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By TK | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (6)

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I wish this project would die. Not even die. Just disappear, into the void, wink out of existence so that we’d never have to think about it again. But no. We’re getting a sequel we don’t want to a movie that was absolutely awful. Ghost Rider wasn’t just a bad comic book movie, it’s just a bad movie period. Bad script. Bad directing. Bad acting. Bad effects.

Bad, bad, bad.

But Hollywood doesn’t give a baby-punching fuck about that.

The only news that could possibly be conceived as good is that it’s being written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the lunatics behind the Crank movies. Now we’re learning that production starts this fall (despite Nicholas Cage being the only actor attached thus far), it’s shooting in Romania, and …

… wait for it…

It’ll be in 3D.

I, for one, am shocked. Shocked, I tell you. It seems like 3D is becoming the go-to plan for any movie that can’t stand on its own. I’d love to think that the Crank whackadoos will be able to bring some life to the character (which has had a fairly cool history in the comics). Lord knows Mark Steven Johnson’s original was a dull, boring, grindingly stupid affair that featured the second-worst villain in comic book movie history (Wes Bentley’s Blackheart is beaten only by Sharon Stone in Catwoman — but everything ever is better than Catwoman).

The original ranked fourth on our Worst Comic Book Movies list. A more engaging villain would be a massive improvement. And honestly? I think this is one of those flicks where you need to just take the leash off of Nic Cage and let him go full-crazypants.

It’s the only way.









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Comments

"everything ever is worse than Catwoman"? I'm sure you mean "better"?

Posted by: Dugs at August 26, 2010 11:17 AM

Here's hoping.

The only good things about the first one were 1) Peter Fonda and 2) the motorcycle (no, not the hellcycle, but the Buell he uses for the opening stunt).

Posted by: Jacktrade at August 26, 2010 11:26 AM

No one asked for the first fucking movie! So were gonna get two?! Hollywood makes money how exactly ?

Posted by: logan at August 26, 2010 11:56 AM

Aside from this being a sequel to a movie no one liked, I really don't get putting it in 3D. Would anyone really be like, "Another Ghost Rider? Fuck that! Wait... you said in it's 3D? I'll go pre-order the tickets!"
Is 3D that much of a deal-maker for people?

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at August 26, 2010 12:12 PM

It seems like 3D is becoming the go-to plan for any movie that can’t stand on its own. - TK

I've been trying, and failing, to enunciate exactly why I hate 3D. This is why. Thank you.

Posted by: RobP at August 26, 2010 3:33 PM

I think the strange thing about Ghostrider 1 wasn't the fact that Eva Mendes can't act her way out of a cardboard box, or that the bad guy was the plastic bag guy from American Beauty but rather that Nicolas Cage's hair magically recedes then comes back then recedes with varying films. If it's plugs or wigs they are really good but seriously. How is he doing it???

Posted by: Rob at August 27, 2010 2:00 AM