Blade

11/14/24 • 59 min

2 Guys And A Chainsaw - A Horror Movie Review Podcast

This week, we pay tribute to the legendary Kris Kristofferson by reviewing the 1998 cult superhero classic, Blade. Join us as we explore Kristofferson’s impactful role, dissect the film’s iconic action scenes, and discuss its place as a precursor to the modern Marvel era.

In This Episode:

– A heartfelt tribute to Kris Kristofferson, his versatile career, and lasting impact on film and music.
– Detailed analysis of Blade (1998), revisiting its groundbreaking effects and martial arts choreography.
– Trivia and behind-the-scenes insights into the making of Blade.
– Our personal reflections on Kristofferson’s role as Whistler and the film’s legacy.

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Blade (1998)

Episode 415, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys in a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: Well, we come to that time where we do a tribute episode, and, you know, this is something that I kind of learned a little later. I don’t know how I find out when. People die. I guess it comes across my social media or it comes across the news probably and I think for me I think it was like a big news thing like cnn or new york times It was doing a retrospective about Kris Kristofferson who actually died late september So now that we’re done with all of our halloween holiday stuff before we kick off into Christmas and it becomes a new year I did want to revisit him because he’s another one of those actors that for me has just kind of Been around and he pops up in all kinds of places.

And I also knew he was a country singer and things like that. Just, he’s just been a guy who’s kind of always been there. You know, not at the forefront of my mind by any means. Like, Oh, there he is again. And I didn’t know that much about him. And I thought this would be kind of a fun opportunity to see if he had done any horror movies so that we could talk about them.

And I could also learn a little bit more about him myself. And so here we are doing a tribute episode for Kris Kristofferson. And the episode that we settled on was 1998’s Blade. A movie that I knew we were going to get to eventually. So we might as well do it now. He has a fairly prominent role in this one.

And I’m glad we came to Blade because, uh, I have not seen Blade, I think, since it came out. I remember renting this with buddies and thinking it was pretty cool. And I think I saw the sequel as well. I’m really fuzzy on that. And then I just kind of left it. So, uh, this is going to be my first time revisiting it since the nineties.

How about you, Craig?

Craig: Yeah, I don’t know. I saw it when it came out, I guess. And I think I’ve seen both the sequels, but it’s been a really long time. You know, I was reminded about it recently. You know, this was Marvel maybe had done like one other or a couple other superhero movies, but. They hadn’t really taken off yet and they had just done, Oh, one of the Batman sequels, the notoriously bad one, I think with George Clooney and the bat nipples had come out just right before this, you know, the entertainment industry just kind of announced, you know, like the, the superhero movie genre is dead.

Like that, that Batman movie with the bat nipples killed it. Everyone got a lot less enthusiastic after that one. Yeah. But then this came out and it did. pretty well and it spawned some sequels that I think the second one did okay and I think Wesley Snipes thought that the second one was the best one. I honestly don’t remember.

I, I do remember that by the time the third one rolled around, I don’t know if Wesley Snipes was upset with the director or what, but I read that he was just a nightmare on set. Like he wouldn’t even like open his eyes, like in, like in shots and scenes, like he wouldn’t open his eyes. I don’t know. My point though, was that this kind of is the, like Marvel...

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Blade (1998)

Episode 415, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys in a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

How about you, Craig?

Previous Episode

Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

This week, we fielded a longstanding request from several of you, and brought on board one of those lucky listeners, Neal, to discuss in-depth a clever meta-horror pseudo-documentary that neither Craig nor Todd had seen before. But oh boy, did we enjoy this one! Full of fun cameos and clever takes on the slasher genre conventions, it twisted and turned in places we both expected and didn’t expect at all – with a killer ending to boot! Enjoy, folks!

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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

Episode 414, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello, and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: And today we are joined by a very special guest, one of our long time listeners and patrons, Neil. Neil, say hi to the people. Hey, how you doing? You’ve done a podcast, and do you have one going now, or...?

Neal: I don’t currently have one, so a number of years ago, I started a podcast with some of my best friends called “My Favorite F Words: Football, Fights, and Films”.

So we would talk about college football and the NFL, we’d talk about the UFC and boxing, and then we’d talk about the latest movies that were out. And, uh, this kind of brings me back to the movie part of that podcast. And, uh, we did it for a long time, but COVID kind of took us out of that game. And, actually, the friend who turned me on to this podcast, uh, he might recognize his name. Gilly, he’s one of your early patrons.

Clip: Mm hmm. Yeah.

Neal: He’s the one that told me about your podcast, uh, at work. And I’ve been listening to you guys for a long, long time because of that. I don’t know, I’m rambling now, but it’s been a great experience and I got a little bit of experience talking on the podcast, so.

Craig: I feel like we were at a little bit of an advantage during COVID because we had already been doing it this way.

Todd: Yeah.

Craig: And it’s been doing it remotely for so long that it really, it was no different for us.

Todd: We just had a little more time.

Craig: We had a lot of time on our hands. So

Todd: we’ve got a few episodes ahead that year.

I remember.

Craig: But cool. No, we’re really glad to have you. You’ve, uh, like, like Todd said, you’ve been around messaging us for a while. When we started taking voice messages, you were one of the first one who jumped in and we really appreciate it. We always appreciate the support. So we’re glad to have you from the first time you called in.

