Honest Trailer Commentaries - The Blade Trilogy

The writers of Honest Trailers give their thoughts on Marvel's The Blade Trilogy, then watch the trailer they made giving you an inside look to the making of including deleted jokes and more! - it's Honest Commentaries: The Blade Trilogy
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[@samkaranja5709]

Fun fact, blade is british in the comics, not even kidding. And his girlfriend is a speedster vampire aristocrat who fought in WWII along side king namor of Atlantis & captain america and was de-aged from her 80s to her 20s thanks to a blood transfusion from the andriod human torch. Look it up. Comics are weird.

[@spartanghost9713]

sam karanja good to know all of these 👍

[@Punny_Rabbit]

Id watch a stream of these 3 watching the full Blade trilogy

[@youngtexas210]

Them getting into the commentary/Riff tracks content would be great

[@dredyoung1]

Pedro Yon good suggestion

[@genghisdon1]

do the first 2 anyway

[@josipkukavica6867]

It has to be all three, I would kill to see that stream

[@TheLanceUppercut]

Ice skating uphill is a fool's errand. Challenging Blade is a fool's errand. He's wondering why some people are dumb enough to challenge him. It's not that hard. It's weird that people struggle with that line.

[@phoenixrising7777]

That and a lesson of hubris.

[@benabate7506]

Lance Uppercut I’m late to the party here..... the problem is not that it doesn’t make sense in context it’s that it’s not a common saying.

[@chrisdtgordon5331]

The Goyer hiring argument actually worked for Archer: They wanted someone like Jessica Walter for Malory, so they eventually hired Jessica Walter.

[@alexanderforbes1452]

And Scrubs, when casting Doctor Cox they were asking for "a John C McGinley type", they ended up casting John C McGinley.

[@Axterix13]

And FiM with Discord, where they wanted someone like Q/de Lancie, so they hired de Lancie.

[@MommyOfMutants]

And Laura Linney in Love Actually

[@ethanroberts48]

Thank you so much for giving Blade the credit it's due! I listen to your show all the time and I was at the point of wanting to ask why Blade wasn't ever talked about as being the actual beginning of Marvel making good movies. Your show is always educational and entertaining. Thank you very, very much for reminding everyone Blade was the beginning of it all and showing it some love.

[@NightingaleAlt]

Never thought the ice-skating line was confusing. I always took it as someone trying to be different and get ahead by doing something idiotic. These vampires thought they were special, but Blade's seen it done better and more efficiently, ergo, skating downhill instead of uphill.

[@darkservantofheaven]

in the russian dub he says some motherfuckers are always trying to piss against wnd

[@ilexx876]

darkservantofheaven even better!

[@dirus3142]

Thanks for reminding me of that phrase. That is how I took the context of the ice skating line. It can also be seen as a Sisyphean task. Blade is the best and the vampire will always fail when he comes after them, no matter how hard they try.

[@marcellogenovese199]

The story behind that line. Wesley Snipes made a joke using that line on set off screen and the writter thought it was the coolest thing ever so he put it in the movie despite Snipes laughing and telling him it was inappropriate and a silly line for the seen. They decided to keep it in anyway despite this.

[@benabate7506]

Adam P. Murray that’s actually a saying though

[@animemangalover94]

a year after watching this video and watching that line in Blade, I just realised, ice skating uphill is almost physically uphill because gravity would overpower the friction-glide (I think), so what I think Blade's saying is "someone's always trying to reach an impossible goal despite how stupid it is" ? Yes?

[@RysingStar2120]

I took the “ice skate uphill” line similarly to a rhetorical question that essentially asked “why do some people always try to f**k with someone they can’t beat?”

[@matthewheywood8532]

Blade deserves so much more credit than it gets sadly. It is almost forgotten but opened the door for all we have gotten since

[@HeavyC31190]

In defense of the same master plan for all of the vampires. Blade is immune to their weaknesses and they do “Burst into flames at the slightest touch of silver, garlic, or sunlight.” So they would want his blood to avoid being the worst vampires since Twilight. Lol Also, the ice skating line is one of my favorite movie lines of all time! Top 10 easily.

