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A lot of people sleep on the fact THIS movie actually prompted modern marvel movies to really take off. They usually will credit Tobey's Spider-man, but that would never have been made without this movie convincing marvel they could do it.
Most people didn't know this was a comic book character. It was actually the success of the Spiderman and X-men cartoons on FOX Saturdays that convinced the studios to go ahead with comic book movies.
@@andrewburch1671 the general public didn't know Blade was a comic book character, but Hollywood producers and studiio execs did. Blade is the movie that proved superheroes other than Superman & Batman had potential to be big box office hits, it made Marvel a valuable brand in the movie industry. Blade's success is why the X-Men and Spider-Man movies got greenlit.
Blade is a Marvel movie, but it didn't start the superhero movie trend, merely financed it. To the average moviegoers, it wasn't a superhero movie, just a standard vampire movie where the protagonist had a bit of an advantage by being part vampire himself. X-men is what opened the door for the current era of superhero movies, and then Spider Man really got the ball rolling on costume accurate comic book adaptations.
Donal Logue was another great choice. He was my favorite in the Gotham Series and has an impressive career history. Sometimes I forget there are still amazing character actors.
Blade should forever be respected. Not just for being a fire character and movie, but for being the one to save Marvel from bankruptcy. After Blade came X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Ghostrider, etc. We have Blade to thank for all of those films and more.🖤🙌🙌🙌🙌
@@cringekiller348 The MCU began in 2008, Marvel was in financial trouble in the 90s, which is what people are referring to when they say Blade saved Marvel.
The movie was filmed in Los Angeles, but Blade's map is New Orleans. Wesley actually studied martial arts for many years. The first post-credit scene I remember was Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Deadpool parodied that end-credit scene.
The first one I remember seeing was in a Bond film, where Jaws is seen swimming away in the ocean. (Not that Jaws.) It was around this time I started staying in theaters through the credits of every movie, just in case. It was great to actually catch the first Marvel after credits the first time.
@@anonmg1 I saw both Blade 1 and 2 multiple times in the theatre when they came out. Saw Blade 3 only one time and almost walked out the first time that I saw it in the theatre. SMDH Hated that movie. Loved the first two though.
People definitely appreciated how cool Wesley Snipes' Blade was. The Matrix looks very similar, because that's just what was cool at the time, in part thanks to The Crow. Gotta remember the genre it's in. Superhero movies were cartoony as hell back in the 90s. This very much marks the point where they started getting bit less goofy and bit more gritty. It was as much a departure from the superhero AND vampire movies of the day, as Deadpool was from the MCU.
Blade 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. It is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and you can tell by the practical effects. Loved it. Guillermo Del Toro is amazing.
LL Cool J was originally star to play as Blade. But Wesley Snipes studied martial arts at the age of 12, 5th degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nd degree black belt in Hapkido. Kung fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and kickboxing.
I know the MCU officially starts with Iron Man, but for me this is it the OG. This is the movie that showed Marvel that their properties were viable to be shown in the big screen. Such a legend, this is also one of the first movies to be released in DVD format!
- From my understanding, the first one which is often missed/overlooked/ignored was "The Incredible Hulk" starring Edward Norton & Liv Tyler. which came out shortly before the first "Iron Man" - he was originally slated to continue playing Hulk in the future movies, but apparently there was a lot of conflict and disagreement with Edward Norton, so they had to re-cast and now we have Mark Ruffalo which I don't mind since he plays the part as well as Norton, just in a different way.
Retractable needle. The needle slides back into the "medicine" reservoir which is colored to hide the needle instead of poking into the skin. Similarly, when someone cuts their palm with a big knife, there's a tube with blood on the other side that squirts out blood as the knife moves.
Blade 2 was the very first R rated movie I'd ever seen in a theater without my parents watching it first... I thought my mom was going to have a heart attack during the opening scene lol
Great to see some Blade love. The second movie is also great. My favorite Snipes film is Demolition Man together with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. Top 90's stars.
Regarding your question about how syringes work in movies, I believe the tip of the needle is actually dull and that it slides back into the syringe as they push it against the skin.
In the movie there's a vampire hierarchy. Their are The Pure bloods,(vampires that are born vampires) and their are vampires that are converts,( vampires that were turned whether it be willing or unwilling). At the bottom are familiars,( as Blade call it,"a vampire wannabe").
The first general release film to feature a post-credits scene is The Silencers, released in March 1966. The scene depicts lead character Matt Helm (played by Dean Martin) lying shirtless on what appears to be a rotating sofa along with 10 scantily-clad women, But it has recently become more of a thing. As ubiquitous as it seems to be, the after credits scene is a fairly recent phenomenon. Nor was it the MCU that invented them, either.
