BTW, the reason the dude in the beginning wasn’t freaked out that they were going to a slaughterhouse is that was normal for an underground rave in the 90’s. They were always in like a warehouse or something like that.
I always say this line whenever I play Ocarina Of Time, just as I beat the third dungeon boss Barinade as it blisters and explodes just like Deacon Frost did.
@@KittyBoom360 Wrong. The awful "Lost in Space" movie did it one year before Matrix during a lightspeed sequence. It just didnt look as good but they did it first.
@@TommyMartensson666 Technically, that wasn't slow motion. That was NO motion from the characters, all frozen in time as the camera moved. For the Matrix, to have the camera move around a MOVING character, showing it all in slow mo, was a novelty that required them to invent a new technique, which required setting up a full circle of individual cameras and then combining the footage of all of them. It was quite brilliant actually. Today, it would just be done in CGI.
@@GusGoosegrease I could only find Gap commercials with freeze motion cams, not slo motion, which I already explained is different in this thread.If you don't understand the difference, watch a behind the scenes making of for The Matrix.
i found it quite whacky even back then.... remember, jurassic park came out 5 years earlier.... JP 2 one year earlier... that cgi was far from state of the art, because the movie had no big budget, and this version of "la magra" wasthe second version that was shot, because the test audience did not like the blood-monster version, so they were at the point to have to reshoot, while most of the budget was already spent... back then marvel movie studio was almost down and out, and blade their lAast try to see, if their comics, would be good for movies.... in a way, blade made the MCU of the last decade possible...
@@AT7BPM where do you think i lie ? this is what i heard and read about it, and the dates are correct, so you could say, that i´m not correct, but i believe that is correct, so it´definately NOT lying, even if i should have made a mistake... so actually YOU are lying, for you are just stating that i lie, while you should know, it´s propably just a mistake.. or don´t you know the meaning of the word "LIE" ? or are you just trying to troll ?
Yeah I saw this in the theater in 98 and I remember some of the CGI looking a bit low budget even back then. As the guy above said....this came out after Terminator 2, Jurassic Park 1 and 2 and many other movies with CGI. This was a low budget sleeper hit in 1998. But the CGI wasn't what makes this so good and memorable. The style. The choreography. The ingenious editing, music, photography, interesting storyline that moves at an almost James Cameron like revelatory pace. Just a great kinetic action picture and the sequel is even better with much improved CGI. Blade Trinity sucks though, sorry to say..
It was the first financially successful Marvel movie which convinced studios there was money in it. There was one before this though- Howard the Duck. Absolute fever dream movie, lol.
Fun Fact 3: One idea for the Vampires in this film was to sell how they were basically mean and dirty compared to the charming romantic types we were getting before this. So one example was originally how when Blade and Karen meet Pearl, they would find dead children laying around Pearl. The studio felt that was too low and cut that out.
Fun Fact: Out of the alternative endings that were written, the one they filmed was how Frost transformed into a giant monster. Blade would still used the new weapon on it, but instead of killing Frost, it would depower him and Blade would simply stake him. But one other element was how the film teased Morbius as his next villain. Sadly, the test audience didn't like the blood monster part and the studio changed it.
I don't know if it's part of the special features on the dvd and Blu-ray over in the United States....but here in the UK, the dvd edition I have of Blade, has that alternative ending
Agreed. Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man (under Sony.) practically kicked started the Marvel universe. It’s a shame the little respect they got, because they weren’t under the Disney/Marvel banner.
@@blackfox717 Like me, Blade 3 is an acquired taste, which I happen to like. And plus it introduces Pre-Pool (is what I personally like to call Ryan Reynolds' character in the movie).
The nineties were absolutely the greatest years for vampire movies. Dracula, Interview with a Vampire and Blade are definitely some of the best ever made. No sparkly vampires allowed lol.
This is where the fun begins!!!! Blade is my first rated R movie and first Marvel movie! Wesley Snips is also a great martial artist as well! Regardless, I hope you like it! 🙏🏽💪
Fun-fact: the female vampire from the very beginning, who took the guy to the meat plant for the rave, was the reason, corn movies in the U.S. got strict guidelines and laws on age, record keeping and filming....
@steiner554It's because she was underage and performing in p*rn movies. I believe she was 14-15. She lied about her age and the studio never verified.
Yep. Prepare yourself for one CGI scene that is legendarily bad, but it is seriously a great movie. If you ever come across Blade 3, burn it with fire.
Blade ala. Eric Brooks first appeared in Tomb Of Dracula #10, 1973 written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by the late great Gene Colan. Originally he just immune to vampirism but he got bit by Morbius & turned into a vampire/human hybrid called a dampir. Morbius wasn't a regular vampire, he was a genetically designed vanpire so it affected Blade.
Wesley Snipes' dedication on this role is something else. He trained and worked out for this role and even did an interview while in the Blade character. Overall, this reaction is a surprise but a welcome one
Fun Fact 2: There was a written ending where there was an explosion of blood that instantly turned humanity into vampires on contact leading to a Vampire Apocalypse. Blade and Karen would leave the temple preparing for war.
I remember reading one of the script drafts for this, the convo of where Deacon Frost reveals his plan to Karen, she questions him that if it were to succeed, what would the vampires feast on.....I think there's a deleted scene of Frost explaining a clear answer - humans in storage
@@alasdairmacleod7769 They kinda go into that in the third film, Blade finds a human blood farm with thousands of people in medically induced comas. It's part of a vampiric effort to, like, apocalypse prep IIRC.
