Facts.

Thank goodness wouldnt make much sense from Blade's pov

I don't know. For me it always seemed like they were romantically interested, but their jobs mattered more to them. Choosing career over family in the 90s, stilll works!

But they do treat the bite/drinking as a sex scene… so they’ve still tried to make them something.

Use the "guy setting up dominoes" meme, easy.

This lead to a bunch of sequels that almost killed Marvel. THEN Kevin showed us Ironman. One of you cheerleaders are going to give Tony his props.

I have lol

If it wasn't for this movie, the MCU would not exist

Blade : the MCU :: OZ : prestige television

"This hands are rated E for Everyone" - Blade, probably)

As another force of the night would say: The Hammer of justice is unisex.

Well to be fair, the blade is the same on all sides regardless if you flip it

@@irionuchiha3823I mean. that’s not true with a lot of blades so r/thisisdeep didn’t work this time.

@@dirtybirds423 lmao fair, any blades you can name that are not the same on either side though? Curious how that looks

How could they cut it off!

​@@lexramstudios1386This was pre-X-Men! They had no clue people wanted Stan Lee!

Fun fact don't care

@@BenoitRAG3 if you don’t care then don’t comment

@@BenoitRAG3 You must have a lot of friends.

Ali isn't a real deal.

Only sheep like Ali.

Ali is great, but I do think he's gonna have to do something magical to really sell his take on Blade. Too many people today don't give credit to what true, larger-than-life star power and charisma is with genre films. It's not so much about machismo masculinity as it is projecting a sense of the mythological. Actors like Schwarzenegger, Stallone, Willis, Snipes, have that X factor. Snipes has STAR POWER. He sells everything 100%. His stance, his demeanor, his grace and control of movement, etc. His Blade is a wonderfully subtle performance in many ways. It's a very measured performance that feels 100% natural all the same. Like this video points out, Snipes delivers one liners so well we just believe it despite some of them being cheesy as fuck. Some one liners we love for being cheesy. And some one liners SHOULDN'T work but do because they have to right actor delivering them. Like "hasta la vista, baby" in Terminator 2 should not work at all. But it DOES because Arnie is Arnie. Naysayers would poo-poo his turn as Blade as something not difficult to do. And they would be so, so wrong. Being an true to the bone action hero takes a little something extra. The Rock used to have that, but his choices lately have let him down. This X factor is largely missing in today's western action cinema, because western action cinema (barring notable exceptions like John Wick) are just superhero movies. Superhero movies are basically today's action cinema. And comedy. And sci-fi. Back when they made Blade it wasn't in some attempt of massive brand and franchise synergy. No, it was merely a high concept action film that just so happened to also be a comic book film. I think Ali can very well pull it off, but I'm worried it may be a Brie Larson situation with Captain Marvel (no, not in that way. chill). Larson is a good actor. Great even. I've liked her in every dramatic role I've seen her in. But the cool badass comic book hero persona is not something that suits her. And thus she feels miscast. Not every actor needs to be great at everything to be a good actor. Having weak areas is OK! I think Ali may have that same kind of weakness. He's great in more grounded, nuanced, true-to-life roles. But can he pull off something as mythological as Blade? I honestly would have cast Yahya Abdul-Mateen II over Ali. Ali may to some be a subjectively better actor than Yahya, but Yahya has that big screen swagger and charisma.

@@nope5657 This, everything about this.

Yeah , should have been Marrese Crump

For me, there have been a few, but most of them were old school Marvel movies. The first Avengers movie, when The Hulk 'Smashed' Loki and told him, "Puny God!" Thor Ragnarok, when he Lightning MegaPunches the Hulk in the arena right before the Collector zaps him. Then later, in the same movie, when he rides a lightning bolt into Hela's undead minions to the opening of Immigrant Song. End Game, when Captain America first shows up holding Mjolnir, and then again when the Falcon says, "On your left." But yeah, Blade getting his glasses back was a good one!

