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I'm going to think of this as a Punisher OT until the spinoff is out.
I have been a long time of the Punisher since I was about 8. Purely because he looked cool and he actually killed the bad guys as opposed to every other mainstream super hero. Did I mention that I grew up as a horror kid and tend to like nihilistic things? I read a 3 part War Zone comic as a kid but growing up, it was really hard to find Punisher comics in my neck of the woods. So I didn't get to read a lot of the comics back in the day.
But I am mutant in that I like all 3 films in different ways.
The Lundgreen one is a fun cheesy 80's action flick. The uncut version has some decent gore. And I like the plot of him teaming up with a mobster to save a kid. It's not perfect by any stretch but for what it is, it's fine and it's way better than something like Supergirl or the Captain America movies (up until the MCU ones).
The Thomas Jane one is the most well made. Jane was the best actor to play Frank Castle (I'm thinking Bernthal will nail it in a way that Ledger nailed the Joker). It's a shame that Jane was in such a flawed film. Travolta doesn't work as a villain. The surrogate family doesn't really work up until the torture scene. And it felt like a PG-13 flick. It sucks that the budget was cut and the Gulf War intro had to be cut from the script.
But there's certainly good things in the Thomas Jane Punisher flick: the origin of the Punisher logo was well done, The Russian fight (nuff said), the intro of the assassin with the guitar plus the resulting fight, the torture scene with the dude with piercings, and the last 10-15 minutes. Not bad, but not as great as it was destined to be.
War Zone is the most re-watchable one for. I've seen the Jane one about 4-5 times altogether. Whereas I've seen War Zone at least a dozen times. It's an odd duck in that it deliberately goes for OTT cheesiness and being self-aware. And being viewed in that context, it's good. The problem is that, is this the Punisher movie we wanted? And that depends on your individual taste. To some; they want a serious Punisher movie and the Jane flick comes the closest to being that. To others; they just want to see the Punisher violently killing tons of dudes, and this flick more than delivers that.
As of now: Dirty Laundry is the best live action interpretation of The Punisher.
I'm going to think of this as a Punisher OT until the spinoff is out.
I have been a long time of the Punisher since I was about 8. Purely because he looked cool and he actually killed the bad guys as opposed to every other mainstream super hero. Did I mention that I grew up as a horror kid and tend to like nihilistic things? I read a 3 part War Zone comic as a kid but growing up, it was really hard to find Punisher comics in my neck of the woods. So I didn't get to read a lot of the comics back in the day.
But I am mutant in that I like all 3 films in different ways.
The Lundgreen one is a fun cheesy 80's action flick. The uncut version has some decent gore. And I like the plot of him teaming up with a mobster to save a kid. It's not perfect by any stretch but for what it is, it's fine and it's way better than something like Supergirl or the Captain America movies (up until the MCU ones).
The Thomas Jane one is the most well made. Jane was the best actor to play Frank Castle (I'm thinking Bernthal will nail it in a way that Ledger nailed the Joker). It's a shame that Jane was in such a flawed film. Travolta doesn't work as a villain. The surrogate family doesn't really work up until the torture scene. And it felt like a PG-13 flick. It sucks that the budget was cut and the Gulf War intro had to be cut from the script.
But there's certainly good things in the Thomas Jane Punisher flick: the origin of the Punisher logo was well done, The Russian fight (nuff said), the intro of the assassin with the guitar plus the resulting fight, the torture scene with the dude with piercings, and the last 10-15 minutes. Not bad, but not as great as it was destined to be.
War Zone is the most re-watchable one for. I've seen the Jane one about 4-5 times altogether. Whereas I've seen War Zone at least a dozen times. It's an odd duck in that it deliberately goes for OTT cheesiness and being self-aware. And being viewed in that context, it's good. The problem is that, is this the Punisher movie we wanted? And that depends on your individual taste. To some; they want a serious Punisher movie and the Jane flick comes the closest to being that. To others; they just want to see the Punisher violently killing tons of dudes, and this flick more than delivers that.
As of now: Dirty Laundry is the best live action interpretation of The Punisher.
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