[@jatfield]

Quick! Get my lawyer! I need to put ice skate funeral in my will!

[@ejr87r]

I also love the first two Blades I don't know what they were thinking on the 3rd one. The ice skating uphill is a very simple line to get. "Uphill" means top and Frost wanted to be a vampire God and be the top of vampires and humans. He used the ritual to try climb the top easily, even though ice skating isn't easy, that is what Blade was implying.

[@KelBig17]

Emmanuel Roberson yea white boys ain't never gonna get it bro

[@freaknr1]

Solid honest trailer to a couple of solid movies. :-) Btw, you guys used the Dark Place-clip in your Bloodborne honest trailer. :-)

[@Diispaceyone]

Buff-he the vampire slayer was hilarious to me 😂

[@kelpklepto]

Just noticed that the cereal the Hot Topic employee was eating was Count Chocula...

[@battleupsaber462]

Good job posting the commentary on time! Again! Keep up at this rate and the commentary will be out before the trailer itself!

[@dexfrancolini4734]

BattleUp Saber that has happened before btw

[@AjjeThePajje]

Lost it when Joe said "vampire pipes"! :D

[@0axel078]

Love the Pete Holmes shout-out. His Ex-Men and Street Fighter skits were so good.

[@DSzaks]

Ice skating up hill is an analogy for wasted/pointless effort or fighting against fate. That is to say, no matter how much you struggle and climb up the hill, you will always just slide right back down to the bottom.

[@shnickelmaster21]

They said the statement about ice skating uphill saying that some people always do things the hard way..

[@LPlandOFazul]

I have to give Blade Trinity some credit because it was the first movie I remember watching Ryan Reynolds in.

[@1775adam]

Stephen Norrington did LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN after Blade, correction for the statement "Never did anything else"

[@janstankiewicz9816]

I guess they simply erased "LXG" from their collective minds. Good for them!

[@BushidoBrownSama]

we don't talk about "LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN"

[@scottmcdonnell9330]

I think Stephen Norrington would prefer people said he never did anything else

[@johnblack3204]

Dorff is back! He is on the new season of True Detective.

[@JDotWill]

They're going to slaughter Justice League next week

[@k9commander]

J. Will Is the movie out on DVD? They don't do any movie that's not on DVD. My guess is Avengers.

[@kristinaporter2629]

Don't think so

[@Acerbium]

It's definitely Justice League. They said that it's a superhero flick, referenced the "Unite the League" advertisement slogan, and also referenced the "Come Together" Beatles song cover used in the trailers. So hopefully a recently resurrected Henry Cavill shows up to stop them, or else there'll be a crap-ton of DC apologists in next week's comments.

[@albertnormal6834]

Boo Yah!

[@HeavyC31190]

I’m pretty sure they were referencing Justice League but the home release isn’t until March 13. Maybe it’s one of the animated movies and they were tricking us.

[@maxdaname]

Steven Dorff is going to be on the next season of True Detective :)

[@sergeymeshkov]

can't wait for his comeback

[@Patrick-jj5nh]

Dorffssaince !

[@TheFunwichHorror]

Stevendorf sounds like Ganondorf's milder, more mundane cousin.

[@jessielefey]

Judging by his best films... this is not an inaccurate assessment of him, tbh.

[@marc07112]

Blade 1 is the BEST THING EVER!!!!

[@defiantaichi]

I’d rather watch this than the trailer at this point

[@sarahrisley7231]

"I took it as a lesson in hubris" LOL God, I love Dan.

[@MyssBlewm]

Steven Dorff is a great actor. He gets stuck doing bad films. I loved him in "Somewhere", an underrated Sofia Coppola film.

[@robertodell9193]

You should check him out in "Entropy".

[@LumiNiceOne]

He's also very good in True detective season 3

[@LumiNiceOne]

@@robertodell9193I love that film! He's amazing in it!

[@staceysales814]

Dan is 100% correct in his definition of blades quote. I live my life by that quote.

[@FlamingoSandwich]

who remebers Danny John-Jules (i.e. cat from red dwaf ) in blade 2

[@luckyarchard]

"Hey, buddy! " was all that came to mind the first time he took the mask off

[@brandterickson1091]

I always loved how Blade 2 took the "out run the explosion" cliche to the extreme by out running light.

