Special Ed Loses His Mind
- Don’t count on running into Chicago police Superintendent Eddie Johnson at your local multiplex to catch a screening of the Chicago-set remake of “Death Wish.”
The Bruce Willis movie is “not the type of narrative we want for our city,” Johnson said Friday, criticizing MGM for releasing the violent revenge fantasy so soon after the killing of Chicago police Cmdr. Paul Bauer in the Loop.
“It’s unfortunate,” Johnson told WLS-AM 890’s Bill Cameron on Friday when he was asked about the timing of the release of the movie, which opens with the downtown killing of a police officer. “But of course I don’t think Hollywood really pays attention to that type of thing.”
Hollywood is a business Ed. Movies are planned and filmed a year, sometimes more in advance. Publicity screenings, posters, press releases, tours...Rahm's brother could explain it all to you, but they don't really care about local conditions seeing as how they're running a world-wide empire.
And what does a four-time felon murdering Commander Bauer have to do with a remake of a doctor who suffers a family loss at the hands of a recidivist criminal and embarks on a path of revenge when the justice system fails him? Is this somehow going to inspire Mrs. Bauer to take up arms and start executing criminals? She could run for mayor on a platform like that. Unless you're admitting that the release of violent criminals without adequate punishment onto Chicago streets might actually be a bad thing, despite what Dart, Prickwrinkle, Evans and Rahm are telling everyone?
Side note: Critics are panning this remake, with something like a 15% positive rating on assorted sites. However, test audiences are giving it an 80% positive rating, and many are calling it a "must see" revenge flick. We're all for seeing the guilty punished along more biblical lines.
And what does a four-time felon murdering Commander Bauer have to do with a remake of a doctor who suffers a family loss at the hands of a recidivist criminal and embarks on a path of revenge when the justice system fails him? Is this somehow going to inspire Mrs. Bauer to take up arms and start executing criminals? She could run for mayor on a platform like that. Unless you're admitting that the release of violent criminals without adequate punishment onto Chicago streets might actually be a bad thing, despite what Dart, Prickwrinkle, Evans and Rahm are telling everyone?
Side note: Critics are panning this remake, with something like a 15% positive rating on assorted sites. However, test audiences are giving it an 80% positive rating, and many are calling it a "must see" revenge flick. We're all for seeing the guilty punished along more biblical lines.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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Kidney Stew is getting the society he wants... one that condones robbing when you can, and getting out of jail every time
And in the Tribune, the headline was that Hollywood was exploiting Paul’s death. In reality though, it was Rahm and Toni, though The little twerp took it to a whole new level.
Is Special ED for real! The Shit-Cago let the move be made here, Police Officers were on the movie detail! Oh, I forgot don't run the movie in the election cycle!
Communist State of Illinois.
Im a big I spit on your grave fan!
Classic revenge.
from the Sun Times: "Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson bemoans release of 'Death Wish' re-make"
Bemoans, Love Love Love it, fits this rhetoric perfectly.
Special ed is the Mayor's front man for gun control and movie censorship! Anything to deflect the Mayors real agenda! The city leaders are so manipulative and evil! Six years and I'm gone........ moving to a red state!
The movie was great!!! It’s filled with a lot of chicago values!
If he worried is much about manpower as he does movies maybe there would be enough Police manpower. The Department is a joke with Special ED ;P
It's next on my list. Maybe I'll post a review on Alderman Woodsie Owl's Husband's page.
Demographics, Ed.
The majority of the country feels wronged
and wants some sort of revenge, as the System
is a beast existing for itself: witness the Trump election.
The city used public funds to entice the film company to
Chicago. Wruce Billis works where he's told. You can
always sell your promo tickets. Maybe Dart could use
them for boys night out at the movies.
I think there are many people who are stocking, stacking and training for a better tomorrow.
I worked for Paul Bauer,I wish a Concealed carry Citizen was in that stair well backing him up.God Bless.
