THE PUNISHER (Mark Goldblatt, 1989)

[Mosquito]

The Japanese trailer yeah!

Whoa. That's how you make a trailer!

[Geoff]

Forgive me is this has already been covered off but I have seen a copy of a r2 directors cut on Ebay. Does anyone know if this is real and what was missed? I know that a few cuts were made but is the DC version really that different?

[Jox]

Are you talking about the workprint (which is not the director's cut) or the uncut version?

[Geoff]

im not sure mate as it said directors cut on the detail. Will try to find the link,.

[Dragonrage]

Yesterday I bought this (among other cool stuff)...this is Ex-Yugoslavian poster for Punisher. Yugoslavian translation was EGZEKUTOR, but literary translation of that word would be Executioner

Anyway...I just wanted to share this with you guys...

[Jox]

Jap LD

[Jox]

Brazilian TV preview

[bomaz]

Not seen in a long (long) time (something like 6, maybe 7 years). And it's still good. I really like the comic book, and i think the movie is faithful to the characters and the ambiance. Dolph is really good, as well as the rest of the cast (even if Jeroen Krabbe seems sometimes lost n the movie). Great childhood memory for me (must one of the first movie with Dolph I saw, with Army of one).

[Jox]

Hong Kong laserdisc

[Jox]

The French theatrical trailer
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xefh6o ... shortfilms

[Jox]

"A defence of The Punisher"
http://my.spill.com/profiles/blogs/a-de ... e=activity

[savagesketch]

In Mark Goldblatt's Q & A at the Dolph festival in Beverly Hills back in 2009, did he ever go in detail as to why the deleted opening scenes were taken out of the film? They're available on youtube and not half bad... (guess us Dolph fans of course are the ones who actually enjoy them ). Was it the studio's urging who asked that they be taken out or was it in fact Goldblatt's decision?? They actually showcase some great acting from Dolph as well as some awesome chemistry between he and Gosset Jr.

[Jox]

It was Goldblatt's decision to take them out, because he felt they weren't necessary and were like a different movie. He wanted the audience to enter a "Punisher movie" from the beginning like a comic book, only finding out clues about his past from the flahbacks. So they were never meant to be in the final cut once he decided to drop them. I agree there were some good scenes in it notably in the relationship with Louis Gossett and his daughters. I remember Dolph saying in the 89 interviews that he liked the scenes with family best because that was the first time he had the chance to play a contemporary regular American guy with a wife and kids.

[riotgirl77]

Yeah with those deleted scenes...they had a Lethal Weapon vibe to them...well you know the Riggs/Murtaugh scenes in Murtaugh's home..even the music is similar

[Jox]

even the music is similar

That's because it was a workprint, hence a work in progress, before the score was composed, and during that process editors always use "temp music" which usually comes from other scores so here it was LETHAL WEAPON! That workprint also had music from RAMBO II, PREDATOR, ALIENS, FULL METAL KACKET and a lot of Tangerine Dream from RISKY BUSINESS, SORCERER etc.