Redux Month - Daredevil

“How do you kill a man without fear?”

What kind of dumb question is that? Being unafraid doesn’t make you bulletproof, immune to knives or poison or fire, it doesn’t make you able to breathe underwater, or be incapable of succumbing to injuries. You kill him the same way you kill anyone else.

Next up for redux month, we’re talking about Daredevil and I’ve got a confession to make, when I did my original Daredevil review, I’d never read a Daredevil comic, and it would be another 6 months before the Netflix show would come out and redefine Daredevil in my eyes (along with a lot of people’s). The purpose of the review was to defend the casting of Ben Affleck as Batman in the then upcoming Batman v Superman movie… which as you all worked out so well, our latest Batman is Edward Cullen from Twilight. I kid, Robert Pattinson’s a decent actor.

So what’s my new take on Daredevil. Oh boy is it bad, but it’s still not as bad as Elektra. I know, I’m full of hot takes here.

Netflix Month - The Defenders - Fish in the Jailhouse/The Defenders

Let’s finish this series, and Netflix Month shall we?

Netflix Month - The Defenders - Take Shelter/Ashes, Ashes

We return with the next quarter of the Defenders

Netflix Month: The Defenders - Worst Behaviour/Royal Dragon

Welcome Back to our retrospective on the Defenders. I’m only doing recaps for Stranger things, alright, let’s get straight into this

Netflix Month: The Defenders - The H Word/Mean Right Hook

Phew, it’s a been big year for Marvel’s Netflix series. In 2018 they’ve brought all their individual shows up to s2 with new series of Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and a shorter season of Iron Fist. And they’re yet to slow down with third series of Daredevil and Jessica Jones and another Punisher series (I’m not interested enough in the Punisher to review him, not the fault of the actor, but just the character himself)

We’ll look at Jessica Jones and Luke Cage’s second seasons next year and Iron Fist in early 2020, assuming I’m not burnt out. But before we get to that, here’s the moment this was all building to: The Defenders

After the initially positive but later mixed reception of Luke Cage and the initially negative and later mixed reception of Iron Fist, this series received mixed reception. Has Netflix lost its spark? Let’s find out as we begin Netflix Month

  

With the first 2 episodes of the Defenders.

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 11-13 - .380/The Dark at the End of the Tunnel/A cold day in Hell's Kitchen

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 2 episodes 9-10 - Seven Minutes in Heaven/The Man in the Box

We’re back with Daredevil season 2 and it seems to be strong thus far, I remember hating this second half the first time around, could I have been wrong? Let’s continue and find out

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 7-8 - Semper Fidelis/Guilty as Sin

We’re back to look at more Daredevil. When I originally watched it’s about this point where my opinion on the series began to sour, is this still the case?

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 5-6 - Kinbaku/Regrets Only

Let’s go…

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 2 episodes 3-4 - New York's Finest/Penny and Dime

We’re back with 2 more episodes from Season 2 of Daredevil

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 2 Episodes 1-2 - Bang/Dogs to a gunfight

It's 2018, time to revive Netflix Retrospectives

Through 2018 I’ll be doing frequent retrospectives on Netflix shows, I’m gonna put a 1-year cut-off date on it to make sure you have time to see it before going into this, because it will involve spoilers as I give a rundown of the plot. Let’s start off with the sequel to the Marvel Netflix original series, this is season 2 of Daredevil.

4 Issue Test #42 - The Defenders

Note: At the point of typing the Defenders series hadn’t come out yet.

Luke Cage, Daredevil, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones, together they are the Defenders, a street level Superhero team that deal with things below the pay-grade of people like the Avengers. I’ve reviewed a lot of their individual outings with all but Jessica Jones not meeting the standard I look for in comics.

So, in the writer’s seat we have Brian Michael Bendis. If you ever want the definition of a hit-and-miss writer, look up Bendis. I literally did an editorial on why Civil War II was a piece of sh*t. But Bendis also wrote Jessica Jones which I enjoy and was responsible for all the Miles Morales Spider-man issues, which have mostly been good, so maybe something’s here to enjoy. Let’s find out.

4 issue test #25 - Daredevil

Well, I really enjoyed the Neflix series, so why not pick up the new comic and see what happens? Let’s see what happens.

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 1 episodes 10-13 review

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil season 1 episodes 7-9

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 1 episodes 4-6

Netflix Retrospective: Daredevil Season 1 episodes 1-3

It’s time for the first ever Netflix Retrospective

And yes I know it was due like 6 weeks ago, I’m sorry, I got caught up playing Arkham Knight. But to make up for it I’m doing an episode by episode retrospective as opposed to a full series one as I was planning to.

So, let’s sit back and enjoy the first 3 episode of Marvel’s (god I hate putting that bit in, which is why I usually leave it out) Daredevil. Unlike a lot of retrospectives I’m going to give afterthoughts on the episodes rather than just riffing on them.

Guilty Pleasures #7 - Daredevil

I don’t have too much to rage at at the moment, but let’s take a look at another film that I don’t think is as bad as critics have often thought it was, Daredevil

It’s another Guilty Pleasure from Marvel Comics, specifically this time it’s Fox division. I don't know much about the comics this is based upon, but what I do know is that the modern day Daredevil is a dark and gritty saga defined by writer Frank Miller. (Yeah, this is before everything he wrote turned to sh*t)

It was popular enough for a movie to be brought out in 2003, earning a 5.3 on Idmb, a 45% rotten tomatoes rating, and while it was profitable, it made less than $200 million, the budget for a modern day Superhero movie. 

So, let's dig into the movie, and see exactly what went right, and what went wrong.