EyeofSauron
Master Member
it was very cool, alltho the blood couldve been executed better. well, depending on budget and production time. over all still amazing
Tom Jane:
the short was done for absolutely no money. 1984 pictures paid for the location and the food for the crew. that's it! the rest is all Phil Joanou. he pulled in a lot of favors on this - that means everyone who worked on it did it for fun - on their off days. the sfx turned out pretty f*&%ing good for $Free, in mho.
we didn't even have enough security. there's video of Phil personally escorting some crazy man who wouldn't get out of the shot. it was AWESOME. he mad dogged this dude until he got the hell off the set. epic.
no money for an original score. i know Phil was worried about peoples attention span because it's an internet short - thats why the use of music.
it does its job, but i know that if this were a feature he would have painted it differently..
we wanted to treat the short like it was a clip from a lost Punisher film. it lives on the 'net as a fan film and that's all it is. so there is no hollywood money in this thing - just a hell of a lot of talent from everyone involved.
it's a little fish in an OCEAN of fish, so we may have painted it with a couple of loud stripes.
props to the DP
Masanobu Takayanagi
who shot THE GREY! and Phil's coloring is tops.
That short film was more "Punisher" than his full length film of the same name.
I enjoyed this and miss Thomas Jane as the Punisher. If they can do this on their off time, think of the story they could do with a Hollywood budget!
And does a bottle of Jack never break? Even after all that?
4 out of 5 masseuses might disagree with you. :lolI don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.
I think the problem with Jane's Punisher film was that the studio was more interested in saying "Look, we've got an authentic star like John Travolta playing our comicbook bad guy!". Really thought I smelled Studio screw up with that one.
And my apologies to any Travolta lover out there... Punisher, Broken Arrow, Swordfish... I just don't buy him as a villain.
And yet I can buy the guy who played Ghandi (Ben Kingsley) just fine as a bad guy. I don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.
I think the problem with Jane's Punisher film was that the studio was more interested in saying "Look, we've got an authentic star like John Travolta playing our comicbook bad guy!". Really thought I smelled Studio screw up with that one.
And my apologies to any Travolta lover out there... Punisher, Broken Arrow, Swordfish... I just don't buy him as a villain.
And yet I can buy the guy who played Ghandi (Ben Kingsley) just fine as a bad guy. I don't know why Travolta doesn't click as a bad guy for me.