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19. THE PUNISHER (Spider-Man / The Punisher)

Posted : 1 year, 10 months ago on 29 May 2022 10:46

AKA: FRANK CASTLE


Yet another Marvel character who started off as a villain – notably a Spider-Man villain (although he was more of a goon when he first cameoed in Amazing Spider-Man) – before graduating to his own title and anti-hero status. The Punisher is now one of the most iconic characters in the entire Marvel stable. A 'Nam vet driven by his family's murder to punish all criminals by death, it's perhaps not unsurprising that the dark, disillusioned '70s was the decade that saw a brutal, uncompromising psychopath (for that's what Castle is, no debate) become a fan favourite. Although, truth be told, operating within the confines of the toothless main Marvel titles never sat well with The Punisher – in recent years, with the move to the MAX label, and Garth Ennis' soon-to-finish installation as Punisher guru, the dark heart and psychology of Frank Castle has been fully explored, giving a new insight into this grimmest and most compelling of characters.

Trademarks: A giant white skull on his black-shirted chest. An eternal desire for revenge. And guns. Lots of guns.

On Screen: Three Punisher movies, three different Punishers. For all the apparent simplicity of the character, Frank Castle has proved a hard nut to crack. Ray StevensonDolph Lundgren and Thomas Jane all took a shot at the role on the big screen, but it took Jon Bernthal to nail that gruff demeanour, violent tendencies and wounded humanity, first in Netflix's Daredevil and subsequently in his own limited series.

Did You Know?: Unlike other Marvel characters, who seem to age at a rate of one year for every five years of comics (at least), The Punisher ages – at least in the MAX line – in real time. Which currently makes him a 58-year-old kicking ass, as he was born on February 16, 1950.

Buy Punisher Max Complete Collection Vol. 1 now on Amazon



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Anaconda review

Posted : 2 years ago on 17 March 2022 04:14

That said, Anaconda is not bad enough to be one of the worst movies ever made. The tropical scenery is splendid, the snakes are impressive and the premise while daft was at least interesting. However, if I were to coin the phrase "absolute poppycock" I would give it to Anaconda. The story was interesting in its concept but it is very predictable with some unbearably silly scenes. Anaconda is also quite poorly paced, sometimes it drags, sometimes it feels rushed. The script is very cheesy and clumsy, and the characters are shallow. The direction is rather murky, and the acting is pretty dire. Jennifer Lopez is very bland in her role here, while Jon Voight is annoying and just awful with a very poorly written character, complete with a horrendous accent(not quite Superbabies:Baby Geniuses 2 horrendous, but still it was dreadful). So overall, it is not good. 3/10 Bethany Cox


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Mini review

Posted : 3 years, 5 months ago on 27 October 2020 08:30

oh,It's a combination of loveliness and classics.I think that bmv mini is similar to it.Are they the same brand?


