@@JasonBrant Funny thing though, I never saw a ninja Halloween costume in the '80s. Bear in mind kids still went trick-or-treating at night without their parents back then.
You guys didn't have traps? They were just those live traps only bigger. Snickers bars, California Rolls anything will lure them right in. Now you can't actually release an angry ninja, so we just threw the trap in the lake and come back for it a couple days later.
As a tourist I love New York, but it seems every car horn goes off every 10 seconds by law for no reason. Total gridlock and everyone seems to think blaring the horn will do something..
As a product of the Cannon era of revenge films, I'd be shocked if they didn't try with Punisher. The one thing they nailed with him here was the notion of the kid having a chance to kill Castle and be up for it. Then the line about "grow up to be a good man" is true to the character.
This movie had several flaws in the writing, but the tone was absolutely spot on to the late 80s and early 90s comics. I'll always respect it for that.
That terrible stubble they tried to put on him goes right to his cheek bones. I think that's why he looks so sickly, since it's highlighting them more.
The lack of a skull shirt was unforgivable, but this was a decent 80's action flick. Dolph and Ray Stevenson(RIP)were the two most physically intimidating actors to play Frank Castle.
Oddly, Dolph doesn't look so huge in this - he looks lean and hard, like a climber more than a bodybuilder. Ray Stevenson looked like a human tank - not graceful, but solid and heavy and frankly mentally unstable. He looks like someone who thinks about nothing other than GETTING YOU. The scene where he fixes his own broken nose by ramming a pencil up it is badass.
I worked in the building where the Yakuza meetings were held, the same year the movie was released. If you watch any of the external shots they won’t show the top of the building because it had Qantas signage. The building is still there, and even though there are some cosmetic changes at the front it’s still easily recognisable.
On the Umbrella blu ray there's a workprint cut which gives the Punisher it's origin story & his friendship with his partner it's definitely worth watching as it adds more backstory & relationships with the characters. Huge Dolph fan I highly recommend Sweepers, The Joshua Tree & Brudge Of Dragons.
1) Female ninja are known as "kunoichi," FWIW. 2) There's a rumor that the reason for all of the ninja in the movie is that Frank Miller (who was on a serious ninja kick at the time) had written the original script but it was rejected and morphed into Robocop 3 (the one with the cyber-ninja). However, certain elements from that supposed script were kept, most notably the ninja.
Even in the new zoomer managements version of Capcom, someone was a big enough fan of the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie that in the Resident Evil 2 REmake the final upgrade handgun kit for the desert eagle is a giant Desert Eagle from The Punisher with the red dot sight from The Terminator.
My favorite Dolph Lundgren story is that a guy once broke into his house and as he was looking for things to steal, he saw pictures of Dolph and his family and left without taking anything and it was all caught on security camera. Not sure if that's a true story but I want it to be so badly. 😂
Criminally underrated. I remember watching this on like UPN growing up. I also found a DVD copy of it years ago and have spread the good word to many friends about Dolph Lundgrens Punisher lol😊
I'm thinking the 2nd explosives survived the first explosives also. If each explosive was out of each others detonation range when detonation occurred, then yes. The 2nd explosion can survive the first one. But if the explosives were overlapping in their detonation ranges, the first explosives will set off the 2nd explosives, thus creating just one large explosion and defeating the purpose of having the explosives planted to go off in a certain timely order.
The Punisher '89 > The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. This movie is so fuckin' awesome and for me King Dolph was the best Punisher. I also really liked the story with this underworld showdown between the mafia and the yakuza. Some interesting facts: the filmmakers didn't skip the origin story, they just cut it out. There are several cut scenes from the beginning of the film that can be found on youtube. The other thing is Dolph's weird "beard". The filmmakers left out the character's iconic skull t-shirt, which they tried to offset by applying such strange black makeup to Lundgren's face and around his eyes to create the effect of a skull.
Dude, I'm one of those 4 people that LOVED _Hobo with A Shotgun._ Obviously it wasn't some kind of cinema masterpiece or anything, but it was genuinely fun, funny, over-the-top, and gratifying. It was also ridiculous, had a paper-thin plot, and was so over-the-top with everything that I could see how people were put off by it. It reminded me of "Would You Rather" and "Death Wish" since it was really in the same kind of vein. In fact, I'd actually like to see y'all do an episode of "Would You Rather."
Make it 5, I genuinely enjoyed that movie so much lol it's campy and over the top but the reverend villain was so entertaining, the Rob Wells cameo at the beginning, the fact that it's Canadian, the ridiculous prep/jock character was so bad, but easy to dislike. It's not a great movie by any means but there's alot to like
The makeup was supposed to make Castle's face look like a skull. That and the skull headed knives were supposed to be this movie's version of the Punisher's symbol. The director thought at the time having the skull on the chest was too comic bookish. He said later this was a mistake and they should done it to help with marketing. One last thing, the tie in comic from Marvel did have Castle spray paint a skull on his shirt before the final battle.
