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Ghost Rider
Category: Action | Tags: comic book action
posted by: CATM 650 days ago
With high spectacular special effects, that is all the producers of Ghost Rider we're thinking. In a movie, better then Daredevil, but worse then Spider-man, and even Fantastic Four, Nicholas Cage plays Johnny Blaze, who is a bike stuntsperson who follows in his fathers footsteps. The film starts with a werid introduction, about former ghost riders, and a contract that the devil wanted, which I did not follow at all, maybee if I actually read the comic books? Anyways, his father has cancer, so in a depesrate plea, he makes a deal with the devil, that he soulfully regrets doing, to save his father. (producers should have cast his younger self better, cause he looks nothing like nicholas cage). Years later, he is preforming his most daring stunt ever, jumping over six helicopters, in a football stadium with thousands of screaming fans. Soon, the devil repears, and he must be the rider, as the trailer gave away. He soon must fight the devil jr., and when they introduce this villian, they attempt a cheap scare, which doesn't work, at all. Not even, a jump from someone attending in the audience, at the screening. The movie leads to a lame fight at the end, and doesn't deserve any sequels, as there is really no one more larger to fight then the devil himself. I would personally give this a thumbs down, and the two stars are for the effects.
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I agree the movie could have been much better. Although, i didnt think it was to bad really. Some nice effects, somewhat crappy acting in the begining. Eh, is a good response to the question of its worth.
Honestly, I think you're giving this movie too much credit. If you look at Marvel's track record, they've made far superior movies. In fact, Ghost Rider was originally slotted to come out in summer 06. It didn't. Why? It was going up against X3 and Superman Returns. They knew they had a bomb on their hands in comparison, so they shelved it until it was 'safe' to release.
Furthermore, Stan Lee tends to make cameos in movies he's proud of. Hulk and Spiderman come to mind. He wasn't in this. Coincidence? I think not.
Enough venting. Here's the problem with this film. Effects were there. Still not great. When he's the rider, he seems to move slowly and 'inhumanly'. It looks fake. Still frames are great. But movement is goofy. So effects are the pro. The cons? See the following:
Bad acting from Cage and Elliot. 2 of my favorites. But I may have to chalk this up to the script they had to work with. Not good. Not even a little. I was in a theater with 50+ people and there was not a single snicker during comic relief. Nor were there gasps during 'cool' parts. It was like the audience was in a coma.
So, it must have cool fight scenes, right? Wrong. Each one is MAYBE one and a half minutes tops. He kicks everyone's a$$ so quick it's pathetic. So how is this suppose to suck an audience in?
All in all, this is a thumbs down. And I'd give it 1 star out of 5. That is ONLY for effects. Script is bad. Acting, bad. Overall flow of the movie, bad. Please God, no sequel.
Plus the movie was cheesy. The fight scenes were weak. Like the last one. it was no epic battle between two demon souls. I can't believe the villain was defeated because he was shot be some power-up shot by Ghost Rider. LAME. And that cheesy pointy-thing he did when the devil or whatever appeared got on my nerves. Acting sucked too, but we covered that. 1/5.
there's gonna be a sequel. yeah. how?
You are all ass holes!!!!
This movie was awsome!!!