Blade: Trinity- official thread

[Dolemite]

Wow, that looks really cheesy. No wonder they cut it.


*EDIT* Jetman's link mentions the DVD will contain an extended version of the movie...oh, wonderful, the pacing will probably be even more fucked.

[Despair]

Wow, that looks really cheesy. No wonder they cut it.


*EDIT* Jetman's link mentions the DVD will contain an extended version of the movie...oh, wonderful, the pacing will probably be even more fucked.

I've seen that pic before, and it was mentioned that it was from Trinity, but it was nowhere found in the actual movie.

So Blade will go werewolf hunting next

[Dolemite]

Trinity came in 2nd this weekend with $16.1 million. It's made $24.6 million since its debut on Wednesday.

[Riptwo]

I could barely sit through the movie while I was watching it, but in retrospect I've managed to convince myself that it was good. I'm not really sure how that happened. Maybe it's the sheer poetry of Hannibal calling someone a "cock juggling thunder cunt." Yeah, that's probably it.

[Dolemite]

Triple H was on Stern this morning, talking about Blade, among other things. He's a great interview whenever he's on, because he's totally honest and blunt.

Anyway, they discussed a lot of the drama that occurred on the Blade set. As I'm sure you all heard, Wesley Snipes was reported to have been failry unpleasant to his co-stars and actually got into fights with Goyer. Trips confirmed all this. He said Snipes barely spoke a word to any of the cast or crew, and would actually sometimes connect pretty hard on the stunt people with some of his kicks and not even apologize or anything.

Of course, because he's 6' 4" and 260lbs, he noticed that Snipes was much friendlier to him. Stern pointed out that people were saying that Wesley was "staying in character as Blade" for the whole shoot, but Trips said he'd believe that except for the fact that he was clearly just "Wesley" with him. And the one time he did connect with a kick on Trips, Wesley must have said he was sorry 10 times. When asked if he could kick Snipes' ass, Trips thought so, but wasn't sure because "all brothas know how to fight."

As for the arguments Snipes had with Goyer, Trips said they were mostly because of creative differences they had. A lot of times Snipes would yell and carry on about Goyer not having any idea what he was doing. Wesley may have been acting unprofessionally by getting into screaming matches with his Director, but in this case (considering how weak Blade 3 turned out compared to 1 & 2), maybe Snipes was justified in getting mad at him. Needless to say, Trips said Goyer got really scared and hung around him a lot closer after that incident.

Of course, they also discussed how hot Jessica Biel is.

I could barely sit through the movie while I was watching it, but in retrospect I've managed to convince myself that it was good. I'm not really sure how that happened. Maybe it's the sheer poetry of Hannibal calling someone a "cock juggling thunder cunt." Yeah, that's probably it.

Like I said, Ryan Renolds was funny, but not nearly as hilarious as people have been saying. It's just that Goyer gave him SO MANY jokes and one-liners to spew out non-stop that of course some of them are going to be funny. You throw enough shit on the wall, some of it's gonna stick.

[Cheebs]

Just saw it this yesterday. Never saw a Blade movie before but God damn was this bad. Not one single line of dialoge in the entire movie that actually ment anything. Just all catch phrases full of 'tude. That would have been fine if a good action movie was stapled onto the bad dialog, but all of the action sucked too.

C'mon. How am I supposed to belive that the humans are loosing the overall war against vampires? A human girl takes out a whole gang of 'em all by herself. The slightest nick of a bladed weapon and they fly apart like paper. I was expecting vampires to combust if they hit a pot hole while driving their cars. Seriously, they were the most fragile movie villians ever. Maybe the vampires should have been battling against people in the old folks home.

And Dracula...
His one advantage over normal vampires is that he can walk in the daylight. Wheee!!!! And yeah, him running from Blade was freakin' pathetic.

And was I the only one scratching my head over the choice of vampire hunting weapons? In the opening chase we see that Blade has a light that makes vampires explode. A FREAKIN LIGHT THAT MAKES VAMPIRES EXPLODE. Why would you EVER use any weapon other than that? Try to dodge a bullet...pretty hard but you might be able to do it. Now stand in a room and have somebody turn the lights on. Good luck dodging the light. A kindergarden class could wipe the vampire population clean off the earth with a weapon like that. Fuck this biological weapon. The easy solution is RIGHT THERE. Oh well. It's not like the vampires were any difficulty to kill anyway even if they were going about it horribly inefficiently.

