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Saturday, March 23, 2002

Entry 1699

I'm about to go see Blade 2 tonight. ""Blade II" is a really rather brilliant vomitorium of viscera, a comic book with dreams of becoming a textbook for mad surgeons. There are shots here of the insides of vampires that make your average autopsy look like a slow afternoon at Supercuts. The movie has been directed by Guillermo del Toro, whose work is dominated by two obsessions: War between implacable ancient enemies, and sickening things that bite you and aren't even designed to let go."

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me (none) wrote:

you went, but never posted a review.

∴ me | 27-Mar-2002 2:25am est | none | #145

I know! I thought about that... for some reason I didn't.

Ok, here it is. It was awesome! Way better than the first one. Special effects were amazingly well blended into the film, and you basically get from the movie exactly what you came for. Great fight scenes and special effects, very cool characters and bad guys, but not a great deal of substance, which is absolutely fine. I give it a thumbs up!

Also remember that this is based on a comic book. If you keep that in mind, you may appreciate the movie a little more. Don't listen to the guy on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/features/02/03/26/0758252.shtml?tid=97)

One more thing: the movie was so fast paced that whenever it slowed down to have any dialogue, I remember thinking "Ok, when are we going to get some more action?".

Basically, you already know if you like this kind of movie. If you like this kind of movie, go see it.

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