According to google, in Blade universe, pure born vampires can make children. As they can extend lifespan as immortals but they can grow old. Not the other vampires such as Deacon Frost, he was turned. His lifespan extended like any immortals but he never grow old.
negotiations broke down when disney took over Marvel, or Wesley would have been in the reboot as he was in talk with Marvel for many years to restart the franchise as him as Blade
The 90-00s were quite the time for vampire movies. Between "Interview w/a..." to "Night shift" to "Underworld", even the series "Kindred" was quite the effort. Definitely plenty to... sink... your teeth into 😏
I was one of the many who didn't know that Blade was a Marvel character and when Black Panther was released and announced that he was the "first" black Marvel superhero character was how you knew that there were more people who didn't know the Marvel Universe as they perceived. I saw this when it was released on video and enjoyed it. I just hope that Mahershala Ali is getting the proper training to live up to what Wesley Snipes did in this movie.
I personally think it's better that Frosts plans for the ritual worked because then you get to see exactly how powerful Blade is when he kills a vampire god. In the comics he's kinda corny but actually one of the most powerful characters.
We all really enjoy when you go into a film blind. Seeing something for the first time only happens once. Thanks for sharing your reactions. Keep on rockin
Most vampires think Blade is a myth and don't actually know what he looks like only the stories of him hence why they don't react to him. Remember the beginning when they were all shocked that he was real?
When this gem was originally released in '98, "CGI" was absolutely no concern when it came to the epic delivery of this film. It fit the decade and its release and other notable ones that followed like The Matrix stand up, if not just in the story and its unique visual entertainment, but great casting and memorable characters. Definitely one of my top vampire films.
17:15 I mean, it's the same thing as when a cop walks through the mall, you wouldn't do anything to draw their attention. You saw how fast Blade shot that first vampire in the Bloodbath club, why would any of them do anything when they saw him in the second club? They're afraid.
Finally Alyska..... watching 'Blade"🥰......I remember watching this for the first time when I was about 10, turning 30 later this year, still my all time favourite vampire movie, plus my all time favourite marvel movie outside the MCU. Blade basically saved Marvel from bankruptcy. I know many others in the comments will point this out as well.
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In a sense the movie led to the boom of Marvel Comics-based movies. Though later overshadowed by the 2000's more successful X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002) Blade was the first Marvel movie to be a bona fide financial and critical success (Men in Black (1997) came out first but technically it was more a property bought by Marvel) and granted some productions such as the aforementioned Spider-Man had long been gestating but the movie's success proved that Marvel characters could headline their own movies. Additionally Blade himself was not as well-known prior to the movie's release but still made for a successful property. In addition to their A-list stars Marvel and DC have subsequently looked at other lesser-known characters for possible movies and despite Batman & Robin (1997) being basically a Genre-Killer the year before Blade proved comic book movies still had it. Of course the general public probably wasn't really aware that Blade was a comic book character originally, and thought it was just a cool Vampire Hunter especially since Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) premiered a year before. Though on the flip side it was thanks to cartoon Spider-Man the Animated Series (1994) where Blade made his first animated appearance and was still playing at the time that likewise go interest up among cartoon goers. 1. In the ending as it was originally planned Frost turned into La Magra and became a large swirling mass of blood instead of keeping his humanoid form. This was scrapped because test audiences loved the Blade and Frost fight but lost interest as soon as Stephen Dorff turned into a faceless gelatinous blob. The special effects crew also couldn't get the visual effects to look right so the scene was re-shot to keep Dorff in the fight until the end. The abandoned ending can be seen as a special feature on the DVD. 2. The original ending had Frost becoming La Magra and unleashing the Blood Tide which washes over the city and turns everyone it touches into vampires. The film ended with the vampires winning having caused the vampire apocalypse. It was a set up for a proposed sequel where Blade and Karen would travel around, hitting and destroying vampire food storage areas. The filmmakers didn't know if there would be a sequel so it was changed. 3. Wesley Snipes was interested in doing a movie adaptation of the Black Panther comics when he was offered the project. Snipes said that he was unfamiliar with the Blade comics seeing more of a connection to the blaxploitation heroes of the 1970s. "I just approached him as this really cool character where I'd get to do martial arts and wear a leather suit" he said 4. Kris Kristofferson's character Whistler was created for Blade's cameo on Spider-Man the Animated Series (1994). He was liked so much by Marvel's CEO that he was adopted into the Marvel universe 5. Jet Li was offered the part of Deacon Frost but opted to do Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) instead. Bonus fact Snipes and Li would later eventually co-star together in Expendables 3 6. Stan Lee originally had a cameo that was ultimately cut from the film. He played one of the cops that came into the blood club during the aftermath and discover Quinn's body on fire. Blade trilogy is one of the only marvel projects that Stan Lee never makes a cameo appearance and sadly since his passing he won't ever cameo in MCU Blade film. 7. Michael Morbius was to be used as the main antagonist in Blade II (2002) but the idea was dropped when Marvel sold the character's rights to Artisan Entertainment to produce a standalone Morbius film. The vampire on the rooftop in the alternate ending is Morbius played by director Stephen Norrington. Morbius eventually made his live-action debut in Morbius (2022) played by Jared Leto. 8. Skeet Ulrich lobbied hard for the role of Deacon Frost yes Ulrich would played Billy Loomis in Scream two years early. 9. When Whistler first introduces himself to Karen he says his first name is Abraham. Bram Stoker who's first full name is Abraham wrote the original Dracula novel. He even used the name for one of his leading characters a.k.a Abraham Van Helsing. 10. When David S. Goyer first pitched the idea of doing a Blade movie the executives of New Line felt there were only three actors who could possibly do the role Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington and Laurence Fishburne but in Goyer's mind Snipes was always the perfect choice for the character of Blade. 11. Quinn originally had a much smaller role but Donal Logue was so funny onset that his character was expanded and he was allowed to ad-lib a good portion of his dialogue. Logue would later return to superhero genre in Gotham TV series as Detective Bullock 12. The scene where Karen and Deacon are talking about the cure for vampirism initially ran a bit longer and answered the question of how the vampires would feed if everybody was turned into a vampire. They would keep some humans alive in giant blood bags to harvest them. The bags can still be seen in a doorway during the scene and later played an integral part of the plot in Blade Trinity (2004). It was also the underlying plot structure for the movie Daybreakers (2009).
