Can we talk about how blood in 2004 movies is either or way too beautiful ?
I just got back from seeing Saw (yeah, the one with the puppet—no spoilers). Don't get me wrong, the blood looked sticky and real when that reverse bear trap thing happened. But then I rented Van Helsing last week. Huge mistake. Kate Beckinsale is literally fighting werewolves, and there’s like... two drops of blood? On her leather corset ? Come ON.
Meanwhile, Kill Bill Vol. 2 gave us that crazy anime-style geyser blood again, but Tarantino said it was “homage.” Sure, Quentin. 🙄
In 2004, "Blood" was everywhere in genre media, and if I had to craft a (think LiveJournal, early IMDb boards, or a geocities blog), it would look something like this: Subject: Blood: The Last Honest Horror Trope (2004 Rant)
If you put Saw , The Punisher , and Blade: Trinity in a blender, how much corn syrup do you need to clean your VCR afterward?