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[PingPongvonLaserstein]

I love Blade. It's tremendous fun, but great cinema, it is most certainly not.

 

[Sapiens]

Blade deserves more credit than it gets. It is at least better than Xmen and Spider-Man.

 

[djplaeskool]

Blade is my favorite Marvel movie.
Blade 2 has one of my favorite movie soundtracks (with no slight at all to Blade's soundtrack, that too was godlike).
Blade 3 was dumb fun, but an obvious downgrade in most respects (lol Vampire Pomeranians)

Seriously though, the Blade 2 soundtrack is immaculate.

 

[Adam Blue]

I'll never let Blade 2 off the hook for the unforgivable sin of Vampires. Needing. Flashlights.

They're vampires! They are obligate nocturnal predators! They wear their sunglasses at night and it's no problem! I know it makes for cool, spooky mood when they're hunting the mutants, but it doesn't make any sense in vampire fiction.

They had the protection lenses on, as the UV light was really the only way to stop the reapers, since silver did nothing and their heart was in protective bone. They would pop off the lens when attacking the reapers. They did explain this, and even in the sewers they gave Whistler the night vision goggles.

 

[cloud_sleep]

Now, I know claiming a movie as "the greatest ever" is nearly impossible, even though there's a general consensus for films like The Godfather and Citizen Kane.

But Blade is very unique

One cannot have gradations of uniqueness. Something either is or is not unique.

 

[Big_Al]

Love both Blade 1 and 2 dearly. 3 was shite apart for Ryan Reynolds.

Blade 1 has my favourite one liner

*Kris Kristofferson burts in with mini gun*

"Catch you fuckers at a bad time? " *smiles*

 

[deadscreensky]

I'm not going to say it's one of the greatest movies ever or anything, but Blade 1 is remarkably good and more than a little underappreciated. Definitely one of the better comic book films.

Also having rewatched it recently I think it holds up just fine. Some of the effects always looked a little low budget, even at release, and the movie doesn't really suffer for that.

I loved parts of Blade 2, but ultimately it just doesn't come together into cohesive greatness.

 

[Inceptional]

OP, there's no question. It's scientific fact. Lose the question mark brofessor.

 

[Calabi]

This movie was great, I rewatch it every once in a while.
The blood bath opening scene is still one of my favorite moments in cinema lol

Same, that scene is a work of art. Its a Synesthesia fusion of sound and visuals.

This is one of my favourite films. Its just a damn good time.

 

[TheTurboFD]

I would kill for another Blade movie. Maybe even a netflix series?

 

[Violence Jack]

Blade is great, bloody fun. But I'm not going to pretend like it's a masterpiece.

 

[elrechazado]

In a cool world full of sweet vampires, the generic frat boy villain was so generic and lame. I don't get what people see in this movie because the villain is so boring.

 

[ponpo]

Whenever meeting someone new, does anyone else copy Donnie Yen's gesture from Blade?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlDOxLU8gAU&t=15s

I can't be the only one

 

[888]

It was a fun movie. One of the greatest? No you are reaching there.

 

[Oemenia]

Saw this when I was young but man the atmosphere was just suffocating, loved it!

Also that opening sequence is still awesome.

 

[Kabuki Waq]

It definitely has the best opening scene of any superhero movie.

I would put it above majority of the MCU movies for sure.

 

[BlueTsunami]

I remember playing the Blade cassette tape with that techno track on my mini boom box. Rock out with your cock out.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

The entire opening scene and Blade's introductory bloodbath fight scene were super well done and memorable as all hell.

 

[BobNewbert31]

Blade 2 needed more Donnie Yen.

 

[ArjanN]

I legit don't understand how anyone likes blade 2 more

This, like an hour of Blade 2 is wasted on a bunch of mediocre side characters that end up doing nothing.

 

[inky]

I'm team Blade 2, but Blade is fucking great.

 

[nachum00]

It's one of my favorite superhero movies. I'll leave it at that.

 

[Hyun Sai]

Blade I was the funniest (so many epic one liners and stupid poses), but Blade II was the better movie by far.

 

[keuja]

Nope not even top 100... But I admit that the opening scene is awesome.

 

[master billings]

I like it the same way I like Spawn and other 90s schlock

 

[Adam Blue]

I love how this thread turned out, and I love that there's a lot of love for Blade 2. I almost didn't make a thread because of how negative it can get around here, but I'm glad I did it!

 

[Bishop89]

dont get the love for Blade 2.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

Blade was fun, but the ending bits were just awful.