The Ghost Rider Movie Thread

[crazed gonzo fa]

I thought I'd start this thread to discuss each other's opinions about the movie. My family and I (minus my mom) just went to see it today, and it was pretty darn awesome! It got a bit demonic at parts, but an impressive movie none the less. Nicholas Cage did an awesome job. What do guys think?

 

[Sad Sad Monster]

i thought it was super corny, but in a good way. I guess you can't make a guy with a flaming skull 100% serious or it would ruin it.

All-n-all, it was a fun movie.

 

[sarah_yzma]

I thought it was waaaaay to corny for my tastes. I don't have the love of chrome to overshadow it.

And Cage's accent grated on me. Probably because accents really interest me and that accent was awful. I've lived in Oklahoma and Texas my whole life, and let me speak from personal experience and say 'ouch'. It sounded like a bad Dubya impression the whole way through to me.

Anyway, superficial accent aside, it was just all waaaay too corny and 'What the heck just happened?!' to me. Too little was explained, and I just couldn't be preoccupied with a shiny bike and a flaming head all that long.

 

[muppetwriter]

i thought it was super corny, but in a good way. I guess you can't make a guy with a flaming skull 100% serious or it would ruin it.

GR's flaming skull was never the issue with me (his appearance was actually the BEST thing about the film). It was just how Mark Steven Johnson made him into an "impossible to defeat" character that disappointed me. When Blackheart had owned him for that brief moment, after he killed Mac and held Roxanne hostage, I almost hoped for a fierce battle to take place then and for GR to lose miserably. But then came the "do this one thing for me or I'll kill your girlfriend" spill that just had me saying, "Aw, man!"

I thought it was waaaaay to corny for my tastes. I don't have the love of chrome to overshadow it.

And Cage's accent grated on me. Probably because accents really interest me and that accent was awful. I've lived in Oklahoma and Texas my whole life, and let me speak from personal experience and say 'ouch'. It sounded like a bad Dubya impression the whole way through to me.

Anyway, superficial accent aside, it was just all waaaay too corny and 'What the heck just happened?!' to me. Too little was explained, and I just couldn't be preoccupied with a shiny bike and a flaming head all that long.

Funny thing about Cage's accent was that he nailed it in Con Air, but it seemed a little different in this film. Personally, after reading issues of Ghost Rider, I never imagined Johnny Blaze having a Southern accent.

You're right about the corniness though, S.Y. I found myself laughing at certain scenes in this film, when I knew that I should've been taking it deadly (no pun intended) serious, because it Ghost Rider and he is no joke--at least not in the comics.

 

[crazed gonzo fa]

Yeah, they made Ghost Rider too powerful. And I like I told you muppetwriter, Black Heart's apperance was a big dissapointment.