@@SouthernGuy5423 All Modern movies with a way, way.. WAAAAAAAAAY bigger budget and wow factor than blade. Blade was a really hard sell back in the day, but oh man did it hit the boxes even for people not a fan of Marvel. It started an entire theme with the intro nightclub scene, and a lot of parlour and flair for duster coats, not to mention both his haircut, and the style of sunglasses he wore, just like Maverick from top gun, brought on the Clear glassed Aviators.

On the younger side of things, all of us kiddies cheered back in the 90s during Pokemon the first movie when Ash got un-stoned

i have ALWAYS loved him saying that, even tho i had no clue what the hell he meant XD i kinda still dont have a single clue XDXDXD

@@hassanmouradmohammedabo-el4647 The 'Ice-skating uphill' quote can be roughly translated as 'Some motherfuckers are always trying to make things far harder than they need to', at least that's how it sounds to me.

he improvised that line

@@hassanmouradmohammedabo-el4647 trying to ice skate uphill would be basically impossible, so it's like Blade is saying that Frost attempted the impossible (defeating Blade)

LOL I love Abed.

Troy turn and whispers to Abed "wanna watch Blade tonight ?" and they do their handshake :)

And also the first successful Black lead superhero movie (sorry T'Challa)

@@erichfiedler1481And Storm from the first X-Men movie would’ve been the first successful black female superhero.

@@Dark_MishraI want a Storm movie

And first successful Marvel movie

Watched this so many times

Yeah, Lee talking about vampires in the skyrises being a Blade invention hurt me a little, just because it was such an obvious VtM thing that this movie used as inspiration. I'm super glad it did, don't get me wrong, but c'mon. Give Vampire its flowers.

Yep... and the game artist Tim Bradstreet was called in to help with Blade II concept design and comic adaptation Tim is awesome...love his Hellblazer and Punisher Max covers

​@@jhinpotion9230have you seen the trailer for Bloodlines 2...it dropped a few days okay. Supposed to be out next fall 2024

Ventrue for life. lol.

Oh dang, no wonder I thought that the VTM game took a lot of inspiration from this ilm.

Facts.

Now I want EGA about Interview With The Vampire

@@ColdLookingGlass That would be AWESOME

I went with a buddy to watch Spawn and I didn't love it. A year or so later, we went to watch Blade and I REALLY loved it and he didn't dislike it, but didn't love it. I was absolutely blown away. If I had gone alone, I would have gone right back to watch it again.

It’s the same reason vampires can’t see themselves in mirrors. Early mirrors were made with silver .

I was about to say something similar. Silver works against a lot of dark creatures because it's seen as pure. I think that's also the reason salt works against demons and other impure things in supernatural.

Why are you acting like vampires exist?

@@master-of-mind5881 Nothing in what I wrote is pretending vampires exists.

It's also why Witchers have silver swords ⚔

What I don’t understand?? Could you elaborate??

@@master-of-mind5881 I didn't realize it until reading the above comment either. Go to 12:55 on the video. Frost says to Quinn "Yeah, he's got the sword and shit yeah, you throw it in the air, catch it underneath, yeah, SHUT THE FUCK UP." Blade kills Frost by throwing his sword into the air so that it can dislodge the vials Karen created, which fall for Blade to catch and throw at Frost. Frost even gestures while saying the "catch it underneath" part so that his hand is bent backwards, which is how Blade catches the vials. Tiny detail, and I've watched the movie plenty of times, but I gotta give Mattpollock4625 credit because I'd never noticed that before.

Great catch, never noticed that before.

That's one of the benefits of holding the Bloodbath in a slaughterhouse. Cleanup was simple. Just get some pressure washers, and it all goes down the drains. :) Probably wasn't the case for your venue.

