Lundgren's Performance

[t-800]

How do you think Dolph Lundgren did as the Punisher.

[Silent Knight]

He did a good job.Dolph looked the part and thats why the cast him but he is an action hero kinda guy.Not to much depth to his Punisher though he did a really good job.

[CaptainStacy]

Good job.

[Daredevil2]

Good I thought Dolphin sucked as well as the movie. But I guess people have different opinions on acting

[Mourning Star]

It was not at all possible to vote. There wasn't a selection for Utterly God Awful. That's what my vote would have been. Wait, it is. :D

[FrankCastle]

It wasn't his fault they completely ignored the source material in most important aspects.

I think he did a good job, but it just was not a Punisher movie.

[fluxuk]

the script was awful, and they dubbed lines in, but i don't think that lundgren was that bad. he was never given a decent role, except Universal Soldier, which he was actually quite impressive in.

i liked that sort of taciturn refusal to face up to who he is, and Louis Gosset Jr is ok in it.

the scene in the holding cell is absolutely excellent though... the frustration, the sense that he's talking to a dead man.

[LarryLegend]

He's just not an actor

[Terrorista®]

very very bad...

[ShaneHelms]

some places good.. some places bad.. lots is to blame for the director.. but Castles boots were the bomb.. and the infiltration scene had Castle written all over it.. also his boots were awesome

[Kable24]

His "uniform" was pretty cool. Would have been so much better with the skull on it. I also liked his knives with the skull heads on them. I'd love to find them on ebay sometime.

[ShaneHelms]

Yeah those knives were awesome.. they were in one Punisher comic.. dont remmber which one though

[citizenpain]

saw this on thepunisher.com about dolph's newest movie. i thought he was done acting? anyways...

Nick Cherenko used to be a Spetznaz (Russian Special Forces), but now he lives peaceful with his wife and child, far from violence and war. When his wife and his children die in the cross-fire of a gang war, Nick seeks vengeance, waking up the soldier inside himself in order to settle the score.

http://www.thepunisher.com/past_news/march_2006/russian.jog.jpg

[zer00]

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[Neo_aa]

Clearly he came back for one last ground-breaking and wildly original film.

[Dangerous]

Dolph rules, I actually reckon he was better suited for the part than Tom Jane.

[The Punisher]

Thomas Jane is The Punisher. He cares about the character and does his best to bring him right. Damn great. :unishr:

[The Punisher]

Lundgren was just bad.

[Masut]

:(

Made me sad

[Brian Braddock]

Dolph rules, I actually reckon he was better suited for the part than Tom Jane.

Dolph does indeed rule - not so sure about the part about Thomas though.....wait till the sequal when Jane has his hair slicked back. Then you shall see, my son.http://www.superherohype.com/forums/images/icons/icon12.gif

[The Kid]

What's wrong with you guys. Dolph was great.

[The Punisher]

What's wrong with you?

[Kable24]

What's wrong with you guys. Dolph was great.

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[The Punisher]

Heh.

[The Evil One]

What a bunch of idiots.

[screech_turbo]

that nude scene at the end ruined the movie for me.

[jrd550]

It's not All Right, but Alright

[SpiderHulkThing]

Good performance.

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Jane was better. Jane ruled, actually.

Good to see Dolph is going back to the Punisher role......only....not exactly.

[co2]

I like TJ, he's a much better actor...but I gotta say, I thought Dolph came off well as the 80's era Punisher. He definitely carries the size and somberness. Like someone said, it wasn't his fault the movie sucked balls.

[MR.Fixit]

Dolph was a better Punisher then jane.The new one didnt really improve entertainment wise on Dolph's film.Give Dolph a higher budget and better director and he woulda made Punisher great instead of ok

[Kable24]

Dolph was a better Punisher then jane.The new one didnt really improve entertainment wise on Dolph's film.Give Dolph a higher budget and better director and he woulda made Punisher great instead of ok


Lay off the drugs son. It will only make you more stupid.

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Bad, because he doesn't know how to act.

[MR.Fixit]

Lay off the drugs son. It will only make you more stupid.
I hate cyber tough guys.Calling people stupid behind the computer.

