Karen is a very underrated female lead. Once she accepts the world she's living in, she's extremely helpful, no nonsense, and tough. Shame she wasn't in the sequels.
Completely agree. Also the fact that she is a dark skin woman with a strong New York accent was also a surprising choice for the character, considering the usual casting patterns back then.
Perhaps the worst part of the trilogy is that we didn't get her back. I really loved N'Bushe Wright too, it's a shame she seems to have left Hollywood after this.
I love that Jenn instantly joined all Blade fans in saying Wesley Snipes is the definitive Blade. However, as Wesley said, best of luck to Mahershala Ali.
I think Jen forgets that comics themselves are quite dark most of the time. There’s a lot of marvel things that are this dark. It’s the MCU that makes things a little more family friendly
Like whenever in Jessica Jones there’s something sexual happening and Holden looks at the camera and says “On Disney+” Marvel does have several dark tones but it’s comments like those as to why the MCU is geared more family friendly
it is funny how I grew up reading comics and trying to explain to everyone how they were about personal struggles, morals and ethics, big lifechanging decisions etc... and then MCU came and made it way more mainstream and now everyone thinks my geeky collection of replicas and statues is awesome... life is a funny thing...
This movie became so popular right away when it came out at the premiere in 1998 that it literally saved Marvel from Bankruptcy & not only helped them to pay their bills but also gave them enough money to start to produce those pre-Marvel films in early 2000 before Avengers characters became a franchise thing as we know it now
Fun story from the DVD commentary: The guy playing Quinn fell and dislocated his jaw while they were filming the scene in the hospital, so they had to take him to the ER. While still in his 'horrible burn victim' makeup. Apparently the receptionist took one look and just started screaming until they could explain what was going on.
The best opening to any superhero movie. Atmospheric, misdirectional and phenomenal choreography. Just like Arnie was born to play the Terminator, Wesley is Blade.
This movie came out before The Matrix. Everything from the costumes, to the music, action to the slow-motion copy from this movie. This movie also saved Marvel Comics from bankruptcy and show the world that superhero movies could work.
@@RevRyukin7 It was less than a year. It was like seven months. Plus, The Matrix was filming in late 1997 a year before Blade came out. And Blade was already filmed completely and was supposed to come out summer of 1997 but was delayed a year to change the ending. So yeah, unless it was someone in the know behind the scenes, there is zero chance one copied the other..
@@davidsavage5630 - The release date is not a good indicator of whether the ideas were copied or not. The scripts get shopped around to different studios for months and years prior to production and studios will literally steal the ideas to make quick knockoffs. Old school examples: Armageddeon and Deep Impact. The Abyss and Leviathan, and Deep star 6 all came out within a few months of each other.
Blade is the first dark superhero movie I've watched when I was 8 years old and one of the reasons why I love anti-heroes more because they always go to the permanent solution. Blade was noted as a dark superhero film for its time, as well as being Marvel's first successful film and setting the stage for further comic book film adaptations.
I remember seeing Blade in the theaters when i was 11 and it blew my mind. Still my favorite Comic/superhero movie. The 68 Charger he drove was badass!
@@crashfan9997 I've watched a lot of R Rated Movies at such a young age. I've even watched Terminator 2 (at 7 years old) and 300 (at 8 Years Old). I live in the Philippines and my parents are really acting like parents unlike this generation's parents blaming nonsense things when it's their neglectful personalities at not guiding their children.
Even better is the story behind it. Wesley Snipes was talking to his manager on set. The director loved the line so much he wanted to use it for the final scene
To be honest, this movie is still in my Top10 Superhero movies ever. Blade 2 is even in my Top 5. Those 2 are extremely great and hold up really well, except some CG fight szenes.
It was off script and was revealed to be towards movie director as Wesley and him didn't agree on things for the movie. It also happens during the 3rd movie. Wes was pretty much done with the franchise during that. I don't blame him since it felt less dark and serious and more comedy.
Yeah, Wesley Snipes didn't do all of his own stunts, but he did a lot of them and he had a really good double. While this movie is a little dated, and very much a film of it's time, it's exceptionally well cast, the performances are great and the story is really good. The script waffles between terrible to pretty good but the story itself is rock solid. Unlike many movies of this era(and limited budget), Blade holds up really well based on it's strengths which far surpass it's shortcomings.
I remember watching this in the movie theaters as a kid. I had NO business watching this movie as young as I was haha but I loved it when I saw it. And if I remember correctly the movie Blade actually saved Marvel from bankruptcy(weird to think about now huh haha) which laid down the foundation to the marvel movies we have now. Also don't forget, we did get a small small tease of modern Blade in the MCU with the end credit scene of The Eternals movie with Mahershala Ali playing Blade. I am very very interested in how they handle the MCU Blade.
I think they're going to lean into Blade's use of meditation and the spiritual side of martial arts this time. Ali is very spiritual and religious, so I think he'd really suit that side of Blade that they only hinted at in this movie.
Iron Man was the real turning point. If that wasn't successful it would have been the end. Blade gave it a kick but Iron man solidified their return. I'd love to include Spiderman and X-Men but they were under Sony. They did help with exposure though.
@theprotagonist1311 My brother in law did lol. Once he said "Are you sure you're ready for that Mr Whitman" my brother in law yelled out "HOLY SHIT ITS BLADE!! THAT WAS MAHERSHALA ALI'S VOICE!" 😂
Blade was a 10 to me, saw it in the theaters loved every second of it. The marketing was awesome for our little M rated brains back then. We were watching Attitude Era WWF and Monday Night Wars WCW Nitro, and the commercial and trailers for this just fit in perfectly with our hyperviolent raving edge lord gangsta selves. That Confusion song was perfect to tell us what we were getting into. As for familiarity, as a comic fan Blade came out during the Blaxploitation era and the 70s Vampire film craze, so the character was perfect for his era, but that was before my time. I and many, became familiar with the character because of his guest role in Spider-Man the Animated Series during the Morbius arc. If I recall correctly he was using a lightsaber there and was a lot...angrier. Knowing his work from Demolition Man and Passenger 57, I was SUPER excited for Snipes to get the role and his stoic, snarky, super lethal interpretation basically became the gold standard. He revolutionized Blade the same way RDJ revolutionized Tony Stark ten years later. Marvel's record of Perfect casting starts with Blade.
Udo Kier who played the head of the vampire council actually played Dracula in Andy Warhol's Dracula in 1974. The lady vampire who lured the guy into the vampire club was Traci Lords, a former porn actress. Judson Scott of Wrath of Khan fame was one of the members of the council. This is a movie that actually improves on the character it was based on. Marvel changed the character in the comics to more closely resemble Snipes portrayal. I can't wait for your wife to see the next one. It's a Guillermo del Toro masterpiece.