[@isomorphicmonoid]

SJNews I'm not sure guys if you gonna read this, but I read "that line (uphill skate) wasn’t in any version of the original script. It was just something a screenwriter overhead Wesley Snipes saying while casually talking to a friend on the phone, in full Blade costume. After overhearing the line, the screenwriters hastily added it to the script because shit, it was better than anything they’d written up to that point."

[@cleetusi9559]

I want to say now, years later. This commentary is way ahead of its time on comic book movies regarding studio notes lol

[@ilexx876]

I don't understand how Dan was too young to see Blade when it came out? I'm 30 years old and I'm damn sure that Dan is older than that. I remember Blade so vividly, I forced my 6 year old brother to watch it too and he pissed himself. It was hilarious.....

[@fandomentertainment]

I was 15 when Blade came out and not allowed to see R-rated films until I was 17. Just never looped back around to see it - DM

[@ilexx876]

ScreenJunkies News ohh guys really played it by the book huh. I understand. I was a nosey 12 year old who saw it as it came out on DVD. Appreciate your opinion on it as an informed adult. The first two movies were solid.

[@GeeVanderplas]

There's a difference between renting R-rated movies on video or going to the theatre. My parents didn't care (or rather: know) about the movies I was renting, but they would never let me go see an R-rated movie in the cinema.

[@seanbaugh3239]

ScreenJunkies News You damn "hipsters" probably don't even like these types of movies and just review them cause it's trendy right now. There's no reason a person in you're profession hasn't seen Blade by now. I find that your excuse resonates like a loud fart in a quiet library......and just like the fart it leaves you ruminating over the "true" meaning behind it's creation. "NUFF SAID"

[@randombrokeperson]

@@seanbaugh3239 wtf man?

[@jerryjames4090]

I like these honest trailer commentaries they do a lot, it was a great idea to add commentary videos to their honest trailers. Great job ScreenJunkies!

[@martyharger3406]

His name was Frost...

[@MaximumDraculaX]

The biggest problem with going to a Blood Rave is the Blood Walk of Shame the next morning.

[@gregwodzynski941]

I'm assuming next week is Justice League

[@Horrormaster13]

Greg Wodzynski You don't say?

[@LabradorIndependent]

Given Dan said "Come together" - We can be fairly certain it's Justice League, or a very deliberate misdirect

[@BushidoBrownSama]

Dead Giveaway

[@jaredlerdal7385]

Keep up the good work guys. Really liked the alternate titles

[@juliusallen365]

Black superhero honorable mention: Blankman 😎

[@aeis1056]

Julius Allen Also Hancock. And there was a black superhero family in some nickelodeon movie or something.

[@ricardosiahaan5287]

Bet his superpowers is "Fill The Blank"

[@nomarsenrab]

Blankman was dope

[@RyanAggabao]

Blackman's ultimate, Shooting Blanks, is not a superpower

[@michelphilippe193]

#WellActually So the importance with Black Panther is not that it was a Black superhero movie. It was (get ready for qualifiers), the first Black super hero that wasn’t a side kick, with a mostly Black cast. Not to mention with a major studio backing it. People who are saying it is the first black superhero are extra wrong. Glad you guys showed the other movies. Didn’t know about Meteor Man being Marvel...that’s interesting

[@haggus71]

"Coke juggling Thundercat"

[@Zefferwindow]

6:09: Actually, he did. Stephen Norrington followed "Blade" with an adaptation of Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen". According to legend, the experience of production was so horrible that it caused both Norrington and star Sean Connery to retire from film making.

[@edgealloy811]

no mention of Donnie Yen?

[@tellmesomething2412]

BDWJ1987 Choreographed nothing neither, huh? I liked the first 2, but the 3rd... Why did that have to be made? 😢

[@jefferson4real]

BDWJ1987 he did the fight choreographies

[@1987Liono]

Truth, I never knew Blade was a comic book character. I thought it was a vampire movie because they were big in the 90s.

