The Reel Rejects - BLADE 2 (2002) IS THE GOAT?! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:47 Let me get to the screen. Gamble don't talk. did this one. I had no idea that he directed it. David S. Goyer wrote it. Savage. Yo, this one was sick. Oh, righty, you guys, we are going to get into Blade 2 review slash Patreon questions. Before that, though, if you're listening to this on Apple or Spotify, make sure you go and give us five

Starting point is 00:02:17 freaking stars. We want to thank the people over our prepper for cutting down, chopping down these highlights. Also, if you listen to this on YouTube, thank you so much. Leave a like, subscribe, comment, and what are you going to do, Tara? Ring the bell. So we can get notified and time new videos coming out. All right. So we are going to get straight into the questions because oftentimes what happens is we give our opinion and then we end up covering what's on here anyway.

Starting point is 00:02:45 So yeah, we're going to jump straight into it. So without further ado, Clayton Crook. Blade 2. What would be your IMDB rating for this movie? To Rob? 8.9.

Starting point is 00:03:05 8.9. Yeah, I'm pretty close. I think this is probably one of the best comic book movies I've seen. And I've seen a lot of comic book movies. But this definitely lived up to the hype. It was exciting. It built upon the original one

Starting point is 00:03:19 of a very interesting and fun way. the action was sick, the vibes, the music, the way that it was shot was incredible. Yeah. Wesley Snipes was a badass through and through. The fight choreography was great. Yeah, I think this is definitely up there for me. I think this is like, dare I say, in the nine out of ten range. Like, awesome, awesome, awesome.

Starting point is 00:03:43 I'm with you on that. God, it was great. And the effects, outstanding. Yeah. Like, from practical effects to, yeah. Yes, there are a few moments where the CGI were I was like, that looks weird. It was like two to three seconds. That's it.

Starting point is 00:03:59 The rest of it. Yeah, beautiful. Awesome. Kev B. Thank you for sending the question, man. Hope you brought your silver things get weird after dark. Yeah, they do. Gilmore Dorotoro's thumbprint all over this sequel.

Starting point is 00:04:17 Was there a creature designed fight scene or over the top? visual that made you think, yep, only Del Toro could dream this up. I love that. You know, in retrospect, I'm like, yeah, this feels like Der Toro from the practical effects

Starting point is 00:04:35 to some of like the fight scenes. I was like, this feels sort of reminiscent to some of the type of things I saw in something like Hellboy. And yeah, this was phenomenal. I had no idea it was him, but as soon as I saw his name in the credits, I was like, that makes so much.

Starting point is 00:04:51 sense. That makes a ton of sense. Yeah. Was there anything that stood out for you, Dutoro? I would say the design of the new guys, like the mouth opening up, this, like the, just them having the scar, us not knowing, then it's a big reveal. And then also, like, the

Starting point is 00:05:07 way the creatures scale the wall and going from, like, that actually looked really real, but there's some other times going from the CGI into landing in a fight position, and it's actually them. the mix of that was like wild and yeah i didn't know that this was um del toro's film at all

Starting point is 00:05:30 until i sell the title credit so i'm like oh yeah i get it like that's why there's so many things that uh when i was watching this thinking this takes a lot of work like this shit that they're doing is difficult to actually deliver in a film meaning it takes a lot of time money like patience you got to have like a visual for it in order for it for someone to carry it through and have it be a success and obviously he did that yeah he absolutely killed it yeah the creature designs were incredible all of the fight scenes like all the practical mixings with cg i all the the sword work was incredible you think it looks like it was mostly if not all wesley snipes and camera doing all that for sure and yeah although over the top visuals were

Starting point is 00:06:18 magnifico perfect i would not change a thing as far as the design and the fight scenes go uh yeah this was phenomenal um yeah thank you kevita for sending in the question you're the man it's late all right michael michael penant i say that right mr michael panon would you rather be a pan vampire or a werewolf um You know, we haven't seen Werewolves in this world as of yet, or I don't know if that's going to be a thing. But I'm going to go with a werewolf,

Starting point is 00:06:54 and I'll explain after Terry gives her answer. You know, I'm thinking, I'm thinking Werewolf because you could still be human and then you switch over at the mood and then you eat it up and then you switch back. Exactly, yeah. At least I can still go out and do stuff in the daytime. And I think, depending on what werewolf rules are playing by, it's only a full moon.