Facts 👏👏

Also the sword fight between Wesley and Stephen wasn't sped up it was legit and Stephen cut his hand due to it , they added it into the movie plot later that he cut his hand to give his blood

Really, I think it only succeeded BECAUSE it was Rated R. It was made with a relatively low budget and not much in the way of expectations, so the head honchos let it stay mostly true to the comics. If it had been PG, there might have been heavier expectations on the movie to do well, and then it would have ended up being butchered into mediocrity like all of the Punisher movies have been... well, except War Zone, which was ok. Really, that's the only reason why Deadpool did well, too. It was Rated R, so the studio had zero expectations, shown by the fact the Ryan Reynolds had to beg for a decade to get it made! If there had been any real expectations at all for Deadpool, it would have been pushed down to PG or maybe PG-13, and then butchered! But yeah, I don't think I can ever see anyone else as Blade other than Wesley Snipes. He is iconically Blade in the same way that Robert Downey, Jr. is Iron Man. Both actors were PERFECT for their respective roles! On top of that, everything I hear about the new Blade movie makes me sad.

As a actor he's actually a underrated DRAMATIC actor.

And the first movie isn't a dedicated origin story, even though Blade isn't exactly a popular character; all the origin you need is told in flashbacks. Compare Batman and Spider-Man.

The special effects have… not. Forgivable, though.

How do you mean "subtle diversity"?

@@Vilamus Blade and Karen are black characters but their blackness isn't in your face.

@@serenitymoon825 I am very suspicious of people who don't like anything non-white being "in your face".

I stand with ya, amigo

the third one is awesome imo 😂😂 i think rysn reynolds is funny as hell in it

Yeah, really, its just how bad the CGI is in comparison to modern stuff. I genuinely believe that if they modernized the CGI and didn't change a single other thing about the movie, they could re-release it and it would make bank. Its just such an iconic action movie!

​@@SouthernGuy5423 I agree.... enhance the CGI and re- release...I won't be surprised if it makes a profit all over again

I like you

Mr. Goyer really messed up that 2nd movie. Dude CANNOT direct! Stylistically, he took what the other previous directors had done and pasted it into the movie. Making the vampires inbred mutts was another mistake: I-Pod Girl and Deadpool (tryout), and the whole Nightstalkers was a waste of time. This was the failed pitch for a spinoff which killed both the movie and the potential spin-off. I can only appreciate Blade as a duology, 'cause that 3rd movie was trash

He’s the level of cruddy ex boyfriend that absolutely makes him a bad person.

[starts counting the Blade DVDs on my shelves]... One, Two, Thr- ah yes, two movies, you are quite correct!

Ikr. Why can't movies be this fun again. Over the top, and cheesy, and a kickass time

Watch more movies that aren't just superhero blockbusters. There is still plenty of good action in cinema today. You just have to look for it.

Like... John Wick?

@@zanite8650 yes, but all action films..one franchise isn't enough, and John wick is finished now

The MCU's Blade will, pardon the pun, suck. It won't be nearly as unique or transgressive or edgy (and I used "edgy" unironically. Ppl use the term derisively now but it wasn't always like that) as the original. It'll toss some blood around to pretend it's got edge and that's it.

Nice to see another fan of that world

Have you tried the "Clan Quest Mod" for VtM: Bloodlines ? As well as unique quests for each clan, in a later version of the mod, they added a section where you can join the Sabbat, along with East LA as a 5th city hub zone for them (or if you don't want to really join them, you can pretend to later to get most of the East LA content). Anyway, joining the Sabbat adds the option to diablerize quite a few characters to gain their Disciplines, and if you don't consume their souls "correctly" they keep haunting you and provoking frenzies.

There's a deleted scene in the DVD after Frost's monologue he shows a low level version of Blade Trinitys human blood bag

I'd be sooo excited if he did the Underworld movies! I love them so much! Especially the first one. They were a favorite of my dad, too, so they always bring back fond memories when I watch them. 😊

I dunno, there's only so many wins he can give for "Kate Beckinsale looking hot in this scene" before it'd get old

40-something here too. Absolutely feel the same way.

Wait... there's a novelization? DUDE! WTF! I never knew or had any idea! *scrambles to the Kindle store*

The lack of reflection was also explained by their lack of a soul. It was also said they didn't cast a shadow for the same reason.

That sounds like a GREAT fuckin' time! Hope y'all are well, doing well, and going strong.

Oh, I did, way back when.