Donal Logue was so much fun in this 😂 When I first got the DVD, it included an extra feature covering the background lore of the different vampire factions/families. I don’t know whether it was based on the comics but I always wished that the sequels expanded on that lore.
Jen’s high pitch screaming along with the teapot had me laughing, thanks y’all! and for someone who enjoyed the 70s and 80s , the 90s were a blast across the board and I’m glad i survived !
So glad you guys watched this. It was the coolest movie in the world to me when I was about 13, still love it now. The alternate ending with Morbius is worth looking up too.
Holden, since Jen did not think that Blade would be part of Marvel, please inform her about the Midnight Suns team. Since she loves "dark" movie material, she will love Midnight Suns.
Can't wait till the Blade 2 reaction, Guillermo Del Toro killed it with his take on Blade. Glad y'all are taking on some "the early days" comic movies. Spawn is another camp fest also the Eric Bana Hulk lol.
small anecdote: when filming the autopsy escape scene, Donal Logue tripped and fell to the ground dislocating his jaw. He had to be rushed to the hospital in full burnt make-up which confused and scared the ER staff.
My only guess as to why the Pure Bloods "put up" with Frost is probably because the one who turned him was not only Pure Blood, but also a member of that council who had a leading position. That position now belongs to Frost for whatever reason.
I would guess that there are multiple reasons, depending where the writers came from. In the comics Frost was way more powerful and important with a very unique origin for a turnblood, this wasn't really included in the movie, but may still be the lore?(he wasn't turned by a vampire, he accidentally turned himself) And on the other hand: the vampire houses act more like a united nations, so they don't really just kill each other off, just because their beliefs differ. Additionally purebloods outlive turnbloods naturally (marvel vampires aren't immortal, just age super slow and truebloods age way slower than turnbloods) So the truebloods saw Frost just like another eager kiddo who wants to be "that guy" and as their politics are all about "just stay passive and survive", they might've just planned to sit Frosts antics out until he dies or gets killed by blade. If they knew that he was really on to something with the blood god, maybe they would've acted.
Interesting thing about this movie is how progressive in the right way it is, black leads, strong female character, didn't use graphic sex scenes/nudity to entice viewers(N'Bushe Wright is beautiful), didn't make all the male characters moronic to make the female look better and EVERYONE thought Snipes was badass regardless of his skin color. Marvel owes Snipes and the people who made this movie for making the gravey train they were on possible.
This was the very first R Rated Marvel movie my family and I watched on DVD! Before Wesley Snipes was cast as the titular character, Laurence Fishburne, Denzal Washington, LL Cool J and Michael Jai White were considered. Snipes himself was even considered for the Black Panther movie, but production for the film was cancelled and Snipes played the role of Blade instead. An alternative ending was shown that Michael Morbius was going to be the main villain in the sequel, which sadly never happened.
Huge fan of this movie! glad to see your reaction, I am forever worried that the MCU will not be able to top this with their remake. The style, action, and cast are just too good
Tea Kettle Jen killed me. I don’t know who does your editing, but props for the comedy tidbits they throw in there. Blade is fun, can’t wait for Blade 2, one of the few sequels that surpasses the original. Speaking of better sequels, gotta be careful when droppin Terminator references Holden, don’t ruin anything for Jen. Blade 2 was directed by Del Toro, so just about all the visuals are way better. Story is awesome and cast is also top notch. You’ll see a younger Norman Reedus as well as Donnie Yen and Del Toro’s favorite, Ron Pearlman. Looking forward to that reaction.
It's funny how we got superman batman an then marvel comes out first with blade lol... not wolverine or cyclops or spiderman or hulk or mr. fantastic or iron man or captain america or thor...you know their mainstream more family white type characters...
You both are absolutely phenomenal. Wesley Snipes and Stephen dorf tore these roles to pieces. He's Deacon frost. I honestly don't see anyone else being as great. Blade dropped before the matrix .
The creation of the MCU right here. Showing a comicbook character like Blade could be immensely popular. I think this paved the way for Marvel making Thor, Cap and Ironman movies. Who besides guys like us ever heard of Blade?
@spunkymaniac9312 yeah Spider-Man doesn't count. That character was a known commodity. A goldmine. Just like Batman or Superman. The success of Blade made it possible for the lesser known Marvel heroes to one day prosper.
I really love how over the top, skilled and powerful Blade is in this movie. He really feels like a monster of a vampire hunter and he makes the film for me, almost like an even more ridiculous John Wick. I feel like MCU movies don't have the same impact in that respect, as much as I love them for different reasons
Blade is something called a dhampir. Dhampirs have their origin is Balkan folklore, and were the offspring of vampires and humans, and are thus half and half themselves. Though Blade here is a different interpretation of how a dhampir comes about. Most of the time, they were portrayed as being able to sense the presence of full vampires and hunt them down. Other examples of dhampirs in popular culture are Rayne from Bloodrayne, and Alucard from Castlevania.
This is definitely one of the most important superhero movies ever made. If not for it’s success, we might not have the MCU today as we know it. Which is part of why when the MCU does their attempt on Blade coming in 2024, it’s gonna have a lot of expectations fair or not. But I’m so excited for it knowing Mahershala Ali is involved, the new writer and director sound much better, and am looking forward to it expanding upon the supernatural corner of the MCU. Hopefully culminating in a future Midnight Sons teamup film with characters like Blade, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, Elsa Bloodstone and others
I saw Blade at the cinema when it first came out (yes I'm "that" old :P) - I thought it was absolutely awesome at the time. The rave scene stuck with me so much too, like it did for Jen. It's still one of the best openings for an action movie I've seen. So memorable. I frseakin love his fist pump when he pins Donal's character to the wall. Freakin priceless. I loved that his character kept coming back too and being healed each time after that. To Jen's point about Wesley's stunts, I think he DID do his own stunts, especially the fighting, because he actually has studied a few martial arts and has that experience, so I would guess most of it should be him. But yeh loved this movie and the second one. The third one was "ok" from memory. Awesome stuff. Loved that you guys watched it. :)
Little Observation: when Frost throws the little girl, her scream is the exact same scream that Karen gave when Blade tossed her out of the Hospital window. It was just chopped up a bit to sound different.
When Donal Logue was in the burn makeup he dislocated his jaw and had to be taken to hospital. Apparently the hospital staff panicked over the makeup which just shows how good it was.
I remember being so scared of this film as a kid but over the years it quickly became a favorite of mine. You have to appreciate the humor, the action, the simplicity, and yes the gore!
So true. Wesley Snipes is the one and only blade. Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only one terminator. Henry Cavill is the man of Steel. Ben Affleck is Batman. No one else can play those roles adequately. These men stepped into those roles and fulfilled them 100 per cent.
