SuperHeroBooks - Ghost Rider (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]
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Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott, Matt Long, Raquel Alessi
Directed By: Mark Steven Johnson
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396185197
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Columbia Pictures
Manufacturer: Columbia Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Running Time: 123
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: 2007-02-16
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Summary: One Of The Best Movies Based On A Marvel Comic
Comment: This definently goes into my top 10 favorite movies of all time. Nicolas Cage was absolutley EXCELLENT as Johnny Blaze and Peter Fonda was excellent as the Devil. The Extended Cut offers some new footage and lots of special features. Blackheart, son of the devil played by Wes Bentley was one of my favorite characters in this movie. Just the way he looked, dark and mysterious, was awesome. There are some jump scenes and other pretty scary parts. I would recommend getting this. Also some new info. Ghost Rider 2 coming in 2009. I will update this info whenever more comes.
MPAA Rating=PG-13 for horror violence and disturbing images.
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Summary: Sometimes Great, Mostly Bad
Comment: I am all for movie studios going hog wild with comic book properties. Most of these characters have literally decades of stories to pull from, so the quality content is there. Most of them are visually stimulating because of the nature of their genre. And most of them, no matter how far down the echelon from Superman or Spiderman, have an interesting story about why they do what they do.
However, the danger of the comic book movie is ample. For one, if the moviemakers do not truly understand who the character is and who the potential audience is, we have an impending disaster on our hands. Secondly, you cannot take a comic book movie too seriously if you're the moviemaker; but on the other hand, you also cannot treat it as irrelevant and laughable. Thirdly, you must, must, must avoid all the clichés that we expect in a comic book movie, because what is written in print and drawn on the page does not always translate to living actors and moving pictures. And finally, you absolutely positively do NOT have to give us an origin story to make us understand the character's motivations. Origin stories are overrated and becoming more so with every comic book movie released.
Okay, so after all that, Ghost Rider wasn't terrible. It also wasn't good. It was both good and terrible. It was both terrible and good.
They totally nailed the "look" of the Ghost Rider. They also got his bike one hundred percent right. Homeruns on those accounts.
But, they only had one person who could act in the movie, and that was Nic Cage. And, as much as I love quirky Nic Cage, the director needed to reel him in a few times. Everyone else's acting was clichéd out the wazoo and difficult to watch.
At times the look and the tone of the film were perfect for a movie about "the Devil's bounty hunter," but then it did not keep that look and tone consistently. The director (who also directed Daredevil, a movie I liked very much despite its flaws) simply seemed to lose track of what kind of movie he wanted to make. Was this an origin movie? Sort of. It starts with a young Johnny Blaze, but then it jumps twenty years to a thirty-sevenish Nic Cage as Johnny Blaze. And then the progression continues with plots from twenty-years ago. Why give us the literal footage of Johnny Blaze as a youngster? In my mind, they wasted about twenty-five minutes of my time.
And this is what finally irritates me about comic book movies when done poorly. Every single comic book movie does not have to literally show us the origin of the character. The audience can connect the dots. I don't know about you, but if I'm going to see a comic book movie, I don't want to wait forty-five minutes to see the comic book character. I want the movie starting out with a great sequence of that character, and if you want to drop some dialogue or give us some QUICK flashbacks of an origin, fine-just don't make it an origin film.
Wow, I've really gone on a rant. Sorry about that.
Ghost Rider. Sometimes great, mostly bad. Cool costumes, cool special effects, some cool locations, but the acting is bad, the story is downright awful, and it generally couldn't decide what it wanted to be other than a cesspool of comic book clichés.
~Scott William Foley, author of Dr. Nekros: Phantasms and Chicanery (Volume I, Episode II)
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Summary: Fiery visuals lit my fire! Spontaneous combustion!
Comment: This will probably be the shortest review I've ever written because I'm laughing and applauding so hard--so uncontrollably, I can't quit shaking or still my hands long enough to type!
I know, I know! Ghost Rider (Full Screen Edition) is a supernatural thriller and a decent one at that, so I'm not supposed to laugh. I assure you, I'm not laughing AT the movie, I'm ROTFLMAO with DELIGHT at the animation, graphics, and special effects. The fiery visuals lit my fire! Spontaneous combustion!
