*BLADE II* filled us with glee (First time watching reaction)
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Hello, nice dudes! Welcome to our first time watching reaction to BLADE II, directed by Guillermo del Toro and starring Wesley Snipes! People have been heavily requesting this movie since we reacted to the first Blade movie, and we're happy to show you guys our reaction to the sequel!
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Please check out the original Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers, they are great comedy.
Awesome movie
I think blade and Deadpool would be a good matchup
I absolutely love you guys! I have always been a lover of humanity and people, and when I came across your channel, you actually gave me hope!
May God continue to bless you both as you have been a blessing to so many! 🙏 😇
You guys HAVE TO watch naked gun 33 1/3 (the sequel). You'll choke from laughing
This movie plays out like a checklist of every Guiliermo Del Toro essential:
*Fight scene in the rain
*monster autopsy
*shoutouts to Mexican culture
*religious symbolism
*Ron Perlman
*wildly creative gore and creature design
*Introduce a badass super-team and wipe them out almost immediately after (see Pacific Rim)
*Santiago Segura (the fat guy)
@@santiagocespedes8294 the funny thing is that, in the scene in which he introduces Blade into the vampire then, what he is actually saying is the title of one of his most famous movies here in Spain, "Torrente". The first time i watched this movie and saw that scene, i had to re-check, like: "...he didn't say what i think i head him say, right?"
This was such a great sequel.....the editing and music are absolutely amazing and Snipes kills it again as Blade. The blood rage scene synced to "Calling all freaks"........OMG so good
So happy to see a continuation of this series, it's the movies that saved marvel from bankruptcy. Stay nice dudes!
I thought the Men in Black franchise saved them.
@@JoshuaBarrio nope it was Blade, cause Michael Jackson wanted to be Spiderman after this one
@@JoshuaBarrioThat’s a good point. I hadn’t even thought of that. Marvel brought Malibu comics in 94. Men in Black technically would be the first successful Marvel though not an original Marvel creation. Like how Static Shock is technically a creation of Milestone comics and not DC.
There's only one Blade... 2024
Man, the two Blade movies were so good. Imagine if they made a third one.
There is a third one "Blade: Trinity" from 2004
@@niklasgrenzwe do not speak of such blasphemy
I like that storyline... blasphemy because of cheesy comedy since that's the only possible issue I could see anyone having with it.
I was so in...but they fucked up on Dracula.
😂😂
Guys just so you know they didn't speed up filming to make Snipes appear faster he is ( at the time) or was just that fast with his punches. In fact, they asked Snipes if he could slow down his movements for easier filming. By now I'm sure some commenters have mentioned that Snipes has trained in several martial arts over the past 40+ years.
Fun fact the scene where Norman Reedus is eating Krispy Kreme donuts...in the script they had his character originally eating White Castle sliders. White Castle corporation aggressively declined being in the movie and immediately made their own movie called Harold & Kumar go to White Castle.
Probably for the best. I highly doubt they had any White Castles in Prague at that time.
"Whistler: they took him, and turned him into the thing I hate most." (I really wanted him to say "taxes". Lol)
Could have said Jews
This movie was basically the casting call for Hellboy and Hellboy the golden army. I hope you’ll give those two a watch after the Blade series. Also the type of “new” vampire in this movie, was the inspiration and used in Del Toro’s The Strain series. Which is an amazing series and books.
Luke Goss and Del Torro have made two of my favorite antagonists in any film world. Nomak and Prince Nuada are fucking AMAZING antagonists and deserves so much more recognition.
Both Hellboys do.
So on point with this statement!
Goss is just insanely commanding in those two roles - how he didn't become a go-to star is beyond me.
Agreed!!!!
"If you cannot Rule, you must obey."
What a line. What a character.
Luke Goss is always a win. *ding*
Prince Nuada is my all-time favourite antagonist in film.
Wesley Snipes nails superhero poses!
You know a movie is loved when the sequel can pull so many great actors.
I enjoy how enthusiastically you guys geek out over stuff. Great reaction!
Donnie Yen was the fight/stunt choreographer on the movie, that's why he has a little cameo role. He wasn't supposed to be in the movie at all, but they liked him so much they just wanted him in there for a little bit.
Everyone's natural reaction to Donnie Yen.
