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Rhyno posted:The third film has that terrible scene right when they bust Blade out and their driver dude just roll sup in his lovely truck, runs right through the police barricades, jumps out and yells "WHOOP! COME ON!" and they all manage to get in the truck and drive away while the police that are like 5 feet away manage to not land a single shot. It's sort of weird that a film written and directed by the same person has a scene where they're written into a situation they can't get out of. I remember listening to the commentary, and that scene involved about twenty cop cars. (somehow feeling like less) So they specifically shot a scene to give a certain impression, then undid the scene straight away. It's weird, because the confusion of the corridors is depicted quite well. Like, you get that they escape the building because the Vampires and FBI are almost as busy fighting each other.
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Rhyno posted:The third film has that terrible scene right when they bust Blade out and their driver dude just roll sup in his lovely truck, runs right through the police barricades, jumps out and yells "WHOOP! COME ON!" and they all manage to get in the truck and drive away while the police that are like 5 feet away manage to not land a single shot. The best parts of Blade 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bln5M-rltvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8rCtzKA9tQ Ther,e now never watch the movie.
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Fat Lou posted:It is not, I just was doing 12 hour work days for the past two weeks. I should be back to a human schedule really soon. Nobody beats the thirst.
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Snapchat A Titty posted:I'm really sure that the weird fat vampire that Blade burns with the UV light in the library, he or she is def. in this movie, guarding the library that we just saw Frost and Udo Kier discuss in, otherwise my mind has come way off track. Am I way off here? Isn't that Harry Knowles?
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MonsieurChoc posted:The best parts of Blade 3 I'd say watching the commentary is worth it just for the exchange during the scene where Blade wakes up. "Wait were those eyes CG?" "Yeah, he was supposed to open his eyes, but he didn't." "What? Like he fell asleep?" "No... He just didn't."
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Shima Honnou posted:Literally just watched Blade 3. It's not that bad. A few questionable things (Killing off Whistler, the ipad, etc) but on the whole it's still pretty drat fun. I skip the final scene of Blade, he kicks then syringe then off button. The sunrise scene where Frost defangs the old vamp then watches him burn and the mobidly obese demon scene is also just so over the top fun.Thanks for the scene by scene recap! Didn't like Blade II on the first watch, but second time around after reading a review which called the mutant vampires "vagina mouthed" and paid more attention to the side characters, it's great watching if you go in expecting a certain level of campiness. Blade Trinity had been so trashed in reviews that I went in expecting trash and actually loved it: Ryan Reynolds ad libbing away, Snipes just sulking, Dominic Purcell putting that HYUGE physicality to good use, Dracula being an ancient sumerian god that turns up every now and then for great battles and who hates his crappy whiny descendants for waking him up. Wearing an ipod into battle wasn't nearly as bad as using a crossbow for close combat indoors: get some darts, idiot. The final fight was messed up by having Triple H in the background as he dwarfed the two daywalkers and make it look a whole load less impressive. Dracula suddenly activating bad CGI god mode to thrash Blade looked silly. Natasha Lyonne not getting to adlib and be the nastiest is a criminal underuse of a fantastic dirty mind! The vampire dogs, the Drake meets Dracula merch scene and Ryan Reynolds having the time of his life make it worth the watch. I don't think there will be a Blade 4: no one wants to work with Wesley Snipes. If they found the right actor and writers, I'd be up for a Blade series on Netflix or Starz but it would have to go for a 'less is more' approach when it comes to fight scenes, keep it gritty and grounded, show us fear and aftermaths because watching ten minutes of wire-fu and CGI burning ashes gets tired fast. Spartacus has the blood, Banshee has the fight scene tempo, Constantine had the kind of dark humour and harsh world that would be required for Blade but it got cancelled before it even fully aired. The main problem is that vampires are so completely overdone in pop culture so they'd have to steer clear of any stereotypes when setting up Blade's enemies. n3wt fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Sep 20, 2015 |
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n3wt posted:I don't think there will be a Blade 4: no one wants to work with Wesley Snipes. Snipes is having a little bit of a career resurgence, so I wouldn't count it out, but it's not likely either. I think someone posted earlier ITT about speculation around a series or new movie series where Blade has a daughter who takes over the vampire hunting part and Blade is in the Whistler role, which would be fun to see if they cast it right and let the writer/director run with a R rating like the original. Again, unlikely, but there's been some creative shake-ups at Marvel recently and if Snipes can mend some bridges maybe we'll get to see a return to the cinematic Blade stories in a few years.
