Why do people like Netflix Daredevil so much?

Specifically as far as the fights go. I'm sure the characters and the plot is great and all, but people say the Hallway Fight is the best fight ever put to tv or film, to which I highly disagree.

To me the fight just looks slow, clumsy, the fight choreography looks poor, hell I don't even like the music (but that one is pure preference). I get that it was all shot in one take, but couldn't they have at least hired a better, more agile stunt double or something?

I get the show might be better than something like Arrow, but I am really the only person who thinks it is overhyped? I mean the fight scenes aren't terrible, I'd still go as far to say they're better than the fights from the Nolan Bat Trilogy, but I don't see how this fight scene would be preferable to something like the Winter Soldier Highway Fight.

So please if anyone here is a big fan of this show, and this fight in particular, explain to me what you find so appealing about it?

The point is that it looks like a real fight

Have never read the Marvel comics for Daredevil. Only seen the movie. This was relatively a new show for it. I enjoyed it. I grew attached to the characters. Though, I feel they killed off characters too early whom had potential. Since season 1 only focused on one major villain, I felt it was bit confined. When season 1 end, I felt the whole series already had a conclusion in itself.

Can't really say anything about Arrow, Flash, Gotham, Smallville, or any shows since I haven't watched them. I was always more of animated comic book fan.

Most fights on film are so predictable. The hallway fight from season 1 was refreshing to see cause punches are missed, the actors are winded. It was the first time I saw something like that and thought not only is it believable, it fits that world.

I thought it was good but overhyped.

I don't see it anywhere near the best fight ever, but it was certainly great, as was the overall choreography of the show. It was supposed to feel more grounded and gritty, showing an extremely tough and skilled yet novice vigilante fight through the physical and mental defeat from a previous fight to win out in the end. The show is meant to be more realistic, yet still portray someone who clearly is above any real life fighter, which I think is shown very well.

@pipxeroth: best fight ever depicted? Nah. Really great fight? Heck yes. That's my two cents.

Because I was realistic.. duh :P.

Smh of all the things to hate on? "Sigh"

These.

It looks like a fight and not some overly choreographed POS.

I'm not hating on it I just genuinely don't see why people call this the best fight ever

They where going for more realism.

Its a very good fight scene, But I would not claim its the best fight scene ever.

It got better after epi six

It's pretty much a ripoff of the hallway fight from Old Boy which was must better. I liked Kingpin in it, I pretty much just skip anything going on with Foggy and Receptionist are on there.

This. At first I thought it was horrible until I thought about it and appreciated it for what it was. I we views have been spoiled by these fictional choreographed fights that we are use to.

I don't really understand the Daredevil hype myself. People were talking about it in glowing terms, yet I found myself bored through most of it; it took me four months to watch the series. Though I think it's well done in most ways, it's the slow as molasses pacing that really kills it for me. There is usually only one action scene per episode and way too many scenes where characters discuss things the audience already knows.

However, I did like the fights. I enjoyed them because you could actually follow the action, and this stands in stark contrast to the modern habit of shaky cam and quick cuts. Also, the fights seemed to have weight to them. In Arrow and Flash, everything feels highly choreographed, and it's cool, but obviously stylized. When someone gets hit in Daredevil, you feel it. It shows the blood and the weight of the action, yet people don't usually crumble after a single blow. Often, DD has to ware an opponent down.

It showed that heroes aren't perfect. DD spent more time on the ground than I've ever seen him spend. Also, the Wilson Fisk portrayal was flawless in my opinion. The show was realistic and made DD feel more human than other heroes like the Avengers.

@reaperonyx: Fisk was stinky !!!

*runs*

Show isn't better than arrow

You cant ripoff anything when you actively confirm it as an inspiration....

I just watched it for Karen Page.

Don't give me sass, peasant *flips hair*

It was easily the most well written and well acted superhero show out there while still maintaining the feel of the character from the comics. The fights were just a small slice of the awesome pie that was Daredevil, if Jessica Jones (or any of the Netflix shows) comes anywhere near it in terms of quality I'll be happy. In my opinion anyways.

@reaperonyx: *mega hyper sass*

@jonny_anonymous: Ok not a ripoff then but still inferior.

