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Originally posted by Cinemaddiction
K, knew all of that. Just another obvious "final battle" where the hero wins, regardless. Like the last two "Blade" movies formula. Break tradition for a while, kill the "hero", and make it a little less forumlaic and predictible.I'll state my opinions on the following.
1) You could literally watch Parker Posey act. She was clueless.
2) With a "**** You" name badge, a ripped physique, and a smart ass temper, it was implied this guy was a major character. Wrong.
3) I did. He was a VH1 Classic viewer at a taping of TRL.
4) The majority of it was tasteless, crass, and again, totally uncharacteristic of the franchise.
5) No, he did. Plenty of times. Serum, needing Drake's DNA sample for the virus and never getting it, the police until the end, the public smear campaign, etc.
6) Drake was more metro than menacing. Only thing he could look intimidating on is a Milan runway.
7) You're right, not High School. Just lazy, and immature. Same thing.
8) Necessary? It was blatant, tasteless, and totally crass. I honestly don't think New Line "needed" the help.
9)Deleted scenes....what? Doesn't that say something to you? That the dleted scenes are, according to you, actually INTREGAL parts to the story? What kind of writer/director sacrifices their STORY for a bunch of blaise eye candy?
Not a professional one. Atleast not one that cares about their final product, but this is Goyer we're talking about.
Something else for you to chew on, which goes back to the inconsistancies of Blade's travels; exactly how does Blade travel across the globe to kill vampires? He can't fly? He can't teleport? I guess he drives a car, although he can't take prolonged trips outdoors?
This is a prime example of why superhero movies are of what we call "static" characters. Spidey is confined to NY, Batman to Gotham City, Superman..NY, although he can fly inconspiciously. Blade, who HAS to stay out of the public light? Your guess is as good as mine, and is anything BUT self evident.
Hollywood wants to milk every comic book franchise for everything it is worth, and Blade did die at the end when they held the test screenings. Although I'm sure New Line must have had some input or BIG part in the ultimate decision of replacing that ending. If a studio thinks there is still more money to be made with a franchise, they won't want to end it that quickly.
1. She wasn't the best, but it wasn't something that ruined the whole film for me.
2. Yeah but like I said before he wasn't suppose to be intimidating, had the character been meant to be intimidating they wouldn't have written in so many jokes for the character.
3. I didn't
4. There were good points in the humor and bad ones.
5. Its always like this in any comic book film, for example Spider-Man was wanted before, but whenever he was fighting someone on ground they never attempted to capture him. Same goes with every other comic book super hero that is wanted by the police.
6. I found the Dracula costume/suit to be a bit intimidating.
7. I'm sure either one of us would have written it differently, but we didn't write it so it was decent as it was.
8. I'm not 100% sure whether they needed it or not, but its often the case with many studios that aren't filthy rich like Sony. For example Revolution studios and the "Baby Ruth" chocolate bars in Hellboy and the Red Bull Hellboy drank, same thing.
9. Well for one I think the werewolves scenes were removed because it was already overdone by "Underworld" and "Van Helsing" before the film was released. Two, I think it was also at least partially the decision of New Line to go with an alternate ending.
How does Hellboy travel to all those far away locations without people killing/capturing him because of his horrible appearance?? How do the X-Men travel in the X-Jet to different locations without being blown out the sky by the authorities?? Its often not explained with full details or reasoning. The manner in which Blade travels is not very important or significant. It isn't something that spoils the film nor is it something that should spark much debate.