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Author Topic: Daredevil Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2003 04:44 AM                     This film wants soooooo bad to be Spiderman, but it just isn't. There are some good sequences and special effects in the show (along with a lot of bag cgi), but in the end it's just a bland and mediocre way to kill a couple of hours. It's not a painful experience, I just didn't walk away feeling it was time well spent or wasted (I was being paid to check the print). Just in between and overwhelmingly blah. Had I seen this for the first time on tv, I would have probably watched it until the first commercial break, then changed channels. Hey, what did you expect from the man who brought us those timeless classics "Simon Birch" and "Jack Frost"???  |  IP: Logged Will Morrow Film Handler Posts: 91 From: Mt. Pleasant, MI, USA Registered: Mar 2001 posted 02-13-2003 02:28 PM                        I agree with Brad, Blah. I might have went into this with high expectations, causing it to feel like a major let down, but it really wasn't that good. X2 should kill this flick.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-13-2003 03:51 PM                     I think that I like it a little bit better than you both. I thought that it was really entertaining at parts. Ben did a good job with what he had and Jennifer did a decent job as well (she is rumored to get her own spin off)as long as they were not on the screen at the same time. With out spoiling anything, my biggest complaint was how the climax of the movie just happen. It almost felt like an entire reel of the movie was missing.  |  IP: Logged Josh Kirkhart Expert Film Handler Posts: 165 From: Austin/Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 02-13-2003 04:05 PM                     I highly enjoyed it. I went in with a lot of comic baggage and left more than satisfied. I don't think the film makers wanted any of spiderman, but the big wigs did for that cashola. They got most of the facts right and those they didn't were miniscule. Obviously if you don't like slightly over the top action and tight leather its not for you. The sound mix was pretty good, and that first fight scene had a really different mix. Its great to see a comicbook movie in SCOPE, gotta love it. I enjoyed it and anyone not seeing it, don't worry I'll see it for ya.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-13-2003 05:47 PM                     I've got to nitpick this one line just a bit... quote: "slightly over the top action" Huh??? Here we have a blind man who jumps off of the tallest skyscrapers of over 100 stories tall, does a couple of flips over poles and such and lands on the ground without even having to barely bend his knees. You did say "slightly", right?  |  IP: Logged Michael Coate Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1904 From: Los Angeles, California Registered: Feb 2001 posted 02-14-2003 02:22 AM                     quote: Its great to see a comicbook movie in SCOPE, gotta love it. For a real comic book movie in scope, try the original Superman! Nothing else compares if you ask me.  |  IP: Logged Andrew Duggan Expert Film Handler Posts: 127 From: Albany, NY, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-14-2003 10:16 AM                        Yeah, I wasn't a very big fan of this one. I've been really into the recent wave of comic book movies, but this one was a total letdown. The plot was really shallow, the script was really godawful at some points, and the acting was pretty sub par. And, speaking as a total comic dork, I don't think they could have ruined some of these characters any more. I think anybody who collects/collected comics would agree with me that it takes serious work to actually make BullsEye even LAMER than he was in the comics. The plus side of seeing this movie was that we laced it up and watched it for a private midnight showing for "Punks Only". Watching a movie in a dark theater with 2 dozen drunk Punk Rockers can make any movie amusing!  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-14-2003 03:05 PM                     I enjoyed it for the most part. The opening sequence bears many resemblences to Spderman. I hope MARVEL does not make this a habbit with the rest of their movies. I could not get over his hair! He is wearing a tupee (sp?) throughout the film. It does not bounce, blow in the wind or even get wet! Is Aflec bald? Also the movie exagerated the action far to much. He gets a seriouse flesh wound and is fighting 5 mins later with full use of the injured area! On the other hand, the sound design was excellent.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-15-2003 06:03 PM                        This was OK for mindless entertainment value. It's forgettable, though, since it is neither great nor terrible. Mike--I agree with you that the sound mix was excellent.  |  IP: Logged Josh Kirkhart Expert Film Handler Posts: 165 From: Austin/Houston, TX, USA Registered: Nov 2001 posted 02-16-2003 04:50 AM                     I am one of the LARGEST(not is scale) fans of the original and all the Superman movies(which were all scope, even Supergirl), I was reffering to the modern restart of comic movies. Last Scope comic movies-Blade, From Hell, Judge Dredd and X-men, now Daredevil and soon X2 and LXG. Hulk will most likely be Flat as were Spiderman, all the Batmans, Punisher, Blade 2, TMNT and Crow. Brad, some of the action movies supposedly based in the 'real' world have way over the top action which pales this movie, but hell, its a comic movie, if ya wanted realism you'd watch The Pianist or Platoon.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 02-16-2003 12:09 PM                     Sorry about that Josh, but you're just stating the obvious fact that any superhero movie is not going to be realistic by the sheer subject material alone. Perhaps I should've said that I was expecting a super hero movie, not a stupid movie.  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-16-2003 05:18 PM                     Unfortunately for Dare Devil, this movie came after the first X-Man movie and of course Spiderman. What would some of you have been saying if this movie had came out after the last Batman movie? The bar has been raised kind of high (and I am not saying that thats a bad thing either).  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 02-16-2003 06:16 PM                        02/16/2003, Regal Cinema World 8, Eugene OR, 12:15PM, #4, DTS. Attendance about 20. I would give the presentation an "excellent" except the first 60 secs. or so of reel 3 was intermittently fogged and had some heavy black horizontal scratches. Some kind of lab screwup I assume. The DTS sound didn't drop out once though. DTS also handled the musical transitions across reel changes perfectly. I liked it well enough for what it is. I don't read "graphic novels" and to tell the truth I'd never heard of Daredevil before this movie came along. The tone of the film is very different from Spider-Man, so it may not be fair to make direct comparisons between the two. The "look" is also different and I didn't really care much for some of it. It seemed like some bad choices were made by the colorist(s). Then there's Ben Affleck who I generally don't like, and I didn't much like him in this either. Now having said all that, I did semi-enjoy the film and it held my attention. Colin Farrell does a very good job as Bullseye. Michael Clark Duncan is good too. Overall I give this, oh, a 6.5. Thumbs up but just barely. The sound design is very good -- I'll give it that. Did anyone think that some of the closeup head shots seemed like they were oddly framed? Tops of heads are frequently cut off unnaturally. Also some of the action sequences are almost incoherently staged. Make that a 5.5. [ 02-16-2003, 07:18 PM: Message edited by: David Stambaugh ]  |  IP: Logged Scott Balko Expert Film Handler Posts: 136 From: Redwood Falls, Minnesota, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-16-2003 08:26 PM                     It's a little tough not to compare this film with Spiderman. The jumping from building to building with the cable shot from that thing he carried is just a little too parallel to not see the similarities. I was disappointed in it. The story really dragged in more than one area. The action scenes could have been really good, but the darkness of them combined with the flashes and such really made it confusing to look at. BTW, can anyone tell me how the billiard tables caught fire?  |  IP: Logged Michael Gonzalez Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 790 From: Grand Island , NE USA Registered: Sep 2000 posted 02-16-2003 11:23 PM                     The alcohol from their drinks maybe? I want to know when did he have all that time to learn martial arts? They showed him using a punching bag for a couple of seconds but thats about it.  |  IP: Logged

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