EXTENDED DISCUSSION: / blade-review Jay and Jack discuss the often overlooked Marvel movie Blade, where apparently some motherf**kers are supposedly always trying to ice skate up hill.
As a teenage nerd who was into Vampire the Masquerade LARPing, let me tell you: Blade was a MASSIVE influence on the community. Suddenly, everyone was wearing sunglasses indoors as well as leather trench coats while listening to that one techno song from the start of the movie over and over again. Next year's The Matrix just further solidified that look.
There are (were?) a lot of punk aesthetics in White Wolf games. I'm not sure if it was a counter to grunge? T2 was out the year before, Dracula was '92, Edward Scissor Hands was '90. *shrug* somethin' in the Georgia water I guess.
I can’t even express how many people I’ve seen call Black Panther the “first (successful) black led superhero movie,” completely forgetting about the epic trendsetter that was Blade, thank you for fighting the good fight against Blade erasure
I mean, with the way Deadpool marketed itself as "the first R-Rated comic book movie" and the amount of people who bought into that, he kind of has a point. Though that might be more a case of people not realising Blade was a comic book character.
First time I whole heartedly disagree with RLM. Blade is a classic. Snipes IS Blade (much like Downey is Iron Man). The reboot has A LOT to measure up to.
The remake will suck, and you know it. Not that the original series are like the best movies ever. But Disney is incapable of doing anything even slightly properly.
Mahershala Ali is going to be the new Blade. I personally loved this movie, and people forget that it IS the originator of the current MCU. The second one is not bad either, but the third is trash. I'm actually interested in seeing this reboot.
@@geovani60624 more like "perfect sunday afternoon hangover movie", the exact quote from the ending, which is actually a very valuable segment of movies I think!
It's strange to hear them discussing the movie in terms of something "everyone has forgotten," because in my mind it's remained one of the most influential genre movies of the last 30 years and 100% holds up as a stylistic masterpiece that defines that turn-of-the-millennium music video aesthetic. It's gorgeous in all its anamorphic glory.
Blade was a success at least as far as I can remember also thats why it had 2 sequels. I can see why nobody is talking about it because there has been over 10 years of build up movies for Avengers ending that you just forget about all the super hero movies that get crapped out over the years.
@@get8bit To be fair most people don't even know Blade is a comic book movie as he is a very obscure Marvel character that never had his own series prior to the movies release. Pretty much every character was invented for the film. Furthermore the people who made it weren't making a comic book movie they were making a vampire/action movie. Also the media never said Black Panther was the first black superhero movie, at most they said it was the first black MCU movie, but I understand bashing "duh mee dEE uh" on the interwebz makes you sound cool so who cares if you gotta hypocritically invent fake news? No one will notice and you'll get those cheap internet point that you clearly value so much. Obviously everyone just collectively forgot that Blade wasn't even the first black superhero film of the 90s, along with pretending Hancock never existed, because that's how evil "duh mee dEE uh" is. This can't possibly be a reflection of your own desire engage in faux outrage while also decrying "outrage culture" without a shred of self awareness...right?
@@JamesKlemm87 TONS of articles out there proclaiming black panther not only the first MCU black super hero, but the first black super hero in film period. They pretended my fav childhood films Spawn, Meteor Man, and THREE Blades never existed. I don't have to invent shizzzzzzzz. The media does lie through their teeth while sucking.
Blade and Blade 2 were fucking great! I still put the vampire club opening scene in Blade as one of the best openings in any movie ever. They're pure cheese but they're not trying to be anything else so it works. It's not pretty good/bad it's pretty good/cheese good. There's a self awareness and unapologeticness about cheese good that separates it from bad. Flash Gordon is a perfect example of this.
King Steve I don't get comments like this. Like really, are you THAT fascinated with the woman that you feel like you have to defend her at any given opportunity?
i kinda like how the CGI looks. It's dated in the same way harryhausen's stop-motion is. Not that it's that good, but it has that same charming jankiness to it that most dated CGI lacks
I'd argue that the movie is actually more enjoyable to watch in 2016 than 1998. The aspects of the movie that date it to the 90's were exhausting even in '98 due to two decades of action heroes spouting one-liners. While the good parts of Blade are still good, the parts that feel dated add a level of enjoyable schlock to the movie these days. Now it can be enjoyed as both a solidly made superhero film and a hilariously pretentious grimdark 90's action movie full of techno leather swordfights. The parts that are actually weird writing things, like Whistler's cancer? That stuff is still kinda weird and doesn't help at all. But trying to ice skate uphill always makes me laugh when I re-watch it.
"Some people are always trying to ice skate uphill." That horrible one-liner is the only thing I really remember about this film that made vampires lame long before Twilight ever came out.
Whistler becoming a vampire "cured" his cancer and allowed him to be in Blade 2. Or maybe they were just trying to say that Whistler would be out in Blade 1 no matter (death by vampire or cancer).
Sure, it doesn't add much, but the random nonsense lines can be kinda funny in that fun-bad way. (Whistler got the results of the test back. He definitely has breast cancer).
You guys aren't accurate in describing Blade's influence on films. It influenced movies like the Underworld series, Daylight, Priest, Ultraviolet, Daywatch, Night watch, etc. Not the superhero film genre. Just because a movie features a superhero doesn't mean people perceive it that way. This set off a chain of vampire action films in a way that John Carpenter's Vampires or From Dusk 'Til Dawn never did. In fact it may also have influenced the Matrix. But it really has nothing to do with influencing the superhero films. That was, indeed, X-Men. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, the Fantastic Four films, Daredevil, Elektra, Catwoman, Batman Begins, etc. all comes from X-Men, not Blade.
Completely disagree. Blade was a catalyst for the next and most prominent wave of comic book films. People'd argue Burton's Batman, but it really was Blade. Batman & Robin, and Forever before it, quelling superheroes as popular and marketable. Which honestly was the Batman series during 90s. There's some one offs here and there, but still, they weren't that prevalent. Marvel was planning on doing Spider-Man and X-Men in the 90s, but it kept getting reshuffled or put in development hell. Blade showed studios and Marvel that a lesser-known could do well, so it was like studios asked what else they had and Marvel handed over top tier with glee. THEN, X-Men and Spider-Man happened and every studio was buying up comic book properties in a tidal wave of trend. Blade is an important comic book movie. (Ironically, people didn't originally know it was a Marvel character, let alone a comic book character.) I suppose Blade and its sequels influenced more and more vampire stuff, but so did Anne Rice adaptations, with Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.
I remember when this movie came out, it wasn't marketed as a superhero movie and hardly anyone knew this was based on a comicbook character. Hell, people didn't even recognize the Marvel logo at the beginning of the movie. For a lot of movie goers it may have been their first time seeing the logo and probably didn't bat an eyelash since it was the first movie that wasn't some direct to VHS garbage. He barely had a run of popular comics at the time (if any at all) and still doesn't. Blade was so obscure that the movie pretty much had free rein to do whatever to the character.
litovietbui Right. It actually influenced the comic book Blade it was so good. Originally Eric wasn't a half-vampire. He was just a vampire slayer with immunity from a vampire's bite (he couldn't be turned) bc of his mother being bitten while pregnant having an adverse effect on him. Mutating him. So the comic's literally evolved the character more to match the popular interpretation of him being a daywalking dhampir.
