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    When U.S. Marine veteran Frank Castle's family's was murdered for witnessing a mob hit, the man vowed to avenge their deaths and became a one-man army in his personal war against the criminal underworld. With a distinct death's head skull adorning his chest, Frank Castle became the vigilante known as the Punisher.

    Thomas Jane Reprises Role as The Punisher (Sort Of)

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    CharlesAlanRatliff

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    I loved that Punisher movie. I don't know what it was, but it was one of those things I could watch over and over.

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    #102  Edited By ripcurl

    If he happens to get a sequel, for God's sake, DON'T CALL JOHN TRAVOLTA!!!

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    GREEN LIGHT this mofo right now Marvel/Disney!!!!

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    Never an Avenger?

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    #105  Edited By joshmightbe

    @MercWithaMouth2385: He wasn't an actual Avenger then. In fact the closest he got was during Civil War whenCap ended up kicking his ass

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    #106  Edited By SpitfireINK

    Not bad - pacing was a little inconsistent - but - not bad.

    Met Thomas Jane at Emerald City Comic Con and he's definitely got the stoic part down.

    Would pay to see another Punisher film with him in the starring role - just needs a decent writer for the screen play.

    Thomas Jane was awesome in the Mist - find myself watching it repeatedly - Great film.

    Honestly - there are not very many GREAT films at all - but that's a whole different discussion (which I'm sure would come under heavy scrutiny)

    One minor gripe - if you spend the money to bring in Ron Perlman at least get a decent shirt!

    That Punisher logo shirt was whacked - I'm sure they could have found one similar to the film version.

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    #107  Edited By feebadger

    PuhLEASE Marvel, just give Thomas Jane the Punisher film rights and let him run with it!!!!!!

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    #108  Edited By SnakeEyes327

    @jack16ichigo said:

    I preferred Thomas Jane too,the first Punisher was a lot better.....

    Thomas Jane was the second Punisher, not the first.

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    #109  Edited By jack16ichigo

    @SnakeEyes327 said:

    @jack16ichigo said:

    I preferred Thomas Jane too,the first Punisher was a lot better.....

    Thomas Jane was the second Punisher, not the first.

    Yes this has already been pointed out to me....

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    #110  Edited By SnakeEyes327

    @Bionder said:

    Don't know if Mickey Mouse allow this... lol

    Mickey Mouse owns the company that made the SAW movies...

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    #111  Edited By cbishop

    This was 10:15 of badassery, and I immediately found it on youtube and posted it to facbook lol.

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    Om1kron

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    #112  Edited By Om1kron

    Thomas Jane needs it now that Hung was cancelled, stupid HBO =(

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    #113  Edited By TheAnnihilator

    Thomas Jane is a great actor and clearly has a real love for the character, I would love another Punisher film starring him and possibly even directed by him.

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    #114  Edited By nappystr8

    People didn't like the change in location and Jane didn't fit their mental image of the MAX Frank Castle that was popular at the time. But the fact is that the 2004 Punisher movie was excellent as a an adaptation of the comic character and also as simply an action movie in its own right. Thomas Jane was a great Punisher, and moving the character to Tampa was believable. It can't all happen in New York. Seriously, it can't. I was devastated when the Punisher sequel that was in the works was canned for War Zone, which turned out to be literally the worst comic movie ever not to include bat nipples. So glad to have this little nugget. Yay Tom Jane!

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    #115  Edited By Scarecrow4

    I am so ready for Jane to pick up this role again!

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    #116  Edited By Zuckuss_02

    Thomas Jane needs to come back as The Punisher. He is a huge fan of comics and two of this favorite characters are The Punisher & Jonah Hex.

    I really hope Marvel takes notice and decides to hire him for a new Punisher movie. Get a good writer & director and let Jane do his thing. He knows the character extremely well and respects him & the property enough not to screw it up.

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    #117  Edited By Jackson_Hartley

    @PsychoKnights: You should watch the very first one with Dolph Lungdren (sp?). It was actually pretty good for back in the day and the story had a good edge to it.