Two nice pieces of trivia: the "reaper" design was the first draft that Del Toro would end up using in his own book/TV series, "The Strain". And the recurring bald vampire is Santiago Segura, a close friend to Del Toro's who is also a known spanish actor and director. During the door scene, when he speaks that vampiric made up language to ask the other vampires to let him in, just before Blade uses him as a human shield, two words are clearly distinguishable if you speak spanish: "torrente tres". Torrente is a series of spanish films, starred and directed by Segura, and by the time Blade 2 came out, Segura was trying to gain funding (and make some marketing) of the third installment of the series, Torrente 3 (tres, in spanish).
Not only is this one of my favorite Marvel movies... its one of my favorites in general. This one definitely set the bar for superhero movies whether people know it or not.
The Norman Fetus joke was a long running thing and hearing you say it made me snort lol, even funnier when we all got the Death Stranding trailer way back it just took off 🤣
Have you guys watched The Boondock Saints movies? That was my introduction to Norman Reedus, way before TWD
Found you guys while reviewing blade one and it was fun to relive with people watching it for the first time. Was sad you didn’t have blade 2… till today!
Exact same for me too! I liked their reaction to Blade so I started watching their other reactions while just waiting for more Blade.
Blade II is the best bc of Guillermo Del Torro!!!!
The fact Wedley Snipes showed up in What we do in the shadows on the vampire council is the best thing ever!
I voluntarily watched this in theaters 3 times when i was a kid. Blade's always been, unequivocally, my shit.
The scene with her slowly disintegrating in the sunrise was first video clip i have ever extracted :D So beautiful.
05:15 nahh that was hilarious! 😂
As a Marvel stan, it was the one film I was okay with them leaving alone because I don't think a PG13 Blade can do better.
People still use the word Stan in 23?
Well. Disney has decided to remake it. It will be 3 women leading the movie and telling the audience life advice / modern morality. Blade will be a gay background character.
@@garettjames6349 cringe
@@garettjames6349 calm down there red pill
@@Kvl-2968 That was literally the proposed plot. Look it up.
It’s depressing as hell but I loved the entire run of The Strain television series. It’s del Toro and a compatriot revamping his ‘strain vampire’ idea in a much more interesting end-of-the-world framework.
The strain is awesome I'm rewatching it again right now for the 3rd time
You can see all the ideas he took from here into the show.
I immediately saw the strain vamps and went " is that ... Reapers?"
@S_047 actually del torro did the books the strain in 2009 way before the show ,he shopped it for a series but wasn't picked up so he did .blade 2 then the strain show got picked up
Funny, the Strain didn't feel that depressing to me. Dark yes, but not that bleak. Atleast not enough to bother me.
My favorite of the trilogy! Also the guy that played Nomak was the same guy that played the villain in Hellboy 2 which was a good movie.
Not only that, but he was in a pretty big Britpop boy band back in the late 80s named BROS
@@DavidGowers oh yeah? Never knew that
Donnie Yen playing a mute skilled fighter, then a blind very skilled fighter, then a blind very skilled fighter
Blade got the people's elbow.....not from downtown but from the next county over 😂
That was the reaper, not Blade
Cool fact: the guy who blade spares at the beginning and kills at the end is Santiago Segura, a Spanish actor and Guillermo's friend who always appears as a side character in every movie Guillermo films outside Spain. He appears in hell boy 2 for example
In Blade 3, the "opposites having to work together" even spreads out to the cast, who hate each other IRL.
9:30 Blue tint was used in old movies to denote daytime. Could be something similar here 🙂
I had no idea Del Toro directed this movie (saw it on TV and didn't catch the credits), no wonder the monster effects were so good. Man knows his stuff.
Reason why Wesley Snipes movements look so clean is bcuz, like Donnie Yen, he has trained in martial arts since he was a kid and is like a 7th degree in karate and several degree in others. So he's a legit bad-a55 muther you don't wanna Fk with! 👊🏿💥
Luke Goss as the baddie..... Once a pop star in Bros in the 80s, now one hell of a great actor.
And yet again, I was there on theater lines opening day! Another badass movie!
The vampire that gives Blade the scroll saying the vampire nation wants to meet was Danny John Jules who played Cat in the UK TV series Red Dwarf.
What is it ??
Blade always had so much style and I loved every over the top moment. In my opinion it's the perfect balance of gritty and silly like Spawn, just executed better.
Blade went from TOP Badass, to full on HP Lovecraft. You can't go wrong.
