Showing posts with label Marvel Comics. Show all posts
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Thursday, 19 March 2015

Blade: Trinity (2004) (French)

Lame est de retour et cette fois, il doit faire face à quelque chose de beaucoup plus grand : les médias. Quand il tue un vampire, les cendres ne laisse aucun élément de preuve ; ce n'est pas le cas quand il tue un être humain, cependant, et quelqu'un a mis en place et enregistrées sur bande vidéo de lui. Il est recherché par la police et le FBI ; lui et Whistler n'ont aucun autre choix que de se défendre dans le monde. Choses prennent un mauvais tournant quand Whistler est tué et la lame est appréhendé. Il semble que la lame est tout seul et sans défense... jusqu'à l'aide arrive !
Deux est une entreprise ; trois est une foule. Mais en lame Blade II avait déjà plus de trois dans son groupe. Lame estime qu'il est très difficile vu Abigail Whistler et Hannibal King, combattant à ses côtés. En fait, il relègue les amateurs, si mal que ça sonnait comme Wesley Snipes a été de ne pas agir du tout mais a dénigrer le directeur la décision d'avoir des personnages humains combattent aux côtés de la lame et relever des scènes plus que lui. En fait, la critique de la lame est une évaluation réelle de ce film.
Donc un méchant est en ville : son nom est Drake. Oui, je sais, il ne pas même ressemble à un vrai méchant à moins qu'il enfile sa vraie forme. Il est en colère qu'il a été réveillé après des millénaires de la dormance. Il estime qu'il est inutile de se lancer dans cette escapade jusqu'à ce que ses disciples ne parviennent pas à dompter la lame. En fait, j'ai ai vu jouer une partie comme un toutous à Danica Talos. Danica se montre elle-même d'être plus féroce que Drake, vocalement et apparemment. Je me demande même pourquoi ils réveilla Drake en premier lieu. (Ils croient qu'à travers lui, ils peuvent devenir immortels. Quoi que.)
Donc, ce qui a créé une telle mauvaise réception vers ce film ? Le fait que la lame a été rétrogradé à un personnage secondaire dans son propre film tandis que ses acolytes reprennent les rôles principaux. Hannibal parle à beaucoup et fait des commentaires stupides. Abigail obtient émotionnelle sur toute affaire qui nous occupe. Deux d'entre eux ne possèdent pas de capacités spéciales et peuvent s'avérer vrai crue. Je ne vois pas comment lame peut endurer surtout le roi, comme le montre une scène où il se bloque en et ignore lui enchaîné à un plancher de béton.
Je pense que ce film aurait eu plus d'élan si Drake avait une motivation pour son apparence. Tel qu'il apparaît qu'il n'en a pas ; la seule raison de sa présence est donc les Nightstalkers peut cultiver son sang et concevoir un virus « Daystar » spécial d'exterminer tous les vampires. En fait, regarder en arrière pour les films précédents je peux voir les motivations des méchants primaires : Deacon Frost a voulu réveiller un Dieu du sang, La Magra ; Jared Nomak voulait prendre sa revanche sur ses créateurs pour le largage de lui. Drake, qui s'était retirée de ce monde, s'en fout pour sa race déchue.
Malheureusement, ce film pensé que si Blade II pourrait englober plusieurs autres personnages et toujours réussir, qu'elle ne pourrait faire la même chose et encore passer. Mais comme on peut l'observer, lame n'a pas été satisfait de cette séquence d'événements depuis la mort de Whistler. Nous, aussi, n'avons pas été impressionnés par la façon dont ils ont décidé de renverser les rôles pour favoriser les subordonnés de ce film. Moins d'effusion de sang et pas de gore, forte utilisation du c-mot dans un film classé 15, sont juste un affaissement. Je considère ce film comme passable et inférieure.