You see, I'm a graphic/animation/special effects freak; that's what turns me on!
I was as caught up in the plot of Ghost Rider (Full Screen Edition) as I am with most movies, enjoying it in a normal way ... but when the great Nicolas Cage (motorcyclist Johnny Blaze) metamorphoses into the Ghost Rider--a flaming skull-headed monster--and his chopper lights up like a million candles, I loooooved it.
The scenes where Cage (Blaze) rides the highway ... body, head and cool chopper spitting fire as he roars along, literally incinerating everything in his path ... well, they're stupendous. Filmed on nights as black as Satan's soul, everything but Cage and his bike is stark dark, creating startling contrasts as the blazing bike and burning biker lick out at the darkness with searing tongues of hungry fire.
And wait till you see cowboy Sam Elliot, the first Ghost Rider, riding his flaming horse alongside Cage's fiery chopper. I've heard of burning rubber, but these two Ghost Riders torch that road, leaving fiery tracks and the skeletons of incinerated animals in their wake! Awesome! That's my favorite scene in the entire movie. (Can't you picture Elliot's genial, yet weathered face--with that trademark, lop-sided smirk--as he passes the reins of power on to Cage, the next skull-faced angel of vengeance who must battle the forces of evil?)
Good acting! Good casting! Outstanding photography! Colossal effects! Director Mark Steven Johnson can film my movie any time he wants!
Since the original inspiration for the character was "Ghost Riders in the Sky," a song made popular by Vaughn Monroe in the late '40s, you might want to hear Monroe sing the song as you view a YouTube video that also has some fantastic visuals: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsfw9CEQITA
No need for me to go into the plot because the Amazon description at top of product page does that so well, even giving some spoilers for good measure. But spoilers or not, Marvel comics fan or not, I think you'll enjoy this movie. (This review wasn't so short after all; the subject fired me up! ... lol)
Reviewed by: Betty Dravis, 2008
Author of: Millennium Babe: The Prophecy
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Summary: Pepsi Baby
Comment: Glad to get in on the good stuff at first that was offered, nice movie, except Nic looks just like my cat. Thanx Pepsi, and Amazon.
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Summary: This should win some kind of award...
Comment: Because it is bad on SO many levels. Bad in the cheesy and ridiculous dialog, bad in its one dimensional characterizations, bad in its hollywood Faust by committee script, bad in Nicolas Cage's age inappropriate dyed black hair and over the top "acting", bad in that I wasted time, money and effort on a movie that doesn't know who it's audience is: children, teenagers or perhaps very undiscerning (or stoned) adults. This movie is final proof that Nicholas Cage will act in any movie so long as the price is right, as though National Treasure or The Wicker Man wasn't proof enough. Eva Mendez is even worse, but she was obviously chosen because of her looks, not her acting ability. There is NO chemistry, nada, zip, between her and Cage's Johnny Blaze. The worst comic movie ever and yes I'm including Halle Berry's Catwoman, Electra and the theatrical release of Ben Gagfleck's Daredevil. Oh and watch for Sam Elliot once again doing his schtick, complete with f**king cowboy hat, as the wise outsider, in this case a gravedigger, youch. It's as stupid a movie as ever came out of Hollywood and a huge disservice to a character I loved as a kid. At one point Nick says the line "Is this thing ever going to end?" MST3K where are you?
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Editorial Reviews:
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Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) was only a teenaged stunt biker when he sold his soul to the devil (Peter Fonda). Years later Johnny is a world renowned daredevil by day but at night he becomes the Ghost Rider of Marvel Comics legend. The devil s bounty hunter he is charged with finding evil souls on earth and bringing them to hell. But when a twist of fate brings Johnny s long-lost love (Eva Mendes) back into his life Johnny realizes he just might have a second chance at happiness if he can beat the devil and win back his soul. To do so he ll have to defeat Blackheart (Wes Bentley) the devil s nemesis and wayward son whose plot to take over his father s realm will bring hell on earth unless Ghost Rider can stop him.Format: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: PG - 13 UPC: 043396185197 Manufacturer No: 18519
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