In 2003, we were treated to Ben Affleck’s Daredevil.
I remember being the first one there, one February morning, and realizing that this film isn’t going to make anywhere near the money Spider-Man did, only a few months earlier.
I like the film but once the Director’s Cut came out, that’s all I can watch. It, coincidentally, has less Jennifer Garner, which may be what makes it more into a movie. There are more scenes involving the plot and such.
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I was a giant Ben Affleck film, circa 2003 – though I still am but I’m so far behind in my movie watching, largely because of how often Affleck worked with Kevin Smith.
Here is the trailer –
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I was perfectly cool with the late Michael Clark Duncan portraying Kingpin, that just made perfect sense to me.
I imagine that this film is fun to watch at the ol’ Affleck / Garner home, their children must really like it.
I mostly remember the film for the Evanscenece songs. (which isn’t a great sign)
Bring Me to Live
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My Immortal
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I didn’t want to go negative with this post, as I do enjoy the film – though the graphics are super dated. There were two moments, when I watched it in the theater, that struck me as just plain wrong.
One being when Joey Pants throws the match down, to reveal the Double Ds. Like, seriously? That is a crime scene!!! You can’t just be throwing matches on the ground and the cops are more like “whoa cool” instead of “hey buddy, you just tampered with evidence!”
The second, and it is right at the end, so you leave the theater thinking about how silly the moment is. When Joey Pants (who did a decent job as Ben Urich) has his expose on Daredevil, all written up. He then presses the delete button, just once, and it instantly starts erasing the entire document from word to word, in backwards order. The heck!?! I’m glad my computer doesn’t have that “delete everything” button. They should color that death button something else, so that you don’t accidentally erase your entire thesis paper! Good grief, that was bad!
It dawns on me that I wasn’t going to have any tie-in to Daredevil’s first Live Action Adaption.
That will not do!
This was an amazing return to the Incredible Hulk television series, starring Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. This TV film came out on May 7, 1989.
This had Rex Smith as Matt Murdock / Daredevil and Sliders alumni, John Rhys-Davis as the Kingpin. Though he never called that.
Such a fun team-up between two characters! I wish this was a success to spur on a Daredevil television series. It would have been like Law & Order, but with the same guy doing both sides.
This is also fun for being Stan Lee’s first cameo in a live action production.
Here is the official trailer –
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He is also hosting the opening credits, as well
Here is the scene of Matt Murdock Meeting David (Bruce) Banner
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This film is the middle of the trilogy of reunion films. First was Return (with Thor), the Trial (with Daredevil) and Death (with what I call, Black Widow).
HoKogan1991 made this tribute video of Rex Smith as Daredevil
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If you get a chance, I can’t recommend this film enough! The lack of mirrors in a blind man’s apartment isn’t something I would have thought about before seeing it, either.
Here is a video that shows off the Kingpin in action
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Kevin Smith, being the big Daredevil fan that he is, got to get him into his fifth film – Jay and Silent Bob Strikes Back. This was before even Ben Affleck was cast in the role.
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The Daredevil section takes place from 1:04 – 1:11, so you may miss it if you blink.
Such a fun movie!
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Axel Alonso has had to, not retract but further clarify that his comments about a new world for them, Post-Secret Wars 2015, didn’t mean a Heroes Reborn style story. He just means that there will be the X-Men in the Proper Marvel Universe and they are involved in Secret Wars 2015.
I do like how he hints that we may lose some X-Men in the transfer but as long as Kitty, Illyana and Lockheed make it, that’s all I care about.
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I recall that this song sounded awfully similar but I couldn’t place it. I sort of like the song, so I wouldn’t have minded listening to it if I ever was linked over to it.
It wasn’t until I was on the GameFAQs Chrono Trigger page, that someone commented that it shared the same beats to Robo’s Theme
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Ever since, the two songs are forever linked in my mind.
Above is a fun interview wherein Yasunori Mitsuda is first shown the Rick Astley classic.
