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Blade
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| Rated:
R |
1998 |
Color |
120
min. |
Awards |
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| Starring: Wesley
Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal
Logue |
| Director:
Stephen Norrington |
| Screen
Writer: David
S. Goyer |
Produced
by:
Peter Frankfurt, Wesley Snipes, Robert Engleman |
| Based
on the Marvel comic by: Marv
Wolfman, Gene Colan |
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| Music:
Mark Isham |
| Movie
Co.: New
Line Cinema |
| Production
Co.: Amen Ra Films, Imaginary
Forces |
| SFX
Co.: Blue Sky/VIFX, Image Savant,
Digiscope, Flat Earth Productions, Post Logic, Wildcat Digital Effects, 525 Post Productions, The Production Plant, Inc.
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| Critique
Section |
Blade:
the most impressive DVD yet? |
HugeReviews.com's
Official Rating System:
Pathetic
Wimpy
Solid Super
HUGE |
| HugeReviews
Critics |
Mark
Capitelli
Rating |
Mike
Flanagan
Rating |
Christian
De Matteo
Rating |
| Store |
Relevant Sites: Official
Site, |
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| The Video & DVD
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DVD
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Soundtrack
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Score
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| The Books
I'm
working on getting some of the original comics up
here, email me with any pointers on directions to
head in for these. -CDM |
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| HugeReviews.com
Reviews:
Putting
Comics on the Cutting Edge: Blade
by Christian
De Matteo
X-Men has gained the
title of the groundbreaking film that made comic
book movies respectable, but Blade broke
that ground a long time ago, and did so with no
safety net.
Finding balls when movies like Spawn
lost theirs, Blade broke through the
comic-rating barrier, making an R-Rated movie
from a comic that could only be an R-rated
movie. This
was a first.
Up until this point, big Hollywood
producer types thought a comic book based movie
wouldn’t make any money, because the kiddies
wouldn’t be able to see it…even when they
shouldn’t be seeing it anyway.
(Don’t get me started on Spawn.)
But Blade did it.
Allowing a bad-ass Vampire killer to be
just that, Wesley Snipes plays the perfect bad
mutha, kicking ass and too cool to chew bubble
gum. Going
outrageous with the special effects, action
moves (flips so impossible, John Woo would pop a
woody), and with the blood and guts, Blade is
the ultimate in hardcore horror/action, complete
with cool lines.
All this and never does it take itself
too seriously.
How can you know that for sure?
When one of the coolest lines is, “Some
muthafuckas always gotta ice-skate up hill”
and Blade quotes (believe it or not) Kentucky
Fried Movie, you know it ain’t taking
itself too seriously.
Throw in the role that
finally made me see Kris Kristoferson as cool, a
huge disgusting mess named Pearl, Donal Logue (The
Tao of Steve) as a jackass vampire, and
Steven Dorff as the chic, hip Vampire hell bent
on taking over the Vampire world and ours as
well, and you’ve got a fun, kick-ass film with
some of the coolest gore ever.
Oh, and don’t forget the
zombies, you can’t forget the zombies.
All and all, Blade
is a great re-watchable watch, fun every time,
great with beer and pizza and From Dusk till
Dawn and John Carpenter’s Vampires.
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DVD The 1st movie
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DVD Blade 2
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DVD
If you like the movie, you'll want
this DVD. It has great background info about the movie.
I enjoyed the commentary, but most of all, this is differently a
re-watchable movie.
We've had 2 movie parties where we backed to back Blade and
Blade II. Everyone had a great time, and some even stayed
to watch commentary after some of the others left.
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Awards:
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Actor-Horror,
Favorite Villain
MTV Movie Awards: Best Villain |
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Blade's silently-mouthed "What... the... f---?" is a direct
reference to the "A Fistful of Yen" segment from Kentucky
Fried Movie.
The only other thing I'd say is that the DVD version of this movie is
a masterpiece! They threw everything and the kitchen sink
into this one. If you are a fan of this film, it might be worth
buying a DVD player, just for this disk!
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