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if they don't make the sequel as uncompromising as garth ennis' work on the punisher character, then you can't count me out for this one, as well. i can't believe they make movies like hostel and the hills have eyes, with all their gratuitous and explicit torture and gore, but they won't put...

well, i dunno. looks a little too hollywood-ish to me. and even though i love travolta in certain roles (chili palmer) and as a person, i can't take him seriously as a villain. at all. i wonder how they're going to handle the Russian (the big blonde guy with the red-and-white striped...

but seriously - what are the chances they're going to make a movie that is even remotely of the tenor of ennis' current version of the character? i mean, if you've read the comic, it's really, really raw, you know? it's just brutal. i mean, ennis' punisher makes the saint of killers look like...

john travolta's participation kind of scares me - i just can't take him seriously.

ricardo's post of the punisher from the cover-art of the current garth ennis issues is right on the money, i think; you have to understand that the punisher really does spend all his time hunting down and killing criminals, and that in order to maintain any sort of large, lean musculature...

here's the teaser... http://www.apple.com/trailers/artisa...nisher/teaser/ thomas jane's playing frank castle. i liked him in thursday and the deep blue sea. he might work. if there was any justice at all, garth ennis will write it. and it won't get an x-rating. - jd