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Marvel's The Defenders |OT| Featuring The Worst Iron Fist - August 18th on Netflix
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YesNOnoNOYes
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just got through epi 3
almost bailed out but had to finish dinner so put 3 on and am glad it's finally kind of interesting
Luke, DD, and JJ are adorbs (so far)
almost bailed out but had to finish dinner so put 3 on and am glad it's finally kind of interesting
Luke, DD, and JJ are adorbs (so far)
Spectromixer
Member
Episode 4
Lol at Jessica ramming the car through the restaurant at the end
Djungelfrukt
Member
on the fifth episode now. charlie cox is the perfect daredevil and the absolute highlight of an otherwise uninspired show.
Crankshaft
Member
I think if they make another defenders series it should be a Netflix movie instead of a show. The individual characters can have shows but when they come together I'd rather have a tight movie than the TV show format.
petethepanda
Member
They couldn't even come up with a decent thumbnail for this?
This, or they should make a series with several acts, like all the solo shows have. Instead The Defenders feels like a 3 hour film stretched out over 8 episodes. And even for a film I feel it would've had too little extra information about the factions involved.
The solo shows would be better off as thightly written 8-10 episode series (though for DD1-2 and JJ I disagree the pacing was bad), but for this they should either make a thrilling assemble film or a more elaborate series properly using all the elements they have built up.
They couldn't even come up with a decent thumbnail for this?
I have no idea about the actual budget of this, but that tumbnail represents the series well. I actually watched some stuff of the previous shows to see if I misremembered but no, The Defenders comes off as cheap and bland in terms of looks.
Grizzlyjin
Supersonic, idiotic, disconnecting, not respecting, who would really ever wanna go and top that
They didn't even try to catch it. Low effort from start to finish.
It's a notch above Iron Fist, but just because it's shorter and the episode lengths are closer to 40 minutes than 60.
8 episodes of characters telling you things, but the viewer not being shown anything. And conversations in dark warehouses and barely furnished concrete buildings, broken up by the occasional poorly lit quickly edited fight scene. CW shows look like they have more money put into them.
Miggytronz
Member
Didnt like this at all. The fight scenes were cringe worthy as fuck.
Oh and the green screen effects. Uhh.
Oh and the green screen effects. Uhh.
Crankshaft
Member
I liked it but it had its flaws. I really wanted a tighter focus. I thought everything in the police station was pointless and a waste of time. I don't need people telling Luke Cage to be careful every 5 minutes. OK he just got out of prison, we get it. Why are we still talking about it in the 6th episode?
Karen and Trish looking at the police evidence board and going, "Murders, wowzers!" Yeah the audience already knows that and the characters didn't do anything with the information.
The whole Colleen arc was Zzzzzz for me too.
Misty Knight and the police captain? Snooze. Could have trimmed a bunch of that up.
Karen and Trish looking at the police evidence board and going, "Murders, wowzers!" Yeah the audience already knows that and the characters didn't do anything with the information.
The whole Colleen arc was Zzzzzz for me too.
Misty Knight and the police captain? Snooze. Could have trimmed a bunch of that up.
Mr. Smiley
Member
Finish it last night. Unfortunately, I'm echoing what has been already. Throughout most of it, I was just plain bored with the characters, action and the plot.
Lucky Seven
Banned
This outrage is pretty undeserved. There's bad TV, and this is NOT bad TV. C'mon GAF, stop putting on your angry video review critic hats.
mugurumakensei
Member
To be fair, things were going good for them until Alexandra started making moves trying to preserve her own life rather than advancing The Hand. Gao really should have just executed Alexandra once she started getting stupid. I suppose Bakuto was also doing his own separate stupid thing with Colleen.
Escape Goat
Member
moved to spoiler thread
Lashley
Why does he wear the mask!?
I haven't finished it yet, but people will have differing opinions
It has its flaws, sure, but I loved it. Please bring on a second season.
JimJamJones
Member
1 episode left, and Iron Fist is still just the worst.
Sgt. Kabukiman
Banned
Just managed to get through the pilot... Well, I'm out of the Netflixverse I think.
It certainly wasn't terribly bad or anything. Well shot, well acted. But it was a struggle to keep watching, just profoundly dull. And that's as much on me as on the actual show I guess. If this had come out right after DD season 2, my hype levels would have made me binge watch this entire season just like I did Luke Cage. But that one burned me so bad that I couldn't bring myself to care this time around.
Doctor Strange was the first movie that finally completely disconnected me from the MCU and now this. As a life-long superhero fan, it feels kinda weird to be passing up on Defenders, especially since DD is my favorite Marvel character. Oh well, more time to catch up with the actual comics now I guess. Time to resubscribe to Marvel Unlimited.