[Kable24]

yes, I'm a cyber bully. :rolleyes: I never said you were stupid. It's with opinions like the Lundgren comment that make you look stupid.

[Doc Ock 1]

I thought Dolph Lundgren's performance as The Punisher was alright,
but Tom Jane's performance was better by far.
:unishr:

[Kable24]

Lundgren's performance was typical of 80's action movies, but had very little to do with the Punisher other than his name.

Tom Jane's performance is true to the Punisher with minor tweaks in his history. Tom Jane is the Punisher and Lundgren is nothing more than a PINO.

[Midnyte_Sun]

In the 80s while I was growing up, that Punisher (Lundgren) kicked some major ass.

It was so 80s kick-assery that even when you watch it, you forget it even had a story.

The stereotypes were so 80s as well. For instance, the Japanese people are considered powerful, menacing, and evil (in the 80s they raped the US motor industry) and 2, all those damn guns Lundgren was holding in one hand, holy *****, it had Arnold's Commando or Rambo written all over it!

[RedIsNotBlue]

I liked the whole Frank wanting to be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle aspect. :o

[TPK]

I never watched it... So I can't say much about this at all. The only thing I have seen for it is the trailer... I might look at it but only because I'm an avid fan of Castle.

[citizenpain]

this isn't directly related to lundgren's performance, but on the main page of the hype is says boaz yakin is set to write and direct a new conan the barbarian movie. i hope it'll be a whole new movie and not a remake cuz there's way too many of those these days. anyway, the reason i'm posting about it in here is while the hype mentioned yakin's more notable work on fresh and remember the titans, he also actually wrote the 1989 version of the punisher. did he even read the source material? what the hell was he thinking?!

[iceberg325]

the movie and dolph sucked, but Id watch that any day over catwoman!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Riggs15382]

dolph is the bomb

[co2]

wow, this thread is still kicking huh?

[Kable24]

I figured it would have died like Dolph's career.

[iceberg325]

Hey you never know, Dolph might do a sequel to I come in peace lol.

[RedIsNotBlue]

Dolph has been doing alot of foreign films lately.

[iceberg325]

Dolph has been doing alot of foreign films lately.

Maybe he should do a rocky 4 spinoff lol.

[RedIsNotBlue]

I hope that Borat movie doesn't suck. Ali G in Da House was REALLY disappointing.

[iceberg325]

I hope that Borat movie doesn't suck. Ali G in Da House was REALLY disappointing.

Borats the man!!! Hes the best part of the show. I dont think its a movie per se. I think it more of him just walking around his conutry messing with people.

[fireflyman]

Lundgren's performance was typical of 80's action movies, but had very little to do with the Punisher other than his name.

Tom Jane's performance is true to the Punisher with minor tweaks in his history. Tom Jane is the Punisher and Lundgren is nothing more than a PINO.
True, I dont know what a PINO is, but era-wise they both fit the movie in their own way.
However, I do prefer Thomas Jane, he seems a bit more human.

[Kable24]

PINO = Punisher In Name Only.

[Jamie Madrox]

I think Dolph's underrated. His film or performance wasn't Hollywoodised, and that's the great thing about it. Thomas Jane's Punisher on the other hand was tamed for Hollywood. He didn't kill as many bad guys as Dolph did, Dolph's Punisher just unleashed on everyone. The body count got higher and higher, and that, as a Punisher fan, is what I wanted. I got the comic feel from the '89 film, than I did the '04 film. Thomas was good, but Dolph was great...... In my opinion. :unishr:

[Aren]

Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, and very bad !

[ironman1188]

I remember reading in one of the film 'zines of the day that Dolph really embraced the role and was acting like the Punisher during the entire shoot, both on and off camera. He definitely had the brooding Frank down pat and had the makers of the film read any background on the character might've realized how awful their plot was. They had also thought that a Punisher [or any films hero] would not be believable if wearing a spandex type outfit. Even at that, they didn't need to abandon the skull completely.

