This shit's gotta stop! This guy can't act, so what drives (No pun intended!) him ta continue rehashingthis shit? Maybe twelve year old boys think this is great, but anyone with a speck of sense can see through ta his real talent: Self-promotion.
Movie review: Cage spins wheels on 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
The 'Ghost Rider' sequel promises more than it actually delivers, with Nicolas Cage's Johnny Blaze again riding to the rescue.
"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" covers the back story of how Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) went from daredevil motorcycle rider to head-on-fire supernatural avenger. (Columbia Pictures)
By Mark Olsen, Special to the Los Angeles Times
February 18, 2012
It has the makings of a trash-film lover's idea of heaven. In this corner, the filmmaking team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, credited as Neveldine/Taylor, purveyors of willful, gleefully disreputable movies like "Crank" and "Crank 2: High Voltage." They are smart enough to know better and self-consciously shameless enough to go there anyway.
And in this corner is Nicolas Cage, who has over time transformed into a performer of such ridiculous earnestness that it is impossible to unravel whether he gets it or not. Cage is the opposite of irony. Putting the two together for the sequel "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is like a laboratory experiment on how often a movie can spin from bad to good and back again.
The new film covers the back story of how Johnny Blaze (Cage) went from daredevil motorcycle rider to head-on-fire supernatural avenger in a smartly done credit sequence. Things pick up quickly when a drunken French priest (Idris Elba) enlists Blaze and his powers to rescue a Gypsy grifter (Violante Placido) and her son from the mysterious deal-making businessman (Ciarán Hinds) who also rendered Blaze into his current condition. As Blaze asks succinctly, "You're the devil's baby-mama?"
Like any deal with the devil, "Spirit of Vengeance" at times makes a viewer regret what they wished for. Working with a script credited to Scott M. Gimple, Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer leaves Neveldine and Taylor adding their oddball touches around the edges while simply stringing together a series of thudding action set-pieces. The duo's innate outrageousness also feels neutralized by the film's PG-13 rating. An effect in which Cage's skull hollows out into an empty-eyed death-mask is both comic and eerie.
The first "Ghost Rider" film, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, was sort of a fizzy goof, the kind of movie where you don't expect much and then think, "Hey, that was actually kind of fun." "Spirit of Vengeance," though, is undone by increased expectations, as promising more only makes it feel they are somehow delivering less.
Troll said
9:11 PM, 02/18/12
The first Goatrider wasn't bad enough so ghost writers went back to the drawing board and came up with Goatrider II
Snippy said
12:50 AM, 02/19/12
Looks like Ranger Uke works on motorcycle wheels, too.
Uke said
8:18 AM, 02/19/12
Yeah but Uke's motowheels do not catch fire like the Toyota driven ta Minnesota in third gear!
Cy Valley said
3:45 PM, 02/19/12
Uke wrote:
Yeah but Uke's motowheels do not catch fire like the Toyota driven ta Minnesota in third gear!
And all the way to Wisconsin. TU!
Uke said
6:33 PM, 02/19/12
Yeah! Crossed that border in "D"! After it was discovered on the shift lever...
The Krink said
11:40 AM, 02/20/12
One vacation trip to the Twin Cities I got a rental car that the power-steering went out of it 5hrs into my very "tight schedule". I was already "out of state" when it "dint work" anymore. Not sure if I was allowed to take the car out of state. Since I have strong arms, I decided to muscled the car around 3 states without power-steering. Turn the car in and just said "check the power- steering" as it seems stiff.
Uke said
6:02 PM, 02/20/12
AVIS never raises a question about all the vehicles destroyed, or damaged by yers truly. Perhaps they've duped Uke into being a 'test-driver' for them. Hmmm... Should they be paying Uke for all the testing trips?
Cy Valley said
4:03 AM, 02/21/12
If they learn you are now Ranger Uke, they may quit renting to you, in the interest of profits.
Freddie Krueger said
4:32 AM, 02/21/12
Need to check the stock prices. If Uke rents from AVIS, before he does I am going to short them.
Uke said
8:18 AM, 02/21/12
Is AVIS a publicly traded company? Not sure, but if they are, buy a few shares, and do like Phreddie...sell 'em short! Ya can't lose! Uke sez "Rent phrom AVIS...Uke has tested all their cars!"
Cy Valley said
2:15 PM, 02/21/12
NASDAQ. Closed at 13.08 on Friday. If Uke signs an agreement to never rent from them again, the price will soar.
Freddie Krueger said
2:31 PM, 02/21/12
David Brown would consider this as insider trading.
This shit's gotta stop! This guy can't act, so what drives (No pun intended!) him ta continue rehashingthis shit? Maybe twelve year old boys think this is great, but anyone with a speck of sense can see through ta his real talent: Self-promotion.
Movie review: Cage spins wheels on 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'
The 'Ghost Rider' sequel promises more than it actually delivers, with Nicolas Cage's Johnny Blaze again riding to the rescue.
"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" covers the back story of how Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) went from daredevil motorcycle rider to head-on-fire supernatural avenger. (Columbia Pictures)
February 18, 2012
It has the makings of a trash-film lover's idea of heaven. In this corner, the filmmaking team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, credited as Neveldine/Taylor, purveyors of willful, gleefully disreputable movies like "Crank" and "Crank 2: High Voltage." They are smart enough to know better and self-consciously shameless enough to go there anyway.
And in this corner is Nicolas Cage, who has over time transformed into a performer of such ridiculous earnestness that it is impossible to unravel whether he gets it or not. Cage is the opposite of irony. Putting the two together for the sequel "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" is like a laboratory experiment on how often a movie can spin from bad to good and back again.
The new film covers the back story of how Johnny Blaze (Cage) went from daredevil motorcycle rider to head-on-fire supernatural avenger in a smartly done credit sequence. Things pick up quickly when a drunken French priest (Idris Elba) enlists Blaze and his powers to rescue a Gypsy grifter (Violante Placido) and her son from the mysterious deal-making businessman (Ciarán Hinds) who also rendered Blaze into his current condition. As Blaze asks succinctly, "You're the devil's baby-mama?"
Like any deal with the devil, "Spirit of Vengeance" at times makes a viewer regret what they wished for. Working with a script credited to Scott M. Gimple, Seth Hoffman and David S. Goyer leaves Neveldine and Taylor adding their oddball touches around the edges while simply stringing together a series of thudding action set-pieces. The duo's innate outrageousness also feels neutralized by the film's PG-13 rating. An effect in which Cage's skull hollows out into an empty-eyed death-mask is both comic and eerie.
The first "Ghost Rider" film, directed by Mark Steven Johnson, was sort of a fizzy goof, the kind of movie where you don't expect much and then think, "Hey, that was actually kind of fun." "Spirit of Vengeance," though, is undone by increased expectations, as promising more only makes it feel they are somehow delivering less.
Looks like Ranger Uke works on motorcycle wheels, too.
And all the way to Wisconsin. TU!
power-steering went out of it 5hrs into my very "tight schedule".
I was already "out of state" when it "dint work" anymore. Not
sure if I was allowed to take the car out of state. Since I have
strong arms, I decided to muscled the car around 3 states without
power-steering. Turn the car in and just said "check the power-
steering" as it seems stiff.