The Blade films (Hey, vampires are living dead)

[EvilNed]

I just rewatched Blade 1 and 2 and it strikes me how different they are. Even the main character Blade is different. As are the vampires! In the first film, Blade was more of an animal. He sliced up and ****ed up anyone he could to get to his goal. Heck, he even considered letting that asian kid die just so he could kill Deacon Frost. In the second film, he was more of a show-off. Remember that film "White men can't jump" when Woodie Harrelson kept complaining about how Wesley Snipes would rather look good than win the game? Well, that's how it is in Blade 2. Blade would rather look good than actually do anything. He constantly does a bunch of fancy moves with his sword, even when nobody is watching! Why the heck did he do that? The vampires in both films are also different. In the first film, they are much tougher to kill. You have to shoot them in the heart or brain with a silver bullet or they'd just feel pain. In the second film this is disregarded completly: Blade shoots several vampires through the stomach and they die instantly. It's like instant contact with silver will kill them. Overall, I consider Stephen Norrington, the guy who did the first film, to be somewhat of an action genius. Most people might think The Matrix was the first film to introduce slow motion bullets and quick, slick karate action to Hollywood but Blade all that and came several years before The Matrix did. Blade 2 took everything Norrington did and stomped on it. Bullettime is used in most every scene, the action scenes consist of a bunch of quick close ups so you never really get what's going on (Much like those new Star Wars films). There's more action, but it's definetly not on par with the one in the first film. Also, the film is ****ing filled with stupid plotholes. In the end Whistler knocks out a vampire, one of the main vampires actually, and then... what does he do? He crawls down the ventilation... With a silver sword. Whistler, hello, you could have killed that guy right there with no hassle whatsoever and you would have saved Blade a ****load of trouble! I mean, even Kris Kristofferson must have thought that was stupid becuase it's so plain obvious. I just can't get over how bad Blade 2 is, when Blade 1 was pretty damn good. It was slick, stylish, it had character and Wesley Snipes was cool. Blade 2 is one big action train, just like Star Wars Episode 3, and one other thing it shares with that film is that the action sucks. They also turned Blade 2 into some kind of MTV generation action flick for people with no attention span. The character Scud? So annoying, going around tossing around rap slang names. "Hey B?" "Hey W?". Why not just say BLADE and WHISTLER, idiot? Also quit the smoking. Watching him smoke is just as annoying as watching Lars Ulrich chew gum (Which he does all the time). Blade 1 was much more mature and didn't feature any hip rap music whenever the main characters walked down the street in slow motion. What's the deal with combining rap music with kung fu anyway? Guillermo Del Toro is a big douchebag. I'm never going to watch Hellboy. Sorry, I just had to get that out of my system. I haven't seen Blade 3 yet, but since it stars Ryan Reynolds and Triple H I think I'll steer clear of it.

[erisi236]

alls I can say is that fight at the end of Blade 2 is the ****! it's really good as well

[AcesandEights]

Yup. The First Blade film was ****e. The seoond however was quite a fun little watch. I couldn't help but equate the Vamp society in that film with the WoD, which isn't a bad thing at all, especially compared to the first flick. The third movie only had one good thing going for it, or maybe two...

[EvilNed]

I much preferred the vampire society in the first film, where they were sophisticated elders and whatnot and their little "vampire board room". In the second film they walked around with medieval costumes and had huge vampire headquarters that just made you go "What the hell?". Basicly, I think everything in Blade 2 was overdone to the extreme, even the vampire lairs.

[glsjaw]

personally i like the Comic alot better than the movies, but for being hollywood the movies are a good time

[p2501]

skip Blade three then, it's ass. Personally i like the character variance between 1 and 2, they stand as what i consider seperate opinions of the same character.

[Eyebiter]

Blade 3 is one of the few films I've gotten up and walked out of the theater. BTW: how many times did they kill off Kris Kristofferson in those movies?

[p2501]

atleast 7 times.

[Danny]

i didnt like the blade films, in my opinion vampires have just been done to death... or undeath , whatever, and zombie films are headed the same way.

[EvilNed]

Nowadays, it's you can expect any vampire film that comes out to not follow the old traditional rules. I wonder when they'll make a vampire film that DOES follow the rules?

[Eyebiter]

What the vampire genre needs is a film to shake things up. One could argue 28 Days Later brought the zombie films back a few years ago. Dog Soldiers did the same thing for werewolf movies.

[DjfunkmasterG]

If the movie 30 days of night... Comes off nearly as good as the comic... I think the Vampire genre will spring back to life. What the genre needs is a good swift kick in the ass. The Vampire genre needs its own 28 days later

[Danny]

id like top see a film or hbo series based on the vampire comics sea of red, vampirates, now thats awesome.

[Hawkboy]

Thought Blade was a fantastic movie, Blade II was fun, as for Blade III......... well, I had fun looking at Jessica Biel's body but that was it. Interested to see what the TV show will be like. Hopefully they borrow a bit more from the Tomb of Dracula comics that started Blade.

[EvilNed]

I'm watching the Blade 2 documentary right now, and what is funny is how both Guillermo Del Toro and David Goyer seem to think they've created some kind of masterpiece. David Goyer keeps saying "Blade was good, but this one is even better!". Most would agree it's the other way around, you big dildo! And then he goes on saying "This film is really scary." Blade 2? Blade 2 is probably the least scary of all the films in my collection, counting Battlefield Earth (cause that **** was scary!). How is an action flick in any way scary? You KNOW what the monster is, and you KNOW Blade is going to kill thousands of them before the scene is over! You can't combine quick, slick martial arts action and horror and stick to the very traditional action films clichés. A scene in the sewers does not make a film scary. Die Hard 1 and 2 took place mostly at night, are they scary? No.