Word: bladed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...with some studio executives next month to discuss buying the rights to some DC Comics properties,” he reveals. “I’m interested in bringing some of the lesser known comic characters to the screen, I think that’s what made Blade such a pleasant surprise to so many people, he wasn’t a household name...
Brandishing an ultraviolet belt, a chain-knife and a shotgun with an under-mounted stake launcher, Blade vanquishes his foes with a moral absolutism absent from men at Harvard who enjoy “irony” and “satire.” If more men were like Blade then our collective feminine lives would be infinitely superior...
...Blade is a half-vampire half-man that is embroiled in a super-secret battle against the vampire conspiracy that controls the world and killed his mother. For those liberals already bristling with outrage, it is presumably coincidental that the vampires’ mission—controlling the media and corporations as part of an effort to de-purify human blood—is an exact replica of that imposed on the Jews by medievalist anti-Semitism...
...this, the third and final installment in the Blade series, Blade is living with his mentor (Kris Kristofferson), a maimed carpenter with dirty white curls—one might even call him a Christ figure—who continually prognosticates that Blade will be taken in by the F.B.I if he is not more careful about how he kills vampire allies. Blade, ironically, quickly falls for exactly this trap, indiscriminately killing a Vampire familiar. Soon, he is public enemy number one, in a media satire segment illustrated by a surprisingly cerebral Charlie Rose-esque clip. Then the F.B.I. closes...
...Blade escapes police headquarters with the help of a group of “sleeper” human vampire hunters, known as the Night-Stalkers (“Night-Stalkers—sounds like the rejects from a Saturday morning cartoon,” growls Blade). The Stalkers (Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel) help Blade foil the super-secret plans of the vampires who have resurrected Dracula. And they do it in style...