I said, this guy’s got a voice for the radio. This guy, this guy should, should do a podcast. So we’re really glad to have you.

Todd: And I

Craig: appreciate that.

Todd: And so he has, do you also, do you also have a radio background? I’m curious now.

Neal: I did some student media work when I was at Virginia tech in the mid 2000s. I started a student media organization because there wasn’t enough room to work for the student paper and ended up.

doing some video work, mostly video work. So I got credential to work in the sports department, got down on the field to shoot football games and interview coaches and players and stuff, got to go to a couple of bowl games, went to the NCAA tournament, interviewed some of the Yankees when they came down to play an exhibition game against our baseball team.

So I had a little bit of experience in front of and behind the camera.

Todd: That’s fantastic. Fellow journalist, huh? Just like me. There you go. I started, I did journalism in school as well. Yeah. Wow.

Neal: But all good. All good. We can stay on task.

Todd: Well, the task today I’m really enjoying because you recommended when you called us on Speakpipe, This movie that I believe you had requested before and we’ve gotten this request from a couple other listeners as well Their names are not in front of me behind the mask the rise of leslie vernon You know when you guys first brought it up I had not heard of this at all and then I kind of looked into it But I didn’t really look into it Like I didn’t go to the imdb and really research it.

I just kind of googled it and it came up And this was years ago. I thought okay. This is some quirky little Odd independent feature that probably, you know, was shot on video and released a video and, and whatever...

Next Episode

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Our tribute episode to the late, great Tony Todd – actor extraordinaire, and an absolute gem every time he pops up in a horror movie. We covered Candyman already, so instead we’re hitting up the very first horror film to be graced with his deep voice, striking looks and undeniable charisma – the 1990 Tom Savini-directed remake of Romero’s Night of the Living Dead.

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Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Episode 416, 2 Guys and a Chainsaw Horror Movie Review Podcast

Todd: Hello and welcome to another episode of Two Guys and a Chainsaw. I’m Todd.

Craig: And I’m Craig.

Todd: Craig. Tony Todd died recently.

Craig: I know. Isn’t that such a bummer and like it comes out of nowhere like what right he wasn’t even that old What do you I think he he was 69,70?

Todd: Yeah, I don’t know what too old is nowadays I think we’ve we’ve like talked about people who are about to turn 90 and we’ve been like, oh they were so young Yeah, I know.

I realize standards have changed but Yeah, 69 still feels a little too young, because my parents are still alive and they’re older than that, so that’s, that’s my judgment, frame of reference, I suppose. I think I was surprised he was even that old, because he, the man hasn’t aged, to look at him, he just has always been this striking, good looking guy, he’s been, he was working up to the very end, and he’s just been in everything, like his guy’s been all over the place.

Yeah. And, uh, I just expected to keep seeing him at places. So, uh, it really sucks.

Craig: Yeah, yeah, it’s a bummer. Obviously, I think his most well known role is Candyman, of course. But he has been in a bazillion things. Not just in film, but also on stage and in television, voice acting, video games. God,

Todd: that voice.

The

Craig: voice!

Todd: Yeah, Jesus, Jesus, that voice. I mean, it’s so recognizable to, you know, I mean, he’s got that it’s like James Earl Jones with an edge,

Craig: you know, it’s a silky bass voice. Yeah, it’s just a gift. And he also has a, Very distinct look when I heard that he passed away. Immediately I thought, we have to do something, like, but we’ve already done Candyman.

Like, that would, that would be the obvious thing to do. Of

Todd: course, yeah.

Craig: But I remembered that he had starred in The 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead.

Clip: Hmm.

Craig: And what I remembered about that movie was that I liked it. So, I thought, let’s, let’s look at it. I didn’t realize that this was his first horror role.

I only learned that yesterday.

Todd: Yeah, that surprised me too. I was excited that you brought it up, because I have, this has been on my list for ages, like for decades, and I never did sit down and watch it, so I was really looking forward to seeing this remake. I grew up watching the, I mean, we did a whole episode in the original that was almost two hours long, I think.

I think we, I don’t remember why we did it or when we did it, I think it was on occasion of something. Maybe it was George Romero’s death, I don’t know. I don’t remember. Or maybe we’re just in the mood to do Night of the Living Dead. But, uh, in any case, we talked extensively about that movie. Because there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to the original.

And I grew up watching it. All the time. I mean, it was, because it was in the public domain, it was everywhere. You could catch it on TV, late at night, on On any given channel, at least once a month, probably. Especially around Halloween time, they’d ramp that up. You could go to the dollar store, you know, where they had VHS tapes.

It was usually one of the ten that they had to offer there. I was obsessed with the movie, I watched it a lot. I think it was, it was one of my very first experiences with a scene that was so shocking, that it really disturbed me for days. And that is, you know, towards the end. Oh, by the way, spoiler alert, if you haven’t seen Night of the Living Dead, we’re gonna be talking about Night Both of them.

But if you haven’t, you might, you’re probably coming at this podcast from a different angle than most. But, but what I’m saying is, um, that scene at the very end of the original where the girl ends up coming back to life and killing her parents. Yeah. That was, as a kid, that was utterly shocking to me. And so this movie came out of that fact that the original wa...