The Netflix version wasn't bad.
'Daredevil' Hits Reset Button as Marvel Overhauls Its TV Business
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#22“But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence. Cox didn’t even show up in costume until the fourth episode.”
Why they ever thought that was a good idea….
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#23There's an episode of one of the red letter media shows on YouTube which generally discuss films but sometimes TV, where rich Evans, one of the commentators, says something to the effect of, "if you had told 16 year old me that when I'm an adult I would be paid to watch new star wars content and that I would hate every minute of it I would have told you that you were a crazy person." I feel like most of the marvel, s…
Also, there's the fact that there are so many grand stories to tell in a fictional universe. If "epic" events are happening in it all the time, then they're actually humdrum, and the stakes are pretty low, so the audience has no reason to care. At the extreme, you enter soap opera or monthly comic book territory, where the writers have to come up with new storylines for decades on end, and the result is that nonsense…
I was talking about this with my gf last night, that Harry potter is much more interesting when it's not about some epic Voldemort whatever. That hearing small stories about these characters we like as they go to a magic school is actually interesting. Why does everything need to be so stressful?
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It’s the inevitable consequence of design by committee. By layering on requirements unrelated to “fun”, eventually fun becomes incompatible with all the different needs and wants. “Must cater to lucrative Chinese market.” “Must have at least one of each race represented — even if they’re a single family from one village.” Etc… eventually the singular vision is just one of many items on a long checklist. The only good…
After Oppenheimer I realized that Christopher Nolan is only able to make one movie. That movie is a movie about a damaged man who must find the solution to something and he is special in some way which either will allow him to find it or demonstrate that no one can. Which made me think about who does Christopher Nolan see himself to be in all these films? The protagonist? Maybe this is all critical nonsense.
People are lucky if they have one good idea in their life.
This may be Nolan’s single theme, but it’s a complex one that might take 1,000 movies to exhaust.
I’m grateful for watching all these explorations.
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After Oppenheimer I realized that Christopher Nolan is only able to make one movie. That movie is a movie about a damaged man who must find the solution to something and he is special in some way which either will allow him to find it or demonstrate that no one can. Which made me think about who does Christopher Nolan see himself to be in all these films? The protagonist? Maybe this is all critical nonsense.
People are lucky if they have one good idea in their life. This may be Nolan’s single theme, but it’s a complex one that might take 1,000 movies to exhaust. I’m grateful for watching all these explorations.
Complex men suffering is not unique to Nolan (e.g., king Lear). He simply seems to be able to create compelling versions of that theme. But actually I'm wondering what would be different if there was creative boundaries on Nolan and what he would create instead.
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I am totally ok if others like these things. But it's more like sports than it is like art. If you like sports that's fine, it takes an amazing amount of talent and experience and money to put together a professional team whether you are a player, coach, or manager. But the end result will always be some dudes on a field chasing a ball. And there's nothing wrong with that. Many people enjoy that. But it's not art (as…
> But it's not art (as defined as something that challenges the audience) That’s a pretty restrictive definition of art. While I appreciate that you’ve defined your terms, I think this definition is nonstandard.
Duchamp allowed us to define art as whatever we want it to be. I don't think I'm outside of his boundary conditions.
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What if han solo, get this, still owed people money and was running around trying to avoid them and pulling little scams or whatever. But now he's like 65. That doesn't sound awesome to you?
Yeah, and maybe he owes a fortune to a crime boss who's very large and disgusting, maybe shaped like a big floating orb. That pulsates, or something. Just as long as it's not a slug-like being, because then we'd be recycling old material.
What about a centipede snake thing that lives in the water that never comes up again?
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People are lucky if they have one good idea in their life. This may be Nolan’s single theme, but it’s a complex one that might take 1,000 movies to exhaust. I’m grateful for watching all these explorations.
Complex men suffering is not unique to Nolan (e.g., king Lear). He simply seems to be able to create compelling versions of that theme. But actually I'm wondering what would be different if there was creative boundaries on Nolan and what he would create instead.
It’s certainly not unique, nor does it need to be, nor has anyone claimed Nolan invented the concept.
I share your curiosity and maybe we’ll see one day. But I’m also happy if we just see 30 more movies exploring the same theme.
While Nolan isn’t truly unique in history, I think he’s rare and not many are telling stories like he is.