Loved the Thomas Jane Punisher movie. Getting to watch him play Frank Castle again is tied with Moonrise Kingdom for the best thing i’ve seen all year (at least until midnight Friday.) So enthralled, i barely noticed the digital blood and recycled (yet perfectly sync’d) Hans Zimmer.
Can only hope Marvel at least considers bringing Jane back as Frank, and/or Michael Keaton and Tim Burton see this short, and get inspired…
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i have a hard time accepting that the punisher would just sit around, doing his laundry while the scumbags were doing this.
and tom jane is no punisher. he’s a mush-faced goof that just doesn’t have the punisher vibe going at all.
Tom Jane is the perfect Punisher. Unfortunately it took a cartooned, corn-tastic Ray Stevenson for true fans to realize that. Jane is a true fan and a great actor. Marvel needs to get on this. Give us a TV show on HBO or at least a web series.
Yes, that was odd, but it also built tremendous tension and anticipation.
Between sleeping in a beater van, the comment about being sober for 6 months, and not arguing with Ron Perlman’s logic, i think he’d been burned out on being The Punisher…making this his re-re-birth.
I’d be thoroughly okay with a new movie/cable series/more web shorts where Jane and Ray Stevenson take turns playing Frank (loved War Zone, too…but the fight with the Russian, and the end of the first movie are two of my all-time favorite bits.)
Yeah, hopefully Burton gets inspired to do a GOOD Batman movie true to the comics. Or at least get inspired to actually read the source material.
As an adaptation of the comics, i’ll concede Batman Returns is kind of a non-starter. As a movie about outsiders on the extreme outer precipice of humanity, it’s an utter masterwork with gorgeous character designs, astounding visuals, and one of the all-time best scores.
Adore the Nolan films, they’re by far the best comic adaptations…but as cinematic experiences go, Returns is my favorite.
Yeah, I like to think of Returns as kind of an Elseworlds Batman thing. And as such, it was the best Bat-film up to Dark Knight.
Tom Jane wants to do the right thing with Punisher- note that Ron Perelman’s grizzled speech sounds almost word-for-word like something from Taxi Driver or Death Wish. He wants to do the 1970s city cesspool, dark as hell Michael Winner-style vigilante thing that inspired the character in the first place. And it boggles my mind that up to this point that hasn’t really been attempted on film (War Zone is a comedy more than anything- not that I didn’t enjoy it).
i’d pay to see more of this…
I think the writers of Man on Fire should be hired to write a new Punisher movie.