Blade II (2002)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reapers, who are feeding on vampires.
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I liked the bit where Deadpool's stoner buddy (T.J. Miller) references Blade II because I remembered that Reynolds was notoriously in Blade: Trinity and I recall reading that Wesley Snipes was perpetually stoned on that shoot and sent memos to the director signed "Blade."
“Deadpool,” however, takes itself far less seriously than either of those films (and includes a snarky little dig at “Blade II”).
Blade II, the sequel to the 1998 Wesley Snipes movie about a fanged, half-human vampire hunter, has so much martial arts you'd almost think it came from Hong Kong.
While it helps to have seen the original "Blade" for a full understanding of this so-called "Daywalker" (Snipes) and his character and the nature of his relationship with Whistler, "Blade II" is more enjoyable than the original.
"Blade II," starring Wesley Snipes as Marvel Comics' mercenary half-breed vampire, moves in the opposite direction, alienating its potential audience -- new viewers or fans of the original "Blade" -- with its convoluted plot, vapid supplementary characters and overwrought computer graphics.
The new Blade recalls the Ripley who showed up in Cameron's Aliens: potent and focused, primed for full-on combat.
Though he’s best known for directing the comic book adaptations “Blade II” and “Hellboy,” the Mexican helmer’s sixth feature marks a return to the supernatural trappings and delicately shaded emotions of his 2001 ghost story “The Devil’s Backbone.”
A visually dazzling fairy tale set in Franco-era Spain, this meditation on the costs and limits of totalitarianism combines the Gothic fantasy that has been Del Toro's signature -- from his debut, "Cronos," through comic book adaptations such as "Blade II" and "Hellboy" -- with the themes and setting of his 2001 historical drama, "The Devil's Backbone."
Portly, wildly creative Mexican director Guillermo del Toro is best known for his action hits "Blade II" and "Hellboy," but his best films have come while working in his native tongue, focusing on horror fantasies set in the wake of the Spanish Civil War.
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy," "Blade II," "The Devil's Backbone") lovingly establishes the gothic elements of his hoary fairy tale but might have gone further with some scenes (such as when Ofelia ill-advisedly snarfs a couple of grapes; seems like a lot of make-up effects for so little screen time) and cut back on others (the sewing sequence, for instance).
A sure winner for this years Best Foreign Film Oscar, "Pan's Labyrinth" is the latest creation from writer/director Guillermo del Toro, who is probably best known in the states for such films as "Blade II" and "Hellboy."
After a foray into mainstream filmmaking during which he turned his gothic sensibilities on Hollywood ("Blade II", "Hellboy"), the director again masterfully combines these seemingly disparate elements in the beautiful but relentlessly bleak fairytale "Pan's Labyrinth".
Elordi, buried under nearly unrecognizable prosthetics and a creature design reminiscent of the marbled vampires from del Toro’s Cronos or Blade II…
…the type of brutal kills that could be found in del Toro’s earlier work like Blade II.
Beyond Fest Celebrates the Career of Guillermo del Toro With a Stacked Cinematic Retrospective
The screenings will include favorites like ‘Pan’s Labyrinth,' ‘The Shape of Water,’ ‘Blade II,’ and more.
Comic book adaptations Blade II (2002) and Hellboy (2004) position literal creatures, Blade (Wesley Snipes) and Hellboy (Ron Perlman), as the last line of defense against murderers and villains…
This is easily Del Toro’s most violent film since Blade II…
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It’s weirder and more intensely felt, along the lines of funkier, pre-MCU comic book sagas such as Ang Lee’s “Hulk,” Guillermo del Toro’s “Blade II,” and Bryan Singer’s “Superman Returns.”
Nazi occultists led by Russian sorcerer Grigori Rasputin (Karel Roden, Blade II ) open a dimensional barrier to call on mystical forces to salvage their losing World World II effort.
If anything, del Toro ("Blade II," "The Devil's Backbone") proves that stylishness is its own kind of spirituality.
Writer-director Guillermo Del Toro (The Devil's Backbone, Blade II) frames his faithful adaptation of the comic book Hellboy with the question "What is it that makes a man?"
Mexican horror master Guillermo del Toro ("Mimic," "Blade II") swings for the bleachers in his third Hollywood outing and scores a very respectable triple.
Whether a comic book adaptation ( Hellboy , Blade II ) or a science-fiction monster adventure ( Pacific Rim ), his directorial features have oozed imagination and vibrancy.
Remember, this is the same director who’s taken a repeated, twisted pleasure in putting adorable moppets in mortal danger; here and there, we catch glimpses of the perversity of his more wicked genre experiments, like last year’s extraordinarily crafted Crimson Peak and the buckets-of-blood franchise entry Blade II .
And it’s not Ron Perlman, one of his regular go-to actors ( Chronos , Hellboy , Blade II , Pacific Rim ).
…out of Blade II Hellboy Pan's Labyrinth Hellboy II: The Golden Army Pacific Rim (August 12/13) Directed by Guillermo del Toro, Pacific Rim follows several humans as they battle enormous sea monsters using building-sized robots.
Del Toro excels at genre work that's both codified ( Hellboy , Blade II , Pacific Rim ) and more unexpected ( Pan's Labyrinth , Crimson Peak ), and here he's crafted a film that bleeds into fantasy just as much as it does Sirk-ian melodrama.
Del Toro clearly has designs on an adult sensibility; his previous picture, Crimson Peak , was also rated R, as was his acclaimed kid-starring fantasy Pan's Labyrinth and his comic-book franchise entry Blade II .