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BLADE 2 Premieres in Austin, Texas
SPOILER ALERT !!
Father Geek here, well, BLADE 2 had its World Premiere at Austin's vintage 1915 motion picture palace, The Paramount, where the original DRACULA opened in 1931, where Garbo, and the Marx Brothers, and Kathrine Hepburn, and other cinema legends have appeared live on stage. This is where Robert Rodriguez premiered FROM DUSK TO DAWN and THE FACULTY, where Ron Howard premiered ED TV, where just last week Peter Bogdanovich premiered THE CAT'S MEOW, where the 1966 version of BATMAN premiered, and where on Friday night Robbie Robertson premiered the Scorsese restored, remastered surround sound kick ass concert film THE LAST WALTZ. Annnnnd ol' Father Geek has been to all those premieres and more since I moved to Austin to go to The University in 1965. This stunningly beautiful Rococo Theatre has an absolutely huge screen, seats 2000, and thanks to some good friends out in Hollywood has a totally awesome state of the art sound system. It was here within all this history that Director Guillermo del Toro and actor Ron Perlman chose to unveil their fine Action/Horror film BLADE 2 to a packed and eager audience.
BLADE 2 quite simply ROCKS! It could possibily be the best Action/Horror film ever made, especially if you place ALIENS into the SciFi/Action genre. In my 50 years of Horror, ScienceFiction, and Action movie going, and I promise you I've seen them all, only Aliens measures up to this one for pure gut-renching thrills. I've seen it twice now, the first time was the rough cut Guillermo showed some of us at his home in South Austin several weeks ago, and I love this flick. Not in the same way I love the more cerebral Del Toro films THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE and CRONOS, but in that nonstop thrill a second Horror Rollercoaster ride way. This is a film I can, and will, see over and over again. Fast-paced action, thrilling makeup designs, great sets and lighting, a compelling storyline, and kickass performances had the crowded theatre jumping out of their seats and cheering... now here's what massawyrm has to say about it...
Hola all. Oh My God! I had no idea. I feel like Jodie Foster in Contact. "I had no idea. They should have sent a poet. So Beautiful..." Holy fucking shit, this movie kicked my ass. Blade II is everything it needed to be and everything I needed to see this season.
First I need to qualify where I'm coming from, because vampire movies are a tricky thing indeed. I'm a long time vampire fan. No, not just a vampire movie fan. Not just a vampire comic fan. But I'm also one of those weird, role-playing Vampire: The Masquerade fans. Yes, many hours have I spent at the dining room tables of the world, rolling dice, faking accents and well, as a good friend of mine once put it, killing everyone and taking all the treasure. No, I'm not one of those all black wearing, fingernail painting, porcelain tooth wearing freaks who quote Anne Rice and wish more than anything that a vampire would show up to bite their faggoty ass in the hopes that they'll never see the light of day again.I just happen to know way too fucking much about vampire lore. From all the stuff everybody knows like Garlic, sunlight, holy water to the slightly more obscure silver (which I must note was a major part of the vampire myths in the Marvel Universe leading to it's inclusion in the Blade movies) all the way to really odd stuff like the requirement in some myths to decapitate the vampire, stuff it's mouth with Catholic Eucharist and then bury it on Hallowed ground. It's just been one of my little obsessions since I was a kid. Now, why did I mention Vampire: The Masquerade? Well, notably because I know some of you out there are as big fans of it as I am (right down to having watched Fox's pathetically lame attempt to bring the game to the small screen with it's six episodes of Kindred: The Embrace for which Mark Rein-Hagen will forever burn in hell for producing. Daywalking after you feed? What were you thinking? C. Thomas Howell? Are you serious?) and you look at every vampire film in the same light as I do. Often you ask the same question walking in: "How are they gonna fuck it up this time?"
Now as a gamer, I had issues with the original Blade. There were elements of the film that seemed to borrow heavily from V:TM. Clan meetings, herds, club culture, powers. Stephen Dorff played a perfect Brujah leading a mixed pack of Brujah and Gangrel in a clash against the rigid order of the Camarilla. If you have no Idea what I'm talking about, it's okay...just skip the rest of this paragraph as it's not for you, but the rest of this review is, I assure you. Now, for all you Clan Fans out there who were upset at the inclusion of V:TM ideas without actually sticking to it all the way and who thought they were trying it again here with what you saw in the commercials, forget about it. Those are not Nosfaratu, nor are they Blood Brothers or even Tzimice. Guillermo del Toro checked all that at the door. In fact, I doubt he's even played the game. Don't worry about Any sort of atrocity against cannon. You can't even really classify what character is what clan in this because you really don't get a chance to. I'll get more into that later.