Wasn't he a Russian bodyguard in a James Bond movie with Roger Moore, in 1 scene, without any talking? 🤔 Oh, wait, we might talk about the same thing... 😂
@@eldritchmorgasm4018 He was grace jones' boyfriend so she got him that gig, its the scene where she picks up the other bodyguard and holds him over her head. I have the commentary bonus and roger moore was so embarrassed about how old he was in it and how he didnt like working across actresses young enough to be his granddaughters, and he said he didnt do any other action stuff because they wouldn't spend the money to make him look good. So his self awareness and humility makes his movies even better for me. He always had fun and played pranks on the egomaniacs. And christopher walken's dingbat pycho villian makes it worth a rewatch, enjoy!
They weren’t necessarily shooting at each other in the paper Yakuza hallways. When you clear a hallway that’s wide enough, you pull “cross-coverage,” meaning the guy on the right side is covering to the left and the guy on the left is covering to the right to cover doors and hallway intersections. That requires scanning and shooting 45° to your left or right as you walk down the hallway. The muzzle direction from the two guys on opposite side of the hallways looks like an X. In a paper hallway, you could hit the hallway in the same fashion from outside the hallway: Be on opposite sides, but shooting forward across the hallway at 45° for an intersecting field-of-fire that doesn’t cross into your homeboy across the hall. That’s what that hallway shooting looked like to me.
As goofy and over the top as it is, the Ray Stevens Punisher movie is the one that got the character the closest. Bernthal is great in the role, but they softened it so much making it about military conspiracies and revenge instead of basically being Death Wish 1 on steroids.
War Zone was diminished by all the goofy stuff they tried to put in, but you're right that Ray absolutely knocked the role out of the park. I also really liked what Jane brought to the role.
@@johnsanko4136Bernthal said Jane's performance in the 2012 ten-minute fan-film Dirty Laundry was an influence on his own version of the Punisher as well. I like that. :)
@@JCole78 They had to change the background for Frank, it the earlier comics he is a Vietnam Vet. Which would make him over 60 in the 2000s. They adjusted some later comics also into the Afghanistan/irak war background. The second punisher movie with Jane was in my opinion the best background they could had come up with. Undercover cop with a military past. But they could had done so much more with that movie. Instead Travolta's Ego played a big part in it. I still hope they make a proper r-rated Punisher movie without any influence of other superheroes in the Marvel Universe. But I doubt they have the balls or proper actor for it.
Horribly underused actor the guy CAN act if he's let loose. He's got a great face, both for the villain and the hero. Him in UniSol is one of THE best villains in film history.
It's been a long, long time since I've seen this, but the "Where is Justice" soliloquy stands out, mainly because the NYHC band Biohazard used it in full as the opening to their song Punishment, which put them on the map around the time this came out.
I like this one. I prefer the workprint as it has a fair bit of back story for Frank and his partner. As well as his origin. You see him switch between Punisher and the dad Frank (in the cut material) when he saves the kids. The skull is absent from the shirt, but they attempted to use his face made up to resemble one. And the ‘worm helping a fisherman’ line seems obvious. But that’s just me.
Good job saving it on the fugitive. He was also a bond villian in the living daylights, one of the best james bond movies ever. I think license to kill would be sbig eligible due to the violence and robert davi as the villian, also there were some ninjas and a ninjette, oh and wayne newton too.
I'm not sure how correct I am on this, but the 2 boys about to fight in the beginning? One of them was Rorshack in that movie "The Watchmen", he also played Freddy Kruger in the reboot of "Friday the 13th" AND he was the crazy guy Leonardo dicaprio runs into on ward C in the movie "Shutter Island". I swear that hedgehog haired kid is him 😂.
The posters were up and the trailers aired in 1989, but this movie never made it to US theaters. Apparently, it was shelved as multiple parties claimed distribution rights. It was finally released on VHS a year later and was the number one rental the month it premiered.
I'll rewatch this one over that Thomas Jane abortion anyday. For me, the best screen "Punisher" is Frank Grillo in one of the Purge sequels. I'll get me coat ....
I remember renting this at Blockbuster while hanging out with friends as a kid. I had gotten into The Punisher comics and was excited about the movie. We ended up laughing at the insane plot and my main memory is Dolph Lundgren driving through sewers on his motorcycle.
@jole78 The one you are referring to is Punisher The End. @briancoulombe4517 The one you were referring to was called (if I remember correctly) marvel universe vs the punisher. In that a virus breaks out and infects most of the world and the punisher is immune and hunts them down.
There is also the first version of marvel vs punisher where a group old rich people tricks Punisher that heroes are villians and he goes after heroes the ending is pretty good won't spoil if you find it and want to read that comics.