Starting point is 00:07:19 So I can prepare for that in advance because, you know, we've got lunar app cycles and all that crap now. So, yeah, I'll just check my app. Great old life. I can live a great old life. I'm just like, ooh, yeah, full moon, can't be out. Sorry, y'all. I've got to lock myself up. But, yeah, I feel like you like have a lot more freedom and versatility as a werewolf.

Starting point is 00:07:39 So, yeah, that's our answer. Let us know what you guys want to be in the comments below. Thanks, dudes. All right, Pavel Ketchmarek, I think I said that right. Thank you for sending in your question. I appreciate you so much, as well as all of us here at the Reject Nation. Right now, we know that Germel D'Ottoro was an inspired choice to direct the movie. But back then, he was still a relatively fresh face.

Starting point is 00:08:07 With that in mind, would you go for a promising fresh face or an experienced artist with name, suggestions if possible to direct the ill-fated probably never going to have an MCU blade seriously they gave us two captain marvels and they still can't give us one blade yeah that that is very valid yeah do you have any choices you think i've got a i've got to look up what gamutero did before this to give you a better response to that okay uh in the meantime i yeah because i think a fresh phrase would be good uh a fresh director I'm thinking the guy who did this on the newer side

Starting point is 00:08:48 the dude who did like the harder they fall I think he'd be a really cool choice for a movie like this and he has a really unique directing style and yeah he made a really cool black western with you know a start of the cast Regina King

Starting point is 00:09:02 Jonathan Majors at Gisselba and I think he made something really dope after that but I need to look it up but yeah someone like that Ryan Coogler Given sinners he just did bro Ryan Coogler Blaine would be insane

Starting point is 00:09:19 and he probably had a bunch of like cultural subtext to it as well I would love to see that I don't know if they would do that I know he's pretty versed in the one starting his own career outside of you know franchise or established things

Starting point is 00:09:33 but also he's very enveloped in the MCU Black Panther Wakanda side of things i don't know if they would do blade but those are two choices off the top of my head as an actor to play blade oh as an actor i mean we got or what were you just they're talking about directors oh yeah to who we would who did you say um i was look up the guy's name because he did the movie the harder they fall and i really liked his uh his work there the harder they fall

Starting point is 00:10:06 back in 2021 I'm sorry for Okay, here's my answer is that he was a newly inspired director, but his movie right before this was the devil's backbone and it got 93%

Starting point is 00:10:25 on Rotten Tomatoes. And a 7.4 Guillermo. And so that's what I was like, oh, I need to see what he was doing prior. And he had done films in the 90s as well. There's like two films that he did, but those were like

Starting point is 00:10:40 more in the 60s range but then he made that one the year before and it was really good and i assume that's probably why they took the risk on him they saw something and growth and was like yeah let's let's make it happen um i don't know who i would have in mind to did you have a new one so you just um yeah so i had a couple in mind um so i think that um james samuel He'd be a really cool directoring choice for that. He did a really fun good movie called The Heart of They Fall. Or Ryan Coogler, I think, would be an also really inspired choice, possibly Nia da Costa. She'd also be a fun choice for something like this.

