History YMMV / Daredevil2003

** The film has often been mentioned on Website/ThisVeryWiki as being similar to and a pioneer for Nolan's [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Batman films]]. (Look on this page under ''SeinfeldIsUnfunny''.)

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny:
** Whatever the film's faults, it does do something rare for a comic book film in that, unlike the ''[[Film/SpiderManTrilogy Spider-Man]]'' and ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' films, it can make you forget you're watching a comic book adaptation. Some scenes feel like they're from a different film (in the best possible sense). It's only when Bullseye shows up that it starts to slip (it's not easy to make a realistic film involving a man who can go on killing sprees with paper clips and peanuts). Since other films, most notably [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Christopher Nolan's Batman films]] and the eventual ''Series/Daredevil2015'' Netflix series, have done this more successfully, Daredevil is unlikely to get credit for trying it first.
** The "[[Music/{{Evanescence}} Bring Me To Life]]" scene can be this to modern viewers due to the song's notorious use in ''numerous'' {{FanVid}}s over the years since the movie came out.

* ToughActToFollow: With the death of Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan, the producers of the Creator/{{Netflix}} [[Series/Daredevil2015 show]] likely decided that there was no point trying to find other qualified actor as big as him to be the next version of Wilson Fisk and decided to cast Creator/VincentDOnofrio in the part. [[AbilityOverAppearance Thankfully, D'Onofrio turned in a performance that, while not as charismatic, was even more layered and complex than the film's version]].

* QuestionableCasting:
** All-American Creator/JenniferGarner as a Greek? Indian-American Erick Avari as her father? Huh? At least Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan as the Kingpin makes sense: regardless of skin color, he's ''huge'' and [[ScaryBlackMan intimidating]], and that's what's important.
** In Erick Avari's case, it leads to many WhatTheHellIsThatAccent [[BilingualBonus moments]]. Very jarring, considering Elektra is a second/third generation immigrant, therefore her accent, not to mention her command of the Greek language, should be worse than his.

** Creator/EllenPompeo as Karen Page.
** [[Creator/JonFavreau Foggy Nelson]] may eventually be slowly and safely forgotten that he was in this film as he will more remembered as [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Happy Hogan]].

** Most of Creator/JenniferGarner's fight scenes fall into this, especially her practice session against a dozen helpless sandbags. That one of them even has a childish doodle of Daredevil's mask doesn't help.

** The psychopathic and cartoonish criminal that Matt faces down in the film's first act is named [[Creator/JoeQuesada Jose Quesada]]. At the time of the film's release, it was merely one of several {{Shout Out}}s that referenced the names of creators who'd worked on Daredevil's comic book, but in hindsight, after the ''massive'' fan revolt against ''Editor'' Joe Quesada's ill-received "ComicBook/CivilWar" and "ComicBook/OneMoreDay" storylines, many of the fans who were left unamused by Quesada's antics tend to find this sequence hilarious. The fact that Daredevil hunts him down definitely works as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for them as well.
** Kingpin's RaceLift from white in the comics to black in the film, thanks to the little known fact that the character was originally supposed to be black in the comics but was changed to white to avoid accusations of racism. Plus, he'd already been played by a black actor in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries''.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Notice all of the NuMetal and PostGrunge peppering the film's soundtrack (particularly multiple tracks from Music/{{Evanescence}}, whose career was made by the film and whose very presence ties this to the early/mid 2000s)? And all the HellbentForLeather? At the same time, however, a lot of the core plot and stylistic elements were atypical for the time; its {{Deconstruction}} of the life of a (mostly) unpowered vigilante with a day job and the predictable outcome of a bloodthirsty, vengeance-obsessed antiheroine with lots of ability, but no actual experience with serious life-or-death street combat barking up the wrong tree on her first night on the job stood in stark contrast to the idealistic bombast, campiness, or hokey faux-gritty action that other superhero movies from that time period showed, and while it definitely dates itself, many of the elements were surprisingly forward-thinking.

* WTHCastingAgency:
** All-American Creator/JenniferGarner as a Greek? Indian-American Erick Avari as her father? Huh? At least Creator/MichaelClarkeDuncan as the Kingpin makes sense: regardless of skin color, he's ''huge'' and [[ScaryBlackMan intimidating]], and that's what's important.
** In Erick Avari's case, it leads to many WhatTheHellIsThatAccent [[BilingualBonus moments]]. Very jarring, considering Elektra is a second/third generation immigrant, therefore her accent, not to mention her command of the Greek language, should be worse than his.

-->[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic "Oh, no, he has a cane! All I can do is just stand here and take it, I guess!"]]