True Blood - Season 3
7.0
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Sookie Stackhouse and the townspeople of Bon Temps face a new calamity--ushered in by the Vampire...
True Blood - Season 2
7.3
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Just as things seem to have settled down for perky telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse and her...
The Expendables 3 (2014)
6.6
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Years ago, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) co-founded the Expendables with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel...
David McK (3425 KP) rated Blade (1998) in Movies
Sep 7, 2023
The Daywalker.
The half human/half vampire hybrid, waging a one-man war on the vampire underground.
And still to officially enter the MCU, with this film pre-dating even the creation of that cinematic universe by a good 10 years or so, and very much a product of its time: lots of leather and shades!
It also stars a pre-prison for tax evasion Wesley Snipes as the titular character, and is quite a bit gorier than the MCU movies tend to be.
I remember, also, thinking at the time just how much of a letdown La Magra, the Blood God, made out to be the 'big bad' was as well ...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Blade (1998) in Movies
Jan 15, 2020
But the importance of this gory action flick should absolutely not be understated. Not only was it the first proper big (ish) budget Marvel film, but it's pre dates Black Panther as the first superhero film with a black lead, and it pre dates The Punisher as the first R-rated Marvel blockbuster.
But in a pre X-Men world, comic book movies weren't a big deal at this point. I actually remember me and my friends sneakily renting and watching it (we were 10 at the time...) and none of them even knowing that Blade was even a comic book!
Here we are all these years later and the Blade trilogy is now remembered fondly (well, at least the first two are!)
Wesley Snipes is of course the star of this particular vehicle, and here, he is the most Wesley Snipes he's ever been. The cheesy one liners still come off well, and lend a nice comedic edge to the buckets of blood on display. The charm that he brings to the Blade character is the main reason why it's been hard to imagine anyone else in the role for so long (although I am here all day long for Mahershala Ali)
The other big character throughout the trilogy is Whistler, played by Kris Kristofferson, just generally being old, grumpy and badass, and is honestly the best character in the whole thing (here's hoping the MCU introduce a Whistler series on Disney+...)
Stephen Dorff plays Deacon Frost, the films villain, and he's really not much more than a generic superhero bad guy (the first of many).
The choreography and the fight scenes are pretty great, and the willingness to go hard R is what set Blade apart before comic book movies became a thing. It's sooooo bloody in parts, that it verges heavily into horror territory.
The CGI effects are utterly horrible by todays standards, but it's not used nearly enough to discredit the film too much.
Blade is a decent enough adaption of the cult Marvel series, and is a fun, gory blockbuster, but as mentioned, it's an important step in comic book cinema. Long live Blade!
Dangerous Creatures
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Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she’s a bad girl. She’s Dark. She’s a...
True Blood - Season 1
5.8
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In the not-too-distant future, vampires have come out of the coffin...no longer in need of a human...
The Anglican Psalter: The Psalms of David Pointed and Edited for Chanting by John Scott
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Using Coverdale's translation of the Psalms from the Book of Common Prayer, the very best of...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Demolition Man (1993) in Movies
Sep 17, 2019 (Updated Sep 17, 2019)
The Plot: With innocent victims caught in the crossfire in Los Angeles' intensifying war on crime, both cop John Spartan (Sylvester Stallone) and violent thug Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) are sentenced to a state of frozen incarceration known as "CryoPrison." When Spartan is finally thawed 36 years later, it's 2032, and Los Angeles is now a pacifist utopia called San Angeles. But with Phoenix again on the loose, Spartan must team up with future cop Lenina (Sandra Bullock) to apprehend the killer.
Oh yea by the way this movie is set in the future.
I would recorddmend this movie.
The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan
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The Basement Tapes is an album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the Band. It was released...