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Death Wish 3

September 26, 2025·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

The Pint opens by warning listeners that spoilers and profanity are part of the deal. They then dive into *Death Wish 3* as a 40-years-back look at the canon group. Charles Bronson stays front and center the whole time. The talk starts with the movie’s hard-edged treatment of Paul Kersey after he gets locked up, and it does not get much gentler from there. The hosts keep coming back to how much killing the movie throws at the screen. They lean hard on the ugliness of the prison material. One thread follows how the movie beats him down in jail and drops him into gen pop. Another gets hung up on the violence because it is so dumb that it starts to feel funny. They talk about the special gun. They talk about the moment he loses it. They talk about the guy climbing a fire escape and diving through a window. That leads to a long look at an old man in bed wearing a beret, the kind of image the show refuses to let go of. The toilet scene gets the same treatment. A strange clump of lettuce in a prison toilet becomes its own ridiculous problem. The hosts keep circling back to how these odd little images stick harder than the cleaner plot mechanics. The tone stays loose and loud. Jokes keep cutting through the movie talk. The room piles on with corrections and side remarks. Even when they drift, they keep returning to the movie’s physical weirdness and ugly tone. By the end, the discussion widens into a comparison with other cult titles. They call People Under the Stairs their jam. They take a few swings at *Shocker*. They settle on the idea that *Death Wish 3* is more original and more satisfying than *Shocker*. The whole thing feels like people with notes, memories, and too much attitude arguing with a movie that absolutely invites it.

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A loose, profane look at Death Wish 3 that leans on Bronson, body count, and strange details.

The Pint's Death Wish 3 chat stays with the parts that matter most here: Charles Bronson, the body count, and the odd details that keep the film stuck in your head.

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You want Death Wish 3, Charles Bronson, and a panel that notices the stupidest details.

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