[Kable24]

I remember reading that in Comics Scene magazine way back in 1989. They actually said Lundgren was acting really weird and withdrawn during the shoot and was taking on some of Frank's qualities.

[XCharlieX]

I saw this movie on tv. It wasnt anything special but it was interesting and fun for gritty action. Luis Gosset Jr paired with Lundrens dark humor punisher at least made it viewable.

And I didnt care about the lack of skull or comic resemblance :rolleyes:

I havent seen the newer adaptation. Must get around to it.

And if anyone compares this with the awful catwoman for not following comics.. think again. :eek:

I'll vote "alright"

Now Universal Soldier was horrible lol

[The Evil One]

Dolph Lundgren is perhaps the worst actor in the history of cinema. The Swedish born strongman acts like he's made of molasses and looks about as good. Throughout the film Lundgren looks and acts like he's taken quite a few rides on the 'white pony'. He's skagrific for sure. I don't know if this is true or not, but he honestly looks like he's a friend to heroin. His eyes rimmed red, skin pale and waxy in every scene. (Side note: Lundgren's bio. It says he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to MIT in chemical engineering. Hey, being smart doesn't make you a good actor. Sorry Dolph. Ass.) Lundgren like with all his dumbass **** movies and the other actors gave no acting performance what so ever. Lundgren lumbers through his fights with the gracefulness of a crippled elephant, pounding and stabbing very, very slowly. Lundgren is so wooden, so amazingly morose, that he probably believes the best method of acting is just to sit there and sulk. Maybe he thinks the camera will capture all his wooden nuances and amplify them on the screen or something. Not to harp on this too much, but Dolph has a scene with a little girl who has NO LINES in which he tries to comfort her. I don't have to tell you who came out on top of the acting heap for that one, do I?

Whenever he opened his mouth, he seemed to stoicly read lines from cue cards. He didn't even act like the Punisher. He was to dreary and slow talking. The real Punisher is not this silent, brooding and doesn’t take forever to say a line or even one word. This Punisher is always seemingly unprepared. He runs out of ammo quite often or he is stuck using a 12-gauge when he needs a machine gun. I mean the Dolph Ludgren version is so laughably bad it's clearly a very low-budget late Rambo sub product with, it’s retarded, plot and dialogue. Dolph Ludgren gives a new meaning to sleepwalk. Lundgren never has and never will act. Why do you think, he only does nothing but action B-movies that go out to video. Think about it not hard to figure out. All of his movies are complete ****. If anybody thinks that Lundgren is a good actor or even an actor........then you don't know what the F acting even is!!!!!

[SWAT]

Now Universal Soldier was horrible lol
IMO he's not doing such a bad job in unisol... but he has VanDamme as a co-star so he may have clouded my vision... "I just want to eat!"

[XCharlieX]

lol I know which movie id rather watch tho...

I just cant get that scene out of my head where the dead soldiers walk around like low budget zombies on fire... gawd lol

Punishers plot is straight forward and it unravels in a decent manner, so as much as to not scoff at the stupidity of it.

But if anyone says "Lundgren is a fantastic actor".... lmao

[Kable24]

I guess if we're talking favorite Lundgren movies now, I would say I enjoy Showdown in Little Tokyo the most out of his other movies. Not that I have seen many. Him and Brandon Lee had some decent chemistry and you can't go wrong with Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as the villain.

[Brian Braddock]

'Showdown in Little Tokyo' is a fave for me but mainly because of Brandon Lee, not Dolph.

I've got some love for 'I come in Peace' (a.k.a. 'Dark Angel) though.

Fun concept and a decent score. And Dolph is alright in it.

Yeah, we know Dolphs' far from being Olivier and he's never gonna win an oscar but he's not the 'worst actor in the history of cinema'.

He's better than alot of the Troma guys. :O

Seriously though, he was pretty decent in 'Pentathon'.

[Kable24]

I forgot about I Come in Peace. I liked that movie a lot too. I don't know why they changed the title though.

[Cobblepot]

Dolph Lundgren was great as the Punisher, the movie wasn't as good as the latest but for the 80's it was great. He was gritty and it had some cool scenes in it.