For today's post on an incredibly popular and commonly read blog ( I think I hear my brother laughing ) I will do a review on the movie Ghost Rider.
I watched Ghost Rider Friday night. I don't want to give away any of the plotline, so I'll just say the plot is completely predictable, the fights were disappointingly simple, and the special effects are very good. As much as I enjoy watching a whole street of cars flip into store fronts while bursting into flame, I don't think I'll see the movie again. That was a short review. :-)
Almost short - I can't help it, I need to rant a bit more about the boss fights. Sunday, I watched the last two fights of Gorgeous. THAT is a good fight: good choreography, closely matched opponents, good reflexes, speed, humor, character development during the fights and both fights together last 30 minutes if they were put back to back. In Ghost Rider, there were no close fights. Ghost Rider always outpowered his opponents (by a huge amount) and had no finness while doing it. Come on! The movie gave Ghost Rider an unstoppable physical attack and a spiritual attack that is only SUPER EFFECTIVE against any evil. And movie goers are supposed to think that Ghost Rider is ever in trouble? Bah.
2 comments:
Yes, you did happen to hear your brother laughing!
Thanks for the review - I had thought about watching the movie, but now I'm pretty sure that I'll, at the very least, wait until it's out on DVD.
One thing that has ALWAYS annoyed me is how stupidly superheroes or supervillains fight. If I could move more quickly than the speed of light (like modern incarnations of Flash) there's no way anything could touch me! I see somebody start to raise his hands for a fireball, and I would knock him into year 4010 before he could move his hands another millimeter! But NO! Flash zooms around dodging fireballs or magic spells or bullets until some poor bystander is threatened and then he rescues the poor civilian while the villain escapes.
Sounds like Ghost Rider would drive me up the wall! What sort of physical attack is truly unstoppable? Could it be dodged? Put a building in between you and the attack would you be all right?
Closest "unstoppable" attack I've ever seen is Darkseid's "Omega Beams" which can vaporize even Superman and can home-in like nuts. Problem is, he's an idiot and never uses them except for flashy moments.
One of the most important rules of being an evil overlord: once you have the superweapon, unstoppable force, or doomsday weapon, use it quickly and often!!!
Ah. The poor state of todays superheroes and villains. It's a shame that superman doesn't have reflexes or he would be unstoppable.
I guess 'unstoppable' would be a bad description of Ghost Rider's attack. I don't know if it could go through buildings, but none of the bad guys could beat it, so I don't think it mattered to them. :-)
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