The Reel Rejects - BLADE: TRINITY (2004) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:00:42 I tell you, ready for this movie? I am. I'm excited. My throat hurts. I'm taking a lawsuit. That's it? I guess that's it. Okay.

Starting point is 00:00:54 All right. All right. I don't know what that was, but we certainly got it. You guys, we just finished watching Blade Trinity. It was an interesting movie. I'm sure we both have feelings and thoughts. And we're going to start off with some questions to get this review going. To get it moving and grooving. How many do we have here? We got a few. We got two. Six. Fund. Okay, we got six. Okay. All right, Terry, do you want to get us started with some Patreon questions? Sure, let's do it. First off, Jav Rushton. Question, what is your favorite part of this movie or scene?

Starting point is 00:01:37 So basically what's your favorite scene or part of this movie? Okay. That's a good question. Yeah, it's tough because I feel like this movie was. very different from the first two or I feel like there was some iconic moments that really stood out but this one a lot of the editing for me was just really quick I feel like we both kind of felt that way so it when Jessica Beal Arrow went through those people that was cool that was cool I like the guy who said you get sick as fuck

Starting point is 00:02:15 oh my god yeah um yeah that is a tough one or when he goes I'll kill you mother for her that was good um yeah there's not a ton that really uh is coming to mind i think the the first scene was cool like in the car and then when they saved him you first see jessica beale and ryan reynolds do uh their saving of of blade and then he comes at the end of the scene because he barely even fought in that that scene because they want to go get his sword yeah this was a yeah this was a unique experience to say it always because it didn't feel like blade had a lot of agency he was like there he was part of it but it didn't feel like it was truly his movie at the end of the day because it felt like the other two characters had more emotional stakes and there is more history between those other characters and blade just got kind of thrown in the middle of it and then he got to fight the bad guy at the end right so You know, that happened. Yeah, do you have any?

Starting point is 00:03:28 Do we do the, I mean, I just have the arrow that went through when she shot it. I thought that looked super dope. I thought the effects, like, they were pretty good with the dogs and the human, like, the predator-looking effects were great. Even the practical of the Dracula guy was cool. But, yeah, I can't really call out, like, a stunt like I would have in one or two or a fight scene in in one or two which because the quick cutting I just am like oh yeah I just was there was a lot going on it was kind of all over the

Starting point is 00:04:06 place um but yeah should move on the next question just do all right awesome joe what movie do you wish you could have been what movie do you wish could have been a great movie to be told but its direction was a massive disappointment to you for me it was X-Men the last stand the director of Brian Singer, who directed the first two movies left to go and direct Superman returns and instantly randomly selected Brett Ratner, the director of Rush Hour movies, to direct the third X-Men movie to that storyline. Thanks so much for answering my question. Keep on Living the Dream as always. Stay awesome. Thanks, Joe. Interesting. Okay, a movie that wish could have a better direction?

Starting point is 00:04:48 This wasn't a massive disappointment to me, but you said it was or was not it's not but i would be like well this movie i like the first two better and we're in we're in newer times now with more effects and and visual effects and stuff like that um i don't know i don't know let me let me think on that you you go ahead because i'm like what movie oh i think uh fantastic for the 2015 one i felt like there were some really interesting things that could have been done there. The first half of the movie was really interesting as far as how we

Starting point is 00:05:27 wanted to take a more grounded character focus, dramatic take on those characters. I remember watching that movie in preparation for Deadpool Marine and I was texting my friends so I was watching it and I was like, this movie isn't bad and then it skips to the second half of the movie and I was like

Starting point is 00:05:43 what the hell happened? It just really fell off the wheels hard. Yeah. It just fell apart and I was so bummed in disappointed that that couldn't have come out better. Also, Amazing Spider-Man, too. I have a very soft spot for that movie, but I felt like there's a lot of studio meddling. They wouldn't let Mark Webb really make the movie he really wanted to make. So by that, I felt like there could have been a stronger, cohesive story instead of all this stuff they want to implant for the future of their cinematic universe and just have it more focused because it's more focused. a lot of the stuff they try to do in that movie would have hit harder. And I don't want to spoil it because you watch it one day.

Starting point is 00:06:27 Okay, I love that. I do have one, Snow White. The 2020 for one. You guys know. You saw my reaction to it. Yep. I wish that that was a great movie. The direction and the way that I think they handled it,

Starting point is 00:06:46 it was disappointing to me. The singers were still good, though. Okay. Um, all right. We'll do some fun ones. Robert Ross, bit of a different take on Dracula, being able to daywalk like Blade and all. Do you all have a favorite take on Dracula or vampires in general? Mine would probably be what we do in the shadows, both movie and TV show.