Blade was great, Blade II is great too and offers lots of backstory to the Vampire empire. Lots of people didn't like Blade Trinity, but I loved it how can you not love Dracula and Ryan Renolds in the same movie. :D
Its crazy that this movie is 25 years old! Denzel Washington, Michael Jai White, and Laurence Fishburne were considered for the role of Blade before Wesley Snipes was picked.
@@drumaticpageofmusic4148 hes got a great physique and is a master in martial arts he would be perfect for the role, he is old now but he would be good
The vampires were in the basement of the building. The club on the ground floor was a regular bar which is why nobody flipped out when Blade walked through.
I thoroughly enjoyed the character of Quinn (played by Donal Logue). In the original script he only had like 2 or 3 lines throughout the whole movie, but Donal was so charismatic on set and had good chemistry with both Snipes and Stephen Dorff that they wrote some more lines for him and even let him ad-lib some bits. He's a great actor. He was in the series Copper for a season.
The Russian vampire at the end was supposed to be a tease for the 2nd movies villain Michael Morbius, but they ended up going in a different direction & instead we got the god awful Morbius movie many years later with Jared Leto. Blade 2 is def worth a watch its actually directed by Guillermo Del Toro!
...who then went on to do his own vampire apocalypse IP called The Strain, with vampires like the reapers of Blade 2. It was a book series which then got a tv adaptation.
There was a Blade TV series back in the day written by David S Goyer who wrote all 3 blade movies (as well as the classic Dark City & the Nolan Batman movies), I really enjoyed it though it only ran for 1 season.
It might be hard to imagine nowadays, but in the late 90s Marvel were close to bancruptcy and after gems like Howard the Duck, Steel and Batman & Robin comic book movies were close to never to be taken serious again. Blade changed all of that.
Saw this when it came out back in 1998 and seen it countless times since, saw it last week when it was on cable and it had been a few years and it was still such a good movie......the part when Quinn tells Frost "Blade is like a one man army he has the gadgets, sword and the ninja stars that go in the air" Frost is like "oh yea yea it goes up down in the air cuts off heads, shut the fuck up and go kill him"
When people were going on about Black Panther a few years ago as the "....first black superhero on the big screen" I was "Dude hes not even the first black marvel superhero on the big screen" 😂 then you get Spawn etc.
his sidekick/helper is country superstar Kris Kristofferson who wrote many of the biggest music hits of the 70's 80's etc...my favorite was always Me & Bobby Mcgee as covered by Janis Joplin!!
Blade 1 and 2 are really good. Blade 3 story is not very good, but it does have the bonus of having the eye candy of prime Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds showing off exactly why they are eye candy.
I like the Blade series because it's based on a comic where Blade is the superhero. While they do have individual plots & an overal plot line, they're mainly action oriented. Good for when you're in the mood to watch bad guys get taken out.
@@biguy617 You can disregard that message, it's a bot account attempting to impersonate her. I've since deleted that comment and all others like it on this video. (I'm Alyska's mod)
Fun Fact 5: Originally, Blade had his sword doused in the chemical instead using the syringes so that everytime he wounded a vampire they would explode this concept would have fit in the final confrontation where Blade's mother would still be alive and Frost would hold her in front as a shield. Blade would appear to stay his hand and Frost would taunt Blade saying "See you're too human. Too human." But Blade would say "It's because I'm human I can do THIS." And he would then stab them both killing them.
Alyska in case you're wondering/curious Day Walkers are an exceedingly rare 1 of a kind breed of Vampire that're born literally immune/impervious 2 Yellow Sunlight & only Yellow Sunlight!
Btw in the 90s in New York and Los Angeles where rumors/news that some places transforms secretly in very vip disco/clubs like for a weekend. Where famous and people like top models hide from paparazzis. One of the most popular rumour was a slaughterhouse. There are some tv shows/sitcoms back then that always have an episode about the characters find these places. If I remember George found one in a Seinfield episode.
He was the lead role in a marvel movie not the other black panther movie.
