So, I haven’t gotten to see any movies, since Casino Royale…and that was many months ago… Anyway, I’d been looking forward to a good escapist story at the theaters…yet I’m not sure I can say Ghost Rider is what I was looking for…
The story is based on the relatively popular Ghost Rider stories from Marvel Comics where a man, Johnny Blaze (Nicholas Cage), sells his soul to the devil to save his father’s life… The devil betrays him (surprise, surprise…) and Blaze gets rather pissed… Anyway, in selling his soul, he now has to do the devil’s bidding to get his soul back. In the movie, there are some power hungry fallen angels who want souls on Earth, so the Ghost Rider is called upon to take them out.
…predictably…
As in, there are four baddies, each of which has a different elemental power, of sorts. So do all four attack the Rider at once? Nope. He fights one while the others get away. He fights another one, while the others get away. The final two find out that Blaze has a girlfriend, kidnaps her, then lures the Rider to the climactic battle at the end of the movie.
So yeah, the movie wasn’t surprising in the least, which wasn’t really unexpected, but at the same time, I would have liked to see a bit more creativity in the story. The effects were relatively decent, but the CGI flaming skull that replaced Nic Cage’s head just looked fake the whole time. Perhaps lighting his head on fire for real would have been better? 😛
Anyway, the movie wasn’t terrible, and was alright to see in theaters, but I certainly won’t be buying it. It was a formulaic story with halfway decent acting and effects. Nothing to write home about…
…guess I’ll just have to wait for TMNT and Spider-Man 3… w00t!
Rotten tomatoes has this movie at 27%, and it sounds like that is a fair rating. You should check out Pan’s Labyrinth.
Yeah, it wasn’t particularly excellent… I downloaded “Pan’s Labyrinth,” but haven’t watched it yet…perhaps this weekend…
We need to get a poker game on again, by the way…
nothing to write home about. do you see the irony?
also, when is your spring break? because mine is this next week and i am led to believe this wouldn’t have worked out for us anywho. no?
go cut off some amphibians head.
later
…told ya…. were you as disturbed as I was when the poor innocent iguana was fried? completely unnecessary!!! 😛
yeah, turtles will be so much better…Hosebrain. 😛
I saw a preview for TMNT on TV today and am sad to say that it looks unimpressive. However, I will try to refrain from judging prematurely.
Domehead! 😀
Dude…”TMNT” will rock…and I need to talk to you about Flash, yo…how hard is it, relatively speaking?
I think the movie I really want to see is 300 i think it will be awesome in some testosterone driven way!
Relative to what?
Flash isn’t that hard, depending how in-depth you get with it, but I suppose that can be said about most things. Even the basics of action script are quite easy. I say install it and do some tutorials online — if you want a really good learning series check out Lynda.com.
Excellent…thanks, buddy…