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Posted by Juim on Wed May 24th at 12:22pm 2006

Just found this yesterday. Looks real good technically, but Nicholas Cage is a gamble IMHO. He is very hit and miss movie wise.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/ghostrider/





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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 24th at 12:25pm 2006

Argg... To many images for my connection. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

Is this by any chance a movie about the comic?





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Posted by Juim on Wed May 24th at 12:26pm 2006

yup. It looks like a straight up port of the comic.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 24th at 12:30pm 2006

Coolness. I have a few of those in storage somewhere... Was a fantastic series.



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Posted by Andrei on Wed May 24th at 2:00pm 2006

A port you say? Hope it turns out to be better than Judge Dredd and X-men.




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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 24th at 2:15pm 2006

I have/had only one complaint about the X-Men movies. They confused the time lines beyond salvaging.

The series was interesting enough to have retained them and still done well. Having characters from the 70's mixed in with characters from the 80's and 90's sucks owl s**t.

Judge Dredd, blew chunks in movie form.





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Posted by Crono on Wed May 24th at 6:39pm 2006

Seriously, when you adapt something to a movie you don't need to keep the time line ... it's an adaptation. What they've done with X-Men is fantastic. You couldn't possibly expect them to salvage 300+ universes and several thousands of issues and make a coherent time-line, can you? And, just to let you know all the characters in the movies are featured in the 80s and 90s at least even if their original source material is from the 50s and 60s. Also, the basis for the second movie is a story arc from the 80s uncanny series, I believe. The only details they changed were details about who William Stryker is, it's still fantastic. If you want a comic book movie that's exactly like the comic watch Fantastic Four, it's also, just as bad as the comic. (Sin City is almost word for word) X-Men, Spider-Man, and most all of the marvel franchises are too large to be precise and honestly, I don't know whens the last time you read them but most X-Men series blow ass chunks. Cool ideas, terrible delivery.

Ghost Rider comic blows ass and Mark Steven Johnson is not a good film maker. As much as I enjoyed Daredevil, the movie really pisses me off, because it's not made properly. That should be one of the darkest comic to film transfers period and it's not even close. In addition Cage is a terrible actor ... nor is he young enough to play Johnny Blaze. (The only run of the comic I liked was the Ennis run, that was fantastic.)

On top of all this the movie has Eva Mendez.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 24th at 8:14pm 2006

Actually, yes. I can expect it.

The characters in the Xmen series, both villain and goodguy are numerous enough to have retained the timeline easily. Hell, they aren't even initiating Beast until movie 3. He was an original.

I don't care what you say, there is plenty of story line available to have made the movies with the correct characters involved for the time periods.





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Posted by Crono on Wed May 24th at 8:34pm 2006

Not listening again? I said there's too many characters. Also, the older comics are really bad and would not fly as the basis for a movie. No matter how "close" they are to the comics, that wouldn't make them good, in fact that would make them worse.

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Too many holes in you're shoddy one line comment.

Enough derailment.


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Posted by Orpheus on Wed May 24th at 9:46pm 2006

? quoting Crono
Not listening again? .

Only you would have the audacity to accuse someone else. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

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Posted by Biological Component on Thu May 25th at 2:49am 2006

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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Thu May 25th at 5:26pm 2006

Yeah, I saw this trailer last night at one attached to one of the XMen prints (my theatre picked up 5 copies.) I thought the graphics where great, I'm feeling that the story might faill. At this point, I'm skeptical at whether or not the movie will be good at all.

--extra--Yup, this is on the X3 trailer-pack. I was up their lastnight at 1:00 in the morning waiting for @%#&ing Da Vinci to drop (finish) which droped 40 minute after the second to last movie. So while I ended up being the last person on the job (Every single manager and suppervisor on duty went to the 1:00 screening), those 40 minutes I spent in front of X3. So far, the first 25 mins (15 mins of trailers) seem very intresting. I'll be heading to work tonight to watch a screening at a more reasonable time.



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Posted by French Toast on Thu May 25th at 10:22pm 2006

Oh, if anyone goes to see Xmen, sit through the credits. There's an extra 'something' at the end that's worth the wait.



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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Fri May 26th at 4:59am 2006

Yeah, I almost missed that too, it was great. I was walking out of the auditorium when a o-worker mentioned there being somthing at the end of the credits and questioning what was going on. I felt I had to find out, walked back in and it was a great little addon as to what was discussed earlier.

Hint: pay good attention to the begining of X3 and you'll understand what the "after credits" means.




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri May 26th at 5:14pm 2006

? quoting Lawjackal
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"...the pattern is full"

I think Nicholas Cage is a terrible choice. They need to go with no name actors for these types of roles imo, and not some balding, aged bad actor like Cage who brings with him a history of characters and roles. I want a fresh face for Johnny Blaze!

If you think Cage is a good actor watch Lord of War and then tell me with a straight face.

Yes, Eva Mendez is an eyesore.

Also -- from the trailer I don't particularly like the CG work. I think the XMen series have done a good job of balancing CGI with live action (the white house scene with nightcrawler for example) but the Ghostrider trailer looked like they're relying too much on CG for the action scenes (although, I guess there's no way around it since the protagonist is a flaming skeleton).

Also --- I hope he has a flaming chainsaw.





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