My wife watches Blade: Trinity (Unrated) for the FIRST time || Movie Reaction 

Yes, that particular Vampire is played by a pro-wrestler. That’s Triple H from WWE. And fun bit of trivia: Ryan Reynolds is a HUGE pro-wrestling fan, so when it came time for him to do his big 1v1 fight with Triple H, he wanted to do it all himself, no stuntman doing anything whatsoever except helping teach him the right moves.

if i’m not mistaken Jessica Biel’s character isn’t one of Whistler’s daughters that died but she was born to a different mother after his entire family was killed…also the vampires have no idea how Blade can survive in daylight only Frost and his mother knew the circumstances of his birth

HOLDEN: If you DO watch/re-watch the old Ben Affleck Daredevil, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEEEAAASE *get a hold of the **_Director’s cut_** of Daredevil!* It is SO MUCH BETTER than the theatre cut and I would love to see what you and Jen think of it! Thank you!

The one of reasons for Snipes bad behavior is that he and his production company were supposed to be in on all changes to the script and story but MANY changes that he hated were made without consulting them at all so he protested in many ways that weren't... good at all. The best thing that came out of this movie was the fact that this is the movie where Ryan Reynolds was told about the character of Deadpool.

I am pretty sure that the original "non unrated" version had Drake transform into Blade at the end and when they had him on the table to cut him open he transformed back but was actually dead.

I know the movie is shit for a lot of reasons, but I still like it, mostly because of Ryan Reynolds and because this movie gave us Deadpool. Glad you guys decided to watch this too!

Guillermo del Toro should’ve directed this movie as well

The hand move by Jessica Biel inviting the guards/swat team at the end wasn't from The Matrix. It was a favorite of Bruce Lee's, he used it a cpl times in his movies. That's where Matrix and this movie got it from. Giving a nod to the original Hollywood martial arts star.

Man, this film brings back memories, I had a huge crush on the female antagonist in this film, then Underworld came along and the leather bleach white vampire look on Kate Beckinsale took it up to 11. Would love to see you guys react to some of the Underworld films. The calibre of actors in that series really is astounding.

Lol I loved Jen’s instant motherly reaction when Holden commented on Dracula standing on the roof holding the baby, saying that would be him when she comes home after having the baby. 😂

Patton Oswalt said in a podcast that Snipes was extremely hard to work with and even refused to speak with the director. Snipes especially disliked Ryan Reynolds who kept trying to get method actor, Snipes to break character in scenes. Filming got so bad that the director used Snipes' double as much as possible.

The reason we didn't get more Blade is because Wesley hated the script & direction of David Goyer so much, he physically attacked him to make him quit. He refused to come out of his trailer & would only do close-ups. Most of the medium & distance shot you see in the film are his stunt double. He wanted Guillermo del Toro back, but he was deep into his production of the first Hell-Boy film. This was supposed to be a pilot film for The Night -Stalkers. Patton Oswald has a great video on You-Tube about it. There is also a television series with a different actor playing Blade. My personal problems with the film are the inconsistencies with the previous films. The first film established that Blade could tell the differences between Humans & Vampires by sight, movement & smell but he shoots a Human in public. Why can humans now fight Vampires directly when they are faster & stronger. Plus, they kill Whistler again and those stupid Vampire dogs. And why are those hinged jaws so prevalent when they were an anomaly in the second film? Petty? Maybe but those things just annoyed me.

Fun fact since Holden didn't mention it and I'm not sure if he knows, this movie is the actual reason why we got Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool. When they made the movie, someone said to Ryan Reynolds his character was a lot like Deadpool. He didn't know anything about Deadpool, did his research and he loved the character. For 12 years he tried to convince studios to make Deadpool movie with him. They even had test footage. That didn't convince studios either. Then years later the footage was leaked, people loved it and 24 hours after the leak the movie was greenlit.

