To all the people who thought this was good....

Rating: 2/10 (16 February 2007)

What were you watching. Please do tell. I work at a movie theatre and had just worked the world premiere in times square. Now I should have judged how nobody clapped at the end of that premiere. But no I didn't. I went and I screened it with my projectionist at midnight at my theatre. Now there have been good reviews and now a lot more bad reviews. This is the latter. Someone said this director is the new Schumacher. Its worse...he might be the new Uwe Boll, with alittle schumacher mixed in. Where was the fighting...there wasn't any. All the battles lasted seconds at best. The dialogue was cheesy and the acting horrible. I don't mind cheese especially with popcorn flicks but this was absurd. I also accept i must give up my sense of reality in a movie like this. No problem with that I love spidey and other marvel heroes. But when a guy has a flaming skull you cant exactly create a friendly environment. Out of all of this i don't really know what powers ghost rider had other than the penance stare and a magic chain he picked up somewhere. There was some good. The transformations were good especially the first one and the others were also nicely done. I just think this movie could have been so much more. I like ghost rider, I think the character had potential. I just don't know where it went wrong. Maybe the villains had something to do with it as Peter Fonda is the first devil that couldn't scare a kitten and Wes Bentley really wasn't that fierce either. The fact that some scenes dragged and some scenes made no sense hurt the movie. They also rushed through parts especially the fights. And the one liners...were they necessary. They really could have gone a totally different way and the movie would have been amazing. Instead of cheesiness why not make this a dark moody piece. I was not holding out much hope and then I saw the amazing transformation to Ghost Rider and thought alright here we go but it never came...how can anyone think this was good???