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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Atridis" data-source="post: 1367628" data-attributes="member: 13919">Really? Gosh. Well, I think you're the first (at least, you're the first who's said so). I also liked Blade and thought Blade II was just okay. I liked the villain (Nomak?) and the knock-down-drag-out between Blade and Nomak was a great super-heroes-on-film fight. And Leonor Varela looked good. Most of the 60 minutes in the middle of the film were pretty boring, though. Blade II, however, did me the enormous favor of highlighting the sorry state of affairs of the contemporary vampire. I remember an interview with Guillermo del Toro, before Blade II came out, in which he said that he wanted to "make vampires scary again." As it turns out, he didn't make vampires scary, so much as he invented a new species of vampire-vampires to fill the void. I thought the "Blood Pack" were kind of pointless, for the story, but they perfectly illustrated just how lifeless vampires have become these days (pun intended). Reapers are the new vampires, vampires are the new humans, and humans don't much matter anymore. As far as vampire television goes, some of you might remember Forever Knight.</blockquote>