One of my favorite one liners of all time 21:12 it comes in handy on occasions Edit: if this movie would have failed at the box office, we may not have a Marvel Cinematic Universe. Because Marvel characters would have been bought by various parties in the Bankruptcy.
@@andrewburch1671 which ended 3 years before the movie came out.. and which the movie didn’t use much from the show, they wanted to “test the waters” so they used blade to see if people would be interested in a marvel movie…
I don't know if you know it, but as a boy, Wesley Snipeses mother didn't want him playing football-she thought it was too dangerous. But wanting to be fair to her son, she did permit/allow him to study Karate. As was really obvious in Blade, he became a blackbelt (in real life.)
Blade pretty much saved Marvel and made people take comic book movies seriously. Blade, X-Men, Unbreakable, and Spider-Man 2002 paved the way for the superhero genre today
In the movie Demolition Man many scenes had to be refilmed because they realized they could not see Wesley snipes. He was moving too fast for the camera to pick him up. Feet and hands.
37:16 There's actually a delete scene after this moment where Morbius was supposed to be the next antagonist for the Blade sequel. However, they changed that
Ah Blade the first live action black superhero-arguably antihero. And his entrance was perfect! The actor playing Quinn was in Ghost Rider another Marvel movie. If you’d like to see more Wesley Snipes you might love To Wong Foo has Patrick swayze in it as well as the actress who played Rizo in Grease.
Donal Logue, who played the Quinn character (the one constantly getting beat up by Blade) became one of my favorite actors for his work in the FX TV series, 'Terriers'. It was a great show that was, lamentably, cancelled after just one season. I'm still mad about it.
I love how Traci Lords name comes up on the screen, while showing Traci Lords on the screen, and then he says he doesn't remember what Traci Lords looks like and her scene is so short.
You may want to watch the original Shaft (1971), Three The Hard Way, or anything in the 1970's from Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, or Jim Brown. These should give you a really good reference for the Blaxploitation era.
Blade is a Dhampir, born of human and vampire. Like most of the dhampir across the different universes he hunts vampires. Notable dhampir are the character "D" from Vampire Hunter D, "Rayne" from Bloodrayne and "Alucard" from Castlevania.
Actually, Howard the Duck was the very first Marvel film. There was also a Punisher film starring Dolph Lundgren a little later. Edit: Just reread your comment and realized I completely misread it, lol. 😅
@@Termite30 There was a Spiderman film made before that in the 1970s (as a pilot to a live action TV series. It was released in cinemas in many countries.
A lot of the “modern hip urban vampires hiding among us” trope owes its origin to Anne Rice’s novel “Interview With The Vampire” and its numerous sequels. Before that, nearly everything (at least in visual media) was a Dracula knock-off. Also, I’m quite sad that N’Bushe Wright (the hot doctor) never returned for any of the Blade sequels. I thought they had good chemistry and would have liked to see them get together. But apparently, the producers were dead set against Blade having any romance subplots.
@@wartyrant8627 Yeah man, and as from what I read in that clip they never found his killer. I think she hasn't done any acting since then as far as I know of, I was hoping she'd come back for the sequel.
Welcome to Team Blade. One of the most kickass Marvel movies in the catalogue. As far as I'm concerned the true film that saved the Superhero movie genre, since Batman and Robin killed it. I don't think X-Men or Spider-Man get greenlit without Blade showing there was life in the genre. To think. this movie exists because they wouldn't let Wesley make a Black Panther movie.
Fun fact, in the original uncut post credit scene of the movie.. you see a figure stood on a roof top watching Blade walking out of the facility after just killing Frost, the camera pans closer and its revealed to be Morbius. The deleted scene is still somewhere on youtube I think.
Sanaa Lathan was good in this as Wesley's Mom. Thanks for reacting to this classic Marvel film guys. I wish more reactors would. In my opinion, this is Wesley's best film. Mary needs to watch him in Passenger 57, Drop Zone, Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, Coming 2 America (his last film), Dolemite Is My Name, The Expendables trilogy, Brooklyn's Finest, Chaos, Blade 2 and 3, Disappearing Acts with Sanaa Lathan, Down In The Delta, U.S. Marshals, Murder at 1600, The Fan, Money Train, Rising Sun, New Jack City to get a glimpse of his acting. He's done quite a lot of lower budget films of which I've seen a few and they were OK. Mary, Stephen Dorff aka Frost was in the film Immortals with Henry Cavill and Felon with Val Kilmer. He appeared in Zoolander, Deuces Wild, Feardotcom, Den Of Lions, Cold Creek Manor, He played Britney Spear's boyfriend in her music video "Everytime" Alone In The Dark, Shadowboxer, World Trade Center, Public Enemies, and Leatherface. Some vampires do drink animal blood, just watch Interview With A Vampire. Wonder if the new actor playing Blade will be in Strikeforce or if they will get Wesley back to play the part.