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    I love Thomas Jane's depiction of Castle and think it infinitely superior to Stevenson's depiction in Warzone. With that said...I really cannot get over his part in Hung for me to take him seriously as the Punisher now though...I just can't. Still, this video is well done I think and I was quite entertained watching it. Perlman was awesome, and if I didn't know any better, that was Sammi Rotibi playing the role of the leader of that gang who got barbecued something terrible. This was EXCELLENT.

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    #119  Edited By dewboy01

    F U C K I N G W A Y!!

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    #120  Edited By Ganthetsward20

    I would love for them to find a way to incorporate this into the current Marvel Movies. I know the character is crazy violent and I dont feel like he's much of a threat to a well trained hero, but its still FREAKING AWESOME. I like Thomas's portrayal of the Punisher more then the other one we saw.

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    #121  Edited By Eyz

    So awesome!

    Is it only me or does Tom Jane sorta looks like Christopher Lambert these days? Don't mind me, I still love the guy, he kicks ass! But I feel like he could star as McLeod in an Highlander remake~

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    #122  Edited By Brit

    f*cking awesome!!

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    #123  Edited By The Devil Tiger

    AWESOME !!

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    #124  Edited By CodeComiX

    The First Punisher was SOOOOO dope!!! I haven't read TONS of the comics but everything I have read was in line with the comics......TJ was pretty much just like FC and to be honest the 2nd Punisher movie was terrible!

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    awesome!

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    #126  Edited By BoOMbOoMpOw

    OMG this is awesome ! Ok it`s a littlebit brutal but it`s Punisher so what do you expect ^^ I would love a second movie with thomas jane !

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    #127  Edited By xanthiss

    Thomas Jane did not want to do the second Punisher because he could not get behind the script. I remember reading this back in the day. Good call Thomas, War Zone was crap.

    http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/thomas-jane-drops-out-of-punisher-2.php

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    #128  Edited By xanthiss

    And for the record. That was better than any of the previous Punisher films. Good work Jane. Goes to show you that it does not take a huge budget to make a great film. Just good acting and knowledge of characters.

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    I know.... just joking. But at least he dressed as an Avenger. Haha

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    #130  Edited By cc1738

    This was cool. And I loved the original Punisher movie and I hated Punisher War Zone. Thomas Jane was way better as Frank Castle.

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    #131  Edited By BatWatch

    Well, I watched it now...and that was amazing. Very good.Kudos to Jane and his crew.

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    #132  Edited By BatWatch

    @xanthiss said:

    Thomas Jane did not want to do the second Punisher because he could not get behind the script. I remember reading this back in the day. Good call Thomas, War Zone was crap.

    http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/thomas-jane-drops-out-of-punisher-2.php

    Calling War Zone crap was an insult to crap. It was actually so bad that it looped the scale and became good again if you look at it as a parody film. I laughed my ass off through scenes which were supposed to be serious.

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    #133  Edited By firecracker22

    I liked the '04 film. Especially the Director's Cut. Frank making a guy commit suicide was appropriately disturbing, and the thread added to the DC plugged a plot hole. I think if you watch the finale of the film, too, they really showed off the killing machine that Frank is with how he A) used his knife and B) shot a guy in such a disinterested way without even looking at him, that it was darkly funny.

    I tried giving War Zone a shot. I seriously, tried to. But...man...that thing was a mess.

    If they give Jane the reigns again, which I would like to see, it wouldn't really need to be a reboot. I mean, '04 would just be the origin flick, and we wouldn't need to retread on it. Just start that the way this short film did. Frank's already down the rabbit hole.

    Perlman as a Vietnam Vet was awesome, and great job by that bottle of Jack as Jane's co-star.

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    #134  Edited By bionder

    Any Punisher movie don't need any complicated plot it is just pure and simple kick ass action, like the Expendables. They have an extensive rogue gallery in the Punisher Max (Barracuda, General Zakharov, Nicky Cavella, etc.., and other few characters from the 616 that they can use.