Now the thing about both Blade movies and From Dusk Till Dawn before them is that these are Vampire movies that really aren't vampire movies. Yes, they have blood sucking villains that are called vampires and that call themselves vampires, and they play by the rules of certain vampire myths but they ARE NOT REALLY vampire movies. They don't play by vampire movie rules. They play out more like zombie survival movies with smarter and harder to kill zombies (but not much harder to kill.) Is this a bad thing? No. What these movies lack in genuine creepiness and mystique they more than make up for in action, body count and sheer fun factor.
Now I had issues with the first Blade. I liked it, it was fun, but there were too many holes that didn't quite sit well with me. I mean an ancient, thousands of years old temple built beneath a metropolitan American city? What? But holes withstanding, Wesley Snipes really managed to capture the Blade of my youth and put him on the screen. Not the image I grew up with, but the spirit. Now, like I said, I'm a big vampire fan. One of my prized possessions as a child was my copy of Marvel's Tomb of Dracula #8, Blades first appearance, with this beautiful man in his green trenchcoat and full on afro jumping out of the water and throwing a wooden knife at Dracula on the cover. Man I loved that comic. Blade was a badass, Marvel's answer to the blaxsploitation explosion, the John Shaft of the comic world. When he was resurrected into print in early '90's in the Midnight Sons storyline (which included the return of Ghost Rider and several other long forgotten '70's icons) I rejoiced. His new look was great (pretty much the look Snipes gives him) and he was back kicking ass. But I felt for the Blade movie the same way I felt for Singleton's "Shaft": fun, worth the watch, but not the hero of my childhood.
So New Line Studios okayed a second one and I thought "Okay, it could be fun. Maybe." Then I saw they hired del Toro and I thought, "Alright, this is interesting. Now I have to see it." And then I saw it, and it blew me back in my chair. Is it a vampire movie? No. This is something completely and totally different. This is something unbelievable. This is a comic book movie. An amazing comic book movie. A fucking four color whirling dervish wonderland of a comic book movie that takes you frame by frame through the comic book action sequences of your wildest dreams and leaves you panting in your seat. These are the sequences you envisioned while reading Wolverine and praying someone would make a movie out of the series.
Blade II is a bloody rampage of vampire-fucking up the likes of which you have never seen. Remember that club scene that was so freaking cool in the original Blade? Don't you wish you could see a movie that was just 2 hours of that only twice as cool and moody. Well, that's pretty much Blade II. Plot? Character Development? Deep meaningful interaction revealing the true nature of self? Are you kidding me? No, not really any of that here, although there are slight hints of it during the few moments del Toro gives you to breathe between action sequences. No, he showed us he can develop characters and creep us out in "The Devil's Backbone" and "Cronos". This time he set out to make a movie that in his words let you "Munch on some popcorn and turn to your buddy to say 'Whoa!'" And that's what you do. That's all you can do aside from yell, shout and send your fist flying through the air out of sheer jubilation. del Toro refuses to give you the time to do anything else.
There are two types of scenes in this movie. Scenes where someone or something is getting fucked up and scenes in which someone or something gears to fuck someone or something else up. That's it. What little exposition there is comes out in those few quiet moments where people are "gearing up". I guess the best analogy is if a film like "Cronos" or "Dracula" is to "Alien" then "Blade II" is to "Aliens". Yeah, there's some horror elements, and a great fucking bughunt sequence, but this thing is just sheer action. A mile a minute explosion of images that will leave you writhing around in your chair, your mouth agape at it's sheer velocity and brutality.
Guillermo's ability to direct action becomes apparent here as he proves he has mastered the ability to sequence action in such a way that when all hell breaks loose you not only can tell absolutely everything that's going on and care about the outcome, but he does so in certain cases with several situations and characters at once. One scene features 4 different fights in four different sections of a building, plus one outside the building. All at once. No scene is a second to short nor a second too long. Never are we wondering what the hell is happening back at point A while we watch the fight at point B. There's no Episode 1 just-get-back-to-the-saber-duel moments here. You want to see at every moment what Guillermo wants to show you and just how he wants to show it to you.
