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Daredevil TV Show Debuts; Early Reviews Positive
An anonymous reader writes: Daredevil has been a staple of Marvel's superhero lineup since the 1960s. But Daredevil's most recent on-screen legacy was a terrible film in 2003 starring Ben Affleck. Since then, Marvel has gotten a lot better at adapting comics to the big and small screen. Yesterday saw the debut of a new Daredevil television series. It's a Netflix original, which means the whole first season went up at once. Early reviews of the show are quite complimentary. Slate praises the acting, and adds, "Daredevil is a bloody show that also bleeds: It has more interest in human bodies than much recent Marvel fare, and more interest in human beings as well. It's remarkably patient, resisting the urge to tell its viewers everything at once, a restraint largely enabled by the binge-y sprawl of the Netflix format." Ars Technica says the violence can be a bit over-the-top at times, but praises how the choreography and cinematography reflect the main character's blindness. The Verge simply says Daredevil raises the bar for superhero television, even though many new shows have found success recently.
I hadn't read any of the comics when I went to see the Daredevil movie in the theater. I enjoyed it. Why do I keep seeing people online say it sucked? Probably the same tools who didn't like the Thomas Jane Punisher movie, which was also good.
Yes, some of the violence is utterly overdone. But overall the series seems to be done pretty well.
I've seen 3 episodes so far and it's been enough to make me wonder why regular TV is such crap in comparison.
DareDevil w/ Ben Affleck was a GREAT film: It was VERY true to the original as well (not all are) from the comic book tale itself (except for the KingPin being black & the film being "more modernized" rather than the 60's when the tale took place originally).
* I enjoyed the exchange between Foggy Nelson & Matt Murdock on "fight club" & the salt in Foggy's coffee, when Daredevil told Electra "I've never seen him before" (he being blind of course that went over well, as she asked him "That a friend of yours?").
I also really enjoyed the final battle between KingPin (God rest the actor's soul, Michael Duncan iirc, passed away) & DareDevil when he says "I'm not the bad guy..."
I really liked the Punisher with Thomas Jane also - just an ordinary man pushed BEYOND his limits takes things into his own hands to handle it - it was a really good film! Loved the fight with "the Russian" in the apartment complex, + HOW they developed Frank Castle's relationship with those neighboring fellow tenants of his also...
BOTH film develop the character well too.
APK
P.S.=> I never understood why some fools "panned" either of them (then again, there's a LOT of 'sockpuppeting' for FAKED REVIEWS out there in this world, paid for too, so - take THOSE all with a grain of salt, & who CARES what others think IF/WHEN something pleased you - you're the one that counts (& if you think for yourself, you know this anyhow)) - a lot of people that have to "fit in" due to their own low self-esteem & low self-belief operate on 'what the crowd thinks' instead of what THEY themselves think (if they can even REMEMBER how to think for themselves anymore, that is)... apk
Early reviews positive?
I could barely make it through half the episode...
I call BS. Twas not terrible. Average, but no way b-grade. Fights were ok, pacing ok, story ok, cinematography ok, acting was great. So.
Ruppert Murdoch is b-grade.
Global warming is b-grade.
Twin Peaks without David Lynch, is d-grade.
Tibet occupied by China, d-grade.
GreekGeek :-)
The fucking what, man?
[Aside: I'll have a pint of what he's been snorting]
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I didn't think the Alfeck Daredevil was "terrible".
It was entertaining like a ride all the way to the end, but then again I tend to like most superhero stuff, so I must not be very discerning.
Most five year olds choose to watch cartoons over live-action movies as well.
The bar couldn't get any lower, anything would raise it. The Flash can read hundreds of pages in a second, rescue dozens of people off a train in a fraction of a second, vibrate so fast he can go through tanker trucks and run so fast he can cross the city almost instantaneously... and normal people still punch him and his enemies all run away on foot with no problems. Arrow is even worse and Agents of SHIELD has frequent lapses in sanity too. Only Gotham has made any attempt at bullets and punches acting like bullets and punches and even it often doesn't try all that hard.
