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the_lady_lily) wrote2009-09-23 09:59 am
the_lady_lily) wrote2009-09-23 09:59 am
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Blade
This is one of those films that, for some reason, everyone seems to have seen at some point, and I hadn't. There are plenty of these. So it made it onto the list, and I watched it.
And, may I just say, what a Very Silly Film this is? If it hadn't been happening at the end of quite a long day, and there hadn't been pizza, I'm not sure I would have made it all the way through. The plot is a fairly simple vampire-killing one, with Blade as a sort-of-kind-of-vampire who is hunting for the vampire who killed his mother - who turns out not to be dead, and the vampire who killed his mother turns out to be his nemesis! Who'd have guessed?
There's some potential here, and it gets totally wasted - there's stuff about identity and mixed-race and purebloods from the vampiric side that hooks in quite interestingly with the fact that Blade and his love interest are black and there's a whole thing going on with an Asian population as well that feels rather uncomfortable - but you don't get any real exploration of those connections, which feels like a waste. The characters are a waste too - there's no real development, they turn up on screen fairly perfectly formed and shallow and don't do much else. The love interest, in particular, suddenly turns into Judo Queen Extraordinaire in a rather unconvincing fashion.
Plus there is comedy!violence, which isn't actually that comic at all, and frankly felt rather gratuitious. I can't be having with that sort of thing.
So, two stars, although I'm quite glad to have got it out of my system.
This is one of those films that, for some reason, everyone seems to have seen at some point, and I hadn't. There are plenty of these. So it made it onto the list, and I watched it.
And, may I just say, what a Very Silly Film this is? If it hadn't been happening at the end of quite a long day, and there hadn't been pizza, I'm not sure I would have made it all the way through. The plot is a fairly simple vampire-killing one, with Blade as a sort-of-kind-of-vampire who is hunting for the vampire who killed his mother - who turns out not to be dead, and the vampire who killed his mother turns out to be his nemesis! Who'd have guessed?
There's some potential here, and it gets totally wasted - there's stuff about identity and mixed-race and purebloods from the vampiric side that hooks in quite interestingly with the fact that Blade and his love interest are black and there's a whole thing going on with an Asian population as well that feels rather uncomfortable - but you don't get any real exploration of those connections, which feels like a waste. The characters are a waste too - there's no real development, they turn up on screen fairly perfectly formed and shallow and don't do much else. The love interest, in particular, suddenly turns into Judo Queen Extraordinaire in a rather unconvincing fashion.
Plus there is comedy!violence, which isn't actually that comic at all, and frankly felt rather gratuitious. I can't be having with that sort of thing.
So, two stars, although I'm quite glad to have got it out of my system.
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As to gratuitous violence, I freely admit that I'm a bit of a sucker for sword porn...
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