I took the family on Saturday and we Loved It. Naturally, we saw it in the suburbs, where we do most of our entertainment and shopping. Remember that these first came out with Charles Bronson when society was becoming sick of the increased crime, which followed the late 60s to early 70s, democrat/leftist "criminal justice reforms." This same period brought us Dirty Harry and other similar classics. Let's hope this movie and others helps remind society who are the real good guys and who are the real savages that; thieve, beat, robb, burglarize, rape and murder, and then claim racism andpolice brutality to escape justice.
Holy shit, Big Ed!
Thanks for your opinion.
Maybe with the Vegas shooting, Time Warner
(Warner Brothers) might get sued for Dirty Harry (1971)
for the scene where Scorpio shoots a young woman in
the Holiday Inn Select rooftop swimming pool from the top
of another building. Think of the bread you could make in
the lawsuit.
For the safety of the entire movie production cast and crew 99 percent was filmed in Canada, in addition they couldn't find an actor petite enough to portray the manling on the fifth floor of city hall...
By Jove! I do believe Edward has found his place.
He's just the man to put Hollowood in its place.
Heartless, money hungry accountants who say the
show must go on. Ed vented, now he's happy as Larry.
Critics are the proverbial wannabe artists who lack the necessary talent. Woefully.
Plus, consumed by the never to be satified craving for personal significance, which they shall never be worthy of, pandering to the perceived popular point of view is all they have to work with, since their being devoid of actual talent leaves quite the empty cavern.
It's always been a problem for the critics, ya know, that most people actually do think for themselves.
I went and saw it at the earliest opportunity and I would give it a positive recommendation. What must make Special Ed and Rahm fume is the fact that the screenplay incorporated plenty of material from actual Chicago headlines into the movie. The low homicide clearance rate is referred to in the movie. Additionally, the film used several familiar talking heads from television and radio to make the production look authentic.
Forget the critics. Audiences responded to the film over its opening weekend. "Death Wish" earned almost half of its production cost after its delayed premiere. It is not a bad film. The acting is good and it depicts Chicago fairly well.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2018/03/04/box-office-bruce-willis-death-wish-earns-promising-13m-weekend/#42b4be56238a
Lots of movies were panned by the critics and then went on to be financial successes. Movie critics are about as accurate as Democratic pollsters.
Noe, kees me you fool!!!!
New York City had no problems with "Death Wish" prequels. What's your problem, Chiraq? Some predatory so-called humans need killing in the Murder Capital of America.
Eddie Johnson is the one exploiting Bauer’s death
I remember the Original movie and had such a GREAT feeling of the Drs. REVENGE..Looking forward to having that feeling back watching THIS one too....Hopefully, some people will feel the same way...
Memo to Cmdr MB - you’re a great boss, but this swiping is BS. The Supt screwed you, were done with activity.
I will say this again,all questions are all prearranged for the superintendent,he cannot and will not answer a question off the cuff....Take that to the bank !!!! BUT,WHEEEEZZZZEEEE,that's another story....
What a chump.
Afraid of inciting revenge against Chiraq criminals........
Doesn’t give a fuck about normal people.
Just like Dart, only cares about criminals.
Mrs. Blaurer should run for mayor. She would win hands down. God Bless her and her daughter.
Rahm made Ed an CPD franchise player,
so he won't be going anywhere soon.
You spit on my grave, my birds shit on your hair.
Pat Quinn is running to replace Lisa Madigan as IL A.G. and his campaign ad has him saying "Donald Trump wants to protect assault rifles, I want to protect you!" Ha, ha, hah! How ridiculous is this if you could picture this guy riding the CTA, patrolling the ghetto, or otherwise stepping between me and a thug? No thanks, idiot, I'll protect myself and my family but just keep your filthy hands off my gun!
Law-Abiding Citizen.
If CCW was fully allowed everywhere crime would plummet. Special Ed is just afraid of the truth. The police of this Nation have been emasculated but so have citizens rights to defend themselves.
Critics and the rotten tomatoes type reviewers are always give shitty reviews to Alpha male, conservative type movies and fall all over themselves giving and praising liberal LGBTQR?? type movies. Fuck Hollywood, liberal shitbirds.
