From a review of Blade: Trinity by the New York Daily News [link]

From what we can tell from the "Blade" series, vampires are as easy to kill as ducks and there's no limit on them.

These fragile creatures die at the drop of a silver bullet or the flash of an ultraviolet light, and their deaths are downright festive. They light up like golden x-rays, then explode in a hail of sparks.

Why this movie wasn't given a July 4 opening is both a mystery and a missed opportunity.

Hee.

Has anyone seen Stephen Sonderbergh's Kafka ? One of the Greek newspapers includes DVDs of movies and TV shows, and I just discovered they play in my computer despite region issues. The only one that looks appealing, sadly, is this one (well, other than The Mirror Crack'd, but I've seen that.)

Has anyone seen Stephen Sonderbergh's Kafka ?

That has Kyle MacLachlin right? I think I saw it when it came out in theatres. I recall thinking it was okay, but not thinking it anything too special. But I don't quite remember any details.

Don't think so. I just checked IMdb and the cast list is Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm and Alec Guinness. There's only one user review that says "Lots of homage and reference to Nosferatu and Dracula. " but doesn't say much else. Indeed, one of the characters is named Dr. Murnau, but the plot isn't vampirey - it's about an insurance agent and some anarchists.

Hey! New kids' book: The Insurance Agent and the Anarchists

Okay. I saw that one too. The Kyle MacLachlin one was a version of the Trial, I think.

I think it was good, but it was a long time ago.

I have to admit, I was thinking it might be about a guy who wakes up to find he's a cockroach. Still, it should play well enough on my monitor and I am movie starved!

You know what else I just realized? I own almost no science-fiction movies. Other than Blade Runner, Dark City, The Matrix and the first two Alien movies, I've got nothing. I guess I could break my rules about genre and put the Star Wars movies in science fiction. Huh.

Has anyone seen Stephen Sonderbergh's Kafka ?

Years ago - it wasn't particularly Kafka-esque. Beautiful black and white photography, some creepy moments, but it feels like the pastiche of old movies it is, rather than any kind of examination of Kafka or Kafka themes.

Years ago - it wasn't particularly Kafka-esque. Beautiful black and white photography, some creepy moments, but it feels like the pastiche of old movies it is, rather than any kind of examination of Kafka or Kafka themes.

ITA. No cockroach either. The Trial was better and much more Kafka-esque.

The Trial was better and much more Kafka-esque.

I never saw the Kyle Maclachlan one, but I did see the Orson Welles one with Tony Perkins (several times). I'm not sure it's really all that Kafka-esque either (more than KAFKA, though) but it's definitely Wellesian. I like it a lot. Some of the sets are just amazing.

From what we can tell from the "Blade" series, vampires are as easy to kill as ducks and there's no limit on them.

That was one of my complaints about the second movie - we saw from multiple confrontations with Donal Logue's character that anything less than a heart or head strike with silver weaponry was no more than an inconvenience. Then in Blade 2 they were going off like Roman candles even though we saw in slow motion that the bullets were hitting them in places that might not even be fatal to normal human beings. I expected to see a leftover Indian from a John Wayne movie keel over at some point.

Also, the conceit that vampirism is an arbovirus that can be manipulated by genetics. Yeah, an arbovirus that makes its host organism instantaneously disintegrate in a shower of sparks if its heart or brain is ruptured by silver—certainly nothing unscientific about that.