Eightiesjunkie

'Cause you gotta be smokin' something, for this God-awful show to get a rating above 1! Jeez! Talk about deja-@#$%-ing-vu! It's friggin' "Fury Road" all over again! Once more, I hear people ranting and raving about how "Awesome" this is, and once more, I'm left scratching my head! Either the whole world has lost it's mind, or I've caught the affliction that Stan Marsh had in that one particular episode of "South Park". For reasons that I cannot fathom, The Daredevil movie from 2003, has become the most hated, and ridiculed comic book movie of the last ten years. Why? Because Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were in it? Because it had humor? Because it had a Black man playing The Kingpin? Talk all the trash you want on it, you still have to give credit where it's due. At least Daredevil had a deep, moving, and compelling story. A story that wasn't a typical, paint-by-numbers, playing it safe, story that plagues A LOT of the current comic book movies today. I've liked some of the comic book movies of the last few years, but out of all the comic book films from 2002 to 2015, I've only LOVED 5 of them. In case you're wondering, here they are: #1 Daredevil. #2. Spider-Man. #3. Spider-Man 2. #4 Captain America: The First Avenger. #5 Captain America: The Winter Soldier. All the rest (in my opinion) are just cheap entertainment. Is the netflix Daredevil just cheap entertainment? Well, yes. However, that's not the only reason I didn't like it. I didn't like this show for the same reason I didn't like the TV show Gotham, or the fantastic four films, The Blade films, the X-Men films, and The "Amazing" Spider-man films: It doesn't feel like a comic book! There's a reason why comics aren't realistic: They'd be boring! When I read a comic, or a book, or sit down and watch a movie, I wanna escape to a place where the impossible is possible, and good always triumphs over evil. When I'm about to watch something based on a comic book, I expect the same thing. No more, no less! To me, this show just feels like a Law & Order rip-off (and a bad one at that!) with a costumed crime-fighter thrown in, just for the sake of it. If you like this series BECAUSE of the crime-drama feel to it, fine. To each their own. If this series turned you into a Daredevil fan, great. But If you haven't already, I strongly suggest you pick up a Daredevil comic before you watch the next season. (Preferably some of Frank Miller's issues) That is, if you really wanna understand the core of the character of Matt Murdock/Daredevil. Because this show does NOT and will NOT give you that! As for me, If I need a Daredevil fix, I'll crack open one of my graphic novels, or go back and watch the 2003 film, and view it as I always have for so many years: An underrated, misunderstood, gem of a film. Which I'll always hold close to my heart.

I mean sure, as far as summer blockbusters go, we have had a bit of a dry spell this year. (At least in my opinion.) However, to call this "The Best Movie of the Year" or "A Masterpiece" that's kinda stretching it isn't it? Seriously, what's so great about this movie? Were the critics watching a different movie from the one than I did? Originally, I wasn't going to write a review for this movie, but after seeing so many raving reviews for this film on the internet, and seeing the absurdly high rating this movie has here on IMDb, I felt that I had to say SOMETHING! Even if my hopes of knocking this movie down a point or two are completely moot, then at least I would've accomplished something by saying how much I hated this film, and add my voice to the small minority of people on this site that believe that this movie is nothing more than an over-hyped, overrated snore-fest. While watching this movie I fell asleep. Yes! This movie, with it's "Thrilling action scenes!" and "Provocative visuals!" Actually put me to sleep! I would go into the plot now, but I don't think this movie has one. At least not while I was awake. Furthermore, Mad Max, the supposed "Main Character" in this film, has no reason for even being in the film! Why call this film "Mad Max: Fury Road", if Mad Max himself has no motivations, or stake into what's going on? And for that matter, why even use the character of Mad Max at all? If you were gonna go that way with it, why not have Mel Gibson appear in a 10-15 minute cameo as an older Mad Max? From what I saw, there was nothing good about this movie. I probably would've been more entertained staring at a wall for two hours. Congratulations George Miller, you've accomplished something that only Rob Zombie and M. Night Shyamalan have been able to do: Cure my insomnia! I present to you, your awards: My middle finger, and a long, loud, raspberry! Bravo A$$hole!