![]() This film is one of the worst of all the comic book films in the 21st century. There's so much potential in this series, and I feel like it was all thrown away for a few dumb jokes, a potentially good storyline that was ruined by everything else in the film, and tons of CGI. This movie seems like a paycheck to everyone involved and nothing else. We don't need the motorcycle wheelie ride, the peeing of fire, and well, everything else. The film spends a lot of time trying to convince the audience that everyone in this movie and that everything happening is cool. Need some proof? Does it count as indecent exposure if you don't have genitalia? It's ridiculous how much no one seemed to care about making a good film. Ghost Rider is among the 90% of 3D films that come out that are a prime example of what not to do with a 3D film. The only people that got anything out of it was the movie theater when they charged me an extra dollar. Sure, there were a few things flying at you from the screen, but that's about it. I don't think the 3D aspect brought in anyone who wasn't going to see this in the first place. One that has lost his mind and completely forgotten how to interact with people without screaming. I don't know what happened between this film and the first Ghost Rider, but we're seeing a completely different Johnny Blaze now. He's over-the-top and ridiculous the vast majority of the time. At times, I'll admit, his acting was downright hilarious, like his work in the remake of The Wicker Man, especially during the scene where Blaze is trying to hold back the rider and yells "IT'S SCRATCHING AT THE DOOOOR!" In a way that only Nicolas Cage can scream it. He tends to overdo it a bit, and by "bit" I mean a lot, and that's the case in this new Ghost Rider flick. I love his serious work ( Matchstick Men/ Weather Man) and I even love his silly work ( Con Air, Face Off), but when he gets behind a movie I actually care about, I worry. I don't care about popping wheelies and stoppies, get back to the movie please and put the camera on a tripod. It was a good 2 minutes of the directors trying to prove to me that what was on the screen was cool and not pointless in any way. ![]() ![]() There's a few key scenes that are just plain awful, but the stand out one is when Johnny and Danny ride Johnny's motorcycle together. Seriously, it's like the camera was fed an 8-ball of cocaine before they started shooting. The last thing I want is a super shaky shot during an action scene. Sadly, I didn't know this going in, but realized about 5 minutes into the film that this looked way too much like Crank and that these guy love shaky, hand-held cameras. Also, they both wrote the screenplay for the Jonah Hex film. You may know them as the directors of The Gamer and The Crank films. Directing Team From Hellīrian Taylor and Mark Neveldine were the directors of this flick. However, the total time they spent on this is about 2 minutes, which he has to use the angel side of the rider to heal a boy. This movie also tries to take bits and pieces from Danny Way's GHOST RIDER run from a few years back where Johnny realizes that the demon within him is actually an angel who went nuts. During one scene, Lambert's character is holding a sword above a child's head, about to cut it off, and I couldn't help but whisper "there can be only one." I guess it's the little things that get me excited. He plays a tattooed monk of a secret order that has way too much old wine hanging around. ![]() Connor MacLeod in the year 5430īest part for me was seeing Christopher Lambert in this film. The fight scenes were also pretty cool as well. His skull is charred, as well as his jacket, so overall, the character looks a bit better than he did in the first film. Why was it so bad though? I felt like doing this after seeing the movie too.īefore I complain about how awful this film was, I guess I should really talk about some of the cool things in this film. What's so different between these two films? Why did it only make half of what the original film made? Simply put, this film is so awful that it makes the original Ghost Rider look like an Oscar contender for best picture. The first Ghost Rider film also opened up on President's Day weekend and made $52 million it's first few days. According to the LA Times, the Ghost Rider sequel took in $25.7 million it's opening weekend and was beat out by Safe House in its 2nd week and The Vow. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance opened up this weekend with some not so stellar reviews from, well, everyone.
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