Starting point is 00:07:09 Back. Hmm. Hmm. I like the vampires and sinners. I thought that was an interesting take and how it was kind of geared towards vampires being a second form of life and then there being a sense of community among the second form of life i don't want to kind of get into it i don't think you've seen it i haven't okay so i don't want to spoil anything about that but i really dug how that movie did vampires and i liked what uh they did in osirato that was

Starting point is 00:07:38 a very fun take as well i really like true blood true blood was a great tv show good job on hbo it's older now but that was a fun one well acted good direction good times Yeah. All right, Kebby, if you had to pick one weapon or gadget from the film to take on a vampire hunt, which one would you choose? And be honest, do you think you'd survive the night or would you be the first one to go down? I like Blades guns is like silver bullet guns, but those are pretty cool. Mm-hmm. Yeah, what about you?

Starting point is 00:08:11 You know, I really like the bow and arrow, but I think I'm mostly like the gadget one. That flips open and it has the UV string light that you just. I'd probably do that one It looks like a bow I was surprised that it wasn't a bow And it wasn't and I'm like Now I'm thinking That's actually a bad weapon

Starting point is 00:08:32 Because of how close I would have to get To a vampire To actually damage them So I probably would go with a bow and arrow Bow and Arrow for sure Except I would also put like poison On the tips That like

Starting point is 00:08:49 Well I guess the second put the arrow in they were silver tips and they would blow up right yeah they would bone arrow you think you survive the night i had weapons maybe but i don't know not very fast so i probably would get taken out by a fast vampire but i could hold off myself for with the weapons for a little while but i feel like if i was ganged up them by vampires i don't think i would survive the night What about you? If I was ganged up on, no. But if there was a few around and I had like a weapon and I would also be the person who's like,

Starting point is 00:09:26 look for all the other weapons as well right now and then hide. I feel like could maybe make it. Maybe, yeah. I'm leaving you. I've got some stuff up here. Maybe I do weapons real nice too in this world. We don't know. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:09:44 We don't know. Captain Fernandez the nightstalkers Reynolds and Beale were originally going to star in a spin-off series there was even an alternate ending where they took on a werewolf would you have been interested in following the further adventures of their characters

Starting point is 00:09:57 it's interesting I mean they were fun but I felt I mean yeah I think they could have been cool in a spin-off series this movie felt like the introduction to the spin-off series rather than a true blade sequel because yeah the first the second one is called Blade 2

Starting point is 00:10:14 and this was Blade's subtitle Trinity. So I imagine the show would be called either nice talkers or Trinity. And they have some other third vampire hunter to build Blade spot and kind of have like special guest opinions or whatnot. Yeah. But I mean, they were cool enough.

Starting point is 00:10:30 But yeah, why not? I'd be curious to see what vampires would like in this world or werewolves look like in this world because we didn't really get any of the werewolves. No. But yeah. What do you think? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:41 If they added an alternate ending with a werewolf, I would have been 150% down, especially if it looked really good. Yeah. I think that would have been a lot of fun versus, like, just like humans. And then we have the Parker Posey gang and, like, a lot of quick cutting. But if it looked bad, like bad, CGI, then I wouldn't want it. Like, if you're like, we can see through that dog, then, like, no thanks. But I would definitely want to continue.

Starting point is 00:11:09 I mean, everybody loves Ryan Reynolds, right? I love Jessica Beal now. I mean, there are certain reactions from Jessica in this and obviously the action stuff she has down. For some reason, sometimes in the standard just lines, I don't always really believe her. Like, she's totally grounded, except for I did watch within the last couple of years,

Starting point is 00:11:35 Candy, where she plays like the murderer. And she did a great job in that. She's really, really good. in this one I'm not I didn't get a vibe where I was like oh my God I can't wait to see a spin-off with Reynolds and Beal

Starting point is 00:11:50 I feel like it would be more Reynolds than maybe it would be her she's the hot girl it's sort of like what's her nuts from Transformers Megan Fox it's like you're going to go with Shy LaBuff you're like Megan Fox as she was there that's a plus but nobody's like

Starting point is 00:12:06 she's phenomenal a phenomenal actress You know, I do, I mean, Megan Fox, Jessica Beale, don't get me wrong, they're in different categories. Jessica Beal does have talent and I've seen her shows this one to me for sometimes when, sometimes when she was just talking about stuff, I felt like she wasn't, it didn't seem very grounded to me. That's all. I've been hearing about Mint Mobile ads for years. At a certain point, I realized I was the only one in America not saving money with Ryan Reynolds. Full FOMO, my friends were bragging about paying only like.