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:Snipes is having a little bit of a career resurgence, so I wouldn't count it out, but it's not likely either. I think someone posted earlier ITT about speculation around a series or new movie series where Blade has a daughter who takes over the vampire hunting part and Blade is in the Whistler role, which would be fun to see if they cast it right and let the writer/director run with a R rating like the original. There's the little matter of him having beat the crap out of Halle Berry so bad she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear. More importantly for hollywood, he demands big salaries for uncertain returns. He has made some pretty wack claims in the past few years about the IRS. If The Player works out well then he does have a serious chance, he's got a recognizable face and name and a lot of charisma to go with. A new guy would have big shoes to fill with Blade, it's not really like Superman or Bond. You need martial arts skills, serious face but not too cold but not hilariously serious, good acting skills and well, we're going to need a decent script to not expect blade 4 to be blade trinity: the worsening. w/r/t Hollywood: They let Sean Penn act, they even gave him an Oscar and he came up behind Madonna and whacked her in the head with a baseball bat after an argument. After she left him, he broke into Madonna's new place, tied her to a chair and beat her for hours, threatened her with a loaded gun. She was too scared he'd kill her or himself to file. That was the mid 80s Fun fact: his PR boosting Haiti charity work was not only a clusterfuck but he was only there as part of his community service for hitting someone else.
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I'd wish for a Blade TV show that does what Supernatural tried but then poo poo the bed with brother cum: every week is a new monster that must be killed. Like Batman that cuts fools into ribbons and isn't too worried about solving the crime and more about delivering unrepentant justice. The meta arc is his continuing struggle to not end up in jail and maybe something that is making his thirst close to unmanageable. Then the executive producers come in and make the assistant DA a sexy but disturbed lady that protects him from the law and absolves the writers from having to pen any tension at all. The monster-of-the-week format goes out the window when Blade kills a large demon cult and must spin-kick Satan in the throat. Then he becomes the king of hell and gives an immolated veteran demonic chain powers to do the hunting for him.
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Inzombiac posted:I'd wish for a Blade TV show that does what Supernatural tried but then poo poo the bed with brother cum: every week is a new monster that must be killed. Like Batman that cuts fools into ribbons and isn't too worried about solving the crime and more about delivering unrepentant justice. Sounds like Constantine, except his thirst is guilt tripping, large amounts of booze, getting laid and back in the day, heroin. Also known as the thing Supernatural copied and even references with Misha Collins character (minus the chain smoking - not network friendly). "Supernatural tried but then poo poo the bed with brother cum" that's poetry right there. Beautiful. Isn't it wonderful that a show about flannel + jean wearing brothers in their muscle car listening to classic rock fighting demons with a shotgun is the gayest thing on the internet with the most hosed up porn you and I can't even imagine... to the dismay of everyone involved (except Mischa Collins who embraces the full fan insanity).
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Inzombiac posted:I'd wish for a Blade TV show that does what Supernatural tried but then poo poo the bed with brother cum: every week is a new monster that must be killed. Like Batman that cuts fools into ribbons and isn't too worried about solving the crime and more about delivering unrepentant justice. Sounds like Blade cum Sandman Slim
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At this point a Blade series could avoid all vampire stereotypes just by focusing on the moment to moment suspense and violent action like Blade 1 does. The Blade series, Twilight, Underworld, all relatively recent big vampire stuff spends waaaaaaaaaaaay too much time talking about vampire politics which is where all the stupid crap starts to fall apart. Blade 1 is so perfect with that because it's just like "they're corrupt stockbrokers that use ancient terminology and family names" and that's all that's needed to set things up. Almost everything else in it is focused on suspense or hyper violent rear end kicking.