Can you guys review Reign of Fire or Event Horizon, they're both shlock but stand the test of time real well compared to what's been coming out these days. At least they have some heart, and balls, big beefy balls.
How DARE you refer to the glorious nightmare fuel that is Event Horizon schlock!? I mean, it is, but that's just rude. I watched that for the first time in my 20s, and still woke up from a very confusing horror dream afterwards
***** I guess you totally missed my point. Everyone tries to one up someone with "Everyone forgot (insert name here)". So, I took it further. No one would say the 1950's film Batman franchise started comic book movies. But I guess that wasn't clear enough for you.
oddly enough, the special effects in Spawn were ahead of its time, in fact they hold up well even today. But the "hell" CGI shit was fucking terrible. His costume effects were amazing.
The line at the end of the film was Blade being arrogant. He was saying that Frost trying to beat him was as futile as trying to ice skate uphill. It is an equivalent to Dirty Harry's "A man's got to know his limitations"
ACTUALLY...............*clears throat*............... Spawn from 1997 that you didn't mention was the first modern superhero comic book movie AND it had a black superhero character. Just so you know. *adjusts extra thick glasses with tape in the middle and feels super smart*
does him having cancer even need to be a plot thing though? can he not just have cancer? is it not cool that a character just has a major disease and it doesn't come into the plot at all, it just shows one of his weaknesses as a human and makes him more real of a character
I think the point they're making is it's kind of weird to introduce that he has cancer and is dying only for that not to be relevant at all. It would've been interesting if he deliberately became a vampire to over come his "weaknesses" as a human.
Gotta disagree with you guys. This movie is so cool and deservedly confident in itself, with a lead that nails the character and is interesting to watch, it shits on all this new, safe Marvel garbage from such a great height.
Some aspects of this movie are outdated, like the special effects and overall style. But I think the techno soundtrack for the action scenes is one of the most underrated things ever and I wish they used more music like that in action movies. It actually elevates a scene to a whole new level.
I was working at Blockbuster when Blade came out. As usual, we got the tapes the day before it was released on video. Later on that evening, the manager brought out a cart full of copies to stock after we closed and she went back to her office. Someone put a copy in the store VHS player so we got to see the opening on like 10 screens around the store. We got about 3/4 of the way through the rave scene before the manager came running out to shut it off. For those few minutes though, everyone in the store was fixated on those screens. While that's an awesome opening for any movie, it was really something for its time. I'll never forget that feeling of the people who hadn't seen the movie react like whoa, what the fuck was that and the people who had seen it looking like I know, dude. That's one of my favorite memories of cinema.
Isn't Bane white in the comics? Pink skin, brown hair. If I remember correctly, his original design in the Animated Series looked much more Hispanic, though.
+Leee if race doesn't matter for characterisation why should it matter if he is black? Hollywood is trying to get away from white as the norm for everything. Not every character who is black has to have their story be about them being black.
Between their take on Blade and Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, I think RLM do have some modern biases at just weird times. Personally, I'd take Blade over half of the MCU, especially Black Panther.
@@stellviahohenheim I'd take Blade over everything but the first Iron Man, the Guardians trilogy, and Deadpool & Wolverine. Everything else can be forgotten.
Oh god I remember when video game graphics regressed by 10 years just because "they're polygons". They were a steaming pile of shit is what they were. Virtua Fighter 1 in the arcades was the start of it. Then Playstation 1 with its garbage graphics.
I don't get why you are shitting on Blade and then go on to say Marvel made at more "interesting" films. Two thirds of the Marvel films are just as cheesy or even more so with bland direction and characization.
Shitting on Blade? They both agreed it was a good movie and superhero movies should stop following the exposition structure of marvel movies and adopt Blade's.
I'll take "cheesy" Blade over the "so epic" Superhero Movies of 2010 any day, as well as "lame" 90s Techno over whatever pop-autotune-trash is popular right now
This makes me want to see Wesley Snipes' grand return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, complete with a 4th-wall breaking reference to being imprisoned somewhere for 20 years. brb, off to watch his new Western...
Damn, this was a disappointing review of an excellent action film. Blade holds up incredibly well today and shouldn't be relegated to a 'Sunday afternoon hangover movie'. It ranks high up there with the best comic-book movies. These two were so hung up on the CGI and 90's fashion only to brush over and give light mentions to the strong characters and world building. The movie deserves to have the latter spoken of more than the former, but you defeated your own premise of a forgotten film by focusing on the former.
And The Mask. Still wish they hadn't waited 15 years to do a sequel because they were hoping Jim Carrey would come back. In the comic everyone who is the main character dies at the beginning of the next storyline. The only reoccuring characters are the cop and the mask itself (Loki).
IMO blade is an excellent movie. But the intent of the film is for you to be entertained, not to be taken seriously. The guys are a bit dismissive of it here. Yes the cgi is slightly dated but who cares.
I still think the Blade movies are some of the best comic book movies. I think it's due to the simple plot and the fact that there is no Natalie Portman character to fuck it. Same reason why I love Dredd. I like bad movies and 90s cringe as well. Let's see if another Spider man reboot will learn or if we have to sit through Uncle Ben dying again.
Well uncle ben is the equivalent of kenny in southpark. He always dies in different ways and instead being sad and down , its becoming laughable that every iteration of uncle ben ends with death .
Wesley Snipes/Blade doesn’t get nearly enough credit it deserves for being a pioneer to both Marvel and the superhero movie genre in general. It’s so awful that it doesn’t get the love it deserves . Also, I always felt that the last line was about how some people are always fighting the natural order of things in circumstances where they shouldn’t belong. It’s so cheesy, but I absolutely love that final kill line haha
Just throwing out there, three years later, that Stephen Dorff was in Season 3 of True Detective and absolutely killed it in his role. He's legitimately a great actor.
I love this film because that scene where blood sprays from the ceiling in the vampire rave is just the perfect sweet spot of being really fucking awesome and absolutely absurd. It's one of my favorite movie scenes.
Dudes, I never stopped talking about Blade. Blade was pretty dope and I can see how it hasn't aged well, but it's still cooler than half the stuff coming out. I think "Smack My Bitch Up" was the most dated reference you made in this video, that's something that no one talks about anymore. But Blade paved the way for X-Men, and that paved the way for Spider-Man which was so successful that superhero movies started to be taken seriously. That paved the way for Iron Man and the MCU. Also, it fell into that trap of the third movie being crap. Blade Trinity, X-Men The Last Stand, and Spider-Man 3 all sucked, mostly because I think they were at the end of a 3 picture deal and instead of keeping it simple as you say, they tried to jam in every idea they ever had into that last movie and it got way too bloated.
Blade 2 is a better movie. But Blade is pretty great given that it came out of nowhere, was made for about $3 and maybe influenced the Matrix, X-Men and a bunch of other stuff.
Not a big deal that you didn't know Blade was from comics... the movie used the comic book character as a jumping-off point but had very little in common with it otherwise. The character's look, his abilities, his friends and his world were all invented fresh for the movie. A lot of kids back then didn't realize it, though, because they pre-debuted the movie version of Blade on the _Spider-Man_ cartoon show on Fox beforehand.