[@agirlnamedbrett.]

totally down for a blood rave. yes

[@sergeymeshkov]

22:46 Dan's Come Together reference completely gave it away :)

[@Ladykyra101]

How dare you??😠 Steven Seagal is the master! 🤣...oh, have you guys done Under Siege? Loved that movie! Oh, do "Big Trouble In Little China!" And "Doctor Detroit!" 😆

[@nathanbender6640]

I love 2 of the Blades aswell. I love when you guys do older movies like these. I woulda liked more firsts section. Didn't Blade do more Matrix stuff before the Matrix. Shoulda said you were "All In" for next weeks :P

[@jonalexander4789]

The first Blade actually came out before The Matrix.

[@Polycomical]

Full agreement on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, so darn funny "You're the most empathetic person I know...and I know Jesus."

[@jaxemoff]

I love how this turned into a think piece on the “ice skate up hill” line lmao

[@astrofiendII]

Spawn is great!

[@rachelranderson]

I love the honest trailers, but I actually think I love the commentary more, because I just never remember that much about the movies in the first place and you guys do all this research. Totally forgot about Blue, for example, and how often "vampire" was used to modify a product. freaking hilarious

[@justinstevenson2781]

You guys actually make Mondays and Tuesdays enjoyable

[@dawnloria6370]

Joe Starr with Blade Goggles... silly dalek. ;)

[@Ladykyra101]

Wait, Joe, did you call Howard The Duck, a Masterpiece??? 🤣

[@BadWolf739]

Then there was that article talking about how Discovery is the first black led Star Trek show.

[@cyotetrickster3610]

Maybe everyone just forgot that Blade was a comic book hero. I didn't know until years after the trilogy came out. It was that good.

[@BushidoBrownSama]

I loved the scholarly debate on Ice Skating Uphill

[@MoOrion]

There's also Hancock... for a black lead super hero movie...

[@savannahlanz1965]

love the recent references to It's Always Sunny, definitely should have used "Day Man"

[@JonahYeti]

The first Blade was before the Matrix..

[@venuzbabi08]

Blade Trinity was amazing! You know, through my I-was-a-teenager-when-I-saw-this goggles lol

[@Axterix13]

All those comments about vampires dying easy, but the first movie tried to set it up so that that wasn't the case. That each vampire tended to have its own weakness for the most part. One of the guys he fought at the rave Blade had "killed" several times before, but hadn't found the way that stuck yet. On some, garlic works, on others silver, some need to be decapitated, and so on. Though they do all share the sunlight weakness... and that's what leads to sunlight grenades and all of them dying easy ;)

[@PYRO-gj9sw]

I fuckin LOVED that line when I watched the original BLADE 20 years ago though.

[@alexanderforbes1452]

I like Blade Trinity, it's not as good as the other two, but it's still an enjoyable movie. I mean, I'm not saying it's GOOD, but it's fun.

[@chrishart3660]

my most recent memories of blade are from watching on TV, thought the "trying to ice skate uphill" was a cover for some cursing, completely forgot that's the actual line lol.

[@JeffreyPiatt]

Fun fact Blade 3 was filmed in an abandoned Canadian McDonald's Boat left over from the Worlds Fair. Just Google Mc Boat.

[@JenniferMcMahonhawaii78]

Seems like that original Blade Trinity idea was the inspiration for DAYBREAKERS....which coincidentally is a fantastic vampire movie in itself.

[@MrSpectralfire]

I can't risk the aids. No blood rave for me.

[@sneggleblech]

It's either X-Men United or Justice League

[@ryansmith-jr4gn]

Brandon Allen It's Justice League

[@ieyke]

Let's be clear, Goyer sucks ALL THE TIME. The only reason people thinks he might not is because he leeches credit from better directors and writers that he works with (like Nolan). Look at ANYTHING Goyer has does where he actually had any real power and it's total trash. Blade 1 was ripped from John Semper Jr's Spider-Man The Animated Series scripts. Avi Arad read Semper's scripts and then gave them to Goyer to make a movie out of. (John Semper Jr. is the one responsible for creating the modern Blade as everyone knows him. Before Semper's Spider-Man TAS scripts, Blade was just a human. Semper turned him into a vampire/half-vampire/quasi-vampire thing, which obviously became the movie and then later got written into the comics and became so well known that it virtually erased human Blade from everyone's memory.)