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"He is whoopin their ass!!!" Of course he is!! He's MOTHER FUCKING BLADE!! He's a half vampire, but has exceptional gifts being the "daywalker". Not only can he walk in daylight, he is incredibly strong compared to a normal vampire. Like if a human was a 10 on power scale, your normal run of the mill vampire was 100, then Blade would be like FUCKING 100000...
I've never liked scary horror movies but I've always loved vampires Frankenstein and werewolf movies ,,, and I probably say this is my favorite vampire movie
blade is an absolute classic, and right the height of Wesley snipes peak seriously, they could just remake it with modern cgi, and it would bang part of the reason the action is so good is that snipes is a lwgit martial artist and did the scenes himself. his kicks were so fast the cameras couldn't pick them up properly , so they had to get snipes to slow down and stylise it hope ur good alyce 👌
The news about the new one being made is that they are making him gay. All because in one comic book there was a page about him being Bi or something and the left wing liberal writers were like oh yeah we can make that a main thing about the new blade movie we are making. The blade movies never went into his sexuality and they are going head over hills in the new one to make sure you know he is gay.
BTW, the reason the dude in the beginning wasn’t freaked out that they were going to a slaughterhouse is that was normal for an underground rave in the 90’s. They were always in like a warehouse or something like that.
I miss those. Better bring your own recreational chemicals or you never know where you’ll wake up lol.
Especially in New York City where the shot was supposed to be filmed. I loved going to raves.
The good old days, no pouts, selfies and lots of gurns
This, 100% LOL
It's incredible how charismatic and iconic Wesley Snipes became in the role of Blade, I hope Mahershala Ali does it too
Lol
Good one! :P
The role is in good hands.
The role is in good hands the writing is not that movie will be awful because marvel has become awful
For the fact that he’s so stoic & silent, any time he does make a remark or a sarcastic joke, it work’s incredibly well.
@@robzbankassuming it even comes out. They've had to rewrite it several times it was suppose to be out a year ago.
Blade "Some mofo's are always trying to iceskate uphill"
Best line XD
I always say this line whenever I play Ocarina Of Time, just as I beat the third dungeon boss Barinade as it blisters and explodes just like Deacon Frost did.
Wouldn't know...never tried it...sry' as a South Jute xennial - I'm just happy that i learned to (semi)skate on a REAL lake 😲
No doubt. Almost as good as "Can you blush"
@@DavidStowers-o7k That's very specific dude... Fortunately I know exactly what you mean because I'm a millennial and a gamer too :p
One of the best openings to any film ever.
Yeah, saw this in the theater, it was off the chain.
@jrag1000 so did I. The first scene scared the vrap out of me
27:35 Remember, Frost did this slow-mo bullet dodge before Matrix made it cool!
360 camera movement while in slow mo was thought impossible before Matrix. Live action 360 slo mo was invented by Matrix, not just made cool.
@@KittyBoom360 Wrong. The awful "Lost in Space" movie did it one year before Matrix during a lightspeed sequence. It just didnt look as good but they did it first.
@@TommyMartensson666 Technically, that wasn't slow motion. That was NO motion from the characters, all frozen in time as the camera moved. For the Matrix, to have the camera move around a MOVING character, showing it all in slow mo, was a novelty that required them to invent a new technique, which required setting up a full circle of individual cameras and then combining the footage of all of them. It was quite brilliant actually. Today, it would just be done in CGI.
@@KittyBoom360 Gap commercials were using it before the matrix.
@@GusGoosegrease I could only find Gap commercials with freeze motion cams, not slo motion, which I already explained is different in this thread.If you don't understand the difference, watch a behind the scenes making of for The Matrix.
I would recommend the second movie as well.
you would have been blown away by the CGI graphics if you watched this movie when came out back in 1998! That was state's-of-the-art back then
i found it quite whacky even back then....
remember, jurassic park came out 5 years earlier....
JP 2 one year earlier...
that cgi was far from state of the art, because the movie had no big budget, and this version of "la magra" wasthe second version that was shot, because the test audience did not like the blood-monster version, so they were at the point to have to reshoot, while most of the budget was already spent...
back then marvel movie studio was almost down and out, and blade their lAast try to see, if their comics, would be good for movies....
in a way, blade made the MCU of the last decade possible...
Definitely not lol. It was even pretty bad by cgi standards back then. Especially the blood God scenes of him regenerating.
@@AT7BPM where do you think i lie ?
this is what i heard and read about it, and the dates are correct, so you could say, that i´m not correct, but i believe that is correct, so it´definately NOT lying, even if i should have made a mistake...
so actually YOU are lying, for you are just stating that i lie, while you should know, it´s propably just a mistake..
or don´t you know the meaning of the word "LIE" ?
or are you just trying to troll ?
Yeah I saw this in the theater in 98 and I remember some of the CGI looking a bit low budget even back then. As the guy above said....this came out after Terminator 2, Jurassic Park 1 and 2 and many other movies with CGI. This was a low budget sleeper hit in 1998. But the CGI wasn't what makes this so good and memorable. The style. The choreography. The ingenious editing, music, photography, interesting storyline that moves at an almost James Cameron like revelatory pace. Just a great kinetic action picture and the sequel is even better with much improved CGI. Blade Trinity sucks though, sorry to say..
yeah I agree the blood work looked awful but the vampires getting disintegrated looked so cool@@Metzwerg74
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill"
Badass quote. :)
It's what started Marvel movies. Blade (1998), X-Men (2000) and then Spider-Man (2002).