Starting point is 00:11:25 Her new Predator movie looks really dope. I'm sorry, her 28 days later, 28 years later, sequel looks really cool. Yeah. I watched that on a channel. Yeah, no, and the seed, so Danny Boyle directed the first one, and the sequels come out. january you're talking about yes got it got it uh she did candy man i really liked i remember liking candy man but um yeah those are my two for now let us know other choices you guys think will be really dope for a blade reboot and you know eventually we'll get marcia la lia's blade i think he's an

Starting point is 00:11:57 inspired choice i hope so that would be great if he decides to leave the project i think of someone like travante wrote to be really cool blade as well um yeah but thank you for the question and yeah keep on sending them in Jay Rustin, thank you for sending the question, dog. We really appreciate that we're here every freaking video and we're always excited to get your questions. Uh, if you

Starting point is 00:12:20 want to see more Dero Mo, sorry, if you want to see more Deltoro vampires, there is an old show called The Strain. Oh, okay, I'm down for that. Question, what vampire power would you like most in film? What do I like most in the film? Um, do you have one?

Starting point is 00:12:40 Vampire power do I like the most? Huh. It's funny because like the power is really like with blade where you want to be a day walker because the vampires are like, you're out in the sun, it's done, you're underground, and you've got to feed all the time.

Starting point is 00:13:07 It's like, to me, it seems like a pain in the ass. the only plus that I would take is that you're just young forever I think that would be the power that you just you look the same forever you get to live forever yeah that is pretty cool I don't know it's hot because I think like the I guess it really depends on what variation of vampire but like the super strength are really cool also the turn into a bat thing would be pretty dope as well I don't want to turn to a bat

Starting point is 00:13:31 yeah yeah clapping around a quick quick getaway I'm like to start through the sky that'd be a lot of fun yeah but um It's freaking bats. I love Halloween. Thank you so much for the question, Jay Rushing. You are a superstar. Reject Nation, you and I make decisions every day. But on prize picks, being right, can actually get you paid.

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Starting point is 00:15:17 Thank you, Don. We appreciate you for sending them the question. What movie do you remember growing up with that your parents and slash teachers were okay with you as a kid to watch that were rated R? Thanks again, keep on living the dream as always. rated R movies I mean it grew up on movies I'm sure there's tons none of them stick out because I was allowed to watch

Starting point is 00:15:43 whatever your favorite rated R movie from your childhood I can't remember like that was rated R and I don't like I don't have the best memory in my childhood universe probably was like you could block some of this stuff out

Starting point is 00:16:00 No, I don't have any rated R ones. I didn't really watch a lot of rated R movies as a kid, to be honest with you. Because, yeah, my parents were a little strict, so I didn't really get to watch the rated R movies until I was the older. My mom would just, like, cover my eyes in the theater if it was, like, bad or if there was, like, sex on there or naked stuff. Sin. Yeah, but other than that, I got to watch it.

Starting point is 00:16:27 No, I think the most raunchy movie I can think of off the top of my head. that was like, maybe risque was like Pouti sang, but I don't really remember it all that well, but I know that I saw it as a kid. Yeah, I got to see Batman Begins and Harry Potter as a child, and I was so scared that I had to leave the theater because I was going to pee my pants. I went to go see you with my dad, and I was like, Dad, let's go. And I was like, oh, he was annoyed, but he was a kid. I was a little son, so what ain't going to do?

Starting point is 00:16:55 But, yeah, that's the closest I have to an answer for you. Thank you for sending the questions, Joe. I appreciate you. for doing the damn thing and being awesome. You're a rock star dog. Yeah, man. All right. Hold on.

Starting point is 00:17:10 Is that our last one? Is that our last one? This is, and it says it's from Kev B. It's a trivia. It's our final one. All right. Over 30 cast and crew members were temporarily blinded during the vampire autopsy scene

Starting point is 00:17:25 due to overexposure to UV rays used on set. Westing's life said Blade 2 was his personal favorite in the franchise You know What? That's wild That sucks Yeah you're blinded

Starting point is 00:17:41 Good God I would love to see the BTS By the light By the light I would love to see some Some BTS That's insane Like I gotta look up just a few more trivia

Starting point is 00:17:55 Because I think that's Oh my God What okay what would you rate this this film what i don't know scoff one to ten no like on rotten tomatoes i'm sorry oh you put up the rotten tomatoes i did because i'm then i'm going to go to the trivia real quick i personally would probably give it like 92 but something tells me critics gave it a 66 critics gave it a 57 what and the audience gave it a 68 what that's why I, when I looked at this, I went,

Starting point is 00:18:30 like, I was, like, offended because this movie is savagely good. Like, look at the effects. Look at all the work that was put in. Go F yourself. If you gave it a 50, like, are you insane? What's the problem?