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n3wt posted:There's the little matter of him having beat the crap out of Halle Berry so bad she lost 80% of her hearing in one ear. More importantly for hollywood, he demands big salaries for uncertain returns. When did this happen? I've literally never heard about it, although I don't disbelieve it. Edit: Nvm, googled it. Goddamn, are there any actors out there that HAVEN'T beat up a woman? Mat Cauthon fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Sep 21, 2015 |
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Rap Record Hoarder posted:When did this happen? I've literally never heard about it, although I don't disbelieve it. ...not that many have, dude. Out of the current crop of big-name actors, you've got Fassbender (who may or may not have actually done it), Terence Howard, and Josh Brolin. Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Sean Connery, etc. also, but their stars have all faded pretty badly, so it seems like a fair bet that nobody in Hollywood likes domestic abusers either.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...not that many have, dude. Out of the current crop of big-name actors, you've got Fassbender (who may or may not have actually done it), Terence Howard, and Josh Brolin. Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Sean Connery, etc. also, but their stars have all faded pretty badly, so it seems like a fair bet that nobody in Hollywood likes domestic abusers either. It quickly caught up with Connery after a mere 40 years as a megastar and icon and his own retirement. That'll show him.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...not that many have, dude. Out of the current crop of big-name actors, you've got Fassbender (who may or may not have actually done it), Terence Howard, and Josh Brolin. Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Sean Connery, etc. also, but their stars have all faded pretty badly, so it seems like a fair bet that nobody in Hollywood likes domestic abusers either. Of the top of my head, you've got Bill Murray, Christian Bale, David O Russell, and Nic Cage that have all been accused of domestic violence and still get plenty of work. It's not like any of those dudes are blacklisted.
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LORD OF BUTT posted:...not that many have, dude. Out of the current crop of big-name actors, you've got Fassbender (who may or may not have actually done it), Terence Howard, and Josh Brolin. Snipes, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Mickey Rourke, Sean Penn, Sean Connery, etc. also, but their stars have all faded pretty badly, so it seems like a fair bet that nobody in Hollywood likes domestic abusers either. Mel Gibson's star faded because he outed himself as an anti-Semite. Sean Penn has been an industry darling for years after beating Madonna - something I had never heard of until now - winning two academy awards and being nominated for three others.
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Wizchine posted:Mel Gibson's star faded because he outed himself as an anti-Semite. Is this the real reason why DiCaprio can't win an Oscar? he hasn't beat any women?
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Snak posted:Is this the real reason why DiCaprio can't win an Oscar? he hasn't beat any women? It turns out that the Academy Awards are run by Vince McMahon.
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So I just found out there was a 12 part animated Blade 'anime' series in 2012 where he travels around south east Asia with his dog and a cute lady sidekick slaying all sorts of crazy vampires out of Asian legends. Whistler is replaced by a British guy called Noah Van Helsing, Deacon Frost now looks like some sort of Castlevania reject and Blade does these crazy magic special moves to end sword fights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzbwyR-_yZo Yeah it's not great.
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I gotta be honest, I'm really uninterested in any possible form of Blade that doesn't involve Wesley Snipes adlibbing. Like once he's too old/dead, that's it for Blade for me.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:So I just found out there was a 12 part animated Blade 'anime' series in 2012 where he travels around south east Asia with his dog and a cute lady sidekick slaying all sorts of crazy vampires out of Asian legends. Whistler is replaced by a British guy called Noah Van Helsing, Deacon Frost now looks like some sort of Castlevania reject and Blade does these crazy magic special moves to end sword fights. Some mother You already met Mr. Crispy at the hospital. *sad jpop music* It's not even well animated, it's the crappy pan and scan or zoom on a frame then blurry spagetti limbs during fights. Madhouse was really cutting corners here considering that they animated Monster and that was just gorgeous. Kudos in getting Harold Perrineau to voice Blade though.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Noah Van Helsing  And yeah I too can confirm that the animated show is pretty bad. I caught a few episodes on TV in a block with the Wolverine animated show, whis is also pretty bad.