The second explosion didn't go off due to the first explosion because the Punisher was using C4 plastic explosives which are only set off by an electrical current and are stable under other conditions. 💥💣💥
Dolph didn't speak English well so they restricted his dialouge. It comes across as strung out as opposed to depressed. Also the mute ninja chick was adopted. They mention it in tye info dump about yakuza
Dolph concentrated on mainly martial arts for this film. The two Japanese bodyguard at the were actual full contact karate champs from japan who spoke no English
I was SO pissed off when this came out, because I was a huge fan of the comics. But seing Louis G jr reminded me to ask that you watch “Diggstown” for the channel. I know It’s not a bad movie really, It’s F*&ing amazing! James Woods and Bruce Dern chewing up the scenery and best of all Louis G jr (who is great in this) is sold to us as HEAVY weight professional boxer, just… WOW. It’s a fun movie that’s so over the top it feels good inside.
@@JasonBrant It's funny....I was thinking of Beastmaster 2, thinking it was an 80's movie, but it was a 91 sequel to a 82 movie, lol, that looked like it was shot in the 80's still. Bad plot, terrible compared to the first...only two good things. Wings Hauser plays the over the top villain. And Sarah Douglas, Ursa from Superman 2, doesn't get naked, but shows massive cleavage for a lot of the movie.
Glad you enjoyed this piece of 80s cheese! I think Dolph did a decent job as Punisher, a depressed man with a deathwish version, but still decent in my opinion. This was filmed in Sydney, Australia and released same year as Tim Burton's "Batman" with Michael Keaton. It hits all the points of an 80's action flick with a surprisingly lean Dolph and another great performance from Louis Gossett Jr. Hope you enjoy the other film I sent with this one! -Scott
This is my favorite channel, been watching you guys since Kill Switch episode and am surprised you guys are still mentally alive from these "masterpieces" 😂
This was a pretty rough adaptation of the Punsisher. But, as an 80’s action flick, it kind of rocked. I’d put Lundgren’s take on Frank Castle against Thomas Janes and Ray Stevenson’s versions, in a fight to the death, at the same time. Dude was a total beast.
Just a little backgound on Dolph and the movie's release. Some of this information may have been mentioned in previous comments, so I apologize if I am duplicating any posts. Dolph was having a bit of a rough patch after "Masters of the Universe". His film just before "The Punisher" was "Red Scorpion". That film was meant to be his breakout role in adult action films. However, it went way over budget, had sketchy funding, and was barely released in the US. After "The Punisher", Dolph made "I Come in Peace" but "The Punisher" was still in distribution limbo while "I Come in Peace" was having its own distributor problems. Dolph's gaunt appearance and low energy was probably due him losing 25 pounds for the role and staying up through the night before shooting his dialogue scenes. In one interview, Dolph mentioned that the latter half of the film was shot first with his downbeat appearance. Then they planned to shoot the beginning of the film with him looking healthy and tanned. New World Pictures, the owner of Marvel at the time, was in bad financial shape. The film was originally planned to made in Seattle but New World signed a deal with the Australian government to open a film studio in Sydney, so the production was moved there. You can still find references to Seattle in the movie. The producers wanted the film to be "more realistic", so they did away with some of The Punisher's features from the comic. The film cost about 15 million to make. Just before "The Punisher" was set to be released, New World Pictures was sold but the purchasing company was not interested in the movie business, only the TV production side. Four movies were shelved while waiting for new distributors: "Meet the Applegates", "Warlock", and two comic films... "Brenda Starr" and "The Punisher". The rest of the world saw "The Punisher" in 1990 but it only received a single screening in L.A. before being released here on video in 1991.
I remember seeing this back in the days and thinking Dolph really looks bored all the time but that’s probably him trying to be seriously stoic. Punisher doesn’t really work unless it’s obvious how broken he is inside only held together by his immense hatred and quest for vengance
I remember loving this movie back when it came out. Now I still love it, but for all the wrong reasons. I think that "beard" was an ill-fated attemp to make him look unkempt, but it made him look sickly. As for the performance, remember: by the time He-Man came out, Lundgren didn't speak english and had to learn most of his lines phonetically. This is only 2 years later. My favourite bits were when Dolph turned someone's skull into panko with a pipe and the swiss army ugg boots.
Yes the mob boss was in The Fugitive but Jeroen Krabbe was also in a Bond film The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton) want I know him from, he was also in the 3rd Transporter film with the Statham.
This was 1989. Dolph would have been at the height of his cokehead, alcoholic phase. Remember, he also made "I Come In Peace" at the same time? That's why he looks sedated with a painted beard. He had absolutely no fucks to give.
Your reaction to Dolph letting that dude get stretched to death makes me wonder how messed up you'd think of his torture of Cristu Bulat in The Slavers arc of Garth Ennison's Punisher MAX run years ago (minor spoiler: it's very graphic).
Did you know that in Tom Jane's punisher there was a prop knife mix-up, and he actually stabbed the Russian. His reaction to being stabbed was so nonchalant, they actually kept it in the movie. The look of dread on Tom Jane's is priceless.