@@l34CoNCreepy Yeah, the movie's version of Blade, as well as David Goyer's original character Whistler who was invented for the movie, debuted on the _Spider-Man_ cartoon show on Fox. At the time, Marvel's TV and movie liaison division were one and the same. The movie came out years after the TV appearance, though, because New Line Cinema kept demanding changes and made production a nightmare.
A few years back, studio Madhouse released an anime series of this Marvel property.... It's actually pretty good. I think Blade is great. This is one of the few time that I COMPLETELY disagree with RLM.
The original Blade was from the 70s Dracula comic. They were sick of using enemies of Dracula people already knew like Van Helsing so they invented a new one.
I love Blade and I don't care who knows. Also, "Wesley Snipes rips out a man's throat and throws it at another guy. You're not gonna see that in Ant Man!"
Hmmm... still the best Marvel movie, and The Matrix was pretty much a copy/paste with better effects. Blade had leather trench coats, martial arts, computer hackers, bullet time, industrial techno music, a "chosen one", a corridor uzi shootout, etc. etc. etc.. The only thing not holding up is the cgi in the final fight..
"Now everyone is talkling about with Spiderman Homecoming, they made Mary Jane black and there's a lot of diversity to the cast" Oh good, I'm so glad they changed the races of already established characters and riding off their popularity instead of coming up with a new character with that race. Why is this okay and whitewashing is evil? They both seem awful to me.
There is obviously a difference between "making a group of people that's historically been less visible more visible" and "making a group of people that's always been more visible even more visible". It's the same in principle, but you also have to look at how the real world works. Then i guess you can argue whether any of it is useful or not.
aww you're butt hurt because they have a black girl playing a character that isn't even confirmed in the film yet? Is Mary Jane that much of a main character that her change in race will fuck up the entire marvel universe?
Todd Bollinger Peter Parker for example, goes to school in Queens! I don't think people have been there. It's DIVERSE. You'll find everyone under the sun, black/white/asian/Hispanic/middle eastern. Having a modern cast of characters to reflect the actually real world atmosphere, just makes more logical sense.
+Just Jax you are one of those social justice racists eh? Diversity in white movies only, diversity in white country's only. Mary Jane? Established white character in every movie, comic and story to date - now suddenly not, Black Panther, established black character, black in every representation, black on screen, I'd be fucking chuffed they were being accurate. But please, continue on your spiteful crusade for "diversity" no matter what impact that has on consistency and accuracy, ignore that changing established characters details like this pisses off fans (no, not because they are racists like you, small minded racist diversity drone) but because fans who have followed a series before it became movie fodder don't see Mary Jane as a fucking chameleon who changes colour every page. Make people around them "diverse"? Sure, a little, the characters themselves? That's just "blackwashing" to put a spin on a term you and your buddies are so fond of my friendly little hypocrite
Here is the re:View: "The movie was nothing special. The effects haven't aged well. The script is a mess because Brandon Lee tragically died during filming which is the only reason anyone remembers it and the only impression is made on society was to inspire a wrestler that's more popular than the movie to rip off the look....okay bye"
Meteor Man is vastly underrated IMO. It has hilarious moments, like the one where the protagonist accidentally grabs this fashion book, absorbs its contents, drops it at the antagonist, who also absorbs the knowledge, and both of them then proceed to "battle" by doing catwalks.. Also, they are full of crap. Blade is a classic, and did not age poorly at all. Way to miss the mark, guys.
Ah Meteor Man such a good popcorn movie! Who could forget the drive by scene. And such great performances by legendary actors Don Cheadle, Deebo, James Earl Jones, Chris Tucker (uncredited: mall announcer), and America’s Dad himself Bill Cosby who saves the day with his magical fingers.
I watched and loved Blade when it first came out at the age of 13. I never even cared to note that the lead actors were black because at the time I didn't even care to think about race. It was actually hardcore anti-racist PC people that taught me to always politicize race, and in an ironic twist, to be more racist ;)
Christopher Lowery I feel most "shades" between are often lumped into "black and white" "dark and pale" in many racial politics. Of course, what category they are lumped into always depends on what is more advantageous for the racial topic being discussed. For example, north eastern Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) are half the time lumped into the "Pale skinned" category (especially when talking about wealth distribution and economics) as the "suppressors" and half the time as "people of color" when it is advantageous to use them as the victim. In an interracial marriage myself (and living as a minority in Japan) I really hate racial politics, extreme PC is doing more harm than good IMO. This is not to say that race shouldn't be discussed sometimes, but when everything becomes about race, well, then you are only prolonging racism. Even within basic racial categories themselves (white and black) there are various different shades and cultural histories, so where do you draw lines between categories? Just my opinion, don't expect everyone to agree.
@@KaiserSynd1918 AKA exactly how every joyless motherf*cker that hate their lives currently thinks because...reasons. The sad part is that they hate their lives because the people they trust make them an endless pit of misery by constantly shouting insane nonsense at them daily.
@@mattsmith-we8ny like when you mean you were just ignorant of race politics? because I cannot imagine you saying race didn't matter at all during... At any past point really
Blade was fucking sick and that soundtrack oh my! Not a smart movie by any stretch but just so much fun. "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" LOL
@@numerical25 He will praise boring bullshit like the VVitch. Also, he said that balde and deacon frost had no relation, that '' he just bit his mom''.
Long ago I thought Plinkett reviews were their best and Half in the Bag was OK. Now I really like Best of the Worst. I have laughed to tears because of numerous episodes.
I bought doughnuts one night, and was looking forward to eating them in the morning. When I woke up the bag was completely swarmed with ants, and I had to throw them away.
I remember in the 00's when we ripped on how uncool the 80's were. Give it another ten years and the 90's will be cool and the 00's will be the lame decade.
"Some Mofos are always trying to ice skate uphill" Basically means "some people are always doing dumb sh!t" Or "Some people are always behaving in ways that make no sense." That line has always made sense to me, and Snipes delivery of that line sold it perfectly.
To provide you some necessary context, many of us who saw the howlingly bad liquid-blood CG effects at the climax when we watched _Blade_ in theaters had seen _Terminator 2_ a bunch of times by then, a movie with much better similar effects from _seven years_ beforehand
@@MegaZeta That's why they mentioned the budget of the movie. T2 had a budget of 100 million (120 million in 1998 dollars adjusted for inflation), so of course it would hold up better. That's why the CG in Jurassic Park 1 looks much better than a lot of movies with CG that came out years later. For a lower budget movie at the time, Blade looks fine. I had no problems with it when I saw it in theaters on release. For bad CG on a movie with a larger budget see the scorpion king character CG in The Mummy Returns (98 million in 2001). It looked bad then and it still looks bad.
I watched this for the first time last week, and as someone who grew up in the late 90s early 2000s listening to techno and watching The Matrix I fucking loved it. Some pieces of the OST are now in my regular listening rotation
If techno and sword fighting is wrong I don't wanna be right.
Truer words have never been spoken.
It's not techno though.
@@dandansen4261well, he said he doesn't wanna be right.