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    #135  Edited By ThomasElliot

    I like the '04 Punisher, but I just felt that it lacked something as far as direction went. Even the director's cut still seemed choppy to me for some reason. I also don't think they took advantage of the R rating (for comparison, look at how great Blade 1 is). But I would like to see Jane get a 2nd chance at it. One other small gripe I have is... Florida? They took Pun out of the grey and mean streets of NYC and stuck him in TAMPA of all places? Maybe to non-Floridians it is not a bad change, but for me, born and raised and living in Florida... let me tell you how incredibly silly and laughable that idea is. Even Miami could have been passable... but Tampa? Uhhhhh...

    War Zone... bleh. I turned off War Zone when a little kid SNUCK UP on the Punisher. Really? A little kid? Come on. And the whole 'I feel so guilt here have some money'... GTFO. That was no Punisher flick. The Dolph Lundgren junk was even better than that.

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    #136  Edited By kennybaese

    The music from The Dark Knight drove me completely crazy. Otherwise this was quite good. It was weird to me how long it took for him to lay down the punishment though. You'd think he'd step in earlier.

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    #137  Edited By Asok

    Dark Knight music?

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    #138  Edited By JonesDeini

    Ummm no. I never liked Jane's Punisher and this doesn't help at all. This is NOT how Castle operates.

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    #139  Edited By SuperDoahBoy

    This was pretty cool, and I wouldn't mind another Punisher film but this most likely will play into the rumor of the Punisher TV series. I liked both the 04' Punisher and War Zone, both had cool and uncool moments and I may be the minority on this but Stevenson was a more believable Castle with him standing 6'4" while Jane is only 5'11".

    Speaking of minority, what was the deal with him not helping that woman and taking so long to help that kid? Call me racist but I'm sure he would've reacted quicker or even immediately if they were white. "I'm gonna go start my laundry while she gets raped and beaten and I'm gonna go grab a YooHoo while the kid gets robbed and beaten, but don't worry I'll give her a chance to get some payback which might land her in jail and the kid gets a shirt with a bullet hole in it."

    Maybe movies ruined it for me, but no bottle could've taken that much abuse without breaking.

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    #141  Edited By Dirty__1

    OH... HELL... YES!!! Thomas Jane's take on the Punisher has been my favorite. The older one with Dolph wasn't bad for it's time though. I hope the people at Marvel see this and think "Oooppss.. We REALLY screwed up." War Zone was a complete joke of a movie.

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    #142  Edited By kaleb2470

    Wow! I'm surprised this got such a great reaction. I don't normally read a lot of Punisher but is he normally as lazy as he is in this movie? I mean I understand minding your own business but he waited around wayyyyyy too long to do something. Or does Punisher just honestly just not give a s*** about victims?

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    #143  Edited By mtrakos

    that 10:15 was better than all three Punishers. Ray has a better look and I actually liked War Zone better. But if they gave Jane and Perlman the chance to write and direct it that would be sweet. I think Marvel really needs to take some notes from DC on the dark and gritty bit. No stupid jokes (like avengers) just a pissed off man on a mission holding nothing back. I've always thought Punisher would be the hardest to write.

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    #144  Edited By shawn87

    Pretty cool for a fan film

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    #145  Edited By The Mast

    I was also bothered that he sat around letting people get tortured, but isn't the implication that he wasn't The Punisher at this point?

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    #146  Edited By VyseCarma

    Dolph may have been, but I hear that sucked, and I can't find a copy of it anywhere. Jane has to be the best Punisher ever.

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    #147  Edited By RainEffect

    Am I the only one who sees the irony of them using music from Batman Begins in this trailer? xD

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    #148  Edited By Reisz

    Holy hell, I just read last night how close Jane and Tim Bradstreet are, and that one of Tim's dream projects is to get funding together and do Punisher right. I had no idea it was this close to happening, if there is enough interest in this It could be on the horizon.

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