HP is still around and still sells computers, printers, etc. They're still a lead manufacturer and competitor in computer sales. I remember when they bought Compaq back in 2001.
I bought this movie on vhs at a comic convention before the film was released. It had the time code and a bunch of stuff that didn't make it into the final version. I like this movie, even though they replaced microchip with the drunk Shakespeare guy. Growing up, i was a massive punisher fan. I dressed up as punisher for Halloween when i was 8, with a realistic M16A1.
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this is a great movie, that fight with the blonde girl ninja is awesome
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It was the '80s. OF COURSE there were ninjas! Ninjas were everywhere in the '80s, I myself barely survived the ninjapocalypse.
I had serious intentions of growing up to be a ninja, as they were widely feared and venerated
I can't believe any of us made it out of the 80s. The ninjas almost got us all.
If it weren't for the imports stores in the mall keeping us supplied with throwing stars and nunchucks, we never would've made it.
@@JasonBrant Funny thing though, I never saw a ninja Halloween costume in the '80s. Bear in mind kids still went trick-or-treating at night without their parents back then.
You guys didn't have traps? They were just those live traps only bigger. Snickers bars, California Rolls anything will lure them right in.
Now you can't actually release an angry ninja, so we just threw the trap in the lake and come back for it a couple days later.
R.I.P. Louis Gossett Jr., who just passed a few days ago as I watch this for the first time.
He's stealing the bus so he can transport all the kids at once.
And it's S.T.E.A.L.-ing
Strategically
Transferring
Equipment to an
Alternate
Location.
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@@JasonBrant Also, the villains had the ambulance looking/dog kennel trucks since they were going to sell the kids off as slaves.
Not an 80s action flick unless the protagonist heals himself with a hot knife
So true.
Rambo 3 had something even more nuts.
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Was Dolph in that, too?
@@joelspringman523 No he was making Red Scorpion instead.
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I'll bet he didn't emote much in that one, either.
This was shot in Australia, the coney island scenes were shot in an old amusement park called Luna Park
Cool I'm Australian and didn't know that
Yeah, the houses in the background are McMahons Point in Sydney.
I said this before, but living in the New York of the Marvel universe must be a living hell. EVERY day is 911.
Much like the NYC of today come to think about it.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439No, maybe the New York of leaded gasoline days.
Doesn't seem like a good time.
As a tourist I love New York, but it seems every car horn goes off every 10 seconds by law for no reason. Total gridlock and everyone seems to think blaring the horn will do something..
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That city is just too densely populated for cars...
As a product of the Cannon era of revenge films, I'd be shocked if they didn't try with Punisher.
The one thing they nailed with him here was the notion of the kid having a chance to kill Castle and be up for it. Then the line about "grow up to be a good man" is true to the character.
They also lifted it directly out of Punisher’s “Circle of Blood” arc. Good stuff.
This movie had several flaws in the writing, but the tone was absolutely spot on to the late 80s and early 90s comics. I'll always respect it for that.
5:15 Guy on the right is the main bad guy in The Living Daylights (Koskov) and The Fugitive (Dr Charles Nichols).
Took me a bit, but I got it.
He switched the samples!
That terrible stubble they tried to put on him goes right to his cheek bones. I think that's why he looks so sickly, since it's highlighting them more.
The lack of a skull shirt was unforgivable, but this was a decent 80's action flick. Dolph and Ray Stevenson(RIP)were the two most physically intimidating actors to play Frank Castle.
They still made comic book movies as though they were embarrassed to. Except Tim burton
Yeah, where was the skull?
@@JasonBrantThe director said in Comics Scene Magazine that he didn't want the skull because it would look to much like a comic book.
I thought I had read they didn't have the rights to the infamous skull symbol many many years ago, but perhaps I'm wrong.
Oddly, Dolph doesn't look so huge in this - he looks lean and hard, like a climber more than a bodybuilder. Ray Stevenson looked like a human tank - not graceful, but solid and heavy and frankly mentally unstable. He looks like someone who thinks about nothing other than GETTING YOU. The scene where he fixes his own broken nose by ramming a pencil up it is badass.
I worked in the building where the Yakuza meetings were held, the same year the movie was released. If you watch any of the external shots they won’t show the top of the building because it had Qantas signage. The building is still there, and even though there are some cosmetic changes at the front it’s still easily recognisable.
On the Umbrella blu ray there's a workprint cut which gives the Punisher it's origin story & his friendship with his partner it's definitely worth watching as it adds more backstory & relationships with the characters.
Huge Dolph fan I highly recommend Sweepers, The Joshua Tree & Brudge Of Dragons.
Absolutely gotta love all the Hip fire weaponry with that exact facial expression that was used widely in the 70-90s action flicks.
Thomas Jane will forever be my punisher, The movie was awesome and the game completed that story
Just saw the German trailer for The Last Kumite today
and my head almost Scannered from sheer anticipation.