I want the actor who's playing blade now, to do good and make his own interpretation. But man it's going to be hard to top such swagger and style that Wesley Snipes brought to the role.
Love Jen's reaction and how " into " this movie, she got for her first watch of Blade...... Some of her shock and horror expressions are quite priceless..... You both gave such a great review of this film... Cannot wait for "Blade 2" 🧛🧛🧛
This was such a good movie before comic book movies were a thing. Snipes was indeed amazing here - can’t wait to see you guys react to the others in the trilogy. I don’t see how the new blade could be as good as Snipes - he had such a style with the character.
I saw this in theaters on the Sunday the movie opened in theaters. By that point, most reviews hadn't yet come out for the film, though it seemed most major critics lumped it in with all the previous superhero films of the last few years and told their viewers if was superhero fantasy nonsense. though both Siskel and Ebert really enjoyed the film and they heavily pushed that in their "2 Thumbs Up" promoting the film from that point forward. A lot of industry analysts were surprised that the movie managed to do well for itself while in theaters. The same analysts who assumed X-Men wouldn't do well and Spider-Man (which went on to have the highest opening weekend ever at the time) would only do "okay" at the box office. Growing up in the 90s, I was a fan of Marvel comics, but really wasn't aware of Blade at all until his character was written into the second season of the Spider-Man animated series that FoxKids was airing. Truth be told, most comic fans weren't really familiar with him either, as he was mainly a D-list character most known for his recurring appearances in Tomb of Dracula from the mid 70s. And although he was completely unknown to the general populace, there was some decent buzz amongst the comic community leading up to the film that Marvel may have finally made a decent movie. (their previous efforts were Howard the Duck, Punisher, the Direct-to-video Captain America and the unreleased Fantastic Four produced by Roger Corman). It was a strange time, when so many comic movies were being produced and performing horribly at the theaters (Batman & Robin, The Crow 2, Steel, Barb Wire, The Phantom, Mystery Men, etc...). A time when if you told someone that Marvel would release amazing films and DC would be slouching behind, everyone would laugh and think you were crazy. When the idea of producing a Blade movie materialized, Marvel had years prior been purchased by Ron Perelam and was now going through bankruptcy proceedings with a hostile takeover attempt from Carl Icahn. They had no desire to get into film and only saw Spider-Man as a viable property, which they wanted James Cameron to direct, though it was tangled up with rights issues. Outside of Avi Arad, the head toy sculptor at the company Toy Biz (which had an exclusive contract with Marvel), all management at the company felt that pursuing any movie or television deals would be a waste of their time and resources. So when they were approached by New Line Cinema to buy the rights to option the film, Marvel sold them away for around $40,000, thinking that it was a character no one had ever heard of that would never actually be made into a film and it would be free petty cash in their pocket for doing little work. What actually happened was that Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man would go on to become the trinity of films that would be released over 4 years that would redefine the superhero film genre for all subsequent releases to come and the continued success of each lead to Marvel getting their name out into the public and selling off a number of properties, which ultimately helped their new management (led by Ron Perlmutter [owner of ToyBiz] and the aforementioned Avi Arad) stabilize the company and ultimately bring us the MCU a few years down the line. BTW... the original "Blood God" stuff at the end of the movie had Frost during into a literal blood god at the end... a giant whirlpool of blood that Blade had to fight. Early effects for the fight were in the process of being rendered when a cut of that version was shown to test audiences. In it, the vials of the exploding toxin get mixed into the whirlpool, which de-powers Frost and then Blade stabs him through the heart. The audiences reacted very favorable to the film up until that point, in which they said the giant blood whirlpool that Blade "fights" completely took them out of the experience and it gave them a very negative score for the end of the film. So they had to come up with a new ending, which is what we got with Frost and the super abilities, sword fighting and then exploding. The line about skating uphill was, if I remember correctly, something Snipes said randomly on set one day and David Goyer (the writer) liked so much that he put it in the final sequence. I'm not sure if the blood god "whirlpool" stuff is on the Blu-Ray, but if you have the original DVD release of the film, you can see the early footage of it as a bonus feature. If you search out the alternate ending on UA-cam, you can find it there as well.
@Holden Hardman There are 3 Blade movies for you to react to (not 2) there was also a TV show in 2006 that lasted 1 season. The actors in the opening scene were Kenny Johnson (from the TV show Pensacola: Wings of Gold) and Traci Lords (World famous former adult content actress in the 80') I found each Blade movie to be better than the previous one, being #3 my favorite.
I read several blurbs about the significance of the “plant” and many opinions are that it’s a hybrid of two plants similar to Blade being a hybrid. My favorite vampire film series is Underworld.
One of the funniest videos so far. The French laugh and Sarah Conner you look Delicious 😂😂😂 Jen was so into this as well 😂 This is my favourite non MCU superhero movie 👌🏻❤️
a great story from the dvd commentary @7:41 is the burn vampire had an issue with his jaw where it could dislocate if he opened it wide enough, and it dislocated during shooting so they had to rush him to the hostipital dressed as a 3rd degree burn victim to fix it. the hospital staff had to be calmed down and told it was make up.
Ahhh yeah.. the FIRST successful live action Marvel movie. Fun Fact: Wesley Snipes only signed on to this after he tried to make a Black Panther film and couldn't get funding.
What really sold this movie for me, (big Blade fan) was Wesley Snipes. He was a good casting back then especially with his background in martial arts. Like 2+ Black Belts in different styles
Blade is a classic! So classic I would watch it again and again on VHS as a kid! The second one was awesome too! Also, react to the Underworld series if you have not already. Underworld Rise of the Lycans is a favorite!
"This is very like Matrix" Yeah, one year before the Matrix there was Blade. Funnily enough Blade "invented" the bullet time in a single clumy scene, too. I love the Blade movies, 2 even a little bit more than the first, but they are both awesome! And I don't think that the new Blade movie will add anything to those. Snipes with his martial arts background (which is completely lacking in modern marvel) and strong presence can't be copied. Additionally as you already noted in the first few minutes: this movie didn't shy away from graphic stuff. Thats why the movie was banned in germany until 2019, you could only get a heavily cut/censored version that was completely butchered here. This movie contains so much of what Marvel doesn't do anymore, even if you watch the first Ironman movie now you wonder what happended to modern marvel.
It’s not actually a blue filter. Its the silver halide grains within the make up of the film stocks emulsion. If you shoot using unfiltered tungsten stock in day light, the colour temperature of the film shifts towards blue; if you used lighting it’d appear normal. Also, when processing the film, they used a technique known as Bleach Bypass or Silver Retention. This is a chemical effect which entails either the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching function during the processing of a color film. By doing this, the silver is retained in the emulsion along with the color dyes. The result is a black-and-white image over a color image. The images usually have reduced saturation and exposure latitude, along with increased contrast and graininess. It usually is used to maximum effect in conjunction with a one-stop underexposure. More recently films can achieve the same effect with post production colour grading. But in the case of Blade, with it being film on 35mm, it was achieved through a photo chemical process.