From what I remember this movie utilized alot of the graphics that would go into the Matrix series later. The matrix was significantly more popular so it outshined this movie's usage of them. One good example is the bullet slo-mo scene that is heavily used in the Matrix.
The Park scene was b4 The Matrix's "Bullet Time" and this Marvel blockbuster movie was BEFORE X-Men .. the film everyone credits to have jumpstarted modern comic movies!! 😁
as you notice with Blade mom, they become sociopaths, but really evil ones when they become vampires, if they bit mothers to be, all those offspring might be more blade to fight them and not join them
Wesley Snipes is 60 nowadays. I think he's more suited to replace Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (if he ever decide to leave the character) than to come back as Blade. About this movie: it was the first successful Marvel comics adaptation, the one that started the trend. And Jaby, CA:TFA was only distributed by Paramount, Marvel Studios was already at place to produce it.
will always be legendary in my book, this one being the very best and the sequel being amazing as well. I mean who smiles in a night club full of vampires?
Black Panther actually was the first Black superhero since he debuted originally in 1966. Blade was created by Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan in 1973. Power Man (Luke Cage) was created in 1972. To some extent the portrayal of vampires in this film, somewhat horror - somewhat comedy - had been established in Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Movie (1992) and TV show (1997).
Great reaction guys, love the after film talk. The way I see the sfx and acting is that it is probably deliberately over the top due to it being a comic book movie.
I'm still surprised I didn't recognize him through the movies. Tim Guinee (Curtis) was also in John Carpenter's Vampires as Father Adam - check that out for any other Halloween reactions - and Major Allen in the first two Iron Man movies.
I love how Jaby was saying ‘I don’t recall what Traci Lords looks like’ as Traci Lords is leading the human to the blood club 😂. This is the good kind of vampire movie. The not so good being Twilight. Vampires should burn or at least get weaker in the sun (like Dracula), not sparkle.
Hi Mary, I was just notified that you and Jaby are watching this on his Patreon channel. Looking forward to the full video. By the way, I was wondering if you have seen Daredevil yet. If not, please do so, as I think you will enjoy it. See you on Patreon soon. 🤗
Nice reactions to the original Blade, Mary & Jabby!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Yeah, New Line put out the Blade films under Warner. New Line is known as "The house that Freddy built", meaning "The Nightmare on Elm Street" films. Wesley Snipes is 60 years old now. I don't think you can do better than him as Blade! Blade III is the one I thought was the one that went down hill.
This movie basically saved Marvel Comics. At the time, Marvel was going through bankruptcy and this movie brought them back. Then came X-Men and Spiderman. Also, you gotta watch Blade 3 cause Ryan Reynolds is in it! Also Jessica Biel.
8:30 for the injection scene: The needle goes into the seringe whe nyou push on it. Sometimes they'll have dummy skin. The liquid stays inside the seringe, it's only on the edge of the seringe, the center holds a hidden compartment in which the liquid flows inside xhen you compress the seringe, giving the illusion the seringe gets empty.
Funny enough. Even though Marvel didn't start doing end credit scenes until like 08 with ironman, Blade had an alternate ending. It was to introduce the character Morbius in the Blade universe. I think they wanted to get the midnight suns going. But they decided to axe that idea all together.
Well that and in the comics blade was born with immunity to vamparism while Morbius's bite turned Blade into the Daywalker. Also the serum was originally made for Morbius so the roots between them runs pretty deep.
Fun Fact: There was an alternate ending where Frost turned into a Blood Monster that Blade had to defeat, but after they won and left the temple, Karen points out another Vampire and Blade turns and sees Morbius before the film cuts to black. This ending was meant to set up Morbius for Blade 2.
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Haha I always thought Mary was one of those twighlight girls
Jk don't hurt me
Still can't believe you two are reacting together. Biggest fan of both of you.
BLADE 2 NEXT PLEEEASEEE IT IS A LOT BETTER!! :D
You and you're partner are the best.
Do some more please.
A lot of people sleep on the fact THIS movie actually prompted modern marvel movies to really take off. They usually will credit Tobey's Spider-man, but that would never have been made without this movie convincing marvel they could do it.
Doubt that. I've seen Spider-Man lots of times. I've still never seen a Blade movie.
