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Just finished Daredevil as well. Not a binge, I fell asleep several times, notably any time real estate was discussed. I expected to be wow'ed, and I did like it, but it was not as good as Gotham. Despite the blind guy fighting crime, their more "realistic" tone was a little monotonous. I liked DareDevil's buddies as mood breakers, and they are also interesting characters. The show gets points for a) showing Daredevil suffer/recover after getting beat up, Vincent D making you forget his character was a sociopath until oh yeah, and being gutsy enough to kill off likeable/unexpected characters. However, that last one, they might have painted themselves into a corner with.
I liked Gotham more and more as it went on. At first it annoyed the hell out of me by trying to squeeze every last character in a former/younger self into the story. Like Muppet Babies for Batman villains. It was all a bit contrived and probably still is I suppose but as they started getting further with the characters who we know can actually die, it got more and more entertaining.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
Anybody watch this season of daredevil? I didn't like it as much as season 1, but there were high points. I liked Electra and the Punisher. As usual on TV, people not telling each other things leads to misunderstandings. The violence seemed to be stepped up.
I saw it. It started well and had a pretty good ending but the middle dragged. I liked JJ more, but I can see DD go on having five more seasons of this while JJ probably already had its best season.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
I saw it too. I always find the switch between realism and fantastical to be an odd thing to do half way through something. It happened in Arrow too. I wonder if the process is like "Lets do this comic but make it dark, gritty and real." Then "We ran out of characters that can be real, its time for the magic immortals and superpowers to come out."
I think they could have made Punisher the focus of the entire season to be honest. There was something distracting about the storyline with Elektra and the ninjas and I got quite annoyed that it interfered with the dynamic between Matt and his friends.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
I can agree with the focus bit - Elektra and The Punisher are both big enough things to deserve a season of their own. This became something like Spiderman 3, too many villains (although not quite that bad). Notably Frank Castle is alive and well at the end, and people who understand kanji say that Elektra isn't necessarily gone either (writing on the casket). I can see some good stories ahead with Kingpin pulling the threads from inside prison, but at the same time there will be two seasons at least before the next DD season (JJ S2 and the first Luke Cage), so they could be setting something up there.
I'm not sure that there was that sharp a switch to the mystical, though. Daredevil was always a little mystical, and he has ninja training, so introducing more mystical ninjas isn't too much of a stretch. Arrow bugged me more, where it was almost all straight up vigilante to begin with and then gradually introducing mystical with things like the League of Assassins and now going full-on magical in the latest season. If your one trick is to shoot fancy arrows, maybe stay out of the magic?
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
Anybody watch this season of daredevil? I didn't like it as much as season 1, but there were high points. I liked Electra and the Punisher. As usual on TV, people not telling each other things leads to misunderstandings. The violence seemed to be stepped up.
The violence steps into the pointless-and-adding-nothing zone sometimes. Definitely gratuitous at times. Wish they'd scale it back some. My wife refuses to watch it now.
Had to stop watching Gotham.
Why so?
Originally Posted by starman
Early reaction are coming in for Civil War and it's overwhelmingly positive.
I feel like martial arts in fiction can happily occupy a mystical grey area without getting completely magical. Once people start gaining superpowers or immortality, the boundary has been overstepped for me.
I have plenty of more important things to do, if only I could bring myself to do them....
Is this the right place for Tom Holland/Spider-Man movie talk?
Anyways, after Civil War the Sony/Marvel Spider-Man film will be called Spider-Man: Homecoming, and could feature Vulture. Vulture was going to be the big bad in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man 4, played by John Malkovich, which never happened. Now there are supposed to be talks that Michael Keaton is going to be Vulture in Homecoming. Either of them would be good, but having Michael Keaton to me seems like the casting people saw Birdman and any thought after that didn't go further than Birdman - bird man - Vulture, hey let's get that guy.
They get to link their movie to one that was well received, because every single lazy reviewer will mention it, and that is worth some marketing dollars.
But I have to wonder if the world is getting close to peak superhero, and a second reboot of spidey could be the one thing that even Marvel fails at. Personally I couldn't care less about this movie.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
The violence steps into the pointless-and-adding-nothing zone sometimes. Definitely gratuitous at times. Wish they'd scale it back some. My wife refuses to watch it now.
The fighting was so frequent, so quiet, and so darkly lit, that I'd doze off and woke up back when there'd be dialogue. Never mind the sheer impossibility of someone without mutant powers healing with the beatdowns Matt Murdock takes.
