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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Villano" data-source="post: 1755964" data-attributes="member: 505">There were one or two shots I didn't like, but, for the most part, I liked it.  I actually liked both films.  The first isn't a great work of art, but I enjoyed it (as was good for the time it was made).  The second one I really liked except for a few points (see below).  I know a lot of people hated the way Castle set up Saint (setting up his best friend and wife, etc), but I thought that made the picture.  The comics Punisher would have just gunned everyone down, but this film showed some imagination.Now for my least favorite moments:1.)  Every frame of every second of Schumacher's Batman films.  Aargh!2.)  The costumes in Daredevil.3.)  Stephen Tolkin being given the job to write Captain America.  In interviews, Tolkin said he never read the comics and thought the costume looked stupid, so he made sure Cap was in costume as little as possible.  Why do studios hire people like this to write comic book movies?!4.)  Turning The Shadow into a comedy. 5.)  The Absorbing Dad in Hulk.  Really, couldn't they have used the Leader?6.)  Superman rebuilds the Great Wall of China with his Rebuild the Great Wall of China Vision.   <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/paranoid.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":uhoh:" title="Paranoid    :uhoh:" data-shortname=":uhoh:" /> 7.)  Superman turns back time.8.)  No skull T-shirt in the 1st Punisher movie.9.)  Intercutting the Punisher/Russian fight with the goofy apartment characters.  Really threw off the flow of a pretty good fight.10.)  The Green Ranger, I mean Green Goblin.  That was one ugly costume.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Honorable Mention:  Did we really need the beginning flashback in Hulk?  There was a half hour wasted to show us stuff that's going to be covered in detail later in the film.  At least on DVD, you can skip it.The inclusion of the Garth Ennis characters in the 2nd Punisher movie, especially Mr. Bumpo (make the pain stop!).  Also included is the casting of Kevin Nash as the Russian.  If they were looking to cast a pro-wrestler, they should have cast Paul Wight (aka, The Big Show, The Giant).  While Nash is about 6' 8" and 300 lbs, Wight is 7' and over 550 lbs.  He would have looked much more like the comic's Russian.  Nash just didn't look right.Whatever the hell went wrong in The Phantom.  It had nice costumes, sets, and actors.  I guess we can chalk it up to bad writing (a laser shootout for the climax?!) and lackluster direction.Castle showing up at a press conference (and the lack of cops and FBI from that point on).There's so much more (I didn't even get to Supergirl), but I'll stop now or I'll be here all night.</blockquote>

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