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The thing that does mark it as an early comic book movie is how much exposition is in it. At the time, you can see the film makers didn't know how much they can trust the audience to keep up with, and so we get lots of scenes making sure we get exactly how Blade and his world work. By comparison, things like Guardians of the Galaxy and Winter Soldier spend about two minutes on exposition and trust you to keep up. The thing that has aged incredibly well is just how crazy Snipes plays Blade as. He's not a surly good guy so much as a bad guy let loose on other bad guys. It is committed to the idea of him being a monster.
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It's also just possible that Wesley Snipes doesn't know what year it is. He may think it's 1997 and he just left the meeting.
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Jul 10, 2015 05:06
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The fight choreography was weird. There's a bit later on where I swear Blade lightly slaps one of the armoured guards to death.
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Jul 11, 2015 07:13
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Harry Knowles is a perpetual living parody of himself.
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Jul 22, 2015 00:04
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Somebody summed it up in a Photoshopped poster many years ago. "When Christopher Walken just isn't European enough, Udo Kier is...The Creepy Foreign Guy." I wish I could find it.
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Jul 22, 2015 23:25
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I don't see why that doesn't also describe Walken
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Jul 23, 2015 13:31
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Neo Rasa posted:This was the dumbest thing in Blade 2 because the make a big deal about how they all have these UV guns and stuff that will completely own the reapers/vampires and then they just stroll into that sewer and get completely clowned anyway because they decide not to use them for no reason at all. Nah, they get clowned because Lighthammer turns and Chupa is an idiot. Also, there's way more of them than they anticipated. Honestly, Del Toro's pretty good at letting you understand why fights turn out particular ways.
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Sep 11, 2015 00:47
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Rhyno posted:The third film has that terrible scene right when they bust Blade out and their driver dude just roll sup in his lovely truck, runs right through the police barricades, jumps out and yells "WHOOP! COME ON!" and they all manage to get in the truck and drive away while the police that are like 5 feet away manage to not land a single shot. It's sort of weird that a film written and directed by the same person has a scene where they're written into a situation they can't get out of. I remember listening to the commentary, and that scene involved about twenty cop cars. (somehow feeling like less) So they specifically shot a scene to give a certain impression, then undid the scene straight away. It's weird, because the confusion of the corridors is depicted quite well. Like, you get that they escape the building because the Vampires and FBI are almost as busy fighting each other.
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Sep 15, 2015 03:20
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...not that many have, dude. Out of the current crop of big-name actors, you've got Fassbender (who may or may not have actually done it), Terence Howard, and Josh Brolin. Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Sean Connery, etc. also, but their stars have all faded pretty badly, so it seems like a fair bet that nobody in Hollywood likes domestic abusers either. It quickly caught up with Connery after a mere 40 years as a megastar and icon and his own retirement. That'll show him.
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Sep 21, 2015 07:14
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effectual posted:Oh man, I haven't watched that in 15 years. Is it worth revisiting? I see it's on youtube in full. Hellsing Ultimate is really good. It took 7 years or so for all 10 episodes to come out, but it's finished now.
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Sep 24, 2015 10:43
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Hey Fingercuffs posted:On the talk of what a new Blade series should be like I'm gonna go off the rails and say I'd love to see a series with Blade and his Howling Commandos or a Midnight Sons series. The Howling Commandos have shown up in the Ultimate Spider Man and Hulk and the Agents of SMASH so they are somewhat relevant as agents of SHIELD, and the Midnight Sons would be a good way to pass the torch of Ghost Rider from Blaze to Danny. He wasn't even supposed to be in it. He was one of the many choreographers they had and ended up in the movie.
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Oct 6, 2015 23:04
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Two Finger posted:It's not like he's a bad actor either It is. It really is. After seeing Special ID, he seems like a choreographer with a lot of good ideas that have to make their way past a lot of bad ones on the way out of his brain. In Flash Point, he expertly fused modern sports martial arts, grappling and traditional stuff into something really kinetic and rad. In Special ID, he just has a bad grappling fight with another bad grappler.
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Oct 15, 2015 01:24
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Killzone SPL will always be Yen's best movie. Hong Kong shot like a neon urban hell, melodrama for days, insane finishing fight, it's got it all. There's a sequel (in the sense that it had the same name) anyone know if it's any good? Also, yes, SPL is hilariously melodramatic.
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Oct 16, 2015 07:02
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Two Finger posted:i thought he was top notch in Ip Man for what it's worth Aside from the ridiculously one sided final fight and the literal worship of him by a crowd, yeah, Ip Man is pretty solid. And the sequel has probably the most mean-spirited character death ever, it's fantastic. Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Oct 21, 2015 |
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Oct 21, 2015 08:13
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Snak posted:Eh. The point of the final fight is that it's ridiculously one-sided. quote:. I really want to see a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style movie based on the origin legend of Wing Chun. The story goes that a princess, Yim Wing Chun, did not want to marry this badass, but because she was super hardcore, she told him if he could beat her in a fight, she might reconsider. Then she trained with a Shaolin monk who invented a new style of kung fu specifically for a woman to beat a larger, stronger man. She won, then married a guy that she actually like and trained him her new martial art. He named it after her.
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Oct 21, 2015 08:32
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Spike TV always feels like a comedy sketch that escaped into our world "We can't have women watch our channel full of fit, shirtless men"
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