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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1639857" data-attributes="member: 5171">I must've been the only person who was really irked by Daredevil.&nbsp; I just didn't like it very much at all -- not because it was uniformly bad, but because it was selectively bad in specific areas, blowing all the promise that it had in so many other parts.&nbsp;&nbsp; The effects to mimic Murdock's senses?&nbsp; Fantastic.&nbsp; Well-used.&nbsp; The scenes in the diner with Foggy?&nbsp; Great dialogue.&nbsp; Good sense of the people together.&nbsp; That scene at the funeral where Elektra puts up the umbrella, symbolically vanishing from Matt's senses?&nbsp; Goosebumps.But the action scenes?&nbsp; Ech.&nbsp; Blocky, poorly choreographed, and no sense of emotion or excitement at all.&nbsp; How do you make a comic-book movie and do such a nice job with characterization and out-of-costume scenes and then blow the fights so badly?&nbsp; The scene with Affleck and Garner out of costume in the playground... it was embarrassing.&nbsp; Look, I know they aren't real-life martial artists.&nbsp; I'm not asking for Jet Li or Wesley Snipes.&nbsp; But come on, make it look more like people actually doing real moves instead of moving their arms into the appropriate positions as though doing some new dance moves.&nbsp; And, as a director/choreographer, decide up-front whether you want your fights to be realistic or acrobatic, and then stick with that, instead of doing this mishmash of &quot;now they're doing enormous leaps, and now it's a gritty realistic -- no, no, they're leaping again -- er, and now it's solid and intense...&quot;&nbsp; Both styles can look good on film, and heck, a really great movie could conceivably work back and forth between the two.&nbsp; But this one just fell utterly flat for me.Of course, I'm a fight scene snob.&nbsp; Sometimes the master must weep while the students laugh, and vice versa...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1639857, member: 5171"] I must've been the only person who was really irked by [i]Daredevil[/i]. I just didn't like it very much at all -- not because it was uniformly bad, but because it was selectively bad in specific areas, blowing all the promise that it had in so many other parts. The effects to mimic Murdock's senses? Fantastic. Well-used. The scenes in the diner with Foggy? Great dialogue. Good sense of the people together. That scene at the funeral where Elektra puts up the umbrella, symbolically vanishing from Matt's senses? Goosebumps. But the action scenes? Ech. Blocky, poorly choreographed, and no sense of emotion or excitement at all. How do you make a comic-book movie and do such a nice job with characterization and out-of-costume scenes and then blow the fights so badly? The scene with Affleck and Garner out of costume in the playground... it was embarrassing. Look, I know they aren't real-life martial artists. I'm not asking for Jet Li or Wesley Snipes. But come on, make it look more like people actually doing real moves instead of moving their arms into the appropriate positions as though doing some new dance moves. And, as a director/choreographer, decide up-front whether you want your fights to be realistic or acrobatic, and then stick with that, instead of doing this mishmash of "now they're doing enormous leaps, and [b]now[/b] it's a gritty realistic -- no, no, they're leaping again -- er, and now it's solid and intense..." Both styles can look good on film, and heck, a really great movie could conceivably work back and forth between the two. But this one just fell utterly flat for me. Of course, I'm a fight scene snob. Sometimes the master must weep while the students laugh, and vice versa... [/QUOTE]

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