I know it's in to hate on her...especially admidst the casting couch rumors...but when I see her on Boardwalk Empire, I really dig her! Talented, sexy, full of charm. Groovy!
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The GoBots. I'm sure that makes me a heretic to the true Transformers fanatics, but I don't care anymore. Sure, Hanna-Barbera/Cuckoos Nest were no Marvel/Toei as far as animation goes, and, sure, the voice acting was for the most part, mediocre. But the last third or so of the show's run had many episodes that were as good or even better than pre-movie Transformers. I loved Hoyt Curtin's music, both the theme and the background cues. And, most importantly, the female GoBots, good and evil alike, were a lot cooler than the likes of the Transformers' Arcee -- particularly Crasher, one of the all-time great TV villainesses, with Marilyn Lightstone's consistenly great vocal performances; I mean, THAT laugh ("HAAAAAA HA HA HA HA!!!!")
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The Ben Affleck Daredevil movie (which I just watched again a couple nights back).
I could have sworn when it came out in 2003 that a lot of people dug it, but somehow, over the next decade or so, it's become a go-to example of a superhero movie done wrong.
I completely disagree. I would actually go so far as to say that - the original Christopher Reeve Superman aside - that the director's cut of Daredevil might actually be my favorite superhero movie.
Is it full of overly slick images, hammy dialog, and strange plotholes? Absolutely. (I always wonder, during that "Elektra training with the sandbags" scene, who is actually going to clean all that up). But what else embraces those things? A comic book!
I always find Daredevil to be the closest thing I've seen to a comic come to life. It straddles a strange line between going for a grim and gritty take (but not attempting to strike as realistic a tone as the Nolan Batman films) and a more stylized approach (but not completely missing what is the appealing about comic books, in the way that something like Ang Lee's Hulk movie did).
There have been probably fifty or so comic book movies since the big revival of the genre started with "Blade" in the late 90's, but Daredevil is the only one that I keep going back to watch again and again.
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So it was the Directors cut of Daredevil you watched? That explains why you like it. Due to some horrible choices in editing, the theatrical version is quite different (and quite bad) Not a fan of the original version, but I agree that the Directors cut is one of the better superhero movies
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Yeah, it was the director's cut. I actually bought it a while back in a bargain pack that contained all the Fox Marvel movies to date (The X-men trilogy, the two Fantastic Fours, Daredevil and Elektra).
Interesting that that was the version they decided to go with for the package, then. I guess even the studio wound up agreeing it was better.
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If you can manage it somehow, watch both versions back to back...the differences are astounding!
EDIT: I haven't watched either, but I hear that the Green Lantern movie has a similiar issue between theatrical and Directors cut versions
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Frankly, I thought Daredevil was a decent superhero flick, theatrical or director's cut. Yeah, you could argue that the director's cut is definitely better (especially with how it shows Matt lawyering more), but I don't think the theatrical quite deserves all the hate it gets either. (IIRC, we reviewed it pretty favorably here on LW when it was released.)
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BTW, I thought the first Ghost Rider movie and the Green Lantern movie were decent enough films, as well, in an enjoy-them-while-you're-eating-popcorn way. They entertained me while I watched them, and I didn't wish I had stayed home.
Often, it just becomes the cool thing to do to rag on certain movies to such an extent that you let other people's opinions brainwash you. Sometimes, the films in question don't deserve it. ("Batman & Robin" definitely deserved it!)
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I've always kind of dug it. I'm real interested in watching the Director's Cut now.
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