Blade is the BEST.
Seeing your guys crush on blade grow stronger, yep, i can relate. He's charming af.
Wesley is a master in the Brazilian martial art Capoeira
The actor playing the main reaper is Luke Goss, also played the main bad guy in hellboy 2 for more del torro connections. Oddly he was also 1/3 of the British boy band Bros
LOL, Bros was so cringe, even back in the day.
You just needed an excuse to say cringe
So glad yall decided to watch the blade movies. They kept marvel alive and gave us the MCU
It’s not possible to not appreciate Blade 2 on some level.
An extremely enjoyable film.
Great reaction.
Even till this day.....Wesley is possibly the greatest Marvel's best character...
It will never not be absolutely joyous to me that Danny John-Jules got cast in this movie. Danny is a well-loved British comedy actor, best known for his role as "Cat" on my favourite sitcom of all-time "Red Dwarf". It's mad he got this part. Maybe GDT saw him in "Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels" & really liked his performance. Heck, maybe GDT is a huge Red Dwarf nerd :D
i was pleasantly surprised myself. i seen this in the theater. when we first see him, all i could do is shout "red dwarf"
and Barrington in Maid Marion and her Merry Men (showing my age) and one of the fire demons in Labyrinth. DJJ is a trained dances and was one of the people in black suits making the putters dance :)
The bigger thing for me is the villain in this, Luke Goss, is one half of Bros they made music between 86 and 92. When I first saw he was going to be in Blade 2 I was "of well, this gonna be shit" - but the guy was amazing in the role
@@Gaderath2781 My friend, I danced to "When Will I be Famous" at many a school disco & I remember watching BROS on Going Live on a Saturday morning :D
omg blade 3 will be fun as hell
The guy from 3:37, is a Spanish director and actor, Santiago Segura, friend of Guillermo del Toro. The phrases he says in x language are actually advertising for his (in that year) next movie and friends "Torrente 3" "David Trueba"
The actor for Jared Nomak also plays prince nuada in Hellboy 2 the golden army also directed by Guillermo del toro and staring Ron pearlman
Fun fact, the fat bald russian guy at the beginning of the movie is Spanish actor/director Santiago Segura. He says a couple of spanish names when pretending to speak russian, including the tittle of his movie to be released at the time, Torrente 3
I'm late to the comments but I'm so glad this is being watched, best of the Blade trilogy. I know I'm just one comment in a sea of the rest but I love your channel and it always cheers me up seeing an upload from you both. Keep up the awesome work you are doing
Thank you so much!
"Norman Fetus" - That's delightful.
I genuinely love the third one, it's such a fun time and doesn't deserve the hate
I really feel like you guys would like the Spawn movie with Michael Jai White and John Leguizamo. Maybe it will be on a vote some time.
And if we're on the MJW train, Black Dynamite is one of the funniest movies ever made.
I want a movie where Keanu's Constantine, Wesley's Blade and Jennifer Garner's Elektra to all exist in one movie. All are within the Marvel universe. But I can only dream lol
Love your channel guys and yes, this movie is legendary and Wesley Snipes is a legend.
Great reaction lads.
Loved this movie as a kid. 10/10 blade films
Quick fun fact about Nomak that you (and most of your audience) are likely not old enough to know, Luke Goss was the guitarist in a pretty popular Britpop boy band back in the late 80s with his twin brother Matt and a friend, Craig Logan. Craig kinda disappeared into the background/management side of music, Matt's still making music, and obviously Luke is making movies. Very few of them make much of a splash, but he's ALWAYS good in them.
I always proffered Blade II to the first because they ground their vampires as wholly biological but end up going hocus pocus for the big bad in blade, but in blade II everything is grounded and scientific.
I never realized that it Del Toro that made this
Now i understand why the vampires from The Strain are virtually identical to the Reapers in this
Yeah this type of movie seems right up his alley
I love Blade man, now you guys gotta do Trinity! Not everyones favorite but still a really fun movie.
The Reapers for this movie were similar to the vamps from Del Toro's "The Strain"
This is the best superhero movie ever made, none of the more modern ones have anything on it. The pure unadulterated badass is unparalleled. Wesley Fuckin Snipes.
Your enthusiasm is making me want to rewatch all 3 movies. Thanks guys👌
Check out Spawn, The Shadow or The Crow, some og superhero movies and for their time, they ruled...