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Starting point is 00:13:44 Thanks, Minmobile for converting me. Yeah. I felt like Ryan Reynolds, like, stole the show, and it's not in a way that we watch a movie and a supporting characters, like, oh, okay, that was cool. Like, you know it's this character's movie, and this guy was cool. It sort of felt like he was the one talking and all the jokes and had all, like, the best one-liners.

Starting point is 00:14:07 Yeah. And Blade had like a couple of cool lines, but... A couple. Only a couple. I'm agreeing with you. I'm like, yeah, a couple. Yeah, only a couple. And even the fight scenes in comparison, like, he was still like, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:21 Wesley Snipes still knows how to throw down. And it's cool and believable when he's doing it. But I felt like even the fight choreography felt a little bit slower or like more, more blocky, whereas it was very quick and very cool in the first two movies. but yeah i i'm sorry this is like a weird experience for i feel like in you saying that it felt slow or whatever i feel like they shot some of these fight scenes in um in slow mo like they went they were like it's fine go as slow as you want to get the actual action and we'll just speed up the frame versus in the other films they're doing legit choreography we're staying on the frame

Starting point is 00:15:04 We're following them. It's all one take. You can see the kicks. It's really good stunts. Not to say that there wasn't good stunts in here. There was, and still really good choreography. We just cut away from it a lot. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:17 There was, I went, oh, that was really cool choreography and a cool shot. It literally lasted for three seconds. The rest of it, when it was so quick, it's hard to, like, really get invested in the choreography and the stunts because you're like, well, I'm not getting the full picture. yeah you know it's it's going it's going by a little too fast yeah i also realized we kind of dropped the whole humans know about blade subplot as soon as he got saved by the oh yeah that just kind of went away yeah like no more news no we didn't we didn't end on a

Starting point is 00:15:52 newspaper or you know what would have been actually better now that you mentioned that is that the stinger it he should have turned on the radio and it would have said We are still looking for the, you know, the psychopath who killed whatever, whatever they called him on the newspaper. Yeah. I think that, and then he's like, he takes off and like, that would have been a fun stinger, yeah. So, like, the humans could be a bigger part of the third,

Starting point is 00:16:21 of the fourth one than ever got to be. Yeah, just to remind us it's not over. Yeah. Because you're right about that. I forgot. Exactly. Like, totally forgot. Yeah, it wasn't until I was thinking here and reviewing the movie.

Starting point is 00:16:31 I was like, oh, yeah, huh. They did kind of start off with that because he, like, killed somebody in public can they try to frame him for that to get arrested. And then it went away. And went away, poof. All right. Pierre, the Reject, what do you want to see from the MCU Blade if it ever comes out? I would like to see Blade have a little bit more character development because I like

Starting point is 00:16:52 to Wesley Snipes's Blade. I feel like he definitely captured the vibe of that character. but I do feel as far as the writing for him as a person goes, I feel like it was like a little thin of the whole trilogy. I was waiting to get like a little deeper into his, I don't know, maybe his loneliness, or I know he kind of wrestled with like, oh, like I want to be more human, but I got this like this dark thing that I got to like contest with.

Starting point is 00:17:22 I got to take this drug. So I don't know, giving him some sort of anchor to make that, that dichotomy of the world he walks a little bit more conflicting or just I don't know just a little bit more sauce in it I feel like if we were to add him into the MCU

Starting point is 00:17:39 I feel like there's room for him to grow as a character which I didn't feel they did necessarily in the the second two movies we did some of that in the first movie in the second movie I freaking loved

Starting point is 00:17:55 because that wasn't the focus of it and I was hoping we'd get a little bit more in this one, but he was even less focused on in this movie. So I think there's a lot of places for someone like Blade to go. And then also being in relationship with other heroes, knowing

Starting point is 00:18:11 that, you know, even though those vampire stuff's going on, there's a lot of other big things happening and seeing how he interacts with those things that aren't directly his war. It would be interesting to me. Yeah. I would prefer to see just longer shots. Like we had

Starting point is 00:18:27 in the first one just stay on the action the thing is is that he didn't have many lines even in the first one he didn't even he doesn't talk that much right it's blade he'll just be like he'll say a one liner and then move on and it's it's mostly was like kind of whisper other characters but i think what made us not really think about that because we still had shots where we're just close zoom in on him pick up his face how is he feeling he's in this chair he's giving blood whispers doing something we get the vibe of it and then when we cut to the action we're staying on it and it really makes you super engaged in the choreography when you can actually see what is going on and I would really like to see that a lot more from I would want them to take from what Blade 1 did

Starting point is 00:19:20 and put that in the in the MCU blade like let's go back to the OG feeling and put them in those kind of scenarios. Maybe not with the mom sucking blood thing. But anything other than that. Take from the OG. You know? My OG. Great.

