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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 fucking what, man?
[Aside: I'll have a pint of what he's been snorting]
Netflix sometimes releases the entire season of a show all at once, allowing people to download the entire season and binge-watch. Hence "binge-y".
IIRC, they first started with "House Of Cards" as an experiment, and found that a lot of people liked the ability to watch it all in a weekend, or 2-3 episodes per night for a week, or whatever.
Having to wait a week to see the next episode allows peoples' interest to wane. Also, for complex plotlines (see: "Lost"), people tend to forget important events that happened weeks prior and have trouble keeping up with the plot. If the event 5 episodes ago was last night (or the night before), people have a better time keeping immersed in the plot.
The fight choreography is wonderfully deliberate and brutal. They ramped up the audible component of it as might befit a character with super-human hearing while eschewing the shaky-cam (e.g. Bourne Ultimatum) style and using the excuse of poor lighting. I got a sense that most of the people doing the fighting we actually reacting instead of responding in some programmatic fashion and I very much liked that evidence of injuries sustained remained, even several episodes later.
I did take exception to the idea that Daredevil said that he did not kill. I saw a lot of things that would result in pretty serious head trauma or internal injuries and I'm thinking not everybody made it to the nearest E.R.
-- I wanna decide who lives and who dies - Crow T. Robot, MST3K
Most five year olds choose to watch cartoons over live-action movies as well.
Maybe you have to be a comic book fan. It's pretty rare that a character you've known for decades comes alive in, what is to me anyway, is a believable portrayal.
Also, for complex plotlines (see: "Lost"), people tend to forget important events that happened weeks prior
In my day, we had to remember dialog from three years back to appreciate B5. Might be why it got cancelled a few times...
My God, it's Full of Source!
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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.
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