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Kuljit Mithra · Hardcore Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 1530 Location: Canada

February 14, 2003. The DD movie came out.

So what's your story? When did you see the movie and what did you think of it? Do you still feel the same way about it?

My backstory on the movie is here:

http://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-news-article/2013-02-14-10-Year-Anniversary-of-Daredevil-Movie
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Darkdevil · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 1:25 am Post subject:

First, cool story about your involvement with the inner workings and making of the film.

Second, I saw the film once in the theater. I remember liking it. I didn't think Affleck was all that bad in the role. I did think Garner was the wrong choice for Elektra. Farell was psycho and so was decent for Bullseye. As for Clarke Duncan, at first, thought he was an odd choice for Kingpin but changed my mind upon seeing his performance. I thought he did rather well.

My only nitpicks, that I remember at that time, was some of the fight scenes were hard to follow. I think you mentioned the fight in Josie's Bar was altered heavily. The action in that scene was too frenetic and hard to follow.

I might be misremembering this scene, but I seem to remember at the very beginning, Matt was defending this scumbag client, who was acquitted. Then Matt follows the guy to the subway where Matt pushes him into the path of the oncoming subway. I thought, that's something Matt wouldn't do, he wouldn't simply punish the guy in such a violent manner (much less out of costume), but like I said, I may be misremembering the scene.

Due to the different studio deals Marvel used to lease out their characters, I hated that this film could not be tied into other Marvel films at that time, like Spider-Man. Seeing Urich talk to JJ Jameson would have been cool.

As for now, well, other than catching pieces of the film on movie channel reruns, I really haven't watched the whole film since then. But having read here about how the Director's Cut is infinitely better than the Theater release, I plan on buying that DVD and watching anew. Thank goodness for Amazon. Smile

james castle · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:51 am Post subject:

I've posted before about it so I won't repeat myself too much (also don't want to take away from KM's cool story) but the director's cut is not better than the theatrical cut. In many ways it's much worse with even more plot holes and scenes that make no sense (I recall at one point Matt, not in costume, roughs up a DA or something).
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Ash-n-Bone · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 6:37 am Post subject:

Wow that was a great story Kuljit, too bad that you got a cold during it all. As for the film, my own personal opinion is that Affleck was good but the entire film was pretty awful. But that was when comic book movies were just coming to the forefront so mistakes were bound to occur. FOX really should have traded surfer and galactus so they could make Carnahans DD. Like many have said Marvel don't seem to give a crap about DD right now and so the chances of seeing him on the screen again are super slim.

Sewersaint · Flying Blind Joined: 23 May 2012 Posts: 19

My biggest problem with the movie was that they tried to shove everything into a single movie. Maybe they weren't assured a sequel but this was made in a post-Spiderman world, they could have at least have made a 2 hour movie instead of 90 min. If they left out Elektra (saving her for a chance of a sequel) and focused on DD vs the Kingpin (with Bullseye) I'm sure we would have gotten a better movie.

Sparko · Flying Blind Joined: 13 Feb 2013 Posts: 33

Why wasn't Stiltman in the movie?

Crimson Cowl · Flying Blind Joined: 27 Sep 2012 Posts: 9

Dreadful, embarrasing film. Camp as a row of tents. If I wanted to convince someone that they ought to get into daredevil I would actively try to prevent them from seeing this.

The Elektra saga was the right story to do, but the execution was all wrong.
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Bullseye11 · Flying Blind Joined: 05 Oct 2013 Posts: 67 Location: PA

Awful movie. Collin Farrel as bullseye puts shivers down my spine. I couldn't think of any one worse to play bullseye. He barely even talked. He just made weird noises and couldn't even get the "you're good but me I'm magic" line down right. The first 20 minutes of the movie was good but the rest was offensive to all daredevil fans.

thank god for stilt-man · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:59 pm Post subject:

I haven't watched it in years.

There were elements of it that I liked, but I'm not a fan.

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