Marvel and Netflix

Watched the premier of Jessica Jones. Like Daredevil last season it is set in Manhattan's Hells Kitchen.
I was pretty impressed. Comic Book movies tend to be very blatant, and this one is filled with innuendo and unexplained behavior. I always liked Krysten Ritter, and the fact that the villain (a longtime Daredevil enemy) is played by David Tennant is a big bonus.

Jessica Jones is a relatively new Marvel superhero only introduced in Nov 2001.

You watched the first ep? Don't be shocked when
it goes downhill from there.

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Don't be shocked when it goes downhill from there.

Damn. You shot the Easter Bunny.

I was looking forward to David Tennant, Mr. Nice Guy, play a psychopath. I have never seen him play an evil character. I still think one of Mark Harmon's best roles in 40 years of TV was Ted Bundy in The Deliberate Stranger (TV Movie 1986).

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Damn. You shot the Easter Bunny.
).

Oh, I haven't seen any of it yet. I'm
just very disappointed in most of
the Orig Nflix series. The first 2
seasons of House of Cards was good,
the 3rd sucked. 3rd season of Lilyhammer
was unwatchable, series cancelled. The
other 8-10 I sampled were drek. The
only one I really liked was the one in
Florida, but it's 2nd season will probably
suck too.

Fflix has a bad writing problem, which is
the key to everything. There has never
been enough good writing to go around
in any generation. There are only so many
Philip K Dick's.

I suppose mass audiences are gone forever. TBBT topped 20 million viewers three times, so I wonder how many they will get for their finale. I would hope they would be up above 30 million.

Millions - Season Finale - Date - Network
18.4 Will & Grace May 18, 2006 NBC
32.9 Everybody Loves Raymond May 16, 2005 CBS
33.7 Frasier May 13, 2004 NBC
52.46 Friends May 6, 2004 NBC
35.5 Home Improvement May 25, 1999 ABC
76.3 Seinfeld May 14, 1998 NBC

Netflix is producing a series on four different Marvel heroes. They all live in NYC, specifically Hell's Kitchen. They appeared over a period of decades in the comics. The second series premiered this week.

1) Daredevil (April 1964) actor Charlie Cox premiered on April 10, 2015
2) Jessica Jones (November 2001) actress Krysten Ritter premiered November 20, 2015
3) Luke Cage (June 1972) actor Mike Colter (minor character and love interest to Jessica Jones)
4) Iron Fist (May 1974) not cast

The plan at this point is to team all four of them in a movie called "The Defenders" similar to "The Avengers"

The shows have been very dark. I found Daredevil a little tedious. So far Jessica Jones has been more appealing. If they were movies, I would call them between a hard PG-13 and a soft R.

Any fans of Daredevil out there?

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...Any fans of Daredevil out there?

I really enjoyed the comic book. Unfortunately, the Ben Affleck movie was poorly done. I am not sure if it was bad because they attempted to combine it with Jennifer Garner's "Elektra" (which was worse), or because a story with a "blind" lead doesn't translate to film very well.

I think it was more the Elektra tie in that did it in. There have been great movies with "disabled" leads.

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Any fans of Daredevil out there?

I lasted for 20min of the pilot, felt
like an hour. I watched the pilot
of JJ and came away disliking the
main character so much I can't
watch another one. I think it's
where she told some guy she
was going to 'pull out his underwear
thru his eye socket', that's where
I lost interest. I hate when the
writers make 110 pound girls talk
like 260 pound bikers. It just makes
them sound stupid.

I took some martial arts classes in my
early 20's. The first thing they tell you is
size is everything. A 6' 2" guy with no
training can usually beat a 5' 4" girl
with a lot of training. But that's never
true on TV or movies, the opposite
is true. And stupid.

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I really enjoyed the comic book. Unfortunately, the Ben Affleck movie was poorly done.

It is difficult to believe that Ben Affleck got the Batman part. There is so much money riding on these films you figure once and out. But at least it came close to breaking even. Green Lantern was much worse, and they plan on making a sequel.

Daredevil (February 14, 2003) Production Budget: $78 million | Domestic: $102.5 million + Foreign: $76.6 million
Elektra ( January 14, 2005) Production Budget: $43 million | Domestic: $24.4 million + Foreign: $32.3 million
Green Lantern (June 17, 2011) Production Budget: $200 million | Domestic: $116.6 million + Foreign: $103.3 million


But my Initial post was referring to Netflix Daredevil.

Quote: Ayecarumba

I really enjoyed the comic book. Unfortunately, the Ben Affleck movie was poorly done.

It doesn't come out till next year, how
do you know that.