Wednesday, September 10, 2003
I'm trying to resist the urge to put the central heating on. Honestly it's not that cold, I've just had a lovely hot bath and I'm sitting here in a t-shirt and trousers and everything is f-f-f-f-f-fine.
Anyway, for lack of anything worth watching on telly tonight watched Daredevil on DVD. I must admit to having a soft spot for the big lug that is Ben Affleck but after a pretty good flashback to his childhood thing which explained how Matt Murdoch got his powers it all went a bit crap. Murdoch, who as far as anyone knows is a blind attorney, follows a woman who of course he can't see clearly, even with his 'radar sense', and they fight in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. It's lucky absolutely none of them know who he is, despite it all being in this small part of New York that Murdoch lives in. Jennifer Garner is that woman, someone who doesn't look remotely Greek playing a Greek (although Erick Avari, who plays her father, has been an Russian Jew in Babylon 5 and an Egyptian in Stargate, so he gets around a bit too), is adequate as Electra, while Colin Farrell is largely embaressing as ludicrous Oirish assassin Bullseye. Michael Clarke Duncan is woefully underused as criminal mastermind Kingpin. I won't bother explaining the plot as just mentioning the characters probably gives enough hints as to the storyline for those that care about these things, at no point does the writer think to do anything unexpected so if you can picture Affleck in red leather you're pretty much there. Even Joey Pants can't do much more than hang around on the periphery looking faintly embaressed.
Anyway, for lack of anything worth watching on telly tonight watched Daredevil on DVD. I must admit to having a soft spot for the big lug that is Ben Affleck but after a pretty good flashback to his childhood thing which explained how Matt Murdoch got his powers it all went a bit crap. Murdoch, who as far as anyone knows is a blind attorney, follows a woman who of course he can't see clearly, even with his 'radar sense', and they fight in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses. It's lucky absolutely none of them know who he is, despite it all being in this small part of New York that Murdoch lives in. Jennifer Garner is that woman, someone who doesn't look remotely Greek playing a Greek (although Erick Avari, who plays her father, has been an Russian Jew in Babylon 5 and an Egyptian in Stargate, so he gets around a bit too), is adequate as Electra, while Colin Farrell is largely embaressing as ludicrous Oirish assassin Bullseye. Michael Clarke Duncan is woefully underused as criminal mastermind Kingpin. I won't bother explaining the plot as just mentioning the characters probably gives enough hints as to the storyline for those that care about these things, at no point does the writer think to do anything unexpected so if you can picture Affleck in red leather you're pretty much there. Even Joey Pants can't do much more than hang around on the periphery looking faintly embaressed.
