Netflix: The Defenders
 

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That is all.

Yes please!

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Charlie put out a pretty good video explaining the hand and stuff.

Here's his full trailer breakdown

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Guess I better watch iron fist in the next few months

I wouldn't. I cringe at the shittiness of the actor playing Rand every time he shows up. Ruins the trailer for me. Maybe he'll take acting and martial arts lessons before shooting the series, but that stupid hallway fight scene didn't look like it.

More superhero stuff? How come adult men watch kids movies these days? Very odd.

Think of most of them as variations of The Seven Samauri, High Noon, Shane and 3:!0 to Yuma.

Yeah i guess. though i feel cage and fist didn't live up to hype. of course i'm not talking about how every girl i know was just fainting when cage aired. :D

Obvious troll is obvious.

There used to be a show about some attorneys in Las Vegas called "The Defenders". Light hearted comedic drama. Had John Belushi's brother in it. I thought it was pretty good. Cancelled. Probably to make more comic book shows.

Any tits?

I really liked the first season of Daredevil and Jessica jones, but Luke Cage and Daredevil 2 hasn't kept my attention and haven't attemped Iron Fist yet. I did like Luke Cage and Iron Fist comics when I was a kid though.

You didn't like Daredevil season 2? Granted, if you split it into the punisher parts and Electra parts the punisher parts are far superior, but that punisher line was probably better than anything they pulled together in season 1 IMO.

Agreed. Thanks to Fist, I'm really not that interested in The Defenders any more, but I'm stoked for the upcoming Punisher series.

I think the problem with DD season 2 is that the Hand in the Electra parts was originally meant to be Bullseye and the Blacksmiths goons. Then everything makes much more sense.

Statham didn't want to play Bullseye so we got a quick rewrite that ended up being kind of out of left field.

It just seemed to bog down. I will give it another shot with an open mind.

watched Ritter's ass bounce around a for a few eps...but just can't get into Jessica Jones.

It gets lots better when Tennant shows up.

Watch it through. It's good. Really good. And there is virtually no action.

Ugh...was hoping it would be passable to watch ...I heard this takes place 'defenders' after iron fist. I like DD and JJ....Luke Cage was decent atleast.

Yeah, still excited for Punisher. Just hoping the other 3 can carry Defenders.

The actor from Iron Fist was on set 3 weeks before shooting and was given most of his fight core-...colora----fight teaching 20 minutes before shooting.

Horrible, horrible circumstances and very bizarre for a Marvel production.

He had 3 months for Defenders and they all worked from that far out as I understand it.

I know "Heroes For Hire" was Cage and Iron Fist but based on how the Netflix shows have evolved I'd mix it up.

I'd Make DD and IF be heroes for hire and JJ and Cage do noir investigations...

I'd do some 'noir investigating' of JJ.

They talk about not playing well with others Jon Bernthal would fire bomb and kill every mother****er in his way and then the show would only last two episodes because his incarnation of the Punisher doesn't **** around.

Check out @MCU_Tweets's Tweet: https://twitter.com/MCU_Tweets/statu...760501760?s=09

It starts out very strong then fades. The ending is dumb.

This looks pretty decent though.

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11 hours!

I are teh excited.

Its up

before digging into ANOTHER BINGE THAT KEEPS ME FROM MY MANLY RESPONSIBILITIES... i feel like if the defenders had appeared with netflix BEFORE marvels iron man hulk spidey adventure, it would be more popular than it is. that said i have low expectations from what little teasers have been out there. :D

It's actually kind of amazing how Iron Fist took everything off the rails.

This. So much this.

That show has pretty much killed my excitement with the MCU. I will of course watch Defenders, but it feels more like a duty than something I am looking forward too. Every time I see the trailers with Rand I cringe. :(

Luke Cage was tough to get through as well. Mostly due to the incredibly slow pacing.

Supposedly the coregraphers From daredevil are doing the fights so I'm hopeful it kicks ass. In both seasons the fights in Daredevil are as good as anything I've seen on TV.

first episode was a complete throwaway ep.

What's the protocol for spoilers in here? Should I not be in there until I watched it?

well, most will put spoiler tags on things but if you don't want to risk it then I would wait until you have watched all 8 eps.

I'm halfway in. It starts slow, primarily setup for 2-3 episodes. I've enjoyed all of it so far. There isn't much fighting to this point, a bit right at the beginning and then a lot around 3-4. They've done a better job with both Luke Cage and Danny Rand than at any point during either of their series. As expected Charlie Cox basically steals the show anytime he's on screen, but everyone is good.

I'm excited to see the next four episodes.

Did the get Rand some training? Hopefully he's not as whiny? May kick off watching tonight.

Well. It's been nice participating in conversation here on the board, and life in general. See you on the other side.

Villainy 101

Make sure you stay for the end of the credits on the last ep.

Just started this last night. Kind of slow so far. Not a big Weaver fan, she is the same bitch in every movie.

Daredevil is still my favorite, Cage, whiny Iron Fist, Jones - last- all she does is drink.

This one seems very low budget- that hunk of concrete Cage moved was cheaply done- too obvious it was foam. Danny Rand needs to spend less time complaining and more kicking ass. His hot partner is Much tougher.

The Netflix MCU is really diminishing Iron Fists' fighting abilities in favor of Murdock seemingly being the best Martial Artist in this universe.

