lol what. Comic wise sure but Netflix series wise this man is just gunning for revenge.
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Marvel's The Punisher |OT| Netflix and Kill - November 17th on Netflix
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I don't like what Frank is about but I enjoyed his comic runs, and his DD stuff. I am going to watch this later today with my boo.
Man the PG-13 sex scenes are so cringey in the Netflix MCU shows, especially as in this show they say fuck and show people's heads getting blown open.
Just starting episode 8, it's starting to drag the last few episodes. The subplots are really boring procedural crap and any time Frank isn't on screen I'm just desperate for him to be.
Just starting episode 8, it's starting to drag the last few episodes. The subplots are really boring procedural crap and any time Frank isn't on screen I'm just desperate for him to be.
Man the actor playing Frank is the best actor on any of the marvel shows. Possibly even the movies.
The benefits of being from a country that is perpetually at war with someone. :P
I just finished episode 3 and
Why is there so little punishing in this show? Why can't they just give me a nasty badguy and make me hate him and then have frank punish him? like it's so simple, and this is the show that should do it, but instead it's a lot of talking, funny computer hacking, PTSD stuff, moping, talking, and no clear badguy other than Frank himself, who is a horribel asshole who brought all fo this on himself. I literally hate him pre and post his family being killed. He's the worst kind of person in both time periods. I hope the show comes to some kind of realization of this at some point
I'm on Ep 9 and I'd say good but has the usual Marvel flaws - too bloated, crap subplots, glossy but hollow production values.
Jon Bernthal is awesome tho and the action is good. Micro's cool too.
Jon Bernthal is awesome tho and the action is good. Micro's cool too.
Only one episode it and it's surely taking it slow so far, I guess if he was all guns blazing Punisher from episode 1 it would get a little redundant fast.
On a shallow note, lord the actress playing the lead agent (CIA I think? Or one of those agencies) is extraordinarily pretty. Her boss however was like a parody of a cliché police movie chief, complete with hands on his hips under his suit jacket.
On a shallow note, lord the actress playing the lead agent (CIA I think? Or one of those agencies) is extraordinarily pretty. Her boss however was like a parody of a cliché police movie chief, complete with hands on his hips under his suit jacket.
For sure, I was hoping they'd start him out solely for revenge, and then have his more philosophical stuff creep in. Doesn't seem that way.
Just finished Ep 3, and while they're handling the PTSD theme really well, they seem to have abandoned every other character theme in the process, which I don't like. You guys are completely correct in that a lot of the characters (mostly the government agents) are horribly cliched, which works in a lot of the comics due to how they interact with each other and the philosophical contrasts, but doesn't really work here since they took that aspect out. Billy Russo and Micro have been really well done though, when I was expecting Micro to be the worst part. Choppy Hollywood fight scene editing strikes again, as well. I really get the feeling they were so paranoid about the political climate that they worked their hardest to completely sanitize the character (but then they kept the stupid NRA asshole in the meetings, of all fucking people).
Reached Episode 4 and its starting to slow down a bit.
I'm not sure, more episodes will tell if this suffers from the NETFLIX fatigue where less would have been more.
BUT I do know that it does suffer from the Marvel thing where all the B, C or D story lines are boring and make me want to skip them (Great job again Karen!)
I'm not sure, more episodes will tell if this suffers from the NETFLIX fatigue where less would have been more.
BUT I do know that it does suffer from the Marvel thing where all the B, C or D story lines are boring and make me want to skip them (Great job again Karen!)
i'm four episodes in and i'm not really feeling it (100% it will be finished though, as i'm a proud completionist)
now before anyone slaughters me for what i'm now going to type; i've seen an almost unbelievable amount of extreme cinema in my life, i'm not even remotely squeamish, and i'm not a prude
but so far in the four episodes i've watched the ridiculous amount of murder going on, especially by our lead, is actually off-putting
yeah, i know he's 'the punisher'... but watching this constantly reminds me of that snyder neck snap gif. it's like, let's make killing cool, and loads and loads of killing, and make the loads of killing even cooler, kill kill kill
again, i know it's the punisher
i don't know... maybe i'm just killed out
now before anyone slaughters me for what i'm now going to type; i've seen an almost unbelievable amount of extreme cinema in my life, i'm not even remotely squeamish, and i'm not a prude
but so far in the four episodes i've watched the ridiculous amount of murder going on, especially by our lead, is actually off-putting
yeah, i know he's 'the punisher'... but watching this constantly reminds me of that snyder neck snap gif. it's like, let's make killing cool, and loads and loads of killing, and make the loads of killing even cooler, kill kill kill
again, i know it's the punisher
i don't know... maybe i'm just killed out
The zipline shot. I've seen student films with better bluescreen compositing.
That bald guy had the most punchable fuckin' face.
People vomiting blood and losing limbs and this asshole walks like he's waiting for his coffee at Starbucks like "Did ya get him?"
About 10 seconds into episode 1 for the first question, and for the 2nd question, I'm not entirely sure that there really is a central bad guy, at least not in the same vein as the others, but I think it's
that dead guy on the floor between Adam and Dr.Gordon in the bathroom.
Episode 3 implies that it's just him going down a list.
Episode 3 implies that it's just him going down a list.
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If you know Punisher villains the central badguy will be apparent early. If not, it might be a surprise for a little later.
Yeah, Frank doesn't have a deep bench of reoccurring bad guys for obvious reasons so it's not too much of a shock
There's an entire episode dedicated to Frank finding a guy who doesn't know anything relevant. This shit should have been four or five episodes tops. It's a two and a half hour movie's worth of story stretched 13 hours.
Wonder if binge watching this is the issue for some of the fatigue.
Having one every week would also force them to have a better structure in every episode, more then just setup after setup and exposition.
Having one every week would also force them to have a better structure in every episode, more then just setup after setup and exposition.
LOL at episode 12 winning the award for least subtle
reference, complete with incredibly similar music.
28 Days Later
So like every marvel show on Netflix so far (that I have seen)
Well I mean, if DD S2, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage are considered "dire," sign me the hell up for more of that.
What I learned is these shows are good.... when you don't binge watch them.
I'll be watching Episodes 1-3 tonight, 4-6 on Sunday, and 7-8 mid December.
I'll be watching Episodes 1-3 tonight, 4-6 on Sunday, and 7-8 mid December.
Finished episode 4. So far I dig it. Cool side characters. Madani is good, but man, her accent keeps popping through.
Christ there's a scene where a character walks away from an explosion without looking in slow-mo UNIRONICALLY.
Yeah, I'm never binge watching another one of these. The drag is too burtal. One per day is my goal, two if it's good, three is the max.
Yeah. Good ideas, clumsy writing, surface level exploration of heavy issues that ends up feeling like filler where it highlights problems but offers no real solutions, and the violence is brutal but lacking in style. Frank is two dimensional as ever until the very end, but the villain is actually elevated in a way you probably won't expect, which is nice. It's overlong and plodding relative to the amount of story presented, but the acting is top notch. Depends on which aspects you wanna latch onto, but I personally wouldn't recommend it.
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