Blade: The Series

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Jan 2007, 20:46

http://uk.imdb.com/title/tt0823333/

Cancelled after 1 season.

15th of January at 10pm on Bravo.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Jan 2007, 01:36

Finally, I saw "Blade: Trinity" and it was all wrong. Kris Kristofferson was replaced with that guy from "Van Wilder," Parker Posey was taking time out from acting in the latest Christopher Guest "chuckle at earnest people" opus to shriek at people, and Blade was in fewer than half of the movie's scenes. To give you some idea of how bad "Blade: Trinity" is, the syndicated TV show of "Blade" is actually better. Yes, the show with a per-episode budget just high enough to get a bowl of soup and a cast list that reads like "failed rappers of the 90s" is superior.

Funnily they probably could've gotten Snipes for the TV series, if it had been made the series outside of the United States. He can't enter his the country because of his tax evasion. (thus all the DTV stuff that he's made recently, that's shot in like Eastern Europe.)

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 Jan 2007, 02:07

I wonder if that's why Seagal does all that Euro DTV crap?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Jan 2007, 02:21

Markgway wrote:I wonder if that's why Seagal does all that Euro DTV crap?

Reportedly Seagull gets like $1-2 million per DTV picture.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 13 Jan 2007, 04:49

EvaUnit02 wrote:
Markgway wrote:I wonder if that's why Seagal does all that Euro DTV crap?
Reportedly Seagull gets like $1-2 million per DTV picture.

Damn, if they want a jowly bastard to mumble and wave his hands whilst someone half his size does all the action I'll do it for a quarter of the price... 8)

...actually Seagal is surely much heavier than me??

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Jan 2007, 06:22

Reportedly Sony makes a shit load of money off of all these DTV movies.

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 13 Jan 2007, 09:31

Well I kinda liked "Blade: Trinity" - atleast I found it more enjoying than Blade 2. This series however, managed to keep my interest for almost an entire episode

I watched 3 though - hoping it would pick up as I find the "premise" interesting. No such luck.

And yeah, DTV movies with "old stars" are usually cheap to produce/distribute and earn lots of money because folks say, "hey, Seagal, he was in that 'Under Siege' movie - let's check it out!" ... certainly they only do that once - but there are a LOT of those folks

And some of them like those DTV movies

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Jan 2007, 16:25

I never knew that about Snipes.

gojensen wrote:Well I kinda liked "Blade: Trinity" - atleast I found it more enjoying than Blade 2.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 13 Jan 2007, 17:26

bradavon wrote:I never knew that about Snipes.

He dodged paying his taxes between 1998-2002 IIRC.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 13 Jan 2007, 17:33

Blade 3 better than Blade 2 (or 1), your FUCKING JOKING!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 14 Jan 2007, 04:49

romerojpg wrote:Blade 3 better than Blade 2 (or 1), your FUCKING JOKING!

I wouldn't expect anything less from a Sony fanboy.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 15 Jan 2007, 20:55

already seen this show-it's watchable but nothing special

gojensen · Post by **gojensen** » 17 Jan 2007, 11:56

I said better than Blade 2. Not 1. But to be totally honest, neither are stellar films

Blade 3 was just campy and fun, whereas Blade 2 was just boring in the way sequels often are...

sky75 · Post by **sky75** » 14 May 2007, 11:17

romerojpg wrote:Blade 3 better than Blade 2 (or 1), your FUCKING JOKING!

Exactly. Blade 1 & 2 were fangtastic

excuse the pun

I can't believe Blade the TV series was cancelled!

What a cracking show and certainly makes up for that awful nightmare that was Blade Trinity.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 14 May 2007, 14:59

sky75 wrote:Exactly. Blade 1 & 2 were fangtastic excuse the pun .

Paul Ross and News of the World called, they want their bad puns back.

sky75 · Post by **sky75** » 15 May 2007, 15:21

Is that where it came from? I knew I heard it somewhere.

Anyway Blade the TV series was easily my favourite show of the current TV season. I loved how it all threaded together into one big story. The only let-down was the action could have been much better but the story more than made up for any weaknesses in the action, getting better and better as each week went by.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Dec 2007, 23:48

This is coming to Virgin 1 soon which means Satellite, Cable and now Freeview owners can watch this (without buying the DVD or downloading it) 8)

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 26 Dec 2007, 12:56

bought my brother the 4 disc box set from germany for xmas.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 15 Feb 2008, 21:26

Is anyone watching this? I cannot be bothered.