You actually got me to laugh out loud 😂
@@dandansen4261 shut up dan
“I was a dumb kid who thought Techno was awesome and sword fighting was awesome.”
Those things ARE awesome though.
That line has been wonderful bait to draw out all you nerds who have yet to realize how you're seen by others
@@MegaZeta Dismissing a whole music genre based on your own insecurities is fucking ridiculous
Pretty sure Jay loves synthwave
@@MegaZeta And we're the ones whom history keeps on proving right. Half the stuff people do today are just extensions of the 90s.
@@Lodatzor uh that's how time works. The present is an extension of the past.
As a teenage nerd who was into Vampire the Masquerade LARPing, let me tell you: Blade was a MASSIVE influence on the community. Suddenly, everyone was wearing sunglasses indoors as well as leather trench coats while listening to that one techno song from the start of the movie over and over again. Next year's The Matrix just further solidified that look.
You lost me at teenage.
That actually sounds fun
There are (were?) a lot of punk aesthetics in White Wolf games. I'm not sure if it was a counter to grunge? T2 was out the year before, Dracula was '92, Edward Scissor Hands was '90. *shrug* somethin' in the Georgia water I guess.
The Raver Scene is just a great setup for Vampire. Hedonism, Addiction, weird Costumes, happening at night...
YES!!!!! Someone on a red letter media video who loves old rpgs like Vampire The Masquerade :)
When I was a kid we were allowed to open one Christmas present on Christmas Eve. I opened Blade. Made my family watch this movie on Christmas eve.
I knew I wasn't the only family that did this!
That's what jesus would have wanted
Hahahahaha that's great
Legendary
Actually Blade has THE best opening in superhero's movies ever. In my opinion.
..because of Traci Lords, correct.
Maybe if Watchmen didn't exist imo, that fight scene plus the credits are unmatched
@@RickReasonnz No.
Superman: The Movie has the best opening.
Dark Knight Rises is great.
Wait .... Techno and sword fighting are not awesome?
@Major Gear Yes, thank you!
Those things fit together like peanut butter and jelly. Except if its in an unfitting setting
They are
Ice skating uphill was huge in the 90's...
I don't think Crashed Ice started until the 2000s.
It makes sense because he also said "motherfuckers"
You have to remember Jay and Jack weren't the cool kids.
They didn't know about all the rad and/or tubular trends.
I didn't know about uphill skating, but I just love that line. It's just cool.
actually you can skate uphill if the hill is tilted sufficiently relative to the direction of gravity
I can’t even express how many people I’ve seen call Black Panther the “first (successful) black led superhero movie,” completely forgetting about the epic trendsetter that was Blade, thank you for fighting the good fight against Blade erasure
i also liked spawn 1997
Hello? How about Steel, featuring Shaquille O'Neal?
Nobody remembers Blade?? The intro sequence was legendary! I still remember it to this day.
Like 10 billion commenters on this video, Jack thinks he's the only person who remembers something that a bunch of people remember
Which you antude asshole
@@MegaZetaJack also thought nobody was going to watch Avatar 2. I like the dude, but his grasp of our reality seems to elude him sometimes.
@@KilliK69 I've been watching Pre Rec and yeah he has some absolutely wild takes on that show.
I mean, with the way Deadpool marketed itself as "the first R-Rated comic book movie" and the amount of people who bought into that, he kind of has a point.
Though that might be more a case of people not realising Blade was a comic book character.
First time I whole heartedly disagree with RLM. Blade is a classic.
Snipes IS Blade (much like Downey is Iron Man). The reboot has A LOT to measure up to.
Wait they're actually doing a reboot? goddamn :(
some movie makers are always trying to ice skate up hill
The remake will suck, and you know it. Not that the original series are like the best movies ever. But Disney is incapable of doing anything even slightly properly.
@@suicidalbanananana Yes, Blade will be a part of the MCU
Mahershala Ali is going to be the new Blade.
I personally loved this movie, and people forget that it IS the originator of the current MCU. The second one is not bad either, but the third is trash. I'm actually interested in seeing this reboot.
I was rewatching Blade II recently and realized I forgot how good it was. Then the credits rolled, directed by Guillermo del Toro. Well, no shit.
lol blade 2 was shit
And it had the Cat from Red Dwarf! :D
yeah I've always loved blade 2
The only thing I remember from that film is the vampire guy going "So sweet!" while drinking blood and the terrible cgi blood.
Blade and Blade 2 are both far better than any shit marvel has ever put out.
I agree with RLM about 90% of the time. This is part of the 10% remainder. Blade is legitimately a fun, awesome fucking movie that still holds up.
Did u even watch the review? They love it
@@asseroya they said it's a drunk background movie
These guys also didn't like Tron and Tron Legacy. Almost unforgivable.
@@geovani60624 more like "perfect sunday afternoon hangover movie", the exact quote from the ending, which is actually a very valuable segment of movies I think!
The Count Of Monte Fisto was probably really drunk and didn't realize what she was saying.
That's the only explanation.
Wait. The Crow came out 4 years before this, was R rated, had 2 Asian main characters, and did the techno sword fight gun slinger thing... so...
It is almost like 90s comic book movies were so progressive that no 'progressives' ever saw them.
an asian lead in a martial arts movie? what a daring choice
Yeah people keep talking about the greatest comic book movies im over here with the crow always my favorite.
@@roselynn6753 Nah, The Crow was alright, but its sequels suck balls.
@@roselynn6753 it is ok
It's strange to hear them discussing the movie in terms of something "everyone has forgotten," because in my mind it's remained one of the most influential genre movies of the last 30 years and 100% holds up as a stylistic masterpiece that defines that turn-of-the-millennium music video aesthetic. It's gorgeous in all its anamorphic glory.
Hugh Jackman is Wolverine and Wesley Snipes is Blade
The media literally told everyone, "Black Panther is the first black superhero movie." They flat out pretended Blade never existed.
Blade was a success at least as far as I can remember also thats why it had 2 sequels. I can see why nobody is talking about it because there has been over 10 years of build up movies for Avengers ending that you just forget about all the super hero movies that get crapped out over the years.
@@get8bit To be fair most people don't even know Blade is a comic book movie as he is a very obscure Marvel character that never had his own series prior to the movies release. Pretty much every character was invented for the film.
Furthermore the people who made it weren't making a comic book movie they were making a vampire/action movie.
Also the media never said Black Panther was the first black superhero movie, at most they said it was the first black MCU movie, but I understand bashing "duh mee dEE uh" on the interwebz makes you sound cool so who cares if you gotta hypocritically invent fake news? No one will notice and you'll get those cheap internet point that you clearly value so much.
Obviously everyone just collectively forgot that Blade wasn't even the first black superhero film of the 90s, along with pretending Hancock never existed, because that's how evil "duh mee dEE uh" is. This can't possibly be a reflection of your own desire engage in faux outrage while also decrying "outrage culture" without a shred of self awareness...right?
@@JamesKlemm87 TONS of articles out there proclaiming black panther not only the first MCU black super hero, but the first black super hero in film period. They pretended my fav childhood films Spawn, Meteor Man, and THREE Blades never existed. I don't have to invent shizzzzzzzz. The media does lie through their teeth while sucking.
