Daredevil Warning!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 12, 2003, 9:29 am

This movie sucks. I had the chance to see it Monday night and I was very disappointed. Cheesy acting (though Bulls-eye was cool), storyline was retarded and the action sequences were so crammed with needless cgi effects, you could hardly tell what was going on. A great soundtrack however, wasted on a movie such as this.

All other comic book movies > Daredevil

Souldinkou Soulfury · February 12, 2003, 10:59 pm

No shit, all comic remakes suck. Spiderman, Xmen, and The Hulk included.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 13, 2003, 4:14 am

X-Men was good, the second one looks damn cool as well. Spiderman was so-so.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 13, 2003, 7:52 am

X-Men wasn't that bad.

Storm sucked. Halle Berry didn't want the role and it shows. Maybe she'll make an effort for X-Men 2.

Pahreyia · Post by **Pahreyia** » February 13, 2003, 9:14 am

In all fairness, there's no way to put the kind of depth into a character in a 2 hour movie that you can get out of a comic series 1000+ issues long (batman/superman/spiderman/xmen - including all of the alternate titles) However, the spiderman movie was probably the best, or second only to xmen in how it handled the character, cast the film, worked between cgi/live stunts and most importantly, remained true to the characters throughout the script. Xmen faltered on the last part, which is why I rate it lower, but there really is no knocking spiderman... I mean, it had Bruce Campbell!

Burke · Post by **Burke** » February 13, 2003, 10:37 am

No shit, all comic remakes suck.

I disagree. Batman (the original) and Blade were good adaptations.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » February 13, 2003, 10:53 am

The second Batman was also grt. As well as Superman 1 & 2.

Millie · Post by **Millie** » February 13, 2003, 1:15 pm

Batman, Superman I and II, and Spiderman were all very successful and very good adaptations from comic books. But I guess their success as films really depends on how you look at them. If you're viewing them critically because they don't stick to their source material like gospel, then perhaps your criteria are a bit harsh.

It's not necessarily the point of a comic-inspired movie simply to rehash the comic books word for word. What would be the fun in that? Rather, movies adapted from comic books should take their characters and show us stories too big or colorful to be contained on the hand-drawn page. They should be judged not on how faithfully they mimicked the comic books, but on how good they are as films.

Chidoro · Post by **Chidoro** » February 13, 2003, 4:35 pm

I have to agree. Every comic book movie is already pegged down a notch because you usually have to spend a good 10-30 minutes providing the background or tragic occurence as to why they are the way they are. Sometimes it's good like Superman, but most of the time, blech

My wife didn't even know who Daredevil was. To be honest, i never heard of him until I beat the PSX Spiderman game and he was in the closing movie

Souldinkou Soulfury · February 14, 2003, 3:00 am

Im just in to realism.. Like Band of Brothers or Heat. I suppose if I watched Xmen as a comic book fan, I would enjoy it. I do admit Blade was a cool movie, but even with the greatest actors, I still dont like them. I hate unintentional cheesiness. I spent my child hood in a comic book store and I still dont like comic books.

Anyone ever play paintball then look at a movie and say.. thats so much bull shit..?

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » February 14, 2003, 2:54 pm

Due to paintball, I would rate my life expectancy in RL combat to be about 4 minutes or less.

Comic book movies are getting better and better as studios realize there is a great market for them and they're giving them the budgets they need in order to present these fantastic stories. I predict X-Men 2 will do very well in the theaters this summer and be a pretty good flick.

We'll see what other comic inspired movies will creep up in the future. I'll take them one at a time.

I'm off to see Daredevil at the Omnimax tonight. I don't have high expectations, but I think it will be worth the price---free

There's a promo going on right now. Buy X-Men 1.5 on DVD and get a free ticket to Daredevil.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » February 14, 2003, 3:06 pm

The free ticket that comes with Xmen 1.5 is for either Daredevil or XMen2...thinking I will hold on to that until Xmen2 comes out!

Quarkk · Post by **Quarkk** » February 15, 2003, 9:24 pm

Yeah, kinda boring. Though I did like Blade and Batman a lot, too

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » February 17, 2003, 3:59 pm

Mediocre at best.

Jennifer Garner looks gorgeous though.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 17, 2003, 6:10 pm

Jennifer Garner made that movie, especially when she became a super hero!

