by The_Canadian on 17 Aug 2007, 05:16
Mine was The Punisher, at the tender age of 10. I had never heard of him before, but was really into comic books and comic book movies. I found a VHS in the rental section of my local jumbo video, so I took the "get one, get another free" deal and also rented the 1943 Phantom of The Opera. (NOTE: I remember all of this because they were the last films I rented from there. I went to return them and the place had gone out of business).
Anyway, I had never seen a film so dark and violent before, and Dolph's performance was fascinating (my father, the movie specialist he is, scoffed at this claim). And yes, I originally bitched about the lack of the skull.
Anyways, a couple years later I get a copy of it on DVD, and read up on Dolph in the special features, which lead to the discovery of Red Scorpion, Cover-Up, and Showdown in Little Toyko. From then on, I was a true Dolph Lundgren fan.
"Loosly translated... out of the frying pan and boned up the ass with a red hot poker."
-Showdown In Little Tokyo