Historical Fencing

[apoweyn]

Originally posted by FatherDog


Blade > Blade II

Ya think?! I loved em both. But if I had to choose, I think Blade 2 would choke Blade.

[yenhoi]

Blade is more of a badass in blade then in blade II, but blade II has those oh-so-excellent touched up fight scenes, WWE style.

[FatherDog]

Originally posted by apoweyn


Ya think?! I loved em both. But if I had to choose, I think Blade 2 would choke Blade.

I thought they were both enjoyable movies (Blade in particular gets props for doing all the wire-fu and special camera angle effects the first Matrix was getting geeks all wet over, before the Matrix). Blade > Blade II because Blade has far fewer moments where you go "What the fuck? What? Why would he do that? Even if that were true, it makes no sense!"

[apoweyn]

True. But I loves me some Guillermo del Toro. And I thought that Nomak was a much more compelling villain than Stephen Dorff's Deacon Frost was.

But I hear ya.

[yenhoi]

Swordfight with the fem vampire was hot.

[Chang Style Novice]

Didja see in the extra features where they had some scenes with him wearing a platinum blond wig in addition to the nosferatu makeup? Boy, am I glad they changed their mind about that!

Anyway, I saw a preview for Guillermo Del Toro's Hellboy when I watched Bad Santa last week, and...I dunno. Most of what I love about Hellboy is Mignola's art, and although GDT has a great ability to get his movies looking right, it's just not the same without that great nervous pen line.

Anyway, you kids go back to talking about fencing now. All I know about fencing is where to get rid of some stolen car stereos.

[apoweyn]

Can't be any worse than the blond mullet wig they've got Taimak wearing for the live stage production of Road House. Where the hell was the "no" man on that one?!

I just saw the Hellboy preview myself. I've never read Hellboy, but the flick looks entertaining. And if nothing else, we should thank Guillermo del Toro for keeping Ron Perlman off the streets.

Rumour has it that GDT wants to do a big production of Lovecraft's Beyond the Mountains of Madness. And on that day, I will die a happy geek.


Stuart B.

[Chang Style Novice]

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GDT and HPL, eh? Intriguing...

[apoweyn]

Aha! I'll definitely be perusing this site when I've got the GREs out of the way.

[FatherDog]

I've read (and own) all the Hellboy stuff, and I'm quite looking forward to the movie. I do love Mignola's art, but short of doing an animated feature, you're not getting that. What they are getting is the correct /look/, though. Perlman was born to play Hellboy the same way Dafoe was born to play the Green Goblin. And Mignola's been heavily involved with the movie production. To the point that Guillermo's basically going to him every day saying "Does this look right?"

Interestingly, DelToro's said that if the movie does well, they may be optioning an animated series for Adult Swim.

[apoweyn]

And then there's Blade 3: Trinity.

[Oso]

since this thread has gone to pieces...

read "The Stand" in 1981. Saw "Streets of Fire" a couple of years later and just knew that if they did a movie of "The Stand" that Willem Defoe had to be The Walking Dude. No such luck tho.

[yenhoi]

I wish they would do a movie of The Mote in Gods Eye

That would just be wow.

[yenhoi]

Or LN's Ringworld.... but it would prolly get all messed up like Starship Troopers did.

[GeneChing]

I think Gene Ching is a fencing dude.

Guilty as charged. I fencing NCAA for SJSU as captain of the Epee squad under the late great Maestro Michael D'saro. I also earned two provost master degrees, one from the governing body of US fencing masters (USFMCA if memory serves) and one from the US Army (seriously, I was one of the last to go through that program).

But this thread is not really about fencing anymore, is it?