Then Iron Man.
It was the first financially successful Marvel movie which convinced studios there was money in it. There was one before this though- Howard the Duck. Absolute fever dream movie, lol.
@@Nekotaku_TVyears after 😂
@@jamiebrooks3864 Still a milestone that really kicked it off.
@Nekotaku_TV it started Avengers. Not marvel at cinema
Fun Fact 3: One idea for the Vampires in this film was to sell how they were basically mean and dirty compared to the charming romantic types we were getting before this. So one example was originally how when Blade and Karen meet Pearl, they would find dead children laying around Pearl. The studio felt that was too low and cut that out.
Fun Fact: Out of the alternative endings that were written, the one they filmed was how Frost transformed into a giant monster. Blade would still used the new weapon on it, but instead of killing Frost, it would depower him and Blade would simply stake him. But one other element was how the film teased Morbius as his next villain. Sadly, the test audience didn't like the blood monster part and the studio changed it.
I don't know if it's part of the special features on the dvd and Blu-ray over in the United States....but here in the UK, the dvd edition I have of Blade, has that alternative ending
@@alasdairmacleod7769 There's a very very very unfinished version of the alternate ending in the special features.
So they decided it was not, in fact, Morbin' time?
Who knew. But it makes sense though.
One thing about Blade's mom, when you turn in this world, you aren't the same person. As she said, his mom died in '67!
Im glad to see blade getting more recognition lately. Blade 2 is worth watching aswell.
But not blade 3 right? It's a shame what they did to blade 3 man that could have been a masterpiece
@@blackfox717 yeah, only 1 and 2. The 3rd one I shut off half way through.
blade 3 is awful mate, the first two films are excellent though@@blackfox717
Agreed. Blade, X-Men, Spider-Man (under Sony.) practically kicked started the Marvel universe. It’s a shame the little respect they got, because they weren’t under the Disney/Marvel banner.
@@blackfox717
Like me, Blade 3 is an acquired taste, which I happen to like. And plus it introduces Pre-Pool (is what I personally like to call Ryan Reynolds' character in the movie).
The nineties were absolutely the greatest years for vampire movies. Dracula, Interview with a Vampire and Blade are definitely some of the best ever made. No sparkly vampires allowed lol.
I like the fact that every single joke, action scene, gore scene, story element, hit you the way the movie intended lol great reaction
This is where the fun begins!!!! Blade is my first rated R movie and first Marvel movie! Wesley Snips is also a great martial artist as well! Regardless, I hope you like it! 🙏🏽💪
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Fun-fact: the female vampire from the very beginning, who took the guy to the meat plant for the rave, was the reason, corn movies in the U.S. got strict guidelines and laws on age, record keeping and filming....
Traci Lords.
@steiner554It's because she was underage and performing in p*rn movies. I believe she was 14-15. She lied about her age and the studio never verified.
@steiner554she was in it and was quite, um, young for it.
@steiner554she was 16 years old having sex on camera with guys in their 30s. She supposedly lied about her age.
@steiner554She did all her scenes but two when she was underage. You can still buy them in Europe because it's Europe.
Ooh, a classic vampiric late 90s movie. Blade 2 is good too. Hopefully you’ll enjoy the movie and the sequel Alyska
Yep. Prepare yourself for one CGI scene that is legendarily bad, but it is seriously a great movie. If you ever come across Blade 3, burn it with fire.
The track from the club at the beginning is still my txt alert so these years later.
Also.... Traci Lords 😍
Classic movie! Wesley Snipes was an action star in the 90's but hes also excellent in comedy and drama. Very underrated talent imo.
He is awesome in Demolition Man.
@@V3x0r Another one of my favorite characters
The human blade saved in the beginning was on a show called “the shield “ and his name was lem short for lemon like your pet
Blade ala. Eric Brooks first appeared in Tomb Of Dracula #10, 1973 written by Marv Wolfman and drawn by the late great Gene Colan. Originally he just immune to vampirism but he got bit by Morbius & turned into a vampire/human hybrid called a dampir. Morbius wasn't a regular vampire, he was a genetically designed vanpire so it affected Blade.
that was retconned now blade always had powers and morbius just unlocked them I guess
Wesley Snipes' dedication on this role is something else. He trained and worked out for this role and even did an interview while in the Blade character.
Overall, this reaction is a surprise but a welcome one
Fun Fact 2: There was a written ending where there was an explosion of blood that instantly turned humanity into vampires on contact leading to a Vampire Apocalypse. Blade and Karen would leave the temple preparing for war.
I remember reading one of the script drafts for this, the convo of where Deacon Frost reveals his plan to Karen, she questions him that if it were to succeed, what would the vampires feast on.....I think there's a deleted scene of Frost explaining a clear answer - humans in storage
@@alasdairmacleod7769 Yep. They had an extended scene where you see he has them preserved.
@@nilesstark and that they could just keep reproducing blood....if I remember correctly
That's just a fact.
@@alasdairmacleod7769 They kinda go into that in the third film, Blade finds a human blood farm with thousands of people in medically induced comas. It's part of a vampiric effort to, like, apocalypse prep IIRC.
What a pleasant surprise. I love Blade. One of my favorite comic book movies.
