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JiveTurkey said:
I've never really liked D'Onfornio. Michael Clark Duncan was great in the Affleck movie. Listening to D'Onfornio say the word "city" 139 times a minute is a real drag. And Bucky :wat
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I had to Google every other word in this post LOL. I will never be as film/TV-savvy as you. Also, I never saw the Daredevil movie (didn't even know it existed), so that didn't help.

D'Onfornio earned his keep in 5 minutes as Edgar the Bug 30 years ago, but OMG he is predictable in Daredevil and outright tiresome in Born Again. (And neither the script nor the director are doing him any favors here.)
 
I forgot to talk about the one thing that most drove me up the :cuss wall in Daredevil:

OK, I get that these superhero vehicles are going to require a certain suspension of disbelief. I'm not going try to weigh science against a blind man seeing and basically automatically knowing everything because he's really good at martial arts. It's fantasy. No problem. BUT...

This theme they take on over halfway through the series, after we've watched this dude inflict the most insane levels of uncontrolled violence on countless bad guys, where suddenly his defining characteristic is that he can't kill anyone, is just insane. And then it comes up as a plot device every other sentence. I've seen this guy kick people off roofs etc etc etc etc - a thousand faces of death - but now his hands are tied, he has his metaphorical kryptonite, in his unwillingness to kill. I'm like, "Dude, were you checking pulses before?"

I mean there are plot holes, and then there are plot avalanches.
 
mbenigni said:
I had to Google every other word in this post LOL. I will never be as film/TV-savvy as you. Also, I never saw the Daredevil movie (didn't even know it existed), so that didn't help.

D'Onfornio earned his keep in 5 minutes as Edgar the Bug 30 years ago, but OMG he is predictable in Daredevil and outright tiresome in Born Again. (And neither the script nor the director are doing him any favors here.)
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I liked the series quite a bit more than you did, from what your post indicates at least. But the writing and some of the story arcs they go on are DEFINITELY tiresome. The last go round had a bunch of reshoots from what I read and I feel like they thought they course corrected a LOT more than what they actually did.

The movie came out in the early 2000s before Marvel really took hold and long overstayed it's welcome. Colin Farrell as Bullseye was great and Affleck did a good job all things considered.
 
mbenigni said:
I forgot to talk about the one thing that most drove me up the :cuss wall in Daredevil:

OK, I get that these superhero vehicles are going to require a certain suspension of disbelief. I'm not going try to weigh science against a blind man seeing and basically automatically knowing everything because he's really good at martial arts. It's fantasy. No problem. BUT...

This theme they take on over halfway through the series, after we've watched this dude inflict the most insane levels of uncontrolled violence on countless bad guys, where suddenly his defining characteristic is that he can't kill anyone, is just insane. And then it comes up as a plot device every other sentence. I've seen this guy kick people off roofs etc etc etc etc - a thousand faces of death - but now his hands are tied, he has his metaphorical kryptonite, in his unwillingness to kill. I'm like, "Dude, were you checking pulses before?"

I mean there are plot holes, and then there are plot avalanches.
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Honestly; I'd probably give it up if it feels like that much of a chore. As (too) much TV as we watch; I will cut off a show if I feel like I am not liking it within the small window of a chance I give it or if the story has reached enough of a stopping point at the end of whatever season that I can move on from it.
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JiveTurkey said:
I liked the series quite a bit more than you did, from what your post indicates at least. But the writing and some of the story arcs they go on are DEFINITELY tiresome. The last go round had a bunch of reshoots from what I read and I feel like they thought they course corrected a LOT more than what they actually did.

The movie came out in the early 2000s before Marvel really took hold and long overstayed it's welcome. Colin Farrell as Bullseye was great and Affleck did a good job all things considered.
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To be fair, I was pretty hooked on the original series while I was watching it. On balance, I would even say I really enjoyed it - despite the constant awareness that it was all sort of hoaky. But Born Again was just a turd IMO. DOA. (I'm trying really hard to not say "stillborn" LOL.) I saw everything it was trying to do from a million miles away, and it all landed flat.

Now about this movie... I can't believe I'm even considering watching more Daredevil LOL, but Colin Farrel is awesome, so it might just warrant another 2 hours. Like it or not, I am pretty invested at this point. :D
 
JiveTurkey said:
Honestly; I'd probably give it up if it feels like that much of a chore. As (too) much TV as we watch; I will cut off a show if I feel like I am not liking it within the small window of a chance I give it or if the story has reached enough of a stopping point at the end of whatever season that I can move on from it.
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We're like 30 minutes away from having watched all of it. :rofl

(When I bitch this much about anything, I like to have a well-informed opinion LOL.)
 
mbenigni said:
To be fair, I was pretty hooked on the original series while I was watching it. On balance, I would even say I really enjoyed it - despite the constant awareness that it was all sort of hoaky. But Born Again was just a turd IMO. DOA. (I'm trying really hard to not say "stillborn" LOL.) I saw everything it was trying to do from a million miles away, and it all landed flat.

Now about this movie... I can't believe I'm even considering watching more Daredevil LOL, but Colin Farrel is awesome, so it might just warrant another 2 hours. Like it or not, I am pretty invested at this point. :D
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It's early 2000s CGI with we didn't have a Raimi Spiderman 2 budget but it's actually pretty solid. If you have seen the Punisher movies; you are on that same track with those.
 
JiveTurkey said:
Honestly; I'd probably give it up if it feels like that much of a chore. As (too) much TV as we watch; I will cut off a show if I feel like I am not liking it within the small window of a chance I give it or if the story has reached enough of a stopping point at the end of whatever season that I can move on from it.
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I watched all of Lost for the same reason
:wat :oops::mad::ROFLMAO:
 
And I'm going to reiterate: 90% of my negativity above was specifically aimed at the Born Again season. I binged the 3 seasons of the original series, so I can't have hated it all that much. :) (I mostly liked it.)
 
I liked the first season, mainly because Marvel overexposure hadn't kicked in yet. And the awesome camera work in that season.

We started Born Again and yeah I think I gave up after the second episode - no reason to waste more time on it.
 
dbagchee said:
Ha ha I just rewatched all of Lost as my wife had never seen it (technically I just watched the last half). Better than I remembered from the original run but still pretty outrageous. Forgot how they were doing 20+ episode seasons back then oof.
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It was our first binge and it certainly felt gluttonous :oops:
 
AlbertA said:
I liked the first season, mainly because Marvel overexposure hadn't kicked in yet. And the awesome camera work in that season.

We started Born Again and yeah I think I gave up after the second episode - no reason to waste more time on it.
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I think all three seasons prior to Born Again had their strengths (and some weaknesses). All of the flashback segments (up to and including Karen's backstory) were really good, often achieving a more authentic sense of time and place than the "current" NYC stuff. (Which reminds me of another pet peeve from this show: the screenwriters' glaring fetish for the phrase "Hell's Kitchen". No one anywhere, ever, has referred to Hell's Kitchen as Hell's Kitchen as frequently as this for any reason. Sure, it's a cool name. No, it's not that cool.)

Born Again... nuff said.
 
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