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[Odoul]

Blade 1 and 2 are some of the only movies I can rewatch for years and never get tired of them. I was at the show tonight and saw a preview for Trinity. I didn't even know there was gonna be a third one. Looked cool though.

The last fight between Blade and Nomak in part 2 is badass. Even though the cgi was kind of obvious towards the beginning I think it worked to perfection in the end. It shows how the last fight in M:Revolutions could've been SO much more. It really showed how strong and supernatural the characters were supposed to be. Jumping 20 feet in the air, scenery being destroyed, skulls going through cement. Fukken awesome.

I can't wait to see what the people behind them make next.

 

[Ned Flanders]

I love...the first one.

The second one was like watching TNA wrestling with vampires.

 

[Dead]

Blade 2 was so fucking awesome

 

[hXc_thugg]

Blade 2 was shit.

 

[Ned Flanders]

Blade = Good CGI, good plot, good action, good characters, good cinematography

Blade 2 = Painfully obvious CGI, lame plot, good action, lame characters, wannabe-Matrix cinematography


I thought the story and the team of hardasses in Blade 2 was just corny, as well as how they brought back Whistler. Some of the action was impressive however, but the original movie stood on its own merits individually. The sequel might as well have been another brain-dead Jet Li vehicle..

 

[LinesInTheSand]

Good CGI? I rewatched Blade the other day and everytime CGI was used I groaned in pain it was so horrible.

 

[Willco]

I like Blade, but it has awful CGI. Far worse than anything in Blade II. When Blade cuts Deacon Frost in half and the CGI blood and body parts come back together is so fake looking, I laugh and laugh.

 

[Ned Flanders]

Come on..one obviously over-the-top snippet is worse than the entire scenes of "Batman The Animated Series over celluoid" that we got treated to in Blade 2?

 

[XS+]

Minus the 'virtual stuntmen' scenes, Blade II had excellent cgi. Check out the DVD commentary.

I love the brutal R-rated action and Wesley's attitude in the Blade series, and I'll be first in line for the trilogy DVD boxset.

 

[Odoul]

That's another thing I like about them. They're brutally violent. Like when he's tossing that cop around the kitchen or snapping Nomak's elbow at the joint. I love it when movies take advantage of the R rating. Why even have a movie about gruesome monsters if you don't show them doing gruesome monstrous shit?

 

[Prospero]

The two movies are completely different, and both are awesome in their own way.

Blade 1 has great writing and decent action sequences, but Blade 2 has decent writing and great action sequences. Blade 2 also has an amazing soundtrack--that CD is still in heavy rotation in my collection.

I hope Blade 3 can live up to the standard, though it seems like the franchise is running out of story. As long as it has a scene where Snipes kicks ass in yet another, even larger, vampire-filled nightclub, I'll be happy, though.

 

[XS+]

That's another thing I like about them. They're brutally violent. Like when he's tossing that cop around the kitchen or snapping Nomak's elbow at the joint. I love it when movies take advantage of the R rating. Why even have a movie about gruesome monsters if you don't show them doing gruesome monstrous shit?

Agreed. Back on the subject of the Matrix trilogy, all three of those R-rated flicks were unmistakably PG-13 material. Nothing brutal or particularly risque in the slightest. Same goes for last year's T3 (for the most part.. I guess punching a hole through a guy's belly is sorta R-rated, but that's about it).

 

[M3Freak]

Blade I rocked: I walked out of the theatre in awe. In fact, I liked Blade I more than The Matrix, and so did many of my friends.

Anyway, in Blade I the opening sequence was unbelievable! The action was great, it had a comic book feel to it (e.g. the car chase with the quick cuts and different speed to the action), and the music was so damn good, it made me go out and buy my very first, and very last movie soundtrack. I also loved that it wasn't too gory.

Blade II, in comparison, was horrible. Every second word was swearing (what's the point?), the music was SHIT, the fighting sequences looked completely fake and were way too long, the comic book feel was gone, and the gore completely turned me off.

I bought the Blade I DVD without hesitation. I've been wanting to purchase Blade II, but I can't bring myself to do it. I just didn't like it that much.

I was really disappointed with Blade II. After Blade I, I was really looking forward to being blown away once again. Hopefully Blade III is closer to Blade I. If it's just more of Blade II, the whole franchise is going down the tubes...bleh.