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The Punisher review

Posted : 8 years, 1 month ago on 1 February 2016 06:36

Punisher: Rest In Pieces
Frank Castle is a bloodthirsty vigilante, athletic fighter highly trained in infiltration into heavily guarded enemy territories and structures for the purpose of assassination, capture, and military intelligence. Also, he is trained in various forms of camouflage and stealth. He is also highly adept at hand-to-hand combat, and has been trained in multiple forms of martial arts such as Nash Ryu Jujutsu, Ninjutsu, Shorin-ryu Karate, Hwa Rang Do, and Chin Na The Punisher has a Kevlar uniform (bright white skull in his chest) which protects him from most gunfire, though he can still suffer concussive injury or penetration from sufficient or repeated impacts.
In Punisher movies or in comics the action scenes are barbaric. The Punisher kills people using ll sort of brutal ways: he breaks bones, snaps necks, stabs opponents with knives, switchblades, spears, and other sharp instruments, impales bad guys with a crossbow, blows others away with his bazooka, smash some muscle guys while driving a bus, and even uses the Yakuza's own ancient Samurai weapons to dispatch them.
The Punisher has cuts and bruises on his face, knuckles and the back of his head, and is wearing boots, jeans and a simple black shirt – an outfit reminiscent of Matt Murdock’s plain and practical vigilante costume from the first season of Daredevil.
Punisher goes on a rampage killing off every superhero in the Marvel Universe. When he meets Wolverine he stabs him with his own claws and throws him into an electrical panel. The electricity fries him to a skeleton. But in another scene fight you can watch him bests the Punisher in a pointless, totally left-field battle during which a whole lot of dire, macho pap is spouted. At the end of the fight, a stack of men's muscle mags slips out of the Punisher's rucksack Frank Castle Punisher shoots Logan's testicles off and mows him down with a steamroller . It’s the ultimate emasculation of the muscled hyper-virile Alpha Male! Frank Castle blows Wolverine's face off with a shotgun, shoots Logan's testicles off and mows him down with a steamroller!
His next target is Daken, Wolverine’s son, who he found in an elevator and brutally beats him down but he’s forced to retreat because his vitals have become low and he goes to take his medication, maybe those roids that make him mad crazy. Frank just drags Daken into a trap and leaves him impaled by spikes in a pit.
Daken and the Punisher have one of the most brutal comic book throwdowns in Comics history. Knives to the head, throats being cut, lips being bit off! And, then, comes one of the most intense scenes : moving in close, Dark Wolverine stabs Punisher through the gut. Punisher bites off Daken's lower lip.
The fight is bloody. Pun gets some good shots in but he's dealing with a mutant with a healing factor. While Daken's injuries are already healing up, Frank's wounds are just slowing him down and weakening him. The blood loss alone should have dropped him. He takes stabs wounds to the arm, slices to the face and neck, and eventually loses his right arm completely. That's not the only thing he'll be losing tonight. It's hard to get Punisher to stop even when he's seriously losing. He still has a knife in his left hand but before he can do anything with it, that arm is taken away from him as well. With that, Frank drops to the ground. The fight has left him. Daken isn't done just yet.”Relax, I wont cut anything ull miss...”
Daken is going to literally cut Castle into pieces , gonna be the death of Frank Castle at the hands of Daken- Frank Castle brutally murdered and cut into pieces by Daken, the evil son of Wolverine!
At a construction site, Daken starts by shooting him and blowing him up with grenades, seemingly just for kicks. Then the mutant closes to hand to hand range, where he pummels Punisher mercilessly into a pulp, slashing him across the chest. Then he picks up Frank and toss him into a nearby S.W.A.T. vehicle with full force. Rushing towards him, Frank calls him a son of a bitch. Slamming him up against a wall Daken jams his claws into Frank’s chest and challenges Frank. Barely able to stand, almost defeated, Frank, knowing that this is his last stand, teases Daken and a final battle ensues..Matching Daken blow for blow, his one knife against Daken's claws, the two opponents literally slice each other up before Castle eventually receives a fatal blow but… is then dismembered alive! A manly stud guy with guns and knives faces off against an expertly-trained super-powered mutant killer on a rainy rooftop and gets viciously dismembered!
Dark Wolverine breaks his leg, slices his throat open, hacks off a limb, and cuts him into pieces with the ease of an industrial meat slicer, cutting Punisher down into bits and pieces .Daken goes berserk and cuts the side of Franks face up, cuts his throat, cuts his arm off, then Frank was down. Daken then finishes Punisher, slices his head off, arms, legs, and torso.Daken cuts the Punisher’s head off. One slice. And, then his torso, and arms… and the Punisher is left lying as a messy, wet pile of body parts.
Yeah! After a bloody round of hand-to-hand combat, Daken dismembers and decapitates Castle before kicking his remains from a rooftop. Punishers fight with Daken was pretty brutal and the manly Vigilante , full geared in his swat-like uniform and combat boots :
1.Gets shot in the leg 2.Had a broken leg (sewage also fills the hole in his calf) 3.get impaled through the stomach by Dakens claws 4.Stabbed in the chest 5.kicked in the face 6.Stabbed through the wrist 7.Gets half his face cut off 8.his throat slashed 9.Both his arms chopped off


