I didn’t realize when I walked into the theater to see Wesley Snipes’ Blade on opening night 20 years ago that I was watching history in the making. After suffering through Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.’s horrific The Avengers the week before, I watched the New Line actioner and was just grateful that it was a solid piece of three-star pulp fiction. While the Stephen Norrington-directed and David Goyer-penned vampire action flick is (justly) credited with kickstarting the second wave of modern superhero cinema, it was also groundbreaking in another equally important fashion. By being a star-driven horror action flick first and a comic book superhero adaptation second, it paved the way for what would be the natural evolution of the modern comic book superhero movie.
20 years ago, ‘Blade’ paved the way for ‘The Dark Knight’ and ‘Logan’
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The idea of adapting Blade was great. People could have use this movie as THE REFERENCE of superhero movie trilogies if Blade 3 didn’t suck.
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Of course they weren’t perfect but they kicked ass and they appeared before TDK trilogy. If the third was as good as the first or the second movie, people would make a reference to those trilogies, but unfortunately movies like Blade 3, Spider-Man 3, and X-Men 3 were really forgettable.
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Was only 12 when I snuck into this movie. Best decision ever
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what?
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In that case I would say they are the Burton Batman films. I remember being scared of the Penguin when I was young.
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You probably have never even seen it
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It’s an adaptation of a British Spy TV show that has nothing to with superheroes.
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anishghai (:
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