So, Jon Brande and Mike Newman and I went to see The Punisher tonight. It was pretty awesome, I think, for several reasons. In a bow to John Gregory the Eternal, I present in list format.

1. Use of steel plated car
2. Use of customized weaponry
3. The Punisher's main weapon? An M-16 with M-203 grenade launcher and borelight scope...yeah...I had one o' thems...
4. Use of lots and lots of explosives...including a Claymore mine...yeah...I detonated one o' thems...
5. John Travolta dies, which is good in any movie he's in, because I hate him
6. Frank Castle just doesn't know when to quit! He stares death in the fact at least 3 times in the movie...that's a heart of iron!
7. Great comic book movie cinematography. Proper use of flashbacks...not overused, not cheesy. No multi-panel action scenes like in Hulk, that got weird. No innapropriate spandex equipping like Spiderman. No ridiculous helmets like in X-Men.
8. Very important...lots and lots of dead hedonistic Cubans.
9. Climactic moment including an explosion in the shape of a flaming Punisher skull
10. Basically, all sorts of rich people die. Corrupt gangster-type rich people...and a whole building and a lot full of cars gets trashed...talk about sticking it to the Man...that's the most important awesome point of all!


By the way, I miss my former across-the-hall buddy. I'm so proud of him as he is becoming, indeed, the soldier that he needs to be.