Rate Blade: Trinity

[Captain Tagon]

I just think it's funny that we have Capellan and Chun-tzu debating, but that's my background in Battletech thinking there.

And I still stand by my comment that Triple H was the second best actor in the movie behind only the guy from Two Guys...

 

[Hand of Evil]

Gave it a six.

Hannibil King the better part of this movie.

Blade or Terminator? Wes has gone the way of Arny, just action, no dialog.

It was good to see "John Doe", how I missed that show.

HHH, not bad.

 

[Felix]

AVP was better. Why? Because it didn't do things like this:

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I want to talk in black too! Not that it matters, this scene was in the trailer...

Scene: Blade on rooftop, dramatic stancing. Enter naieve little girl...

NLG: "Why don't you just be nice?"

TragicBlade: "'Cause the world ain't nice."

Pull back to reveal dramatic tension and meaning. Then get on with the hacking and slaying.

If you're going to be a silly action movie, get on with it. Have cool lines like "no time to bleed" but don't try to frame it in dramatic windowdressing. AVP has that pureness of spirit that raises it above the level of "2 hours of things beating the crap out of each other". Blade:Trinity does not.

Ryan Reynolds MADE this waste of millions of dollars even tolerable. Horrible film.

Quite right. His character channeled pure "obnoxious action sidekick", and his character was the better for it, even if he was as one-dimensional as the rest of them.

 

[Mercule]

So, was there a good reason for Hannibal being human again, rather than a vampire like he is in the comics?

 

[Hand of Evil]

So, was there a good reason for Hannibal being human again, rather than a vampire like he is in the comics?

Nope, just relationship with bad 'vamp' and being 'cured'.

 

[Negative Zero]

wow. what a horrendously bad movie. the only reason i gave it a 5 instead of a 4, is Ryan Reynolds. that guy was freakin hil-a-ri-ous! can someone explain to me how this was a "Blade" movie at all?

i mean, they really didn't need him for anything. ALL the work was done by the support characters.

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rescuing Blade from prison, making all the cool weapons, making the virus, figuring out how to make it work. hell, even beating the final boss monster! plus, were these vampires the biggest pushovers you've ever seen, or what!

and what on earth was up with the blood farm? it never came up before that scene, was never mentioned after it, and seemed to serve no purpose than to get Blade and Abigail away from the "Honeycomb Hideout" long enough to kill off their friends ... oh and it did have one other purpose. Blade got to say: "I'll kill you motherf*****!" possibly his best line in the movie.

and i'm sorry, a boold farm because it's more efficient? i thought vampires liked to hunt and kill. then again they obviously didn't think much of the venture, coz their security amounted to the one blonde college work-study chic.

one more thing, why did the new nightstalkers have to spend what was presumably at least a few hours beating up on 50 familiars in order to find out what Blade had already known from the police station? ... speaking of which, no wonder the vamps needed to wake up Mr. Eurotrash NoNeck. the humans captured Blade when they couldn't.

a friend of mine pointed out that if this movie was set 500 years in the future then it might have made sense that they had become so weak that the needed Chestor Bling

, but man this movie sucked!

~NegZ

 

[Hand of Evil]

Negative Zero, glad I am not the only one with those going no where scenes,

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blood bank, shower, speed of arrows...

the last good movie vampire to impress me was in Fright Night, they have become orcs, the characters go through them by the dozen.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I haven't seen the movie yet but here's some behind the scenes stuff I heard about it. This might be the last 'Blade' movie that Snipes does. There was apparently alot of tension due to the fact that Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds was in it and hogging screen time. Snipes thought that the focus was too much on the young'uns. Despite this, however, I there were rumors that another 'Blade' movie would be made.

 

[Klaus]

I heard that this could spawn a Nightstalkers franchise, and Wesley would try and make true his dream of bringing the Black Panther to life.

 

[Chun-tzu]

I'm wondering if the final script resulted from several re-writes and 2+ scripts being combined into one (as often happens). Perhaps one of those scripts was a "final Blade movie" but they backed out and kept it vague, to allow for further movies (which wouldn't seem very likely, although the Nightstalkers thing seems like a possibility, with a much lower budget).

One review I read (I think it was the Toronto Star) placed a good deal of the blame on newbie director, David Goyer. I have to agree with this; Goyer's a fine writer, but this outing as a director (only his second) wasn't very impressive. A more experienced director could have improved the movie considerably.