Monday, May 14, 2007
Blade san, vampire no naka de dare ga ichiban suki desu ka
I blame it on the lord of the rings and matrix.
Cos since these two epic came out and proved to be a great success, suddenly all films got to come in trilogy.
And thus you have blade I, II and III.
If classification of movies is only "bad" or "good", then "blade" would, in my opinion (only), falls under "bad".
However it not really all bad for blade I and II.
Blade I and II are rated "M18".
This means that if you did not get to see any breasts then you got violence.
So no breasts to see is ok, I can see mine (hahaha).
The violence is there but not really extreme. Still, better then nothing.
In blade I, we get the original story of this half human half vampire hybrid blade on his cruise to kill vampire!
The storyline is interesting enough. You know you got the vampires vs vampires, vampires vs human, blade vs vampires formula that if the screen writer did not fuck up, will work to be quite a not bad movie. Fortunately blade I was quite successful.
Then after that, riding on the success of blade I, we got, blade II.
In blade I, we had the battle between the pure blood vampires against the duplicate vampires (those who are not born vampires but got turned aka bitten) plus of course not forgetting their ambitious goal to take over the human society.
A lot of fighting and blood spilling.
The acting is quite stiffed but bearable.
All you need to do is to concentrate on the action and one and a half hour of the movie is bearable.
In blade II, we got another new storyline.
Now it’s the vampires vs reapers, blade vs vampires vs reapers.
Who would have thought of vampires feeding on vampires. So when I finally "get" what this second movie is about, it help to maintain my interest. Even though the "wanna capture blade to breed another generation of daywalker" concept get a tiny bit old but what do you expect right :)
The actions, the pact is as good as blade I even though the acting of the various actors still failed to pass.
But what to say about blade III.
One word - "Disappointing".
The movie suck is it because the producing company thought that they could just ride on the success of blade I and II and assume that the audience would, without any doubt, be a sucker and accept whatever crap that the movie dish out?
That is the only reason I could think of.
Blade III, in my opinion shouldn't even be produced at all.
Not all movies got to come in trilogy!
The movie maker always make the mistakes of not knowing when to stop.
Just because the first movie sells, they must have the second movies, and then the third, and some even have fourth, fifth.
Often it’s the sequel that ruin it all.
Like all other vampire movies that has got sequel, sooner or later, the writer will have to bring out the one and only "dracula" when they run out of story to write.
And its ok.
I mean the most powerful, the first of its kind, the king of the vampire world, the invincible dracula!
He himself is a mystery that we all couldn't have enough with.
Do it right and you got a movie that sell.
Mess it up and you get…blade III :(
Blade III should be called "bland III"
The story is so bland that the screen writer deserve a kick on the ass.
There is totally no acting skill shown throughout the whole movie and the worst things is that the actors kept dishing out jokes that are so dull and not even the bit funny that even I felt embarassed for the actors who had to deliver it.
It was at the last minute while putting the dish in my DVD that I saw the rating is only NC 16.
There goes the violence I thought.
And quite true there was no violence to be expected which surprise me cos in a movie with such bland storyline, I thought they would at least used violence to cover its flaw but sadly there was none. Its like what stephen king said, if you can't scare them, then gross them.
The screen writer should learn from another vampire movie "from dusk till dawn".
There is not much story in "from dusk till dawn"
But what the writer lack in story, they made it up with violence and occassionally flash of breasts.
And that it, such simple things that turn the movie around and made it interesting to watch.
So far this month has watch two bad movies, "hills have eyes" and "blade III".
Luckily still got jurassic park to scare the hell out of me.
Wonder how would blade III be like if stephen spieberg were to direct it.
Dianosaurs vs Vampires vs blade?
Hmmm
Painappuru was brutally tortured... brutally murdered... on Monday, May 14, 2007
