Daredevil's "Kingpin"

[stankowalski]

Just finished the first season.

 

Things I liked:

1.  Opening theme, music and artwork...fantastic.

2.  Fight scenes.  Great choreography and action.

3. Story line.  Great pacing and plot.

4. Charlie Cox-easily the best actor on the set.

 

Things I didn't like or just irked me:

1.  I thought some of the secondary actors weren't very good or maybe it was the directing of these actor's...can't be sure.  

 

Example:

Nobu--constantly looked pissed off even if the scene didn't really call for him to be upset.  

Karen--always seemed to be on the edge of tears in nearly every scene...kind of wore on me.  

Fisk--dialogue seemed forced and stunted...maybe this is just poor acting but I don't think how a character emotes should overshadow what the character says.  

2. Foggy.  Can't stand the character and wasn't fond of the actor.

[cookinbrak]

I thought it was excellent and well made, except for the Foggy character- no way that guy ever bangs that blonde, unless a boatload of money is involved. Saul would be more believable.

[cardiackat88.]

The comparisons are awesome and easy to follow between Murdoch and Fisk.

REALLY cool how they showed the stories of each character, and how both wanted a better Hell's Kitchen, but both had different visions of that.

Having said that, the characters appear to be on the same side and have common enemies at points, remember the Russian saying "he's sent his dog after me" referring to the assumption that Murdoch attacked him on Fisk's behalf.

Both men want Hell's Kitchen to thrive, and both would do anything to protect their women.

Notice Murdoch says to Claire "I like hurting people" and Fisk says to Vanessa "I don't like hurting people."

[CCS]

Since it's been out for a pretty good while now I'm gonna assume spoilers are okay. 

 

 

I can't believe they killed off Ben. He's a huge part of the Marvel universe. I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if he popped up in some of the movies. 

[Captroop]

Just started watching this since I'm now caught up on GoT. They almost lost me after the first episode. Episode 2 was make or break. Fortunately it ended with about the best damn fist fight I've seen on the big or small screen. That rumble with the Russians in the hallway was brilliant. I also love how it wasn't a tightly executed, over-rehearsed, perfectly timed dance number.  I thought it was fugging amazing how 2 minutes in he's leaning on the wall, catching his breath for a split second, punches look tired, and technique goes to crap. It looks like a fight. Kudos to whoever choreographed that.

But episodes 3 and 4 have basically been formulaic: boring, boring, boring, Foggy scene *skip*, boring, blonde scene *skip*, awesome fight! boring, boring setup for next episode. I'm gonna ride it out, because I like the potential. And I actually think the lead actor is very convincing. Have enjoyed watching him.

Also, wanted to throw out some praise to the many in this thread who correctly guessed they would rope in the Punisher to this series.

[teeray]

Just started watching this since I'm now caught up on GoT. They almost lost me after the first episode. Episode 2 was make or break. Fortunately it ended with about the best damn fist fight I've seen on the big or small screen. That rumble with the Russians in the hallway was brilliant. I also love how it wasn't a tightly executed, over-rehearsed, perfectly timed dance number.  I thought it was fugging amazing how 2 minutes in he's leaning on the wall, catching his breath for a split second, punches look tired, and technique goes to crap. It looks like a fight. Kudos to whoever choreographed that.

But episodes 3 and 4 have basically been formulaic: boring, boring, boring, Foggy scene *skip*, boring, blonde scene *skip*, awesome fight! boring, boring setup for next episode. I'm gonna ride it out, because I like the potential. And I actually think the lead actor is very convincing. Have enjoyed watching him.

Also, wanted to throw out some praise to the many in this thread who correctly guessed they would rope in the Punisher to this series.

I think things really start to pick up around episode 5.

it really is a good show.  Stick it out and I don't think you will he dissapointed 

[dos poptarts]

Just started watching this since I'm now caught up on GoT. They almost lost me after the first episode. Episode 2 was make or break. Fortunately it ended with about the best damn fist fight I've seen on the big or small screen. That rumble with the Russians in the hallway was brilliant. I also love how it wasn't a tightly executed, over-rehearsed, perfectly timed dance number.  I thought it was fugging amazing how 2 minutes in he's leaning on the wall, catching his breath for a split second, punches look tired, and technique goes to crap. It looks like a fight. Kudos to whoever choreographed that.

​Yah, read it was a single shot sequence.

I was just about to ask you about that one-shot scene.

I think this was what started defining the show for me, and the weight that was being played into it. Phil Abraham was directing, and it was always scripted that this scene was going to be a one-shot. For me in my head, with the time we had, I said let’s do wipes and we’ll be able save things. But Phil challenged us to do a pure one-shot, which really just brought a grounded real feeling to the whole thing. We were able to slow down the fight, and just have this raw, animalistic  feeling happening.

So it was genuinely one shot? No cuts?

No cuts. We did do a few Texas Switches between our actor and our stunt double, but it was purely a one shot fight. There were no cuts in that fight. Every performer, the actors and the stunt doubles, were in there performing that fight full on. I’d say there was a minimum of 105 beats, and they killed it.

Read more at http://observer.com/2015/04/daredevil-stunt-coordinator-on-designing-a-one-shot-fight-scene-for-a-blind-hero/#ixzz3d9kyEBsx
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Having everyone pausing to catch their breath was a great idea to include. It removes the invincible image that the movies fail to include. This isn't GoT so you know Murdock will survive, but he isn't a video game where you can keep smashing buttons to punch-kick.