Blade and Blade 2 were fucking great! I still put the vampire club opening scene in Blade as one of the best openings in any movie ever. They're pure cheese but they're not trying to be anything else so it works. It's not pretty good/bad it's pretty good/cheese good. There's a self awareness and unapologeticness about cheese good that separates it from bad. Flash Gordon is a perfect example of this.
I can't believe Jack is replacing Mike.
I can't believe Josh replaced Star Trek.
I can't believe they're replacing Red Letter Media with an all Jack cast
I can't believe re:View is replacing Wesley Snipes taxes.
Actually...
Honestly fuck this "is x replacing "y" meme.
Jennifer Lawrence really isn't that hot though, lel
She is a human potatoe, she is not
No ass.
King Steve
I don't get comments like this. Like really, are you THAT fascinated with the woman that you feel like you have to defend her at any given opportunity?
Well, we've all seen her cooch, and it ain't pretty. There's no....mystique to it anymore.
I remember that (i was the girl she raped and killed btw)
i kinda like how the CGI looks. It's dated in the same way harryhausen's stop-motion is. Not that it's that good, but it has that same charming jankiness to it that most dated CGI lacks
The first two Blade movies are great. Some of the best examples of action horror. Wesley Snipes just owns the role.
and then dead pool shows up
Jay, The Matrix has aged JUST FINE, thank you very much.
Ok
Yup, it has aged well. I thought it was great when I saw it in theaters in '99 and I still think it's great!
The story and effects are all time classic. But nobody could dress anything close to that nowadays without looking ridiculous.
I beg to differ
The Matrix was and still is awesome
I'd argue that the movie is actually more enjoyable to watch in 2016 than 1998. The aspects of the movie that date it to the 90's were exhausting even in '98 due to two decades of action heroes spouting one-liners. While the good parts of Blade are still good, the parts that feel dated add a level of enjoyable schlock to the movie these days. Now it can be enjoyed as both a solidly made superhero film and a hilariously pretentious grimdark 90's action movie full of techno leather swordfights.
The parts that are actually weird writing things, like Whistler's cancer? That stuff is still kinda weird and doesn't help at all. But trying to ice skate uphill always makes me laugh when I re-watch it.
Raja Thyagaraj What We Do In The Shadows
"Some people are always trying to ice skate uphill."
That horrible one-liner is the only thing I really remember about this film that made vampires lame long before Twilight ever came out.
I agree. It's not a good movie, but it is very enjoyable to watch especially because of all that 90s cheese.
Whistler becoming a vampire "cured" his cancer and allowed him to be in Blade 2.
Or maybe they were just trying to say that Whistler would be out in Blade 1 no matter (death by vampire or cancer).
Sure, it doesn't add much, but the random nonsense lines can be kinda funny in that fun-bad way.
(Whistler got the results of the test back. He definitely has breast cancer).
You guys aren't accurate in describing Blade's influence on films. It influenced movies like the Underworld series, Daylight, Priest, Ultraviolet, Daywatch, Night watch, etc. Not the superhero film genre. Just because a movie features a superhero doesn't mean people perceive it that way. This set off a chain of vampire action films in a way that John Carpenter's Vampires or From Dusk 'Til Dawn never did. In fact it may also have influenced the Matrix. But it really has nothing to do with influencing the superhero films. That was, indeed, X-Men. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films, the Fantastic Four films, Daredevil, Elektra, Catwoman, Batman Begins, etc. all comes from X-Men, not Blade.
You might include the Resident Evil franchise as well. Swap super zombies for vampires.
Completely disagree. Blade was a catalyst for the next and most prominent wave of comic book films. People'd argue Burton's Batman, but it really was Blade. Batman & Robin, and Forever before it, quelling superheroes as popular and marketable. Which honestly was the Batman series during 90s. There's some one offs here and there, but still, they weren't that prevalent. Marvel was planning on doing Spider-Man and X-Men in the 90s, but it kept getting reshuffled or put in development hell. Blade showed studios and Marvel that a lesser-known could do well, so it was like studios asked what else they had and Marvel handed over top tier with glee. THEN, X-Men and Spider-Man happened and every studio was buying up comic book properties in a tidal wave of trend. Blade is an important comic book movie. (Ironically, people didn't originally know it was a Marvel character, let alone a comic book character.)
I suppose Blade and its sequels influenced more and more vampire stuff, but so did Anne Rice adaptations, with Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damned.
I remember when this movie came out, it wasn't marketed as a superhero movie and hardly anyone knew this was based on a comicbook character. Hell, people didn't even recognize the Marvel logo at the beginning of the movie. For a lot of movie goers it may have been their first time seeing the logo and probably didn't bat an eyelash since it was the first movie that wasn't some direct to VHS garbage. He barely had a run of popular comics at the time (if any at all) and still doesn't. Blade was so obscure that the movie pretty much had free rein to do whatever to the character.
litovietbui Right. It actually influenced the comic book Blade it was so good. Originally Eric wasn't a half-vampire. He was just a vampire slayer with immunity from a vampire's bite (he couldn't be turned) bc of his mother being bitten while pregnant having an adverse effect on him. Mutating him. So the comic's literally evolved the character more to match the popular interpretation of him being a daywalking dhampir.
Creators even admitted going forward based on Blades's success... They said it! So fact. No Blade, no X-Men, no Marvel Studios (as they are now).
"everybody forgot about it. nobody talks about blade ever" i need to start hanging out with you guys, if you dont know anybody that talks about blade.
Where do you fucking live? Nobody where i live remembers blade
+Jepze Your fault for living in a hole. Blade is great and a lot of people know this.
Don't be mad at Jepze. He's clearly in an area experiencing the Mandela Effect.
+everett von scott I live in country so i guess that is true
+Madklok Well you have to hide your powerlevel, man.
Can you guys review Reign of Fire or Event Horizon, they're both shlock but stand the test of time real well compared to what's been coming out these days. At least they have some heart, and balls, big beefy balls.
How DARE you refer to the glorious nightmare fuel that is Event Horizon schlock!?
I mean, it is, but that's just rude. I watched that for the first time in my 20s, and still woke up from a very confusing horror dream afterwards
They should do Event Horizon but on Best of the Worst
@I Wanna Die Movie Night Beat me to it.
Jay not liking the special effects in Blade makes me feel like I've entered a Mandela offshoot universe.
No one ever brings up The Rocketeer when talking about superheroes movies...
They should re:View that movie.
+MrBing 90 No I'm well aware of how much they've talked about it. I meant more generally, people never seem to bring it up.
+allluckyseven I'd love that, but they already like 10 mins about it on Half in the Bag. So it's unlikely they will
No one ever goes back to the 1960's (or even the 1950's short films) Batman. Comic book movies have been a thing since comic books it seems.
*****
I guess you totally missed my point. Everyone tries to one up someone with "Everyone forgot (insert name here)". So, I took it further. No one would say the 1950's film Batman franchise started comic book movies. But I guess that wasn't clear enough for you.
Don't forget Spawn [1997]
Or Steel starring Shaq
Now that they brought up Blankman they need to do a re-view of it.
