The drug addict is right, no one cares about this modern shit. It's sad that his ass is a better villain than everything modern marvel can throw together, and he was a mediocre villain. Great plot, good setup, well-written, great acting: the original Blade was a stellar fucking movie, especially for a comic book movie. What the fuck did the wokies do?
The Original Blade is as blatant a 'white people bad' movie as anything released today, but it's correct that it at least didn't forget to be entertaining before anything else.
Going back to that, however appealing it might sound, is just asking for the frog-boiling to slow down rather than stop.
All the vamps were white IIRC and the ancient vamps that Dorff's character uses for the blood ritual were all "old white guys" so it could be that I guess?
"Old white dudes" was an actual line from the first 'Men in Black' movie said by Will Smith when everyone is trying to find the ship the Bug will use to leave Earth so it's possibly a theme even back then.
Triple H plays one of the vamps in the third movie while Dominic Purcell plays Dracula although on the good guy side is Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King in the role that more or less led to him being Deadpool. Main bag guy in the second is also the main bad guy in the second Hellboy film and has very similar makeup. While many of the vamps were very "pale" that's kind of the main point about vamps anyway.
Blade's mother was white? I mean if you want to dig, you can dig, but then don't pretend you aren't being as obsessed as the current gen yahoos, except in the opposite fashion.
Yeah I didn't get WhiteBad vibes from Blade either. Yeah he's black but his race is never really mentioned unless someone had to describe him or something. Almost like people don't need to be reminded that the character is black every thirty seconds or something....
The Thanos arc was pretty solid, but it took a nose dive from there. Right around the time they started adopting the modern woke comic book storylines.
Captain Marvel movie can be ignored and her role in Endgame should have gone to Nova/Richard Rider.
All the same scenes could even happen and yet they'd make far more sense such as why Marvel/"Nova" fails to immediately stop Thanos and then gets Power Punched out the fight for fucking around too much. Because in the case of Nova he'd be the sole survivor of the Nova Corps on Xandar from Thanos' off screen attack prior to attacking Thor and Loki for the Tesseract/Space Stone since Xandar is where the Guardians of the Galaxy left the Power Stone.
The placement of the stand alone film would even still work because it could end with the attack on Xandar while the rest of the film was a far more upbeat life story of Richard as long as it doesn't end up too much like the Green Lantern movie.
However Richard Rider is somewhat hated by several Marvel writers so much like Spider-Man is frequently abused the same happens with Dick Rider [yes it's a very unfortunate name].
Someone with enough time and tech could probably edit Marvel out for Nova if they really wanted to.
I liked him in True Detective. I didn't realize he was in Blade. That happens to me fairly often nowadays, where I'll watch a movie or show I've seen before and recognize someone from something I've seen more recently.
Stephen is right. I'm pretty sure Martin Scorsese said something similar a couple years ago. Superhero stories being formulaic is nothing new, but these new movies and shows have just been rode into the ground and milked to the point of being emaciated. They're so safe and inoffensive that it's easy to keep pushing them out.
The drug addict is right, no one cares about this modern shit. It's sad that his ass is a better villain than everything modern marvel can throw together, and he was a mediocre villain. Great plot, good setup, well-written, great acting: the original Blade was a stellar fucking movie, especially for a comic book movie. What the fuck did the wokies do?
The Original Blade is as blatant a 'white people bad' movie as anything released today, but it's correct that it at least didn't forget to be entertaining before anything else.
Going back to that, however appealing it might sound, is just asking for the frog-boiling to slow down rather than stop.
Wasn't Blade raised by a white man who they showed getting martyred?
That was Whistler, who died in the first film, got brought back in the second, and then killed again in the third.
Thanks. So the white people bad wasn't really a point then.
All the vamps were white IIRC and the ancient vamps that Dorff's character uses for the blood ritual were all "old white guys" so it could be that I guess?
"Old white dudes" was an actual line from the first 'Men in Black' movie said by Will Smith when everyone is trying to find the ship the Bug will use to leave Earth so it's possibly a theme even back then.
Triple H plays one of the vamps in the third movie while Dominic Purcell plays Dracula although on the good guy side is Ryan Reynolds as Hannibal King in the role that more or less led to him being Deadpool. Main bag guy in the second is also the main bad guy in the second Hellboy film and has very similar makeup. While many of the vamps were very "pale" that's kind of the main point about vamps anyway.
Blade's mother was white? I mean if you want to dig, you can dig, but then don't pretend you aren't being as obsessed as the current gen yahoos, except in the opposite fashion.
Blade's mother was black. She's black in the flashbacks and she's black when Blade meets up with her later on.
Yeah I didn't get WhiteBad vibes from Blade either. Yeah he's black but his race is never really mentioned unless someone had to describe him or something. Almost like people don't need to be reminded that the character is black every thirty seconds or something....
God Blade was a great movie.
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Isn't this one a much more memorable song?
Yep. Didn't even know the other one was a full fledged track. Figured it was some rambling sound effect.
it is, just much much easier to find.
To this day, Blade remains one of my favorite movies.
Except for the... early CGI.
The Thanos arc was pretty solid, but it took a nose dive from there. Right around the time they started adopting the modern woke comic book storylines.
The snap was satisfying. Then came Marvel and her Mary hos.
Captain Marvel movie can be ignored and her role in Endgame should have gone to Nova/Richard Rider.
All the same scenes could even happen and yet they'd make far more sense such as why Marvel/"Nova" fails to immediately stop Thanos and then gets Power Punched out the fight for fucking around too much. Because in the case of Nova he'd be the sole survivor of the Nova Corps on Xandar from Thanos' off screen attack prior to attacking Thor and Loki for the Tesseract/Space Stone since Xandar is where the Guardians of the Galaxy left the Power Stone.
The placement of the stand alone film would even still work because it could end with the attack on Xandar while the rest of the film was a far more upbeat life story of Richard as long as it doesn't end up too much like the Green Lantern movie.
However Richard Rider is somewhat hated by several Marvel writers so much like Spider-Man is frequently abused the same happens with Dick Rider [yes it's a very unfortunate name].
Someone with enough time and tech could probably edit Marvel out for Nova if they really wanted to.
I liked him in True Detective. I didn't realize he was in Blade. That happens to me fairly often nowadays, where I'll watch a movie or show I've seen before and recognize someone from something I've seen more recently.
Stephen is right. I'm pretty sure Martin Scorsese said something similar a couple years ago. Superhero stories being formulaic is nothing new, but these new movies and shows have just been rode into the ground and milked to the point of being emaciated. They're so safe and inoffensive that it's easy to keep pushing them out.
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I think the Thanos storyline will hold up over time but yeah the other 97% is dogshit and seems to be getting worse each year.
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