I’m not a Nicky Cage fan either. Something about the guy just bugs the hell out of me (Tom Cruise bugs me in the same manner). I just can’t buy into him being a tough guy or a “man’s man”. He should stick to chick flicks.
The Rock – James Bond carried this one, and it had Clair Forlani.
Con Air – Forest Gump on an Airplane
Face/Off – Not too bad actually
Snake Eyes – Dont think I’ve seen it
8MM – This one I liked
Gone in Sixty Seconds – Hated it. Saw the original a couple years before this one came out. The bad guy with a heart of gold thing is way overdone. And I like the real car crashes of the original not the CGI Fluff of the repeat.
The Family Man – Fell asleep
Windtalkers – got bored, went out for pizza
Matchstick Men – I was actually hoping he would get conned.
Lord of War – Solid Acting, too much liberal anti-gun propaganda. The African Warlord was the coolest guy in the movie. Bath of Blood
Haven’t decided if I will see this movie or wait for the DVD release.
I’m glad to hear they didn’t completely fumble this one, but I think it’s a shame that they missed a solid opportunity with this character.
Like the Hulk, Ghost Rider always embodied that idea of the dark side run amok. That notion of holding back that nasty thing deep inside, keeping it hidden to keep a human face in the world. There’s a great deal of innate pathos in such a character, in spite of the flaming skull and the chopper from Hell.
In the hands of a director with a sense of subtlety and a taste for suspense and/or horror, this could have been something really odd and really cool.
Still… Ghost Rider. Sam Elliot. This one’s a rental, at the very least.
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Either way, if out of 15 movies you can only pick ONE that truly sucked ass, you can’t call the man a poor actor of the degree some have written in this thread. Most of his movies do extremely well at the box office.[/quote]
Peggy Sue Got Married was so painful I could not stand him for years. Once the pain of his irritating performance wore off I found he was OK depending on the role.
I did like him in Honeymoon in Vegas and he was OK in The Rock.
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That movie doesn’t count. You shouldn’t have been watching it in the first place. That’s like complaining about Bridget Jones’s Diary. No man should even be in the movie theater unless in drag.
Peggy Sue Got Married was so painful I could not stand him for years.
That movie doesn’t count. You shouldn’t have been watching it in the first place. That’s like complaining about Bridget Jones’s Diary. No man should even be in the movie theater unless in drag.[/quote]
I was young and dumb but I saw it on TV so I didn’t pay for it.
I refuse to watch Bridges of MAdison County. As far as I am concerned Clint was not in it and it is all a big hoax.
Peggy Sue Got Married was so painful I could not stand him for years.
That movie doesn’t count. You shouldn’t have been watching it in the first place. That’s like complaining about Bridget Jones’s Diary. No man should even be in the movie theater unless in drag.[/quote]
I didn’t like it, why did they do an amalgamation of Zarathos (blaze’s demon) and Noble Kale (the Dan Ketch 90’s rider) Also there was no western rider they did have Night Rider who had to get a name change to Ghost RIder in the 80’s after the TV series.
Other stuff is just money making business templets that don’t showcase his talents, but deep down he can perform if he chooses not to just do the mass mega movies.
I thought and still think Raising Arizona is one of the best and funniest movies I’ve ever seen. But I also have a very weird sense of humor sometimes…
Hoping to go see the Rider this weekend, if for no other reason than the fact that I’m a comic book fan. I’m actually more curious to see it now than I was before I heard everybody bashing it. Sometimes I like movies better when a lot of other people say they suck.
P.S. I realize this post is full of nonsensical rambling…
Wow…I was joking too. Who’s next? Moon Knight? Dr.Strange? West Coast Avengers?
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In talks: Emma Frost, Black Widow, Nick Fury, an R rated Elektra and Daredevil renunion which they want to be super bloody (See Elektra tattoo on my left arm!!!)
Animated so far: Ultimate Avengers, Iron Man
To be released animated: Dr. Strange
Somewhere in the production line: Magneto and Professor X, Wolverine, Punisher 2, Namor, Fantastic Four:Rise of the Silver Surfer, Ghost Rider 2, Spiderman 3, Ant-Man, Deathlock, The Incredible Hulk, Gargoyle… there are a few more but my geek brain can only remember so many.
