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Post by NDX on Oct 11, 2011 22:44:30 GMT -5
Look, I know it's technicaslly a capes movie, but it has enough horror elements (or is it horrible elements?) to be placed here. So, the faults. Fight scenes were short and uneventful. MSJ wrote and directed it. Nicholas Cage. Eva Mendez overdressed. Over budget. I mean, a $100,000 tree? 10 million dollars out of MSJ own pocket for the only acceptable scene with the helicopter? 10 million dollars to the flaming skulls run through the desert for 30 seconds? Underwritten. Nicholas Cage. Blackheart not being Blackheart at all? That ending. Nicholas Cage. The pros? It was purdy. For those that don't know, I've been a Ghost Rider fan since 1990, and had been anticipating the film since 1999, when I first saw some work on it online (yarn flames, people. I had to see yarn flames!) as well as mentioned in comics (all the way back to 1996, actually). I was dying to see this film, and when it started I was engrossed. By the time I left the theater, I wanted to cry. Cry, dammit. Oh, how I hate this movie. Every time I watch it, I get angrier than the time I watched it before. Here, suffer the trailer.
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Post by gorepolice on Oct 12, 2011 0:04:09 GMT -5
Absolute rubbish! I knew it would be bad from the preview, and even worse because it's Nick Cage. All in all, not the worst thing I've ever seen, but definitely still crap.
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Post by NDX on Oct 12, 2011 0:47:08 GMT -5
It might not be the worst film ever, but it is in the right place, no?
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Post by Silent Scream Queen on Jan 16, 2022 16:56:34 GMT -5
I watched SOME of this, as I sort of was in the room at the time it was on. I have to say that in my humble opinion the poor quality CGI burning skull was a better actor than Nicolas Cage. Remember the what might have been of Cage as The Man of Steel himself?
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Post by endo on Jan 16, 2022 18:01:58 GMT -5
12 years later, well, since NDX posted this anyway. I look at the trailer now and it isn't with fondness. Picturing Cage as Superman hurts my brain some.
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Post by NDX on Jan 18, 2022 0:23:30 GMT -5
Ghost Rider has a rich mythos than can be adapted to be very dark but still fit within the cartoon universe that is comics and comic movies. With Blade and Moon Knight being adapted, I think Disvel can easily make this work and be much better than what they had.
They adapted Blaze and Reyes already. I say go into the Danny Ketch storyline from the 90s, where the iconic look of GR first debuted, and make him more street level. Maybe something similar to early Supernatural or Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Monster or demon of the week.
Hell, I'd be fine if they adapted the Daniel Way series from 2006 (underrated due to people hating Way's Deadpool series) and have a former GR (Blaze) trying to escape hell only for the Devil to escape with him (and no, not Mephisto but the Devil, Marvel's hell has multiple lords of hell) in 666 different pieces, possessing corpses as he escaped. It was surprisingly good. Think I'll reread it.
Rambling aside, GR has a lot to give and looks killer doing it. But for some reason adapting him onto the big screen has been a shitshow.
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