Movie notes.
Daredevil - Now, a friend who had recommended the movie suggested that we skip the "origin story" part of the movie and go straight to the first fight sequence and watch from then on. Which we did. So maybe I missed something, but that movie was wet, smelly, feces-ridden ass. Mr. Swingers was incredibly fat, too. Elektra's costume made her look like she had bad implants. Oh, and Daredevil's stunts were just plain ludicrous. I'm reminded of Blade's superleap out of the hospital, how it seemed unbelievable in the scene, and was an indicator of the fantasy element in the story - Blade was, after all, half vampire. Daredevil is just a ultrablindman, nothing else.
Spiderman could do that shit because he was bitten by a radioac---er, genetically enhanced spider. The people in The Matrix could do that shit because they were in The Matrix. Daredevil? Well, he listens to really shitty music and sleeps in a watery coffin. These do not give one amazing jumping ability. That aside, Colin Farrell played Bullseye as if he were a really snotty supervillain. On the whole, the movie was bad.
Solaris - much better than Daredevil. Not as good as Tarkovsky's, but what can you do. They hyped up the romance portion of the film, made it a pretty love story fable, added some twistiness and an action movie plot to frame the whole thing. Produced by James Cameron, the similarity to Aliens is amusing - we've already sent a security team, no response - we need you to go check out things on our space colony.
Posted by mattb at August 01, 2003 04:09 PM