So in preperation for seeing Blade Trinity at our shiny new theatre (I haven't seen blade trinity yet, so no spoilers. Don't even talk about blade trinity, that's not what this thread is for) I picked the 2 prequels up at blockbuster, and I am wholly unimpressed.

From what people told me, the blade movies were the predecessors to the Matrix. I can completelly see this, what with all of the comic-book angles and such. That doesn't mean it was just as good at all.

While blade 1 was far more entertaining than 2, they still seemed overly action packed, with storylines that if examined deeper than the movie assumes, don't really make much sense at all. The second movie took these downfalls and harvested them into a ****tacular movie.

The concept of vampires has never really interested me. But being the Buffian that I am, I had to watch these movies. The vampirism in the movie seems like a catch for a bunch of emo kids, more than it is part of the action. The night clubs, blood baths, and buckets of blood ended up being more disgusting than alternative.

Buffy was a very shallow show, but enjoyable in it's early seasons, and absolute crap in it's later seasons. The same seems to be true with blade. The first movie, while shallow and lacking in character development and plot construction was a solid action and science-geeky flick. While the second was nothing but action, and lacked a plot all together.

The number one thing I simply could not excuse were all the one liners. For christ sakes, when being chased down by a pack of crazy vampire killing skinless... freaks, one doesn't have the wit or tact to whip out a handfull of one-liners. No one. This was also a downfall in the matrix trillogy as well.

Actually, I take that back: The number one thing were all the inconsistancies between the movies. It seemed we were thrown into the second movie assuming we'd never saw the first movie, and that it'd be ok to change some of the rules. Hey, suddenly there is no girl, and suddenly he's not rejecting the syrum. Suddenly, the old guy didn't shoot himself, and blade just happened to leave his body sitting in the chair, despite suiting himself up with a bunch of neato gadgets that were sitting on the tables down near the old guys body, yet the old guy was 'stolen' from blade? No. The inconsistancy of the 2 movies made not so strong movies even worse.

I was quite unimpressed, and had a lot of hopes in a new cult-classic I could latch myself onto. Instead I got a pair of Resident-Evil styled crap of film.

JediKirby

Do you like anything?

Blade is the kind of movie I watch when I don't feel like thinking... at all. The comic book character was great, but they pretty much ruined him in the movies. Now it's just mindless violence.. which is fun when you're in the mood from it.. but don't watch it expecting a remotelly intelligent plot.

I have always hated all those series and movies that have weak vampires. Granted, I watched the early seasons of Buffy (but I guess I was looking for other things than "vampires" when watching it ). Blade had some nice action but still I don't know why they insist calling those weak demon things vampires. It's just tasteless. And greatly bothers me when watching those movies.

And of course the things jedikirby said are true...

It's based on a comic, probably one of the better comic-based films.

But not better than X-Men 1 & 2.

No, he doesn't. In fact, he takes pride in not liking anything, for some reason.

I don't hate Blade I and II, but I can only watch them so many times before I feel like killing somebody. Like Detty said, it's a movie I watch when I don't want to think, and it's fairly enjoyable.

I actually liked the first 2 blade films, I felt that the third was kind of pushing it.

I never saw them as predecessors to The Matrix. Blade being based on a Marvel comic book and The Matrix being mostly anime inspired. Blade 2 did, like every other action film after Matrix, borrow from The Matrix.



I never saw the night club scene as overly disgusting.



I thought the clear answer to the serum was that she helped perfect it and there are plenty of plausible explanations to the shooting such as vampirism had already taken over when he shot himself thereby allowing him to recover from the wound. Odd, though, that the gun wouldn't have held the proper "vampire killing" ammunition.



Well, I think the Resident Evil films kick *** but I don't think there's too much similar other than being in the action genre.

The night club scene was disgusting? I thought it was a badass scene. I mean Blade just walks in and kills every vampires in that club. I only saw the first one, and it was a heavily edited version on TV.

Blade is a mindless action movie. You watch it for fight scenes, blood and the occasiona one liner you'll find in any such movie.
If you are looking for depth, plot or anything better then what you'd find in action movies since the dawn of time, you won't find it here.

I had to laugh when people started pulling off WWF moves. That was purelly hilarious.

No one has any comments on the girl suddenly disapearing between the two movies?!

JediKirby

It's like the Bond girls, or the girls in Indiana Jones, there's probably some explanation as to why they dissapear between movies, but nobody really cares enough to pursue it.