Blade is probably the reason why the MCU exists. People seem to think that it was X1 that gave confidence to making big comic book movies (especially for Marvel), but it was actually Blade.
Since the demise of the Superman and Batman franchises, studios didn't want to take on comic books anymore. Blade came in 1998 and showed how awesome comic book movies could be if taken seriously. Almost every comic book movie since has taken the approach of "What if they were real?"
Before Blade, even TMNT were going downhill. We had to settle with movies like Tank Girl, Mystery Men, Power Rangers, Steel, The Phantom.
There were some good comic book movies around this time too. The Crow, Spawn, Men In Black. Talk about MiB, that movie probably deserves some credit along with Blade for boosting Marvel...even though MiB was really a Malibu comic.
It was just the end that was meh to me.. "johnny go supernova" and that's about it.
could've been a longer and more interesting fight overall. didn't care much about the superheroness.
I would say. the other two made X3 look good in comparison. Bit of a toss up. I'm not sure which I'd choose.. emo peter or Galactus Cloud.
- most people probably didn't even know blade was marvel.