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Shame because Batman Beyond is pretty cool so we know they are capable of churning out good cartoons, though it honestly feels like sacrilege to sanitize Blade: he's a sweary guy who sees gruesome things and likes to kill vampires (or in the case of Donald Logue -mutilate them) Donald Logue should be in more shows - I miss Terriers. Donald Logue for True Detective S3 please TV gods.
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n3wt posted:Shame because Batman Beyond is pretty cool so we know they are capable of churning out good cartoons, though it honestly feels like sacrilege to sanitize Blade: he's a sweary guy who sees gruesome things and likes to kill vampires (or in the case of Donald Logue -mutilate them) Maybe because you wrote "Donald" three times in a row it irked me enough to take action, but I am compelled to point out that his name is actually "Donal Logue" His name annoys me because it sounds like a stage name. It reminds me of this awesome song, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhyDmjKQLmg gently caress, I just read that Shiela Chandra has been effectively rendered mute from "Burning Mouth Syndrome" since 2010. The music industry is filled with an infinite number of better candidates for that fate. Wizchine fucked around with this message at 20:45 on Sep 23, 2015 |
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Wizchine posted:Maybe because you wrote "Donald" three times in a row it irked me enough to take action, but I am compelled to point out that his name is actually "Donal Logue" Ah he's half Irish, explains that. Us euros have half a dozen different spellings/variations for your name depending on the country: see Ioan, Ewan, Eoin, Ieuan, Yoann, Johan (J=Y), Yannis, Juan,... Not even getting started on the variants Jan, John, Jean, Jo, Hans ... Guess all that stupid Trump talk has made me type the d instinctively. Apologies to Mr Logue. Burning mouth syndrome sounds just horrible. I'm on the meds also prescribed for trigeminal neuralgia which seems linked to BMS, though my problem is nerve damage in the motor part of brain stem: bad signals making static on the wire. We know so little about how our brains and nerves work that we just throw nerve impulse slowing chemicals at the whole lot! One single nerve, off balance or damaged can cause so much pain - we are such strange and complex machines. Won't do me much good but I really hope they manage to bring stem cell nerve regeneration to folks like Sheila Chandra in the next decade or so.
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n3wt posted:Ah he's half Irish, explains that. Us euros have half a dozen different spellings/variations for your name depending on the country: see Ioan, Ewan, Eoin, Ieuan, Yoann, Johan (J=Y), Yannis, Juan,... Here in the US we just make up spelling variants because we are all special snowflakes. For instance, the top 10 ways to spell Caitlin in the US in the year 2000: Kaitlyn, Katelyn, Caitlin, Caitlyn, Kaitlin, Katelynn, Katlyn, Kaitlynn, Katelin, Caitlynn, Katlynn, Katlin Sorry you have to deal with trigeminal neuralgia - that's a poo poo card to be dealt.
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I thought I stumbled into the Game of Thrones thread for a second there.n3wt posted:Shame because Batman Beyond is pretty cool so we know they are capable of churning out good cartoons, though it honestly feels like sacrilege to sanitize Blade: he's a sweary guy who sees gruesome things and likes to kill vampires (or in the case of Donald Logue -mutilate them) Madhouse makes pretty dope anime movies, one would think that the studio that made Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust would know how to craft insane stories about horrific vampires and the bad motherfucker who hunts them, but welp.
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Grendels Dad posted:Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust Oh man, I haven't watched that in 15 years. Is it worth revisiting? I see it's on youtube in full. There was some other vampire anime back around then...Helsing? With some sniper rifle girl? Any good? Also some other vampire series or movie ending with a castle and some lovely song that sounded like some crap from Ani Difranco or something like that. And maybe in one of these movies or series, but there was a cool scenes with a vampire attacking wooden sail boats? got any sevens fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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effectual posted:Oh man, I haven't watched that in 15 years. Is it worth revisiting? I see it's on youtube in full. It's been some years since I watched it too, but from what I remember it's pretty great.
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effectual posted:Oh man, I haven't watched that in 15 years. Is it worth revisiting? I see it's on youtube in full. Hellsing Ultimate is really good. It took 7 years or so for all 10 episodes to come out, but it's finished now.
