Anybody else get a very Raimi vib from it?
It reminded me of a bit of Darkman.
I enjoy most Nicholas Cage movies.. but.. just.. I mean.
ouch. Ghostrider was just awful. And this from a person who usually enjoys bad movies.. this one just sucked.
Why a sequel? I don't think I'll be able to stand to watch it- at least not for money. Maybe.. maybe if it comes out on Starz, and i'm not busy otherwise plucking my eyeballs out with a spork or something..
just.. yuck.
-S
RPG Superstar 2009 Top 32, 2010 Top 8
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Ok, I'm apparently the only person on the planet who liked Ghost Rider. I liked the way they merged the two Riders (Blaze and Ketch) merging Slade with the Caretaker. The female lead didn't impress me, but I enjoyed the movie.
As to 'why a sequel?' Money. If Sony didn't do a sequel, the rights were to revery to Marvel.
Pan, you would be wrong. The first one was better.
I'm not familiar with the comics, but found the first movie had some plot and characterization to string the action scenes together, and those scenes weren't bad. Overall it was no masterpiece, but I didn't feel like it was a waste of time. This one had less, and the action scenes were lame and poorly animated. The only redeeming thing was the badass drunk french priest.
Ok, I'm apparently the only person on the planet who liked Ghost Rider. I liked the way they merged the two Riders (Blaze and Ketch) merging Slade with the Caretaker. The female lead didn't impress me, but I enjoyed the movie.
As to 'why a sequel?' Money. If Sony didn't do a sequel, the rights were to revery to Marvel.
You are not the only one.
Contributor, RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4, Legendary Games
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I liked the first Ghost Rider fine. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. It was kinda dopey, but fun enough, and Eva Mendes is certainly easy on the eyes.
That said, I won't be in a huge hurry to rush out and see the second one. My teenagers and I considered seeing it, mostly for ironic amusement value - so bad it's good, supposedly - but my 17-year-old said he'd rather see it for that purpose with his friends and I didn't have any compelling urge to go see it. So that's that... :)
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Pan, you would be wrong. The first one was better.
I'm not familiar with the comics, but found the first movie had some plot and characterization to string the action scenes together, and those scenes weren't bad. Overall it was no masterpiece, but I didn't feel like it was a waste of time. This one had less, and the action scenes were lame and poorly animated. The only redeeming thing was the badass drunk french priest.
wow if you are being serious than I wont even bother watching the sequel if its free. Thanks for the heads up. I grew up on the comics and couldn't make it through the first movie. To be fair most of that is the fault of Nick Cage; I cant stand him. Why does he have to be such a huge comic fan?
It wasn't the plot/acting that got me. Truly. I don't usually expect much in that regard from comic-come-movie.
It was really the CGI that just had me boggled. Star Wars (the originals) had better special effects..
Rider himself just didn't seem to walk/move right and his head turning was.. just wrong. Not to mention the crappy near-full CGI "action scenes" that looked drawn by someone who failed out of a technical arts weekend workshop.
I look at the other comic-come-movie type things done and whether I liked/cared about the plot or not at least most of the time the graphics looked like the creator gave a flip about it.
Ghost Rider? Not so much.
-S
A couple of my buddies convinced me to go see this with them. It was total crap. I fell asleep through the entire middle of it. The action was lame. The story was boring. The first movie wasn't good by any means, but it was better than this one. It was probably the worst Marvel movie I've seen, and I think I've seen pretty much all of them.
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Really? Were we watching the same movie? I thought the jerky movements were very evocative of a demon kept under wraps for months, starved and hungry. Some of the directional choices had my brow raised (the hyper-speed bike ride as he transformed for example) and of course Nicholas Crazy was his usual self. But I found it a pretty good popcorn flick.