Holden calls it overdramatic but its cool how they film certain scenes as if they could be pages straight from a comic book, like when blade pulls the blanket to reveal an injured Whistler while looking away, or the end scene of blade arriving in russia and a couple more other scenes.
I'd definitely like to see you watch the 2003 Hulk. It's one of those movies that had a mixed reception but is now getting somewhat of a reappraisal. I remember watching it a lot as a kid and I was surprised how dark it was thematically
@@mickeymouse7726 The first Ghost Rider is a fun campy mess starring Nicholas Cage, I wouldn't call it a good movie but its a fun watch for sure. Hulk 2003 felt like a bad student film for a good portion of the playtime and is so bad, you can't even enjoy it for being bad.
@Holdman First movie to bring in the modern era is Reeves Superman in the 70's then Keaton Batman. This movie is what MADE Marvel in the cinema as they were a running joke before then..... (Spider man and Captain America of the 1970's made for TV movies were trash....omg awful) so yea hoping Snipes has a cameo in the reboot/remake if it ever comes out. Love the wife's breakdown and her discovery as a vampire fan of this flick. Also to ME this is the 3rd best soundtrack to a movie after The Crow and Hackers..... fun watch. Thank you both for the upload and the discussion.
When we moved out of an apartment for the first time, and I finally got my own bedroom in the 8th grade, I bought 2 VHS tapes to play on my 13 inch tv/VCR combo. Blade and The Matrix. I watched both of them at least once a week. Love this movie. Had the soundtrack (still do). Glorious.
This was definitely one of my favorite movies as a teen. It's a little cheesy by today's standard but you can tell that they cared about developing the characters. Which is something current comic movies seem to be dropping the ball on. Fun fact: There is a deleted scene where a figure looks at Blade and Karen from a rooftop. Ths was actually supposed to be Morbius and he was gonna be the villain for the sequel. But they ended up not doing that obviously.
Fun fact about Wesley Snipes, he was developing a Black Panther movie at the time until he discovered the character Blade in the process, and stopped trying to get BP made in favor of making Blade instead.
“If they have blood on tap, why do they even need to feed, though?” Well, it’s kinda like Godbrand’s argument to Dracula in the animated Castlevania series on Netflix: that if they kill all the humans, there won’t be anything to feed on in the future. They’d need to replenish all the time and that would take time and be majorly conspicuous.
The redheaded female vampire who took the goofy guy to the rave, is played by Traci Lords. She's famous (infamous) for nearly singlehandedly destroying the adult film industry, in the 80's. Seems she got a fake ID, and made loads of x-rated films, before she turned 18.
Blank Man and Meteor Man will always be my first Modern Super Hero films. Get on my level. "Sometimes Mother Truckers always trying to ice skate up hill."
Karen is a very underrated female lead. Once she accepts the world she's living in, she's extremely helpful, no nonsense, and tough. Shame she wasn't in the sequels.
Completely agree. Also the fact that she is a dark skin woman with a strong New York accent was also a surprising choice for the character, considering the usual casting patterns back then.
Yeah, she should have demanded to speak with the manager about being in the sequels.
Perhaps the worst part of the trilogy is that we didn't get her back. I really loved N'Bushe Wright too, it's a shame she seems to have left Hollywood after this.
best indicator to the age of the movie. Would not be named Karen today
I like the real blood makes played stronger then the stuff he shoots up
I love that Jenn instantly joined all Blade fans in saying Wesley Snipes is the definitive Blade. However, as Wesley said, best of luck to Mahershala Ali.
Yeah although Marvel will probably pull a spiderman and have both blades
@@ghostlee6434 but he wasn't. There was a blade tv show thanks to the popularity of the movies.
Mahershala go do his thing too..especially acting! Worried it won't be as Dark & Gore as Wesley Blade since it's Disney tho
@@Bensonders Sticky Fingaz, and it was supposed to be a continuation from the film if memory serves.
@@ghostlee6434 Irrelevant. Robert Downey Jr is the only Tony Stark but I pity anyone who tries to come behind him with that role.
I think Jen forgets that comics themselves are quite dark most of the time. There’s a lot of marvel things that are this dark. It’s the MCU that makes things a little more family friendly
Did she read enough comics to remember in the first place? Not talking shit I just thought her first dive into superheroes were the movies and shows
Super dark comics like squirrel girl
Like whenever in Jessica Jones there’s something sexual happening and Holden looks at the camera and says “On Disney+”
Marvel does have several dark tones but it’s comments like those as to why the MCU is geared more family friendly
@Chris P. Bay Kahn nothing to do with comments like that it's all to do with marketing to a wider audience
it is funny how I grew up reading comics and trying to explain to everyone how they were about personal struggles, morals and ethics, big lifechanging decisions etc... and then MCU came and made it way more mainstream and now everyone thinks my geeky collection of replicas and statues is awesome... life is a funny thing...
This movie became so popular right away when it came out at the premiere in 1998 that it literally saved Marvel from Bankruptcy & not only helped them to pay their bills but also gave them enough money to start to produce those pre-Marvel films in early 2000 before Avengers characters became a franchise thing as we know it now
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Fun story from the DVD commentary: The guy playing Quinn fell and dislocated his jaw while they were filming the scene in the hospital, so they had to take him to the ER. While still in his 'horrible burn victim' makeup. Apparently the receptionist took one look and just started screaming until they could explain what was going on.
ah someone beat me too it :D
Omg that's perfect 🤣
The best opening to any superhero movie. Atmospheric, misdirectional and phenomenal choreography. Just like Arnie was born to play the Terminator, Wesley is Blade.
This movie came out before The Matrix. Everything from the costumes, to the music, action to the slow-motion copy from this movie. This movie also saved Marvel Comics from bankruptcy and show the world that superhero movies could work.
0 chance a year is enough time to copy. It was the times lol
Wow you really just state something with such confidence that's just factually wrong. That's the internet for you. What a joke 🤣
@@RevRyukin7 It was less than a year. It was like seven months. Plus, The Matrix was filming in late 1997 a year before Blade came out. And Blade was already filmed completely and was supposed to come out summer of 1997 but was delayed a year to change the ending. So yeah, unless it was someone in the know behind the scenes, there is zero chance one copied the other..
@@davidsavage5630 - The release date is not a good indicator of whether the ideas were copied or not. The scripts get shopped around to different studios for months and years prior to production and studios will literally steal the ideas to make quick knockoffs. Old school examples: Armageddeon and Deep Impact. The Abyss and Leviathan, and Deep star 6 all came out within a few months of each other.