Snipes is cool as hell in this, although he really doesn't say much or do anything other than kick lots of ass and occasionally wrestle with his humanity. He's very physical in this and does most of his acting with fists, but it's not something you notice while you watch. I mean, if you've seen Blade, then you know the character, you understand why he's doing what he does and you don't care that he's really not further developed. I have to say that all is forgiven as far as the hour and a half of my life wasted on "The Art of War" is concerned. Wesley, we love you man, just don't do that to us again. Keep working with people like del Toro. He made you look good. Real Good.
The real star of this film, who Guillermo brought with him to the World Premier and was surprisingly shorter than I thought he would be, is Ron Perlman. He is so bad ass in this that it's almost criminal. He is youthful, vibrant and both a likeable anti-hero and a detestable villain (at the same time.) I have been almost a lifelong fan of his work from his role on "Beauty and the Beast" the T.V. show, to his numerous appearances in small films (like his great bit in Happy, Texas, one of the best parts of the movie, in fact) to his narration of the awesome RPG video game series "Fallout". But most notably I love it when he plays, despite the fact that I've used the phrase repeatedly in this review, a badass. But this film left me wondering: why is it that only foreign born directors seem to be able to make Ron a true force to be reckoned with? Only Jeunet before del Toro had managed to make him so freaking cool. This is the Ron Perlman of Alien Resurrection, only more so. Now he's a vampire and he's clever as all hell. Guillermo was so happy with him, he's announced that he wants him for Hellboy. And having him stand right next to me, seeing his profile firsthand, imagining the broken horn (or horns) and hearing him speak, I could see why del Toro wants him. Oh yes. This is Hellboy. Part of me still pines for Vin Diesel in the role, but Perlman is the perfect choice that I would have never in a million years considered on my own. His ability to radiate cool shines here in Blade II. If del Toro can get this out of him with this role, I can't wait to see him as Hellboy (God willing).
Now, the only thing wrong with this film is a few effect shots that bugged me (and a few of my buddies who saw the film.) One fight between Blade and a Vampire is obviously CG. It cuts back and forth between the actors and the CG "No Way can anyone really do that" moves and it's not to subtle about it either. Now there were a few obvious CG moments in "The Devil's Backbone" that conveyed the same feeling to me. These movies were both too good to suffer such a sad flaw meaning one of two things: either despite how good a director del Toro is, he hasn't managed to perfect his integration of CG into his films or someone needs to give him MORE MONEY so he can afford to smooth these glitches out. I really am starting to think it's the latter. Everything I've seen of del Toro thus far just lends itself to this conclusion. I sure hope it's the latter. Will someone PLEASE give him more money so we can find out? Please?
Anyhow...this is the movie we needed to kick off this really exciting, geek o' licious year. Go see this with friends. See it on Friday, with a crowd in a packed house and get ready to be excited about something again. Buy tickets for the midnight show so you can hoot and holler with the best of them then walk out into the dark afterwards. This movie is sheer pleasure from start to finish. You won't be disappointed.
Until next time friends, smoke 'em if ya got 'em. I know I will.
massawyrm@hotmail.com
Father Geek back with another look at BLADE 2 from a premiere viewer...
Jumpin' Jehosaphat here with a brief take on Blade, the second. After a
couple of weeks of taking in fair- to good documentaries here at SXSW, it
sure was good to see this film. There have been only a few times in my
movie-going life when I have had as much fun as I did last night at the
Paramount. When I lived in San Francisco, the Coronet theatre was always
this frantic, raging temple of geek worship. Loud, huge, and joyous. Those
were the days of the STAR WARS SE releases, where the crowd was bat shit
loopy over Luke's "Tosche Station" line, completely overtaking the gazillion
watt sound system. Those were the times of trailers like VOLCANO, where the
Bay Area audience would cheer at LA's obliteration by fire and lava. This
is where it was at. It may still be and sure hope it is. This digression
is merely to point out that I've felt my time of just having an all out,
life-is-amazing party at the movies has passed me by. I'm not getting
younger, you know. People, BLADE II was fun packaged up in a blood stained,
ashen silk wrap.
Sure, it was the "World Fucking Premier" with the director and Ron "Hellboy"
Pearlman in the house. Sure, Guillermo asked us to be a great audience, and
we all wanted that for him. But... Jesus! This movie was a shock. It was
better than the first -- not a question in my mind about that.