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A bad movie

Posted : 13 years ago on 11 March 2011 02:25

Before watching this, I had some rather low expectations but, at least, I thought it could be fun to watch. Unfortunately, I thought it was just pretty bad. I know, you're not supposed to take such a movie too seriously but still... It is just bad on every possible level (acting, directing, plot,...). It could have been something but, at the end, it is just worthless. Maybe if you are a fan of B movies, you may end up enjoying it more than I did but I wouldn't count on it. Eventually, more than 10 years later, I re-watched it with Nick, my step-son, because he loves all these monsters movies and I have to admit it, there were a few redeeming features. First of all, you would never get a cast like this for a B feature nowadays (Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Owen Wilson, Danny Trejo) and the special effects were actually not as bad as I remembered. Still, the plot about Jon Voight highjacking the boat to hunt some giant snakes was utterly idiotic and unnecessary. Just build up a story about a rich guy who wants to hunt down some snakes hiring a crew with Jon Voight as a leader, that would have been already an improvement. To conclude, the whole thing is pretty lame and I don’t think it is really worth a look whatsoever.


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Woeful monster movie.

Posted : 15 years, 11 months ago on 7 May 2008 06:08

"This film was supposed to be my big break, and it turned out to be a big disaster!" (This is actually a quote from the movie. Little did they know they were actually predicting the future)


Before I finally watched Anaconda I was decisively aware of the pasting and criticisms surrounding the production. I don't think I heard even one good thing about the movie. I sometimes enjoy seeking out simple reasonably short (80 or 90-minute) films I know will be crappy. And so equipped with warnings and bad reviews to boot I decided to finally watch it.

Anaconda is a campy, appalling B-Grade horror fest that is every bit as bad as I heard it was. From start to finish, the film is plagued by a dismal script loaded with stereotypical conventions, predictability and despicable characters. The visual effects look embarrassing, with an anaconda that moves like a flimsy animatronic and isn't in the least bit convincing. While watching this "thriller" (I use the term loosely) I was closer to tears of laughter as opposed to shock.

Anaconda follows a documentary crew that head out on the Amazon River to make a documentary concerning a mythical Indian civilisation. While heading upriver, they pick up poacher Paul Sarone (Voight, in his worst performance to date) who surreptitiously plans to use the boat + crew to hunt a large anaconda. As predicted, instead of the original plan the crew become snake bait as they are terrorised by a forty foot anaconda lurking beneath the water.

If you're going to take this film seriously, turn your arse around and go rent something else. Anaconda is seemingly played out for laughs, and if the filmmakers intended to make it serious...they missed the mark completely. The antics of the snake we see in the film are absurd. Every time the snake turns up, there are more factually impossible things that continue adding to the already massive pile of criticisms about the film. These factually impossible snake mannerisms include the thing refusing to die after being blown up, burnt and shot in the head (without a mere scratch, that is).

Performances are all dreadful; following the standard characters clichés (including the most despicable characters dying first, there's someone who wants to catch the snake instead of killing it, the big-breasted girl who's there for show, etc) not to mention the costume design is even dull!

But wait, there's more - each character could be outsmarted by a 5-year-old, the visual effects get worse as time goes on, the "scares" aren't even effective, there's no intensity, when the snake attacks things it made me laugh, the snake is "voiced" by an actor, and the film is almost painful to watch. I could go into so much detail but I think I've pretty much hammered the point convincingly.

At the end of the day, I am aware that Anaconda was meant to be a bit of fun. But...it's not. Instead we're treated to something that is so painfully appalling it couldn't pass as a home movie.



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