Normally I avoid going to the movies because I don't want to put any cash into these anti American liberal asshole. But I will go see this.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Im a big I spit on your grave fan!
"That felt so good, it almost hurt..."
Ah, good times. Wouldn't it be entertaining, and gratifying, to see a such a rogue avenger loosed onto the perves of this city. Gotta livestream that beeyotch, though.
The city would benefit from a Paul Kelsey type prowling the streets. The media is panning movie because they are afraid of what might happen in their favorite democratic strongholds. Law and order have no place in a Democratically run city. Criminals and illegal are something to be proud of, Something that Democratic leaders can point to with chest swelling pride. Liberals and their Democrat minions will be the death of society as we know it. We are not to far away from open carry and fast draw in the streets. The war is coming whether you all want to admit it or not. With over 300 million guns in this country there will be blood in the streets. The law-abiding have about had enough, there will be an uprising of Paul Kelsey types everywhere and the police will become powerless to contain the fallout. The Rahim's, Arenas, Kim's, Toni's of the world will be in deep trouble
For the safety of the entire movie production cast and crew 99 percent was filmed in Canada, in addition they couldn't find an actor petite enough to portray the manling on the fifth floor of city hall...
Didn't they have a woman play Peter Pan?
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Did no one in the Chicago movie office ask to see script? I lol when I saw movie and wondered why and how they made this movie under your noses. I am an ex-Chicagoan and follow the cities downfall everyday on SCC. Talk about bad publicity for the city this is exhibit #1. Sadly many tourists will say it's just a movie, and visit Chicago, not knowing how bad things downtown really are. I gave the movie a 85% grade not as good as the first one but loved the city connections.
I want a personal bodyguard with weapon and a city car to drive me from place-to-place too, without worrying about the riffraff, paying the costly parking charges, or walking anywhere along our besieged city's sidewalks.
First step in "fighting crime" would be for Rahm to relinquish his team of bodyguards, and drive a car himself, just like us regular folks forced to deal with the street-crime.
I'm surprised the body-armor on Bauer's killer hasn't been a bigger story. A conspiracy-buff would ask whether there's more to this particular shooting at City Hall mid-afternoon on a very busy downtown street.
One of the qualifications to be Superintendent is to have a brain the size of a walnut.
Rahm doesn’t want anyone to sass mouth him, Special Ed fit that qualification.
Understand that The Right Man for the Right Time™️ can’t comprehend the principles of suspension of disbelief.
He also thinks it’s not appropriate to release truthful Crime Statistics during times of violent activity.
Go back to your popcorn and shut up Jugg.
Continue to Rest In Peace John Thomas 03-06-03.
My how things have changed.
Anonymous said...
Im a big I spit on your grave fan!
Classic revenge.
3/06/2018 12:31:00 AM
I first saw that movie about 37 years ago as a 17 yr old kid.
This makes Death Wish look like romper room!
Maybe they’ll put concealed carry information booths outside the theatres. Lol! 👍🏼
Was on the cta blue line train the other day. Cta has posters at every other stop. Riders beware of your surroundings and see something say something. One poster shows a white guy pickpocketing another rider. Second poster shows a white guy blocking the escalator. Third poster shows yet another white guy playing his electronic device loudly and disturbing near by riders. Wow! I better stay away from all those crazy white people the next time I ride the train.
Even though Ed’s lips are the ones moving it’s really asshole Rahm talking.
This is like something out of bizzareoworld.
Ed needs to go.
He seems like he’s genuinely not a bad guy but he’s really accomplished very little and crime has continued to go up under his “leadership”
If he wasn’t black he would’ve been launched long, long ago.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
For the safety of the entire movie production cast and crew 99 percent was filmed in Canada, in addition they couldn't find an actor petite enough to portray the manling on the fifth floor of city hall...
3/06/2018 04:26:00 AM
They need to look for a horse jockey, that also dabbles in acting, to find someone of the 9 digit ballerina’s size.
Never let honesty get in the way of your political agenda.
Never.
Their worried some guy is going to start running around the City shooting the muggers and carjackers.
