Comments on: The Unborn

By: Fletcher Hanks

Fletcher Hanks — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:34:28 +0000

Vern, what do you think about this proposed prequel to BLADE that Norrington & Dorff are supposedly developing? I mean, why would we want to watch the “early days” of the villain from BLADE, but without BLADE?!!!! How can there be interest in a prequel but NOT another BLADE? If Snipes is the problem (as reports claimed during the making of part 3) then recast him. I don’t know, man, but it pisses me off that they think a movie about Deacon Frost [nice soap opera character name, by the way] would be a good idea.

That first action sequence in BLADE (at the dance club with the blood fire extinguisher sprinklers) is probably the greatest, most heroic, most energized action scene in movie history. So there.

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:42:36 +0000

Why couldn’t Jumby just shut the fuck up and wait to be born? Seems stupid to alert the person whose womb you’re staying in that you’re evil.

By: CrustaceanHate

CrustaceanHate — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:16:54 +0000

A big thing I liked about BLADE and BLADE 2 was the stoicism and cynical humour of Blade and the father/son relationship between him and Whistler. The Nightstalkers in BLADE 3 were okay but they didn’t have any of that, and the fact that they were so obvious in setting them up as a spin-off/heir to the BLADE series kind of annoyed me. I mean, Blade is way cooler than those turkeys.

By: Christian Brimo

Christian Brimo — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:48:23 +0000

“Anyway, the Unborn: not interested in it at all, BUT couldn’t they make a Bubba Ho-Tep prequel based on a similar concept, Elvis fighting his stillborn twin brother’s ghost? That’d be good.”

Oh hell yes! I think i read a sci-fi novel (Elvissy) where people from the future had to go back and time and stop Elvis’ evil twin (Aaron, duh) from fucking up time
and i’m reading Stephen King’s The Dark Half, which i’m pretty sure involves Stephen King as Donald Westlake’s absorbed twin brother fetus manifesting as ‘George Stark’ (whoever Westlake wrote the Parker books under) as fake Parker and killing people
I realize none of that made sense but I feel like I’m on Vern’s wavelenght

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:26:42 +0000

People get pissy about Blade 3 because it is basically exactly what you would expect a sequel to Blade to be, except they had already made a sequel to Blade and it was pretty fucking great. It’s just a lousy movie that has a couple good moments but there almost all knock offs of the iconic moments from the first two.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:11:50 +0000

I don’t get what’s so bad about Blade 3 either. Sure, Drake is pretty corny, but I liked the addition of the Nightstalkers and such. I actually seem to recall that Blade 2 was slated a lot when it came out, to the point that Del Toro had to defend himself for the film’s story by saying he may have directed it, but didn’t WRITE it. Did people retroactively like it because they liked Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth or something?

Anyway, the Unborn: not interested in it at all, BUT couldn’t they make a Bubba Ho-Tep prequel based on a similar concept, Elvis fighting his stillborn twin brother’s ghost? That’d be good.

By: Sorry512

Sorry512 — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:41:58 +0000

You gotta hand it to that poster though, you know with the mirror and her ass, also there was a ghost I think?

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:09:43 +0000

I found The Unborn to be a saddening waste…

of Remar.

By: Vern

Vern — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:43:59 +0000

Hey, I said it was a bad movie and why I thought that. But I wanted to point out the parts I liked too.

By: Diego

Diego — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:09:36 +0000

Vern, stop it! You liked Mirrors, Knowing and now THIS?! (Padme style) “You’re breaking my HEART!” Nah, just fucking with you. I seriously disliked all those three movies, but I could also see your points on why you kinda liked them. In this case the weirdness and imagination put into some of the images didn’t make up for the dumb shit the rest of the movie had. Plus, I hated the amount of jump scares and “oh it was a hallucination so the build up wasn’t going anywhere, let’s start again” crap.I did like the contorsionist grandpa, though. Cheers.