I'd never heard of Ryan Reynolds before this movie. He and Jessica Biel are what sold me on it. He gets such great lines here and has the most epic insult ever used on film (you know the one, though it's certainly not youtube-friendly)

Thanks guys, it's really nice to see someone watch all 3 for once 😁

People always talk about Wesley Snipes' eyes, but no one ever brings up how Jessica Biel shot a camera through the lens.

Wesley snipes didn't like doing this movie

The whole scene where he wakes up and sees the Pomeranian is funny to me.

Highly underrated in my opinion, I even like this better than the 2nd, which most Blade fans seem to like. This one connects more with the comic books so, i love it.

Ryan Reynolds is hilarious in this

The guy from Hell on Wheels and the other stuff is actually the first cousin once removed of Thor Heyerdahl, famous Norwegian explorer who traveled from Peru to French-Polynesia on a homemade raft.

Snipes had more and more issues as production went on. He was staying in character all the time, forcing people to call him Blade, he got in physical fights with the director AND with Reynolds, he tried to assume control of production (that's why he refused to open his eyes in that one scene - he WAS a producer, but he and the director clashed a lot), and generally became so problematic that he nearly ruined his acting career. Now for a fun fact: when Jessica Biel fires the arrow at Dracula, she was told to fire as close to the camera as she could....and she shot through the glass window and straight down the lense, and in the movie it cuts before it hits. The Blade trilogy paved the way for the MCU, showing to execs that comic book movies could be worth it (previous Marvel outings like Howard the Duck and the never released Fantastic Four and Nick Fury outings had left a sour taste in people's mouths)

I liked this movie! Old school cornball isn't always bad.

definitely like this one more than the other ones, story probably not the best but the characters are pretty well and help carry the story along.

14:33. 15:18. 15:40. 18:35. 21:22. 23:33. 23:46 23:56 "My wife watches Blade: Trinity (Unrated)..." by Holden Hardman (March 27, 2023)

The CG eyes.....Wesley Snipes famously was a total jerk while making this movie even refusing to film some scenes, leave his trailer or speak to the director. He would often demand people only call him Blade instead of his real name. The whole fiasco has become quite the legend with cast members sharing stories over the years.

Blades my favorite superhero, so I still like this movie. But I think that had the studio not interfered, and let goyer go through with the original script, the blade trilogy would have probably gone down as one of the best superhero trilogy’s of all time. For those who don’t know, the original script was a post apocalyptic where the vampires had won, with a sort of old man Blade.

Oh! I guess ive never seen the unrated version because the ending is different. Instead of Blade waking up with those CGI eyes, its revealed that Dracula transformed into Blade and he changed back to his Drake form when they were about to cut, who they bought was Blade, open. Thats weird that they changed the ending.

Wow them not knowing who Parker Posey in the beginning is beyond sad! Having her in this was amazingly camp!

Yep, apparently Wesley was so difficult to work with on this movie that he refused to open his eyes during that one scene, so the director just did it in post just like you said .

Yall should react to more Wesley Snipes films like: PASSENGER 57, THE ART OF WAR, U.S. MARSHALLS (PART 2 OF THE FUGITIVE) and THE EXPENDABLES 3 (1 and 2 also but no Wesley in them)

Yeah this movie was…something. It’s not 100% terrible but the script is all over the place and imo they did Dracula dirty which is sad cause he’s basically the first big villain Blade fights in the comics. I do hope though you guys react to Ben Afflecks Daredevil and Ghost Rider with Nick Cage. My favorites of Pre-MCU movies.

If you end up doing the Ben Affleck Daredevil, make sure you watch the R rated edition. It's much, much better.

This movie is so bad compared to the first 2 movies, the main villain is just so lame..

During filming Wesley Snipes actually wanted to have a sex scene written in with Jessica Biel that wasn't in the script and yes that eye scene was CGI because he was just being difficult and refused to open them for the scene. They're all not the best but have you considered doing an UNDERWORLD watch?

