Daredevil
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Well, Daredevil opened this weekend and looking for a good reason to post a new news story without mention of the Beatles (oops... I did already and it's before the "Read More" dialog!)
Daredevil was created in 1964 by Stan Lee and art by Bill Everett. The whole premise is... (SPOILERS AHEAD!!!)
Young Matt Murdock is blinded while saving an old lady from getting hit by a truck while crossing the street. Of course, the truck is carrying radioactive materials that not only causes Matt to be blinded, but heightens his other senses, including his hearing (Of course, in the real world, this would KILL a person of at least give them some REALLY BAD DISEASE!). Matt is known as fearless and of course, after witnessing the murder of his father, he trains his body as a crimefighting machine... by day he is an attorney, by night, Daredevil!
This origin is carried into the movie (But, Matt witnesses his father beating someone up, and he runs into the radioactive chemicals avoiding a forklift).
Ben Affleck is a really good choice for Matt/Daredevil. He looks the part and it's pretty obvious he's read the comic, so he knows the character and what he represents. It seems he also had fun with the project! It shows.
Jennifer Garner made a great Elektra. I only read a few of the Daredevil comics (like from the '80's) that featured her and I think she was great for the part. Very athletic, beautiful and exotic!
The action was awesome and I felt like it was a great translation of the classic Daredevil action of the comic books.
Look for a cameo by Stan "The Man" Lee... young Matt stops him with his walking stick from being run over by a bus! EXCELSIOR!
Overall, though, the film was a little disjointed, but great. Better than X-Men (1) but not as good as Spider-Man...
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I didnt really like this movoie!, It wasnt anything great!
I'm looking at it from the POV of someone very familar with teh comic book character... dunno if you've read the comic or not, but I guess that would make a difference
i saw an interview with kingpin...he said ben had to do all his moves in slo-mo. he just couldn't get anything right. when he finally cracked kingpin across his head (by accident), kingpin said 'that's enough...bring in the double!' pretty weak
how about a pic of Colin Farell?
I didnt like this movie either i dont think the charecters were developed enough.....
As you wish....
He was the only part of the movie I did like because he was retarded and amusing
I think that X-men 1 was very good. Although it messed with some of the original plot lines (and in Rogue's case a lot) it was well adapted for the movie. They obviously decided to go for the non-comic book/non-cartoonish version so they had to make some changes (like no yellow spandex outfits).
The story for X-Men was too muddled... I don't think it was the STORY that was, actually, just the editing. They could have kept the flavor of the comic book outfits very easily, though... Wolverine has sported a brown and black costume in the comics, which is much better than the yellow/blue/black combo he usually wears.
Easily but it's more believable this way. They weren't going for a comic bookish movie. Otherwise they could have had Rogue with her flaming red hair and white streaks and Wolverine with his insane horned-hair. They also could have done Cerebra (however you spell it) as just a little headset instead of that huge room.
guess what? some things look better when drawn as cartoons then in real life. get over it. who's seriously gonna wear yellow and blue super-tight spandex?
Um.. that's why I mentioned his comic book brown and black outfit, bucko!
But the rest of them had the yellow
The comic book versions had different colors... the ORIGINAL X-Men was black with a yellow stripe down the front, yellow boots, shorts and gloves. I really didn't mind the costumes in the movie, and Cyclops acknowledged the difference with a passing comment. My beef is the editing job. It was sloppy!
that's why i think the first batman was done well. they didn't try to make it seem these characters live in the real world. so everything was done very comic-book like.
Agreed.... Remember how everyone was like "Michael Keaton as Batman??? It will never work!!!!" But he pulled it off!
and i think it worked because he didn't try to play it like a real person.
True... the whole movie was over-the-top... BUT it was like "This is the Earth we live in and this is all normal in our world"
yeah and then when arnold swarzeneggar came in, man that just made the movie
Well, by THAT time, yeah, that was the fourth movie
lol every one but the first one stunk
thats cause he was a good actor
i really didn't enjoy this movie. there was only 2 parts i liked. i loved when it would rain and he could see. those visuals were amazing and when the chemical first went into his eyes and all. that part rocked!!! the specials for it were soooo great.
u should explain more. it's like when u first told me "i liked the part where the chemicals got in his eyes" i was like "you like it when people are blinded for life?"
ok i liked the visual of when they took the camerea backwards through his eye, cornea, retina, where you could hear the sizzle and then the theater just went black because he was now blind. better or still confusing?
...better. u don't seem so morbid anymore ;)
but dave you forgot one other important questions for all those who saw the movie------------spoiler-------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- is you know who really dead?
no she's totally alive!
I KNOW!!! the helicopter covered it... im TELLING YA!
cuz she died in the comic so if it didn't happen here it will in the next one...