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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 116343" data-attributes="member: 2011">I was not trying to overanalyze it when I went in. I went to have fun.The problem is that you are sitting in a theater and suddenly realizing over and over again that you are in a theater.That sucks in a movie.You are just getting drawn into some cool plot element or fight scene when something totally stupid occurs.For example, the red headed vampire chick slowly climbing the ladder to avoid her super-vampire boyfriend. Vampires suddenly move like humans? This type of thing totally throws me out of a flick.The four super vampires not being able to break into the van.The two vampires that fought Blade so well in the warehouse (the black one and the girl), but suddenly they just walk into the water full of supervampires and when Blade shouts for them to get out of the water, they just stand there like idiots waiting for the slaughter. Where was the 30 foot leap to that ledge so that their enemy at least had to come to them? In fact, why did they go into the water in the first place when they didn't have to?Blade hates vampires, but when the two fighting in the warehouse suddenly stop fighting, he does too. What was that? The scene with him holding the sword on her and her holding the sword on him was terrible. He would have not hesitated to just finish her off.And, why is it that in the first Blade movie, the vampires are protected from the sunlight by wearing sunscreen, leather clothes, and motorcycle helmets and in Blade II, they decide to attack during the day and do not bother to put any of these protections on?Just stupid inconsistencies.You must have watched a different movie. It was extremely difficult to see the action in the first set of scenes in that building. A shoulder flashed by and suddenly a vampire dies. Err, was that a sword swing or something else? Can't tell.It wasn't until Blade got outside with the motorcycle scenes that they actually panned back enough for you to see the action except for a few shots. Even then, they often zoomed in on the bike, but not the rider. Why? Whose idea of good action is that?I agree that a lot of this is true with the exception of great combat scenes. There were some very good ones. But about a third of them were bad.The obvious CGI was bad. Too many combat close ups made watching some of the action painful.Just better photography, better CGI, and consistency in vampire abilities would have turned this movie from a 3 to an 8 with no problem. It was like looking at your kid's homework and realizing that if she would have put 15 minutes into it instead of 5, it would have been done well.Don't get me wrong. It had great potential and some very well done scenes. It just threw so much crap in between that I constantly got jarred out of the film. What a waste!</blockquote>

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