Daredevil Message Board

daredevil99x · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

Despite Nic Cage I don't think Ghost Rider will make any real money. Marvel and DC need to look long and hard at the properties they want to make into movies. Spider-Man and X-Men are obviously Marvel's big winners, and Batman and Superman for DC, but once they start moving from those core properties they're on thin ice. Hulk would have done better had it not been so weird, and Elektra and Catwoman blew (although I didn't watch Catwoman a friend of mine did, and he left-it was too painful to watch). Anyway, if they want to make fringe characters into movies they need to do it like Dark Horse did with Hellboy and Marvel did with the Punisher, on the cheap. Neither one of those movies cost very much, and so despite the fact they didn't make loads of money, they made back what they had spent on them, and more. Given the same could be said for Daredevil, the fact that Affleck was in it, and attached to Jennifer Lopez at the time didn't help it out. I think critics would have been kinder to it had he not been with Lopez. People were sick of their relationship, and it didn't help the movie. If they make another one, I would prefer Affleck to be back (I know a lot of people hated him in it, but I thought he did a good job), but if he won't come back, hire a no-name actor, and try to do it on the cheap.
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james castle · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:29 pm Post subject:

hellpussy · Flying Blind Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 84

It has been hit and miss Marvel. They have churned out a slew of movies that might as well be forgotten. Daredevil being one of them, I have yet to see Elektra. But one of my fav DD characters - Typhoid Mary looks, from the shorts, undervalued as an important, interesting character. The film looks rushed. Anyone seen it?

I liked The Hulk, I don't read the comic, but thought the Hulk was a great comic book movie - filmed with a comic book feel.

Punisher was good, but could have been betterer.

hellpussy · Flying Blind Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 84

crtdaredevil · Flying Blind Joined: 11 Jan 2005 Posts: 14

People Lambast DD when really, as much as I hate to admit this, the intertwineing of the love story With DD and elektra brought the Theatrical version to it's figuritive knees. As much as I say this, The DD director's cut was 100 times better becuase of more in depth dialouge, more action, and that Fight club comment was very Matt Murdock-esq. That was about a superhero going out and kicking @$$ for the good of city. It was a revenge and detective picture. Let's face it, Matt Murdock is the poor man's Batman. He saved billions on Technology that wayne could really only have dreamed of. So there should be a DD2, just more in the realm, of his relationship with Karen Page, Not the full on love story, but the guardian devil storyline.

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Goddess0Whim · Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Subject

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rgj · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

Goddess0Whim · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:

RGJ; i'm tempted to say you are a cruel person to subject us to that...
but, i'm just not sure quite how to react to the comparison of that ^^^ and the DD Director's Cut and or otherwise...because, i don't quite remember seeing anthing quite that scary in either version of the movie Confused

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james castle · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject:

Not to steal Stanley's thunder but surely this is the funnier thread.
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