@@davidsavage5630 what was the original ending?
Blade is the first dark superhero movie I've watched when I was 8 years old and one of the reasons why I love anti-heroes more because they always go to the permanent solution. Blade was noted as a dark superhero film for its time, as well as being Marvel's first successful film and setting the stage for further comic book film adaptations.
King of the only dark one marvel did other than the sequels.
I remember seeing Blade in the theaters when i was 11 and it blew my mind. Still my favorite Comic/superhero movie. The 68 Charger he drove was badass!
You saw *this* at just 8 years old?? What a chad
@@crashfan9997 I've watched a lot of R Rated Movies at such a young age. I've even watched Terminator 2 (at 7 years old) and 300 (at 8 Years Old). I live in the Philippines and my parents are really acting like parents unlike this generation's parents blaming nonsense things when it's their neglectful personalities at not guiding their children.
Some matafakas are always trying to iceskate uphill. Is that the greatest line in movie history or what.
Is up there
Even better is the story behind it. Wesley Snipes was talking to his manager on set. The director loved the line so much he wanted to use it for the final scene
To be honest, this movie is still in my Top10 Superhero movies ever. Blade 2 is even in my Top 5. Those 2 are extremely great and hold up really well, except some CG fight szenes.
"Some motherf***ers are always trying to ice skate uphill" is probably my favorite line in this lmao
It was off script and was revealed to be towards movie director as Wesley and him didn't agree on things for the movie. It also happens during the 3rd movie. Wes was pretty much done with the franchise during that. I don't blame him since it felt less dark and serious and more comedy.
It's also my favourite one-liner of any film, but you're the only other person except for me to mention it in 25 years, so I assumed that I was alone.
Yeah, Wesley Snipes didn't do all of his own stunts, but he did a lot of them and he had a really good double. While this movie is a little dated, and very much a film of it's time, it's exceptionally well cast, the performances are great and the story is really good. The script waffles between terrible to pretty good but the story itself is rock solid. Unlike many movies of this era(and limited budget), Blade holds up really well based on it's strengths which far surpass it's shortcomings.
He was very well trained in martial arts at the time. I've heard that he had to slow down for the shots.
I remember watching this in the movie theaters as a kid. I had NO business watching this movie as young as I was haha but I loved it when I saw it.
And if I remember correctly the movie Blade actually saved Marvel from bankruptcy(weird to think about now huh haha) which laid down the foundation to the marvel movies we have now.
Also don't forget, we did get a small small tease of modern Blade in the MCU with the end credit scene of The Eternals movie with Mahershala Ali playing Blade. I am very very interested in how they handle the MCU Blade.
I think they're going to lean into Blade's use of meditation and the spiritual side of martial arts this time. Ali is very spiritual and religious, so I think he'd really suit that side of Blade that they only hinted at in this movie.
blade did save them from bankruptcy, so did iron man, marvel almost declared bankruptcy a few times.
Iron Man was the real turning point. If that wasn't successful it would have been the end. Blade gave it a kick but Iron man solidified their return. I'd love to include Spiderman and X-Men but they were under Sony. They did help with exposure though.
I wouldn't even call that a tease because no one knew who that was at the end lol
@theprotagonist1311 My brother in law did lol. Once he said "Are you sure you're ready for that Mr Whitman" my brother in law yelled out "HOLY SHIT ITS BLADE!! THAT WAS MAHERSHALA ALI'S VOICE!" 😂
The Punisher (2004) movie never gets any love😓 it's the forgotten Marvel movie
Blade was a 10 to me, saw it in the theaters loved every second of it. The marketing was awesome for our little M rated brains back then. We were watching Attitude Era WWF and Monday Night Wars WCW Nitro, and the commercial and trailers for this just fit in perfectly with our hyperviolent raving edge lord gangsta selves. That Confusion song was perfect to tell us what we were getting into.
As for familiarity, as a comic fan Blade came out during the Blaxploitation era and the 70s Vampire film craze, so the character was perfect for his era, but that was before my time. I and many, became familiar with the character because of his guest role in Spider-Man the Animated Series during the Morbius arc. If I recall correctly he was using a lightsaber there and was a lot...angrier.
Knowing his work from Demolition Man and Passenger 57, I was SUPER excited for Snipes to get the role and his stoic, snarky, super lethal interpretation basically became the gold standard. He revolutionized Blade the same way RDJ revolutionized Tony Stark ten years later. Marvel's record of Perfect casting starts with Blade.
Udo Kier who played the head of the vampire council actually played Dracula in Andy Warhol's Dracula in 1974. The lady vampire who lured the guy into the vampire club was Traci Lords, a former porn actress. Judson Scott of Wrath of Khan fame was one of the members of the council.
This is a movie that actually improves on the character it was based on. Marvel changed the character in the comics to more closely resemble Snipes portrayal. I can't wait for your wife to see the next one. It's a Guillermo del Toro masterpiece.
Upon kier played in one of my favorite video game as Yuri in Command and conquer red alert.
Udo Kier was also in "Flesh for Frankenstein." Talk about a twisted movie.
seeing Jens horrified face when pearl came up was amazing lmao!
Donal Logue was so much fun in this 😂
When I first got the DVD, it included an extra feature covering the background lore of the different vampire factions/families. I don’t know whether it was based on the comics but I always wished that the sequels expanded on that lore.
Jen’s high pitch screaming along with the teapot had me laughing, thanks y’all! and for someone who enjoyed the 70s and 80s , the 90s were a blast across the board and I’m glad i survived !
So glad you guys watched this. It was the coolest movie in the world to me when I was about 13, still love it now.
The alternate ending with Morbius is worth looking up too.
Holden, since Jen did not think that Blade would be part of Marvel, please inform her about the Midnight Suns team. Since she loves "dark" movie material, she will love Midnight Suns.
And that he was introduced in Eternals, although it was just his voice.
It's actually Midnight Sons in the original comics
We need Midnight Suns in the MCU movie.
Blade are fun movies growing up watching them as a kid. And now it's been a long time since I've seen them but I still enjoy it.
Can't wait till the Blade 2 reaction, Guillermo Del Toro killed it with his take on Blade. Glad y'all are taking on some "the early days" comic movies. Spawn is another camp fest also the Eric Bana Hulk lol.
small anecdote: when filming the autopsy escape scene, Donal Logue tripped and fell to the ground dislocating his jaw. He had to be rushed to the hospital in full burnt make-up which confused and scared the ER staff.
My only guess as to why the Pure Bloods "put up" with Frost is probably because the one who turned him was not only Pure Blood, but also a member of that council who had a leading position. That position now belongs to Frost for whatever reason.