Fun fact: At the time I recommended Spawn to my brother and he recommended The Matrix....... Soooo............... yeah......
oddly enough, the special effects in Spawn were ahead of its time, in fact they hold up well even today. But the "hell" CGI shit was fucking terrible. His costume effects were amazing.
The Rocketeer
BEST LINE EVER! You are over thinking it. Ice skating uphill, if you will.
The line at the end of the film was Blade being arrogant. He was saying that Frost trying to beat him was as futile as trying to ice skate uphill.
It is an equivalent to Dirty Harry's "A man's got to know his limitations"
Blade really doesn't get much credit for it's influence.
ACTUALLY...............*clears throat*............... Spawn from 1997 that you didn't mention was the first modern superhero comic book movie AND it had a black superhero character. Just so you know. *adjusts extra thick glasses with tape in the middle and feels super smart*
We don't talk about Spawn. Ever.
Do we? I've never met you! was I drunk?
Ah, I do that sober. I don't know which is which any more.
No.
Peter Loew Spawn was terrible though
does him having cancer even need to be a plot thing though? can he not just have cancer? is it not cool that a character just has a major disease and it doesn't come into the plot at all, it just shows one of his weaknesses as a human and makes him more real of a character
+Hurbs Buckooglberb I don't love Johnny.
I think the point they're making is it's kind of weird to introduce that he has cancer and is dying only for that not to be relevant at all. It would've been interesting if he deliberately became a vampire to over come his "weaknesses" as a human.
@@ASHtheSLUGCAT yeah in the 5 years since I made this comment I’ve understood more what they meant hahah
I liked Blade, it got me into Vampire the Masquerade since my dad had the GURPS rulesets. I really liked it, personally.
Gotta disagree with you guys. This movie is so cool and deservedly confident in itself, with a lead that nails the character and is interesting to watch, it shits on all this new, safe Marvel garbage from such a great height.
It's just a better movie than you might think it would be, there's a lot of dumb and bad stuff in it too, chill out
It sux dude, it just doesnt hold up well at all, Marvel isnt 'safe' at all, it just doesnt need a cheap R rating to create stories of worth ;)
And Blade is gonna be part of the mainstream now. Strange.
Loki Heimdallr how exactly does it suck??? It’s a pretty solid action film.
Wesley Snipes as Blade elevates it, without that it would probably be a pretty terrible movie.
There's only ever gonna be one Blade.
Some aspects of this movie are outdated, like the special effects and overall style. But I think the techno soundtrack for the action scenes is one of the most underrated things ever and I wish they used more music like that in action movies. It actually elevates a scene to a whole new level.
I was working at Blockbuster when Blade came out. As usual, we got the tapes the day before it was released on video. Later on that evening, the manager brought out a cart full of copies to stock after we closed and she went back to her office. Someone put a copy in the store VHS player so we got to see the opening on like 10 screens around the store. We got about 3/4 of the way through the rave scene before the manager came running out to shut it off. For those few minutes though, everyone in the store was fixated on those screens. While that's an awesome opening for any movie, it was really something for its time. I'll never forget that feeling of the people who hadn't seen the movie react like whoa, what the fuck was that and the people who had seen it looking like I know, dude. That's one of my favorite memories of cinema.
I can't wait for the Blade re-make starring an all-white cast!
Nothin' wrong with that!
JonTron Hey, you're right. There's hope yet.
Isn't Bane white in the comics? Pink skin, brown hair. If I remember correctly, his original design in the Animated Series looked much more Hispanic, though.
+Leee if race doesn't matter for characterisation why should it matter if he is black? Hollywood is trying to get away from white as the norm for everything. Not every character who is black has to have their story be about them being black.
chaz Davis It wasn't a joke. Equilibrium is the closest thing we've got so far.
Nope. Also Gods of Egypt.
Between their take on Blade and Mad Max 2: Road Warrior, I think RLM do have some modern biases at just weird times. Personally, I'd take Blade over half of the MCU, especially Black Panther.
Half? I'd say 3 tops
@@stellviahohenheim I'd take Blade over everything but the first Iron Man, the Guardians trilogy, and Deadpool & Wolverine. Everything else can be forgotten.
In my opinion Blade gets even better with age. It is great movie, ahead of its time and as reviewers noticed - really influential.
re:View Galaxy Quest pleeeeease
Why, so they can shit on a perfectly good movie?
Whatever else you say about this movie, that intro is still the hypest shit of all time.
You gotta give the CG in this movie a pass. This was back when video games were just starting to use 3D graphics instead of sprites.
Oh god I remember when video game graphics regressed by 10 years just because "they're polygons". They were a steaming pile of shit is what they were. Virtua Fighter 1 in the arcades was the start of it. Then Playstation 1 with its garbage graphics.
@@WildBluntHickok I tried playing Ocarina of Time a few years ago and it's darn near unplayable with its fat polygons and checkerboard textures.
This movie never happened. Black Panther fanboys say so.
I think you’re confusing “marvels studios first black super hero film” with “the first film to feature a black superhero from marvel comics.”
Whiner
The movie is happening again lol.
Black panther sucked
This IS a Marvel Studios film.
I'd have Blade 1&2 over any of the other superhero rubbish in the last 15 years
I don't get why you are shitting on Blade and then go on to say Marvel made at more "interesting" films.
Two thirds of the Marvel films are just as cheesy or even more so with bland direction and characization.
Shitting on Blade? They both agreed it was a good movie and superhero movies should stop following the exposition structure of marvel movies and adopt Blade's.
Mister over sensitive baby here cannot understand criticism from "shiiting on".
Harambe's opinion = fact
We praise you lord Harambe. Your opinion will be the pillars of our beliefs!
MCU movies are great.
Jay thinks his opinion is fact. He should have my opinion instead because my opinion is much better.
No hypocrisy here! Carry on, people!
Did they just say that The Matrix has aged badly is no longer cool? Hrhrmrhrrmrhmrrjhrhrrmrrrmrmrmmmmm..........................
I havent forgotten about Blade. That movie was fucking awesome!!!
I'll take "cheesy" Blade over the "so epic" Superhero Movies of 2010 any day, as well as "lame" 90s Techno over whatever pop-autotune-trash is popular right now
I've never seen anybody that seems more like they huff their own farts than you. Good job.
@@aerthreepwood8021 there's nothing wrong with huffing your own farts. don't lump us fart-huffers in with this dipwad
Lmao did you listen to 3 songs off the radio and decide all modern songs are trash
This is priceless in 2024 after D v W
This makes me want to see Wesley Snipes' grand return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, complete with a 4th-wall breaking reference to being imprisoned somewhere for 20 years.
brb, off to watch his new Western...
Brian Marini The IRS are the biggest bloodsuckers of all.
I think that would make a great dead pool movie
This wqs brought up in Expendables 3 actually. Direct call out and everything.
You're never gonna believe what happens in Deadpool and Wolverine
I can't believe this comment was written SEVEN years ago.
Damn, this was a disappointing review of an excellent action film. Blade holds up incredibly well today and shouldn't be relegated to a 'Sunday afternoon hangover movie'. It ranks high up there with the best comic-book movies. These two were so hung up on the CGI and 90's fashion only to brush over and give light mentions to the strong characters and world building. The movie deserves to have the latter spoken of more than the former, but you defeated your own premise of a forgotten film by focusing on the former.