According to google, in Blade universe, pure born vampires can make children. As they can extend lifespan as immortals but they can grow old. Not the other vampires such as Deacon Frost, he was turned. His lifespan extended like any immortals but he never grow old.
negotiations broke down when disney took over Marvel, or Wesley would have been in the reboot as he was in talk with Marvel for many years to restart the franchise as him as Blade
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You're the first react channel that understood that the blue viles weren't serum
and that's sad
The 90-00s were quite the time for vampire movies. Between "Interview w/a..." to "Night shift" to "Underworld", even the series "Kindred" was quite the effort. Definitely plenty to... sink... your teeth into 😏
How can you mention all that and forget Buffy🤣🤣
@@Cloud_Strife0811 and Angel lol
@@chiefsb.3784 🤣 whoops, I forgot that one.
I was one of the many who didn't know that Blade was a Marvel character and when Black Panther was released and announced that he was the "first" black Marvel superhero character was how you knew that there were more people who didn't know the Marvel Universe as they perceived. I saw this when it was released on video and enjoyed it. I just hope that Mahershala Ali is getting the proper training to live up to what Wesley Snipes did in this movie.
Blade is the most deadly swordsman in Marvel! One of my favorite antiheros. The new MCU Blade will be just as amazing!
I personally think it's better that Frosts plans for the ritual worked because then you get to see exactly how powerful Blade is when he kills a vampire god. In the comics he's kinda corny but actually one of the most powerful characters.
Really hope you continue with this series. The whole Trilogy is loads of fun!
Wesley Snipes was and is actually well trained in martial arts, so he did all his own *fight scenes.
We all really enjoy when you go into a film blind. Seeing something for the first time only happens once. Thanks for sharing your reactions. Keep on rockin
The Skate Uphill speech is classic.
Most definitely 💯😂
I really loved the look, the music, and Japanese themes in this movie.
Blade was such an underrated movie. Wesley Snipes fucking nailed the role. I wish they made so many more movies.
Honestly one of my favorite vampire and early Marvel movies. Classic
Definitely a classic early Marvel film!
Most vampires think Blade is a myth and don't actually know what he looks like only the stories of him hence why they don't react to him. Remember the beginning when they were all shocked that he was real?
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They're not crowbars, they're meat hooks for hanging animal carcasses
Who knew vampires had such good skincare routine lol
43:22 LMAO this is the only appropriate response when shit is about to go down
When this gem was originally released in '98, "CGI" was absolutely no concern when it came to the epic delivery of this film. It fit the decade and its release and other notable ones that followed like The Matrix stand up, if not just in the story and its unique visual entertainment, but great casting and memorable characters.
Definitely one of my top vampire films.
People be concerned Blade is beating a cop in the street? That’s New York. People only concern if you’re in their way! 😂😂😂😂
17:15 I mean, it's the same thing as when a cop walks through the mall, you wouldn't do anything to draw their attention. You saw how fast Blade shot that first vampire in the Bloodbath club, why would any of them do anything when they saw him in the second club? They're afraid.
Haha I love Lemon in the background :)
(At 7:05) sad part was the actor who was playing this guy when he was screaming his jaw was dislocated.
Finally Alyska..... watching 'Blade"🥰......I remember watching this for the first time when I was about 10, turning 30 later this year, still my all time favourite vampire movie, plus my all time favourite marvel movie outside the MCU. Blade basically saved Marvel from bankruptcy. I know many others in the comments will point this out as well.
Ohhh yeaaa lets F gooooo!!! 👊🏻 DAYWALKER!!! 🗡️ 42:09 that knee snap reaction tho! 😅
I can’t tell ya how pleased I am that you have been introduced to this CLASSIC. Watch Blade II also. Act like anything after that doesn’t exist.
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Blade 3 was crap, but there’s that one other film…
32:05 Now this, puts a smile on my face 😌
Wesley open the door for marvel movies to exist
Alyska, The Lost Boy's is another great vampire movie well worth your time.👍🇬🇧
(At 7:30) I was LMFAO when Wesley Snipes was ranting at the racist cops.
Gm! I just found your channel this morning and I gotta say loving the content hopefully lemon recovers good and love the Star Wars chair! I’ll be subscribing and watching more prolly binge all day lol have a great week ❤
In a sense the movie led to the boom of Marvel Comics-based movies. Though later overshadowed by the 2000's more successful X-Men (2000) and Spider-Man (2002) Blade was the first Marvel movie to be a bona fide financial and critical success (Men in Black (1997) came out first but technically it was more a property bought by Marvel) and granted some productions such as the aforementioned Spider-Man had long been gestating but the movie's success proved that Marvel characters could headline their own movies. Additionally Blade himself was not as well-known prior to the movie's release but still made for a successful property. In addition to their A-list stars Marvel and DC have subsequently looked at other lesser-known characters for possible movies and despite Batman & Robin (1997) being basically a Genre-Killer the year before Blade proved comic book movies still had it. Of course the general public probably wasn't really aware that Blade was a comic book character originally, and thought it was just a cool Vampire Hunter especially since Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997) premiered a year before. Though on the flip side it was thanks to cartoon Spider-Man the Animated Series (1994) where Blade made his first animated appearance and was still playing at the time that likewise go interest up among cartoon goers.
