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"Daredevil: The Good, The Bad and the Hideous"


          

Spoiler heavy review.

Short version: ** stars tops.

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The Good:

Colin Farrell as Bullseye: Does this surprise anyone? The man is a great actor and even though he is hamming it up, the movie is 10X better with him on the screen than without it

Jon Favreau as Foggy Nelson: Comic relief done to perfection. Maybe the writet-director should stick to comedies.

Daredevil's sonar: I thought this was by far the best thing about the movie from a comic book fans perspective. To see how Daredevil sees was cool as shit adn it is a shame they didn't use it enough.

Bullseye vs. Elektra: Nice attempt to recreate the defining battle in Daredevil.

Daredevil vs. Bullseye: Colin Farrell at his best.

Kingpin's intro: We got a good laugh out of Kingpin being introduced to N.E.R.D's "Lap Dance"

The Beautiful:

Jennifer Garner as Elektra: Just stunning.


The Bad:

The Story/Movie/Character Development: Aside from Daredevil, all fo these characters were woefully underdeveloped. It was as if they decided to do a movie about Daredevil and would just include the only good villians he has and say "go". Even if I wasn't a reader of Daredevil (which I am going to have to read a bunch of to recover from this movie). Kingpin was hardly used and they didn't use the "body mass is completely muscle angle" which would have shown Daredevil get his ass kicked a little more. I was just disappointed that this movie came from a guy who said he grew up on Daredevil.

The Hideous:

Secret Identity: Matt Murdock was pretty careful about maintaining his secret identity but in this movie: He engages in playful open combat with Elektra as Matt Murdock. By the end of the movie, Kingpin, Elektra and Ben Urich know he's Daredevil

Spider-Devil: Now, if they had included Matt's training with Stick, even via brief flashback, MAYBE I could acept that Daredevil could leap off buildings and shit like Spider-Man. But they didn't, so I don't. Elektra either.

Ben Affleck: He wasn't in shape. and I know I am nitpicking now but fuck it. If you are supposed to be a superhero who fights crime every night, even if you didn't lift a fight, that is some cardiovascular work out for your ass. He should be in shape. I know Daredevil doesn't have superhuman strength but I know Daredevil ain't an average joe in a leather suit. He didn't have to be diesal but at least get a little ripped man. Me and my boy were like does "Daredevil have a little gut?"

Wrapup: So basically, as much as I wnated to like this movie, I couldn't. If I didn't read the comic, this movie would be decent. Maybe. I would have still wanted more.


m e l a n i s m

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Daredevil: The Good, The Bad and the Hideous [View all] , Melanism, Fri Feb-14-03 04:33 AM
 
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Better or worse then X-Men
Feb 14th 2003
1
much worse (spoiler)
Feb 14th 2003
2
      Doh
Feb 14th 2003
3
           RE: Doh
Feb 14th 2003
4
           RE: Doh
Feb 14th 2003
5
Honestly..
Feb 14th 2003
6
Yeah..but we didn't think it'd suck THIS badly
Feb 17th 2003
44
      RE: Yeah..but we didn't think it'd suck THIS badly
Feb 17th 2003
46
           RE: Yeah..but we didn't think it'd suck THIS badly
Feb 17th 2003
51
                RE: C-Fare
Feb 17th 2003
52
I really must disagree
Feb 14th 2003
7
Cosign
Feb 14th 2003
10
RE: I really must disagree
Feb 17th 2003
47
It wasn't bad
Feb 14th 2003
8
it was okay...
Feb 14th 2003
9
      Cosign on Blade...
Feb 14th 2003
11
           RE: Cosign on Blade...
Feb 15th 2003
12
                DD.
Feb 16th 2003
13
                     The Soundtrack was my least favorite part
Feb 16th 2003
14
i think we can all agree
Feb 16th 2003
15
RE: i think we can all agree
Feb 16th 2003
16
RE: i think we can all agree
Feb 16th 2003
18
      That was a plus
Feb 16th 2003
22
           RE: That was a plus
Feb 16th 2003
25
RE: i think we can all agree
Feb 17th 2003
48
Horrible
Feb 16th 2003
17
Good
Feb 16th 2003
42
this was a HOT piece of shit!!
Feb 16th 2003
19
RE: this was a HOT piece of shit!!
Feb 16th 2003
28
Apparently (spoiler)
Feb 16th 2003
32
      (SPOILER)
Feb 17th 2003
43
RE: Bullseye's strength
Feb 16th 2003
29
      RE: Bullseye's strength
Feb 16th 2003
33
Yea, I agree
Feb 16th 2003
20
RE: Daredevil: The Good, The Bad and the Hideous
Feb 16th 2003
21
My thoughts
Feb 16th 2003
23
RE: My thoughts
Feb 16th 2003
34
      True, he saved Stan Lee
Feb 16th 2003
38
Daredevil Movie notes
Feb 16th 2003
24
RE: Daredevil Movie notes
Feb 16th 2003
26
RE: Daredevil Movie notes
Feb 16th 2003
31
$43.5M for the first weekend
Feb 16th 2003
27
RE: $43.5M for the first weekend
Feb 16th 2003
35
why?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!??!?!??!?
Feb 16th 2003
30
Bored to tears
Feb 16th 2003
36
Yeah this sucked.... 2 stars seriously
Feb 16th 2003
37
RE: Yeah this sucked.... 2 stars seriously
Feb 16th 2003
39
I liked it...
Feb 16th 2003
40
cosign
Feb 16th 2003
41
Ben Affleck had nothing to do with it (for me)...
Feb 17th 2003
45
this movie
Feb 17th 2003
49
RE: Jigga's take
Feb 17th 2003
50
on par with Spider-Man
Feb 17th 2003
53
No way in hell...
Feb 18th 2003
54
      RE: No way in hell...
Feb 18th 2003
55
Not Affleck's fault
Feb 23rd 2003
56
RE: Not Affleck's fault
Feb 24th 2003
57
anger
Mar 01st 2003
58

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