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  1. antho42 says:
    June 11, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    Mark Kermode had a nice video theory on Richard Gere:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2010/03/the_career_of_richard_gere.html

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  2. antho42 says:
    June 11, 2010 at 7:56 pm

    Kurt: What is it that you like about Blade II? I found the film to be completely forgettable. In addition, the film contained terrible use of CGI ( a la Matrix Revolution manner).

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    • Andrew James says:
      June 11, 2010 at 10:49 pm

      For some reason, everyone seem to like Blade II. I watched it again maybe about a year ago and thought it was terrible. The enemy characters are kind of cool, the rest is terrible.

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  3. Henrik says:
    June 11, 2010 at 11:34 pm

    Yeah Blade II is pretty bad. I tried re-watching it again recently and just thought it was boring. Nothing in it comes close to the iconic scenes of the first one – the opening rave obviously, Blades mouthed what-the-fuck and just the decidedly vicious feel of the first movie. Where the first movie has Udo Kier, the 2nd movie has a love interest. Boo.

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  4. David Brook says:
    June 12, 2010 at 1:45 am

    I can remember being surprised by the praise it was getting at the time, I didn’t think much to it back then. I haven’t seen it since though.

    Personally I think a lot of Del Torro’s stuff gets overhyped. Pan’s Labyrinth is great and it’s been a while, but I can remember Devil’s Backbone being pretty good, but everything else he’s done has just been sort of OK. Nice looking, but flawed. I’ve not seen Cronos, but a big group of my friends watched it together and all thought it was awful, which put me off.

    Anyone agree?

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  5. antho42 says:
    June 12, 2010 at 9:05 am

    When Del Toro makes small budget/foreign films, he makes good to great films; when Del Toro makes Hollywood/big budget films, he makes dull to awful films.

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  6. Kurt says:
    June 12, 2010 at 6:50 pm

    The opening ass kickery with the crazy moving camerawork is bloody astounding in Blade II. The overall look of the reavers or whatever they were called = Awesome. Ditto the Prague background. I love the ‘team of vampire mercenaries’ although I wished there was more time with Donnie Yen (who did the choreography of the film). What can I say, as a pop-comic book movie, this one hit my sweet spot, visually, action, etc.

    The first one has the Blood Rave, and UDO KIER, but beyond that it’s pretty yawn worthy. I found it much more ‘boring’ or less kinetic is probably the best way of putting it, than Blade II. I never caught Blade III.

    All that being said. His best two films are THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE and PAN’S LABYRINTH. But I do really dig CRONOS, HBII and MIMIC.

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  7. Henrik says:
    June 13, 2010 at 2:04 am

    Well, the first movie has the feel of a no-nonsense B-movie with violence, gritty locations and peoples ghost skeletons bursting out through their mouths. The second one feels like it’s trying to be Spider-Man, with tons of wirework, a love interest, and hollywood character actors all over the place. I prefer the authenticity of the first one.

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