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@JasonBrant another stupid reaction from this guy
I need a compilation of Jason's deepest cuts.
Punisher with a m60 is all i wanted to see as a kid and this movie delivered back then : D
Damn, saying Hewlett-Packard caused Brian's body to realize how long ago that was, and he instantly developed old man voice!
1) Female ninja are known as "kunoichi," FWIW.
2) There's a rumor that the reason for all of the ninja in the movie is that Frank Miller (who was on a serious ninja kick at the time) had written the original script but it was rejected and morphed into Robocop 3 (the one with the cyber-ninja). However, certain elements from that supposed script were kept, most notably the ninja.
I do hope they watch the Robocop 3 cringefest one day.
the drunk guy who help's the punisher with info speaks in rhymes
Even in the new zoomer managements version of Capcom, someone was a big enough fan of the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie that in the Resident Evil 2 REmake the final upgrade handgun kit for the desert eagle is a giant Desert Eagle from The Punisher with the red dot sight from The Terminator.
My favorite Dolph Lundgren story is that a guy once broke into his house and as he was looking for things to steal, he saw pictures of Dolph and his family and left without taking anything and it was all caught on security camera. Not sure if that's a true story but I want it to be so badly. 😂
Three guys, actually
Fun fact: Luna Park in Sydney, Australia stood in for Coney Island. That wheel thing he fights the dude on is still there and functional.
Even in this shape, Dolph Lundgren would make onion latkes out of Segall.
Thank you for taking the time to watch one of my favourite Dolph Lundgren movies! You guys are awesome. 🙂
Criminally underrated. I remember watching this on like UPN growing up. I also found a DVD copy of it years ago and have spread the good word to many friends about Dolph Lundgrens Punisher lol😊
Jesus Jason! That shirt is assaulting my childhood!
You're welcome.
I liked it. 🤷♂
I'm thinking the 2nd explosives survived the first explosives also. If each explosive was out of each others detonation range when detonation occurred, then yes. The 2nd explosion can survive the first one. But if the explosives were overlapping in their detonation ranges, the first explosives will set off the 2nd explosives, thus creating just one large explosion and defeating the purpose of having the explosives planted to go off in a certain timely order.
The Punisher '89 > The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. This movie is so fuckin' awesome and for me King Dolph was the best Punisher. I also really liked the story with this underworld showdown between the mafia and the yakuza.
Some interesting facts: the filmmakers didn't skip the origin story, they just cut it out. There are several cut scenes from the beginning of the film that can be found on youtube.
The other thing is Dolph's weird "beard". The filmmakers left out the character's iconic skull t-shirt, which they tried to offset by applying such strange black makeup to Lundgren's face and around his eyes to create the effect of a skull.
I put and Blade as well.
Cool, but if the beard thing was to make his face more skull like they totally failed, it just looks super weird.
@@markgrehan3726 I also think it's a little strange, but it didn't bother me so much, because Dolph is awesome in the role.
That guy you knew from the Fugitive is Jeroen Krabbé. He's a Dutch actor.
I was tripped by a ninja once. I never saw it coming.
This is MY Punisher movie. I don't even want to see the newer ones. Dolph Lundgren will forever be MY Frank Castle.
Thank you I thought I was the crazy one that loved dolph in this role
Dude, I'm one of those 4 people that LOVED _Hobo with A Shotgun._ Obviously it wasn't some kind of cinema masterpiece or anything, but it was genuinely fun, funny, over-the-top, and gratifying. It was also ridiculous, had a paper-thin plot, and was so over-the-top with everything that I could see how people were put off by it.
It reminded me of "Would You Rather" and "Death Wish" since it was really in the same kind of vein. In fact, I'd actually like to see y'all do an episode of "Would You Rather."
Make it 5, I genuinely enjoyed that movie so much lol it's campy and over the top but the reverend villain was so entertaining, the Rob Wells cameo at the beginning, the fact that it's Canadian, the ridiculous prep/jock character was so bad, but easy to dislike. It's not a great movie by any means but there's alot to like
Better make it 6. I knew what it was and enjoyed the hell out of it. The movie was definitely so bad its good and Rutger Hauer made it gold.
The big baddie is also the big baddie in Deuce Bigalow 2 European Giggalow. The best role of his career.
I have this on VHS somewhere. Watched it multiple times, but had to fast forward through the painfully bad child actors.
Fun film. Always is. And you're right, Dolph Lundgren does not look or act with as much presence. Still, it's dumb fun.
The crossfire ambush is what Sean Bean proposed in Ronin that got him kicked off the heist.
He got the idea from this movie.
23:12 They were shooting at angles, not directly at each other. The bad guys weren't right in front of where the bullets tore through.
The makeup was supposed to make Castle's face look like a skull. That and the skull headed knives were supposed to be this movie's version of the Punisher's symbol. The director thought at the time having the skull on the chest was too comic bookish. He said later this was a mistake and they should done it to help with marketing. One last thing, the tie in comic from Marvel did have Castle spray paint a skull on his shirt before the final battle.