Starting point is 00:18:45 Like, this movie did a good, it couldn't, listen, it maybe didn't need to be two hours. You know what I think? It may be if they dropped it down to an hour and a half, cut out a few things, made the stuff a little bit quicker. Like, when we go, when we're, like, looking around, I don't know, I guess cut to it faster, but like, you, I'm, that's crazy. I can't, I can't.

Starting point is 00:19:06 That legit kind of makes me upset because I'm like, uh, do you guys know how hard is to make film? This was badass. Okay. No, I, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Yeah, well, well, we, we answered some questions, Tara. Do you have any, like, additional thoughts that you didn't, you wanted to cover that that weren't answering the questions here?

Starting point is 00:19:25 Um, oh, my God. Uh, I just like, I think that that is wild, that they were temporarily blinded. Like, you could sue. But thank God they got their eyesight back. I really, I mean, this movie is a blastroony.

Starting point is 00:19:41 As I said, the effects of stunts are great. Nisa, I didn't think that she was the strongest actress that they could have chosen, but I was all right with her. I could tell in some of her dialogue, she must have been foreign, but she was cast to speak, I believe, obviously standard American,

Starting point is 00:19:57 totally fine there was just some stuff where I was like but what a phenomenal cast I was glad that they brought Whistler back that that was a thing like he cuts him down and he's back and ready to go and they end up helping each other out and the fact that we end there

Starting point is 00:20:17 with them again made me like really happy and yeah I liked it I'm down with this film yeah no I thought enjoyed it as well. I think that it improved upon the first one in some really interesting ways. The fact that the first one was

Starting point is 00:20:35 this movie that was kind of told from the perspective of the doctor, the girl who got kind of introduced to the medical or the vampire stuff that was happening that Blade was kind of working with last time. And then this one, she's absent from the movie. But I didn't

Starting point is 00:20:51 bother me because I felt like the story didn't really pertain to her relevance largely at all. I felt like it would have felt force if she was in this movie. But I felt like the way that they were able to expand upon the lore and find interesting ways to keep it engaging was really impressive. I think Giamald Torto's direction and even some of like the Redcon stuff with Whisper dying in the last one worked for me.

Starting point is 00:21:20 Normally that would bother me, but because he was such a cool character, I think that it was nice to have him back in this time around. The only thing I would have probably changed is they kind of made it seem like, oh, maybe he's not so good or like maybe the thing didn't take because the Daryl from Walking Dead or, what's his name? Norman Reis' character kept alluding to, like, are you sure the thing took, man?

Starting point is 00:21:45 And then they showed him not on the roof. But we didn't see where he was to make us try to think like, oh, maybe he's not entirely like kosher like we thought he could be after that initial scene but no it didn't really go anywhere um but i think the fact that this movie is continuously action-packed yet um still interesting is awesome i'm normally someone who likes a lot of character depth and likes like character arcs and i don't really feel like blade really changes over the course of the movie i think he's pretty consistent but i think all the stuff around him being so fun and the action being so cool and the vibes and the music

Starting point is 00:22:26 makes that a non-factor because this is just a good time and I didn't really feel the run time I felt like you know some maybe some of the fights for a little long but I felt like it was so beautiful to look at it didn't really bother me at all and I just I just want more blade he's sick that the weapons are sick the way that they were able to derive these new ways to kill vampires based off of like light and like the new tech and the new weapons he had in this one and the fact that we called back to the guy from the beginning and it just made it full circle like all of it was just such a fun time for me and I definitely get why this is Wesley Stimes's favorite blade I think between the two that's probably my favorite of the two and yeah

