So last night I finally watched the movie Daredevil, starring Ben Affleck and, my personal favorite, Jennifer Garner. After hearing about how absolutely horrible this movie is I wasn't expecting much - and that seems to be the key to enjoying a bad movie. Most of the people who didn't like it said the acting was horrible. I didn't take issue with the acting so much as the directing... that and the fact that you could tell Ben Affleck had rehearsed his fights. Jennifer Garner is such a natural fighter that in their fight together you could totally tell the difference between natural and rehearsed fighting. The special effects were not so great, but I blame this on producting and directing. I mean really... it's not Ben Affleck's fault that half of his fighting is done by a computer generated carbon copy. There were some sound issues too - because of DareDevil's hearing thing, which made it interesting but also hard to listen too. It had the typical comic book plot, and compared to other films of the genre was about the same. Which was probably the problem; it had nothing new to reccommend it and the old facets of a comic book story were badly done. Which brings me to the question, if there budget was so much why didn't they do the special effects better??
So on the whole I'd give the movie a C, not a film created for repeated viewings but not as horrible as everybody claimed.
I'd recommend watching X-Men or Spiderman over this movie. I am looking forward to Spiderman 2, but I wonder if it is actually going to be good.
I have to say I'm not really looking forward, as in wait in line looking forward, to any movie this summer. Movies seem to be going downhill for some reason and I just don't want to watch another one full of the same old crap. Is there even anything worth watching coming out this summer? I know I'd watch anything starring Jennifer Garner...
Posted by 10lees at May 30, 2004 01:41 PM