Daredevil in words and film

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The other day in Evansvill I picked up, amoung other things, a novelization of the movie Daredevil, and since I just finshed reading that and watching the movie.  I have a few things to say.  The first is to see the movie before reading the book, because the book just kicks the movies ass.  

Yeah, the story is action/adventure, which is better visualized than written.  But the book is like the movie with a whole bunch of cut scenes, so it flows a lot better and you see what motivates the charecters. 

And quite a few scenes were cut out and changed because of one subplot that got cut.

The meeting that Nelson didn't want Murdock to miss was a meeting of a potential client, Duante Jackson, who is accused of murdering a woman who tipped off Urdic to the existance of the Kingpin.  Presumeably she sleeped with a guards that Fisk latter murders when he finds out about the article.
When looking for clues on who killed the woman, Murdock and Nelson (breacking and entering and disturbing a crime scene evedently isn't againist the law when one is a crimilist)  they find a clue that leads them to suspect that Welsey Welch killed her, and he bribed a cop to lie about finding Jackson with the murder weapon.  The crooked cop is the one who tips off Daredevil to the fact that Electa was next on Bullseys's hitlist.
And the reason why the cops are onto Fisk so quick is because Nelson tips off Urdic who tips off Manolis on who the Kingpin actually is.

Oh, and Ben Urdic is one of my favorite reporters ever.

The other movie I watched was Love Me or Leave Me.  It's about a singer and her manager/husbend that controls just about her every step to make her wildly sucessful.  And when she leaves him, he shoots her friend because he thought that she left him for her friend, which wasn't true.  But she still bails him out because she still owes him just about everything.  It's a lot better than it sounds.  Not a whole lot better, but a little better.