Most people didn't know this was a comic book character. It was actually the success of the Spiderman and X-men cartoons on FOX Saturdays that convinced the studios to go ahead with comic book movies.
Blade and tobey’s Spider-Man both deserve respect
@@andrewburch1671 the general public didn't know Blade was a comic book character, but Hollywood producers and studiio execs did. Blade is the movie that proved superheroes other than Superman & Batman had potential to be big box office hits, it made Marvel a valuable brand in the movie industry. Blade's success is why the X-Men and Spider-Man movies got greenlit.
Blade is a Marvel movie, but it didn't start the superhero movie trend, merely financed it. To the average moviegoers, it wasn't a superhero movie, just a standard vampire movie where the protagonist had a bit of an advantage by being part vampire himself.
X-men is what opened the door for the current era of superhero movies, and then Spider Man really got the ball rolling on costume accurate comic book adaptations.
Wesley Snipes is perfectly cast as Blade.
Donal Logue was another great choice. He was my favorite in the Gotham Series and has an impressive career history. Sometimes I forget there are still amazing character actors.
Yep, he was so great in the movie that Marvel comics redeisgned the character to match Snipes' portrayal.
Only other person I would accept is micheal jai white.
@@johnstockley6976 Yes absolutely! I always thought MJW he would make a perfect Blade or Luke Cage
Let's hope Mahershala Ali will do the role justice.
Blade should forever be respected. Not just for being a fire character and movie, but for being the one to save Marvel from bankruptcy. After Blade came X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four, Ghostrider, etc. We have Blade to thank for all of those films and more.🖤🙌🙌🙌🙌
100%
And it's still top five Marvel films. Maybe number one.
It didn't save marvel.mcu did
@@cringekiller348 The MCU began in 2008, Marvel was in financial trouble in the 90s, which is what people are referring to when they say Blade saved Marvel.
@@outstandingdogmarron2567 people talk without knowing...
“Are you outta your damn mind?” Is the best line in this movie. 😂😂😂😂
It really was!
Great line. One of my favorites has always been the whole: "The world you live in is just a sugar-coated topping..."
"Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill." Cannot be beat
@@nickkeller1475 Another fantastic line.
Blades still a black man w/ a little hood in him 😂
"Catch you f*ckers at a bad time?" is my favorite thing to say when I enter the room at a family gathering.
😂😂😂
i use that line a lot :P
My family wasn’t happy at my sisters wedding , when I said that 😂😂
"Some MFer always trying to skate up hill," is my all time favorite.
"But you're so big"
That was an ad lib during script read and the director asked him to keep it
I consider the "ice skate up hill" line as a corollary to Harry Callahan's " A man's got to know his limitations." line at the end of "Magnum Force".
Hilarious
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The movie was filmed in Los Angeles, but Blade's map is New Orleans. Wesley actually studied martial arts for many years. The first post-credit scene I remember was Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Deadpool parodied that end-credit scene.
Lethal Weapon 3 and The Return of Jafar both had a post credit scene.
Post-credits scenes date all the way back to the mid 1960s.
@@paulonius42 Yeah at least. I remember the outtakes of Canonball Run (epic).
This takes place in Detroit.
The first one I remember seeing was in a Bond film, where Jaws is seen swimming away in the ocean. (Not that Jaws.) It was around this time I started staying in theaters through the credits of every movie, just in case. It was great to actually catch the first Marvel after credits the first time.
I seen Blade in the movie theater back in 1998! It still holds up today!
So did I! One of my uncles (middle brother between our dads) brought me and a cousin to see it when we were 14. Good memories!
@@anonmg1 I saw both Blade 1 and 2 multiple times in the theatre when they came out. Saw Blade 3 only one time and almost walked out the first time that I saw it in the theatre. SMDH Hated that movie. Loved the first two though.
@@warriorsfs as far as I'm concerned the 3rd movie doesn't exist to me.😂
@@tjbjjtkd Same here. 😁😁
I saw it when it premiered, back in the day. I agree still hold up too this day.
It was a true travesty that N'Bushe Wright didn't come back for the sequels I thought she was a phenomenal part of the film.
Useless😂😂
People definitely appreciated how cool Wesley Snipes' Blade was. The Matrix looks very similar, because that's just what was cool at the time, in part thanks to The Crow.
Gotta remember the genre it's in. Superhero movies were cartoony as hell back in the 90s. This very much marks the point where they started getting bit less goofy and bit more gritty. It was as much a departure from the superhero AND vampire movies of the day, as Deadpool was from the MCU.