Ghost Rider was pretty cool… i liked Black Heart the best… something about the evil ones that i always like.
Anybody ever see that piece of crap with Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin, both recently of Dancing With the Stars fame? Man, that shit was unbearable…
I really hope they do those two justice this time…the real Elektra character is a bad mofo’.
This is supposedly going to be much more true to the Frank Castle character of the books. It better be. I grew up on this.
Another one they really need to take their time with and get right next time. It’s a shame that some of these have obviously been pumped out to cash in on the comic book movie craze.
an R rated Elektra and Daredevil renunion which they want to be super bloody (See Elektra tattoo on my left arm!!!)
I really hope they do those two justice this time…the real Elektra character is a bad mofo’.
I completely agree!!! The Directors Cut of Elektra isnt terrible, and since i am partial to Elektra (Again see tattoo on left arm) i didnt dislike the “normal” cut.
The director said that he wished he had seen Sin City (which ALSO has a sequel in the works with talks of Angelina Jolie as Ava Lord) so that he could have matched that level of violence with “Elektra”.
I love both Jennifer Garner and the Elektra character… so again… completely agree!
A couple things that bothered me, just a little bit were:
Why would the previous rider only have one ride left IF Johnny Blaze is now, seemingly able to change whenever he wants?
I mean, unless you get one more chance to ride as the Ghost Rider after someone else takes over, but the ending lead me to believe Johnny would have to give up his powers/curse before another person could take over (thus protecting any future person from making the mistake of selling his soul for this curse).
I didn’t get how the Devil’s son knew to go to that city to wait for Johnny, or how the other Rider knew to send Johnny there for their fight.
The Devil’s son already knew about the Riders’ power to turn someone’s soul against them from their first fight, wouldn’t it be obvious to him that he would now be vounerable if he absorbed a million souls right next to the Ghost Rider?
Was the Devil expecting his son to eventually get the contract and change, which would be the only way the Ghost Rider could defeat him?
Again, I’m being picky and those are minor things that irked or confused me a little.
A couple things that bothered me, just a little bit were:
Why would the previous rider only have one ride left IF Johnny Blaze is now, seemingly able to change whenever he wants?
I mean, unless you get one more chance to ride as the Ghost Rider after someone else takes over, but the ending lead me to believe Johnny would have to give up his powers/curse before another person could take over (thus protecting any future person from making the mistake of selling his soul for this curse).[/quote]
Blame Spawn for expanding on that one. Every time Spawn uses his powers, there is a countdown. I have no doubt that someone writing a script about Hell took a look at how it has been working lately in other comic books with other characters.
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2) I didn’t get how the Devil’s son knew to go to that city to wait for Johnny, or how the other Rider knew to send Johnny there for their fight.[/quote]
My impression was that the town was the whole plot of the movie. There were many souls there that were never recovered by the Devil because he never got hold of the contract. Getting the souls was the reason the Devil’s son came back and the reason the previous rider was still alive protecting it on hallowed ground.
Yep…if they wanted a smart villain who was actually a real threat.
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4) Was the Devil expecting his son to eventually get the contract and change, which would be the only way the Ghost Rider could defeat him?[/quote]
Who knows. To me, the movie began to lose steam at that point. They should have made the villains much stronger and MUCH harder to kill…but then, I guess that would have made the movie 3 hours long.
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Okay, thanks. I get the part about going to that city a little better now.
I know what you mean about wanting the villains to be stronger.
I thought it was also strange that the Devil himself couldn’t do anything but throw a little temper tantrum when the Ghost Rider (the guy who the Devil GAVE the powers to) disobeyed him, while at the same time the Devil’s son could whip the Ghost Rider’s ass before he got the souls.
UNLESS, the Devil’s son has more power outside of Hell. I didn’t understand his line “you can’t hurt me here” to his father. I didn’t know if they meant in that particular place, or just outside of Hell in general.
I’m over thinking it now. It was still a good movie and I’ll probably buy it when it comes out.
(and yea, I would have liked it to go on for 3 hours, but I guess that wouldn’t have been as marketable)
