Wesley Snipes as Eric Brooks/Blade

Some may have forgotten, but Blade demonstrated that it’s possible to adapt a comic book to the big screen without making it overly campy. The movie had its flaws, but back in 2008, it felt like it came out of nowhere.

As the bad-ass vampire hunter, Wesley Snipes was most definitely the film’s star. Not only was Snipes the perfect actor to play Blade, Blade turned out to be the perfect role for Wesley Snipes.

The Blade franchise only lasted through a few movies (the third installment also starred Ryan Reynolds, and was the worst of them all), but it brought the superhero genre into the spotlight in a much more entertaining way than Batman and Robin and Spawn had in the previous year.