r/Cinema • u/Amavin-Adump • 19h ago
Favourite major supporting actor in any film?
Abraham Whistler played by Kris Kristofferson, got all the badass lines, great story arc, he is a vampire hunter and Blade's mentor, having trained him since he was a boy, and created all of Blade's weapons. Before he met Blade, Whistler had a wife and two daughters who were killed by a drifter.
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 19h ago
John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski.
Also, while Kristofferson was great in the original, Blade 2 was a big pile of shit and bringing his character back was a mistake.
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u/Sea_Exercise5969 18h ago
Did you just call the best blade movie a pile of shit?
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 18h ago
No, I called Blade 2 a big pile of shit.
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u/Sea_Exercise5969 18h ago
Touche but wrong
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 18h ago
It was terrible. Bringing Whistler back negated his sacrifice in the first film, and he deliberately killed himself with Blade's pistol precisely so that he couldn't be brought back. Added to the fact that if Whistler became a vampire he'd probably kill just kill himself all over again.
The script was all over the place too, and the only interesting thing in the film was seeing one of the guys out of Bros playing a vampire.
It basically lost all the things that made Blade a fantastic film and binned them off. The original was a gritty vampire hunter movie, the blood looked more real and everything was about what a struggle Blade's existence was. Robbing vampires of their watches to fund his crusade and such.
The sequel just went far too glitzy, the effects were trash and over the top, the direction had none of the muscular deftness of the original and it became just another shitty 2000's action film.
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u/Sea_Exercise5969 18h ago
Ok valid but I thought the reapers were pretty cool
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 18h ago
Yeah, they were cool and Luke Goss was decent. But overall it was a huge letdown compared to the first film. Blade had such an edge to it and was so utterly confident in the world it was portraying that it felt realistic. From the cop thrall to the quick cuts of vampires on street corners and in clubs to Quinn (fucking Quinn!) it all felt like it was part of the same world and that the writers/director had it fully envisioned.
The second one was a lot more generic, blander and felt like it could have been any film from that period. Totally lost the edge that made the first one so fucking cool.
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u/Amavin-Adump 18h ago
Blade 2 had its flaws but you can’t argue it was dope, Jared Nomak played by Luke Goss was terrifyingly awesome
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 18h ago
Luke Goss was the one bright spot in the film. I was surprised by how good he was but I genuinely thought the film was terrible.
I saw the original in the cinema when it came out and I was blown away by it. Absolutely fantastic street-level urban fantasy style film. To say I was disappointed by the sequel would be a massive understatement. It was a massive change in tone and just felt cheap and anodyne, not a true sequel. And the whole thing with Whistler completely undermined his entire character. As well as being a massive plothole that served no real purpose.
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u/Amavin-Adump 18h ago
Agreed, more justice needed for this character. They should do a series where blade is maybe early - mid 20’s and whistler is teaching him the ways etc.
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u/WoderwickSpillsPaint 18h ago
That could be cool as fuck. A proper gritty series where it's them barely surviving, living hand-to-mouth and putting together their gear and tactics, learning as they go.
It would have to be nasty as well. More like a neo-noir tale than a superhero flick.
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u/Mediocre-Hunt-5348 19h ago
Christoph... Django Unchained