There is also the Crow but most people forget it is based on a comic book.
And The Mask. Still wish they hadn't waited 15 years to do a sequel because they were hoping Jim Carrey would come back. In the comic everyone who is the main character dies at the beginning of the next storyline. The only reoccuring characters are the cop and the mask itself (Loki).
IMO blade is an excellent movie. But the intent of the film is for you to be entertained, not to be taken seriously. The guys are a bit dismissive of it here. Yes the cgi is slightly dated but who cares.
"Techno bad" -literally Moby
In Decay? More like Into Gay!
A F T R T H A T? More like H O M O S E X U A L! amirite fellas?
@@indecay8756
You sed it, brother!
Jay was way too hard on this movie. It was 100% awesome. It might not have held up, but for the time?
I still think the Blade movies are some of the best comic book movies. I think it's due to the simple plot and the fact that there is no Natalie Portman character to fuck it. Same reason why I love Dredd. I like bad movies and 90s cringe as well. Let's see if another Spider man reboot will learn or if we have to sit through Uncle Ben dying again.
Well uncle ben is the equivalent of kenny in southpark. He always dies in different ways and instead being sad and down , its becoming laughable that every iteration of uncle ben ends with death .
Watching in 2024 after seeing Deadpool and Wolverine. Once again RLM sees the future.
I returned to this historic review and hope the new Blade is dead like Wesley said. Unless he plays Blade.
Wesley Snipes/Blade doesn’t get nearly enough credit it deserves for being a pioneer to both Marvel and the superhero movie genre in general. It’s so awful that it doesn’t get the love it deserves
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Also, I always felt that the last line was about how some people are always fighting the natural order of things in circumstances where they shouldn’t belong. It’s so cheesy, but I absolutely love that final kill line haha
I dont care what anyone says these movies still look cool
Blade is one of my favorite comic book movies with Dredd, Captain America: Winter soldier and V for Vendetta.
Up vote for Darkman Re:view.
Just throwing out there, three years later, that Stephen Dorff was in Season 3 of True Detective and absolutely killed it in his role. He's legitimately a great actor.
3 years later? You mean 3 decades later? Blade is old. Stephen is in the movie felon. Watch that one
That was a long three years...
I never realized this was before the Matrix.
Oh yeah, so many notes were taken from it.
I love this film because that scene where blood sprays from the ceiling in the vampire rave is just the perfect sweet spot of being really fucking awesome and absolutely absurd. It's one of my favorite movie scenes.
Dudes, I never stopped talking about Blade. Blade was pretty dope and I can see how it hasn't aged well, but it's still cooler than half the stuff coming out. I think "Smack My Bitch Up" was the most dated reference you made in this video, that's something that no one talks about anymore. But Blade paved the way for X-Men, and that paved the way for Spider-Man which was so successful that superhero movies started to be taken seriously. That paved the way for Iron Man and the MCU. Also, it fell into that trap of the third movie being crap. Blade Trinity, X-Men The Last Stand, and Spider-Man 3 all sucked, mostly because I think they were at the end of a 3 picture deal and instead of keeping it simple as you say, they tried to jam in every idea they ever had into that last movie and it got way too bloated.
Shoulda done Blade 2, it's the best of them
Nah the first is better.....both are brilliant tho
Blade 2 is a better movie. But Blade is pretty great given that it came out of nowhere, was made for about $3 and maybe influenced the Matrix, X-Men and a bunch of other stuff.
I actually liked the first one better.
2nd movie is still good tho.
Agreed.
Yup, Blade 2 was awesome
Jennifer Lawrence isn't that hot.
5 outta 10. Would not bang.
+DaRealN8Doogie I wouldn't want to play against those odds lol
5/10? Get a load of this white knight
Wow you're all a bunch of neckbeards, it's not like beauty is subjective or anything.
Cloud Stratus You've found us out
I've always loved Blade, I didn't even know that it was a comic though.
Not a big deal that you didn't know Blade was from comics... the movie used the comic book character as a jumping-off point but had very little in common with it otherwise. The character's look, his abilities, his friends and his world were all invented fresh for the movie. A lot of kids back then didn't realize it, though, because they pre-debuted the movie version of Blade on the _Spider-Man_ cartoon show on Fox beforehand.
@@l34CoNCreepy Yeah, the movie's version of Blade, as well as David Goyer's original character Whistler who was invented for the movie, debuted on the _Spider-Man_ cartoon show on Fox. At the time, Marvel's TV and movie liaison division were one and the same. The movie came out years after the TV appearance, though, because New Line Cinema kept demanding changes and made production a nightmare.
A few years back, studio Madhouse released an anime series of this Marvel property.... It's actually pretty good. I think Blade is great. This is one of the few time that I COMPLETELY disagree with RLM.
The original Blade was from the 70s Dracula comic. They were sick of using enemies of Dracula people already knew like Van Helsing so they invented a new one.
Most people didn't know at the time and it really is a vampire film more than a comic book movie.
I love Blade and I don't care who knows.
Also, "Wesley Snipes rips out a man's throat and throws it at another guy. You're not gonna see that in Ant Man!"
Is this replacing Wesley Snipes Tax Evasion?
This episode has the two skinny ones? Those hack frauds!
fat shaming.
It always amazes me how no one remembers that Men In Black is based off a Marvel comic even though it says that in the opening scene.
Hmmm... still the best Marvel movie, and The Matrix was pretty much a copy/paste with better effects. Blade had leather trench coats, martial arts, computer hackers, bullet time, industrial techno music, a "chosen one", a corridor uzi shootout, etc. etc. etc.. The only thing not holding up is the cgi in the final fight..
The 90s aged really well, compared to the hellscape we live in now. Techno is still big and so is sword fighting.
"Now everyone is talkling about with Spiderman Homecoming, they made Mary Jane black and there's a lot of diversity to the cast"
Oh good, I'm so glad they changed the races of already established characters and riding off their popularity instead of coming up with a new character with that race.
Why is this okay and whitewashing is evil? They both seem awful to me.
Agreed
There is obviously a difference between "making a group of people that's historically been less visible more visible" and "making a group of people that's always been more visible even more visible". It's the same in principle, but you also have to look at how the real world works. Then i guess you can argue whether any of it is useful or not.
aww you're butt hurt because they have a black girl playing a character that isn't even confirmed in the film yet? Is Mary Jane that much of a main character that her change in race will fuck up the entire marvel universe?
Todd Bollinger Peter Parker for example, goes to school in Queens! I don't think people have been there. It's DIVERSE. You'll find everyone under the sun, black/white/asian/Hispanic/middle eastern.
Having a modern cast of characters to reflect the actually real world atmosphere, just makes more logical sense.
