Alright, whether you've seen Ghost Rider or not, watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPB6TCfGzU8"Surely", I thinks after watching that, "Surely there is no way this movie could fail with an idea so badass. Look at that flaming horse! Holy s**t! I must see this!"
You can watch the whole movie on Youtube. It isn't worth the hours of your life. I'll save you your time: Watch that 5 minute video and you have seen everything good that happens.
Notable bad elements:
- Because the protagonist abstains from drinking, he
eats candy out of a margarita glass. Doesn't pick it up with his fingers like a sensible person, he "drinks" the candy. This is about as effectively cool as having the hero eat out of a dog bowl to show how tough he is.
- Ghost Rider, the flaming skull, has a voice that sounds like cats being put through an organ lit aflame and his dialogue becomes inexplicably more hokey than any Linkin Park song. Really? Just mute when he starts talking if you put yourself through this.
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Every fight is completely disappointing. After gaining badass powers of a biker from hell, Ghost Rider proceeds to get his impossibly skinny a** whipped by a handful of waifish, broody sissies until he pushes them over and they start to cry. The one villain he really opens up whoopass on is a random sketched-out thug your little sister probably could have chased away with a rock and a few choice words. There's just no convincing threat from the enemies or sense of power being flung about. Even the final boss feels anticlimactic, despite the Rider actually growing a special ability (it's throwing fireballs, btw- not big ones, little clump-of-dirt sized ones).
Even if the story had sucked balls (which it did) and the acting was terrible (which it was), a decent oomph from the action and beautiful special effects could have carried the film. They managed to botch even that, though. I don't expect much from action films, but Ghost Rider didn't manage to deliver anything.
The flaming horse is still cool, though.
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THIS MOVIE
