Daredevil Message Board

[Gloria]

I hope I will be excused for the title, but yesterday I saw the recent "Casino Royale" in an outdoor cinema... and well, I sighed just thinking what a great "Daredevil" movie it could have been if it had been made by the Bond Team and not the people who did that Affleck flic.

I'm not a sucker for action movies, but I admit that the initial action scenes got me... and the breath-taking physicallity of the chase in the building works, seemed to me as an ideal and powerful DD/Punisher or DD/Bullseye chase scene (instead of the lame CGI and fight choreography we got in the actual Daredevil film)

Incidentally; i think Daniel Craig could have been one hell of a Bullseye (No, I didn't like Colin Farrell's jerky retard of a Bullseye)
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Gloria
Devuélveme el rosario de mi madre y quédate con todo lo demás

"Para la cuesta arriba quiero mi burro, que la cuesta abajo yo me la subo"

[the truebeliever]

I agree that it would have been a better movie if made and directed by the bond team. Not only that but if they had a better cast. The cast of Daredevil was all wrong. I wish they had a better cast and crew.

[Gloria]

I suppose that it is a budget thing, also: Bond films have monster budgets because they generally score well in the Box-Office. The daredevil film must have been a B film, budget-wise, in comparison with the average Bond movie.

But the planning of scenes (i.e. storyboarding) is not necessarily expensive... more that this: Just taking as it is, say, the storytelling of either "Born Again" or the "Man Without fear" mini, pannel by pannel, they would have saved a lot of money in further writers: and they both were awesomelly terrific stories as they were.

Re the cast: I thought that even with a better one, it would have suffered the poor writing. Personally, while I think that Jon Favreau was one of the few nice things about the film, I think he wasn't the best possible Foggy: his extra weight was right, but otherwise his looks were wrong for me.

My ideal choices would be either Rolf Lassgard


or Timothy Spall


Both portly gentlemen with a grand acting talent (though maybe a bit mature for the part). Another possible choice would be Beau Bridges: he's certainly older, but was good as the underdog of the Fabulous Baker Brothers. Mark (Full Monty) Addy has fitting looks and age for the character, though I still have to see him deliver the goods as I have seen Messrs. Lassgard, Spall or Bridges do it.

Having menyioned Beau, I think that, were Jeff Bridges younger, too, he could be a nice Murdock.
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Gloria
Devuélveme el rosario de mi madre y quédate con todo lo demás

"Para la cuesta arriba quiero mi burro, que la cuesta abajo yo me la subo"

[rgj]

MSJ is a chimp.



He's a bad director. An even worse writer. The DD was a failure because of him. Yes, people want to blame Foster (and, yes, he's a jackass too), but, the fact remains that MSJ got pushed around because he was a new director (just glad to have a job). The DD movie franchise was a wash because the guy was utterly impotent and incompetent as a "leader" of a film.

rgj

[james castle]

Wow. Gloria really does like Foggy alot. Like. ALOT.

As for the movie, for me the writing is what killed it. A close second (in terms of worst thing about the movie) was the fighting. A much more natural/realistic style of action would have helped alot. Whoever decided to have a CG DD running up the pipe organ deserves to be shot. Even funnier there's that one "behind the scenes" scene where it shows Afleck falling over and over again as he does a wire jump about 3 feet. Why use wires for such a small hop? Very unnatrual and crappy.
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JC

So why can't you see the funny side?
Why aren't you laughing?

[Gloria]

[MarcWagz]

I actually liked the part of the fight scene where Bullseye throws a flurry of shurukien at Daredevil and he blocks them all and then throws the club at him. The glass thing was a little silly but oh well.

[train]

i'm typically not a big fan of James Bond movies. don't really care for the "suave" Bond...but happend upon Casino Royale and was pleasantly suprised by the unvarnished Bond. i am in complete agreement with others on this thread. the free-running action scene on the construction site was magnificent and would make a wonderful DD scene.

[rgj]

There should have been TONS of free running in a DD film. That's what he frickin does. But, let's face it, the DD movie was missing more than free running. It was missing a good director, writer, produces, actors, studio heads, cinemetographers, editors and soundtrack. Oh, but it did have Kevin "I can't believe I ate the whole thing" Smith.
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[Lucrezia]

Daniel Craig as Bond is CR did make me think of Matt Murdock. Two working class/or low class guys who are trying to be gentlemen, but are still rough around the edges.

[Dash]

Beau Bridges as Foggy?

Maybe as Foggy's dad...

The other actors look like him, but I wonder if they'd actually make a good Foggy. I guess we'll eventually.

In my opinion, I don't think a DD movie will focus on Foggy's character too much. He's an important DD character, but generally of little consequence.