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Post by Grey on Feb 24, 2004 13:40:32 GMT -5
Punisher kick ass.  But Dolph Lundren's take on ol' Frank really suck ass.  Can't help but wonder bout the next one?  Check out the very cool official site. [ftp]http://www.punisherthemovie.com/[/ftp] |
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Post by Grey on Jul 3, 2004 20:07:40 GMT -5
Okay, they done it again. This is one of those prominent staple in comic book-to-movie adaption where they simply SUCK ASS!!! And to think that this is the second attempt for hollywood to create the big screen version of arguably one of the coolest comic character around ever! Garth Ennis's "Welcome Back, Frank" was, to me, THE greatest chapter in Punisher's decades of, mostly decadence, despite the fact that Frank has always been an interesting character, but done to death in similar scenarios over and over again. Garth picked up Punisher on the hardest note: the ultra-disastrous arc by where Frank was killed and come back as a sort of avenging angel with mythical powers! But Garth effortlessly kills that plot,( while still acknowledging it, though with a slight nod only) and bring "back" the Punisher that should had been. The remorseless, kill-frenzy psychotic called Frank Castle, who's no longer haunted by his family tragedy, and knows where he's heading. (Hell, definitely) And yes, the movie was heavily based on the arc, (The appearance of Bumpo, Spacker Dave, the waitress called Joan and The Russian) while mixing elements from Punisher: Year One,(Amongst lotsa other stuffs, the quote:"Si vis pacem, para bellum") and what a giant piece of crap has it turns out. The climatic battle between Frank and The Russian was supposed to be off-the-chart cool in the comic, but in the movie, the director decides to provide the fight with an opera score, which results into an extremely anti-climatic comedic sequence. Whereas the part where Spacker Dave got his piercings took out while being interrogated was deem as both crude fun and dark humour in the comic, the movie went on and make the scene emotionally heavy. The number one rule in watching a comic book-to-screen movie is, don't compare it to the original. But the thing is, the movie's plot itself has a hole so big that John Travolta's fading star powers can't even think about covering it. To quote from kingpete007 from the forum of imdb.com, some of the points as follows:- -the entirely useless characters of the toro brothers. if the punisher's final goal is to kill howard saint, the financial woes he goes through first shouldn't really matter. who cares who has more guns? why did i need to know that? if you need to show the punisher messing with saint, then make the money SAINT'S. watching travolta kiss ass to his superiors only undermined him as a villain. -the excessive way castle organized the death of saint's friend and wife. if saint is the kind of guy to throw his wife in front of a train, i highly doubt he's the kind of guy who'd feel guilty when he finds out he may have been wrong. it was a plot twist for the sake of having a plot twist, to fool the lowest common denominator into thinking that they'd seen an "intellectual" film. Can't remember where I read this, but it was from a movie review from a Singapore paper. It quoted the following dialogue from the movie:- Candelaria: Vaya con Dios, Castle. Go with God. Frank Castle: God's going to sit this one out. And God better sit this crappy movie out. The Verdict :  |
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