I would guess that there are multiple reasons, depending where the writers came from.
In the comics Frost was way more powerful and important with a very unique origin for a turnblood, this wasn't really included in the movie, but may still be the lore?(he wasn't turned by a vampire, he accidentally turned himself)
And on the other hand: the vampire houses act more like a united nations, so they don't really just kill each other off, just because their beliefs differ.
Additionally purebloods outlive turnbloods naturally (marvel vampires aren't immortal, just age super slow and truebloods age way slower than turnbloods)
So the truebloods saw Frost just like another eager kiddo who wants to be "that guy" and as their politics are all about "just stay passive and survive", they might've just planned to sit Frosts antics out until he dies or gets killed by blade.
If they knew that he was really on to something with the blood god, maybe they would've acted.
Interesting thing about this movie is how progressive in the right way it is, black leads, strong female character, didn't use graphic sex scenes/nudity to entice viewers(N'Bushe Wright is beautiful), didn't make all the male characters moronic to make the female look better and EVERYONE thought Snipes was badass regardless of his skin color. Marvel owes Snipes and the people who made this movie for making the gravey train they were on possible.
Your movies selections are getting better and better
This was the very first R Rated Marvel movie my family and I watched on DVD!
Before Wesley Snipes was cast as the titular character, Laurence Fishburne, Denzal Washington, LL Cool J and Michael Jai White were considered.
Snipes himself was even considered for the Black Panther movie, but production for the film was cancelled and Snipes played the role of Blade instead.
An alternative ending was shown that Michael Morbius was going to be the main villain in the sequel, which sadly never happened.
Sadly? Thankfully. Morbs isn't even popular in his own stories let alone when he's in others.
@@Bananahammock681 Plus, the villains we got were awesome.
@@Bananahammock681 really? I always thought he was well used in the Maximum Carnage arc.
Huge fan of this movie! glad to see your reaction, I am forever worried that the MCU will not be able to top this with their remake. The style, action, and cast are just too good
Nobody cares if they even top it, we just want a good Blade movie after that horrible Blade Trinity.
Blade is a great flick. It totally holds up. Wesley Snipes is hilarious as Blade.
Tea Kettle Jen killed me. I don’t know who does your editing, but props for the comedy tidbits they throw in there.
Blade is fun, can’t wait for Blade 2, one of the few sequels that surpasses the original. Speaking of better sequels, gotta be careful when droppin Terminator references Holden, don’t ruin anything for Jen.
Blade 2 was directed by Del Toro, so just about all the visuals are way better. Story is awesome and cast is also top notch. You’ll see a younger Norman Reedus as well as Donnie Yen and Del Toro’s favorite, Ron Pearlman.
Looking forward to that reaction.
Editor here, thank you!
Watched this on original release and an all time favourite of mine - gave it a 9/10 at the time & still do.
His Blade doesn’t get enough credit for paving the way for other heroes to make it to the screen.
It's funny how we got superman batman an then marvel comes out first with blade lol... not wolverine or cyclops or spiderman or hulk or mr. fantastic or iron man or captain america or thor...you know their mainstream more family white type characters...
You both are absolutely phenomenal. Wesley Snipes and Stephen dorf tore these roles to pieces. He's Deacon frost. I honestly don't see anyone else being as great. Blade dropped before the matrix .
The creation of the MCU right here. Showing a comicbook character like Blade could be immensely popular. I think this paved the way for Marvel making Thor, Cap and Ironman movies. Who besides guys like us ever heard of Blade?
According to everyone who saw black panther this movie never existed. Everyone going hes the first black superhero movie for us
You do realize that marvel made other superhero movies before "the mcu " right , they didn't just jump from blade to thor and iron man and cap
It saved them from bankruptcy too it was profitable
@spunkymaniac9312 yeah Spider-Man doesn't count. That character was a known commodity. A goldmine. Just like Batman or Superman. The success of Blade made it possible for the lesser known Marvel heroes to one day prosper.
@Tolandruth you mean a bunch of teenagers or 20 somethings who weren't born yet or not old enough to watch a R rated movie?
I really love how over the top, skilled and powerful Blade is in this movie. He really feels like a monster of a vampire hunter and he makes the film for me, almost like an even more ridiculous John Wick. I feel like MCU movies don't have the same impact in that respect, as much as I love them for different reasons
"Garlic is the pathway to abilities that many might consider unnatural."
Blade is something called a dhampir. Dhampirs have their origin is Balkan folklore, and were the offspring of vampires and humans, and are thus half and half themselves. Though Blade here is a different interpretation of how a dhampir comes about. Most of the time, they were portrayed as being able to sense the presence of full vampires and hunt them down. Other examples of dhampirs in popular culture are Rayne from Bloodrayne, and Alucard from Castlevania.
This is definitely one of the most important superhero movies ever made. If not for it’s success, we might not have the MCU today as we know it. Which is part of why when the MCU does their attempt on Blade coming in 2024, it’s gonna have a lot of expectations fair or not. But I’m so excited for it knowing Mahershala Ali is involved, the new writer and director sound much better, and am looking forward to it expanding upon the supernatural corner of the MCU. Hopefully culminating in a future Midnight Sons teamup film with characters like Blade, Moon Knight, Ghost Rider, Werewolf by Night, Elsa Bloodstone and others
I saw Blade at the cinema when it first came out (yes I'm "that" old :P) - I thought it was absolutely awesome at the time. The rave scene stuck with me so much too, like it did for Jen. It's still one of the best openings for an action movie I've seen. So memorable. I frseakin love his fist pump when he pins Donal's character to the wall. Freakin priceless.
I loved that his character kept coming back too and being healed each time after that.
To Jen's point about Wesley's stunts, I think he DID do his own stunts, especially the fighting, because he actually has studied a few martial arts and has that experience, so I would guess most of it should be him.
But yeh loved this movie and the second one. The third one was "ok" from memory.
Awesome stuff. Loved that you guys watched it. :)
Little Observation: when Frost throws the little girl, her scream is the exact same scream that Karen gave when Blade tossed her out of the Hospital window. It was just chopped up a bit to sound different.
When Donal Logue was in the burn makeup he dislocated his jaw and had to be taken to hospital.
Apparently the hospital staff panicked over the makeup which just shows how good it was.
I remember being so scared of this film as a kid but over the years it quickly became a favorite of mine. You have to appreciate the humor, the action, the simplicity, and yes the gore!
The rainbow colored blood during the club scene was a nice touch 😁
I was wondering about that.
Glad to see more people coming to this classic!
So true. Wesley Snipes is the one and only blade. Just like Arnold Schwarzenegger is the only one terminator. Henry Cavill is the man of Steel. Ben Affleck is Batman. No one else can play those roles adequately. These men stepped into those roles and fulfilled them 100 per cent.
