I just finished watching the 2003 Daredevil movie staring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, and Colin Farrell, and its not half bad. Now Daredevil is not one of my favorite character, and yes the movie has some big flaws, but I still like it. One thing I love about the movie is the blatant name dropping of members the Daredevil creative team (as seen on the right). I really enjoy a lot of the acting in this film and I don't think they could cast this movie any better, I honestly buy Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock and I don't think they could have cast anyone better for Kingpin/Wilson Fisk then Michael Clarke Duncan. I remember being in some arguments back in 2003 about how Kingpin was the "wrong colour" but I don't think I can think of a single Caucasian actor that could better fill the role of the Kingpin even today. Now yes I know this film did more for the band Evanescence then it do for the careers of the actors, but I do prefer the actual movie to the sound track. Another thing I really like about the film is how they didn't overly beat into you that Matt was Catholic, but still having the evidence of his religious background still prominent. This is something a little more meaningful to me because at that time I was still somewhat religious, in that I was still grieving the loss of my Grandpa, who was my father figure since my actual father has had nothing to with me, also it didn't hurt that I was brought up in a Catholic family. Now I have changed my stripes on the issue of religion, but that's not something to talk about here since this is about the Daredevil movie. Now before I saw this movie I never cared for Daredevil as a character, and it hasn't been until now that I've ever really wanted to read about him. Thanks to the latest episode of Views From The Longbox I've gotten a lot more into the character. Anyways for a early 2000's comic book movie I really have to say this movie has held up well, and is a lot better then people tend to give it credit. I give it 3.5 braille covered stars out of 5.
I just finished watching the 2003 Daredevil movie staring Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, and Colin Farrell, and its not half bad. Now Daredevil is not one of my favorite character, and yes the movie has some big flaws, but I still like it. One thing I love about the movie is the blatant name dropping of members the Daredevil creative team (as seen on the right). I really enjoy a lot of the acting in this film and I don't think they could cast this movie any better, I honestly buy Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock and I don't think they could have cast anyone better for Kingpin/Wilson Fisk then Michael Clarke Duncan. I remember being in some arguments back in 2003 about how Kingpin was the "wrong colour" but I don't think I can think of a single Caucasian actor that could better fill the role of the Kingpin even today. Now yes I know this film did more for the band Evanescence then it do for the careers of the actors, but I do prefer the actual movie to the sound track. Another thing I really like about the film is how they didn't overly beat into you that Matt was Catholic, but still having the evidence of his religious background still prominent. This is something a little more meaningful to me because at that time I was still somewhat religious, in that I was still grieving the loss of my Grandpa, who was my father figure since my actual father has had nothing to with me, also it didn't hurt that I was brought up in a Catholic family. Now I have changed my stripes on the issue of religion, but that's not something to talk about here since this is about the Daredevil movie. Now before I saw this movie I never cared for Daredevil as a character, and it hasn't been until now that I've ever really wanted to read about him. Thanks to the latest episode of Views From The Longbox I've gotten a lot more into the character. Anyways for a early 2000's comic book movie I really have to say this movie has held up well, and is a lot better then people tend to give it credit. I give it 3.5 braille covered stars out of 5.
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