My dear husband brought home a DVD from Blockbuster the other night, thinking I’d like it since I like other “comic book brought to the silver screen” editions.<\/p>\n
DAREDEVIL was a dissapointment. How so, since I’ve never read the comic, or even seem to be aware of the storyline? No, I am unfamiliar with it totally.<\/p>\n
Or shall I say, was unfamiliar with it. Perhaps I know some about it now. I’m hoping that I don’t though. “Why’s that?” you may ask.<\/p>\n
I love the “larger than life” feel and smell of a graphic comic brought to life in the movies. DD failed miserable. Ben Afleck, a vigilante-justice-freak … ick. I’m not a great Ben Afleck fan in the first place, but I’ll say that this role was terrible for him. Afflicted with blindness, yet radar abilities and greater than normal other senses power … this lawyer, and supporting characters, were dismal, dark, and “playing at it” as a 6 year old might.<\/p>\n
Two characters were more fitting. Kingpin was great. Bullseye was good too, but they were out of place in this movie. If the movie could be re-worked, perhaps the missing magic could be applied, like a Photoshop Layer, bring to front, merge visible; somehow, I wish it could be done.<\/p>\n
Left with what it really is, I can say, it’s not worth the time it takes to watch it.<\/p>\n
Let’s put it into some other terms: as a Christian, I can’t justify it at all. It’s pathetic life, pathetic “superhero”. His “girl” dies. He sleeps in a coffin filled with water; by day as a lawer, he tries criminals, loses the case, then goes after them as DD at night to do the criminal in –“Justice”.<\/p>\n
Sorry, that’s not “justice” it’s vigilante justice.<\/p>\n
Give me Spiderman any day.<\/p>\n
Speaking of that, I saw a DVD in a store yesterday: one of the cartoon ones, DareDevil vs. Spiderman<\/p>\n
OK, someone with comic book knowledge, fill me in please. I can guess from my dislike of the DD movie, perhaps Spiderman has a problem with DD too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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