Lundgrens first on screen appearance was across from christopher walken in a view to a kill. No lines, just a kgb henchman.
Gotta check that out.
Wasn't he a Russian bodyguard in a James Bond movie with Roger Moore, in 1 scene, without any talking?
🤔 Oh, wait, we might talk about the same thing... 😂
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He was grace jones' boyfriend so she got him that gig, its the scene where she picks up the other bodyguard and holds him over her head. I have the commentary bonus and roger moore was so embarrassed about how old he was in it and how he didnt like working across actresses young enough to be his granddaughters, and he said he didnt do any other action stuff because they wouldn't spend the money to make him look good. So his self awareness and humility makes his movies even better for me. He always had fun and played pranks on the egomaniacs. And christopher walken's dingbat pycho villian makes it worth a rewatch, enjoy!
1985...huh, the same year he hardly said anything in Rocky 4 :)
They weren’t necessarily shooting at each other in the paper Yakuza hallways. When you clear a hallway that’s wide enough, you pull “cross-coverage,” meaning the guy on the right side is covering to the left and the guy on the left is covering to the right to cover doors and hallway intersections. That requires scanning and shooting 45° to your left or right as you walk down the hallway. The muzzle direction from the two guys on opposite side of the hallways looks like an X.
In a paper hallway, you could hit the hallway in the same fashion from outside the hallway: Be on opposite sides, but shooting forward across the hallway at 45° for an intersecting field-of-fire that doesn’t cross into your homeboy across the hall.
That’s what that hallway shooting looked like to me.
👍 exactly....
As goofy and over the top as it is, the Ray Stevens Punisher movie is the one that got the character the closest. Bernthal is great in the role, but they softened it so much making it about military conspiracies and revenge instead of basically being Death Wish 1 on steroids.
War Zone was diminished by all the goofy stuff they tried to put in, but you're right that Ray absolutely knocked the role out of the park. I also really liked what Jane brought to the role.
Yeah, Bernthal was allowed to play the character the best, but I definitely agree they screwed it all up with the military crap.
@@johnsanko4136Bernthal said Jane's performance in the 2012 ten-minute fan-film Dirty Laundry was an influence on his own version of the Punisher as well. I like that. :)
I agree but thats not as realistic
@@JCole78 They had to change the background for Frank, it the earlier comics he is a Vietnam Vet. Which would make him over 60 in the 2000s. They adjusted some later comics also into the Afghanistan/irak war background. The second punisher movie with Jane was in my opinion the best background they could had come up with. Undercover cop with a military past. But they could had done so much more with that movie. Instead Travolta's Ego played a big part in it. I still hope they make a proper r-rated Punisher movie without any influence of other superheroes in the Marvel Universe. But I doubt they have the balls or proper actor for it.
Horribly underused actor the guy CAN act if he's let loose. He's got a great face, both for the villain and the hero. Him in UniSol is one of THE best villains in film history.
its like a cannon film is the highest form of praise
It's been a long, long time since I've seen this, but the "Where is Justice" soliloquy stands out, mainly because the NYHC band Biohazard used it in full as the opening to their song Punishment, which put them on the map around the time this came out.
"Dylan, you earworming Sonoma beech"
I think that's how the quote goes lol
I like this one. I prefer the workprint as it has a fair bit of back story for Frank and his partner. As well as his origin.
You see him switch between Punisher and the dad Frank (in the cut material) when he saves the kids.
The skull is absent from the shirt, but they attempted to use his face made up to resemble one.
And the ‘worm helping a fisherman’ line seems obvious. But that’s just me.
Another movie who fits perfectly to SBIG with Louis Gossett Jr. is "Firewalker", with him and Chuck Norris. Is a Cannon movie.
Dolph's face was carved by the gods themselves... sly stallone confirmed it. Also so glad to finally see this legendary piece on your channel.
Firefights, explosions and ninjas. This is an 80s action movie alright.
Good job saving it on the fugitive. He was also a bond villian in the living daylights, one of the best james bond movies ever. I think license to kill would be sbig eligible due to the violence and robert davi as the villian, also there were some ninjas and a ninjette, oh and wayne newton too.
Don't forget deuce bigalow European gigolow
Took me a long time to remember that one.
He was also Satan in the 1999 "Jesus" TV movie (with Jeremy Sisto of all people as Jesus). One of my favorite character actors 😊
I remember this one as a kid but the aside from the ninja stuff, the weirdest thing for me was seeing Dolph with dark hair.
5:10 - the guy in the light gray suit was played by Jeroen Krabbe, who was the bad guy in The Fugitive (1993), opposite Harrison Ford
I'm not sure how correct I am on this, but the 2 boys about to fight in the beginning? One of them was Rorshack in that movie "The Watchmen", he also played Freddy Kruger in the reboot of "Friday the 13th" AND he was the crazy guy Leonardo dicaprio runs into on ward C in the movie "Shutter Island". I swear that hedgehog haired kid is him 😂.