It certainly wasn't terribly bad or anything. Well shot, well acted. But it was a struggle to keep watching, just profoundly dull. And that's as much on me as on the actual show I guess. If this had come out right after DD season 2, my hype levels would have made me binge watch this entire season just like I did Luke Cage. But that one burned me so bad that I couldn't bring myself to care this time around.
Doctor Strange was the first movie that finally completely disconnected me from the MCU and now this. As a life-long superhero fan, it feels kinda weird to be passing up on Defenders, especially since DD is my favorite Marvel character. Oh well, more time to catch up with the actual comics now I guess. Time to resubscribe to Marvel Unlimited.
theignoramus
Member
Took till the third episode for me to really start giving a shit. They should have just done stand-alone episodes for each of the four major characters, rather than trying to shoehorn in an appearance from each one every episode.
MasterMenace
Member
This was a terrible show. I think there were a total of like 3-4 fight scenes? All were total crap. Tons of fast camera and quick cuts. None of the fights pushed boundaries. Just cookie cutter fighting crap. The entire show as boring. Boring villain. Boring characters.
Honestly, DD and JJ are the only two good Netflix Marvel shows. The other 2 were crap. I hope Punisher doesn't disappoint.
What they seriously need to do is give everyone costumes so the stunt doubles can give us some serviceable fighting choreography. Also a better villain.
Honestly, DD and JJ are the only two good Netflix Marvel shows. The other 2 were crap. I hope Punisher doesn't disappoint.
What they seriously need to do is give everyone costumes so the stunt doubles can give us some serviceable fighting choreography. Also a better villain.
Finn Jones was a terrible choice for Iron Fist, and the show's writers have given him total garbage to work with. The entire thing is a mess.
Matt and Karen get back together? Don't mind being spoiled
Futurevoid
Member
Bland, boring and mostly forgettable for me. There's nothing offensively awful about it outside of Finn Jones being absolute garbage as the Iron Fist. It's just sort of there.:/
What happened to the fight choreography in these shows? The first and second seasons of DD had some fantastic hand to hand fight scenes and it's just been falling off of a cliff with these shows ever since.
What happened to the fight choreography in these shows? The first and second seasons of DD had some fantastic hand to hand fight scenes and it's just been falling off of a cliff with these shows ever since.
MegaSackman
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Finished yesterday, pretty average show, it never reaches the highs of DD but maybe either the lows? well... the final episode is pretty terrible tho. Whoever make coreographies and set pieces in DD, bring him/her here, Defenders seemed like they didn't have the budget to make cool stuff which is weird.
Also, I just noticed that the show is produced by director and producer of Buffy, no surprises considering the 90's style of battles.
Also, I just noticed that the show is produced by director and producer of Buffy, no surprises considering the 90's style of battles.
Two episodes in....i dont think i cant go on - this is just too boring wow.
Maybe it should have just bee a 2 hours movie event ala Avenger....just too boring as of now, feels like they are just stretching as much as possible to fill the 9 episodes.
Maybe it should have just bee a 2 hours movie event ala Avenger....just too boring as of now, feels like they are just stretching as much as possible to fill the 9 episodes.
Kadayi
Banned
To be fair to the actor, given the latter we can't be completely sure of the former. I mean jeez, they've so badly dropped the ball on the characterisation, it fills slightly wrong to put a lot of the blame on him. Danny Rand is a whiny petulant bitch because they wrote him that way.I can't see how changing the actor is going to miraculously change that dialogue.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Pretty entertaining through episode 5. I see complaints about it being slow/boring but I didn't feel that way. The first couple of episodes had to get you up to speed on what these characters have been up to since their respective seasons and navigate the plot so as to logically get them to cross paths. It worked well enough.
Iron fist fights got better. The general banter has been entertaining too.
Iron fist fights got better. The general banter has been entertaining too.
Crankshaft
Member
Don't get too excited. Karen wants Matt to be boring and Matt just gotta be free.
Watch it yourself and decide.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Eh. This isn't anywhere near as bad as some of these posts claim. The language some people are using make it seem like it's utter garbage. Not even close.
Edit: Lol at the two posts I'm sandwiched between.
They couldn't even come up with a decent thumbnail for this?
It looks like a poster for a band that played coffee shops in the mid 1990s.
It did give us this at least (minor episode 6 spoiler)
https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-20-2017/Ce1xlw.gif
https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-20-2017/Ce1xlw.gif
Lol, that's barely minor
Sephiroth503
Member
On episode 5 at the moment, I'm enjoying it quite a bit. Maybe my opinion will change by the end but I can't quite understand all the commentary about being bored myself.