And this clueless moron is worried about a movie?
Fuck you, FatHead Ed. There's a special place in hell for you and all your cheating "noble" friends. Karma is a Beotch.
Remember the Film Producers paid the City Fees to have the movie in Chicago
They paid police Services. Fire Services. Street a closure Fees
Big !oney Profits for 9.5 fingers
Any movie showing thieves, murderers, rapists and other assorted scum, getting sent to the highest authority for final judgement, I got to see.
J.J.
No mercy for thieves!
Another good revenge flick is Falling Down with Michael Douglass
I saw it opening night, good movie. Maybe more potential victims will get their conceal/carry and protect themselves more often. It was like a cathartic scream for us "Silent majority," deplorable, knuckle draggers! God forbid it showed that Chiraq actually has crime, oh no!! Sanctuary cities are peaceful wonderlands, right?
If the critics hate it, that means it gonna be awesome!
Does anyone remember when the movie "Colors" was screened for the Mayor and aldermen before it got released here in Chicago? Unbelievable then and unbelievable now.
Just rent the original 1970s Death Wish from Netflix.
Why bother with stupid remakes.
Same with Star Wars feminist remakes.
The original Death Wish with Charles Bronson is rather good - they do work a bit hard to make the punks, gangs look multi cultural with bad White guys including Jeff Goldbloom.
Taxi Driver is also good, realistic about urban crime.
I remember when LeRoy made us exempts go to a screening of Malcom X such BS
Why bother with stupid remakes.
3/06/2018 04:08:00 PM
1. Not stupid.
2. Because it triggers certain kinds of people.
3. Because it creates a record of success.
4. Because said success induces repetition of like kind......which.....
5. ....triggers certain kinds of people......
6. Capeesh????
Their worried some guy is going to start running around the City shooting the muggers and carjackers.
3/06/2018 11:09:00 AM
They, and their miscreant rabble, should be worried about "some guy" walking casually and nonchanlantly, here and there, from time to time, unnoticed by any but those who remain, temporarily inert, until someone, other than them, applies sufficient effort to move their inert slab of meat to the place where inert slabs of meat are processed.
Bruce Willis and Especially Rober Goren still have it. Great to see Goren in a feature film he did a great job, my vote for best supporting actor.
I saw the movie. It was very entertaining. The audience at the theater I was at, all enjoyed it, with everyone cheering when bad guys got killed.
How could someone lose something he doesn't have in the first place. In his case loosing whatever he calls a mind would be an upgrade.
Gun-grabby Ed missed an obvious chance to criticize Hollywood's hypocritical glamorization of violence, and ask whether that sort of thing has any effect on various and sundry bad behavior that he and his puppetmasters are constantly trying to exploit to take away honest citizens' rights. If, you know, they actually cared about safety or 'the children' or whatever and weren't just doing it to gain power and money at someone else's expense. But of course not, since guns are only bad when in the hands of little people who didn't get 'discovered' by the talent-agency racket or start dubious wars in exotic lands because two Ivy League ring-knockers in the alphabet soup are having a penis waving contest.
The sooner voting citizens finally grok what the government-infotainment complex is really all about, the better...
Perfect to shoot movie in, could have almost been a documentary. Loved the movie especially the fetal detectives who knew he did it and looked the other way. Hope some enterprising citizens take up the gauntlet and continue to rid the city of the community garbage. Very good chance that given the 15% clearance rates they would get away with murder or best case many murders. Time to thin the herds.
ey Ed just like in your city crime was not solved.
Death Wish 2 has Paul taking out politicians. He winds getting elected Mayor. DW 3 has going to Senate and DW 4 has him in White House.
Upset about a movie? Upset about a trump sign on a building? Not upset about 700 killed and 3k+ shot a year? Not upset about downtown crimeway? Not upset about the newest thing... carjacking? These people are worried about a movie making them look bad? 🤪
He must have been very upset that Robin Robinson was in the movie. I hope he expressed to her how she had contributed to exploiting the death of Commander Bauer.