The posters were up and the trailers aired in 1989, but this movie never made it to US theaters. Apparently, it was shelved as multiple parties claimed distribution rights. It was finally released on VHS a year later and was the number one rental the month it premiered.
HOLY SH13T! LOL I always thought that hot knife scene was from a Rambo movie HAHAHAHAHA.
I loved this movie when I was a kid.
Nice you got an Australian BR copy
In the comics Frank has an inhuman pain threshold.
Besides anger Frank doesn't emote.
I literally jump for joy when a new episode comes out. Thank you guys for being a bright spot.
I'll rewatch this one over that Thomas Jane abortion anyday. For me, the best screen "Punisher" is Frank Grillo in one of the Purge sequels. I'll get me coat ....
I remember renting this at Blockbuster while hanging out with friends as a kid. I had gotten into The Punisher comics and was excited about the movie. We ended up laughing at the insane plot and my main memory is Dolph Lundgren driving through sewers on his motorcycle.
Dolph Lundgren is swedish and an action star, two categories not known for their emoting and when combined you get this^^
Also he does look like he's on zoloft.
I mean, their parents may be filthy gangsters, but they’re still just kids. The punisher is not a TOTAL monster
The Punisher has done pretty horrific stuff in the comics. In at least one iteration he wiped out all of humanity.
@@JCole78 which version was that? I know of The Punisher Kills the Marvel Universe but he just kills heroes and villains in that.
@@carn9507 also, wasn’t it like a zombie apocalypse or something like that?
@jole78 The one you are referring to is Punisher The End. @briancoulombe4517 The one you were referring to was called (if I remember correctly) marvel universe vs the punisher. In that a virus breaks out and infects most of the world and the punisher is immune and hunts them down.
There is also the first version of marvel vs punisher where a group old rich people tricks Punisher that heroes are villians and he goes after heroes the ending is pretty good won't spoil if you find it and want to read that comics.
Most Americans haven't heard of the Yakuza in the 80s.
That villain from the fugitive was also the villain in the james bond with Tim Dalton 'Living Daylights' from the 80's.
I've been avoiding this movie since the first time I saw it on a video store shelf. Thank you for watching it for me.
When this movie was made, Christopher Reaves could walk.
Perfect shirt for the scene figuring out the whole explosives thing … lol
The second explosion didn't go off due to the first explosion because the Punisher was using C4 plastic explosives which are only set off by an electrical current and are stable under other conditions.
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Dolph didn't speak English well so they restricted his dialouge. It comes across as strung out as opposed to depressed.
Also the mute ninja chick was adopted. They mention it in tye info dump about yakuza
I've been waiting for this all week. I love this movie.
Dolph concentrated on mainly martial arts for this film. The two Japanese bodyguard at the were actual full contact karate champs from japan who spoke no English
This is what I’ve been waiting for all week!
I was SO pissed off when this came out, because I was a huge fan of the comics. But seing Louis G jr reminded me to ask that you watch “Diggstown” for the channel. I know It’s not a bad movie really, It’s F*&ing amazing! James Woods and Bruce Dern chewing up the scenery and best of all Louis G jr (who is great in this) is sold to us as HEAVY weight professional boxer, just… WOW. It’s a fun movie that’s so over the top it feels good inside.
"It's the '80's"
"That's your answer to everything."
He's not wrong though.
Exactly.
@@JasonBrant It's funny....I was thinking of Beastmaster 2, thinking it was an 80's movie, but it was a 91 sequel to a 82 movie, lol, that looked like it was shot in the 80's still. Bad plot, terrible compared to the first...only two good things. Wings Hauser plays the over the top villain. And Sarah Douglas, Ursa from Superman 2, doesn't get naked, but shows massive cleavage for a lot of the movie.
Glad you enjoyed this piece of 80s cheese! I think Dolph did a decent job as Punisher, a depressed man with a deathwish version, but still decent in my opinion. This was filmed in Sydney, Australia and released same year as Tim Burton's "Batman" with Michael Keaton. It hits all the points of an 80's action flick with a surprisingly lean Dolph and another great performance from Louis Gossett Jr. Hope you enjoy the other film I sent with this one!
-Scott
If those had been with The Hand then that would've been cool & comic accurate.
This is my favorite channel, been watching you guys since Kill Switch episode and am surprised you guys are still mentally alive from these "masterpieces" 😂
I loved this movie .
“Who sent you”
“Batman” 😂😂😂
It's not stubble (you see it's dirt on both ears), it's supposed to be the skull logo that he doesn't have on his t-shirt.
This was a pretty rough adaptation of the Punsisher. But, as an 80’s action flick, it kind of rocked. I’d put Lundgren’s take on Frank Castle against Thomas Janes and Ray Stevenson’s versions, in a fight to the death, at the same time. Dude was a total beast.
