Daredevil Why a TV series for Daredevil?

[TheVision]

I havent seen the DD Dir Cut but I think the entire movie just didnt work, from the casting of Ben to the goofy romantic stuff between him and Elektra. They simply didnt do a great adaptation of the character.

 

[Naked Shia]

it's obvious MSJ loves the material. He just doesn't know how to make it really work. Bullseye for instance, is too goofy to be really threatening. Making him kill an old lady was funny, but it was totally off. Elektra's character development doesn't work either, because she feels like californian girl, and when her dad is killed, she just wants revenge, instead of leaving the world to become the opposite of what she wanted to be. In that regardn making her meet Matt when he's already a lawyer was a bad idea. They should have stick with them meeting in law school. The groundyard fight is incredibly stupid.

On the other hand, Foggy gets more screentime, and his friendship with Matt really works. the first fight scene and the kingpin fight are also really good. I'm not a fan of making DD a killer, it prevents him from being in a grey area, and thus making the opposition between his work and his vigilante activities inexistant. But it kinda works in the context of the movie and offers some character development.

There were some ideas that could have worked in the director's cut, and at leastn it revolves around a court drama story, and DD leaves elektra to save a dude, instead of staying in bed with her this time around. But I agree that it wasn't a great movie.

You should still try to watch the director's cut imo/

 

[Dark Raven]

Elektra was virtually a different character in her own movie. Suddenly she displayed OCD tendencies which she apparently always had since a child, when she had none in DD. Also, her father had become this distant, remote figure whereas in DD he didn't seem like that. Was she always meant to be an assassin, even in DD, or did she only become one after her father was killed? However, in Elektra, it seemed as if she had been one for a long time and had stopped knowing how to feel.

 

[Naked Shia]

I never watched the movie Elektra. I may give it a try, out of curiosity. In daredevil, she was your usual teen, who practiced martial arts, but apart from that, she didn't have anything different from your average Jane. Even when her father was killed, she was still the same young girl. In the comics, that girl died when her father was killed, because his murder destroyed everything she had faith in.

 

[Dark Raven]

I never watched the movie Elektra. I may give it a try, out of curiosity. In daredevil, she was your usual teen, who practiced martial arts, but apart from that, she didn't have anything different from your average Jane. Even when her father was killed, she was still the same young girl. In the comics, that girl died when her father was killed, because his murder destroyed everything she had faith in.

She didn't seem like that same character at all in Elektra. It's as if they changed her backstory and she had almost grown up as an unfeeling teen with loads of hangups and that carried through to adulthood. There's a definite discrepancy between DD and Elektra in the way her character is portrayed. I can't imagine that same woman having fun with Matt Murdock in DD. Watch it and see what you think.

 

[DrCosmic]

Though his comic book appearances have been uneven, the story of Luke Cage may be the most compelling in all the MCU. A black male railroaded by the court system takes part in dangerous prison experimentation in exchange for a sentence reduction, and is rewarded with his apparent death. He breaks out, takes on a new identity and tries to redeem himself.

And he's now bulletproof, which is certain to be tested by members of law enforcement over the course of the series. This is "ripped from the headlines" stuff, and I hope whoever is picked as showrunner doesn't shy away from the controversy. Personally, I would love if Loeb could hire Spike Lee.

Please don't get me wrong, the story is very much there, but it's more like adapting a video game, where there's bits of story here and there that you have to arrange into a new order with a new theme, as opposed to a book, or even a serial like a comic book, where there's a clear character arc that people should expect, or a specific theme that the story would be disserviced without. Even the black-guy-who-can't-get-shot theme, while profound, is not something that is clear from any given story, it is something a critical eye can discern from his creation in general. If it's not there, it would be a missed opportunity, but not a disservice to the character, as he's so often portrayed without that even being alluded to.

 

[Norek]

I am really in the minority about this one, but I didn't mind the 2003 movie as much as everyone else. True, it had a lot of goofy stuff in it (and I just can't stand Bullseye...), but so did every other superhero movie at the time, including the Raimi Spider-Man movies, etc. It's far from being a great CBM, but there are much, much worse ones than it; especially Elektra - now THAT is one big pile of ****.

 

[Human Torch]

Daredevil is still in my top 10 favorites. And TBH,I don't see this series replacing it- at least judging by that trailer.

 

[kedrell]

I am really in the minority about this one, but I didn't mind the 2003 movie as much as everyone else. True, it had a lot of goofy stuff in it (and I just can't stand Bullseye...), but so did every other superhero movie at the time, including the Raimi Spider-Man movies, etc. It's far from being a great CBM, but there are much, much worse ones than it; especially Elektra - now THAT is one big pile of ****.

And I think you'll find a growing percentage of the viewers who are less and less enamored by the series and the older X-Men movies as well. Sure, some still love them but for many others they haven't aged well and are seen as just place-holders in the genre until we started getting much better stuff(of which there is a metric ton now). I haven't watched any of that stuff in over 10 years and frankly have no desire to ever see any of it again.

 

[Whatupman]

Daredevil is still in my top 10 favorites. And TBH,I don't see this series replacing it- at least judging by that trailer.

Huh, it was the complete opposite for me. That trailer felt so much more like Daredevil than the movie. I would be really surprised and dissapointed if the show wasn't better than the movie.

 

[kedrell]

IMO that minute and a half teaser was superior to the entire Affleck movie...either version.