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Daredevil

  • 08-12-2005 10:18am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭


    Ok, we watched this absolute classic of a film last night (ahem) and while being wowed by the sparking dialogue and winning performances my flatmates and i were perplexed as to certain aspects of the story... maybe someone can help???

    - who made his suit and gear?

    - why does he sleep in a metal coffin full of water?

    - which chemical exactly brings on martial arts skills when thrown in someone's face??

    These aren't smart-@ss questions... maybe we're naive even to be wondering... but maybe someone knows....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    personally i raelly enjoyed daredevil, and in answer to your questions you have to remember its a comic book movie

    try these answers & correct me if im wrong
    suit & gear - dont know who made it, but who makes any of the costumes for super heroes

    metal coffin - 2 purposes, 1 sensory deprivation tank, 2 its not just water its some sort of salt solution for his battered body to help heal him

    chemical - its some sort of generic comic book toxic waste that can give special powers (see any comic book characters, ninja turtles, toxic crusader, clayface, etc)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭CodeMonkey


    who made his suit and gear?
    A better question is how does he know he doesn't look like a pansy in his custom?
    why does he sleep in a metal coffin full of water?
    Sensory deprivation, what madrab said.
    which chemical exactly brings on martial arts skills when thrown in someone's face??
    That was never suggested. Daredevil only got heightened senses from the accident. His fighting skills were from acrobatic and martial arts training. Presumably he can do more than the average person cause he has no fear etc.

    The teenage mutant ninja turtles got no martial arts skill from the ooze that turned them them into humanoids. Splinter thought them how to fight :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭RobEire


    Ah what memories this thread brings flooding back to torment me....

    I sat through this movie on both the outward and return leg of a longhaul flight. Even without dialogue it looked silly...

    Having said that, it did prove that just about anyone can be made to look better in a rubber suit...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Joeface


    and to add too what CodeMonkey said , his skills also came from the fact that his dad was a boxer .....Prob picked up some of that.

    Never under stud why ppl didnt like this movie , Personally I taught it was very good by far one of the better Comic book to movie attempts , it was much better than the First spiderman movie. It was better than Hulk, Better than the Fantastic Four . the list goes on. It is no Batman or Batman begins but def a good movie


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,930 ✭✭✭✭TerrorFirmer


    I enjoyed this movie and felt it was a much stronger attempt then both Spiderman and The Hulk, and a very enjoyable yarn. It was great to see it went for a slightly more adult approach then the two said movies also.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭RobEire


    I enjoyed this movie and felt it was a much stronger attempt then both Spiderman and The Hulk, and a very enjoyable yarn. It was great to see it went for a slightly more adult approach then the two said movies also.

    Would you watch it again?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    yep im with mobile & joeface on this quite a good movie
    & to rob eire i have watched it a few times, & i would rather watch it than spiderman


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Richelieu


    hold your horses now... Hulk was a great film. I've rarely laughed as much as when he was bounding through the desert smashing up tanks and planes. Something so insane about it... but I digress

    As for the suit, batman had his gear made at least. Why on earth did this guy choose satanic leather fetish gear and then wonder why children think he's the bad guy? (ok ok this flick & character invites comparisons with batman...)

    I read the comic too, ages ago, the frank miller one, and electra was cool in that. All mysterious and sultry. She's dire in this one.

    Plus it had Ben Affleck. death knell of almost any film


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Joeface


    Hulk was just ok, didnt mind it too much,but it aint a better Movie, its too friendly

    And yes in most case Ben is the end on movie before it gets release, but as a Dark atmospheric Comic it aint bad. It could have been Cat Woman or God Forbid
    Electra , I was surprised there wasnt a sequal ... it Did 150 million or so at the box office


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,836 ✭✭✭Vokes


    Richelieu wrote:
    Why on earth did this guy choose satanic leather fetish gear
    Well, he sort of inherited the devil persona from his Dad, didn't he?


    Anyways, i enjoyed the movie a lot. It has to be said though the weakest aspect, imo, is Afflecks lack of martial art skills and consequently the fight scenes suffer because they have to be fastly edited and are all over the shop.

    One of the better Marvel films anyway.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,589 ✭✭✭✭Necronomicon


    I really liked it. It was definately aimed at the older generation, much darker than the likes of X-Men.
    Can't say the same for Elecktra though :o


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭Davey Devil


    I'm just glad I sneaked into this film after watching another one and didn't have to pay. Painful.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭OSiriS


    Richelieu wrote:
    - who made his suit and gear?

