Daredevil - Ben, I'm genuinely sorry that a fellow fan had to be part of that.
Thinking on it, I suspect that the goodness of X-Men and Spiderman really raised my expectations on comic-based movies. There was a time when all I needed was cool explosions and a witty line or two.
And yet, Daredevil still sucked. And it was worse, because it could have been a good movie. If they'd taken the heroes out and just had Bullseye and Kingpin snarking at each other and destroying shit it would have been good watch. Okay, they couldn't call it 'Daredevil', but I would have been happily entranced for hours.
It could even have been an enjoyable movie if Jennifer Garner hadn't been in it. Despite his freakish personal life, Ben didn't entirely blow. Not the Daredevil I pictured, but I guess it kinda worked. But a crybaby American white girl who you wouldn't have given decent odds in a fight against Christina Aguilera? For all the jumping around and attempting to look dangerous, it still felt like Jubilee could have totally fucked her shit up without chipping the nail polish.
I mention this because I was looking at the Daredevil DVD in Target the other day. It's cheaper than Spiderman, despite being newer. In fact, it's cheaper than many things, being a wopping $16.50. And at the time, Target was having a 25% off sale. So it would have been $12.40. And I looked at it, and I just couldn't buy it. Colin Farrell was lovely, but he didn't make up for Jennifer Garner $12.40 worth.
Given that I paid $10 for 'Batman Forever' on video without a qualm... that's a whole lot of suck she's bringing.
And I don't understand why, when Elektra is such a damn cool character. Squish Salma Hayek into the old red vinyl thing from the 'oops! I did it again' video and have her bite somebody, it would have been better than Jennifer's entire performance. For one thing, while being equally not Greek, Salma at least has black hair and more than two facial expressions. I really don't understand how they managed to fuck it up so badly, Elektra's pure archetype.
If they were determined to have her as a blue-eyed American girl, why the hell didn't they cast Uma Thurman?
If I can't bring myself to buy it for $12, I think I'll have to download it. Then edit out all the Elektra bits.
Possibly I could fix the plot holes by sticking in the dance break from 'Toxic' and replacing the relevant Daredevil dialogue with Eminem lyrics.
And yet, Daredevil still sucked. And it was worse, because it could have been a good movie. If they'd taken the heroes out and just had Bullseye and Kingpin snarking at each other and destroying shit it would have been good watch. Okay, they couldn't call it 'Daredevil', but I would have been happily entranced for hours.
It could even have been an enjoyable movie if Jennifer Garner hadn't been in it. Despite his freakish personal life, Ben didn't entirely blow. Not the Daredevil I pictured, but I guess it kinda worked. But a crybaby American white girl who you wouldn't have given decent odds in a fight against Christina Aguilera? For all the jumping around and attempting to look dangerous, it still felt like Jubilee could have totally fucked her shit up without chipping the nail polish.
I mention this because I was looking at the Daredevil DVD in Target the other day. It's cheaper than Spiderman, despite being newer. In fact, it's cheaper than many things, being a wopping $16.50. And at the time, Target was having a 25% off sale. So it would have been $12.40. And I looked at it, and I just couldn't buy it. Colin Farrell was lovely, but he didn't make up for Jennifer Garner $12.40 worth.
Given that I paid $10 for 'Batman Forever' on video without a qualm... that's a whole lot of suck she's bringing.
And I don't understand why, when Elektra is such a damn cool character. Squish Salma Hayek into the old red vinyl thing from the 'oops! I did it again' video and have her bite somebody, it would have been better than Jennifer's entire performance. For one thing, while being equally not Greek, Salma at least has black hair and more than two facial expressions. I really don't understand how they managed to fuck it up so badly, Elektra's pure archetype.
If they were determined to have her as a blue-eyed American girl, why the hell didn't they cast Uma Thurman?
If I can't bring myself to buy it for $12, I think I'll have to download it. Then edit out all the Elektra bits.
Possibly I could fix the plot holes by sticking in the dance break from 'Toxic' and replacing the relevant Daredevil dialogue with Eminem lyrics.