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » February 18, 2003, 12:26 pm

5 out of 10

Not very good IMO. Although, Bullseye was cool

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » February 19, 2003, 6:17 am

Daredevil was pretty cool. I liked Bullseye OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS and i liked the darker setting and the not-so-perfect hero(vengeful, violent, etc.) than OMGIAMRETARDEDCAUSEALOTISTWOWORDS of superhero movies.

noel · Post by **noel** » February 19, 2003, 5:58 pm

For those who haven't seen the movie yet...

Ben Affleck does not disappoint! His acting continues to SUCK ASS.

Jennifer Garner was hotter than I've ever seen her, and tied for the best actual acting in the movie with John Favreau. Collin Farrell was very good as Bullseye as well.

Overall, I think a VERY bad script ruined this movie.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » February 19, 2003, 10:02 pm

****SPOILER BELOW!!!****

Jennifer Garner getting killed (in a most brutally fashion I might add) was by far the best fucking part in the movie. The only thing I didn't predict nor loathe about the movie. Bulls-Eye is the fucking man.

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » February 20, 2003, 2:34 am

/me waits for it to come out on cable...

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » February 23, 2003, 10:46 am

I loved the Kevin Smith cameo in the movie.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » February 24, 2003, 4:57 pm

This is the issue the story was based off of for the movies. Well written and drawn by Frank Miller.

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » February 24, 2003, 8:03 pm

Ben Affleck just sucks in every movie he has been in so far. He even sucked in Dogma....and Carrot Top could have pulled off his role in that one.

And to the posters who equated paintball to actual combat, let me assure you that skills in paintball mean absolutely nothing in combat and vice versa. We have beaten the piss out of teams from the marines, army, navy, seals, you name it....but they would obliterate us in actual combat. I have seen people from the armed forces who were so bad at paintball that it made me physically ill to watch them....and they weren't even Canadians!

Lexien · Post by **Lexien** » February 26, 2003, 2:25 am

So according to you Killmoll Canadians are bad marksman?

And about Daredevil it wasent that horrible i don't know whats the big deal with Ben Affleck either he didnt seem that bad... People can be over critical. Maybe it's just me who sucks as a critic for acting.

I grew up watching all the comic books become animated tv series like spider man, the hulk, gi-joes (did they make a film for gi-joes? would be cool to see one) x-men, the fantastic four, the avengers so on and so forth.

And now ill be one of those who go see the movie adaptation because they were a part of my childhood.

I'll be paying to go see The Hulk for kicks and giggles!

Wich other super hero movie adaptation is coming up next?

Millie · Post by **Millie** » February 26, 2003, 3:52 am

Lexien wrote:Wich other super hero movie adaptation is coming up next?

What's known so far:

- There are two major sequels coming out this year and next: namely, X-Men 2 (2003) and Spiderman 2 (2004).

- I know Warner Bros. is developing a new Batman prequel, and is also pushing forward its long-delayed Superman project. Rumor has it that Josh Hartnett, Jude Law, and Ashton Kutcher screen tested the best during Superman casting. I hope there's someone better suited to the part out there, because all three of those actors are way too skinny to portray the Man of Steel. Jude Law is the best of those picks, in my opinion, assuming he beefs up a tad.

- There is also movie coming out soon based on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- a comic I've never heard of, but which apparently has a cult following.

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » February 26, 2003, 1:46 pm

Isn't the Hulk in development, too?

Maddux · Post by **Maddux** » February 26, 2003, 1:49 pm

Maybe I stand alone in this, and thats ok. Im secure enough in my manhood.

I like Ben Affleck.

I liked him in this, I loved him in Boiler Room (Awesome Movie!)

I even liked him in the movie Bounce

About Daredevil. Mmmmmm. Probably a 3 out of 5. It had cool parts, I like looking at hotties so thats always nice.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » February 26, 2003, 2:23 pm

Millie wrote: - There is also movie coming out soon based on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen -- a comic I've never heard of, but which apparently has a cult following.

This trailer was with the DD showing I saw. I had heard of the comic before but had never read it.

This has Sean Connery though so will probably be cool.

Burke · Post by **Burke** » February 26, 2003, 6:42 pm

This has Sean Connery though so will probably be cool.

The Connery factor is not always a guaranteed lock on a good movie.

Lest ye forget: The Avengers

Drolgin Steingrinder · February 28, 2003, 12:28 am

Wow, LOEG as a movie ... that could really, really ... suck. It might also be a fun, weird film - all depends on whether whoever directs it "gets" the original material.

If you like Alan Moore's other works (WATCHMEN, Swamp Thing etc), then take a look at LOEG. It's published by America's Best Comics, and it's a sort of deranged James Bond-meets-Charlie's Angels-meets-fin-de-siecle-London-by-Gaslight, with what that era has to offer of fogged moody settings, Sherlock Holmes (well, his brother anyway) along with Professor Moriarty, Auguste Dupin, Fu Manchu and other goodies.