POSSIBLE SPOILERS for PURISTS
When we start off with sprays of red-red blood on green-white tile and
tendrilly-mouthed villians in the first 3 minutes, before the brief
reintroduction of the Blade story, and why there's a second part... That, my
friends, just sets you on edge. What keeps you there is (in Guillermo's own
words) kick ass action. What THE MATRIX has done for the comic book type of
film, BLADE II has solidified. You have a black- on black- on black color
palate for costumes, sets, and night sky and you have it look as though it
was inked by the hands of comic-dom's finest. You have stylized deaths so
pretty and so überviolent that it makes you squirm and shout "Fuckin' A!"
You have all this, and still the director hasn't forgotten the fun. The
whole point of this kind of movie: Fun.
The only real complaint I had with this film was Leonor Varela. She was a
little too deadpan and stiff. Cute as all get-out, but the only one on
screen who didn't seem to have any fun being there. Kris Kristofferson will
be under appreciated, I fear. I just love how he can take a line which
includes the term "nipple head" and make the vernacular seem as easy to the
tongue as saying, "shit". Listen to Kris, you actors out there. He's got
the cheesy line delivery down. The dialog, overall, was what I expected it
to be: A bare-bones vehicle for the action. That's okay here. It's a
comic. Ron Pearlman, you were in the house last night, and that is
influencing this statement, I know. You are cool, Sir. Just cool. I can't
wait to see what you do with HELLBOY.
That's the encapsulation of what BLADE II means to me. Go, people. Have
fun. Get grossed out. Do it because it feels good.
I'm off!
Jumpin' Jehosaphat.
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Not only am I forst ... I want to see this movie now!! ;-)
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i just cant wait to see this movie on next friday every damn reviem say to word about this movie "KICK ASS` id dont need more
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How in the hell did Kris Kristofferson's character survive? Far as I knew, he shot himself in the head after being bitten. I'm still looking forward to this film, though. Been a while since we've had a good, fun action/horror movie.
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Mar 17, 2002 4:02:11 PM CST
I'm really not too fond of Blade 1, but if this is as differ
by lenny nero
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These are the kind of reviews I knew would come out of this film. GReat, i'm sooooooo pumped to see this now!!!! I'm gonna build this movie up and watch it a dozen times at work. Woohoo!!!
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Mar 17, 2002 4:12:15 PM CST
Do you really think Uber-God Ron Perlman will play HELLBOY?
by cash bailey
No studio (not even New Line) will put the money needed behind a movie like this without some vacuous, flavour-of-the-month bitch-boy like Vin Diesel or (shudder) Paul Walker. Ron is just TOO PERFECT for the role to ever be considered. Mind you, if BLADE 2 scores some massive bank (as it bloody well should, judging by these reports) maybe that'd give Guillermo the muscle to get HELLBOY made his way. Just keep it the fuck away from Dimension Films. They'd probably fire De Toro and replace him with Jamie Blanks or someone equally useless.
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Damn oh Damn. Isn't it the 22nd YET?
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In fact this movie looks like a dark, violent version of Batman & Robin. He called it a "comic book" movie....well folks Batman & Robin Was a comic book movie if there ever was one. Tim Burton's Batman movies were Not comic book movies, they were Tim Burton movies....but I think the CG used for the fight scenes really helps these movies to look more like comic books because the fights are so big and impossible in comic books and theres no way to do them without CG.
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Mar 17, 2002 4:24:41 PM CST
The four kinds of blade fans... plus, other, non-gay vampire mov
by lelon
So we have people that love blade, and people that hate it. Thats two. But almost EVERYONE seems to fall into one of these other two categories. Blade I sucked and Blade II rocks, or Blade I rocks and Blade II sucks. That, to me, seems REALLY weird. I *loved* Blade I. There was one or two gaping plot holes that irk me when I watch the movie again (whistler dying being the biggest, since she had just found the cure to vampirism 5 minutes earlier). But none the less, one of the best movies of its kind. Now I watch the Blade II trailers, and the behind the scenes feature, and I don't even wanna see this movie. It looks awful. The plot looks incredibly silly. It sounds like they brought back whistler like they bring back every other non-death in the marvel universe (instead of using the plot device they went to the trouble of developing in blade 1). The bad guys look like they belong in a horror movie more then an action flick, which may boil down to this movies main problem. Too much horror, not enough action/plot/acting. I'll see it, if for no other reason then the first one rocked, and I'm sure Snipes will have a few one liners. Frankly my expectations are so low that, if this movie is as good as Queen of the Damned, I'll be floored. And it seems that the movies I have the lowest expectations for (matrix/x-men/etc) end up being god-like films. So *hopefully* i will be completly shocked. When someone says "this is the greatest horror movie of all time" I think "gee, wouldn't take much would it". So comparing this to other, older piles of crap don't really tell us much :-p. And perhaps this is why we all hate sequels, not because they suck worse then most other movies, but because we're dragged to see them because of the genius of their prequels. On a side note, on a fluke I noticed a video store near me has the new Vampire Hunter D, but they were out, so i'll be seing that too. Probably to wash out the nasty after taste of Blade II.