Hugh Jackman is wolverine
Patrick Stewart is Professor X
And
Wesley Snipes is Blade
No one else can replace these actors
I mean, if you're going to try, Mahershala Ali is a good choice.
I kinda hope we see all 3 + Tobey Maguire in Secret Wars. It’d be the perfect tribute to the ones who started it all.
Idk, I think michal jai white ( he was spawn in the spawn movie ) would probably be a great blade.. that’s my opinion
James McAvoy ?
Facts
Blade 2 is my favorite of the trilogy. It is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, and you can tell by the practical effects. Loved it. Guillermo Del Toro is amazing.
They cut a lot of Donnie Yen's fight scenes.
Blade 2 was great.
3 had a lot of problems and, unfortunately, most of them had the initials WS
@@d_jedi1 I hated how they gave Blade a bunch of sidekicks.
@@drewfromyay882 so did Snipes
LL Cool J was originally star to play as Blade. But Wesley Snipes studied martial arts at the age of 12, 5th degree black belt in Shotokan karate and a 2nd degree black belt in Hapkido. Kung fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and kickboxing.
Well, Wesley Snipes is 60 now, but yeah he was perfect cast as Blade. And Blade 2 is also a great movie and not only for Guillermo del Toro directing.
It's cut from the movie but Pearl exclusively fed on children. That's why the lady was so ruthless with the light.
I know the MCU officially starts with Iron Man, but for me this is it the OG. This is the movie that showed Marvel that their properties were viable to be shown in the big screen. Such a legend, this is also one of the first movies to be released in DVD format!
- From my understanding, the first one which is often missed/overlooked/ignored was "The Incredible Hulk" starring Edward Norton & Liv Tyler. which came out shortly before the first "Iron Man" - he was originally slated to continue playing Hulk in the future movies, but apparently there was a lot of conflict and disagreement with Edward Norton, so they had to re-cast and now we have Mark Ruffalo which I don't mind since he plays the part as well as Norton, just in a different way.
@@Arthaius They were both released the same year, but Iron Man came first in that same year.
Spawn came out earlier.
@@deckzone3000 I know, but Spawn is not DC or Marvel. Spawn is from image Comics, that’s why I made sure to mention the MCU!
This and Interview with the Vampire were my first DVDs purchased.
First fictionaldarling now you lol. I'm glad this movie is getting the recognition it deserves.
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Blade is considered a mutant. His ability to walk in the daylight is rare for vampires in Marvel lore.
It's not just "rare" hes the only vampire capable of doing it besides Dracula who was thought to be a myth even to vampires.
Hes not a Vampire. Hes a Dhampir.
Retractable needle. The needle slides back into the "medicine" reservoir which is colored to hide the needle instead of poking into the skin. Similarly, when someone cuts their palm with a big knife, there's a tube with blood on the other side that squirts out blood as the knife moves.
Blade 2 was Phenomenal
Right my fav of the trilogy
Blade 2 was the very first R rated movie I'd ever seen in a theater without my parents watching it first... I thought my mom was going to have a heart attack during the opening scene lol
I really love Blade and Blade 2 equally. Blade 3 however…
Yea, Blade 2 is lightyears better.
@@joecrafted 3 was basically Reynolds audition for Deadpool though.
Wesley Snipes was amazing in the Blade flicks. He has a lot of martial arts training that can't be replicated by someone who is simply 'a good actor'
You've definitely got to see The Lost Boys now. Highly recommended.
I still remember the tag line:
The power of an immortal.
The soul of a human.
The heart of a hero.
🙏🏽💪
Still runs true. Even now
Great to see some Blade love. The second movie is also great.
My favorite Snipes film is Demolition Man together with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock. Top 90's stars.
Be well...2022+
What seems to be your boggle?
Anyone know how to use those seashells!!?
The Lost Boys is a classic. Interview with the Vampire is also a solid, brooding film
Ok you guys definitely have to watch the other two. They're still fun and good.
A lot of people have made that connection. Blade does have that cyberpunk, leather, and raves aesthetic despite not being in the genre.
The "daywalker" is a rather cool, super stylish vampire!
Blade saved Marvel from bankruptcy
I enjoy seeing such a badass character taking down vampires and Deacon Frost. Plus I'm excited for Mahershala Ali's Blade in the MCU.
Me too.
This off not movie based but I got a 4 star blade in my marvel contest of champions game
Not me. I don't trust Disney, at all.
@@taylemgames2652 I agree.
They will F**k it up.
Don't be too excited. They just lost a director.
People forget that David Goyer wrote the Blade franchise movies. Imagine if Mavel brought Goyer back to write a script for Son's of Midnight.
