Ultimately...the movie blows chunks.

I'm not going to knock Nic Cage, as his acting is based solely
on the script.

I'm not going to knock the lame script, as that springs from
one single decision that all of this movie's inanities stem
from.

Some moronic producer/studio exec made the brain-dead
unimaginative d**kless decision to make this a kid-friendly/family
movie, and because of this, they white-washed the entire
mythos with emo villains, angst-lite mugging-for-the-camera
performances from Nic, and the completely illogical and
ultimately pointless inclusion of the first ghost rider, a thankless
and utterly "empty" role wasted on the talents of
character-actor-legend Sam Elliot.

Watching the movie was like reading a really bad broad rough
first draft of a novel that has lots of potential, but BADLY needs
MAJOR editing and re-writing.

IMHO.

Mike

Ultimately...the movie blows chunks.

I'm not going to knock Nic Cage, as his acting is based solely
on the script.

I'm not going to knock the lame script, as that springs from
one single decision that all of this movie's inanities stem
from.

Some moronic producer/studio exec made the brain-dead
unimaginative d**kless decision to make this a kid-friendly/family
movie, and because of this, they white-washed the entire
mythos with emo villains, angst-lite mugging-for-the-camera
performances from Nic, and the completely illogical and
ultimately pointless inclusion of the first ghost rider, a thankless
and utterly "empty" role wasted on the talents of
character-actor-legend Sam Elliot.

Watching the movie was like reading a really bad broad rough
first draft of a novel that has lots of potential, but BADLY needs
MAJOR editing and re-writing.

IMHO.

Mike

Well said and agree 100%.

We finally saw Ghost Rider, Net Flix rules! I liked it, and thought it was just what a movie based on a comic series should be. Hubby liked that the riders were in flames, he remembers the original as back lit in white light.

P.S. Boo to Marvel Comics for making the new Rawhide Kid gay. Are they trying to say something about leather?

P.P.S. Did you read Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandoes and Captain Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders? (Damn, there's that leather thing again)

The original Rawhide Kid was cool with the white horse and the blue outfit. I liked him better than the two-gun kid. I heard that Marvel had made him a gay character in a modern revision, but that just seems weird.

I absolutely used to read "Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos" and could never figure out exactly how he became "Nick Fury" of S.H.I.E.L.D. I also used to read "Sgt. Rock," which I liked better and I don't remember the title unless it was "Haunted Tank," which may have just been a part of Sgt. Rock or some other comic book as the story that went in the back. The ghost of General Lee on his white horse used to follow the tank around.

For those of you who never read comics as a kid, some used to have the main story, then a shorter story.

One of the weirdest ones was "Elongated Man," which I think used to be in the back of Action Comics (a Superman title) or "The Brave and the Bold", which was always a team-up of two DC heroes. Or it might have been another DC comic. Elongated Man could stretch like Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four, only he predates Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic). There also used to be a character somewhere called Plastic Man that also predates Reed Richards.

[SIZE="3"]Saw the DVD last night. Pretty tame, with hokey dialogue and incoherent storyline.

This is MY Ghost Rider. He was a no-nonsense hero. The villains didn't walk away from a meeting with this dude.[/SIZE]

[SIZE="3"]Saw the DVD last night. Pretty tame, with hokey dialogue and incoherent storyline.

This is MY Ghost Rider. He was a no-nonsense hero. The villains didn't walk away from a meeting with this dude.[/SIZE]

Cool. But this Ghost Rider looks like Japanese classic hero, "Gekko Kamen".