Blade II (2002) (French)

Lame est de retour et cette fois, il a une nouvelle peste à combattre. Toutefois, il ne ferons cela seul comme il fera cela en alliance avec le Pack de sang, une petite troupe de vampires formés de lui chasser. La peste en question est sous forme de vampires super, surnommé « moissonneurs », dont se nourrissent les humains et les vampires.
Ce film est allé quelque sorte du travail ordinateur crud du film 1998 lame.Ce film montre le meilleur travail sur l'ordinateur qui se mélange avec les images. Mais il ne fonctionne pas trop bien en faussant plusieurs personnages qui exécutent des summersaults et de rampent sur les murs.
Nous allons aussi examiner la quantité de bruit dans le film : moissonneurs crissement, du prêtre hurlant qui même Reinhardt ne pouvait supporter, des coups de feu, grogne au cours des combats d'épée et rugissant et grognements au cours de la bataille finale. Cette quantité de bruit peut être grandement insupportable dans un cinéma ou à la maison tout en regardant sur le système de télévision cinéma.
Donc ce film semble également porter plus de violence que son prédécesseur. Plus de sang est versé ; certains organes sont arrachés ; sans oublier les pointes drainant le sang de la lame après avoir arraché ses os et la chair ! Si n'importe qui peut l'estomac cela, alors ils doivent avoir les tripes !
Lame passe plus de temps avec ses alliés de vampire, même s'il déteste tous les vampires. Mais celui qui tend la main lui est Nyssa, fille de Eli Demaskino. Elle essaie de parler de certains sens en lui et traiter les vampires comme sa propre race.
Parlant des organes, la scène d'autopsie doit avoir été tellement réaliste que j'ai pensé ils vraiment couper un homme et réarrangés par ses organes. Même je serait être secoué comme les Scud si je devais demandé pour déplacer les mâchoires de la faucheuse.
Le méchant dans ce film est Jarad Nomak. Il a été créé comme un vampire sans les faiblesses héréditaires. Il est considéré comme un échec quand il est fort contre l'argent, l'ail et l'EDTA, mais faibles contre les rayons du soleil. Ce scélérat s'avère toujours pour être plus fort que Deacon Frost et lame combinés, mais moins sanguinaire que ses victimes. Jarad Nomak est un prédateur pour les vampires et les humains, et la lame doit veiller à ce qu'il est traité.
Lame est plus fort, plus rapide et plus mortelle qu'avant. Son dévouement à la protection de la race humaine lui donne plus de raisons d'utiliser ses dons plutôt que de les détester lui-même perpétuellement. Son arsenal d'armes grâce à la lumière tant dans le voisinage qui il aveugle en un éclair ; ses balles déchirent par les cibles de vampire et de la cendre son épée coupe plus que l'acier. Une courte note : lame utilise plus rarement son épée dans ce film qu'il a fait dans le premier film, qui prend le plaisir hors de lui. Mais au moins ses grenades flashbang UV à offrent quelque chose de plus pour éblouir ses ennemis.
Donc lame montre plus d'humour, a plus de charisme et prend en charge à la tête d'un groupe sans faultering. Cela doit être son point culminant après le premier film où il est pris au sérieux et apprend ce que l'on ressent à être un leader. Ce film va à la suite de la couverture de sol plus en donnant à chaque personnage un morceau de l'action et leur chance d'y faire face. Camerawork moderne et graphiques à jour doit être quelques choses à surveiller dans ce film.

Monday, 19 January 2015

Blade: Trinity (2004)


Blade is back, and this time he has to deal with something much bigger: the media. When he kills a vampire, the ash leaves no evidence; this is not the case when he kills a human, though, and someone has set him up and videotaped him. He is wanted by the police and FBI; he and Whistler have no choice but to defend themselves from the world. Things take a turn for the worse when Whistler is killed and Blade is apprehended. It looks like Blade is all alone and helpless.....until help arrives!


Two is a company; three is a crowd. But in Blade II Blade already had more than three in his group. Blade finds it very difficult having Abigail Whistler and Hannibal King fighting alongside him. In fact, he denounces them as amateurs, so badly that it sounded like Wesley Snipes was not acting at all but was disparaging the director's decision to have human characters fight alongside Blade, and take up more screen time than him. In fact, Blade's criticism is a real evaluation in this movie.


