# Blade 2! Blade 2! Blade 2! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 22, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478 "2002-03-22T02:56:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ModernRonin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@ModernRonin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ModernRonin2)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/1 "2002-03-22T02:56:56Z")
I am so psyched up to see Blade 2. It’s gonna be terrible, I can tell. I’m gonna love it! -Ben ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/2 "2002-03-22T04:58:55Z")
From the reviews I’ve read I think it will be OK. The first one wasn’t particularly well received yet I really enjoyed it, and this one is apparently more of the same according to the critics. I’ll definitely see it this weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/3 "2002-03-22T06:16:49Z")
The director knows what he’s doing at least, I loved mimic. And who couldn’t love a movie with Danny John-Jules playing a vampire? ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/4 "2002-03-22T06:34:36Z")
I’ve seen the trailer. MAN! That dude could take on Neo, the Highlander, and Darth Vader… all at the same time. ---
**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/5 "2002-03-22T07:01:22Z")
Blade was the kind of complete trashy crap I have always loved to waste a Saturday afternoon on. I’m hoping we can dispense with all the character exposition of the first one and still have a decent comic book type plot. ---
**Author:** ![hazel-rah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@hazel-rah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hazel-rah)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/6 "2002-03-22T07:18:15Z")
We just went to see the Devil’s Backbone last weekend… Blade II this weekend should be an interesting contrast in directing. ---
**Author:** ![Violet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Violet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Violet)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/7 "2002-03-22T07:51:51Z")
I’m a Blade fan & Snipes fan, so I’m looking forward to the new movie. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/8 "2002-03-22T10:27:52Z")
Well, well, well. I didn’t see this coming. Guess who loved it? [http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-blade22f.html](http://www.suntimes.com/output/ebert1/wkp-news-blade22f.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/9 "2002-03-22T13:34:22Z")
I desperately want to see this movie, but the babysitter changed her mind about tonight, so we’ll have to wait until next weekend. Dammit.☹ ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/10 "2002-03-22T15:37:16Z")
> [@](#): > > He was raised from childhood by Whistler (Kris Kristofferson), a vampire hunter who kept Blade’s vampirism in check, and trained him to fight the Nosferatus. Time has passed, Whistler has been captured by vampires and floats unconscious in a storage tank while his blood is harvested, and Blade prowls the streets in his lonely war. Can somebody 'splain this? Didn’t Whislter get rather thoroughly shot in the first movie? Wouldn;t that make this scenario in B@ a bit, um, impossible? Or is this one of those picky little plot-hole detail questions you shouldn’t raise about such movies? ---
**Author:** ![Yondan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/278dde/32.png) [@Yondan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yondan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/11 "2002-03-22T15:38:20Z")
Damn submit button, sittin’ right next to the preview button! ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/12 "2002-03-22T17:15:32Z")
Yeah, Man! Whistler was already dying of cancer (due to heavy smoking) and was shot up real bad. The last we see of him in Blade 1 was Blade slowly walking away, and you hear a single shot…presumably Whistler had put himself out of his misery. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/13 "2002-03-22T17:18:44Z")
I’ve been a fan of Snipes since Demolition Man. Hopefully this time around, they’ll just give us a pure kick ass action flick and not bother trying to delve into the characters too much. I think I’ll enjoy it from seeing the trailers. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/14 "2002-03-22T17:27:26Z")
Blade 2 got rave reviews from both of the Washington Post reviewers, and, like Mikey, they hate everything ( A Life cereal ad reference for you non-Boomers)! I am SO there, and I had NO idea that the Cat from “Red Dwarf” is in it! ---
**Author:** ![ModernRonin2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@ModernRonin2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ModernRonin2)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/15 "2002-03-22T17:55:52Z")
My guess as to how they’re going to get around the problem of Whistler being dead is, they’re going to say that he tried to shoot himself in the first movie, but he was so weak from blood loss that he fainted just before he pulled the trigger and missed. That’s my guess, anyway. Maybe they won’t even try and explain it at all. Something occured to me last night when thinking about the original Blade. Remember the scene where Blade and the main bad guy are in the park during the day, and the bad guy is holding a kid hostage. Blade pulls out his gun and shoots at him, and we go into bullet-time. Now, does anyone know if Blade was released before The Matrix? I’m pretty sure it was. It would be pretty cool is Blade was the first use of bullet time in a movie, before the Matrix made it really well-known. -Ben ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/16 "2002-03-22T18:13:57Z")
Blade was 98, Matrix 99 according to IMDB. As far as use of “bullet time” in theatrical release, I think it may be the first, but in documentary stuff, lots of Doc Edgerton’s stuff qualifies as the precursor. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/17 "2002-03-22T18:31:45Z")
It was not “Bullet Time”. Bullet Time is the effect that utilizes both rolling cameras and single-picture cameras on a rail that allows wildly varried speeds of movement of the character while the view also moves in any desired direction. What we saw in Blade is known as “Slow Motion.” Just because they digitally threw some moving bullets into the scene it isn’t automatically “Bullet Time.” ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blade-2-blade-2-blade-2/99478/18 "2002-03-22T18:32:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by False\_God \* > \*\*Blade was 98, Matrix 99 according to IMDB. As far as use of “bullet time” in theatrical release, I think it may be the first, but in documentary stuff, lots of Doc Edgerton’s stuff qualifies as the precursor. \*\* I know it wasn’t the first, because Sniper, a mid budget movie with Billy Zane and Tom Berrenger, used it. It was released in 1993. I am not sure if there was anything before that. As for Blade II, I’m all over it.