The fight may have been slow, but it felt necessary. This was his early days of fighting crime before becoming a full-fledged superhero. The fight shows that Matt was still struggling to fight a number of bad guys around him, even when he's blind. Thus, it was an intense fight.

I also don't think it was clumsy. Maybe, you're thinking that Matt was sorta clumsy to fight, since he showed signs of his weariness. But that fight scene was top-notch and it looked certainly real. I can't get enough of that fight scene. It was THE BEST.

And the music? It felt eerie and necessary because Matt had to fight all those guys in order to save the kid. The music shows tension all over it. It was good.

Yes, this show is way more darker than Arrow. That's what make it unique and a better show.

Netflix's Daredevil managed to capture the essence and authenticity of such a unique character.

Agreed.

It was a homage. And so what if it's not as good? It's still great.

@pipxeroth: Because he isn't Ben Affleck?

I suppose if you're going for "realism" in a comic book series (a silly but valid target to shoot for,) then it's probably something you enjoy.

Personally, I don't care for that style, and so it bums me out that it looks like a trend they shoot for in a lot of comic series.

The fact Matt was popping up every four seconds to hit a Superman punch and then sucking more wind than Kirby was a bit funny, (despite probably not meaning to be,) but it's a minor thing, and even as a person who isn't a fan of what they were going for, can appreciate what they did do here for the crowd that it was aiming for.

I'm a little different. I watch a comic book series, I think it should feel less realistic in the same way a comic book would be, which is probably why I enjoyed The Flash more than I've enjoyed most other comic series.

Daredevil isn't just about a superhero, it's about Matts struggle to help people, that you don't need superpowers to be a superhero, life throws shit at him, his dad dies, doing the right thing for his blind son, kind of adopted by an old man, who just trained him to have a warrior to fight for him, leaving him behind, because he needed a father and still is doing everything to help people, as a lawyer and as a vigilante, risking his life every single night.

The thing daredevil really has on Arrow or the Flash, are the non existent filler Episodes. Often in Arrow only the last 3 minutes were important to the overall plot, with a villain of the week being fodderized. Daredevil takes as much time as it needs and doesn't drag on.

Acting is on point and fight choreography is almost realistic. The fodder can take just too much punishment. As an example in the famous hallway fight, with his last kick, every normal human would've been knocked out, with the uppercut also.

They were paying homage to this scene:

Because i havent seen it...

Pilasy:La Voix d'un homme

Because it was great.

Hmm, I actually have to admit I didn't really like that at all

Then again I'm not really a live action type of guy in the first place

Same reason John Wick was so beloved, people are tired of watching some one man terminator plow through an entire army with little resistance. I love seeing a guy struggle to earn a victory and Daredevil really delivered on that.

It's wack

Best? No.

Most realistic? Yes, and in that way it does make it one of the best.

Not even the best comic book show.

But I still really like it.

It is refreshing.

It's not the best fight ever, but the realism of it is refreshing. A lot of shows are overly choreographed like AOS or Arrow. No one does fancy flips in a fight, that scene was just Matt punching mofos.

I agree that the Fisk portrayal is pretty good too. It's a hard character to live up to for the fans. And they did good.

Of course the fight scene was slow and clumsy, that was intentional. It was a beat up and worn out Matt fighting six or so criminals with whatever energy he had left. You can not like the scene, that's clearly your opinion, but to say the choreography is bad is just plain wrong.

Any show that's great or is considered great can be easily overhyped, it happens, but in this case, at least for me personally, Daredevil lives up to the hype. It's not only a great adaptation, that much is clear, it's also great television. It's easily ahead the other comic book shows by a wide margin.

I loved the battle as well, I found it to be something fresh and new in terms of where TV show and movie battle tend to go. But(there is almost always a but) I did find the show itself to be highly disappointing. I watched a few months back and at that stage almost everyone had watched it already and was hyping it to the maximum but it disappointed me. It had the characters right(except for Kingpin) but it was in such a slow and incredibly painful pace that I barely stayed interested half the time.

@pipxeroth: I compared that to something like Jason Bourne vs Desh from the Bourne Ultimatuim. In that it was a good mixture of stylist fighting and gritty brawling. Which I do enjoy, epically in more grounded projects.