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February 17, 2005
Blade II
Blade II (2002), Guillermo del Toro:
The first Blade was all right. I really saw it, and not X-men, as kicking off the new era of comic book adaptations, following the decline of the Superman-style Batman franchise. It was full of completely unnecessary blood and fight scenes that went on and on for seemingly no purpose and all those wonderful things, but its main success was translating the tone of the comic onto the screen, even if the source material is a glossy Marvel book.
I can't really put my finger on why Blade II was so bad and Blade I was pretty good. I mean, they're both obviously not Good Movies, but the original was at least thoroughly enjoyable. You feel a little like the movie's ashamed to be what it wants to be.
Also, Blade II suffers from the invincible enemy problem. Why spend ten minutes on a fight scene when you've already established that the enemy's practically invulnerable? Bah.
4/15
Posted by bing at February 17, 2005 12:31 PM
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