Starting point is 00:23:08 I'm just excited to see the third one really I think it was a really dope time yeah I'm with you on that um I feel like uh shit what was I going to say S-H I T. Oh, the bait and switch with Darrell from the Walking Dead where he's like, he's like over in the corner laughing. He's like, you didn't think you'd get that pass on me. I was like, oh my God, what a traitor. Like I didn't see. I really did not see that coming. And normally you can kind of see a red herring situation prior to it happening, especially in our job. Didn't see that coming. Also, not at all. Also, I want to say, I thought the lines about the blushing and the, the eight-all thing. If I'm trying to apply, he was racist.

Starting point is 00:23:51 They didn't really go any further than that. Maybe he was just a douche bag. I don't know. So I want to just nip that in the butt. I don't think he was racist. I just think he was a bad. He's just a bald guy with a weird haircut. Old guy, weird haircut.

Starting point is 00:24:04 Yeah, buddy. You got some facts over there? Some of them are not. Okay. Here, I'll read this one. Wesley Snipes is not always available for each day of filming for this movie, which came out in 2002 during that year. Wesley starred in three.

Starting point is 00:24:19 three other films aside from Blade 2 instead of waiting for Wesley to become available, the crew shot another actor who is not Wesley's stunt doubled for scenes where it was not necessary to see Wesley's face. Interesting. The first scene, Bingware Blade and Scud and Nisa are riding in the helicopter to meet Damasinos. The second was after Nisa performed an autopsy on the Dead Reaper and confronts Blading his quarters about his attitude toward Blood Pack. Wow, okay. Yeah. I mean, if you're just using you know, a B-Team, meaning B-team's face has never shown. That makes sense to me.

Starting point is 00:24:55 And I'll read one more. The idea of the reapers having stingers coming out of their mouth were inspired by Polish folk tales. Interesting. Or the vampires had a stinger or a finger coming out of the mouth that they used to suck blood rather than use teeth, like the Balkan genus. And that is the greatest influence on the modern vampire mythology. Wow. Oh, my God. But wait, this is one's drama. Sorry.

Starting point is 00:25:20 Ooh, hit me. Gamera DeToro doesn't have many good things to say about screenwriter David S. Coyer and points out some groan-inducing dialogue in the DVD commentary. Though he admits that such bluntly expository lines as now you've got an explosive device stuck to the back of your head are beautiful in a way. Del Toro also points out several CGI's shots that he hates. mostly notably the final sequence of Blade's duel with Nisa against the godlights though he admits that such bluntly

Starting point is 00:25:53 expository lines oh I see what you're saying okay I thought it was going to give me more juice between Guillermo and David but I guess they if you have the DVD you can look behind the scenes and probably infer his feelings that I guess they don't like each other

Starting point is 00:26:11 oh wow yeah weird huh I had no idea about that well that's pretty cool um yeah do you have any final thoughts before we get out of here i don't think so i really really enjoyed this movie i think it is really dumb that rotten tomatoes has it that low because i i think that anybody who likes action sequences and a good time would like this movie so i would be like go watch it let's let's rock and roll hell yeah beautiful i had a great time i love this movie. I hope you guys loved us watching this movie. Let us know your favorite moment down in the

Starting point is 00:26:48 comments or any interesting facts from the production or just about Blade in general. Yeah, that'll do it for us this time. We'll catch you in the next one. Duceus. Hi, I'm Gene Chatsky. Longtime Today Show financial editor, author of Women with Money and host of the Her Money podcast. If you are 10 years or less from retirement and you're unsure if you're on track, well, you're not alone. But you don't have to guess anymore. Finance Fix is my six-week class that helps you find your retirement number, build a plan, and feel more confident about your future. For a limited time, get 25% off with code take charge at financefix.com. That's Fix with two X's.

The Reel Rejects - BLADE 2 (2002) IS THE GOAT?! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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