What classics did you see last week, Nov 28 to Dec 4?

I liked the majority of the movie. I thought Wesley Snipes was good as Blade (perhaps not 'overly expressive', but he worked the 'stoic' thing well enough). I liked his no-nonsense attitude, and enjoyed his relationship with Kris Kristofferson's character, Whistler. I really enjoyed Stephen Dorff as Deacon Frost. One of my favourite comic book movie villains ever. I liked that he started off as 'lower down' on the totem pole. He had people who were higher up than him, who treated him as lesser than them...but then he got his revenge on them and became more powerful - I like when that happens in movies, as I think the characters who are treated like crap by their 'superiors' wind up being 'crazier' and having less self-control than their 'bosses'. When they get a hold of power, they go nuts with it.

The only thing that drags down the movie for me is the dodgy-looking CGI - specifically the effects used for the EDTA darts which Blade sticks into a few vampires, including Deacon Frost at the end (just about anything else would've been a preferable death for the main villain of the movie than how he ended up getting taken out). Karen says it's used to treat blood clots...well, I guess in vampires it had the opposite effect. On a MASSIVE scale. It just looked too 'cartoonish' in an otherwise pretty gritty-looking vampire film which, up until that point, had been somewhat 'grounded' (as much as a movie with vampires in it could be), I thought. I liked Blade's sword and that it had a safety guard against anyone but him who touched it. I remember thinking that this movie had the nastiest/most gruesome-looking vampire burning of the three movies.

I also remember thinking Blade was the first movie I saw the 'bullet time' effect in (I think The Matrix may have added the camera-moving-around-in-a-circular-motion effect as it happened, but Blade was definitely the first movie I can recall seeing the effects with the bullets slowed down in such a fashion). If it occurred in even earlier movies, then my mistake. I may not have seen those. Anyway, it was a decent movie...but, unfortunately, let down in some areas. I can definitely see Mahershala Ali taking over the role in the MCU version and am willing to give him a fair chance (unlike some people, it seems).