[@clucha1024]

I just thought with the uphill line that it just meant people who like to go against the grain.

[@luckyeez]

You know Dark Place!? its awesome.

[@chrisjohnson4738]

Norrington heard Snipes say the ice skating line in a conversation and said they would use it. Snipes was like, "Dude... no. That's a terrible idea." The director made him do it anyway.

[@WhiskeyBrewer]

That Darkplace reference. Thank you guyts so much

[@godimlarge]

I would watch an hour long movie fight just trying to deconstruct “... ice skating uphill”

[@Logan5]

Dorff had his heyday in the 90s. The Power of One is fantastic and SFW is prophetic and awesome. Judgment Night is a hidden gem...and who could forget Space Truckers?

[@darrylowen1831]

Blade was on ITV last night, how strange.

[@TheSpudlyMcgudly]

BDWJ1987 You "don't care" enough to comment, then reply to that comment? Dumbass.

[@TheSpudlyMcgudly]

BDWJ1987 Yet still felt the need to tell us about it first, despite 'not caring'

[@MrLeebo666]

I think the 'Black Panther being the first black superhero movie' thing is just because Black Panther was the first black comic book superhero and it got lost in translation like some media Chinese whispers.

[@TRADWIVESemo]

Dan was too young to watch the first one??? I saw it in theaters at Seven... Different parenting methods perhaps.

[@siukong]

I think he was like 15 at the time (technically too young but in reality most of us were watching R rated stuff by that age) . I definitely feel like there are R-rated movies that came out earlier that he says he watched at the time, so it seems odd that he would say he was too young for Blade.

[@Str4vv]

Ice skating uphill? Good luck finding a frozen lake with a gradient...like...nvm...

[@Phaota]

Clearly next week is Justice League.

[@eatingchaos]

I, for one, absolutely still reference Poochy. I use "I have to go now" ALL the time.

[@fabulousmyriad267]

Glad that Meteor Man (1993) was brought up if only to glaringly remind studios that nearly 25 years have passed since the first attempt at a black superhero movie!

[@avace917]

I pretty much agree with the general consensus regarding the 3 movies. Loved 1 and 2 then somehow with Trinity, they lost what worked in the first 2. It was too comedic. I bought all 3 on DVD. The behind the scenes stuff on the Trinity DVD is actually pretty good. You see RZA from Wu Tang scoring it in his studio. Very cool stuff

[@jonathanjames5918]

In dissapointed that y'all did the whole trilogy in one honest trailer.

[@SilverBack_Props]

These commentary episodes are awesome .

[@MrDayday112]

Even when I was 10 I got the ice skate line. He's saying that he's punching above his weight and he was never going to win but in a more badass way lol

[@MyssBlewm]

I've been looking forward to this since the tease last week.

[@SolidMikeP]

"ALWAYS BITE ON BLACK" soooo good

[@Schwaapy]

Hey Screen Junkies, did you catch the spiritual sequel to 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, "Man to Man with Dean Learner"? If not, it's just as good.

[@ScaryPeet]

That Garth Marenghi's Darkplace reference was in the Honest Game Trailer for Bloodborne, but not sure if it's made by different people because it's on Smosh Games.

[@lauristonbrewster9097]

People are mainly excited about the *cast* of Black Panther being predominantly African American (gleaning from the promotional material, there are only 2 white actors in starring roles). This subversion of representation is what has people excited and has people extolling BP as being a "Black led" movie. Granted, Blade was a pioneering blockbuster in its own right. But in terms of casting, Black Panther is looking to out-perform the blackity-black factor of Blade by a power of 10. And *that's* the exciting part.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

Trying to skate up-hill is just someone trying to do something in a harder way than necessary, making life harder for themselves.

[@electriccatnd]

I'm with Joe on this, Blade Trinity was not a good movie, but it was a ton of fun.

[@ReneBrain]

Philosophical questions in Blade...

[@gabelogan5877]

The first time you guys outright told the audience what next week Honest Trailer was going to be.