Never Gonna Give You Up came out in 1987
Chrono Trigger came out in 1995
Fun how two different men in two different countries (in two different decades) can come up with the same melody. Glad Astley and his team didn’t try to shut down the theme song, once people started talking about it.
My love for Freddie Prinze Jr. started way back in 1999’s mega hit, She’s All That
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There is something about how intense FPJ is as Zack, as he tries to balance the hacky sack and how it is a complete metaphor for the pressures that he is under. Such a fantastic scene.
I may have seen I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer but he wasn’t the star of those films. Though those films are awesome if you are a Sarah Gellar or a Jennifer Love Hewitt fan.
She’s All That, gave us Rachel Leigh Cook – who only really remember from when she played the Joey character in Dawson’s first real movie and from her excellent turn in Anti-Trust. Which is still the only film I really like Ryan Phillipe in.
She’s All That also gave us the first of many times when Matthew Lillard and Freddie Prinze Jr acted together. Such a fun duo these two actors are when they get to play off of each other as teammates or rivals.
She’s All That has an outstanding cast – Paul Walker, Kevin Pollack, a very young Anna Paquin, Jodi O’Keefe of Prison Break Fame (the lousy third season), Dule Hill and Tim Matheson (West Wing Represent, yo!) and it even has Lil’ Kim AND Usher! Gabrielle Union is also great in it as is Chris Owen. Even Elden Henson of Mighty Ducks fame and soon to be Netflix’s Daredevil’s Foggy Nelson, is in this as the best friend to Rachel Leigh Cook.
Before he was a named actor, he was in a movie titled, Hostage High, wherein Ricky Shroder takes his old high school hostage, at gun point, and the sheriff played by Henry Wrinkler.
I wasn’t a big fan of Wing Commander, I blame not really knowing the game that it was based off of and not being the biggest space movie fan.
Down To You, I simply adore, as I’m also a huge Julia Stiles fan. There is just something about her that is super intoxicating and I seek out any new film of hers. FPJ needs to do more romantic comedies, and I believe his career was hurt when he tried to get away from that. He could be the next Tom Hanks!
Boys and Girls is still a personal favorite of mine. This may be a favorite movie of mine for all the cast members – Claire Forlani (though I may still give Mallrats the edge) and Jason Biggs. This was one of the only films that Heather Donahue of Blair Witch Project, ever made after the big film. I used this film to prove to my father that Blair Witch Project wasn’t real, as he wasn’t believing any of the evidence. Alison Hannigan also has a small role in it. I simply love the soundtrack and the main song from it – Ronan Keating’s If I Don’t Tell You Now.
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I could watch, Boys & Girls, all day. All Day! It use to be one of those films that I would play while doing papers in college.
Head over Heels is fun, he’s the romantic lead but he doesn’t have the burden to carry the film. I like Monica Potter (of Parenthood fame) and whenever that show made her cry (her go-to character trait) I thought about this film and how she just had a good time in it. There is a running joke with one of the models in the film, that I still think about.
Summer Catch, is FPJ back in a comedy. Jessica Biel is the love interest and Matthew Lillard is back as a teammate. One of my favorite baseball films. If you want a movie about No Hitters, this is the one for you. Brittany Murphy is in it as is Bruce Davison (playing Biel’s father) and Wilmer Valderrama of That 70’s Show fame.
The film is mostly remembered, fondly for this moment with Jessica Biel –
But it really is a good film!
Then we get to 2002 & 2004’s Scooby Doo films. The first one is my favorite and the cast commentary is a real delight! FPJ is Fred, his wife Sarah Michelle Geller is Daphne, Matthew Lillard is Shaggy, Scooby is Scooby and Velma is played by the always amazing and should work more, Linda Cardellini. I wonder if Linda is still friends with FPJ and the gang as I remember thinking that she was the sole person who wasn’t connected to FPJ prior to filming. I do like Seth Green being added to the cast for the second film.
I do love me some Velma!