+Just Jax you are one of those social justice racists eh? Diversity in white movies only, diversity in white country's only. Mary Jane? Established white character in every movie, comic and story to date - now suddenly not, Black Panther, established black character, black in every representation, black on screen, I'd be fucking chuffed they were being accurate. But please, continue on your spiteful crusade for "diversity" no matter what impact that has on consistency and accuracy, ignore that changing established characters details like this pisses off fans (no, not because they are racists like you, small minded racist diversity drone) but because fans who have followed a series before it became movie fodder don't see Mary Jane as a fucking chameleon who changes colour every page. Make people around them "diverse"? Sure, a little, the characters themselves? That's just "blackwashing" to put a spin on a term you and your buddies are so fond of my friendly little hypocrite
Loved the Rich Evans cameo at 11:51
love you man :D :D :D
Oh it's the other guy
and the OTHER other guy
When people tune in to re:View they wanna see Mike Stoklasa and the other guy. They don't wanna see the other guy and an other other guy.
+Emperor Palpatine I like Jack :(
He has a name and his name is Jake!
No it's not, it's Jack & Jay
What about a re:View of "The Crow"?
After more then 20 years still holds up very well
Here is the re:View:
"The movie was nothing special. The effects haven't aged well. The script is a mess because Brandon Lee tragically died during filming which is the only reason anyone remembers it and the only impression is made on society was to inspire a wrestler that's more popular than the movie to rip off the look....okay bye"
Meteor Man is vastly underrated IMO. It has hilarious moments, like the one where the protagonist accidentally grabs this fashion book, absorbs its contents, drops it at the antagonist, who also absorbs the knowledge, and both of them then proceed to "battle" by doing catwalks..
Also, they are full of crap. Blade is a classic, and did not age poorly at all. Way to miss the mark, guys.
Ah Meteor Man such a good popcorn movie! Who could forget the drive by scene. And such great performances by legendary actors Don Cheadle, Deebo, James Earl Jones, Chris Tucker (uncredited: mall announcer), and America’s Dad himself Bill Cosby who saves the day with his magical fingers.
I watched and loved Blade when it first came out at the age of 13. I never even cared to note that the lead actors were black because at the time I didn't even care to think about race. It was actually hardcore anti-racist PC people that taught me to always politicize race, and in an ironic twist, to be more racist ;)
Alas, the catch-22 of black & white thinking. Infinite shades of grey overlooked and unappreciated.
me too it never crossed my mind. I miis the days when race didn't matter, fuck progressives
Christopher Lowery
I feel most "shades" between are often lumped into "black and white" "dark and pale" in many racial politics. Of course, what category they are lumped into always depends on what is more advantageous for the racial topic being discussed. For example, north eastern Asians (Japanese, Korean, Chinese) are half the time lumped into the "Pale skinned" category (especially when talking about wealth distribution and economics) as the "suppressors" and half the time as "people of color" when it is advantageous to use them as the victim. In an interracial marriage myself (and living as a minority in Japan) I really hate racial politics, extreme PC is doing more harm than good IMO. This is not to say that race shouldn't be discussed sometimes, but when everything becomes about race, well, then you are only prolonging racism. Even within basic racial categories themselves (white and black) there are various different shades and cultural histories, so where do you draw lines between categories? Just my opinion, don't expect everyone to agree.
@@KaiserSynd1918 AKA exactly how every joyless motherf*cker that hate their lives currently thinks because...reasons. The sad part is that they hate their lives because the people they trust make them an endless pit of misery by constantly shouting insane nonsense at them daily.
@@mattsmith-we8ny like when you mean you were just ignorant of race politics? because I cannot imagine you saying race didn't matter at all during... At any past point really
No Rich Evans, no sale. These are my terms.
Love Rich Evans. I think it is a good thing to hear different voices once and awhile. The guys that run RLM know what they're doing.
Blade was fucking sick and that soundtrack oh my! Not a smart movie by any stretch but just so much fun. "Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" LOL
Deacon Frost first appeared in 1973, not sure that's the "most 90s name ever"
I was about ot write that Jay and jack look really healthy now but then I noticed this video is 7 years old
Actually just watched Blade a few months ago. Definitely silly in some parts but still a really fun movie.
The effects are fine. If you could suspend your disbelief with early 3D games, you can do it here.
Stop calling things "techno" when it's obviously breakbeats!
Nobody cares.
whaatt? it is clearly techno
Yes, Pearl.
@@ThreadBomb this indeed... People call everything techno......
well said
Jay honestly implied that Blade isn't a good movie? Wow...
No, he didn't.
ThePinkMan
multiple times he did
He said it was a solid movie with elements that did not hold up.
If you notice, Jay is usually critical of every movie. I rarely see him complete praise a movie for being perfect.
@@numerical25 He will praise boring bullshit like the VVitch. Also, he said that balde and deacon frost had no relation, that '' he just bit his mom''.
I actually really dig Blade's effects, they have the same vibes to me as like the first three Mortal Kombat games
Honestly, is there anything better than RLM's re:reviews?
I mean re:Views, cant edit on my phone
***** mhm, i like these better personally
Half a Plinketto in the bag
Long ago I thought Plinkett reviews were their best and Half in the Bag was OK. Now I really like Best of the Worst. I have laughed to tears because of numerous episodes.
penicillin
I guess they've never seen the Netflix shows. Those are gritty as hell.
The Flash, Jessica Jones and Daredevil are all shit
I forgot that RLMs comment section is full of human garbage. I gotta stop commenting.
+David Garcia So that makes you human garbage in your own eyes...
IF I say my bag of doritos is full of ants does that mean there are only ants in there?
I bought doughnuts one night, and was looking forward to eating them in the morning. When I woke up the bag was completely swarmed with ants, and I had to throw them away.
New Order - Confusion (Pump Panel Reconstruction Mix)
"Him having cancer makes no sense". It was just foreshadowing for The Room.
My favorite R rated 90s comic book movie was The Crow. I still play the soundtrack when I am feeling nostalgic.
I remember in the 00's when we ripped on how uncool the 80's were. Give it another ten years and the 90's will be cool and the 00's will be the lame decade.
Stephen Norrington end up directing League of extraordinaire gentleman...and david goyer end up writing Batman v superman. What a sad fate.
"Some Mofos are always trying to ice skate uphill"
Basically means "some people are always doing dumb sh!t"
Or
"Some people are always behaving in ways that make no sense."
That line has always made sense to me, and Snipes delivery of that line sold it perfectly.
For a 54 million budget 90´s movie the cgi doesn´t look that bad to me
To provide you some necessary context, many of us who saw the howlingly bad liquid-blood CG effects at the climax when we watched _Blade_ in theaters had seen _Terminator 2_ a bunch of times by then, a movie with much better similar effects from _seven years_ beforehand
@@MegaZeta That's why they mentioned the budget of the movie. T2 had a budget of 100 million (120 million in 1998 dollars adjusted for inflation), so of course it would hold up better. That's why the CG in Jurassic Park 1 looks much better than a lot of movies with CG that came out years later.
For a lower budget movie at the time, Blade looks fine. I had no problems with it when I saw it in theaters on release.
For bad CG on a movie with a larger budget see the scorpion king character CG in The Mummy Returns (98 million in 2001). It looked bad then and it still looks bad.
I watched this for the first time last week, and as someone who grew up in the late 90s early 2000s listening to techno and watching The Matrix I fucking loved it. Some pieces of the OST are now in my regular listening rotation