{"id":2997,"date":"2004-12-06T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T15:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/07\/blade-trinity\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:34:56","slug":"blade-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/06\/blade-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Blade Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9683,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.livejournal.com\\\/community\\\/seattle\\\/2212439.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9684,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%2526albumTerm=Leftism%2526songTerm=Melt%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9685,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7719,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%2526albumTerm=Leftism%26partnerId%3D30&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d been iffy on whether I wanted to bother, but this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/seattle\/2212439.html\" title=\"Blade Trinity Sneak Peek at Pacific Place (lame)\">pre-release review of Blade Trinity<\/a> just put it on my &#8220;must see&#8221; list:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  I attended a free sneek preview of Blade Trinity this evening at Pacific Place&#8230;. I expected very little from this movie and I received my expectations in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>  Pluses:<br \/>\n  &#8211; Parker Posey as a vampire<br \/>\n  &#8211; Ryan Reynolds mostly naked<br \/>\n  &#8211; visual effects<\/p>\n<p>  Negatives:<br \/>\n  &#8211; plot<br \/>\n  &#8211; dialog<br \/>\n  &#8211; editing<br \/>\n  &#8211; direction<br \/>\n  &#8211; poor action scenes<br \/>\n  &#8211; Kris Kristofferson<br \/>\n  &#8211; cliche footage of the city moving at 20x normal speed<br \/>\n  &#8211; unintentional comedy<br \/>\n  &#8211; excessive product placement (iPods)<br \/>\n  &#8211; lame pop cultural references<br \/>\n  &#8211; vampiric pomeranian (really!)<br \/>\n  &#8211; &#8220;Dracula&#8221; err, I mean &#8220;DRAKE&#8221; <em>groan<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Parker Posey is always fun to watch, and a vampire kick-me dog?!? Oh, this I&#8217;ve gotta see!<\/p>\n<p>(Maybe not until it hits video&#8230;but then, I&#8217;ve occasionally paid for worse in the theaters&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%2526albumTerm=Leftism%2526songTerm=Melt%26partnerId%3D30\">Melt<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%26partnerId%3D30\">Leftfield<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DLeftfield%2526albumTerm=Leftism%26partnerId%3D30\">Leftism<\/a><\/em> (1995, 5:13).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been iffy on whether I wanted to bother, but this pre-release review of Blade Trinity just put it on my &#8216;must see&#8217; list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2037],"tags":[1115,23],"class_list":["post-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-and-films","tag-blade-trinity","tag-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}