I've watched 3 episodes and the main character is pretty good.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
It is excellent. There were several curveballs that I did not see coming, and several fastballs that I thought were going to be curveballs. It is not Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, but it is in the next quality tier for comic book television and film.
This appears to be an internet show, not a TV show, right?
I agree (but please have your caps lock key checked). The movie was not so bad. For some reasons its rating is rather low (5.3 on IMDb).
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Know why it's good? There aren't many fighting fucktoys (the modern TV/movie trope that a 120 pound slim waif, if you train her enough and she has enough gurl powah can beat the shit out of well trained 250 pound men using her kung-fu).
A show/movie's general quality is affected negatively by the inverse ratio of the number of hot model broads kicking ass, in other words.
Enormous numbers of comic book fans (and others of course) consider Affleck to be a bit of a douchebag. This general sentiment was expressed across the blogosphere when the film was released.
No amount of special effects were able to overcome the negative perception of the actor.
seriously, Daredevil is just a stupid god damned Spiderman clone.
dumb. dumb. dumb.
As a pirate, I haven't involuntarily seen a commercial for over 5 years. Much love to the release groups who strip all that out for me. Those guys make TV worth watching.
Stop it. There's no excuse for piracy of television these days--the free offerings over the internet have gotten too numerous, as have the relatively low-cost online streaming services. If you're paying for an internet connection you have access to lots of media for free. And netflix gives you a pretty big library if you pay for that too.
So far, emotionally overwrought. And according to the modern way, it humanizes Daredevil to the point that he is just a weird karate guy who just happens to stumble to a win in a fight. I'm waiting for the inevitable feminization of the storyline and the turning it from a male-centered story about a male superhero to a story about women. That seems to be "de rigueur" today. I hope they avoid the incredibly stupid mistake of the Ben Affleck version where the hero gets his ass kicked by a women (boot in the face scene.). The whole thing has a "Dexter" feel to it somehow. As for superheros, a bit of dark is good, but the trend is to make them psychopathic now. Not good. They should avoid that.
E Proelio Veritas.
It's news for nerds, and this thread is full of 'em.
A -1 post rating does the job better on you troll.
I have a 14-year-old daughter who's convinced herself she can go toe-to-toe with a full-grown man.
All I can really do is hope reality doesn't prove her wrong.
And I'm enjoying it so far. Nothing has turned me off from the show. And I enjoy the fight scenes. The story isn't too bad... kingpin is an interesting take. I'm curious about what comes next.
I never read the Daredevil comics (spidey and xmen were my favorites) so most things are new to me even though I have a grasp of the basics. Don't know how a fan of the comics might feel.
I agree the marvel Daredevil movie was one of the best Marvel movies, the only ones I can think of that are in the same league would be the Norton Hulk and maybe the teenage X-Men
Blind main character is not an excuse for poor lighting. Neither are lots of other excuses other films and shows use. I don't know why film makers think that dark subject matter is somehow improved by dark lighting. I guess to some people it helps set the mood - I just find it annoying. Some scenes may call for darkness, etc, but they are only really effective if they contrast with lighter scenes. Making the whole thing (or most of it,) dark is just dark and annoying.
I also found the show boring, and made it through one and about a quarter episodes. It does have some things going for it, if you like 'gritty' and dark (as in subject matter.) In the amount I watched, it handled them well enough, but it's not for me. Other things like the billboard were nice touches, and an example of a scene that was properly lit. Of course, Daredevil does most of his dare-deviling at night, so maybe they're stuck with lots of low-light, but other shows have managed to make night scenes work without annoyingly poor 'moody' lighting.
I never read the comic, but I seem to remember the film being an average or maybe slightly below average of the big budget superhero movies that started (IMHO) with the Tobey Maguire SpiderMan.
I really don't know why everyone hates the movie.. Both of the recent Hulks were watchable too, yet most everyone seems to think at least the first one was horrible. (I watched the two near each other, I think on consecutive days, to compare.)
Thanks, have a nice day ;)
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