Starting point is 00:19:40 All right. We'll finish it up with some trivia. Kev B. Wesley Snipes reportedly refused to film many of his scenes. What? What? Communicating with the director, David Gore, solely through Post-it notes, signed as Blade.

Starting point is 00:19:55 Snipes had tense claims. lashes with the crew and only appeared for close-up shots, leaving doubles to do most of his action scenes. Interesting. That's why there's a lot of cutting. What? I need to know more about this. That's messed up. Why would you do that? He obviously did not like David Goyer.

Starting point is 00:20:16 They obviously were clashing. I also, yeah, I think he had beef with, I heard without actually seeing the movie, that he had beef with Ryan Reynolds on set as well. maybe that's why because they just put crew but it's like Ryan Reynolds he doesn't want well Ryan Reynolds was the star of the film pretty much in all intents and purposes

Starting point is 00:20:34 but also if you're not going to show up because yeah you notice it's interesting that he works with these guys but never actually really become his friends with them because they're not this big culminative thing we're like we did it guys we saved the day together he just kind of goes off and does his own thing

Starting point is 00:20:51 like they just had this this thing where they cross paths and I'm going to do my thing you i can do your thing yeah like interesting that seems very like it also seems very passive aggressive to be a posted note and like that's the way you communicate you can't even target and you're like blade i'm like are we 12 it just seems weird yeah um also it says jessica beel's archery skills were so precise during the filming of blade trinity that from 50 feet away and 40 feet up in the air. She shot an arrow directly

Starting point is 00:21:24 through a tiny two by two inch opening and a plexiglass shield straight into a $300,000 camera lens. Oh my God. The arrow embedded about six inches into the camera destroying it completely. That's

Starting point is 00:21:41 awesome. That's insane. I'm not sure they were so pissed, but that sounds amazing. Dope as hell. Yeah. I bet she was like, I'm so sorry. I'm good. I don't know why. I need to see more archery. You better watch out. You better never be unfaithful of this woman.

Starting point is 00:21:56 Oh, my God. Right? And also I'm thinking, I get it. So it's like 50 feet, 40 feet up. Cameras down here. Point of view is probably up. You're thinking it's just going to go over, but it goes, that would be scary. If you're the cameraman, that would be like, it could have gone through your head.

Starting point is 00:22:17 Yeah. Six inches deep, dude. For real. camera wild wild wild wild well i still i still had fun i like this movie but i like the the the first two better this one was a little disappointing to me but it's only because i think when i was watching it i did really love ryan reynolds a love park or posy but there wasn't anything sort of keeping me on the edge of my seat like i sort of was in the other ones where it felt the pacing was better or maybe I just like the action better.

Starting point is 00:22:51 I still like this one and I still really like obviously Snipes and Reynolds and Beal and Parker Posey. There's great actors in this. It might have just been the choreography and if, you know, he's not showing up to set, there might be, there's obviously a big reason why we're having to cut away from those shots because it's a double. Maybe that's why. Yeah, you can really feel the behind the scenes problem. with this one. I felt like

Starting point is 00:23:17 Blade was dropped into the middle of a backdoor pilot for another series. And him already being a character that doesn't talk a lot, and Ryan Reynolds being someone who talks most scenes, and you know, always

Starting point is 00:23:33 has some sort of one-liners, kind of made the film fill in balance as far as the characters go. And, you know, you have these other stars in here as well. And a couple of the action just not being as satisfied. fine. Granted, there were some cool kills, and there were some cool fights in here. But yeah, it just did not feel like Wesley Snipes. Not that they didn't show up to play,

Starting point is 00:23:55 but it just did not give that same feeling for the blades that we kind of come to watch, because they have you some back behind the scenes context. We shot the second blade after already a long day of shooting. It was like a four to six hour day of shooting. And then we Shot Blade 2, and that just revitalized us and was just on the edge of our seats and cheering and are we in love with that movie? But I feel like if we were to watch this movie after a long day, I don't think it would have had that same effect. Not for me.

Starting point is 00:24:29 It's not even a little bit of a long day, but no, not for me. I did not feel reinvigorated after this movie. No, and it's really unfortunate that that's the case. Yeah, but there was some still fun. There's still fun to be had. I didn't hate this movie. I don't think it was awful, but I can definitely feel like you can see the behind-the-scenes problems with it. And, yeah, I think all the actors were really good.

Starting point is 00:24:54 The dialogue was a little weird, but overall, it was fun. It was fine. It was a fine movie. And, yeah, I hope, you know, you guys had a good time with it yourselves. Comment and let us know what you think. Yeah, let us know what you think. Give us some more tidbits in the comments. And we'll see you guys in the next one.

Starting point is 00:25:13 Adios. Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - BLADE: TRINITY (2004) MOVIE REVIEW!!!

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