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I'll wait for the DVD. Then I'll watch all 3 Punisher films in one sitting.
Like you guys haven't thought about doing that too.
There you go. But see, the rest of us are Punisher fans.
Canadian review, easily found with Google.
Pique Magazine
"This Punisher has more pain than ever before. Frank Castle's family was mowed down by the mob and the torment drives him to commit balls-out, neck snapping, eyeball puncturing, shotgun-blast-to-the-face acts of total awesomeness. This is Punishment doled out in neon-glowing, four-colour, comic book glory. I wish I could take this movie back in time and give it to a 15-year old version of myself for Christmas. Then me and all my friends could make popcorn and geek out rewinding the part where the old lady's head gets turned into a pulpy crater."
Peace
:-)
Peace
'Finally, a Punisher who pulls no punches. In fact, this one punches through a dude's head.
The ultraviolent third stab at Marvel's homicidal vigilante is the best and closest to the source material. Not that it's close to the same league as "The Dark Knight" or "Spider-Man," though.
The film's look is noteworthy for replicating Garth Ennis' comic-book run, with atmospheric colored lighting reminiscent of early Dario Argento flicks (in a good way). And remember Tom Jane's cheap skull T-shirt? Gone.
While pure-action fans and sociopaths will make little yipping sounds, anyone looking for much story or character won't leave thinking any higher of comics as literature. Whatever business there is between Castle and the fed's widow (Julie Benz) remains vague and incomplete. Castle's arc? Well, he punishes bad guys.'
Peace
Go Punisher, go!
Peace
http://www.themovieblog.com/2008/12/punisher-war-...
http://www.filmofilia.com/2008/12/03/punisher-war...
http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/17245/1/REV...Five pages long and absolutely..."kick ass"! Very well written as well.
Got lots more but that should get y'all started.
Peace
"You used to be able to depend on a bad film being poorly made. No longer. "The Punisher: War Zone" is one of the best-made bad movies I've seen. It looks great, it hurtles through its paces and is well-acted. The soundtrack is like elevator music if the elevator were in a death plunge. The special effects are state of the art. Its only flaw is that it's disgusting."
Peace
That I can't get excited about it BEFOREHAND? And I'm not allowed to share my excitement?
My opinion was unchanged before I went to see The Matrix. Or Star Wars. Or Spider-Man 2.
But this time, my opinon is "undevelopped" and I "can't" come back until it is?
How was your time in Russia, Neil? Do you miss it over there?
Ok. Tomorrow, when I WILL have seen it, I will INUNDATE your page with reviews.
And THAT will be ok, right?
Peace
Sooo, just posting uninformed and reviewer-sycophantic judgements on folks you know nothing about makes YOU look like...what, Inigo?
I'd insult you too...but I don't feel the need to assert myself by demeaning others.
Peace
"Punisher: War Zone," the gory follow-up to the 2004 "Punisher" based on the Marvel comic book series, hangs around the same neighborhood as " The Dark Knight." Both feature vigilantes who go too far. Both crime fighters speak in an affected tough-guy whisper, when they talk at all. Both favor the black vigilante threads when they're out on the town, taking out the trash.
The film works a bit better than the 2004 "Punisher" installment, the one starring surly, dislikable Thomas Jane as Frank Castle. This time Ray Stevenson, Titus Pullo in the HBO series "Rome," plays Castle. While he doesn't say much in between workaday tasks—grinding a man half-to-death in a glass recycler, or shotgun-blasting a mob goon point-blank in the area formerly known as his head, thanks to the digital wonder of computer-generated effects—Stevenson brings some gravity to the viscera. Jane's preening quality added the wrong sort of narcissism to the sadism."
Peace
Spamming a Punisher Review page with Punisher reviews is "spamming"?
Lo siento, then.
How'd YOU like the movie, Inigo? Do YOU think Stevenson is so much better than Jane as the Punisher that there's not even a comparison?
Peace
Having just read the "Punisher: Born" arc, I have to say the violence is just about right. I don't think you can really pin the deficiencies of the script on Jane OR Stevenson, and both of them got stuck with pretty lousy dialogue (which is why I suppose Jane didn't want to be in this).
I guess what I'm saying is it DOES stay somewhat true to the source material, minus the cheesy acting and lousy dialogue because the punisher is all about violence, revenge, a borderline dislikeable antihero and big guns, lots and lots of them (the "armory" series is basically a long monologue over shots of his arsenal, seriously). That's what the source is about, that's what the trailers promised, and (ignoring the silly that breaks the pacing) that's what the movie delivers. Could have been much better, but it's fairly decent.
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/12/ta...
http://scottalanmendelson.blogspot.com/2008/12/ta...
typo corrected.