So a villain is in town: his name is Drake. Yeah, I know, he does not even look like a true villain unless he dons his true form. He is angry that he has been awoken after millennia of dormancy. He finds it pointless to embark on this escapade until his followers fail to subdue Blade. In fact, I have seen him play a part as a lapdog to Danica Talos. Danica shows herself to be fiercer than Drake, vocally and facially. I even wonder why they awoke Drake in the first place. (They believe that through him they can become immortal. Whatever.)


So what has created such a poor reception towards this movie? The fact that Blade has been demoted to a secondary character in his own movie while his sidekicks take up the main roles. Hannibal talks too much and makes inane comments. Abigail gets emotional over any matter at hand. Both of them do not possess special abilities and can prove to be real deadweights. I do not see how Blade can put up with mostly King, as shown in a scene where he crashes in and ignores him chained up to a concrete floor.


I think this movie would have had more momentum if Drake had a motivation for his appearance. As it appears he does not have one; the only reason for his presence is so the Nightstalkers can cultivate his blood and design a special "Daystar" virus to wipe out all the vampires. In fact, looking back to the previous movies I can see the motivations of the primary villains: Deacon Frost wanted to awaken a blood god, La Magra; Jared Nomak wanted to take his revenge on his creators for jettisoning him. Drake, who retreated from this world, could care less for his fallen race.


Unfortunately this movie thought that if Blade II could encompass several other characters and still succeed, than it would do the same and still pass. But as it can be observed, Blade hasn't been pleased with this sequence of events since the death of Whistler. We, too, haven't been impressed by the way they have decided to turn the tables to favor the subordinates in this movie. Less bloodshed, no gore, strong use of the c-word in a 15-rated movie, are just a washout. I think of this movie as passable and inferior.
















Blade II (2002)


Blade is back, and this time he has a new plague to fight off. However, he will not be doing this alone as he will be doing this in alliance with the Blood Pack, a posse of vampires trained to hunt him. The plague in question is in the form of super vampires, dubbed 'reapers', which feed on both humans and vampires.



This movie has gone some way from the crud computer work of the 1998 movie Blade. This movie demonstrates better computer work which blends with the footage. But it does work too well in distorting several characters that perform somersaults and crawl on walls.

 

Let's also consider the amount of noise in the movie: the reapers' screeching, Priest's howling which even Reinhardt could not endure, gunshots, grunts during sword fights, and roaring and grunting during the final battle. This amount of noise can be greatly unbearable in a cinema or at home while watching on cinema television system.



So this movie also seems to bear more violence than its predecessor. More blood is shed; some organs are torn out; not to mention the spikes draining Blade's blood after tearing his bone and flesh! If anyone can stomach this, then they must have guts!

 

Blade spends more time with his vampire allies, even though he hates all vampires. But one who reaches out to him is Nyssa, Eli Demaskino's daughter. She tries to talk some sense into him and treat vampires as his own race. After all, Deacon Frost did the same thing because humans cannot accept a sociopath whose pretext is just to cause untold mayhem and risk people's lives.

 

Speaking of organs, the autopsy scene must have been so realistic that I thought they really cut up a human and rearranged his organs. Even I would be shaken like Scud if I were asked to move the reaper's jaws.



The villain in this movie is Jarad Nomak. He was created as a vampire without the hereditary weaknesses. He is considered a failure when he is strong against silver, garlic and EDTA but weak against sunlight. This villain still proves to be stronger than Deacon Frost and Blade combined, but less bloodthirsty than his victims. Jarad Nomak is a predator to both vampires and humans, and Blade must see to it that he is dealt with.

  

Blade is stronger, swifter and deadlier than before. His dedication to protecting the human race gives him the more reason to use his gifts rather than loathe himself perpetually. His arsenal of weapons throws so much light into the vicinity that it blinds in a flash; his bullets tear through the vampire targets and ashes them; his sword cuts more than steel. One short note: Blade more rarely uses his sword in this movie than he did in the first movie, which does take the fun out of it. But at least his UV flash-bang grenades offer something more to dazzle his enemies.

