating as to not look like a cheap customer.

103. When owning the roughest bar in town you should prove that it is by hanging a martini shaped neon sign inside.

104. Thousands of rounds of ammunition and endless trips to the firing range is not the most efficient way to become an expert marksman/vigilante. Apparently all the information that is needed is located in the owner's manual that your local underground gun dealer will be happy to provide you if he really likes you.

105. Tipping your local underground gun dealer can change the outcome of a movie. The lack of proper firearm instruction manuals would have made this movie about 30 minutes shorter.

[–] littletainted 16 years ago

I know it already hit 100, but I'd like to add a couple anyway..

* There are always vacant lots and old abandoned churches lying around to have a gun fight in.

* The bank teller will not be suspicious if you take out a load of money looking all beat up and nasty.

sometimes, movie threads are more interesting and worthwhile than the actual movie. =)

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[–] nedatronics 16 years ago

Yup, this thread was way better compared to the movie.

This movie was an insult to the audience's intelligence and judgement power.

[–] spaminput 15 years ago

97a. Even if said car was pulled into an angled parking spot it will automatically correct out and roll straight down the aisle.

[–] poorlittleteacher 16 years ago

* The people who brought us Saw could care less about the works of human physics and physiology than SHOOTING PEOPLE AND HACKIN' 'EM UP!

* John Goodman steals scenes and has amazing screen presence.

* Street gangs can be very cosmopolitan and made up of different races.

* Kevin Bacon is just taking every role he can now so people can play "Six Degrees" a little easier.

* Cops never do anything right or on time, so take the law into your own hands when you can.

[–] Smatterwichee 16 years ago

* It's always safe to open a package that a man threatening your life hands you, without even thinking about it.

* Kelly Preston is hardly the best actress on the planet, but man she is hot.

* It doesn't matter that you are actually in a one man war with a gang, the only important thing that the black lady in charge of protecting you is worried about is if you "started it".

[–] Stoneandbone 16 years ago

*Once you have the upper hand in a combat situation, it is better to enter your car instead of finishing off your opponent who is within reaching distance.

*Skinhead gang leaders have the ability to create people to be just like them by murdering most of their family.

*When shaving your head before heading out for revenge, it's not important to do a good job. Leaving patches in the back is just fine.

[–] MisterZed 16 years ago

"5) No one will suspect a man in a suit, waiting in a luxury car for hours in the bad side of town. "

I have to disagree with this one for two reasons - he has a Ford Taurus which is very common and not at all considered a desirable car, and two: a man in a suit sitting in a Ford could be a detective , which would probably not be uncommon in high crime areas. The locals would probably be used to seeing them and think he's just another one of them.

[–] Bri821 16 years ago

On the contrary my dear friend he is driving the Ford 500. Which is in a much higher class than the Ford Taurus.

- If you come home after just killing someone and rolling around on a wet garbage disposal room floor and getting your hand sliced open. Just tell your family that you slipped and fell in the driveway. And they will believe you.

- As a director make it noticeable that your main characters hand is bleeding and there are a lot of witnesses that can see it was bleeding profusely. But really never connect it with the end of the movie.

- Shooting a firearm while running gives you really bad aim.

- Shotguns, when fired inside of a home, will make perfect circles in the walls

- Even in his last breath a madman gang leader killer will smile and respect how you are dressed just like him.

- Showing someone getting his leg blown off is bad. But showing how the gang leader "billy" dies is way too gory for us to see.

- 5 grand will get you information on 1 gang members location

- another 5 grand will get you 2 pistols and a shotgun with all the necessary reading materials.

- 5 grand will be in 3 separate packs of money. So about $1,300 dollars in each stack. This is normal when you get it directly from the bank.

- When brewing all types of drugs and stuff, an abandoned building is the best place. But to make it a little less conspicuous put up a 10 foot fence in the front like you own it and drive your car right up to the steps when you are there.

[–] MisterZed 16 years ago

Ford 500 and Ford Taurus are the same thing. The 500 was *renamed* Taurus a few years ago, after Ford struggled with the new name.

[–] Bri821 16 years ago

So it was a Taurus then it was a 500 then switched back to Taurus. So it was never actually renamed. It was originally the ford Taurus and for only 3 years was it called the 500.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Five_Hundred

[–] MisterZed 16 years ago

It was renamed, from 500 to Taurus. How is that not clear?