[Despair]

Well, Blade and Nightstalkers use SILVER enriched weaponst, that are deadly to vamps. All the bullets they use are contain either serum, or chemical solution that is deadly to vampires. So its believable.

As for fighting, vampires here were weaker than before, I agree. But overall they were never all that stronger than regular humans. More dangerous, and could withstand alot of damage? yes, but strenght wise not as much. Thats why Reapers were kicking so much of vampire ass.

[Dolemite]

Dude, you HAVE to rent the first 2 Blade films. They TOTALLY pwn this movie. Seriously.

And yeah, the vamps seemed to ash waaay faster than in the last two flicks. It was silly that Abrigail, a normal human, took out those vamps so easily.

[Despair]

And was I the only one scratching my head over the choice of vampire hunting weapons? In the opening chase we see that Blade has a light that makes vampires explode. A FREAKIN LIGHT THAT MAKES VAMPIRES EXPLODE. Why would you EVER use any weapon other than that? Try to dodge a bullet...pretty hard but you might be able to do it. Now stand in a room and have somebody turn the lights on. Good luck dodging the light. A kindergarden class could wipe the vampire population clean off the earth with a weapon like that. Fuck this biological weapon. The easy solution is RIGHT THERE. Oh well. It's not like the vampires were any difficulty to kill anyway even if they were going about it horribly inefficiently.

Thats what you get when person doesnt see any of the previous films in the series. Yes light works, but you need WIDE and POWERFULL source of UV light the kill vamp, otherwise you just burn them. Car COULD provide light with enough power, portable flashlight couldnt. In original Blade they use one big flash light with UV to SLOWLY fry one vampire, but it was big, inmobilized one. Fast vamp, will attack you before you would be able to cause alot of damage that way. So this way guns and cold weapons are more usefull.

Dude, you HAVE to rent the first 2 Blade films. They TOTALLY pwn this movie. Seriously.

And yeah, the vamps seemed to ash waaay faster than in the last two flicks. It was silly that Abrigail, a normal human, took out those vamps so easily.

Dole, Only in 3. Vamps in 3 were strong. It just Blade kicked more ass than they

[Dolemite]

And was I the only one scratching my head over the choice of vampire hunting weapons?

You know, I re-watched Blade 1 last night and really affirmed how great it is. One major thing I noticed, aside from it being far more stylish and intense, is that all the weapons and technology were fairly realistic. There were no cheesy toy pistols with video cameras built into them, no fold-out lightsabers, no stupid serum inhalers, no goofy Batcave-like lairs. Yes, Blade's shotgun also fired silver stakes, but's that's as goofy as it got. Blade had a machine pistol (hey, I just realized- he didn't have one in 3! WTF!), he and Whistler lived in what looked like a real run-down werehouse, and he injected serum like a man. Everything just felt gritty and visceral and real.

Blade 2 was similar, but introduced some more cartoony elements, like the super high-tech Blade hideout with the giant wall of lights, Blade's modified machine pistol (which looked more futuristic), the ninja vampires with the glowing red goggles, the UV granades, etc. Still a good movie, and a solid entry in the series, but not as good as 1. Veering away slightly from the grit of the original hurt it slightly.

All the faults with Trinity can be traced back solely to the director. I'm looking at you, Goyer. You can't direct for shit. Another director could have easily made something good out of your script.

As for fighting, vampires here were weaker than before, I agree. But overall they were never all that stronger than regular humans. More dangerous, and could withstand alot of damage? yes, but strenght wise not as much. Thats why Reapers were kicking so much of vampire ass.

No, vampires ARE much stronger than humans. Remember, Whistler told Karen in the first movie that Blade "has their strength." Hell, could Blade chuck Karen clear across the street to the rooftop of another building or could Frost pitch a child 50 feet through the air into the path of a bus if they "weren't much stronger than normal humans."

Dole, Only in 3. Vamps in 3 were strong. It just Blade kicked more ass than they

I'm not sure what you mean. The vamps in 3 were pussies if a lone human female could beat the shit out of 4 of them at once in hand-to-hand combat. The vamps were far more powerful in the first two movies.