Hell yeah thanks for covering this!
Just a little backgound on Dolph and the movie's release. Some of this information may have been mentioned in previous comments, so I apologize if I am duplicating any posts.
Dolph was having a bit of a rough patch after "Masters of the Universe". His film just before "The Punisher" was "Red Scorpion". That film was meant to be his breakout role in adult action films. However, it went way over budget, had sketchy funding, and was barely released in the US. After "The Punisher", Dolph made "I Come in Peace" but "The Punisher" was still in distribution limbo while "I Come in Peace" was having its own distributor problems.
Dolph's gaunt appearance and low energy was probably due him losing 25 pounds for the role and staying up through the night before shooting his dialogue scenes. In one interview, Dolph mentioned that the latter half of the film was shot first with his downbeat appearance. Then they planned to shoot the beginning of the film with him looking healthy and tanned.
New World Pictures, the owner of Marvel at the time, was in bad financial shape. The film was originally planned to made in Seattle but New World signed a deal with the Australian government to open a film studio in Sydney, so the production was moved there. You can still find references to Seattle in the movie. The producers wanted the film to be "more realistic", so they did away with some of The Punisher's features from the comic. The film cost about 15 million to make.
Just before "The Punisher" was set to be released, New World Pictures was sold but the purchasing company was not interested in the movie business, only the TV production side. Four movies were shelved while waiting for new distributors: "Meet the Applegates", "Warlock", and two comic films... "Brenda Starr" and "The Punisher". The rest of the world saw "The Punisher" in 1990 but it only received a single screening in L.A. before being released here on video in 1991.
I remember seeing this back in the days and thinking Dolph really looks bored all the time but that’s probably him trying to be seriously stoic. Punisher doesn’t really work unless it’s obvious how broken he is inside only held together by his immense hatred and quest for vengance
I remember loving this movie back when it came out. Now I still love it, but for all the wrong reasons. I think that "beard" was an ill-fated attemp to make him look unkempt, but it made him look sickly.
As for the performance, remember: by the time He-Man came out, Lundgren didn't speak english and had to learn most of his lines phonetically. This is only 2 years later.
My favourite bits were when Dolph turned someone's skull into panko with a pipe and the swiss army ugg boots.
Yes the mob boss was in The Fugitive but Jeroen Krabbe was also in a Bond film The Living Daylights (Timothy Dalton) want I know him from, he was also in the 3rd Transporter film with the Statham.
I’ve been waiting for this for forever, i rented this the week it came out after being on the waiting list for three days!
The popular culture term for a female Shinobi is "Kunoichi"
This was 1989. Dolph would have been at the height of his cokehead, alcoholic phase. Remember, he also made "I Come In Peace" at the same time? That's why he looks sedated with a painted beard. He had absolutely no fucks to give.
Christopher Lambert was supposed to play the punisher but broke his ankle so they got Dolph.
great, one can talk, the other can't see... *snickers*
Jerome Krabbe plays the mob boss, he’s a Dutch actor who also in In living Daylights with Timothy Dalton.
“That ninja’s going to be real upset you assumed her gender” - best line on the internet today.
Your reaction to Dolph letting that dude get stretched to death makes me wonder how messed up you'd think of his torture of Cristu Bulat in The Slavers arc of Garth Ennison's Punisher MAX run years ago (minor spoiler: it's very graphic).
Also a russian general in James Bond. The one where they go to Afghanistan eventually.
Did you know that in Tom Jane's punisher there was a prop knife mix-up, and he actually stabbed the Russian. His reaction to being stabbed was so nonchalant, they actually kept it in the movie. The look of dread on Tom Jane's is priceless.
I love how you frame this as a Thomas Jane story, when it’s really a Kevin Nash story.
@@Russelshackleford what? Was that the Russians real name? Either way, that dudes a beast.
@@DansBuddhaBodega yeah, he’s a famous pro wrestler and also an actor.
then in 'John Wick', Keanu Reeves gives Kevin Nash the night off...so it works out :)
HP is still around and still sells computers, printers, etc. They're still a lead manufacturer and competitor in computer sales. I remember when they bought Compaq back in 2001.
Krabbe was also in The Living Daylights with Timothy Dalton’s Bond!
How bad is it that I died laughing when that kid got tossed?😭
I bought this movie on vhs at a comic convention before the film was released. It had the time code and a bunch of stuff that didn't make it into the final version. I like this movie, even though they replaced microchip with the drunk Shakespeare guy. Growing up, i was a massive punisher fan. I dressed up as punisher for Halloween when i was 8, with a realistic M16A1.
Finally... this is the only punisher film ill acknowledge, Thomas Jane could never 😂
Thank you for the video. Always had a soft spot for comic books' anti-heroes like Punisher and Lobo. This movie scores high on my nostalgia-meter.