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In the original, there's nothing human about Schreck, he's a feral rat. But Kinski has a deep tragic humanity that smokes all other screen Draculas, even Oldman from DRACULA: DUELLING ACCENTS. I think Willem Dafoe's performance in SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE is the only performance that comes close to Kinski's. Werner Herzog's documentary MY BEST FIEND is a glorious study of Kinski, a man who's grip on sanity was tenuous at the best of times. I haven't been able to track down his book, but it's supposed to be psychotic as hell. I also picked up this old Italian gangster flick with Kinski called BLOODY HANDS OF THE LAW. I bought it hoping it'd be one of those brutal Italian flicks that Tarantino shows at his fest. Unfortunately it's pretty tame, except for the scene when Kinski blow-torches some poor bastard's crotch. I've heard that it's a pretty rare movie to find. I grabbed a copy for three bucks.
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They ought to make a movie out of that series! Fallout owns. I love every bit of that series.
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It actually makes sense. He shot himself before he died of blood loss. So when he shot himself, he died. When he died, he became the undead vampire Whistler. The vampires kidnapped him when he turned. It's all explained in the first 10 minutes of Blade II. I saw it last night and I'm telling you folks, you will be BLOWN THE FUCK AWAY by this movie. Del Toro has made the best balls to the wall action movie since Aliens! GO SEE IT, see it again after that and then three more times so Del Toro can make Hell Boy... if it's anything like BLADE II then Hell Boy under his wing will be UN-FUCKING-REAL!
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TheMatarife, I agree :). And Planescape: Torment too.
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Actually the Big Guy is six feet two inches tall.
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This movie rocks!!
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...in the original text, by Stoker. Did U know? I've just read it and I have 2 say that Coppola has got a fucking nerve calling his film "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (much as I dig the film), cos it's faithful and faithless 2 the original story, in equal measure.
NEhow - in the words of Mr Scot, "I cannae wait tae see this fucking fillum!!" And really, children! If UR upset about the way that old Whistler is returning from beyond the grave...well I do believe U may B taking Blade One just a little TOO SERIOUSLY.....which is really not a good idea. -
... yes, after seeing this, I know that Perlman is perfect for the role, though, like many, I am afraid of Studio pressure. Guillermo said himself during the Q&A that Universal is willing to put up major bucks for the movie... if he cast The Rock as Hellboy? What? The Rock is just... well... he's The Scorpion King. Not Hellboy. Hellboy is not The Peoples' Champion. And the idea of a pro-wrestler playing a demon is not only wrong, but laughable. Trust me. Everyone in the theater laughed their asses off at the idea of The Rock being cast in that role. Why can't someone without their head up their ass run a studio? Damnit... fucking morons...
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Mar 17, 2002 6:34:32 PM CST
Actually, I quite like this explanation for Kris Kristoferson (s
by lenny nero
It makes sense with the rules of vampirism, so therefore it shouldn't really seem bullshit. It looks like the creators behind Blade I and II got to have their and cake and eat it too. Yes, we were kind of tricked, but that shouldn't really anger any one of us. Just take the cake, watch this seemingly-awesome movie, and maybe you can eat it too (no pun intended).
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Anyone who thinks otherwise will quickly change their mind when they see this. The 2 things that make this movie great. The Reapers, who are absolutely frightening, and the twists, and let me tell you, there are a lot of twists in this movie involving the vampires and the Reapers. Ron Perlman is at his best and will not upset. It's very violent, very gory, and the action never stops. This is way better than Blade 1.
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Blade II, E.T. Special Edition, Spider-Man, Attack of the Clones, The Two Towers...
The 2002 movie season looks like it's gearing up with a bang that wont end.
