"Ghost Rider" vs. "Daredevil": This Barely Wins

Rating: 4/10 (19 February 2007)

Ghost Rider is my favorite Marvel character, and I was really looking forward to this. What a mistake that was. As a movie, I find that this was better than "Daredevil" (which I hate). But as a superhero movie, this pisses me off so badly. I am happy to say it wasn't as campy as I thought it would be. But, at the same time, it wasn't as close to the comics as it should have been. Now, it doesn't bother me when people depart a little bit from the comics. But, come on, they messed this up so bad. It seemed like Johnny Blaze was turning into the Ghost Rider whenever he felt like it. That's not how it goes in the comic book. If he's around evil, he'll turn and it doesn't matter who's around. Second of all, unless the demons possess a body they don't look like people. Yet, in this movie, they do. They changed the character design of the villains TOO MUCH! Also, the Ghost Rider is capable of carrying out conversations. But in the movie, he can only say a few words at a time, most of the time those words being some one-liner which HE ISN'T SUPPOSED TO SAY! Don't even get me started on Roxanne Simpson. The only reason I tolerate this movie more than "Daredevil" is because I'm just not that big of a fan of that character (or of Ben Affleck, for that matter). The acting was mostly bad, although I did like Nic Cage, the fight scenes weren't great, as was also the case in "Daredevil", but the special effects were pretty cool. At least they got the back story mostly right.