For the safety of the entire movie production cast and crew 99 percent was filmed in Canada, in addition they couldn't find an actor petite enough to portray the manling on the fifth floor of city hall...
LMAO.......they also didn’t want to insult the dignity of actors who are attitudinally challenged
How did that buffoon Johnson get the top cop spot at CPD??? Holy balls- this guy's a dufus! And he dicktastes- er, oops- dictates, how police are to keep city residents safe? What an abysmal failure! He needs to resign, and so should the Rahmhole for trying to fuck the good citizens of our fair City.
Wouldn’t you rather just see Black Panther?
"For the safety of the entire movie production cast and crew 99 percent was filmed in Canada..."
A sufficient amount of location shooting took place in Chicago to give the movie a degree of authenticity and local color. As for film productions utilizing Canadian locations, it is a matter of economics. $1.00 from the USA is worth $1.30 in Canada, plus the production companies do not have to comply with the extortionate union rules that apply in Chicago (same as McCormick place where it takes a team of electricians and Teamsters to plug in an extension cord).
Hollywood is constantly shifting productions to Canada to save money. Vancouver seems to be a popular substitute location for many programs and movies. "Death Wish" included substantial days of film shot in Montreal.
Death Wish 2 has Paul taking out politicians. He winds getting elected Mayor. DW 3 has going to Senate and DW 4 has him in White House.
3/06/2018 08:35:00 PM
I do hope no innocent bystanders were injured when you popped your load willy nilly while typing this post.
Not that I am denying my own......shall we say.....inspiring reaction......
Based on Special Ed's "review" of the movie, the wife and I went to see it yesterday! Thumbs up, 5 stars all the way, only bad part of the whole movie was the copper being killed at the start and the wife shortly after. Other than that, all good kills!!
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Another good revenge flick is Falling Down with Michael Douglass
3/06/2018 02:14:00 PM
Yes it was.
I highly recommend it.
Wouldn’t you rather just see Black Panther?
hey i dont know what you meant by that, but im sure it had racial innuendo's, but Black Panther was a great movie and if your a fan of comic book movies there is no reason for you to not have seen the movie...alot of dumb stuff was said by blacks and whites when the movie came out! Just shut up and enjoy good cinema...tired of the racial stuff!
Did you notice that Ed did not say a word about the show Chicago PD and all the bs that comes
out on that program. Could that be because its filmed in Chicago and he was told not to say a word bout anything filming here?
Saw the movie. Had to chuckle at the homicide office
wall of shame were they showed all the 4x6 cards
on the wall with all the unsolved homicide cases!
Nice work Paul, moving the x!
CCX!!!
That itself makes up for the glaring
production error.
Paul's family lived in Evanston but CPD
was investigating and no bodies were dragged across Howard
Street like the good old days before street
cameras!
.......and no bodies were dragged across Howard
Street like the good old days before street
cameras!
3/07/2018 07:29:00 PM
C'mon......that NEVER happened......not to my knowledge, anyway........
Yes it was.
I highly recommend it.
3/07/2018 02:54:00 PM
Great movie......hits a bit too close on the ass end, though, given the base premise, of anger insanity induced by a perfectionist nature experiencing the imperfection of reality, unavoidable.
Still, worth watching a couple dozen times, just as a, though fictional, still practical reminder of just how tightly wound one can get, seeking one's own, self defined and self satisfying perfect reality.
Though exagerated a bit, the Michael Douglas character cannot see his own tunnel vision is what vexes him into his, shall we say, epic quest.
Is there such a thing as a Whammy Burger??? Let alone Whammy Fries????
Ed, sometimes it best just to shut the fuck up. Like all the time. The only thing that would give your tenure as the sup credibility would be to stand up and admit that your wife and those associated with NOBLE cheated on the LT test. If there was no cheating, Eugene Williams would never have retired. He is too arrogant, the only reason he left was to avoid the backlash. Too bad be didn't realize how useless and corrupted Ferguson is. Couldn't find his ass with both hands. They should just rename Chicago the killing fields and be done with it.
There is only one Paul Kersey and his name is Charles Bronson.
Paul Kersey for mayor!
MS
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