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Back from watching Blade 2 and Blade Trinity at a friend's room down at one of the halls of residence. Opal Court, so nice, so expensive, so everything that's wrong with the PFI scheme. And he had such a comfortable bed. Yes, I'm such a ho, I sleep in boys beds with them in it. (which translates to nothing happened but I plan of freaking out my housemate with it and then causing laugher, she deserves a giggle she's just had a row with her boyfriend)

Anyway

Blade 2 was kind of meh. Could have done with more Blood Pack and Whistler. Not least of all Asad because Danny John-Jules was playing him and as well all know, the man rocks (for those who want to know he played Cat in Red Dwarf.)
And Tony Curran was fun as Priest.
Plus Ron Perlman doesn't know how not to rock.
Basically the Blood Pack rock my socks.

As do the Reaper jaws SFX. They're fun yucky. And the make up for the Reapers was really cool. How they made Thomas Kretschmann look quite so icky as Demaskinos is beyond me.

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Liked the first Prague scene. And the fight scene at the end. Basically Novak rocked. Which is even wierder when you consider that I can remember him being in Bros. I really like the way the end scene was filmed. Leave me alone, I have a thing for iconic shots.

But the film overall was meh.

BTW - how about Norman Reedus for Gambit?

Now on to Blade Trinity which was possibly even worse that Blade II, except that it was at least cohesive and had more oomph.
First, the scriptwriter must be shot. He was writing wisecracks left, right and centre, but unfortunately they didn't work and didn't suit the piece.

Two - Ryan Renolds did suddenly get hot in this, but he still sounded like a dork. He's actually the first occasion where I've thought, yes, would do him but only if he had a ball-gag in his mouth. The trouble was the character was supposed to be Xander but he just couldn't carry it off. Gah!

I'm supposing I wasn't supposed to be cheering for the vampires. But they were so much less annoying than the good guys (exception being Blade who was still Blade and there for thankfully mostly silent.)

I just really didn't like the good guys. Although Zoe would have made a good St. Alia of the Knife. (Great now I'm crossing fandoms)

And the bad guys were just funny. Plus, hello, they had Callum Keith Rennie in. How am I not supposed to love the bad guys. PS - you have CKR in the film, use him.

HHH wasn't that bad, I mean, he made some dreadful stinkers of lines that he managed to make sound merely dreadful rather than attrocious. As someone said of Reagan, he can do that because he's had practise (not an insult to Reagan, merely to his speechwriters). Plus what is it with him and the dogs. Vive the Vamp-pomeranian.

Can I just make with the argh about the science in this film because it's dreadful?

And the ending is sucky.

So in short Blade > Blade II > Blade III. About which no one is surprised. HHH did not suck, much, again, no one is surprised. The only person who was surprised was me and that was only because OMG Opal Court beds so comfy.

The one thing in Blade III's favour is that it does contain the fantastic insult 'cock-juggling thundercunt' which amuses me greatly. BTW, anyone else get the feeling that Hannibal King was all the vamps plaything for 5 years, 'cause really the amount of denial in that seen was extreme and amusing.

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Also as a PSA - the Magnum five senses ice-creams are insanely delicious. Oh yeah.

Walk on, walk on

With hope in your heart,
You'll never walk alone,
No you'll never alone.

So yeah. Liverpool won.

Coming back from being 3-0 down. On penalties.

With Smicer, Vlad the Impaled (and my favourite Liverpool player) being one of the stars. This rocks only because 9/10ths of the time Liverpool fans blame everything bad on the pitch on him. Vlad is my darling, my darling.

And Steven Gerrard is Captain Fantastic.
Rafa Benitez is a great manager since he managed to get the team functioning again.
And Xabi, darling Xabi Alonso, scored the third goal. (He's my second favourite Liverpool player)

Even Jerzy Dudek was fantabulous. Not that this is rare but he flaps on occasions.

But the man of the match was Danny Murphy. Defender beyond defending. Putting body in the way of the ball, and groin in the way of serious pain. Could have kissed him. I mean it didn't seem right till he got his hands on the trophy and made with the cheering. That's the thing, him and Gerrard are Liverpool boys through and through.

The only thing that would have made it better is Paolo Maldini not being on the losing side. I can't handle that man losing, he takes it so well. I hurt on his behalf.

Dear Stephen Gerrard, if you're thinking of leaving after this, if UEFA stab Liverpool in the back, if Chelsea offer you better chances, remember tonight. Remember what you said, that people have saved up money for months to get to Istanbul. Chelsea only got 2000 people to their championship parade in the middle of London. Fans like Liverpool's are special. Be like Paolo, be a one-club man, be the last of that proud breed.

Hugs and kisses to AC Milan and their fans.
Congratulations to Liverpool's. Photos later.