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i would really like to know where i can buy one of these badass torch headsets
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effectual posted:Oh man, I haven't watched that in 15 years. Is it worth revisiting? I see it's on youtube in full. Bloodlust was kinda lame TBH, the fights and story didn't really hold up to better examples IMO. The Hellsing adaptations are decent and have lots of fights, Ultimate moreso versus the old anime that was a little more character focused.
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Wizchine posted:Here in the US we just make up spelling variants because we are all special snowflakes. For instance, the top 10 ways to spell Caitlin in the US in the year 2000: Thankyou, life's a wierd game of cards isn't it? I don't have trigeminal neuralgia, I have peripheral neuralgia from an MS type disease -MS leaves big scars from massive clusters of neurones dying at once. My neurones are dying in small clusters: mostly in the brainstem, too small to see as scars on a normal MRI but enough to notice a loss of density in the brain matter over time- My mind and personality are not affected and probably won't be. I hold on to that. Bad things happen to good people at random. Sometimes the nicest and or most talented folks like Sheila Chandra who continues to give of herself through writing. I lost someone very close this year to an extremely rare form of cancer in an inoperable area of the brain, it was a horrific, debilitating and painful death. Insanely random to get a GBM in the frontal lobes at 25, get completely cured and then get sick again. Her friends and family went through a rollercoaster but from the moment GBM came out of her mouth I knew we were on borrowed time: she appreciated that. I've known really good people get the worst diseases and You never get used to the randomness of it all. How willpower and goodness don't mean jack. I think that's probably why we enjoy escapist fiction so much, Wes Craven said something beautiful about horror movies being like a personal exorcism: "You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative. Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence." Two Finger posted:i would really like to know where i can buy one of these badass torch headsets It's kinda like the fannypack of headgear but check ebay worldwide, chinese sellers have a variety of torch headsets for very cheap. Grendels Dad posted:Madhouse makes pretty dope anime movies, one would think that the studio that made Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust would know how to craft insane stories about horrific vampires and the bad motherfucker who hunts them, but welp. I'd watch a show about Blade slowly working his way through an investigation of the current vampire plot without much talk, something a lot like Luther... but longform plots are for books: TV execs want a monster of the week, conflict resolved and main characters pretty much reset for next week. Overarching plots have to be in the background to MOTW (see Buffy, Moonlight, Dresden files, Constantine). Stuff like True Detective S1 are standouts or short (see Luther above). It's just too tempting for most writers to flesh out vampire society and conflicts, how vampires came to be, give us some dreadful historical flashbacks for our vampire bad guys and then throw in the related monsters like werewolves and witches for good measure! n3wt fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Sep 24, 2015 |
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Two Finger posted:i would really like to know where i can buy one of these badass torch headsets Those glasses were kinda a 'thing' for one particular set of dance music producers in the UK called Orbital. I'd like to think that was a little nod to them in the film.    Seems you can actually buy them from Orbital's site! http://orbitalofficial.bigcartel.com/product/orbital-head-torch-glasses Olympic Mathlete fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Sep 25, 2015 |
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88h88 posted:Those glasses were kinda a 'thing' for one particular set of dance music producers in the UK called Orbital.
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I used a lot of their stuff as an instrumental bed for radio/television stuff in the late 90s.
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effectual posted:There was some other vampire anime back around then...Helsing? With some sniper rifle girl? Any good? Its not a sniper rifle, its a retrofitted tank cannon because she's a vampire and you can't shoot down nazi blimps with a normal rifle. Hellsing is basically what you would get if you took Desperado-era Robert Rodriguez and told him to make a remake of Hammer Horror Dracula without ever checking in on him, its great.
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mr. stefan posted:Its not a sniper rifle, its a retrofitted tank cannon because she's a vampire and you can't shoot down nazi blimps with a normal rifle. I like the part where the Vatican sends a slayer to do something, and the Hellsing guys get really mad because THIS IS A PROTESTANT LAND and act like they are two feuding wizard schools.
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