Regarding your question about how syringes work in movies, I believe the tip of the needle is actually dull and that it slides back into the syringe as they push it against the skin.
Makes sense.
In the movie there's a vampire hierarchy. Their are The Pure bloods,(vampires that are born vampires) and their are vampires that are converts,( vampires that were turned whether it be willing or unwilling). At the bottom are familiars,( as Blade call it,"a vampire wannabe").
The first general release film to feature a post-credits scene is The Silencers, released in March 1966. The scene depicts lead character Matt Helm (played by Dean Martin) lying shirtless on what appears to be a rotating sofa along with 10 scantily-clad women, But it has recently become more of a thing. As ubiquitous as it seems to be, the after credits scene is a fairly recent phenomenon. Nor was it the MCU that invented them, either.
Simply one of the best. Always appreciate Blade.
'uphill?
Wes is the Man! He saved MARVEL and put it on the map! THERE IS ONLY ONE BLADE!!!!!
One of my favorite one liners of all time 21:12 it comes in handy on occasions
Edit: if this movie would have failed at the box office, we may not have a Marvel Cinematic Universe. Because Marvel characters would have been bought by various parties in the Bankruptcy.
If blade failed, there wouldn’t have been the first X men movie ( blade came out in 98/99 I believe, and x men came out in 2000 I believe )
@@syn420951 You're right. Blade came out in 1998.
@syn420951 Xmen isn't Blade
Fox chose to make the X-men movie because of the success of the X-men cartoon on Fox TV.
@@andrewburch1671 which ended 3 years before the movie came out.. and which the movie didn’t use much from the show, they wanted to “test the waters” so they used blade to see if people would be interested in a marvel movie…
2:24 “I don’t remember what Traci Lords looks like” Well, you were just looking at her.
I love how this movie came a year before the matrix
I don't know if you know it, but as a boy, Wesley Snipeses mother didn't want him playing football-she thought it was too dangerous. But wanting to be fair to her son, she did permit/allow him to study Karate. As was really obvious in Blade, he became a blackbelt (in real life.)
The Meteor Man in 1993 was officially the first Black superhero movie. A movie not many know about is Abar (1977)
I LOVE Blade! Such a legend he is
Blade pretty much saved Marvel and made people take comic book movies seriously. Blade, X-Men, Unbreakable, and Spider-Man 2002 paved the way for the superhero genre today
I love when both your channels get together!!
ummm i was NOT ready for this TH-cam Multiverse crossover 😂 JABY WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!? 😭
Right?! Lol
🙋🏻♂
Its also the blueprint for Underworld. also also With Blade in the MCU since Eternals and Wolverine Coming you have most of the Midnight suns
In the movie Demolition Man many scenes had to be refilmed because they realized they could not see Wesley snipes. He was moving too fast for the camera to pick him up. Feet and hands.
There was an alternate ending where Morbius had appeared on a rooftop. They should've brought him in one of the sequels.
It's Bladin' time!
Yeah I would have preferred Morbius in Blade 2, over vampire zombies (which is essentially what the reapers were).
37:16 There's actually a delete scene after this moment where Morbius was supposed to be the next antagonist for the Blade sequel. However, they changed that
Blade is legendary
Blade, one of the movie that made me fall in love with comic book movies
One of my all time favorite movies as a kid! Wesley Snipes is super cool
"it's like an anime" - I'd watch that
There is one. 12 episodes from Madhouse. The first one is on TH-cam.
Blade is an Avenger now in the comics.
Ah Blade the first live action black superhero-arguably antihero. And his entrance was perfect! The actor playing Quinn was in Ghost Rider another Marvel movie.
If you’d like to see more Wesley Snipes you might love To Wong Foo has Patrick swayze in it as well as the actress who played Rizo in Grease.
Donal Logue, who played the Quinn character (the one constantly getting beat up by Blade) became one of my favorite actors for his work in the FX TV series, 'Terriers'. It was a great show that was, lamentably, cancelled after just one season. I'm still mad about it.
I loved his Bullock in Gotham
That was a really good, but stupidly underrated, show.
He's the Twin brother of my elementary school teacher. We met him. Donal is a very nice guy
He also appeared in "Max Payne", and did several commercials for MTV. Ya know...back when it was all about music.
I love how Traci Lords name comes up on the screen, while showing Traci Lords on the screen, and then he says he doesn't remember what Traci Lords looks like and her scene is so short.
You may want to watch the original Shaft (1971), Three The Hard Way, or anything in the 1970's from Richard Roundtree, Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, or Jim Brown. These should give you a really good reference for the Blaxploitation era.
Much respect to you miss this was awesome
This is such a great 90's flick.
