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BLADE: TRINITY
A perfect example of what happens when you let a good writer think he's a good director. David S. Goyer wrote the entire Blade series, but only directed number 3. I'm a fan of the Blade movies. The first was one of the first movies that really did the ultra-stylized, music video paced thing really well. I liked the story, I liked all the little secondary characters that are there for Blade to beat up, I liked the way it was shot. Then Blade II came along, helmed by Guillermo del Toro, the same guy who directed Hellboy. Del Toro is the man. Blade II traded in the sleeker, stylized look of the first one for the more in-your-face-yeah-this-crap-is-happening-don't-throw up feel.
I am also a big fan of this style.
Gore is good.
But then I don't know what happened with Blade: Trinity. There's no personal style in what Goyer does with this film. It's just a straight-forward depiction of events as they happen. Sometimes this works in a movie, if the story is strong enough to carry an inexperienced director. Unfortunately, it just isn't there. I wish I could've met up with him before he wrote it and said to him, "Dracula? Really, David? That's what you're going with for the next Blade movie? Dracula? You sure that's a good idea?"
I give the cast credit for doing what they could with the lines. You can see Parker Posey trying to do SOMETHING with the character, but the dialogue is just too over-the-top. Not just with her, but with everyone. Ryan Reynolds plays himself, like in every movie. Blade is Ryan Reynolds hunting vampires. Waiting is him waiting tables. Amityville is him in a haunted house. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a bad thing. I think the guy is pretty damn funny and adds to any movie I've seen him in. Wesley is on auto-pilot through the whole movie. It's like he doesn't even care anymore. He's gotta do one more Blade movie to get some hype up about the Blade TV show, then if there is another movie after that, get the new guy to do it.
Jessica Biel... well, I have yet to actually see her do any legitimate acting. Blade, I'm sure, isn't a fair representation of what she can do just from what she had to do it with, and all she really had to do in the Chainsaw remake was run and look terrified, which she did well. I'm curious to see how she is in The Illusionist with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti later. From the trailer it looks like it's gonna have a whole lot of over-acting, but who knows. Ed Norton has a tendency to always pick interesting, if not great movies. Paul G. is on a roll lately, so it may be decent.
But Jessica Biel will ALWAYS be hot...
...soooo hot.
hot.
A perfect example of what happens when you let a good writer think he's a good director. David S. Goyer wrote the entire Blade series, but only directed number 3. I'm a fan of the Blade movies. The first was one of the first movies that really did the ultra-stylized, music video paced thing really well. I liked the story, I liked all the little secondary characters that are there for Blade to beat up, I liked the way it was shot. Then Blade II came along, helmed by Guillermo del Toro, the same guy who directed Hellboy. Del Toro is the man. Blade II traded in the sleeker, stylized look of the first one for the more in-your-face-yeah-this-crap-is-happening-don't-throw up feel.
I am also a big fan of this style.
Gore is good.
But then I don't know what happened with Blade: Trinity. There's no personal style in what Goyer does with this film. It's just a straight-forward depiction of events as they happen. Sometimes this works in a movie, if the story is strong enough to carry an inexperienced director. Unfortunately, it just isn't there. I wish I could've met up with him before he wrote it and said to him, "Dracula? Really, David? That's what you're going with for the next Blade movie? Dracula? You sure that's a good idea?"
I give the cast credit for doing what they could with the lines. You can see Parker Posey trying to do SOMETHING with the character, but the dialogue is just too over-the-top. Not just with her, but with everyone. Ryan Reynolds plays himself, like in every movie. Blade is Ryan Reynolds hunting vampires. Waiting is him waiting tables. Amityville is him in a haunted house. Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a bad thing. I think the guy is pretty damn funny and adds to any movie I've seen him in. Wesley is on auto-pilot through the whole movie. It's like he doesn't even care anymore. He's gotta do one more Blade movie to get some hype up about the Blade TV show, then if there is another movie after that, get the new guy to do it.
Jessica Biel... well, I have yet to actually see her do any legitimate acting. Blade, I'm sure, isn't a fair representation of what she can do just from what she had to do it with, and all she really had to do in the Chainsaw remake was run and look terrified, which she did well. I'm curious to see how she is in The Illusionist with Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti later. From the trailer it looks like it's gonna have a whole lot of over-acting, but who knows. Ed Norton has a tendency to always pick interesting, if not great movies. Paul G. is on a roll lately, so it may be decent.
But Jessica Biel will ALWAYS be hot...
...soooo hot.
hot.