The Thomas Jane Punisher movie was okay and solid. Hopefully this new version will be better.

Is it just me, or is anyone else getting a serious Steven Segal vibe here? I’m totally seeing a ponytail under his ear.

Sweet Stevin Seagal is the punisher. I can’t wait for this DTV movie.

I also got the Stevin Seagal vibe when I saw this picture. Looking at other pictures of the actor, I think it’s just a bad pic.

not to be trite, but…stevin seagal, anyone? anyone? i know i have at least two of you on it.
i enjoyed the first one, actually. so i have mixed feelings about this. however, i didn’t have a lot “invested” in the comic, so i’m no critic.

He should have stayed bald.

I see myself just constantly be reminding how poor this casting is, appearance-wise, compared to when Thomas Jane played the role. Jane was excellent as Punisher. The villains and conflict were the disappointment.

Hopefully this version is better then the Thomas Jane version which was horrible and John Travolta just made it worse. Any idea of a rating at this point. You really can’t do a good Punisher movie with a PG-13 rating.

The Punisher should be a big mo-fo like he’s drawn in the current MAX series.

Ray is that size, Jane was NOT.

Ray Stevenson is a good actor and all, but the best part or the only good thing about the first Punisher movie was Thomas Jane. You knew he understood and had the character in his heart, even if the movie was lackluster in general because of the general creative direction.

To me while I like Thomas Jane you felt like it was “an actor playing Punisher” rather than the Punisher himself. When I saw the film I saw the story a cop seeing his family being gunned down and then taking revenge down the line. But I never thought for a minute that it was the Punisher. And to a certain extent too dyeing your head black and working your muscles doesn’t make you the Punisher too, as good and dedicated as TJ was. You have to hire a brute, somebody that is this mountain of a man that is Frank Castle with this darkness inside of him. TJ doesn’T have that darkness. You have to think of Harry Calaghan and how Eastwood embodied him. They didn’t hire Paul Newman and make him gain weight; they hired somebody that WAS that character. And the rest is history. We’ll see how the new one does.

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Thomas jane was perfect as the punisher this guy just doesnt do it, the reason the first punisher was semi good what cause of jane.

Hated the Thomas Jane Punisher movie. This has promise however… he seems to look the part.

I agree that Jane did a good job with the first movie. There were a lot of parts that were off like casting a love interest, and if he would have gone with the girl that would’ve been the end of it for me, but I was looking for more firefights instead of assassinations like kills. The last 20 minutes rang true for the character from the battle sequences to the whole attitude of Jane. By the last 20 minutes he had officially become The Punisher. Whenever I think about The Punisher though, I see an older guy. Jane was a little young but that’s how it was supposed to be. The first movie was going to be about him starting out. The second one should show a progression of at least five years I think. People should know who is is by now, I mean I want to see guys drop thier guns running away yelling “It’s The Punisher!!!” like he’s got a rep now. I do like the look of Ray, he looks everything like I think the punisher should look like in that he’s big, not as young looking as Jane, and he has the slicked back hair as the comics did. I hope he actually gets to use his M203 grenade launcher this time on the M4 instead of it getting shot. This movie should also be an R rated one because The Punisher is not nice, and will not preserve your body for your funeral. There should be dismemberment and a hail of gunshots and knife action, plus anything he can improvise. As on the videogame too, I’d like to see a violent interrogation sequence or two.