History Headscratchers / DareDevil

* Why didn't Bullseye kill the priest? He's never before shown hesitance toward the killing of innocent bystanders, and this one could give testimony to the police that would be potentially problematic for both him and his employer.

*** Allow me to elaborate: Since when does "throw things really good" translate to "hand to hand combat skills?"

** I don't think the kingpin, the dude who's running new york city from the shadows, would hire someone who's just some Irish barfly. the guy is a hired killer, he kills for a living and apparently for fun, I'm pretty sure that if you're doing something you enjoy for a living that you're also REALLY good at it. granted elektra was a highly trained ninja, who said bullseye wasn't a highly trained assassin?

** It's less that he can't stand certain noises and more that he isn't expecting them. I can prevent myself from even flinching when getting a vaccination shot, but if you poked me with a hairpin without me seeing you coming, I'm going to jump five feet and scream like a little girl. Involuntary reactions.

* Okay, so, under what circumstances is a highly trained ninja (Elektra) being beaten by some Irish barfly (Bullseye) supposed to be plausible (I'm talking movieverse, in case that wasn't clear)?

** [[CompletelyMissingThePoint It wasn't Nickleback, it was Seether]].

** As for the last one, you think that's something he ''chooses'' to do? He's in ''pain'', and having a natural, reflexive reaction to that ''pain''. You might as well ask, "Why does that sissy have to loudly go on about it every time he breaks his fingers?"

* Questions that were running through my head while watching this movie (other than "WHYYY?"): Matt's superpower is massively heightened senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste. How does this translate into the ability to perform ridiculous feats of acrobatics and martial arts without any prior training in order to scare away the school bullies? And if Matt's ears are so sensitive that he has to sleep in a sensory deprivation tank and a passing train incapacitates him, how come he blasts Nickelback at full volume while he's getting ready for work? And why is it that he can detect minute changes in temperature and hear police radios blocks away, and yet he has to bang a railing in order to determine whereabouts on an empty subway platform his mark is hiding? Should he be able to hear the guy's heartbeat? Inconsistency, much? And why does Matt have to loudly display his weakness by screaming and clutching his head at every single loud noise?

* Questions that were running through my head while watching this movie (other than "WHYYY?"): Matt's superpower is massively heightened senses of hearing, smell, touch and taste. How does this translate into the ability to perform ridiculous feats of acrobatics and martial arts without any prior training in order to scare away the school bullies? And if Matt's ears are so sensitive that he has to sleep in an isolation tank and a passing train incapacitates him, how come he blasts Nickelback at full volume while he's getting ready for work? And why is it that he can detect minute changes in temperature and hear police radios blocks away, and yet he has to bang a railing in order to determine whereabouts on an empty subway platform his mark is hiding? Should he be able to hear the guy's heartbeat? Inconsistency, much? And why does Matt have to loudly display his weakness by screaming and clutching his head at every single loud noise?

** The filmmakers were trying to invoke RuleOfCool. Whether they succeeded or not is YMMV.

* Why did Daredevil apparently cover the ground in oil with his logo after the train killed Quesada? How did Ben Urich know it was there, and to throw his cigarette on it? What was the point exactly? Daredevil apparently never did this kind of thing again for the rest of the movie.

*** Sure they found it odd. They also found it cool, hence why they all gathered around to watch.

** Did the children not find it odd that a blind guy was fist-fighting a woman in the playground?

** I re-watched it on Youtube. All he did was grab her arm. She was the one who decided to go kung-fu on him.

** I re-watched it on Youtube. All he did was just grab her arm. She was the one who decided to go kung-fu on him.

** Why would he say "uncle"? I think he'd be trying to shove her off of him.

** It wasn't like she walked up and decked him. He goaded her into it with some simple moves, she responded, and it just sort of escalated from there. If he had been just a normal blind guy who tried to block her path she probably would have put him in a light arm lock until he said uncle and let him go.

* What was the point of Dardevil (who wasn't even in costume yet) fighting his girlfriend in the playground? Assuming the girl didn't know this blind lawyer was Daredevil, it paints her in a bad light because she's willingly trying to attack a blind man for no reason.

** It doesn't actually have eyeholes. It has eye-shaped thingies that ''look'' like eyeholes.

** Because he doesn't want anyone knowing he's blind. It adds a layer of concealment to the secret identity. You see eyeholes, you assume Daredevil can see, so you won't even think that the blind lawyer might be him.

The theatrical cut bugs me. "Let's cut out everything that makes this movie unique to make room for the same romance plot we've seen a million times in comic book movies!" Way to go, Fox.

*** Honestly, I think this soundtrack ranks up there with ''TheCrow'' when it comes to "astoundingly awesome soundtrack albums." You gotta remember that it's this soundtrack that really '''introduced''' Evanescence to a wide audience, so they only became "overplayed" in the wake of this soundtrack.