Comic book adaption

Rating: 5/10 (17 February 2007)

First off, here's the tone of my message: "I didn't like it due to it not sticking with the comic books." My argument here is to all of the Ghost Rider comic book fans and not to anyone who doesn't know anything about Ghost Rider. If you pick up a Ghost Rider comic book, what did you typically see in it? Ghost Rider inflicting vengeance and hardly any "good or funny tone" in the comics. GR and his friends were always in a very serious mood in the comics and hardly did you ever see a smile or happiness in it. You might see a smirk every once in a while whenever they would catch the bad guy or some good came out of something that horrible went wrong. I really was looking forward to and compared this movie to the comics because that's what made the Ghost Rider. Yes it's true that in order to make money and to appeal to all audiences that you need to lighten up the mood. However, let's take a look at a successful movie that didn't change the tone such as Batman Begins. Ghost Rider should have been made into a R rated movie just like Blade! GR was known to inflict horrible pain on his enemies and that's why people feared him. That's why cops were trying to capture him, it wasn't because he just looked evil. Even the so called good cop who turned into Vengeance later realized that was why GR was feared by ALL OF HIS ENEMIES. If Ghost Rider couldn't do the Penance Stare on you then he would break your bones and beat the crap out of you until you would know what emotional/physical pain was. I remember an issue where GR had to face Snowblind and since he couldn't do the Penance Stare on him. GR just decided to almost break all of his bones in his body. This is the reason bad guys feared GR. He was ruthless when it came to his so called Justice. He truly got revenge for the innocent blood that was spilled. Unlike Spidey movies, which should have a "good or funny tone" in it. The GR movie should have had a dark tone to it. Take a look at the Crow movie, dark and revengeful movie that was somewhat successful for its time. The GR attitude in the movie was not the same as I received in the comics that really got my attention for making this character stand out from the rest. The only good thing that I can comment about this movie was that of the special effects that made GR seem very real and the actors/actress parts that did their best to make the movie appeal mix to all audiences.