1. In the ending as it was originally planned Frost turned into La Magra and became a large swirling mass of blood instead of keeping his humanoid form. This was scrapped because test audiences loved the Blade and Frost fight but lost interest as soon as Stephen Dorff turned into a faceless gelatinous blob. The special effects crew also couldn't get the visual effects to look right so the scene was re-shot to keep Dorff in the fight until the end. The abandoned ending can be seen as a special feature on the DVD.
2. The original ending had Frost becoming La Magra and unleashing the Blood Tide which washes over the city and turns everyone it touches into vampires. The film ended with the vampires winning having caused the vampire apocalypse. It was a set up for a proposed sequel where Blade and Karen would travel around, hitting and destroying vampire food storage areas. The filmmakers didn't know if there would be a sequel so it was changed.
3. Wesley Snipes was interested in doing a movie adaptation of the Black Panther comics when he was offered the project. Snipes said that he was unfamiliar with the Blade comics seeing more of a connection to the blaxploitation heroes of the 1970s. "I just approached him as this really cool character where I'd get to do martial arts and wear a leather suit" he said
4. Kris Kristofferson's character Whistler was created for Blade's cameo on Spider-Man the Animated Series (1994). He was liked so much by Marvel's CEO that he was adopted into the Marvel universe
5. Jet Li was offered the part of Deacon Frost but opted to do Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) instead. Bonus fact Snipes and Li would later eventually co-star together in Expendables 3
6. Stan Lee originally had a cameo that was ultimately cut from the film. He played one of the cops that came into the blood club during the aftermath and discover Quinn's body on fire. Blade trilogy is one of the only marvel projects that Stan Lee never makes a cameo appearance and sadly since his passing he won't ever cameo in MCU Blade film.
7. Michael Morbius was to be used as the main antagonist in Blade II (2002) but the idea was dropped when Marvel sold the character's rights to Artisan Entertainment to produce a standalone Morbius film. The vampire on the rooftop in the alternate ending is Morbius played by director Stephen Norrington. Morbius eventually made his live-action debut in Morbius (2022) played by Jared Leto.
8. Skeet Ulrich lobbied hard for the role of Deacon Frost yes Ulrich would played Billy Loomis in Scream two years early.
9. When Whistler first introduces himself to Karen he says his first name is Abraham. Bram Stoker who's first full name is Abraham wrote the original Dracula novel. He even used the name for one of his leading characters a.k.a Abraham Van Helsing.
10. When David S. Goyer first pitched the idea of doing a Blade movie the executives of New Line felt there were only three actors who could possibly do the role Wesley Snipes, Denzel Washington and Laurence Fishburne but in Goyer's mind Snipes was always the perfect choice for the character of Blade.
11. Quinn originally had a much smaller role but Donal Logue was so funny onset that his character was expanded and he was allowed to ad-lib a good portion of his dialogue. Logue would later return to superhero genre in Gotham TV series as Detective Bullock
12. The scene where Karen and Deacon are talking about the cure for vampirism initially ran a bit longer and answered the question of how the vampires would feed if everybody was turned into a vampire. They would keep some humans alive in giant blood bags to harvest them. The bags can still be seen in a doorway during the scene and later played an integral part of the plot in Blade Trinity (2004). It was also the underlying plot structure for the movie Daybreakers (2009).
This is the movie that kickstarted the MCU.
Its also the movie with probably the first best "superhero landing" in superhero cinema.
Blade was great, Blade II is great too and offers lots of backstory to the Vampire empire. Lots of people didn't like Blade Trinity, but I loved it how can you not love Dracula and Ryan Renolds in the same movie. :D
It's just sad knowing about Wesley Snipes' on-set behaviour throughout the filming of that.
Ryan Reynolds being in Blade 3 created a real universe consistency problem.
The Blood rave scene is iconic🧛🩸🩸🩸
Wesley Snipes is also an accomplished martial artist. He is a black belt in three disciplines Kung Fu, karate, and capoira.
Its crazy that this movie is 25 years old!
Denzel Washington, Michael Jai White, and Laurence Fishburne were considered for the role of Blade before Wesley Snipes was picked.
Michael Jai white would have been amazing i can just picture it now
@@seventeen-t2hI’d love to see him as Deathstroke
@@drumaticpageofmusic4148 hes got a great physique and is a master in martial arts he would be perfect for the role, he is old now but he would be good
Out of all the blade reaction videos, you are the first person that understood what day walker means LOL.
The vampires were in the basement of the building. The club on the ground floor was a regular bar which is why nobody flipped out when Blade walked through.
I thoroughly enjoyed the character of Quinn (played by Donal Logue). In the original script he only had like 2 or 3 lines throughout the whole movie, but Donal was so charismatic on set and had good chemistry with both Snipes and Stephen Dorff that they wrote some more lines for him and even let him ad-lib some bits. He's a great actor. He was in the series Copper for a season.
The Russian vampire at the end was supposed to be a tease for the 2nd movies villain Michael Morbius, but they ended up going in a different direction & instead we got the god awful Morbius movie many years later with Jared Leto. Blade 2 is def worth a watch its actually directed by Guillermo Del Toro!
No Morbius was teased in a deleted ending scene..
...who then went on to do his own vampire apocalypse IP called The Strain, with vampires like the reapers of Blade 2. It was a book series which then got a tv adaptation.