I also disliked the breakdown in the murdock-nelson dynamic. Sure, it showed how vigilantism really cuts into ones work and friend time... so Foggy does have a right to be annoyed at Matt slacking on real cases, and not telling him about Elektra. Making matt and Karen romantic seemed only put there so that she could walk in on Elektra wounded in Matt's bed and jump to the wrong conclusion. Never mind that Matt was fully clothed, there was some old guy on the couch, wanna ask a few questions, Karen? naw, jump to conclusions and storm out. Out of character, for Karen is a curious cat. Also, season 1 they teased some good chemistry with her and Foggy, so wtf show.
I liked competent Karen, tracking down the punisher and working with the newspaper.
The comparison between the vigilantes and their methods, their line in the sand of right/wrong, that was interesting.
The Hand storyline would have been better with a lot more info sharing. Stick is a jerk with bad communication skills. It's not hard to say, "Oh hey, elektra, instead of sending a killer after you I'm going to tell you that some bad guys are after you. It would be better to die than get caught." Thanks Stick! Also then suave guy at the airport would be alive and there to help them fight the Hand. Planning, Stick! Stop killing off your own people!
Gotham got a little too... snuff film. The closeup on
The riddler killing his girlfriend
was disturbing to me, very real and not comic book violence (fish stabbing out her eye I can get over).
I'm reserving judgement. I really like Broderbund Cabbagepatch, but there are parts of that trailer that bug me.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Anyone watching Iron Fist on Netflix? I've watched two episodes. Main character is likeable, but not too smart. Seems stuck mentally at 10 years old.
Hey long lost relatives! It's me! No I'm totally not a crazy homeless guy! No, I've never heard of research, and I've got issues recognizing personal boundaries! I won't blurt out pertinent facts, but be vague for as long as possible until I'm locked up in the loony bin!
Watched about half so far. Mostly it's Yawn. There is nothing special to draw me in, and the fights are poorly choreographed. It doesn't help that Danny fights without a mask, so it is harder to sub in a stuntman.
It is nowhere near as bad as some of the critics will have it, though. It beats the second half of Luke Cage.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
Watched about half so far. Mostly it's Yawn. There is nothing special to draw me in, and the fights are poorly choreographed. It doesn't help that Danny fights without a mask, so it is harder to sub in a stuntman.
It is nowhere near as bad as some of the critics will have it, though. It beats the second half of Luke Cage.
I would agree with all of this. I also find the HDR distracting.
Daredevil knows Jessica and Luke, with bleed-over between the 3 of them in each series (oftentimes literally), and Luke was on Iron Fist, with Iron Fist and Daredevil sharing the same enemies.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Daredevil knows Jessica and Luke, with bleed-over between the 3 of them in each series (oftentimes literally), and Luke was on Iron Fist, with Iron Fist and Daredevil sharing the same enemies.
You mean in the comics? Because in the show, the only people who have actually met directly are JJ and Luke. They have of course all met Claire Temple and I think all met Gao and Hogarth. It is getting to the point where it is starting to be silly that DD in particular hasn't met any of the others.
The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
Glad to hear that. I know I spaced on Luke/JJ (it's been a while since I saw it, ok!?!) but didn't think I'd forgotten anything that interesting happening in Iron Fist.
Ort, I gave Legion a try, and have to say they do a great job with the insanity thing... intriguing... but I should try again when more awake.
I didn't say they've physically met yet (except for JJ and Luke). They have the same nurse (Claire), and there's talk of DD on Jessica Jones (and Luke Cage)
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Seeing it tomorrow, but only because he's now MCU. For me this is Spidey's last chance.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Slaves did NOT build the Wash monument. What a load of sh*t.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
That sounds right... I think statistically they're going to have been involved somewhere along the line, but if it was like what we imagine the pyramids to be, there would have been records.
Yes... the pyramids weren't built by slaves either, but people imagine that.
They may have quarried some of the stone for it, but they didn't actually construct the monument itself. It was built by hired stonemasons. Anyhow, I brought that up because some people in the theater groaned and were clearly miffed over that line. Also the multiculturalism was clearly forced. I know that Queens is an ethnically diverse borough (~55% minorities), but c'mon, Peter is the only "melanin-deprived" kid in the school?
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
Seriously, when will Hollywood finally start making movies that prominently feature white people?
Or, you know, make movies that ignore garbage like identity politics in the first place. As for Marvel, they know it's killing their comics, but I guess they insist on infecting their movies as well. Oh well, the market will sort it out, they'll learn.
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr