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Blade was the movie that not only proved comic book movies could do well in the cinema but also saved Marvel from bankruptcy.
Blade didn't directly save Marvel from bankruptcy. They made almost nothing from it (just a $25k licensing fee) but it provided a blueprint for future success and made Hollywood interested in the Marvel brand.
It did revive a dead comic “Blade”
Without Blade, there would never have been X-Men or Spiderman.
Too be honest, nobody knew it was a Marvel movie, lol.
Superman and Batman would like a word...
In addition to acting, Kris Kristofferson is a legendary country musician who wrote songs that were recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin and more. He was also a member of The Highwaymen with Cash, Jennings and Willie Nelson.
My mom dated him... He rented a room in my grandparents' house, and my grandma threw him out because he was always rehearsing the same song. Neither my mom nor my grandmother had any idea he made it big.
Also a Rhodes Scholar.
Don't forget he was in Convoy.
The trucking film that made Everyone want a CB radio...
That's a movie that needs reviewing
He's so vain, I bet he thinks that song is about him...
"Black Panther is the first Black superhero movie". And now you see why some of us were losing our minds when that movie came out and was surrounded by people who didn't know what the hell they were talking about. Spawn still holds a special place in my heart, though.
Blade is not a superhero. He is an anti-hero.
You need to look into who Kris Kristopherson is. He's was a modern day renascence man
YES! Blade and Spawn. Both are amazing.
@@jacobbarnhart8770thatd be a sick collab, if ever done
Big. Fucking. Facts.
I aM a hwhhWiTE GuY and Blade and Spawn are not just nostalgic, but in my top.
Peace and blessings all!
Fun fact about Blades Leather coat is he actually got if off Wolverine in the comics. Blade and Wolverine have a long standing friendship that goes back a few decades and they have hunted Vampires together a few times, along with other monsters and the odd mutant.
So we could have had a Deadpool, Blade, Wolverine movie instead of Blade Trinity?... :(
also in the 1994 spider man tv cartoon blade appeared with the punisher
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." -Blade
Still one of my favorite quotes of all time.
I use that one all the time.
No one knows what it means after all these years. But 1 thing that I know: IT'S PROVOCATIVE...IT GETS THE PEOPLE GOING!
I say this every time I defeat Barinade. (The third boss in Ocarina Of Time.)
Stan Lee once said there would be no MCU if not for Blade.
Excelsior!
Yep, it's the movie that kicked off the modern superhero movie trend that ultimately led to the MCU.
1995-2005 was a golden age for a particular kind of edgy cool style. Black trenchcoats, tight leather outfits, dark glasses, slow motion action scenes, wire fu, cool techno music and metal. The Crow is generally regarded as the movie that launched this style, while The Matrix is the most famous example.
I was going to comment about that!
You can add to that the gross stuff, Ren & Stimpy and Beavis and Butt-Head style, with a lot of body fluids leaking!
Blade has one of the best openings in film IMO. That nightclub in a meat works with blood from the sprinklers. Perfection.
and the music!
@@manoz6194 …and Traci Lords.
Hell yes it was!
Now that Ashley watched Blade I think Ashley should definitely watch Demolition Man.
Yeah she has to learn about the three seashells.
And "The Running Man".
Also Encino Man
And Marathon Man
All the Mans.
This movie was one of the best theater-going experiences of my life. Everyone in the audience was so into it, cheering at the badass parts, laughing the funny parts. And Snipes as the Blade character was so cool!
Confusion (1995 Pump Panel Remix) by New Order is also still a banger. lol
I can't believe I just connected the dots watching this again. This movie came out a year before The Matrix. I can't believe how much Blade was in the Matrix, especially Bullet Time. Mind Blown!
The plant was a hybrid, it was called a Dracaena Leucospermum, made from two different species, Blade took care of that plant cause it represented him, part human, part vampire.
I did not know that. All these years, and I never heard of this.
Thanks
Dragonetti, the lead pure-blood vampire, is played by German actor Udo Kier, who is actually known for playing vampires, and actually has a fondness for playing such characters.
His best vampire is Blood for Dracula. Absolutely hilarious.
@@sdelong74 You know, I love horror movies, but that's one I have not seen. I should put that on my Amazon shopping list.
@@GeminiWolfstarGamingshould pair it with Flesh for Frankenstein with him also since they were made around the same time. They’re also known as Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein and Andy Warhol’s Dracula.
@@mB-ke9bb I did actually. Flesh for Frankenstein I’ve seen before, though. Used to have it on VHS ages ago. I remember it being very weird.
@@GeminiWolfstarGaming it's an *Andy Warhol* Movie ... *Of Course* it's Weird!
It was really funny when the marketing around Deadpool was saying that it was the first R rated Marvel movie and Blade fans were like "wtf you talking about?"
Especially since Ryan Reynolds was in the third Blade
One of my favorite stories from behind the scenes is that the burn makeup was so good, that when the actor in actually broke his jaw on set and had to go to the hospital, the ER staff had to told repeatedly that his jaw was the problem and not to worry about the burns
@UC8XEReWKz67f_juU0tz920Q it’s in the director’s commentary on the dvd.
I said the same thing about a month ago. Good bad flicks has a whole video on blade
@@punklover99 does that channel frequently do less than whole videos 😉
Edit: sorry, I’m in my 40’s and have fallen to dad/mum humor
Blade was actually a really important movie. It proved that not only could a comic book movie be done right without sacrificing the characters people love, but that it could also make a LOT of money.
Ashleigh: So excited its a vampire movie
Also Ashleigh: Cant stand the sight of blood 😂
Maybe she prefers vvampires that sparkle. lol
I just found her she is perfect!
A friend of mine is an animator. His first movie was Kung Fu Panda. He worked on the bridge explosion (destroying bridges became something of a specialty of his early in his career). When we saw it in a packed theater in the IMax in NYC, like 8 seats in front of us, center of the theater, were held empty. When the theater went dark, Wesley Snipes and his family quietly were escorted in and took those seats.
After the film, my wife asked him to sign the ticket for our friend who worked on it. He wrote "Nice job Nick" and signed his name.
That's so cool
Do you mean Kung Fu Panda 2, or the bridge fight with Tai Lung in the first one? Both are amazing, but in different ways. Either way, i'm way more impressed that you know an animator from one of the Kung Fu Panda movies!
Sounds to me like autocorrect wreaked its usual brand of “fun” on ‘Kung Fu Panda’
Lol!
@@bobbyclarkston8836 Thanks. Fixed. My new phone is WAY more aggressive on autocorrect than my last one. Lots more errors.
@@Sam_on_UA-camMy autocorrect corrects more right words that wrong. And for some reason it can’t figure out when I accidentally type “inthe” it’s just supposed to separate the two words, and instead gives me a bunch of other ridiculous options.
" You could say he's.... getting boned." As a connoisseur of cringy one liners, off handed innuendos and horrible dad jokes, I appreciate that you never seem to let me down. 🤣
30:03 coincidentally that little girl is Brenda Song who played London in Hannah Montana and is married to Macaulay Culkin.
Fun fact, my Uncle Roy was Kris Krystoffersons Helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Met him at my uncles funeral. Really nice guy.
"Couldn't you just have her eat some pizza??" Ashleigh! I was eating and almost died choking on a cucumber slice😂😂
Cucumbers will kill ya!
@@rmhartman I'm finding that out 😆
I lost it when she said that! 😂 Ashleigh never disappoints
@@susanconstable2113 i know! I love her!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This movie came out at the perfect time. People were really into vampires, Wesley Snipes was at the top of his game. When my wife and I went into the theater to see it, we had no idea it had anything to do with comic books or Marvel until the opening credits. Very pleasantly surprised.
In 1998 movie Blade, Wesley Snipes' character keeps a plant in a shrine. It is an ersatz hybrid plant, a juxtaposition of two species from disparate lineages: leaves and roots of a Dracaena, with flowers of Leucospermum stuck in around the base
Wesley Snipes played Noxeema in "To Wong Foo...". This was the type of movie he was known for, so that role of Noxeema was a shock but so well done.
That's my favorite movie ever!
He was in One Night Stand.
@@gypsygirl3255 "You just have to know how to talk to people"
I can't believe we're getting to Blade! This was my introduction to vampires, to badass action films, to the supernatural. I was changed forever after this movie.
Not enough appreciation for the first actual Black super hero movie
@@joesumney The Meteor Man came out in 1993.
@@ochayethenoo Facts 💯
I agree 😂
Blade was the baby you saw being born at the beginning. His mother was pregnant and was turned on the day he was born. He has some vampire powers (and weaknesses) but he also isn't susceptible to other weaknesses...he can walk in the sun (to an extent) which is why they call him The Daywalker. He hooked up with the Kris Kristofferson character who was an expert on Vampires. (mini bio, KK is the son of an Air Force general, was in the Army and reached the rank of Captain flying helicopters, was Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He was going to be an instructor at West Point, but resigned his commission to pursue a career as a singer...he was a close friend to Johnny Cash. Was in multiple movies including Heaven's Gate and A Star is Born remake with Barbara Streisand. My favorite quote attributed to him..." I think between us, Bill Clinton and I have settled any lingering myths about the brilliance of Rhodes scholars." Classic.)
Blade had a whole series of comics with Marvel starting in 1973. There were three Blade movies starring Wesley Snipes, but my favorite was "Blade Trinity" which costarred Jessica Biel AND...Ryan Reynolds! He played Hannibal King who was another Marvel figure...once a vampire but cured of it. And as you might suspect...Reynolds had some of the best lines in that whole movie. Still action but a bit lighter than this movie.
When Crispy Von Bitey jumped up the wife and the audience we were sitting with screamed for a full 30 seconds so much so that half ended up inhaling and screaming again. I was sooo happy that a third tier Marvel character was written and portrayed so well. Been reading comics and delving into the history since 1977 hospital stay as a kid. And ever since the original Superman I knew Marvel could do the same but in no way expected it to be Blade. Sorry for the nightmares but it was touted as a horror movie.
This and Blade 2 arguably kicked off the modern superhero movie era. And I can't wait for you to see What We Do in the Shadows!
The first 2 are so good they force me to like the 3rd one.
Directed by Guillermo Del Toro who directed the Hell Boy movies
Blade 2 is one of my favorites. It's a Marvel superhero movie directed by Guillermo Del Toro with Hellboy, Ip Man, and Cat from Red Dwarf in it and it's every bit as awesome and fun as that sounds like it should be.
The first Blade movie did kick off the 2000's superhero phase a couple years early, but people forget there were hit (and miss) superhero movies all through the 90's every year starting from Batman 89 like the first Ninja Turtles movies, The Crow, Spawn, The Mask, Judge Dredd, Tank Girl, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Rocketeer, etc...
People seem to forget Blade came years before Black Panther and probably the first successful MCU film. Kris Kristofferson was in one of many remakes of A Star is Born on top of being a legendary country singer and song writer. Fun Fact: Mr. Snipes was in a sequel to The Fugitive called US Marshalls.
Wesley Snipes was also in "New Jack City" and "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar".
@awkwardashleigh Didn't you do the latter one already?
Kris Kristofferson's movie Millennium (1989) is one of the best time travel movies ever made.
Kris Kristofferson was also one of the last Oscar nominees in the Best Song Score category, but he lost... to Prince.
Blade wasn't an MCU FILM. It was made by New Line Cinema which is actually..or was part of WB. Also Blade 2 was directed by Guillermo del Toro. Which probably explains why it was so damn good!
WHO thinks this came out close to Black Panther
The casting of Wesley Snipes as Blade was on par with Christopher Reeve as Superman level perfection.
I love Blade. If only the modern Marvel films were this fun.
An era where making a movie that was actually fun with a good storyline was more important than connecting 8963274836278 movies and inserting little stupid jokes in every scene. This movie is awesome and I don't even remember it's a Marvel production.
The whole deal with Pearl is they were a vampire that had consumed so much blood that they got fat, in a deleted scene or in the concept phase of the movie Pearl was supposed to be surrounded by piles of children's corpses. The reason Karen roasted Pearl is a leftover thing from her being so disgusted by all the dead kids.
I honestly always hated how Karen just roasted Pearl and kinda soured her character for me but knowing this now it makes much more sense for her to have done that as some form of "justice"
Blade refers to Pearl as a dude
Pearl is not a "they", Pearl was always written as a male.
Correct. That's also why Blade was so concerned about (what appeared to be) the child in the room after he talked to Pearl.
Ah makes more sense now - didnt know that.
I was working at Fed Ex Office years ago and Udo Kier walked in. I asked him if he was the guy in Blade and he says "I was born a vampire", hehe. He signed a head shot that he printed there and gave it to me. Nice guy
The vamp deaths in this has to be some of the best in cinema.
I was excited to see your reaction when the "dead" vampire sat up in the hospital, but you definitely exceeded my expectations! 🤣🤣
The Vampire disintegration effects upon them being destroyed were jaw dropping at the time. (They're still bleeping good now!) We'd never seen anything that good before. It soon became de rigueur in other movies that followed this example. Fantastic movie! You're clearly in awe too. Nice one!
Buffy The Vampire Slayer series did it around the same time, the dusting effect. Which did it first?
Given that Blade came out in 1998 and Buffy series came out in 1997 and back then both film and television took a while to film and edit and add in post production effects. As well the Main Directors and Art Directors for both have very close ties to Glenn Hetrick the owner/operator of Optic Nerve Studios now named Alchemy Studios. I would say they probably used the same studio artists and switched them back and forth during production and filming for the VFXs and Practical FXs during the same time frame. Which is normal as well, get paid for leasing out your employees while building up your company while they get paid from studio and film/network studios so they can build up their name as well.
Eh, I would say the dusting effect in Blade was new, but not that great (the CGI is definitely the weakest element in the movie). It looked so much better in Blade 2, and even in the TV series.
@@ThreadBomb I loved the Blade TV series. I really loved the idea of vampires being targeted by humans because their ash is sold like a street drug akin to PCP. (The users become strong physically and briefly numb to pain or trauma.)
Ashleigh- in case nobody mentioned it, Wesley Snipes was Miss Noxeema in To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar!
Would've loved to have seen Blade make an appearance in Underworld with Celine.
I've read somewhere that the producers asked Marvel if they could borrow Blade for an Underworld movie, but Marvel denied the request and said they had their own plans for a Blade movie!
@@movienaut Never knew that...
"Couldn't ya just have her eat a pizza?" Ashleigh, you made me almost spit out my coffee!🤣🤣
You mentioned Blade's speed at one point. Snipes is actually a trained martial artist and for some scenes the director had to ask him to slowdown so that his movements could be properly captured on film.
Hapkido, I think. Like a taekwondo/ jujutsu mix. Very good style for movie martial arts.
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv He is a a fifth degree black belt in Shotokan Karate and a second degree in Hapkido.
they have to ask everyone to slow down all humans are too fast for old cameras
@@johnow7
That sounds about right. I have several degrees of a few black belts myself (been training since 1985-ish?) and I can spot practitioners of different styles from time in a lot of different schools.
@@houseofaction under cranking was literally a thing done to speed up many fight scenes so that’s demonstrably untrue.
Definitely one of the best movies. Blade is an iconic character and Wesley snipes was born to play him 💯 Blade Trinity is badazz too and has Ryan Reynolds and Triple H in it.
LMFAO I had to pause it. "Couldn't he just have her eat some pizza." Too effin' funny!
Commenting, "If it's in the eyeball, I can't!" and immediately following that with, "Oh, headshot. NICE!!" s precisely why we love your channel Ashleigh!! Great reaction, as always!
When you said you'd never heard of this movie I literally stopped in the middle of reaching for something and thousand yard stared into space for a moment trying to wrap my mind around that. I can't imagine not knowing what Blade is lmao I watched this movie way too young but it's basically one of the best 90s goth action movies (the other being the Crow which you also HAVE to watch) and was so formative for me on so many levels including music cause the soundtrack is so amazing
She reviewed The Crow 2 months ago.
Excellent movie. As far as the sequels go, I highly recommend Part 2, which also is excellent. The second one was actually directed by Guillermo del Toro, who’s known very well for his horror creations and visuals. In fact, del Toro moved on after “Blade 2” to write (or co-write) a series of horror books that later were turned into a horror television series called “The Strain,” which definitely takes some of the ideas he put into “Blade 2” but turns those ideas into their own thing outside of the world of Blade and expands upon them (great series, by the way, and I highly recommend it). Anyway, while “Blade 2” is great and measures up to the first one, I’d avoid the third one, which is called “Blade: Trinity,” as it is a real mess of a movie that makes little to no sense, doesn’t even resolve one of its main plot points, and was hell in production for a number of reasons. You’re much better off pretending the third one doesn’t exist, because it’s one of those movies that a lot of people give the “it never happened” treatment.
That all being said, “Blade” came out before there really was an MCU. Many people didn’t even realize it was adapted from a comic book series when they first saw it, but it came out when Marvel as a company wasn’t doing very well and, in large part, received the financial adrenaline shot it really needed from the success of the movie. That’s why they were able to give the movie a nice hard R rating and just take the gloves off during this one; there wasn’t an MCU yet that had to deal with the pressure of keeping things tame enough for kids and families to see it in theaters (especially since Marvel wasn’t owned by Disney yet).
They’re apparently currently working on a Blade reboot at Disney for the MCU, which, frankly, I think is an absolutely terrible idea. There’s no one who’s going to play the main role as well as Wesley Snipes-they’re simply not going to have that same combo of acting chops, charisma, and legitimate martial arts skills, not to mention his overall cool and badass look. It’s just not going to happen, not to mention that even if the reboot gets an R rating, you know that Disney is still going to make them neuter the shit out of the movie and turn it into a tame and lame shell that won’t come close to the original. (For example, “Logan” wasn’t a Disney production; that came out before Disney fully got the rights to the X-Men characters.)
Yeah, Blade Trinity happened because Blade prints money and they like money.
But that movie sucked... not in a good way...
I did not know about the connection to The Strain. Loved that show, but I did notice how they borrowed a fair amount of the vamp design from Blade 2.
Just think of Blade Trinity as a Blade meets Deadpool movie and it's a more enjoyable watch, plus Parker Posey, Patton Oswalt, and Natasha Lyonne add a dash of flavor in the boring bits😁
@@wallywest2360 Yeah, The Strain is Del Toro making his own IP playground to fully explore what he started in Blade 2 without worrying about fitting into Marvel canon.
Can you believe that the sequel is even better? Hell yeah. And the 3rd, so funny, so entertaining.
Korg from Thor: Ragnarök made reference to Vampires being in the MCU. When Korg was showing Thor the different weapons to choose from, he picked up a staff weapon with three wooden pointed stakes at the end and said it would work well if you had three Vampires huddled close together.
In the DVD extras for this movie, there is a breakdown of the twelve houses of vampires similar to the houses in the RPG Vampire: The Masquerade. You can see some of the differences in the board room scene. Some houses are more resistant to damage than others.
Also in the extras is mention that the actor who played Mr Crispy got hurt in the stunt falling into the ambulance. So he was taken to the real emergency room in that makeup.
and in the extras the cameo of Morbius is shown
I love that you watched this AFTER you watched “Too Wong Foo.” I was instantly waiting for you to recognize Noxie as Blade. Snipes is a man of many talents.
Often said to be one of the best movie openings of all time.
If you watch Wesley Snipes in just about anything else, just know that you are in for some damn good fight scenes. He's an expert in several martial arts, and is definitely not an "actor who learned kung-fu." The man is a legitimate bad-ass.
I love the over-the-top fun of Demolition Man.
Perfect 90s action camp and a breakout Sandra Bullock.
@@keyman6689 And Snipes clearly having a blast as Simon Phoenix. Him and Russell Crowe as SID 6.7 in Virtuosity.
His favorite martial art is the form of the disappearing federal tax debt.
His favorite martial art is the form of the disappearing federal tax debt.
His favorite martial art is the form of the disappearing federal tax debt.
Blade’s unusual birth means that he’s a vampire but he’s not undead.
Blade was in the cast of a popular 70s Marvel comic called Tomb of Dracula, which would totally kick ass as a Stranger Things period piece series.
yes, all their strengths non of their weaknesses
I think the mythical term is dhampir.
One of my favorite comic book arcs was back in the early 80's, where Dr Strange and a cast of side-protagonists from ToD (including Blade) had to stop Dracula from getting the Darkhold (evil book used in the last Dr. Strange movie), the source of the original vampire spell/curse.
He was also a recurring character in the (great) 90's Spider-Man animated series, that's where I saw Blade before the movie came out.
In the comics Blade is a normal human, but because his mother was bit he was born immune to vampire mind control. That had to be changed because the vampires in this movie don't have mind control like they do in the Marvel Comics.
I had to chuckle when you said that one of your biggest fears is dislocating something. I have a connective tissue disorder that causes all of my joints to dislocate randomly. I have times where I have them daily but luckily have not had any full dislocations in a little over a year. It's painful but not the worst thing ever. Hopefully that alleviates some of your fear about it. 😊
"no funny, all blood" hahahaha 50:10
The "always trying to ice skate uphill" line is such a delightfully batshit way to say "hurr hurr you're dumb" to an enemy right before they die. 😂
Was it in the reaction and I missed it?
One of my all-time FAVORITE tag lines!
That ice skating line will always be hilarious.
Apparently something Snipes said to the director off-hand and he went “we need to use that!” 😂
I still use it every now and then..
Just sums up sheer stupidity
"if it's in the eyeball I can't (watch it)... uh headshot NICE!" 🤣
5:45 into it and this rewatch is amazing. While the details are somewhat dated that into is one of the hardest introes of any movie I know. And a perfect sendoff of everything great with 90's pop culture: A raveparty with blood sprinklers with vampiers and katanas.
Wooden stakes versus silver depends on the narrative. In Blade/Marvel, vampires are essentially allergic to silver. In Buffy the Vampire Slayer, they don't really mention silver for vampires, but a wooden stake through the heart does the trick.
In old vampire lore, it was this susceptibility to silver that was the reason vampires had no reflection in mirrors, because back in the 19th century and prior, mirrors used to be back with silver, but not so much anymore.
Good comment.
Good to know.
AFAIK the Silver affecting vampires thing comes from Judas Iscariot being the first Vampire and God cursing him to be allergic to the 30 pieces of Silver
Cool comment, didnt make the mirror connection!
Fuck american writers ... because they created the whole "zombies eat brains" (they dont) MYTH and also other stuff about mythology! You guys need to learn to *RESPECT MYTHS!*
We should get Ashleigh to watch Underworld next.
I was literally just about to post that! Underworld is my JAM! Very cool scenes!
@@jacquelineyoung4744 I love it!
Yes!
"You got your Blade in my Matrix"
"You got your Martix in my Blade"
Also, Near Dark
i watched this as a kid and mr.crispy jumping up still scared me even though i knew it was coming way back when
That was some pretty funny reactions, you gotta do number 2 and 3 now for sure. Solid content thank you
I'm not even half way in and I'm already dead from the commentary 😂😂 I truly hope you watch the whole trilogy. Also it always baffles me that Westley Snipes also plays Naxima Jackson !! What an icon lol
Lol I was at a rave that played that song and legit everyone stopped and looked up at the ceiling and then started looking around at each other, laughing then started dancing again!
Thankfully no blood bath!😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂.. .
That reminds me when I got on an elevator and someones notification was the Jasons "sh sh sh ah ah ah" I promptly got off. 😂
Wesley Snipes sounds familiar because he was Noxema in To Wong Foo (the Patrick Swayze drag movie) that u reviewed last year
This reaction is amazing I'm so glad you're taking these steps. People say the third wasn't isn't good. It's a hell of a lot of fun while it doesn't match the first two it's a hell of a lot of fun and you can't lose when you add Ryan Reynolds to the cast :)
Personally for me Blade: Trinity is one of those movies that’s so bad it goes back around to being good again.
@@namjoonssexybrain1679 You're not wrong. The scene where the vampire pomeranian (Named Pac-man.) first open its mouth, hilarious.
being a veteran of dozens of Vampire Movies,... "My God, Can't You Just Have Her Eat Some Pizza"? had me on the floor LmFao gold right there.
this movie provided A LOT of the fashion choices used in the matrix, it also provided Marvel with enough revenue (being the very first 18+ marvel film) at the time to keep them afloat and is basically the only reason marvel as a company still exists, also the special effects in this movie were groundbreaking for the time.
The bartender Blade kicked in the face at the Japanese vampire club (somebody shouted "Kingee!")is Henry Kingi,a legendary stuntman who has been in many films and TV shows.Michelle Pfeiffer clawed his face as Catwoman in Batman Anytime you saw the A-team van sliding around in a car chase on the show,Kingi was driving.When Enos jumped his cop car and landed in a tree on The Dukes of Hazzard,Kingi did that jump.Also,the actor that played the hematologist's ex boyfriend ("You ever think about us?") was the Air Force officer ordering the F-22 to attack Tony Stark in the first Iron Man.The female vampire in the beginning taking her naive corny date to the rave party was ex "pron" star Traci Lords.Deacon Frost would totally have fit in with The Lost Boys movie...good call.Also,you are more right than you know about Kris Kristofferson...he is really good friends with Willie Nelson in real life.
"Is she gonna become a day walker and they're gonna be together forever..literally..cos vampires.."😏 🤣🤣🤣
The "Blood Bath" track is still one of my favorite pieces of music ever. I will crank that up all day, every day!
Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix) 😂. Took me 20 years to learn the real name since all the 90’s file sharing apps called it Blood Bath or Blood Rave.
I believe that song is "Confusion" by New Order.
@@jasonweible2834 lololol
@@CrowTRobotGreat minds think alike.
Blade is the first modern superhero movie, and it holds up remarkably well.
Very much so. It's so incredibly aggravating to see how awful Marvel has become over time..
What do you mean by "first modern superhero movie" though?
@@wampatan9This was the first under the Marvel Studios logo and was the first superhero film that was based mostly in the real world. X-Men came out two years later.
@@JeshuaSquirrelspawn came out a year before blade..... And was created by ya boy Todd McFarlane that worked at marvel.
From what I hear. Ya boy thought of making a movie and nobody liked the idea. So he did it himself and it got a cult following and everybody else was like. Money.... I like money. Let's do what he did
Good to see you were simultaneously entertained and traumatized by Blade, Ashleigh. 😄 Yup, Blade was pretty much the film that got the trend of good blockbuster comic book movies off the ground. The first X-Men and Spider-Man movies came along only a couple of years afterwards.
One thing, though, the Blade movies aren't part of the MCU. The first MCU film was Iron Man, which came out a decade later.
Also, the young black girl that fought Blade actually had like a black belt in taekwondo at the time and was competing in tournaments. Her name is Eboni Adams and I even briefly talked to her on a vid featuring that fight here in UA-cam years back.
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Blade was the first superhero movie that I ever watched in a theater.
It had action, suspense, gore, great acting, and great effects for the time. It was a complete package.
I and my friends have been waiting for you to do a review of this movie, and we aren't disappointed.
Now, there are only two other superhero movies I would love to see you review. First would be Constantine, and second would be Mystery Men.
Thanks
U ever see the original attempt at the end fight between Blade and Frost? It's a proper hoot
Mystery Men is the worlds most under rated super hero movie.
Yes, I have, and I am glad they went the direction they did.@@paulcurran4786
Could not agree with you more! Mystery Men is like comfort food for me, I love it so much.
I've heard that not a lot of the cast and director had fun making it, but I adore it!@Kegcrusher04
@@Kegcrusher04 I always wanted a Herkimer Battle Jeepny.
Wait, you were going to do What we do in the Shadows? I can't wait for that one, and then the show later on. You saw Wesley in To Wong Foo. Also one of the best reveals of a character with Blade standing in the only place in the rave with no blood
And the first season of the show should be reviewed on the channel at the very least.
Dark Greetings everyone.
@@RicoRaynnDark Greetings
All those in favor of her at least watching the first season, raise your fangs.
"No funny - all blood" LOL!
Back then in the late 1990's vampires was the big rekindled thing. Everybody and their grandma tried to shoehorn in on the success of the Vampire Diaries. RPG companies published Vampire: The Masquerade loosely tried to capture the basis of the 1973 comic book series in a pen and paper game. But back at that time, there were hundreds of live action role playing circles trying to emulate the stories, with chapters often numbering in the hundreds of participants. So this movie fed fully into the scene back then.
"Still heavy..." "...But you're so big." is probably my favorite line of the whole movie.
I highly recommend the whole trilogy.
In contemporary myths, vampires are indeed killed with wooden stakes through the heart and repelled by garlic, while werewolves are killed by silver bullets, though the stories about how monsters could be killed has varied widely by era and nationality. (e.g. vampires used to be killed by a stake through the heart, the head being cut off, the mouth stuffed with garlic/a holy wafer, and sometimes being buried in holy ground)
Silver has traditionally been associated with "purification" because silver is a natural antimicrobial (kills bacteria, fungi, and certain viruses) and in eastern proto-medical beliefs, pure silver would tarnish in the presence of any poison. Similarly, as far back as ancient Rome, garlic was believed to have wide-ranging medicinal effects.
As such, these substances' mythological powers were often included as weapons against any monsters that spread in a disease-like fashion.
Adding on that, vampires are huge in Eastern Europe (Dracula duh!) - and think of the Witcher, another story frtom Eastern Europe, he uses conventional steel for humans and silver for monsters.
I remember the poster that was given to us the first time we went to the drive in to see this. Such an epic movie ❤
I saw this movie in theaters when I was 10 or 11. The first rated R movie I ever saw in theaters. (Awesome parents!!). It’s a moment and movie I’ll never forget. It still stands as one of my favorite Marvel movies to this day! I’m glad you thoroughly enjoyed it!!
I wish my parents waited that long. I saw The Thing (1984?) When I was around 5 or 6 years old. Thanks mom ...
@@CliffSedge-nu5fv this 😂
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For me, drive-in with mom , dad, and sis. I think I was 15. But it was awesome because we already liked Snipes since New Jack City and White Man Can't Jump. My folks gave us that trust because they were so cool.
Blade is also first R-rated MARVEL superhero movie
Probably my favourite Marvel movie, not gonna lie. It's a ride and a half, and Wesley Snipes was made for this role. Love your reactions! 😁😁
Not often that you have someone who is both a top-notch dramatic actor and has enough martial arts black belts to do most of his own fight sequences.
I think it's also mine. I really liked the story that David S. Goyer wrote. I wish more movies were still like this. Lots of kicking ass but with a good story and great acting.
"Crunchiness of the skin sounds like fried chicken"....i had to pause...dang, my ribs.😂😂😂
Late comment, but I was thrilled you reacted to this one. This is another old favorite that I had to dig out the old DVD to do the watchalong with you. It was also the Enhanced DVD with an earlier version of the script when you popped it into your computer disc drive, that's how old it is. This was one of my favorite movies in college and my friends and I watched it repeatedly. We were all big vampire freaks so we would sample a bunch of vampire media and compare the different lore. Also the born vampires and the language heavily influenced an original vampire universe that I've been meaning to pick up again for eons. And yeah it's pretty freaking gory and badass all at once.
One of my favorite movies of the nineties. I was so obsessed, my friend talked a sunglass shop owner into giving me his life-size cardboard blade figurine for my birthday 🤣🤣🤣
Im glad you enjoyed it
That's a good friend!
Nothing has topped that opening scene of Blade. Smoking Vamps to some techno... and the Vamps dissipating?? Magnificent!
And New Order's Confusion (Pump Panel Mix) the marketing etched that into my soul. One of the best trailers of the decade.
Techno club music staple for years. Couldn't hear a DJ set without that mixed in.
Great reaction. luv your sense of humor
Quick OCD detail mention, the MCU (as a combined universe) starts with Iron Man, the 90's comic movies are not a part of it (except tangentially now that we have a multiverse.). It did help pave the way for the MCU. Blade ran so the MCU could sprint. Also, going in blind was a great choice. Loved the reaction!.
And you'll be even LESS prepared for Blade II. This one was and will always be badass, but the sequel is on a WHOLE other level!
Speaking of Blade II, I really hope to see more Wesley Snipes AND Guillermo del Toro (the sequel's director) on the channel. Snipes is a legend, and Del Toro is one of modern cinema's greatest directors whose films you'll never not cry/be horrified over haha ❤
You're joking, right? Sure, the blade movies are fun, but they're also TERRIBLE.
@@smashbrandiscootch719what are you on about? Maybe your taste differs from mine, but I'm talking about Blade and Blade II, and I'm not sure what makes them "fun but terrible," as they're both considered by myself and many, many others (especially Blade II, WAY more so), to be considerably well written and directed.
Besides, it's not Shakespeare, it's leatherbound vampires with swords and machine guns 😂
If she does Blade II (which I highly recommend), I predict that del Toro's dark, over-the-top humor in a horror movie is going to freak out Ashleigh.
Oh yeah the whole significance of the plant is…
Blade is a hybrid, with both human and vampires present and expressed. He cuts the roots of this symbolic totem to show his independence from the people who made him and raised him--his adoptive father, his mother, and the vampire who bit her.
Ooh, haven't you learned anything about plagiarism on the internet this past month? Cite your sources, bro! 🤣
@@WolfHreda it’s called “GOOGLE” bro. Maybe try using it. You might actually learn something new.
@@WolfHreda Why would anybody do that with a random internet comment..? The point is to quickly communicate and spread information, not provide a full fifty-page link to all inclusions and references of a two-thousand page thesis.
Omgggg i loved this movie when i was 17 years old & i was freaked out!❤❤❤
4:05 a vampire a creature from the pit of hell calling out the name of Jesus when he see blade is SO hilarious to me
There is something so thrilling about going into a movie completely blind. I’ve done a few of the Regal theater mystery movie Mondays, so you don’t even know the title until it starts. Then you have to figure out the tone of the movie. It’s such a great experience because nothing has been spoiled, even if you don’t necessarily care for the movie.
I have to agree there. Gal I was dating in my youth, wanted to go to the movies. We went and didn't really know any of the movies that were playing. So we went with the movie that had Kevin Bacon in it. Yeeeaahhh we went in blind to Stir of Echoes 😆
Learned that I liked not knowing a damn thing about the movie after that 👍
@@mot0rhe4d40 Stir of Echoes is so great.
That happened to me with Pulp Fiction. I had heard nothing about the movie. I was at the theater, and the only reason I chose it was that John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson were in it. Also the title, Pulp Fiction, was intriguing, as I’ve read my share of pulp novels in my life.
I was totally unprepared for that movie! But I absolutely loved it!
@@GuardianOwl And it blindside's when you go in cold lol
I did that with Léon. Such a treat!
Ashleigh, I'm so glad you finally got to see this movie. It's actually one of the first Marvel movies but not linked to the MCU.(yet) Cool fun fact: Wesley Snipes is actually a trained martial artist, so he did most of the fight scenes himself. You have seen him before in Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone. Nerd facts: Blade started as a character in the Tomb of Dracula comics back in the 70's. He was part of a group of vampire hunters. He's called the daywalker because sunlight doesn't affect him like a normal vampire. He still had most of the power and the thirst.
Depends on how you define a "Marvel movie"; technically the first Marvel movie was Howard the Duck.
There was a spiderman movie in the 70s I thought.
@@parallaxnick637Men In Black also came out before Blade and is technically Marvel since they purchased it before the movies were made
It was definitely not the first Marvel movie. Wtf?
@@johnpaullogan1365the Japanese film?
36:10 - 36:15 I don't remember much of this movie from my childhood, but those explody bits, core memory unlocked 😅
I enjoyed watching your reaction to the film, very charismatic and funny, thank you for having fun with you
What We Do in the Shadows is very funny! I'm all for you watching it too! The series that is coming to an end this year is probably my favorite show that's currently on television. It's super hilarious!
Gotta watch the movie first tho ❤️
100% she will love it!
So glad Ashleigh watched Blade before WWDITS, that movie/series has so many vampire media in-jokes it's unbelievable. Blade, Only Lovers Left Alive, True Blood, From Dusk Til Dawn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Interview With The Vampire...
Donal Logue was one of my favorite cameos in WWDitS
@@JoeMama410 YES! What a great surprise!
Blade is an excellent film in this genre. It still holds up really well.
yep. Still awesome!