Trailerology: Ghost Rider
Submitted by jim on Wed, 05/24/2006 - 09:58
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The Ghost Rider trailer. Guiltiest pleasure of 2007? Time will tell...
The Ghost Rider trailer. Guiltiest pleasure of 2007? Time will tell...
of all the cgi-happy marvel shitfests, this one does have the most potential in my mind... they all suck so much that I'm just hoping for watchable... as far as comic book movies go, hellboy has been the only watchable one, and sin city was worth the laugh... but otherwise it's never worth it, i may see ghost rider.
Your optimism is infectious.
Ah. Hellboy. Another comics flick I didn't like. It was almost Batman & Robin-level embarrassing for me.
Again I'm going to be the comic book nerd oddball.
I liked Daredevil, though massively flawed it was, and this looks...decent...I like some of the imagery, and I'm pretty sure that since I've pretty much enjoyed everything except for Catwoman, Elektra, and Burton/Schumacher's Batman movies, I'll dig this.
Also, Jim, I saw X3. It's admittedly a slight movie, but much better than the marketing makes it out to be. Still, it has nothing on the first two.
Oh hey, just read that this significantly darker Superman Returns trailer was showing before X3 in some places. Does it change your outlook at all?
You know, I did see that before X3, and it looks much better than the previous trailers.
Not really sure if I'm ready to heavily anticipate it, but I'm way more excited than I was.
Cool, nice to hear X3 beat expectations, even if Ratner can't fill Singer's shoes (no big surprise there).
Liked Daredevil, though...
:-)
Yeah, X3 is much better than you'd believe from the commercials and clips.
As for Daredevil...well, apart from the kitschy, incredibly dumb playground sequence, I was entertained.
Also, when I was naming the comics flicks I disliked, I forgot to mention Fantastic Four and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, both spawned from great comics. I just have to say this because I do not want anyone for one second to believe that I would ever like those. :-D
:-)
I haven't seen League, but I did prefer Fantastic Four to Daredevil (both were found wanting, of course).
But...but...at least Daredevil had a cool fight in a church. Fantastic Four had Mr. Fantastic displaying his superpowers by grabbing a roll of toilet paper. :-\",0,[05/28/2006 09:24:19],1
75147,24371,1028,13,6,:-) Fair enough."
Why does every potentially good comic adaptation have to star Nic Cage or Keanu Reeves? Anyone?
Might be interesting to set up a scorecard, pitting comic book adaptations with Cage or Reeves vs. all others, and see where you get the best movies. Well, I know which side would win, but it still might be fun to quantify the landslide.
I think it's because they are paper dolls.
You can dress them in different clothes, put them into any variety of roles/plots and they will blend in and you can even draw on them (i.e. A Scanner Darkly.) Cage and Keanu are both blank slates, tabula rasa, clean CGI canvases... mirrors. Their non-threatening, unsurprising good looks make them perfect Ken dolls, they even seem to have the same haircut. I actually believe this is an asset and not necessarily a failure of talent. I'm not saying that this means such an actor has talent but it might be an indication that the director/producer lacks it.
"Time will tell..." Yes. It will tell you that it is horrible.
It will tell you that it is horrible.
Yes indeedy. Hence, "guiltiest".
It's not the "guiltiest" that surprises... I do marvel at "pleasure."
Let me remind you: From the Director who brought you Daredevil...
Perverse, I know.
Oo, Daredevil though, there was no pleasure to be had there. Still, Cage vs. Affleck helps. Nonetheless, I suppose Face/Off levels of enjoyment are too much to hope for.
Is it telling that after being knocked senseless by The Rock Nicholas Cage has played a character whose face was literally wiped clean, twins, a con man and a man thrown into an alternate existence?
What did we call those little tablets with the grey overlay and the stylus that allowed us to draw, lift up the overlay and then draw again?