I for one am very excited to be witnessing what could be the best year for genre films ever. Plus there's no rip-off ass Matrix film coming out this year to ruin my fun. The academy giving 'The Matrix' the FX award over 'Episode 1' still gives me shivers in the night.
Other vampires who kick ass...
Alucard - From Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Kain - Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain
Videogame characters are so often neglected, even though Solid Snake's performance in the latest 'Metal Gear' games outweighs everything Arnold has done in the past 5 to 10 years.
Enough rants; I want to see vampires, droids, and the Green Goblin getting their asses kicked on the big screen, and it looks like I will be greatly satisfied.
Until the end...
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The only problem is it will be a Region 2 PAL DVD from the UK! So if you don
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You all need subscriptions to Wizard. Here's what happens: Whistler is kept alive by vampires after he supposedly shoots himself. He is kept as a pet and inside a tank of blood, where Blade finds him. Remember the vampire serum from the first flick? Connect the dots from there.
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In all the interviews I
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I am definatly looking forward to this one. Blade was, in my eye, one of the few comic-book style movies that didn't have wincing parts....you know, those parts of a film that you feel truly embarrased about because you dragged some friends with you to see it...it had none of those. As for Blade 2, I do think it was a bad idea to bring back Whistler, but hey! If they can explain it well (and from what I've heard, they did) then they have already exerted more brainpower than most writers do when 'reanimating' a character for a franchise. I canna wait to see it. Flash! BOOM!
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I have a question. Is BATMAN AND ROBIN a "comic-book-movie"? Cuz I really don't see any similarities between that film and YEAR ONE or DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. Or ARKHUM ASYLUM. Or THE KILLING JOKE. Hmm. I guess I haven't been reading the right comics.
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Mar 17, 2002 9:04:30 PM CST
RE:Was that Perlman in Island of Dr.Moreau./And original Nosfera
by horus
Yes it was , He played the goat faced , *sayer of the Law*Has anyone seen Perlman in the french made movie *Quest for fire *He played an early man.And boy with minimum make-up ..was he convincing!As for Nosferatu, I still think the original is the best.And its interesting to see a version of Dracula , thats so untainted by the clich'ed fangs and a cape image., Sure the guy's just a disturbing undead rat of a man..but I think he comes closest to how a vampire should be interpreted , an old corpse , reanimated... that feeds on the living.He didn't seem to want pity..he was just evil..Kinski's version was still good , but he seemed more clinically depressed ,than undead.,And a little too young and chubby for the part.He looked like Graff Orlock's little brother.
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But wasn't Tomb of Dracula #10 the first appearance of Blade?
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This movie will surely suck. Ever watched BLADE I? It is mmbarassing to watch. And it surely marked one of the lowest points of Snipes' checkered career. You are hardly a sad little man to suggest BLADE II will suck. You are a brave little man. perhaps you are a brave little tailor. Perhaps you a giant killer.
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That indeed was Ron P. in the most recent version of MOREAU. And he was magnificent. Everything else about that movie sucked the big hairy one, especially that lunatic Val Kilmer. Ron P. has done some fine work, but he is not always in great movies. Look at CHILDREN OF THE LOST CITY. That movie is downright painful to watch, but Ron P. shines in every scene he is in.
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I meant CITY OF THE LOST CHILDREN. I think. I wish I'd never seen the thing, even though I love Ron P. By the way, all this talk about HELLBOY. Doesn't anyone want to see DEADMAN made into a movie?
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Mar 17, 2002 10:43:40 PM CST
I used to be the biggest bloody fan of the "Beauty and the Beast
by a goonie
and as a result, i've always had a soft spot for Ron Perlman. i've always wanted him to be good in his roles, and i've always wished him the best of luck. so naturally, he's another reason for me to get excited about this movie.
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Mar 17, 2002 10:46:40 PM CST
POSSIBLE explanation? how do you become a vampire in blade worl
by lelon
in the first movie, they are afraid that she is going to become a vampire, even though she didn't die. BY THAT RATIONAL, Whistler MIGHT have already become a vampire when he was shot. Perhaps even he hadn't come to realize it yet (cause he was so fucked up). Traditional vampire lore says you die and become reborn, so that also MIGHT be true in the world of blade, although they didn't say that in the movie. IN CONCLUSION, if Whistler does come back as a vampire, then is cured, THAT WOULD MAKE COMPLETE SENSE AND NOT BE LAME.