[–] chilone (17915) 7 years ago

The Taurus has been made since 1986 and there have been no gaps even till today. It was never renamed.

[–] leontin 16 years ago

*LOL* Best IMDB Comment... ever! :)

[–] Bri821 16 years ago

But it was always called the taurus. only for 3 years they called it a 500
now it is a taurus again.

Are we clear?

[–] tropicvibe 16 years ago

Apparently you're taking this movie too seriously. I didn't. I just sat down with a pizza and a pepsi and enjoyed it for what it was, plot holes and all. I'd say just about all of us here have as much x-ray vision as you do and can easily pick this movie apart in a matter of seconds. As it is, I had fun with it and rated it appropriately.

[–] Bri821 16 years ago

SHUT UP!

[–] rocknroll70s 16 years ago

Kevin Bacon has now been in a movie with Kelly Preston who is married to John Travolta who was in a movie with Kyra Sedgwick who is married to Kevin Bacon.

is that any degrees of separation?

[–] lopiadx 16 years ago

PERFECT!

[–] AndrewKnevett 16 years ago

I have just literally finished watching Death Sentence and the first poster has it all spot on! I found it all way too far-fetched and unbelievable. I was asking myself early on if the cop suspected Nick killed the street thug (and his bandaged hand was a bit of a giveaway) why didnt she haul him into the police station and question him, for his and his family's safety.

And why did Nick show off his hurt hand to the cop but conceal it from his work mate. Well that and many other questions I could raise but I dont have the time.

[–] fawnlebowitz 11 years ago

A little nit--he didn't show it to his workmate because it had started to bleed through the bandage. when the police woman detective was there, it was bandaged but not bleeding .

[–] kidsolo 16 years ago

105.if your son ever wants to be a hockey player he rather return home by bus than driving him home with your car

[–] icaptainchaos 16 years ago

I must be getting old ...

91) If you get your hand sliced open with a rusty knife, you don't have to worry about getting Tetnis.

Maybe it's my monitor, but I read the last word as "T E T R I S" and thought "why would he be worried about getting a handheld game of skill & timing with all that fighting and killing going on?", then realised he meant TETANUS, Not Tetnis!

[–] ldealberti 16 years ago

If only Kevin Bacon had seen the Last house on the left remake...

then (SPOILERS)

he would have known that the best way of despatching a gang leader is to shove their head on a malfunctioning microwave and explode their head off (in movies, microwaves still work with their door open)

[–] medal5 15 years ago

* It's not too difficult to be a good hockey player, when you are dribbling the puck up the ice, and all the defensemen from the other team get out of your way and cover the other players, leaving you open for a wide open slapshot. It also helps when the goalie doesn't come out to cut off the angle.

[–] neobilly 15 years ago

*When watching a movie, it is very important to find every flaw and then complain about said flaws on a message board.

Honestly? I don't understand why people watch movies and then complain about them like this. Was Death Sentence a spectacular and moving piece of cinema? No, it was cheap entertainment, and that's all it was meant to be. If you want something deep and really well made, go watch something directed by Steven Spielberg, not the guy that brought you Saw.

[–] Sid_Man 15 years ago

lol...chill out man!!
They're jus having some fun. They knw its not a big deal.

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[–] moviedude33 15 years ago

Many people are calling this movie cheap entertainment, but honestly this movie was very deep.

[–] tiani23-1 15 years ago

-Always carry a baseball bat in your car...you never know when you are going to have to fend off crazy gang members in a parking garage.

-Briefcases are the new "sheilds", and can do some serious damage when used in hand to hand combat.

[–] BrianJonick 15 years ago

I laughed out loud at this. I was thinking most of those exact things the entire movie.

[–] WhoopsieThree-D 15 years ago

* Join a gang. You'll get away with anything!

* Security guards will allow a suspicious and hooded man enter a building, allow him to enter an elevator, cause a scene and shove employees about, and blatantly threaten a man with DEATH, and still ask if the subject of threat wants said hooded man removed from the building.

* Despite an explicit warning that a crazed and murderous gang is coming to your house with the intention of wiping out you, your wife, and remaining son, by all means, stay in the house. Surely a hotel or getting the hell out of town is no option.

* All it takes is a shaved head and a montage to become a gun-wielding badass.

* If injured and a vengeful father is chasing you with a loaded shotgun, by all means, while you're limping slowly away from him, make threats against his life. Surely you still have the upper hand while dragging one leg behind you.

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