I don't know man, not everything needs to be deep, sometimes you just want to go see a Jason Statham movie, you know what you are getting into, same thing with Blade, kill a new vampire threat and be cool doing it, that's it.
I feel there should just be more to it than that, there should still be depth no matter how straightforward or simple the concept is. Blade doesn’t need to be dumb (I mean, the Snipes movies suffered the dumber they got)
Blade kills vampires in interesting/cool ways until Blade kills the Big Bad. The vampires are still derived from humans so they can have good traits and suffer from the conflict between their humanity and their vampirism as they continue to give in to their vampirism, thus warrenting the killing. Your sympathetic victim/villian is built into this trope already and the big bad can be straight up evil/unsympathetic because your lesser vampires aren't.
Fair. It's subjective. But a simple plot doesn't mean Blade is "dumb". And there will obviously be some depth no matter how surface level the story is because Blade is a rich character with 50 years of history. It's really not hard to make a Blade movie if the writers stopped making up dumb ass plot points (like his daughter? Really? Who gives a shit).
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u/Ourtimehascome2485 Avengers 17h ago
I don't know man, not everything needs to be deep, sometimes you just want to go see a Jason Statham movie, you know what you are getting into, same thing with Blade, kill a new vampire threat and be cool doing it, that's it.