The least favorite of the Blade trilogy..man the Ryan Reynolds jokes every 2 secs were just pure cringe..just trying to go comedy in this franchise was a mistake, Blade is a dark vampire franchise, pure and simple.

this movie is great to analyze because everything wrong with it is what's wrong with current day MCU!!!! It was like the first one that showed the flaws of doing shared universe. The whole movie was a setup for a spinoff with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. And you see that now how every MCU sets up another movie. So I think if you genuinely have issue with this movie then you need to vocally speak about how much you hate current MCU

I wasn't a fan of this particular Blade film. I liked Jessica Biel, but I agree about her being Whistler's daughter it didn't work. Maybe being part of the family would be fine, but I would have preferred more of a cousin or something. I liked Ryan Renalds. I liked some of the action sequences. I didn't really like the casting of Dracula, I didn't like the design of Dracula. My reason for that is that is was too similar to the reaper vampires in Blade 2. It just didn't fit especially since the only vampires that had that sort of mouth was the reapers and they were an off shoot created in the persuit of trying to remove the vampire weeknesses. I just feel like Dracuala shouldn't have had that sort of design. DIdn't work for me. The actor playing Dracula also didn't work for me as he just didn't fit the image or temprament I would have of how Dracula would look and act. I didn't like the costume of Dracula. Overall it just didn't work for me, and the end fight was just in my opinion really mediocre. It didn't have the same intensity and danger about it that the end fight in Blade 2 had. I didn't care for the dog vampire designs either. Again it just didn't work for me. Overall I just didn't really care for this film. It would be a solid 4 for me.

I liked this movie, a lot. As for the "Turning a pregnant woman" angle, it's made fairly clear that the technique normally doesn't work (the head of the Vampire implied that by referring to Blade as an "anomaly", for example).

Good old Triple H mixing it up in this one lol. Love the overt wrestling moves in this movie.

Oh yeah I forgot this movie had WWE wrestler Triple H in it

26:01 i dont know if you were being sarcastic.... but for me it didnt sound like that... so i was like " are you for real?? you dont know Triple H ??" :D

This is definitely the weakest of the 3 films, however I still do enjoy it because of Wesley Snipes and Ryan Reynolds. Thanks for doing this reaction you guys.

For Blade's transformation, I always see them as Flash's, it's an extremely difficult accident to reproduce. Blade's mother was pregnant, was she on hormone therapy ? Deacon Frost, freshly vampire and drug addict, bite is mother and inject him with drugs and if so how much. Once bitten, what did the emergency physicians inject into her before transporting her to the hospital and with what dose she precisely. How long the baby should bathe in mixes without drowning. Etc too many random parameters, hence the impossibility in my opinion for the Vampires to reproduce a diurnambulist.

You should really watch Buried if you want to see Ryan Reynolds doing some real acting and not playing his usual character. He's said in an interview that it's the performance he's most proud of. Whether it's for the channel or not, I highly recommend it for you.

I don’t know what I love most about this channel. Their reaction to the movie/show or watching Jen react to Holdan’s witty comments 😂..

has she seen underworld. great movie

Are you guys going to watch Constantine? It's a superhero movie (of sorts. It's based off of a DC character)

Got the impression it wasnt planned lol this was the first blade movie i saw so i enjoyed it

I never understood the mouth-splitting with Drake/Dracula and the dogs when it was done with Nomak and the Reapers in Blade II.

Holden, why did you do this to her. she could have lived without seeing this abomination, but you had to drag her into this

in the version i watched, dracula disguised himself as blade out of respect, allowing him to escape, he transformed back just as doctors were about to dissect him

Another 2 fun "marvel" movie I would like you to watch The Punisher and Big Hero 6.