 

[radioheadrule83]

Both films didn't seem to take themselves seriously and neither did I. I agree that the team of "hardass" vamps in BII came off kind of camp/cheesy but I enjoyed the action and expansion of the human/vamp dichotomy to include the third enemy. The bad guy was surprisingly good and had some depth considering he was in Bros or something. I enjoyed both quite a lot... more than many other comic adaptations anyway.

 

[Evenball]

Blade II had "Cat" in it, Blade2 wins.

 

[Trevelyon]

The mind boggles at all the Blade II hate.

 

[explodet]

Blade I rocked: I walked out of the theatre in awe. In fact, I liked Blade I more than The Matrix, and so did many of my friends.

That was a great year - the Blade / Matrix double bill was a popular one at my place when I got the DVDs.

The only problems I had with Blade 2 was that a lot of Bloodpack didn't get to do much, and there was no final Wesley Snipes/Ron Pearlman big-ass fight to the finish. Otherwise it was a fun flick.

 

[The Shadow]

Good CGI? I rewatched Blade the other day and everytime CGI was used I groaned in pain it was so horrible.

I like Blade, but it has awful CGI. Far worse than anything in Blade II. When Blade cuts Deacon Frost in half and the CGI blood and body parts come back together is so fake looking, I laugh and laugh.

Yeah. I really don't understand people who bitch about the CG in Blade II and then have the balls to suggest it's worse than Blade I. Did they watch the same movie I did? Holy fuck!

Btw, don't forget those two vamps he kills with that coagulant in the hall, or the blood dripping from the top of that alter room. How could they fuck that up?

Blade II was a good sequel when a lot of Hollywood sequels are usually shit. To slam it for the CG is just stupid IMO.

 

[Sinatar]

Blade II was freaking awesome. The first one was also freaking awesome. They are definitely different movies, but each have their own plus sides and down sides.

My biggest issue with Blade 1 is that the nightclub scene was TOO good for that early in the film, they blew their load 5 minutes in and had nothing to top it for the rest of the movie which is always a mood killer.

 

[J2 Cool]

wow, never seen so many mixed opinions. Anyway, I liked em both, Blade I a bit more for the great writing and mood. The villain in the first flick also was a good match and strong opposite presence to Blade

 

[Zaptruder]

I keep imagining this fight scene between a vampire killer and a super vampire (dracula)... where dracula is replete with awesome powers... throwing fireballs, teleporting, awesome flowing cape... tall straight backed super alpha male look (Imagine Rondo X Dracula).

Fighting it off with Blade... he starts of with a sword as well, without using any of his powers, proceeds to completely out sword play Blade... parrying everything he has at him, before throwing grabbing him, hoisting him up, then throwing him into the ground in contempt... and tossing the sword.

Then proceeds to grab the edge of his cape, draw it up over his body, then flings his arm out, violently unleashing multiple black fireballs in the direction he throws his arm out at (pointed towards blade of course).
Just as the fireballs impact, slightly infront of blade, he draws both edges of his cape over his body, crossing arms, teleports behind blade and lays a haymaker, slamming blade into the fireballs he threw a moment earlier.

As for the rest of the fight... well, someone else can figure it out. But if there's any modern movie series that can pull off something like that... it would probably be blade.

 

[karasu]

I like Blade, but it has awfulCGI. Far worse than anything in Blade II. When Blade cuts Deacon Frost in half and the CGI blood and body parts come back together is so fake looking, I laugh and laugh.

But it doesnt look like it came out of a videogame. Blade II stinks
for a million different reasons.

 

[LinesInTheSand]

But it doesnt look like it came out of a videogame. Blade II stinks
for a million different reasons.

You're right, it looks far too awful to be from a videogame.

 

[karasu]

Well how is it suppossed to look? He pulled himself back together with blood for Petes sakes. There's alot more room for something like that to look ridiculous, but at least it was somewhat ambitious. What looked lame in Blade II was CG models doing Martial Arts.

 

[Cerebral Palsy]

Blade2 sucked balls. Plus, the CG was horrible, which was especially apparent during the fight infront of the scaffold of lights.

 

[LinesInTheSand]

Well how is it suppossed to look? He pulled himself back together with blood for Petes sakes. There's alot more room for something like that to look ridiculous, but at least it was somewhat ambitious. What looked lame in Blade II was CG models doing Martial Arts.

There's no defending the CGI in Blade 1. Some of the worst ever.

 

[karasu]

Considering that most of it wasn't Cg, I have no idea wtf you mean.