"Blade II": Classic or Dud?

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Okay, so I made up the black belt part, but he's proficient in it. Damn, first time I try to spring a lie, the Lying King has to come back from FRANCE and spoil it for me...

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry Dan, but I have a throne to reclaim (and my place of work just happens to be one of the big Capoeira teaching places in London).

Saw it Sunday by the way. It was fun in a very stupid way - the OTT wrestling bit at the end between Goss and Snipes was very funny. Snipes may be a martial artist of repute but how would he fare on Smackdown eh? Prague location was good, mixed mythos was less good. (of all the thinks that can kill them, light seems particularly wussy). Still Perlman is always worth a bang for your buck - though I wanted to give grumpy old "back from the dead plot device" KRistofferson a slap round the chops.

Pete, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(I almost called you Simba the Lying King but decided that even I had an ounce of shame.)

Dan Perry, Tuesday, 2 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Spending my American holiday wknd watching Blade II for the first time ever.

I'm enjoying this, but Lord Almighty did the aesthetic choices made by the Matrix films taint all western action movies for too many years.

Still, Norman Reedus as 20something scrubby tech dude is in this, and introduced exactly like the mechanic from Road Warrior! The Head Vampire Lord is Voldemort/ST:TNG alien/Tom Hardy in "ST: Nemesis"!

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Sunday, 29 May 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link

Also the scene where they load up to investigate the sewer level and it's all lit light is straight outta Aliens

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Sunday, 29 May 2016 23:24 (seven years ago) link

All lit with blue light, rather

Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Sunday, 29 May 2016 23:25 (seven years ago) link


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