I really like your comments and your knowledge of previous movies made by the same director(s)
If you guys liked this and the first movie, you’ve definitely got to react to Blade: Trinity at some point! 😄
Edit: I don't mean to be pushy, but you guys seriously need to hurry up and react to Blade: Trinity. I might have to bite the bullet and become a patron for a while just to get the chance to suggest and potentially vote for Blade: Trinity in an official capacity. 🤣
Nearly 20 years later, and I think its gotten better with age. Considering the amount of Garbage movies we keep getting, Blade Trinity, while slow and boring at times, still deliver on the action, and may have some of the best fight scenes in the whole blade series. That final fight with Abby and Blade fighting through security and the vampires is one of my favorite fight scenes in any action movie, and of course the police station fight was great too. Its a great movie and the story is actually really good. If it had just been directed a bit better and had some scenes cut a little bit, it would probably be considered by many to be better than 2.
10:08 Yes it is! My man Donnie Yen himself! 🙏🏽💪
0:58 I know right?! 😂💪
It's crazy and yet cool that you guys STILL don't have any kind of channel intro or banter before the movie. It's always just straight at it.
Also cool to add that Luke Goss, who played Jared Nomak and Prince Nuada in Hellboy 2, another Del Toro movie, also played Frankenstein's monster in the miniseries. Everything's coming full circle.
The Soundtrack was also badass like the one from "Judgement Night". A EDM artist coupled with a hiphop artist for every track.
Man, I would really like to see your reactions on Bachelor Party, from 1984, with Tom Hanks. Its one of the best comedies ever.
For Blade One, I would give it an A or A+. And for Blade Two, I'd give it a B to B+.
The effects are much cooler in number two because of the advances in the effects. Story wise, kick ass story.
You name the team up film
"Wicked Blade".😮🤣
Finally! Ive been waiting for that!
My opinion..this is the second best sequel....behind Terminator 2
Yall should watch to Wong foo if you like Westley. Him, Patric Swayze and John Leguizamo play drag queens and go on a little adventure. It's such a good movie and so different
You guys are hilarious! Great reactions! And yes Wesley Snipes is a handsome man and he kicks ass. Until he seriously injured his knee in this movie. To this day his knee hurts which affected his ability to super fight.
I have seen your reaction to the first two Blade movies a bunch of times. I can't wait to see your reaction to Blade Trinity.
The bad CGI moments can be forgiven as everything else in this movie is a god damn masterclass of brilliance! :D
Now time for blade 3, Ryan Reynolds!
I hope someone has already said it, but Nomak is Luke Goss - who was in the band Bros in the 80's! Something of a change of image :-)
These guys are the only ones i watch, they are hilarious
The action and soundtrack for this movie was a huge step-up from the first one.
Blade two is the definition of don’t play God because the reapers are just genetically built vampires
8:23 To be clear, for anyone who hasn't seen the movie before now, Damaskinos here does not say "horrible" virus; he says "parvovirus", a real world virus family known to affect animals like dogs and cats, though there ARE strains that affect humans.
I can't wait for y'all to see the 3rd one
I didn't knew Del Toro was doing a Frankenstein movie. I really hope he sticks to the original book's description where the monster was way closer to a comic book superhuman like Jared Nomak than a clumsy brute.
26:45 Needles?! those are stakes my dude!! xD
You guys should watch UHF. It was both the weirdest movie I've seen but also the funniest 😂
The drop off from the quality between Blade 2 and 3 is diabolical, Wesley def deserves blade 4 as a redo
That ice skate up hill line is funny as fuck 😂😢
Blade 2 to go nuts 😮
Donnie Yen hated this shoot. Said one of the producers treated him like shit
So weirdly enough I think the Blade TV show, which exists by the way, begins in russia. I just don't know where the show connects to the trilogy (it was supposed to).
Norman Fetus is actually an apt description after the trailers for Death Stranding.
My favorite part for Blade saga 👌🏾
blade 3!
I just noticed something in this video. At 13:34, when they were talking about somebody on the roof, there were a few frames of some unknown person.
I am going to have to pull out my copy and look for this.
Also fun fact I don't what version it is but during the warehouse fight, I think the theatrical version before they stalemate with that cgi wideshot, Blade uppercuts her but in another version he kicks her away
It's Whisper! And his best friend half vampire named Knife! lolz