 

So Blade shows more humor, has more charisma and takes charge in leading a group without faltering. This must be his high point after the first film where he is taken seriously and learns what it feels like to be a leader. This movie goes further to cover more ground by giving each character a piece of the action and their chance to deal with it. Modern camerawork and up-to-date graphics must be some things to look out for in this movie.

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Spiderman 3 (2007)


A third installment in the franchise, Spiderman continues to attract considerable adoration from the inhabitants of New York. He is an icon, a role model, and a hero. Peter Parker, on the other hand, is facing an easier road unlike before, now that he can do well in his studies.


Just like the second movie, the opening credits show us the brief clips of events that took place previously; only this time it recollects events in the first and second installments. In addition to that, they are accompanied by images of sand and ink, a little giveaway to the audience that there are some new villains to watch out for. If any movie were to incorporate footage of previous events, then anyone watching a sequel would be kept up to date.


So now Mary-Jane Watson knows that Spiderman is Peter Parker, and she can understand him better. This movie now decides to give her a story, so that we can engage with her as she experiences the hurdles of her own. Anyway, she has moved on to a show as a singer, and she believes her dreams have come true after her last debut in the second movie. But her dreams do not last much longer as a result of a review; one review in scores of newspapers, and she is laid off from the show. She feels let down and dejected, and we can see her relegated back to square one from the first movie.


Of all the three movies, this one incorporates three villains: New Goblin, Sandman, Venom. If you have studied closely, you will realize that the media does not even bother to name Venom or New Goblin but the Sandman. So you would only know their names if you have studied the source materials.


Harry Osborne is New Goblin; he is still driven to avenge his father even though he was strongly opposed to hunting down Peter (whom he knows as Spiderman). So his motivation is something to debate on. Perhaps since his company has gone bankrupt, he has nothing else to focus on than to avenge his father's death.


Flint Marko is a convict that has broken out of prison. He was implicated of the homicide of Peter Parker's uncle, Ben. Before I dwell on this character I must be frank that this goes against everything we know: the man who robbed the gate-man at the wrestling center is the only suspect to have committed the crime. But this movie decides to change that so that the robber was just an accomplice who wanted nothing more than to drive away with the loot, and that Marko is the one who killed Ben Parker. Even the animated series of the 1990s was more faithful and did not include Flint


Marko/Sandman. (Then this must explain why his accomplice was screaming "Just gimme a chance! Just gimme a chance!!") So what does Marko do when he turns into the Sandman? He just wants to steal money for his sick daughter, even if his wife stands against his escapade. This drives him to do "good" for his little girl, while trying to ward Spiderman off! If this is the case, why don't they just talk? A man with no true motivation for villainy should not even be considered.


There are some plot holes in this story that I cannot miss. The first is where after the security van topples Flint flees the crime scene instead of waiting for Spiderman to leave before absconding with his loot. That was an easy opportunity that he squanders to save his daughter, and for the writers to spare some dough. The second is where Bernard reveals the truth about Norman Osborne's death, even though we the viewers are already aware of the events of the first film where he was not present at the time Norman/The Green Goblin tried to kill Peter/Spiderman. The third is where Eddie Brock/Venom knows about Marko's daughter even though there is no scene explaining this. This scene was deleted because it must be considered a subplot. These plot holes are costly, and the budget could have been smaller if not for convoluted writing.


Something should be noted: Eddie Brock was a worthier candidate for the symbiot unlike Peter Parker because of the predicament he created himself. We have already learned how revenge drives one into villainy, and the symbiot taps into one's negative aura and thrives on one. The symbiot enhances various abilities, but it feeds on hatred and malice, hence the name Venom.


This movie is not all that bad. Its action scenes are to die for, and it gives a female character more screen time and a story of her own. It still suffers from too many villains and excess writing and thus a convoluted plot. Despite these shortfalls, this movie still grossed the most money of the trilogy. My rating: 7.2/10