    If you've seen The Incredibles you'll know who makes superhero costumes:P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭Romero


    Did any of you watch the Directors Cut of Daredevil??? I picked it up for a tenner in Spain, and have to say it was a better movie as there was a good lot of background story for the charecters. Also nice docuementery which included directors and producers inputs, looks like the producers forced changes to the film to cut down the running time and to make it more action based, now I haven't watched the Theatrical cut but have to say the extended cut is a pretty good film, so recommend that if you come across it in the Jan sales you pick it up.

    Cheers

    Romero :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,530 ✭✭✭patch


    Romero wrote:
    Did any of you watch the Directors Cut of Daredevil??? I picked it up for a tenner in Spain, and have to say it was a better movie as there was a good lot of background story for the charecters. Also nice docuementery which included directors and producers inputs, looks like the producers forced changes to the film to cut down the running time and to make it more action based, now I haven't watched the Theatrical cut but have to say the extended cut is a pretty good film, so recommend that if you come across it in the Jan sales you pick it up.

    Cheers

    Romero :)

    Yeah, heard the new cut was a major improvement. I enjoyed the first version so I've been looking out for the new... But It's nowhere for rent or sale as far as I can tell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,488 ✭✭✭Goodshape


    Enjoyed this more when it was on the other night than I did in the cinema. Think it's better suited to sitting on the couch relaxing after dinner... it's silly, but it's tollerable.

    To be honest, I probably would watch it over Spiderman -- always seemed a bit too cutesy for me -- but I think The Hulk stands apart from the rest in being a proper good film, not just a 'good adaptation'.

    Batman Begins was a good adaptation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,698 ✭✭✭✭BlitzKrieg


    A better question is how does he know he doesn't look like a pansy in his custom?


    http://www.maskedkoopa.com/minimate/comic9/index.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,200 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    To be honest... i thought i was alone in the fact that i actually enjoyed 'Daredevil'


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 12,326 Mod ✭✭✭✭Kingp35


    Just watched this movie tonight. I thought it was ok but nothing more. Some of the CGI work in the movie was simply awful and DD ability to jump huge gaps between buildings was a bit ridiculous considering his only "powers" were supposed to be heightened senses. I thought Colin Farrell was the best thing about the movie. His character Bullseye was very good but very underused. Some of the fight scenes were pretty poor and were far too fastly edited.

    I did enjo it but it had many flaws. Could have been alot better.

    6/10


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    I think I've enjoyed all the new generation of Marvel movies I've seen so far (well except Blade Trinity of course) and this was a pretty decent entry too. Sure it's not brilliant but wasn't as bad as many would have you believe either.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,892 ✭✭✭madrab


    still think it was better than the spiderman movies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 777 ✭✭✭dRNk SAnTA


    Daredevil was an ok movie I thought, I mean, it was watchable. I'm not a big fan of ben afflec or jennifer garner at all, but I thought colin farrel had a great part in this movie.

    For me, hulk was rubbish, and while daredevil isn't that good, it beats hulk easily.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Wherein Daredevil wasn't any great shakes, it was far better than Fantastic Four and Hulk (but let's face it, that wouldn't be difficult). It was also better than Spiderman and probably Spiderman 2 aswell. Apart from Ben Afleck being the Hollywood equivalent of Pat Kenny it wasn't that bad a film. I didn't think much of Colin Farrell in it, but then I don't think much of him anyway.

    Much as I hate to admit, I did kind of enjoy it. I probably wouldn't watch it again though, unless it was on TV or something. I wouldn't go spending money on it again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 110 ✭✭The Smircher


    Romero wrote:
    Did any of you watch the Directors Cut of Daredevil??? I picked it up for a tenner in Spain, and have to say it was a better movie as there was a good lot of background story for the charecters. Also nice docuementery which included directors and producers inputs, looks like the producers forced changes to the film to cut down the running time and to make it more action based, now I haven't watched the Theatrical cut but have to say the extended cut is a pretty good film, so recommend that if you come across it in the Jan sales you pick it up.

    The Director's Cut (DC) is like watching a completely different movie. The pacing is slower, plot and characterisation are much better and it doesn't have the MTV music video feel of the theatrical release (TR) . There is also a whole subplot with Coolio that was dropped from the TR. Some of the scenes are out of sequence in the TR and have been restored to the correct locations in the DC. I enjoyed the TR but I always felt that there was something missing and some gaps in the story and it was only when I saw the DC that it made more sense to me. All of the characters get more screen time, so there is more exposition of Joe Pantolianom, Jon Favreau, Michael Clarke Duncan especially. Thumbs up from me.


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