G.I. Joe Classified Series

[RichardSimmonsRobot]

The Thomas Jane movie was like.. fine.. in an unintentionally kind of silly way (like having his ENTIRE EXTENDED FAMILY gunned down instead of his wife and kids was basically just parody of the Punisher story). But Thomas Jane didn't act like Punisher at all in that film. If you filed off the name and blacked out the one time he was wearing the skull - you'd literally never know it was even -supposed- to be a Punisher film. It was just like a silly early 2000s revenge movie.

They just spent way too much time on not-Frank planning out this elaborate ruse to get everyone stupid and upset with each other and suchlike, when actual-Frank would have just blown up their house and been done with it.

He was arguably my favorite portrayal of the Punisher character. Bernthal to me doesn't seem like the right fit, it's almost like he's trying to out-Punisher the Punisher character itself in term of brutality and psycho characteristics. His look just seems a little more Jersey Shore with the hair than I'd like. Jane just seemed like the Punisher for the era that brought us boy bands. Lundgren was a decent attempt in the sense that crimefighters in NYC in the 80s ended up living in the sewers; a little TOO crazy for my tastes. Aesthetically Stevenson hit the nail on the head when it came to embodying the Bradstreet Punisher covers I saw at the comic shop. My main complaint with that film was that most of the kills came so fast that it felt like the villains aside from Jigsaw and Looney Bin Jim were dead almost as soon as they appeared. But even the scenery appeared like a darker side of NYC that he, Daredevil and the TMNT would fit right into while Spiderman and the others stayed in Manhattan.

 

[Jolene00Negative]

I generally don't like the Punisher as a character, but I sure love the Jane movie and Stevenson movie.

The stevenson movie for how funny it is, like when he blows that parkour guy up mid-leap? chefs kiss.

Berenthal is fine, I guess. But I kinda wish he was Frank Grillo

 

[Boy Wonder]

Ray was good in everything. He was probably the most genuinely Punisher of all the Punishers, and his Firefly is the only time I ever gave a shit about Firefly. And my god was he good in Rome (I also don't like Roman history very much but I was -riveted- by that show and his performance). Little appreciated as the show was, he also stole the show in a few episodes of Medici AND he played Blackbeard in that pirate show (Black Sails?). I'd take action figures of all those guys.

Technically, we did get ONE Punisher played by Ray Stevenson.