Hot Fuzz - in which Simon Pegg plays a super cop in London, and he is transferred to a sleepy town in the country for being a go getter. In the country he meets Danny Butterman and makes his very first friend! Turns out, the town is not so sleepy, and Timothy Dalton is one of the leaders of a cult of old people who are murdering citizens to have a nicer town. Danny has a ton of movies, and he forces Sgnt Angle to watch all of them.
Death Wish (1974) - in which the justice system fails a man who lost his family, and he goes off the rails in finding personal justice. I mean vengeance. Charles Bronson plays Paul Kersey, a husband and father and architect, who has a nice NYC life. One day, near the beginning of the movie, Paul's wife is murdered and his daughter is raped into a catatonic state, from which she will not likely recover. Sexist. Anyways, Paul is destroyed, so his boss sends him out to New Mexico, or another lawless state, for a 3 month long project. Paul does some recovering while he is out there, and is befriended by his big money client, with a big hat and big guns. Upon arriving back in NYC, Paul is disheartened to find his daughter in terrible condition, and his son-in-law coping poorly. There have also been no arrests in his wife's murder, as the police are very busy with a crime spree related to gang violence. Paul is a really sympathetic guy, and his pain is visible, and very real. So,...
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