This is somehow simultaneously the least and most faithful Punisher adaptation
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This is somehow simultaneously the least and most faithful Punisher adaptation
Why?
Attitude and demeanour are very Punisher like, but overall story, appearance isnt
They kind of got the vibe right, but fricked up everything else. Arguably an even bigger problem is that every actor but one is phoning in their performance.
I don't give a shit what Cinemaphile thinks, this’s my favorite punnisher movie. I even really like the plot, he crippled the mafia to the point that the Yakuza moves in to take over. It was great and it's a movie they take liberties for sure but the changes they made weren't bad. No skull shirt who care this fricker leaves skull knoves everywhere that's not that bad of a change.
But even the blu ray cover photoshopped a small skull on his jacket.
It just feels missing
Now it looks like a fake photoshop for something like a Cracked article.
>I don't give a shit what Cinemaphile thinks
You say that like there is a stand worth taking. Every Punisher adaptation fricking sucks.
I love War Zone and I don’t care who knows it.
For me it’s
War Zone>Lundgren movie>Jane movie>Netflix show
War Zone is too tonally confusing
Season 1 of punisher is pretty good. Season 2 is where it shits the bed
Completely agree
The lady Yakuza boss and her mute assassin daughter are both OC but both felt very comicbook-ish, as did Frank's alcoholic thespian informant.
That's the weird thing.
The movie thinks it's too dark and gritty for the skull logo, but it also has fricking ninjas
Did Frank ever fight the yakuza before this movie came out?
At least once. Punisher #9 of the original ongoing.
The informant was like something Doug Moench would have written. If you've read a lot of his work it's exactly like his style of eccentric supporting characters.
>her mute assassin daughter
Who was an adopted white girl for some reason
Always loved the intro of this in that it's filmed like a slasher movie but it's a vigilante going after mafia goons rather than a psycho murdering teenagers.
Dolph is based, did so many roids back in the 80s that he got cancer and then married a woman who's the same age as his daughter and looks near-exactly like her
Bernthal is the best Punisher.
Not at all. If you want to argue that his performance was the best, then whatever, but that entire show was The Punisher in name only. ALL of the other 3 actors portrayed more accurate versions of the character.
The Netflix Punisher show was pretty much a longer, more boring version of Punisher War Zone.
And also has the Frank's family got killed being betrayed by a close friend thing that was in the 2004 Punisher director cut
crashing through the skylight of an an illegal casino with an M60 with a 37mm launcher underneath is a very Punisher move
Honestly, Dolph was good as Frank, better than he gets credit for.
The “Work in progress” scene was pure, unbridled Frank. I don’t get why they didn’t use the skull though.
it was the 90s, comic book movies were still seen as kinda kiddy and campy
and not helped at all by batman forever and batman & robin being extremely campy
so anyone who wanted to be taken seriously needed to distance themselves as far away as possible from those just to get a chance
and even though the punisher is already one of the most grounded comic characters, the use of a logo at all was probably seen as a step too far already
the attitude kinda persisted all the way up to the 2000s, when cyclops felt the need to mock the use of brightly colored yellow spandex
spider-man was pretty much the exception
>it was the 90s
Dolph's was like 1989.
>What the frick do you call 125 murders in five years?
>Work in progress.
One of the most entertaining ones
punisher living in the sewers doing acupuncture to himself was like a fever dream
Yeah, that part was fricking weird.