Oh, if you like all vampire movies I would LOVE for you to take a look at Underworld, from 2003, with Kate Beckinsale as Selene. One of my favourite vampire movies out there - I've always loved the age-old conflict between Vampires and Werewolves :) and Selene is just epic. Great reaction as always, and thanks for sharing your awesome with us /Lizz

Loool the raising of the upper lip looks unnatural because they’re supernatural beings? They got fangs bro😂

Yeah, this was worse than I remembered. Pretty cheesy. It's not the WORST movie ever...but it's a huge drop from the first two. Right at the beginning it lost me. In the first one Blade says he call tell who's a vampire and who's not by "the way they move....the way they smell.." Now in this one he gets fooled by plastic Halloween vampire teeth?? Come on. That's just super bad. I forgot James Remar was in this..

I loved the first two Blade movies. Watched them both several times. The original was one of the first three movies I ever bought on DVD (along with The Matrix and Dark City). I watched this one ONCE and never had the desire to go back. Now that is has been almost 2 decades, I'm sure if I ever find the time I may give it a second watch. I DO remember enjoying this much more than Morbius, though. Originally, Guillermo del Toro was offered to return for this film and worked on some early development, but left when he was offered the role of writing and directing Hellboy. Thus, David Goyer took over directing as well for this installment. There were several stories that came out a few years after the movie's release with some saying Snipes was difficult on set and others criticizing Goyer's for his inexperience in directing (he had only previously made an independent film with Snipes two years prior) and handing production. A lot of people reflect back on all the hearsay and gossip as Snipes being the "villain" in the situation, though when you look at what became of the film with Blade playing second fiddle and increasingly upstaged by his co-stars in his own film. The movie was intended to spin off Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel for their own series of films and effectively end Snipes' involvement entirely in a hit franchise, so I can understand why he may not have been in the best mood while making the film after having literally kickstarted both Marvel's first real movie and the modern comic book film genre in general. Also, Dominic Purcell, who played Dracula, would later go on to play Heat Wave in several of DC Comic's CW series from the Arrowverse (The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, etc.) for the better part of a decade.

christopher heyerdahl. also in twilight and the series van helsing( which he is fucking amazing in.) an underrated actor for sure

I really like the blade movie and kevin feige is trying get blade in to the MCU phase 5 fan's want vampire killer.

I never understood why Dracula would side with Vampires against Blade. He despised them for wasting the abilities and time they had even more than humans he hunted for food. You would think he would watch like a cheerleader as Blade took them all out. TV show mentions that the bio-weapon took out all vampires that spawned from Dracula, one whole clan, but there are about 12 mentioned clans, Frost took leadership of one of them, Erebos in Blade I and in Blade II the leadership of another clan fell. But those two clans still had many members running around, just not organized.

Watch the Unrated or director cut of Ben Affleck Daredevil. It is a better movie than the theatrical version.

PARKER POSEY, budget Jennifer Aniston

36:05 That's basically what they did in the first film, and thus how Blade was made. They even more or less tried to do that in the Blade TV series. (Yes, it had a VERY rough beginning, but got better over time.)

The wrestler is triple h

Holden hardman wait if you're watching old marvel movies and there might be stan lee cameos that we all and love his cameo.

All in favor for Jen watching the Underworld movie series 👍🏻

has jen seen hellboy already ? for some reason this movie made me think of hellboy and i would love to see you guys reaction.

I find it hard to believe that the woman who has worn quite a few wrestling t-shirts on these reviews can't tell that was Triple H lol.

That's a good point that Jenn made about the vampires should have simply recreated another Blade type day-walker to serve themselves. I never heard anyone else raise that question. I enjoy this movie more with every subsequent viewing. I agree that the focal point wasn't Blade, which did hurt the movie, but if you watch the deleted, final scene of the movie, this film was designed in part to set-up a spin-off with Reynolds and Biel as the Night-stalkers where they would hunt all sorts of monsters. I thought Biel was cool in this movie, and Reynolds' scenes, particularly with Parker Posey, were hysterical. They had good chemistry as foes.

You guys should watch Dracula Untold. It's a fun watch.

