I watched Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendez in Ghost Rider today. I can’t remember who said it, but I was advised that it wasn’t a very good movie. As this “source” did not see the movie, I was not prepared for anything great or terrible. After all, if you “hear” that spaghetti is a terrible meal, are you never going to try it? I’m glad that I didn’t listen, as I was entertained. This is definitely not the best movie of all time and it isn’t even close to being the best movie based on a comic book. But, it had all the qualities of a classic comic - it was a light read, a far fetched story, accomplished only by someone with special powers.
Nicholas Cage seems to often get typecast as a leather-wearing bad boy with a well-buried, but soft heart. This seems to be true in this movie as well. He plays Johnny Blaze, son of Barton Blaze, a motorcycle daredevil. The movi
e starts in Johnny’s teen years, when he has joined his father in performing motorcycle stunts for the crowds. His father is dying of cancer and Johnny unwittingly makes a deal with the devil (Mephistopheles) as trade for the cancer to be gone.
His father is soon killed and Johnny leaves town to become a traveling act, doing more dangerous stunts every time. He carries his father’s memory with him until he is asked to cash in on the deal he “signed.”
From IMDB summary:
When the motorcyclist Johnny Blaze finds that his father Barton Blaze has a terminal cancer, he accepts a pact with the Mephistopheles, giving his soul for the health of his beloved father. But the devil deceives him, and Barton dies in a motorcycle accident during an exhibition. Johnny leaves the carnival, his town, his friends and his girlfriend Roxanne. Years later Johnny Blaze becomes a famous motorcyclist, who risks his life in his shows, and he meets Roxanne again, now a TV reporter. However, Mephistopheles proposes Johnny to release his contract if he become the “Ghost Rider” and defeat his evil son Blackheart, who wants to possess one thousand evil souls and transform hell on earth.
I’m not going to spoil any of it, as I think this is better left to you to decide and discover. I liked this movie. I found it to be as entertaining as any comic book movies are - entertainment only. Its no Spiderman, but I think its better than Batman and every X Men movie after the first. Watch it on video.
This was an alright movie. Saw it awhile back.
I felt it was a quick movie. Meaning it was over quickly.
It’s a rental IMO.
Untwisted Vortex - Living in a Different Land » Blog Drive-Bys for 2007-04-05 says:
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I have yet to see it but I like Nicolas Cage and have ever since he ate the cockroach in oh hell I can’t remember what movie that was- but all three of my kids have seen it and the verdict came in as 1 alright, 1 it sucked, and 1 it was great- ages, 23. 18, and 15. Within that range Netflix gets my vote.
“better than Batman”?
I have to admit, I love the Batman Begins movie, starring Christian Bale. A completely different feel to the rest of the Batman movies in my opinion. I even watched it twice and that is a rarity for me, let me tell you
So Ghost Rider is better than this?
Actually, I’ll have to admit that I did not see Batman Begins. Its the only one, though. Its better than the others (even though Michelle Pfeiffer plays in one of them).
Batman Begins is thousands of times better than the first Batman movie. I agree with your thoughts about Ghost Rider being better than the other Batman movies. Tim Burton directed those, along with the later Planet of the Apes. I think he sucks as a director.
Oh, geez..Ghost Rider was terrible. My 8YO (soon to be 9) son wanted to see it. God awful acting, Nicholas Cage, he is always pretty bad but that wig he had topped it off. The female offsider, she is worse than Jennifer Lopez.
Shockingly bad movie.
Sorry RT, I thought the first Batman movie was great - maybe not now but when it first came out…then again I still think the original Batman movie (with Adam West) is fantastic.
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