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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've seen 3 episodes so far and it's been enough to make me wonder why regular TV is such crap in comparison.
the film is fine
people feel entitled to dramatic opinions about mediocre topics
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
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.
you can level such nitpicking at any movie ever
pick your favorite movie in your mind
i can level a dozen same whiny self-important "devastating" opinions at it
the simple fact is that there are billion ok movies, and a few that are truly awful, mostly on technical terms. that's it. the movies you and i might call great is simply trendy subjectivity that will come and go over time
your opinion simply is not as important nor authoritative as you imagine it is. that's just a blind ego talking
but people like to come in as some sort of self-imagined heavy authority on the quality of movies or lack thereof because it fills them with a sense of importance missing from mediocre lives
watch movies, enjoy them
no one gives a fuck about your common shallow opinions, and they carry no weight
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it