Thomas Janes Returns to The Punisher

[Lionsfan1986]

I can without a doubt that his Punisher was the best! I got two people I know to watch it and they both can't believe how much they loved it!

 

[Starke]

Do all gangsters have Vrolik Syndrome?
And he never DID explain the difference.

No, most of those are actually Aikido joint breaks. They make turning your opponent into a gibbering mass of broken limbs horrifyingly easy. The kick breaks involve throwing all of one's weight against a bone, and again, for a trained practitioner, they are horrifyingly easy to execute, and crippling to the victim.

Why don't we see these moves more often in film? I'm honestly not sure. I can guess, but I don't know.

 

[Alssadar]

For one who doesn't pay that much attention to comic books and their movies...
I'm game for this one. I think I'm going to have to pick me up a copy of the Punisher...

 

[Starke]

Do all gangsters have Vrolik Syndrome?
And he never DID explain the difference.

No, most of those are actually Aikido joint breaks. They make turning your opponent into a gibbering mass of broken limbs horrifyingly easy. The kick breaks involve throwing all of one's weight against a bone, and again, for a trained practitioner, they are horrifyingly easy to execute, and crippling to the victim.

Why don't we see these moves more often in film? I'm honestly not sure. I can guess, but I don't know.

But then shouldn't the bone have broken where he hit it? I'm not saying I don't believe you can break bones with those moves, but the WAY they showed it doesn't seem right to me.

Without going back and looking again? I would think so. But these certainly aren't techniques I've actually employed on people, just some of the joint locks that these build off of. That said, only one of the breaks struck me as suspect when I was watching it, the others actually looked about right, though I wasn't watching it to critique it the first time...

EDIT: on a second pass, the only one that doesn't break at point of impact is the first leg break on the gang leader, and that looks like a diagonal fracture, so, yes it actually is breaking at point of impact, but the protrusion is further up the leg. I'm still a bit suspicious of the second leg break, that one does look a bit too easy.

EDIT 2: There's also one non-standard break that shouldn't happen, the shooter with the Glock, though that's aided by the bottle so I'm kinda inclined to give it a pass. However the blow is with the joint's articulation, so if there wasn't a celery crunch on the blow, I'd have assumed it was a non-break.

 

[Rad Party God]

It seems that many liked the original movie... I didn't. I thought it was pretty meh. But this, this lil' short is WAY better than the entire movie and it only sweetens the deal with Ron Perlman (seriously, I almost jizzed my pants).

I want a sequel like this. NOW.