I have to disagree. The Matrix has been carrying him ever since it came out. His tragic background also made people symphatize with him. All the memes and John Wick casting happened because of those.
People who use them irl are posers. Most of them don't even know Frank's real name. I would have preferred if they stayed away from it but it is too much of an icon.
Frank will gun down everyone in a grimy crack house. Super Strong Man beats up silly not-Nazis doing a silly salute.
You may forget that between the Matrix movies and John Wick, he had pretty much nothing but floppy romcoms, floppy thrillers, and floppy action films. Only Constantine and maybe Scanner Darkly stood out. Throughout those years, though opinions on him as a person steadily improved, no one expected great things from his films.
It's especially jarring when the MCU forego entirely the not killing rule, so you don't even have the moral high ground of "I don't kill my enemies". So the only reason The Punisher is hated is because killing criminals that aren't some goofy organisation is a synonym to white wing execution squads, because the left literally considers criminality as a racial attribute.
The popsicle scene is straight out of the comics.
Those John Wick movies basically superhero movies. I think I checked out in the second one when they starting shooting at eachother in the subway but hiding behind bullet proof fabric. Keanu is a bad actor and most of his film are all terrible. And that good ones are because of the script and cast. You could have put Edward Norton is the the Matrix and nothing would have changed.
It's why the first 2 Spiderman movies Masterpieces. They not just amazing superhero movies but amazing films in general. Plot of the first one is stop the green goblin from rampaging in the city. Second one is stop Doc Ock from building his machine. Simple plot movies. Its like MCU executives basically forgot they making films lol.
I think it is funny because he fought them all. I would go on and say he fought against right wing bad guys more than anything. Inbred rednecks, KKK, religious fanatics, you name it.
I wouldn't be surprised if 99% of what he fought the last 20 years are purely white gangs, neo nazis, KKK and east europeans. But it doesn't matter because the moment right wingers used him as a meme it was over and the left saw him as unsalvageable.
Nah, it was more back in the day people hated it. People began to see how awesome it was in the past decade or saw.
Yeah I agree as far as the thin blue line flag punisher skulls and shit like that but someone wearing a regular ass Punisher shirt might just be a comic book fan.
Tourist spotted, that scene comes directly from Punisher: War Zone #1 from 1992.
Exactly. They try to say he hates cops but I have comic panel proof that he never did.
Bullshit you do. You looked it up after finding out it was in the comics you liar.
