The Fifteen Best Comic Book Movies of All Time! (Nos. 15-11)
April 28, 2008Cinemabuzz Writer Guy (CWG): It’s Iron Man Week, you sonsofbitches! And to kick the Week off, we have collaborated with the guys over at Comicology and Face Rockery to give you a list of what we think are the Fifteen Best Comic Book Movies of All Time. And if you want to find out how we came up with this list, take a couple minutes to read this first before proceeding with this entry. Done? Gravy.
Face Rockery Writer Guy (FWG): Let’s get this party started!
Comicology Writer Guy (CWG): I’m so stoked!
CWG: Holy crap, Comicology Writer Guy! We have the same initials!
CWG: That is AWESOME!
CWG: Haha, Face Rockery Writer Guy has different initials! What a loser!
CWG: (Points as Facerockery Writer Guy) HAHAHA! LOOOOOSEEEEERRR!
FWG: Cockheads.
Cinemabuzz: Okay then! Let’s get this show on the road with Numero Fifteen-O!
#15: The Punisher (6.53/10)
Cinemabuzz: With a bullet, almost literally, Thomas Jane punishes his way into the gates of The Comic Book Movie Castle with 2004’s The Punisher. Also, count the number of cheesy puns and figures of speech in that last sentence and win a prize! A prize of NOTHING!
Anyway, I thought it wasn’t as bad as many people say it was. I mean come on. Women, children, and the elderly were being gunned down within the first fifteen minutes of the film.
Face Rockery: I like guns as much as the next social retard, but I expected more out of a Punisher movie. Maybe something more gritty. It felt like the usual “They killed his family, and now he’s going to kill THEM!” action movie. The fight with the Russian was awesome, though.
Comicology: The premise of the comic book isn’t exactly as fantastic or as colorful as other characters from the industry, so making a movie out of something that would seem like a cookie-cutter action flick while successfully integrating comic book-y bits of it. Though Thomas Jane did a better job voicing the video game than the movie itself, I’d say Punisher did what it set out to do.
