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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1755595" data-attributes="member: 5171">Most of the fight scenes in Daredevil.  In fact, most of the action in Daredevil.  I've harped on it before, but to be brief:- Lack of cinematism.  When Neo lands in the Matrix movies, he drops to one knee.  When a non-flying person in X-Men lands after a big leap, they roll.  So what does our Daredevil do after a hundred-plus-foot fall?  He lands with his knees very slightly bent.  What?  Why?  It doesn't look good.  It's not realistic (which is a lot less important than looking good in a superhero movie, but is occasionally acceptable as a reason).  Ech.- I have no idea how much of Daredevil's in-suit combat was Ben and how much was a stuntman.  That said: If it was Ben, don't let Ben fight anymore.  If it was a stuntman, give the stuntman a better choreographer, a better director, and a better costume (that gives him more freedom of motion), because those fights were terrible.  The first fight of the movie was the best, and that was primarily because of its music-video cutting that made it tough to see what was going on.I kind of grade on a curve here.  I don't look at old Sean Connery Bond movies and say "Man, that's a lousy punch," because that punch, at the time, was better than anything else in Western cinema.  The early Bond movies were years ahead of the competition in terms of putting in nasty and fairly realistic martial arts stuff.  (Heck, the new stuff isn't bad.  Brosnan ain't Jet Lee, but he usually convinces me that he's got dirty-fighting training at a paramilitary level -- or at least, he does with a good director and choreographer).  So I'm not grading old movies on their fights as harshly as I'm grading Daredevil, which is newer.I'd also add most of the Captain America movie -- or pilot, or whatever the heck it was. Captain America's big fight shouldn't be in a meat locker, and he shouldn't make bionic-man noises while pushing frozen cow carcasses at the bad guys.  And he shouldn't pose at the end with a transparent shield while the scientist guy takes pictures of him with a kind of greasy, creepy feeling that suggests that any moment, the scientist is going to say in a voice oozing with sleaze, "Now, Tad, these are looking great, but to get into the magazines these days, you've got to give them a little more.  Why don't you undo a few of those buttons?"</blockquote>

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