I haven’t seen any of the animated films that he has lent his voice – Shark Bait, Happily N’Ever After and Deigo. His voice is unique enough for animation but I sort of need the man himself to be seen.
I’m not sure if after Scooby Doo, he decided to purposely take time away from the screen but he starts taking time off and after three years, came back with Brooklyn Rules. Probably best known as his return to dramatic work since his first two films – To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (with the incredible Michelle Pfeiffer) and The House of Yes – which is more of a comedy but with serious issues going on around it. House of Yes is what got FPJ in the Miramax house and gave him a career. I’ve always been a fan of early Miramax and Lionsgate.
Brooklyn Rules stars Alec Bladwin, Scott Caan and Mena Suvari. FPJ will eventually work with most of the cast of American Pie.
New York City Serenade, is a very interesting film that has scenes that I still think about. Like Chris Klein losing it on a costumer at the photo development center and FPJ has to cool the situation. FPJ (people refer to him as that, right?) is a budding film maker. Wallace Shawn (of Princess Pride fame, Inconceivable!) plays himself. It isn’t an easy watch, with characters making baffeling decisions throughout it. FPJ’s character, Owen, should have ditched Chris Klein’s character so much earlier in the film. I don’t quite get the characters’ friendship.
His last film, believe it or not, is Jack and Jill vs. the World WAY BACK IN 2008! I’m not sure why he isn’t bankable anymore. Well, I guess looking at his last films but good for him for trying to branch out and get some range. Probably my favorite Taryn Manning film, as she gets to play a different sort of character, one that is still a tad zany but grounded.
After this, he has two children (Gellar doing the hard work) in 2009 (a daughter) and 2012 (a son).
He has dabbled in television.
He was the Male Nanny for Ross and Rachel in Season 9 Episode 6, my favorite episode.
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Though the ones where they are throwing the ball and Joey has to keep covering for Chandler and Monica and refers to himself as a horrible human being, are pretty fun. 5×21 and 5×9, respectfully.
He had his own show, Freddie, on ABC that lasted 22 episodes in 2005 / 2006.
Freddie Prinze Jr has worked with WWE off and on, I believe that is his most current gig, actually.
In 2010, for 24’s eight season, he played Cole Ortiz, which also featured another favorite actress of mine, Jennifer Westfeldt. Season three is by far my favorite season of the show, with the moment with Jack in front of the hotel with the dude’s daughter, but eight is up there. 3×23 is the episode that made me a hardcore fan of Jack Bauer!
That’s my retrospective on Freddie Prinze Jr., who really needs to act more!
At one point, I owned all of these films but traded them in for cash, which was a very sad day for me.
So the cast of dancing partners was announced. To use the phrase “Stars” seems to be as inappropriate as it gets.
The only one I’m remotely interested in is Suzanne Somers, who I imagine Tony is super excited to finally have a contender again.
The others I had to click on their names to see who they are. I was surprised to learn that Cheryl Burke is gone this season. That is highly disappointing.
I do know who Rumer Willis is, but she is barely a star, herself. I guess they are trying to get Bruce Willis and Demi Moore to appear in the audience, at least once. I’m sure she would have to be there for four weeks before one of them shows up again after the premiere. She’s dancing with Val.
Patti LaBelle, I didn’t recognize the name until my eyes scrolled over to the “known for” and I of course remembered her then. Poor Artem has to dance with her, I wonder if Tony put his foot down.
Riker Lynch, who is dancing with Allison, is Derek and Julianne’s cousin – so get use to hearing that every night.
They are calling Charlotte McKinney, an ‘actress’ for appearing in a Hardee’s commercial, the “all natural” one.
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Redfoo, of LMFAO (I’m not a fan) is dancing with Emma.
I imagine the big get was Willow Shields, who plays Prim in the Hunger Games. She is dancing with Mark Ballas. I imagine they are working with Jennifer Lawrence to get her to appear on the show, at least once and in some form. Most likely in the form of being on a tablet or video recording.
Shadow and Flame with Magik 