Oh, in case you were wondering, the members of the LOEG are Alan Quartermain (of King Solomon's Mines fame), Captain Nemo, Dr. Henry Jekyll, Mr. Edward Hyde (who for some reason is never seen in the company of Dr. Jekyll, strange...), Hawley Griffin and Mina Murray (formerly Mrs. Harker).

The cast should give you an idea of how weird this thing is...I doubt they can capture the all the intertextual meta-references (oh so British) in the film, but as a "fun" adventure movie it could definately work. The cast chosen seems pretty well suited for their parts.

kurzweil · Post by **kurzweil** » February 28, 2003, 2:20 pm

Whatever happened to the Fantastic Four movie that was in the works?

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » February 28, 2003, 2:54 pm

FF project, last I heard, got shelved.

Cotto · Post by **Cotto** » March 1, 2003, 1:29 am

Trailer for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/lxg/l ... large.html

Was there ever a Phantom movie? I remember seeing the comic and cartoon when I was little, but just wondered if they ever made a film from it?

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 1, 2003, 4:30 am

The Phantom!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » March 1, 2003, 5:13 am

The Phantom was fucking awful. Worst comic book movie yet in my opinion.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 1, 2003, 11:58 am

You never see Captain America or The Punisher? I think The Phantom was much better than either, although it WAS awful!

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » March 1, 2003, 4:05 pm

Yeah, but they have the excuse of being older and lacking a lot of technology that movies (including Phantom) have today. But I do agree with you on the issue of their sucking abilities.

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » March 2, 2003, 11:29 am

Just saw Daredevil last night (had to bittorrent it, I live in a fucking undeveloped country having to wait for movies). I'd heard a lot of different opinions on it, some surprisingly good, some predictably condemning.

My take:

It sucked. The main problem was the abysmal acting. The script was pretty good, based on one of the better Miller story arcs, and with better directing and - dare I say it - better actors, it could really have gotten somewhere.

None of the actors lived up to their potential except Ben Affleck who continues to suck. That guy is right up there with Steven Seagal as far as sincerity is concerned ...

The best part about the movie for me was the X-Men2 trailer - and that sucked, too.

Shainral · Post by **Shainral** » March 21, 2003, 5:49 am

Was browsing through the magazine rack at a Wal-Mart while the wife hunted down some of her female "goods" and saw a magazine that gave a huge ass listing of comic book/sci-fi/fantasy based movie and T.V shows that are due out sometime in the near future.

The ones that caught my eye were another Blade movie and then possibly a Blade T.V. series, The Fantastic Four movie is still in the works with Chris Columbus still slated as director ... and HELLBOY

by Mike Mignola .. fucking eh ! Not sure on that due date .. but it'll have Roh Pearlman as Hellboy ... should be good if they stick to the basics.

Sartori · Post by **Sartori** » April 25, 2003, 9:56 pm

aren't they making one base on Sandman ?

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 8, 2004, 4:26 am

I just watched this on HBO-HD. The movie wasn't bad IMO.

Ben Affleck in the lead role diminished the movie quite a bit unfortunately. He's just not that good of an actor...he can manage supporting roles ok but not the lead.

Bullseye is one of my favorite villians from comicbooks. He's just plain badass. In the comic, after Daredevil breaks his back and busts up his body, and after he had "killed" elektra...the last few pages of the comic is Bullseye, full of hate, thinking to himself how he's going to kill Daredevil. Frank Miller had a great run writing and drawing Daredevil.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » July 8, 2004, 8:42 am

Ya know.. After a while it's ok just to create a new thread instead of just bumping up this old stuff.

Bubba Grizz · Post by **Bubba Grizz** » July 8, 2004, 10:57 am

Daredevil was alright. Not overly good but interesting. Was cool seeing Kevin Smith in there.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » July 8, 2004, 12:55 pm

Animalor wrote:Ya know.. After a while it's ok just to create a new thread instead of just bumping up this old stuff.

I disagree! For movies it's nice to see a history of comments so dragging up an old thread when a movie is released on DVD or HBO isn't the end of the world.

I just re-read Daredevil 181 which this movie is based on. Some of the lines are taken word for word while some parts are changed dramatically.

DD#181 is one of the best written/drawn comics in existence. I have it in .cbz format which is a little over 15mb. Unfortunately I can only host 10MB or less or I'd link it as it's well worth the time to read it.

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