Homie slapped Deacon harder than Will Smith slapping Chris Rock lol
There was a Blade TV series back in the day written by David S Goyer who wrote all 3 blade movies (as well as the classic Dark City & the Nolan Batman movies), I really enjoyed it though it only ran for 1 season.
The rapper they used was awful compared to Snipes.
It might be hard to imagine nowadays, but in the late 90s Marvel were close to bancruptcy and after gems like Howard the Duck, Steel and Batman & Robin comic book movies were close to never to be taken serious again.
Blade changed all of that.
This is where the fun begins!! This is my first rated R movie and my first Marvel movie!! Hope you like it!!!!! 🙏🏽💪
22:50 Well, he's a vampire, so, more powerful than a normal human ! ... 😊👍
There is a deleted scene where Blade actually sees Morbis on top of a building.
42:29 Oh no! He's made of evil jam now!😂 I love this film.
Saw this when it came out back in 1998 and seen it countless times since, saw it last week when it was on cable and it had been a few years and it was still such a good movie......the part when Quinn tells Frost "Blade is like a one man army he has the gadgets, sword and the ninja stars that go in the air" Frost is like "oh yea yea it goes up down in the air cuts off heads, shut the fuck up and go kill him"
When people were going on about Black Panther a few years ago as the "....first black superhero on the big screen" I was "Dude hes not even the first black marvel superhero on the big screen" 😂 then you get Spawn etc.
Whistler back in the day did a movie called convoy and his name in the movie convoy was rubber duck
Blade is half vampire half human, who possesses all their strength but none of their weaknesses except the thirst
4:45 Those are meathooks! Use them to hang meat of course
his sidekick/helper is country superstar Kris Kristofferson who wrote many of the biggest music hits of the 70's 80's etc...my favorite was always Me & Bobby Mcgee as covered by Janis Joplin!!
Blade 1 and 2 are really good.
Blade 3 story is not very good, but it does have the bonus of having the eye candy of prime Jessica Biel and Ryan Reynolds showing off exactly why they are eye candy.
I like the Blade series because it's based on a comic where Blade is the superhero. While they do have individual plots & an overal plot line, they're mainly action oriented. Good for when you're in the mood to watch bad guys get taken out.
There is an enhanced bass version of the track played at the beginning that hits harder than blade himself. 😂
Fun fact Wesley Snipes was a black belt martial artist
3:53 My older sister showed this movie to me when I was 4 years old, I was traumatized💀and it made really afraid of the dark as a kid
Blade appeared in a few episodes of 90s Spider-Man animated series as well
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Fun Fact 5: Originally, Blade had his sword doused in the chemical instead using the syringes so that everytime he wounded a vampire they would explode this concept would have fit in the final confrontation where Blade's mother would still be alive and Frost would hold her in front as a shield. Blade would appear to stay his hand and Frost would taunt Blade saying "See you're too human. Too human." But Blade would say "It's because I'm human I can do THIS." And he would then stab them both killing them.
Whistler is played by country singer and songwriter Kris Kristofferson. We all owe it to him to listen to at least one of his songs, I think.
Alyska in case you're wondering/curious Day Walkers are an exceedingly rare 1 of a kind breed of Vampire that're born literally immune/impervious 2 Yellow Sunlight & only Yellow Sunlight!
Btw in the 90s in New York and Los Angeles where rumors/news that some places transforms secretly in very vip disco/clubs like for a weekend. Where famous and people like top models hide from paparazzis. One of the most popular rumour was a slaughterhouse. There are some tv shows/sitcoms back then that always have an episode about the characters find these places. If I remember George found one in a Seinfield episode.
Wait, did you not include the iconic "some mfs are always trying to ice skate uphill" line?
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A pure blood vampire is someone who was born already a vampire. They weren't turned by someone else
He was the lead role in a marvel movie not the other black panther movie.
"He is whoopin their ass!!!"
Of course he is!! He's MOTHER FUCKING BLADE!! He's a half vampire, but has exceptional gifts being the "daywalker". Not only can he walk in daylight, he is incredibly strong compared to a normal vampire. Like if a human was a 10 on power scale, your normal run of the mill vampire was 100, then Blade would be like FUCKING 100000...
This movie is so much cheesy fun 😂 The 90s one liners are real
I've never liked scary horror movies but I've always loved vampires Frankenstein and werewolf movies ,,, and I probably say this is my favorite vampire movie
Don't forget blade 2
blade is an absolute classic, and right the height of Wesley snipes peak
seriously, they could just remake it with modern cgi, and it would bang
part of the reason the action is so good is that snipes is a lwgit martial artist and did the scenes himself. his kicks were so fast the cameras couldn't pick them up properly , so they had to get snipes to slow down and stylise it
hope ur good alyce 👌
The news about the new one being made is that they are making him gay. All because in one comic book there was a page about him being Bi or something and the left wing liberal writers were like oh yeah we can make that a main thing about the new blade movie we are making. The blade movies never went into his sexuality and they are going head over hills in the new one to make sure you know he is gay.
This movie is very rewatchable which is the best thing a movie can do
This was me & The Wife’s first movie date.
Odd choice but great start.
i watched Blade in the cinema when it was released. Still one of my favourite Marvel films. Definately u should watch Blade 2
This film is so fun! Awesome choice for a reaction!
41:02 Let the battle begin! 🙏🏽💪