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Well, yeah. Not so much Goyer, but for how great a Magneto/Xavier focused movie could have been. If they'd stretched out and explored that relationship over a trilogy instead of rushing through it? With McAvoy and Fassbender? Could have been incredible.
Agreed.
I also like powdered doughnuts while detesting Brussels sprouts, even though they're both foods.
Weird.
The Indiana Jones series also conforms to the idea that most trilogies (with some rare exceptions) exist with a quality commensurate with their release with decreasing returns as you go, nowadays ending up with an abysmal fourth installment (like Pirates of the Caribbean or Alien).
Part of the problem is that the blocking is... not AAA movie quality.
Because 9% think it's too high, and shouldn't be cut! 9% of respondents could not fully
get their arms around the question. There should be another box you can check for, "I
have utterly no idea what you're talking about. Please, God, don't ask for my input."
It's still a GOOD movie though, imo. Just not up to the quality of the other 2.
I'd say it's probably because the stakes are fairly low compared to the rest of the franchise ("small village of missing children in India" <<<< "God is going to murder everyone on the planet"), and the film takes quite a dark turn in the third act with the blood-drinking and heart-ripping and child-torturing.
I don't know I'd say it's my favorite in the series, it's just that I find it plenty enjoyable.
And that may be the last time that ever happens.
I don't like to be contrary. I just like to carefully articulate my opinions and defend them at endless length.
None of the others were anything but shit.
Blade 2 was excellent IMO.
Blade is starting to resist the serum - this is a problem! No it's not, he's fine.
Blade's new companion in the war on vampires is a smart lady scientist! Nope, she's gone too.
Blade's father figure was killed by vampires, bet he's pissed about that! Nope, Whistler's back.
Frost was walking around during the day, vampires are starting to get around the whole sunlight thi-NOPE.
I love the ending of Blade. Every time I see it when Stephen Dorff explodes,
Also the pre-asskicking line is wonderfully nonsensical.
"Some muthafucker's always tryin' to ice-skate uphill!"
What. the fuck. does that MEAN.
That's because you have bad taste.
Blade 2 is shit right from the start, where they hit the reset button in the stupidest way I've ever seen.
And then it's all downhill from there.
Also their desperate attempts to copy the Matrix were sad. Blade 1 had it's own style.
Technically he's right. You can't ice-skate uphill.
It's true the film shouldn't have bought back
What did it copy from the Matrix?
People who think Guillermo del Toro is vastly overrated and people who think he's a genius both often point to Blade 2 as their exhibit of defense.
It's been awhile though, I don't remember the exact parts.
I tend to point to the Hellboy movies.
While it is a good film Blade 2 is not the best example for his genius. The Hellboy films or Pan's Labyrinth are superior examples.
He can go sit next to Tarsem Singh and James Cameron.
I had forgotten that. It IS a great line.
It wasn't in the original script. Someone heard Wesley say it on set one day, the director loved it and they added the line to the film.
I didn't even know he directed Blade 2 till you mentioned it just now.
But yeah, I was about to say the same kinda thing about the Hellboy films. Both are fairly pretty to look at, but there's nothing else there imo. The action is ok but not great. The worst offender though is the script. The plots were shite and never gave any of the goings on a sense of emotional weight.
It was like he desperately wanted me to care about some theme or such in the movie, but had no clue how to set that up and thus everything felt throw away and never connected with me.
It's like, I remember Hellboy 2 where they kill a big plant thing. And the movie seems to say we should feel bad that Hellboy just killed this giant plant thing ... but we've got no reason to . It came out of nowhere, got blowed up within minutes and that's it. There's no emotional resonance here.
Yeah, narrative structure and engaging dynamics are not his speciality. His movies tend to be in the formula of, "things happen for a while, and then the credits roll."
And honestly, as great as his use of practical effects can be (and they can be very, very great), the rest of his filmcraft falls a little short. His blocking is rote and pedestrian, his palettes are all over the place, and he doesn't use the camera all that often to visually impart narrative information. He just tries to overwhelm with design, and it all ends up looking a bit samey after a while.
It sounds like you're describing Tim Burton.
It's worth clicking through to the post just to see the comics page where Hawkeye actually bluffs his way onto the Avengers.
Have you seen The Devil's Backbone, AR? As someone with a lot of the same complaints about del Toro, I thought that was one of his best.
I really liked this one as well. Guillermo seems to be the type of director who does good work with his own original material, but has increasingly bad returns when playing in other people's sandboxes.
Hey, whatever, man--I fucking loved Last Crusade. Adding Sean Connery to the cast really helped flesh the whole thing out, in my mind. Meanwhile, in Temple, you've got Short-Round and the director's girlfriend/wife(?)--shrill harpy that she is.
If anything, I thought Star Wars started that idea.
EDIT: Whoops, forgot the quote I was responding to.
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Which is funny, because when the Matrix came out, I read reviews that compared it unfavorably to Blade1.
There is a scene in Blade1 where Blade shoots at Frost and Frost dodges in semi-bullet-time. Its when they meet in the daytime.
Sometimes I find Del Toro irritating, particularly when he boasts about making Da Vinci style notebooks for each movie project filled with illustrations and writings he did himself, and the whole need to build himself a home with secret passages and jars full of dead things in preservative fluids.
Because he's such a creative mastermind, you see.
I generally hate people that make their entire life into some kind of product via earnest self-parody.
I thought it was a somewhat nonsensical plot with mediocre character design coupled with astounding animation and music/atmosphere. I don't really know how to feel about it!
Maybe it's time. Akira does have a lot going for it. Most of the time.
Maybe, but at least Burton knows how to work with actors.
Yeah that was about my thoughts.