If you liked the opening scene in this movie, wait until you see the opening of Blade 2. One of the best openings ever, IMO!
Blade 2 sucks dude. European cyberpunk dance clubs are for losers.
@@DestinyAwaits19 HA!!! Well, there’s lots of folks out there that will disagree with you on that. I’m sure Holden and Jen will too.
7:18 You didn’t know Holden? That’s the same alley all the Terminators like to land at cause the papers fly away one by one for dramatic effect.
Holden, you guys should do the Underworld series. That'd be fun for Jen if she's into vampires.
speaking of Batman, the writer of this movie, David Goyer, also went on to write the Dark KNight Trilogy
I want the actor who's playing blade now, to do good and make his own interpretation. But man it's going to be hard to top such swagger and style that Wesley Snipes brought to the role.
Love Jen's reaction and how " into " this movie, she got for her first watch of Blade......
Some of her shock and horror expressions are quite priceless.....
You both gave such a great review of this film...
Cannot wait for "Blade 2" 🧛🧛🧛
This was such a good movie before comic book movies were a thing. Snipes was indeed amazing here - can’t wait to see you guys react to the others in the trilogy. I don’t see how the new blade could be as good as Snipes - he had such a style with the character.
I saw this in theaters on the Sunday the movie opened in theaters. By that point, most reviews hadn't yet come out for the film, though it seemed most major critics lumped it in with all the previous superhero films of the last few years and told their viewers if was superhero fantasy nonsense. though both Siskel and Ebert really enjoyed the film and they heavily pushed that in their "2 Thumbs Up" promoting the film from that point forward. A lot of industry analysts were surprised that the movie managed to do well for itself while in theaters. The same analysts who assumed X-Men wouldn't do well and Spider-Man (which went on to have the highest opening weekend ever at the time) would only do "okay" at the box office.
Growing up in the 90s, I was a fan of Marvel comics, but really wasn't aware of Blade at all until his character was written into the second season of the Spider-Man animated series that FoxKids was airing. Truth be told, most comic fans weren't really familiar with him either, as he was mainly a D-list character most known for his recurring appearances in Tomb of Dracula from the mid 70s. And although he was completely unknown to the general populace, there was some decent buzz amongst the comic community leading up to the film that Marvel may have finally made a decent movie. (their previous efforts were Howard the Duck, Punisher, the Direct-to-video Captain America and the unreleased Fantastic Four produced by Roger Corman). It was a strange time, when so many comic movies were being produced and performing horribly at the theaters (Batman & Robin, The Crow 2, Steel, Barb Wire, The Phantom, Mystery Men, etc...). A time when if you told someone that Marvel would release amazing films and DC would be slouching behind, everyone would laugh and think you were crazy.
When the idea of producing a Blade movie materialized, Marvel had years prior been purchased by Ron Perelam and was now going through bankruptcy proceedings with a hostile takeover attempt from Carl Icahn. They had no desire to get into film and only saw Spider-Man as a viable property, which they wanted James Cameron to direct, though it was tangled up with rights issues. Outside of Avi Arad, the head toy sculptor at the company Toy Biz (which had an exclusive contract with Marvel), all management at the company felt that pursuing any movie or television deals would be a waste of their time and resources. So when they were approached by New Line Cinema to buy the rights to option the film, Marvel sold them away for around $40,000, thinking that it was a character no one had ever heard of that would never actually be made into a film and it would be free petty cash in their pocket for doing little work.
What actually happened was that Blade, X-Men and Spider-Man would go on to become the trinity of films that would be released over 4 years that would redefine the superhero film genre for all subsequent releases to come and the continued success of each lead to Marvel getting their name out into the public and selling off a number of properties, which ultimately helped their new management (led by Ron Perlmutter [owner of ToyBiz] and the aforementioned Avi Arad) stabilize the company and ultimately bring us the MCU a few years down the line.
BTW... the original "Blood God" stuff at the end of the movie had Frost during into a literal blood god at the end... a giant whirlpool of blood that Blade had to fight. Early effects for the fight were in the process of being rendered when a cut of that version was shown to test audiences. In it, the vials of the exploding toxin get mixed into the whirlpool, which de-powers Frost and then Blade stabs him through the heart. The audiences reacted very favorable to the film up until that point, in which they said the giant blood whirlpool that Blade "fights" completely took them out of the experience and it gave them a very negative score for the end of the film. So they had to come up with a new ending, which is what we got with Frost and the super abilities, sword fighting and then exploding. The line about skating uphill was, if I remember correctly, something Snipes said randomly on set one day and David Goyer (the writer) liked so much that he put it in the final sequence.
I'm not sure if the blood god "whirlpool" stuff is on the Blu-Ray, but if you have the original DVD release of the film, you can see the early footage of it as a bonus feature. If you search out the alternate ending on UA-cam, you can find it there as well.
@Holden Hardman There are 3 Blade movies for you to react to (not 2) there was also a TV show in 2006 that lasted 1 season. The actors in the opening scene were Kenny Johnson (from the TV show Pensacola: Wings of Gold) and Traci Lords (World famous former adult content actress in the 80')
I found each Blade movie to be better than the previous one, being #3 my favorite.
Lies! lol
Blade 3 was the worst and it wasn't even that good of a movie for so many reasons.
you have no clue how happy I am that you are watching this
I read several blurbs about the significance of the “plant” and many opinions are that it’s a hybrid of two plants similar to Blade being a hybrid. My favorite vampire film series is Underworld.
The edits in this one are killing me 😂
10:56 Her Eye roll…then Holden with the subtle glance. LOL.
One of the funniest videos so far.
The French laugh and Sarah Conner you look Delicious 😂😂😂
Jen was so into this as well 😂
This is my favourite non MCU superhero movie 👌🏻❤️
a great story from the dvd commentary @7:41 is the burn vampire had an issue with his jaw where it could dislocate if he opened it wide enough, and it dislocated during shooting so they had to rush him to the hostipital dressed as a 3rd degree burn victim to fix it. the hospital staff had to be calmed down and told it was make up.
Does Jenn know about Ghost Rider? He's a Marvell character. Besides his stand alone movies, be was in the TV show, Agents of Shield
9 outta 10 for sure! I watched this a million times in 98’ when I was 13. Wesley Snipes is perfection.
Ahhh yeah.. the FIRST successful live action Marvel movie. Fun Fact: Wesley Snipes only signed on to this after he tried to make a Black Panther film and couldn't get funding.
What really sold this movie for me, (big Blade fan) was Wesley Snipes. He was a good casting back then especially with his background in martial arts. Like 2+ Black Belts in different styles
Blade is a classic! So classic I would watch it again and again on VHS as a kid! The second one was awesome too!