Blade is a Dhampir, born of human and vampire.
Like most of the dhampir across the different universes he hunts vampires.
Notable dhampir are the character "D" from Vampire Hunter D, "Rayne" from Bloodrayne and "Alucard" from Castlevania.
Modern vampires were excellently portrayed in the Buffy the vampire and Angel series
This is where the fun begins!! This was my first rated R movie and first Marvel movie as well. Hope you like it! 🙏🏽💪👏
Also, so cool that you and Jaby are doing more reactions! You two are awesome! 🙏🏽
Actually, Howard the Duck was the very first Marvel film. There was also a Punisher film starring Dolph Lundgren a little later.
Edit: Just reread your comment and realized I completely misread it, lol. 😅
@@Termite30 It's alright 🙏🏽💪 😂
@@Termite30 There was a Spiderman film made before that in the 1970s (as a pilot to a live action TV series. It was released in cinemas in many countries.
Amen hermano!! 🙏🏽💪
Regarding calling Chicago, New York, it’s easy because some of the Batman movies had scenes filmed in both , so easy to mix up.
I didn't expect to see you together. Crazy but super fun!
Jaby is such a tool
This might actually have the first bullet-time scene in a movie, a year before The Matrix.
A lot of the “modern hip urban vampires hiding among us” trope owes its origin to Anne Rice’s novel “Interview With The Vampire” and its numerous sequels. Before that, nearly everything (at least in visual media) was a Dracula knock-off.
Also, I’m quite sad that N’Bushe Wright (the hot doctor) never returned for any of the Blade sequels. I thought they had good chemistry and would have liked to see them get together. But apparently, the producers were dead set against Blade having any romance subplots.
I think that Wesley wanted her back for Blade 2 but her father was just murdered at the time.
@@georgepierce2273 Wow, didn’t know that. Her popping out the dumpster in Dead Presidents is still iconic.
@@wartyrant8627 Yeah man, and as from what I read in that clip they never found his killer. I think she hasn't done any acting since then as far as I know of, I was hoping she'd come back for the sequel.
@@wartyrant8627 It was that shot in the trailer that made ppl say I HAVE to see this!! She looked so damn cool!
Welcome to Team Blade. One of the most kickass Marvel movies in the catalogue. As far as I'm concerned the true film that saved the Superhero movie genre, since Batman and Robin killed it. I don't think X-Men or Spider-Man get greenlit without Blade showing there was life in the genre. To think. this movie exists because they wouldn't let Wesley make a Black Panther movie.
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Blade set the stage & standard for not only future Marvel movies but also movies such as the Matrix.
blade and x-men: the films that set the standard in the superhero genre for decades to come.Unfortunately, nowadays blade is practically forgotten.
Fun fact, in the original uncut post credit scene of the movie.. you see a figure stood on a roof top watching Blade walking out of the facility after just killing Frost, the camera pans closer and its revealed to be Morbius. The deleted scene is still somewhere on youtube I think.
Sanaa Lathan was good in this as Wesley's Mom. Thanks for reacting to this classic Marvel film guys. I wish more reactors would. In my opinion, this is Wesley's best film. Mary needs to watch him in Passenger 57, Drop Zone, Demolition Man with Sylvester Stallone, Coming 2 America (his last film), Dolemite Is My Name, The Expendables trilogy, Brooklyn's Finest, Chaos, Blade 2 and 3, Disappearing Acts with Sanaa Lathan, Down In The Delta, U.S. Marshals, Murder at 1600, The Fan, Money Train, Rising Sun, New Jack City to get a glimpse of his acting. He's done quite a lot of lower budget films of which I've seen a few and they were OK. Mary, Stephen Dorff aka Frost was in the film Immortals with Henry Cavill and Felon with Val Kilmer. He appeared in Zoolander, Deuces Wild, Feardotcom, Den Of Lions, Cold Creek Manor, He played Britney Spear's boyfriend in her music video "Everytime" Alone In The Dark, Shadowboxer, World Trade Center, Public Enemies, and Leatherface. Some vampires do drink animal blood, just watch Interview With A Vampire. Wonder if the new actor playing Blade will be in Strikeforce or if they will get Wesley back to play the part.
Dorff was also in The Gate as a kid actor. Pretty creepy.
@@w1975b Yeah, I do remember him being in there haha. I don't believe I've seen it. I'll have to watch it sometime.
I love how this vid had a good portion of movie in it.
From what I remember this movie utilized alot of the graphics that would go into the Matrix series later. The matrix was significantly more popular so it outshined this movie's usage of them. One good example is the bullet slo-mo scene that is heavily used in the Matrix.
