Two Daredevil reviews

Sagan Darkside said:

Well, in the comic he is not really fat. A lot of it is muscle. Very scary.

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Lot of muscle yes, but still fat.

mrswing said:

Over at www.comicbookresources.com Mark Millar totally trashed it... And the trailers (both of them) didn't convince me at all. The Kingpin is totally miscast, dammit!

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I did a full search on every one of Mark's collumns and there wasn't any word about him ever having seen the movie, or even the trailer. Best I could find is that he didn't like the costume that he saw in a poster. Is that was you mean by trashing the movie, or am I missing something?

[Edit - Did a search at Miller's personal board and couldn't find anything about it there either. However, he did have this to say about Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - "Everybody just kind of accepted that Two Towers was going to blow everything else away when it really just kind of… blowed. Yeah, it was fairly spectacular and all that, but was I the only one who thought it all felt kind of EMPTY? Like looking at pixies through the wrong end of a telescope? I’ve never read the books and have little interest in these kind of things, but LOTR failed to live up to even my low expectations." - If that is representative of his views on movies (he goes on to mention the movies he did like, half of which were crap B movies), then I would be perfectly fine if Mark Miller thought Daredevil blows. ]

Who the heck is Mike Millar?
Well those two favourable reviews have generated sufficient interest for me. Definitely will catch it when it hits theaters.

Welverin said:

He's not fat! Sure he's really strong as well, but still huge!

Sure there's no one who's actually like that, but then again I don't have a problem with it myself.

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&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp In the comic books, the Joker is so thin as to be practically anorexic.

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp I would hardly describe Jack Nicholson's Joker in the movie Batman to be "thin", but he did such an awesome job in that role that it didn't matter.


-G

Millar is a decent comic book author for DC.

I don't trust anything reviewed on AICN any more. Harry Knowles would rave over a pile of steaming monkey feces if it had a superhero license tacked on to it.

must resist.........can't fight urge.................

Piratecat said:

I don't trust anything reviewed on AICN any more. Harry Knowles would rave over a pile of steaming monkey feces if it had a superhero license tacked on to it.

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Harry is not a good reviewer. He's all gutand heart and no brains when it comes to writing reviews.

Now, Moriarty, who writes one of the above reviews, I've come to grudgingly respect review-wise. I don't agree with him half the time, but I can usually see his points both ways (kinda like my love-hate relationship with Roger Ebert).

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Lol @ jdavis.

I'm also one of those guys that can't really wrap my head around Ben Affleck's success. From what I've seen from the guy as a person, I rather like, but as an actor... ?!?!? He did well in the Kevin Smith movies because the parts he was playing were tailor made for him (literally) but in anything else he's just kinda 'blah!'.

I've yet to meet anyone (in person) that finds Ben Affleck a really good actor. People range from indifference to outright hatred, but no fans yet.

And from what I'm told, he's not really a sex idol either.

I dug him in all the Smith movies and the 2 that I saw him in last year, Changing Lanes & The Sum of All Fears. His small part in Boiler Room wasn't bad. I liked Good Will Hunting. And even tho it was cheezy, I liked him in Armageddon. The only movie I can remember seeing him in that I didn't like was Pearl Harbor but he had nothing to do with my hate of it.

I'm one of those folks who actually doesn't get why so many folks hate him so much. Oh well.

... and he was Da Bomb in Phantoms.

I don't hate Ben Affleck, I'm rather indifferent.

I've seen a lot of good movies with him in it, but like so many actors (or rather more often actresses) I didn't feel that he particulary did very much for the movie (like there are good Van Damme movies, but it's quality had nothing to do with him).

When you mention it, I did too like him in Changing Lanes, forgot about that movie.

I've never understood why people hate him like that or any other actor as such.

Viking Bastard said:

I've never understood why people hate him like that or any other actor as such.

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It's cool to hate.

There seems to be a tendency amoung most people to say anything they don't like, no matter the reason, is bad or sucks and this often leads to their hating it.