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This month is \u201cDark Hero\u201d month at Catching Up On Cinema

All month long, Kyle and Trevor will be reviewing superhero movies\nof the antihero or dark hero variety!

This week, Trevor and Kyle review Stephen Norrington's, Blade\n(1998)!

Both popula and financially successful at the time of its release,\nStephen Norrington's, Blade (1998), is an early live-action Marvel\ncomics film that at one point faded into obscurity, but has since\nseen its cultural footprint grow in recent years.

Released just prior to The Matrix (1999), as well as the comic\nbook/superhero movie boom of the 2000's, beginning with 20th\nCentury Fox's, X-Men (2000), Blade stands as the forerunner for many\nof the trends that would become ubiquitous in Hollywood action cinema\nin the coming years.

Starring Wesley Snipes, who would represent the character to such\na crowd-pleasing degree that subsequent iterations of the titular\nBlade would be altered to match his appearance and mannerisms, Blade\nis a high-energy action film that is distinctly of its time, yet\nremains quite charming for those with a strong tolerance for\nlate-90's aesthetics.

In actuality more of a supernatural action film than a superhero\nmovie, in the long history of Big 2 (DC and Marvel) comic book\nadaptations, Blade holds the distinction of being both one of the\nearliest Marvel films (bearing an African American protagonist no\nless, as well as being a nasty and gritty), as well as being a rare,\nR-rated Marvel film, produced well before the rise of Marvel Studios'\nmore homogenized branding and aesthetic.

A cultural artifact of late 90's aesthetics and trends, as well as\nthe crown jewel of director Norrington's very short filmography,\nBlade is an energetic and brutal superhero flick that is well worth\nrevisiting.

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