I got the notification from both jaby and you.😁👍
I guess that's fair for them to upload at the same time😊
Me 2
The Park scene was b4 The Matrix's "Bullet Time" and this Marvel blockbuster movie was BEFORE X-Men .. the film everyone credits to have jumpstarted modern comic movies!! 😁
as you notice with Blade mom, they become sociopaths, but really evil ones when they become vampires, if they bit mothers to be, all those offspring might be more blade to fight them and not join them
Greatest comic book movie ever.
Wesley Snipes is 60 nowadays. I think he's more suited to replace Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury (if he ever decide to leave the character) than to come back as Blade.
About this movie: it was the first successful Marvel comics adaptation, the one that started the trend. And Jaby, CA:TFA was only distributed by Paramount, Marvel Studios was already at place to produce it.
will always be legendary in my book, this one being the very best and the sequel being amazing as well. I mean who smiles in a night club full of vampires?
Black Panther actually was the first Black superhero since he debuted originally in 1966. Blade was created by Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan in 1973. Power Man (Luke Cage) was created in 1972. To some extent the portrayal of vampires in this film, somewhat horror - somewhat comedy - had been established in Buffy the Vampire Slayer the Movie (1992) and TV show (1997).
Great reaction guys, love the after film talk. The way I see the sfx and acting is that it is probably deliberately over the top due to it being a comic book movie.
I'm still surprised I didn't recognize him through the movies. Tim Guinee (Curtis) was also in John Carpenter's Vampires as Father Adam - check that out for any other Halloween reactions - and Major Allen in the first two Iron Man movies.
I love how Jaby was saying ‘I don’t recall what Traci Lords looks like’ as Traci Lords is leading the human to the blood club 😂. This is the good kind of vampire movie. The not so good being Twilight. Vampires should burn or at least get weaker in the sun (like Dracula), not sparkle.
They liquefy very slowly in the books I'm writing.
I'm surprised Mary Cherry didn't recognize Traci Lords - since she loved Crybaby so much. How did she not recognize Wanda?
Fantastic Four is also coming to the MCU, definitely a must watch.
can't believe how old this is, i remember when it came out, a great film!
Hi Mary, I was just notified that you and Jaby are watching this on his Patreon channel. Looking forward to the full video. By the way, I was wondering if you have seen Daredevil yet. If not, please do so, as I think you will enjoy it. See you on Patreon soon. 🤗
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Daredevil is so underrated.
The film was forbidden in germany to be sold uncut in stores for a long long time. Only in videostores like blockbuster you were allowed to buy it.
Nice reactions to the original Blade, Mary & Jabby!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽Yeah, New Line put out the Blade films under Warner. New Line is known as "The house that Freddy built", meaning "The Nightmare on Elm Street" films. Wesley Snipes is 60 years old now. I don't think you can do better than him as Blade! Blade III is the one I thought was the one that went down hill.
This movie was the one that paved the way for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
This movie basically saved Marvel Comics. At the time, Marvel was going through bankruptcy and this movie brought them back. Then came X-Men and Spiderman. Also, you gotta watch Blade 3 cause Ryan Reynolds is in it! Also Jessica Biel.
I'm shocked that Jaby thought the Mac was anything other than an access point for the massive server in another room...
Omg I love this film! I so need to rewatch this!
8:30 for the injection scene:
The needle goes into the seringe whe nyou push on it.
Sometimes they'll have dummy skin.
The liquid stays inside the seringe, it's only on the edge of the seringe, the center holds a hidden compartment in which the liquid flows inside xhen you compress the seringe, giving the illusion the seringe gets empty.
Funny enough. Even though Marvel didn't start doing end credit scenes until like 08 with ironman, Blade had an alternate ending. It was to introduce the character Morbius in the Blade universe. I think they wanted to get the midnight suns going. But they decided to axe that idea all together.
Well that and in the comics blade was born with immunity to vamparism while Morbius's bite turned Blade into the Daywalker. Also the serum was originally made for Morbius so the roots between them runs pretty deep.
Blade 1998 is the birth of the MCU
R-rated too it was = OH MY!
Fun Fact: There was an alternate ending where Frost turned into a Blood Monster that Blade had to defeat, but after they won and left the temple, Karen points out another Vampire and Blade turns and sees Morbius before the film cuts to black. This ending was meant to set up Morbius for Blade 2.
Love BLADE!😁 Clicked on the notification as soon as I got it ☺️ gonna enjoy your reaction to my all time favourite vampire movie! Let's go!😁😁
If you like the first one, then you will love the 2nd Blade as well.