Also, react to the Underworld series if you have not already. Underworld Rise of the Lycans is a favorite!
Blade is one of those movies you never get tired of watching.
"This is very like Matrix"
Yeah, one year before the Matrix there was Blade. Funnily enough Blade "invented" the bullet time in a single clumy scene, too.
I love the Blade movies, 2 even a little bit more than the first, but they are both awesome! And I don't think that the new Blade movie will add anything to those. Snipes with his martial arts background (which is completely lacking in modern marvel) and strong presence can't be copied.
Additionally as you already noted in the first few minutes: this movie didn't shy away from graphic stuff. Thats why the movie was banned in germany until 2019, you could only get a heavily cut/censored version that was completely butchered here.
This movie contains so much of what Marvel doesn't do anymore, even if you watch the first Ironman movie now you wonder what happended to modern marvel.
They didn't invent shit. A lot of the stuff you see here in Blade or in The Matrix was already being done in China and Japan in the 70's
@@WillsonT011 they truly didn't invent shit, because defecating is a natural occurrence with most living organisms.
It’s not actually a blue filter. Its the silver halide grains within the make up of the film stocks emulsion.
If you shoot using unfiltered tungsten stock in day light, the colour temperature of the film shifts towards blue; if you used lighting it’d appear normal.
Also, when processing the film, they used a technique known as Bleach Bypass or Silver Retention. This is a chemical effect which entails either the partial or complete skipping of the bleaching function during the processing of a color film. By doing this, the silver is retained in the emulsion along with the color dyes. The result is a black-and-white image over a color image. The images usually have reduced saturation and exposure latitude, along with increased contrast and graininess. It usually is used to maximum effect in conjunction with a one-stop underexposure.
More recently films can achieve the same effect with post production colour grading. But in the case of Blade, with it being film on 35mm, it was achieved through a photo chemical process.
I loved this movie and the sequel when I was younger. Fun fact you guys have heard the new Blade in the Eternals post credit scene!
For pre-MCU Marvel, my personal underrated favorite is Punisher (2004) With Thomas Jane. I feel like it's a better Punisher representation than most
Holden with the dodgeball quote 🔥
Holden calls it overdramatic but its cool how they film certain scenes as if they could be pages straight from a comic book, like when blade pulls the blanket to reveal an injured Whistler while looking away, or the end scene of blade arriving in russia and a couple more other scenes.
I'd definitely like to see you watch the 2003 Hulk. It's one of those movies that had a mixed reception but is now getting somewhat of a reappraisal. I remember watching it a lot as a kid and I was surprised how dark it was thematically
Yes also the first ghost rider
@@mickeymouse7726 The first Ghost Rider is a fun campy mess starring Nicholas Cage, I wouldn't call it a good movie but its a fun watch for sure. Hulk 2003 felt like a bad student film for a good portion of the playtime and is so bad, you can't even enjoy it for being bad.
reappraisal from who
Casually puts Loki looking at the kang statue at 27:26 like we wouldn’t notice 😂😂
That tea kettle edit 🤣🤣
This was me & my wife’s first movie date.
However many decades later still married. 🤷♂️
Three is better than it gets credit for.
Are you guys gonna do andor?
Blade was a pure blood but, morbus bit him and changed his DNA. since morbus is a living vampire allowed Blade to be a day walker and no weaknesses.
At the very beginning when Blade shows up at the Club, they call him "THE DAYWALKER." Let that sink in Jen.
I love this movie one of my favorites. Omg the dodgeball quote. Started chuckling at work, that's also one of my favorite comedies.
@Holdman First movie to bring in the modern era is Reeves Superman in the 70's then Keaton Batman. This movie is what MADE Marvel in the cinema as they were a running joke before then..... (Spider man and Captain America of the 1970's made for TV movies were trash....omg awful) so yea hoping Snipes has a cameo in the reboot/remake if it ever comes out. Love the wife's breakdown and her discovery as a vampire fan of this flick. Also to ME this is the 3rd best soundtrack to a movie after The Crow and Hackers..... fun watch. Thank you both for the upload and the discussion.
You know what makes the original Blade movies awesome their vampire action movies first and superhero movies second
When we moved out of an apartment for the first time, and I finally got my own bedroom in the 8th grade, I bought 2 VHS tapes to play on my 13 inch tv/VCR combo. Blade and The Matrix. I watched both of them at least once a week. Love this movie. Had the soundtrack (still do). Glorious.
This was definitely one of my favorite movies as a teen. It's a little cheesy by today's standard but you can tell that they cared about developing the characters. Which is something current comic movies seem to be dropping the ball on.
Fun fact: There is a deleted scene where a figure looks at Blade and Karen from a rooftop. Ths was actually supposed to be Morbius and he was gonna be the villain for the sequel. But they ended up not doing that obviously.
At the beginning... love? Blade ain't got time for love!
"There are worse things out tonight than vampires."
"Like what?"
"Me."
U can’t believe this is y’all first time watching blade , ur in for a treat
Fun fact about Wesley Snipes, he was developing a Black Panther movie at the time until he discovered the character Blade in the process, and stopped trying to get BP made in favor of making Blade instead.
1:36 Blade isn't a vampire, he's a Dhampir, he has the strengths of Vampires but none the weaknesses, other than the thirst for blood.
Ghost rider is also a early marvel movie, if you didn’t know it u would not guess it in my opinion!
Great reaction! I enjoyed it🤙🏼
“If they have blood on tap, why do they even need to feed, though?”
Well, it’s kinda like Godbrand’s argument to Dracula in the animated Castlevania series on Netflix: that if they kill all the humans, there won’t be anything to feed on in the future. They’d need to replenish all the time and that would take time and be majorly conspicuous.
The redheaded female vampire who took the goofy guy to the rave, is played by Traci Lords. She's famous (infamous) for nearly singlehandedly destroying the adult film industry, in the 80's. Seems she got a fake ID, and made loads of x-rated films, before she turned 18.
“If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball” 😂
Thats freaking song in the opening szene still gets me to this day.
Although I normally hate this kinda music... this one is just perfection.
“Some ***** always tryna ice skate up hill”🔥🤣
One of my favorite lines ever!
I’m so glad more people are watching blade on here
There was a Nick Fury TV movie in 1998 with David Hasselhof.
Blade walked so x men spiderman fantastic four iron man avengers deadpool could run..marvel needed this baby to succeed and have sequels
Nice. The real start to the MCU. An amazing movie.This was the movie that gave comic book fans hope. Ans Snipes is unreal in his martial arts work.
Blank Man and Meteor Man will always be my first Modern Super Hero films. Get on my level.
"Sometimes Mother Truckers always trying to ice skate up hill."