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The Answer To The Question “Should I Watch ‘Blade II’?” Is “Yes”

You won’t regret it

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5 min readOct 31, 2021

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I don’t want to tell you how to live your life. But I’d jump at the chance to watch Blade II if I was you. Or don’t. Have you ever seen it before? When was the last time you watched it? Either way, it’s worth putting on. That’s just what I think.

The 2002 superhero movie came out years before Marvel Studios became an efficient blockbuster factory for Disney That was an awkward era for the genre, and for Marvel specifically.

In 2003, for instance, Marvel and Universal produced Ang Lee’s ambitious attempt to turn the Hulk into a Greek tragedy, and then there’s Ben Affleck’s Daredevil, a movie that wanted to be Batman and The Matrix instead of Daredevil, and so failed on every level.

But Blade II is a perfect example of what a superhero movie can, and should, be and the MCU’s current execs should rewatch this movie because it is still snappy, clever, and action-packed. It’s also one of the most gruesome of Marvel’s movies, and that’s probably because the guy they hired to run the show is an artist and a shlock-loving entertainer who understands what nerds want.

Blade II is directed by Guillermo Del Toro, the stylish filmmaker who directed another classic superhero monster movie — Hellboy — as well as more…

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