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Man, I'm glad...that's such a wonderful story. I believe the book was written by a French Anthropologist sometime in the 1930s, but it's been a while since I read it, so I could be wrong. I wanna see this story made into a fullblown animation spectacular soooo bad, or, indeed a technically-meticulous cgi-augmented film ( in the mould of "Walking with Dinosaurs" ). The depiction of the Dawn of Man is something that has very rarely been attempted in popular film (2001 anybody ?), and a well-constructed adaptation of QFF could be a landmark of cinema ( not to denigrate the 1981Jean Jacques Annaud film in any way - it was excellent within the budgetary and technical constraints that prevailed ). What joys could be had, seeing QFF's neanderthal heroes battling behemoth Mastodon, ferocious Giant Lions, bone-crunching Cave Bears and brutal cannibalistic Hominids in a perilous journey to return the sacred fire to their tribe. Damn, damn, damn, I wanna see a spectacular, intelligent and sympathetic new version of this epic, primitive tale! What is great about QFF, the movie, is that it stars not only the peerless Perlman, but also the magisterial Everett McGill. I've been a McGill fan for a long time, and it has often frustrated me that, outside of his involvement with David Lynch, ( as Stilgar in "Dune", "Twin Peaks" ) he has had nowhere near the screen time his charismatic presence deserves. You think a "Hellboy" film with Perlman in the lead would be the bomb?....well, I think a De Toro-helmed "Hellboy", with Perlman, but also with Everett McGill as, I dunno, say, * RASPUTIN *, would be a 1000 Geekaton device that would send Geekwaves that would radiate around the Geekiverse for Geek-eons to come. Not that I wanna be hyperbolic at all, just think this might, y'nkow like, rule ( ? ). Oh yes, looking mightily forward to Blade 2 as well.
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And why not? Hell, this guy's made better movies in one year than most directors get in three. And he does it with less money, mut has infinite creative resivours with the material and gets along well with actors. THis is how good films get made, right Mr. "Why yes, I am a Hobbit" Jackson?
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What the hell was the movie Ron Perlman was in with Cameron Diaz where he played a Rush-Limbaugh-like character they tried to kill over dinner.......damn brain twitching again...
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Brain stopped twitching.....for now. Thank you internet for infinite useless knowledge.
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Ron's movie with Cameron Diaz was The Last Supper (1995), in which he played Norman Arbuthnott. It was intended for Beau Bridges, but he turned it down, thank God. Ron was bloody marvelous in it.
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Mar 19, 2002 1:04:44 PM CST
For a movie about and starring Wesley there sure isn't much
by brooklyn bred
Geez you people are pathetic! You talk around him as if he's not even in the f'ing movie!
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Mar 19, 2002 3:02:40 PM CST
Uuuuummm, Blade's first appearance was in TOMB OF DRACULA #
by superhero
Oh, and he's coming up some stairs to attack Dracula not jumping out of water and throwing stuff at him...
How big a fan of Blade can you be...? Kidding. But still, it IS Tomb of Dracula # 10 that he makes his first EVER appearance in. I know because I have that comic. It's a bit raggedy but hey it's still good readin'! Tomb kicked some serious, if not overly melodramatic, booty! -
Yes, indeed, it was T.O.D. #10. I hadn't actually seen the comic in at least half a decade (remember, I said I was a big fan when I was a kid) and I was talking about it purely from memory. And now that I remember, it was a staircase, but yes, Blade kicked major ass. As to the question about not talking about Wesley Snipes: It's tricky. You see, he's there and he's the star, but he is more a force of nature in this movie than a character - no offense to the Snipester - and I like it that way. He's less human here, more enveloped in his rage and primal emotions. More action than Dialog. Compare that to the plethora of interesting characters around him that have clever dialog and play off of each other really well and he becomes more like the Weather in the Perfect Storm: The movies about him, but we're more interested in the characters caught up in the storm than the storm itself. Once you see it, you'll know what I'm talking about.
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methinks you have your definitions wrong. harry is not a nerd (neither am i, and i don't think most of the people here are nerds either), he is a geek.
the fact that you are here, posting in a talkback, attests to your own geekiness.
give the H man a break
btw, wesley snipes rocks and so will this flick -
Mar 21, 2002 8:24:49 AM CST
Are these the only reviews for what will be the hottest action m
by brooklyn bred
LOTR had a gazillion reviews as did Harry P. I know someone else saw this movie. These reviews are old. I want new reviews that gush over this movie! What the dilly-O? Aw fug it, it'll be out tomorrow.
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