10 Reasons Why The Blade Movies Still Matter
1. It Established That Part 3 Of A Superhero Series Usually Sucks
1998's Blade was great. 2002's Blade II was arguably even better. Surely 2004's third instalment could go nowhere but up, right...?
It's hard to know where to begin on why Blade: Trinity is such a monumental failure. While David S Goyer may have done some fine work as screenwriter on the first two, he does not prove anywhere near as adept as a director. The film's tone is all over the place, the plot is overstuffed, and the action is incoherent.
Worse yet, Goyer fails to get fully committed performances out of his cast - most notably Snipes himself, who had some well-documented clashes with the writer-director throughout production, and doesn't look like he wants to be there at any point.
Yet it would seem that in this, Blade had once again blazed the trail that other superhero franchises would follow: the third film is always the worst. We saw this in X-Men: The Last Stand, Spider-Man 3, X-Men: Apocalypse (technically third in a new trilogy that began with 2011's First Class), and some might say The Dark Knight Rises.
Happily, Marvel's Iron Man 3, Captain America: Civil War and Thor: Ragnarok would seem to be defying this rule, and we can but hope the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War will do likewise... but then, given that the MCU is all one big franchise, can we even think of it in numbers as small as three anymore?
Yes, Blade: Trinity was a rather sad end to a groundbreaking film franchise - but as the rights to the character have long since reverted from New Line back to Marvel, surely it won't be much too longer until we see Blade back on screens.
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