There were 2 endings. The one you saw was suppose to be Dracula (drake) disguised as Blade. The CGI eyes were suppose to be drake's eyes, not Blade's. I do believe that is what they were going for. The second was also Dracula disguised as Blade. But before the autopsy could start, the dead body reverted back to Dracula. This was Dracula's "final gift" to Blade (hence why I think the one you saw was suppose to he drake also, disguised as blade)

I like you both enough that I am willing to endure watching Blade Trinity again.

i felt that ryan reynolds characte was too forced here. not as cuz thats how he acts, but he was so extra for no reason. and there was a lot that was forced i this movie compared to the rest

Dominic Purcell is lately known for his role in the DC show "Legends of Tomorrow", but you may also remember his earlier show on Fox "John Doe" which was a pretty cool one season experience, sadly edit And that guy from Hell on Wheels also played a couple different roles in "Stargate Atlantis"

Hey I totally forgot that the wrestler triple H was in this movie. Super epic

Blade check ghost rider fantastic four daredevil

Neither Wesley Snipes nor the director David Goyer, whom wrote the first and second film liked each other at all and Ryan Reynolds was called a homophobic slur, rhymes with maggot, but has an F, by Snipes which shocked everyone onset. Snipes and Goyer would get into arguments onset on how the script should be written as well as how the scene should be filmed. Patton Oswalt said on a podcast that tensions were high during filming and that Snipes wouldn't come out of his trailer unless the the other actors were out of their trailers. He even said that Snipes was smoking marijuana in his trailer, which was said to have calmed him down.

The actual reason why Karen isnt in the rest of the trilogy is because she is busy wanting to speak to all the managers.

Not the best.😬

there are 2 endings the other one is better where Drake gave blade a gift and transform as him for the cops to find

I was shocked to see that ending, the ending i saw was different. Where dracula was the one that changed into blade

If I’m not mistaken, Trinity was meant to be the set up for a spin off with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel. If I also remember correctly, Snipes had a big issue with and really didn’t like that his 3rd movie was not Blade focused but instead being used to set up something else without him which ended up never happening and also some personal issues bled through on set leading to the CGI eyes scene. The movie isn’t as terrible as people make it out to be but something there was missing. Overall the Blade trilogy is pretty solid in terms of CBM are concerned.

If you're going to do Fantastic 4, you really should do the second as well. It's a much better movie than the first.

Suddently Whistler has a daughter. Also I forgot Trip H from WWE was in this.

If you want to watch old-school Marvel films, you really need to go back earlier to Howard the Duck!

it had some decent action but I think it went too much comedy ....

Oh no..I'm so sorry y'all watched this mess

Snipes and director/writer David S. Goyer constantly fought according to Patton Oswalt and Ryan Reynolds. Reynolds stated he would constantly have to improv dialogue and shoot scenes where he is interacting with Blade but Snipes is not in the room. Sometimes they would use body doubles.

I feel like you really need to hear some of the stories from the Blade Trinity production, it was a mess from beginning to finish, studio interference, drama with actors and directors. I take it all with a pinch of salt ofcourse but Patton Oswalt does tell a good tale

this movie bothered me with how op the humans seemed against the vampires

Watch the first Ghost Rider movie

Wesley Snipes as Blade was as iconic as Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark or Chris Evans as Steve Rogers. You simply couldn't do better casting. They filmed Blade Trinity in Toronto, just like the scene where the Hulk destroyed Harlem in The Incredible Hulk, also Toronto. The actor who played the original source vampire was also in DC's Legends of Tomorrow.

Yeah the vampire that Jessicas character killed towards the end that has a beard was Ryans stunt double and when she shoots the glass out when she was shooting the arrow. She actually destroyed the camera lens.

I loved this version of Blade. It gave that blade feel with more humour mixed in.

We came for the Holden and got the Hardman

HOLDEN hit me in the Feels when he said a mix between Satan and psycho rangers from Power rangers in space ... May the Power protect you always

I remember hearing both II and Trinity had real production issues mostly between Snipes and Director/Production. I think part of it can be seen in the scene Holden noted the weird CGI eyes.

In the version I remember blade didn't wake up but transformed back into Dracula

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