Yeah, he got nerfed hard in transition from comics to TV. He should be much more wuxia and clearly superhuman.

Cage is still the best character of the four. JJ and Murdoch are very interesting, but the actor who plays age is just perfect. He seriously seems like a walking, talking boulder.

I loved JJs comment "am I the only one that doesn't know karate?"

Holy hell. The hallway fight was fine but my god that office fight with Electra and DD. Damn. That was some amazing production. That's episode 3 and it did get me wound up to get the thing watched. This is definitely not laborious to watch.

at one point i had this vision of luke cage reprising the role of the banner incredible hulk series of the 80's. :D

The problem I have is I loved Daredevil but don't really give a crap about the other 3 shows. But since everything has to be a team-up "extended universe" these days I guess I'll get caught up with them all and watch it.

Jessica Jones is legit. There is a lot to like about Cage. Iron Fist just advances the story, but I've watched a hell of a lot worse.

Villains were meh.

Hopefully DD S3 will see the return of Kingpin.

Honestly, I'm one of those homers that's been waiting for this for 3 years.

This was not bad in the way it didn't live up to my expectations.

This was bad in the way it didn't live up to either DD season, Jessica, or Cage.

It was bad the way Iron Fist was bad: WE EXPECTED SO MUCH MORE and it was "meh..."

The writing was average at best. They dragged it out with boring scenes featuring the B characters. Foggy had more screen time than Iron Fist.

Iron Puss was horrible- he was such a little bitch in this one.

Ending it with DD getting out was just dumb.

I would give it D for being boring as shit- but overall a C plus- since the fight scenes were well choreographed.

I think I'm on episode seven, and I'm enjoying it. I guess I don't have impossibly high standards.

I figured he wouldn't be any better. :(

Less screen time than Foggy is probably a good thing.

i didn't want to mention at the beginning of the thread, but when asked has iron fist gotten any better, i wanted to reply: they figured how to make iron fist relevant, kept him tied up and not talking :D

ROFL

Might be worth watching now!

I felt like the entire thing was an attempt to make the Iron Fist relevant and that bogged the whole show down. It was interesting enough at first but went downhill as the episodes went on.



When Iron First was fighting Elektra..



...and it's annoying how incredibly stupid Danny Rand is. He's just a dumb character. He's a stupid person who does stupid things and he really doesn't have any redeeming qualities. I'm already sick of the man-child bullshit. And his super ability is stupid. Supposedly when his fist lights up he can do all of these great things but at one point near the end he's just doing his normal shitty karate moves with his fist glowing and none of his enemies are reacting to it. Oddly, it's believable that the dumbass was just too stupid to remember to use it even when his chi was charged up. It's not a chi thing. It takes all three of his brain cells working together at their highest capacity to actually pull off a move that accomplishes anything.



TL/DR: Iron Fist ruined the show.

It gets worse as Iron Fist becomes more and more the focal point of the story.

Sigourney Weaver was a huge let down. I honestly can't say if it was the writing, directing, or the acting. But she was a big meh. She started off OK but never really brought it home.

Yup. Annoying after the long wait.

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Yep at one moment, Iron Puss's fist is soo powerful it knocks down a wall and another time it just glows in the dark and does not hurt anyone. I was hoping Stick would just cut his head off- is that bad of me?

I don't see them making another Defenders after this dud.

DD should get another year and possibly Cage the others- nope. :shake:

Just started watching and the fake film grain is pretty out of control to the point of being distracting.

I just finished watching and this pretty well nailed it.

In the middle of episode 2 and want to slash my wrists every time Danny Rand is in a scene.

I'm just going to assume that he is a fake Iron Fist. The real Danny Rand is friends with the real Mandarin and just hired a stand in from the same company so he can sit home snorting blow off of Squirrel Girl's tail.

http://heros4parties.com/characters.html

Notice that the Iron Fist page has been taken down? He's obviously on a long term assignment.

For all we could fault this series for the biggest thing is wasting Weaver.

Why was she even in this? The Madame Gow (sp?) character was much more interesting and apparently she had the force as well.

Ripley didn't do jack $#it other than do a poor job walking in heels...

She pulled of the villain monologue well.

I see a great future for Iron Fist.............in porn.

I watched January Jones and really liked the series. Seemed to be a different take on a super hero. It worked. Best superhero series on TV I've seen.

Liked the Iron Fist at first then the damn whiny shit got so annoying that I struggled to finish the series.

Watched Lucas Cage about 1/2 way through and gave up. Nothing new there and he seems wooden to me.

Never watched Daredevil.

Defenders was okay. The whiny Iron Fist is so distracting from the really good and epic fights. Too many dumb decisions made by supposedly smart people.

Luke Cage is good but only for the surrounding characters. Cottonmouth, Mariah, Shades, and Bobby Fisch all carry the show.

Daredevil is excellent both seasons. Season 1 was stronger through and through than Season 2. Both D'Onfrio as Kingpin and Bernthal as Punisher were fantastic. Season 2 kinda drags when the Punisher storyline is just about wrapped up and you can certainly tell that the Hand Ninja master was a last minute rewrite for Bullseye.

It's Jessica Jones. January Jones is a different but nonetheless hot chick :D

You're missing the boat. Daredevil is the best of the bunch. Especially his scenes with Punisher in S2.

I caught this video and it made me feel better about the whole thing. Elektra is is superhuman now and saved him.

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and Bullseye will still kill her.