Bike looks absolutely awesome

I agree I never liked Ghost Rider either....I found it boring....we're not alone his comic series was cut so many different times.

I dont think thats street legal.

Congrats on a reply to a two month old post.

And yes, I also feel that Del Toro is a serious force to be reconded with in terms of visuals. I've seen most of Cronenberg's pictures and I'm not really sure what you we're getting at, I mean, he's really quite good as a visualist, but as a filmmaker, he's very subpar. His films are very internal and I find them pretty boring for the most part. They work very well as a concept, but I just don't think he has enough talent to pull them off.

Kar-Wai, sorry, I don't eat chinese.

I didn't know there were time limits on when you could reply. I just noticed the thread yesterday.

A Cerebral & esoteric filmaker that is completely unique & bends genres equals boring to you, yet big budget hollywood crap like Elektra & Daredevil are amazing. That certainly explains a lot. I'm not saying it's a bad thing, you like what you like.

I would love to know what films you are referring to.

I rest my case.

You're a pompous prick.

And I'm referring to Naked Lunch, ExistenZ, Videodrome, etc. They all work well as concepts, but as movies, they're subpar, because they are just not very entertaining. They would work well as books, but as movies I find them boring. Elektra and DareDevil entertained me, I'm a fan of the respective comics and I thought the films we're fun pieces of entertainment. I don't think you have any room to talk, I mean, you do own 3000 Miles to Graceland and Charlie's Angels. I can clearly see you disagree, let's leave it at that.

Geez, settle down kiddo, no need to name call. Yeah, I love a good mindless film, why can't one like both? Although I only own Angels b/c I love Lucy Liu & think Sam Rockwell is great in it, visually the movie is a turd.

And my issue with your posts was never what is "entertaining" b/c clearly Cronenberg & non-mainstream films are not for you. I'm just debating the bold statement you made of " no one can match Del Toro for visual pizazz". So all I'm talking about is what a director does Visually. I'm a HUGE Del Toro fan, I think he is a great guy as well, but that statement is just absurd & I don't think Del Toro would hold a candle to someone like Cronenberg who Del Toro himself has said is one of the biggest influences on his style & you can see the inluence in so much of Del Toro's work. Del Toro doesn't even have his own visual voice, I think his work his awesome, but it is so heavily influenced by others, there are plenty of directors who far surpas him with "visual pizazz".

Wow, just when I thought you couldn't be anymore insulting, pompous, and stupid, you one up yourself. Touche! You presume to know everything about me from a couple of fuckin posts on this board, well, that makes you a moron, plain and simple. You don't know what movies I've seen, you have a vague idea of my tastes in film. Trust me buddy, I've likely seen more low-budget, foreign, indie flicks than you can dream of. And I don't know what you've seen and where your tastes lie, but I do know that you have this air of superiority about you that makes me want to want to knock your teeth in, sadly we're not talking in person.

Look kid, you clearly have some sort of problem with me, so why don't you try this: Stop replying to my fucking posts okay? Just ignore me, do we have an ignore function around here? Anyway, just do that. Because this is the last reply I'm making towards your pathetic ass, move the hell on buddy.

I have not called you a name ONCE. I have not used profanity or anything close to it ONCE, so why don't you take a deep breath & learn how to discuss a point with someone rather than freak out & insult a person. Nothing I posted warrents the ugliness & hatred you replied with.

I've read a LOT of your posts, caught you in several lies in the Elektra thread (I'm not saying that to be mean, it's true) & know enough that you have little knowledge of foreign films or indy flicks (as not knowing who Wong Kar-Wai proves) so I HIGHLY doubt you've seen more of these movies than I "can dream of". Anyone who raves about Elektra & called Cronenberg films "subpar" could hardly pass themselves off as a cineast or fan of off-beat cinema. I never said that was a bad thing, you are the one assuming it is, nor did I EVER, EVER, say I was superior for seeing these films, YOU are the one saying that. All I have tried to do is debate with you that Del Toro is not the the best visualist in the businiess. You however have COMPLETELY ignored that & instread sound like a child in grade school resorting to name calling & extremely crude & unprovoked language.

You have looked at my DVD collection, clearly you can see where my tastes lie. And flexing your message board muscles with threatening talk through your keyboard only reveals your age, so please don't call others "kid".

Follow your own advice, your last post you said you were moving on, yet here you are posting again. I was just trying to debate a point with you. It is ABSURD the language & insults you have posted in your replies & I hope a mod bans you for your ridiculous response.

Back to our happy place... THAT BIKE KICKS ASS!!!

Does it? I'm a fan of dan ketch ghost rider bike and the blaze bike had those back rails. This just looks like they are shooting for the amercian chopper demographics.

Qui Gon and Sessa: is it possible, just once, for somebody to post their opinions on this messageboard without another user looking at it, disagreeing, and then having a flame war erupt?

Who am I kidding, this is the movie thread of DVDtalk. Glad I don't go to "otter" very much, those posts are hurtful.

That said, can anyone recommend some good Ghost Rider TPBs or collections that might be available? He has always fascinated me as a character, but I have never really picked up any of the comics.

Yeah, I appreciated the 90's version of the bike, but I'm not sure how well it would translate to the screen, with the huge front panels. Either way, this pic of the bike is a great image! It'll be interesting to see how well they pull off the flames while it's moving.

hell no, you're just a pompous father of a prick who doesn't know how to do anything other than condescendly direct your one upping stupidity towards others in a demeaning manner!!!!1111uno.


look buck-o, the internet is serious business and we all need to defend our self rightous opinions in any means possible!!!!1111uno



read; I totally agree, though qui's posting style even had me going

Right now there are pretty much none. The only Ghost Rider series in about five years was Hammer Lane, and it stunk. Garth Ennis is working on a series that will be coming out soon, that will probably be good.

In the early 90s Marvel reprinted the old Ghost Rider comics under the title "Original Ghost Rider" (I'm pretty sure that's what it's called) and it was pretty good. I bet Marvel will reprint those in their b&w "Essentials" line in the next year.

Jack: that post had me laughing so hard that someone at work asked me if there was anything wrong.

So is Nick Cage still shooting for a PG-13 rating and insisting all comic book films should be kid friendly?

I know at first that rubbed me the wrong way but then I realized I'm having the hardest time recalling the tone of the Ghost Rider comics. If it's like Batman (dark but not overly violent) a PG-13 is fine by me but if it's like The Punisher....

USA Today article

Cool! That's what I like about Johnson, he has a true love for the material he works on. Let's just hope the studio doesn't muck up the Theatrical like they did on DD.

i dont think that bike exists. it looks entirely CG to me.

i'd actually tone it down. the engine lacks any definition it seems. front and back ok. engine, needs work.

What's with the Kevin Bacon impersonation?

new pics
http://www.superherohype.com/news/gh...ws.php?id=2958

From comicbookresources.com:

Sci Fi Wire caught up with director Mark Steven Johnson, who talked about taking the original David Goyer script and making it more like the comics. "It's one of those things that there is no right or wrong to it," Johnson said. "He just chose a different story, and I really liked it. It just isn't the story that I was going to tell. So they're really completely different screenplays. I really like David's writing a lot, though. [I'm a] big fan of him. The fact that the devil made a deal with Johnny and gave him all these powers, and Johnny took those powers to go fight the devil, never quite added up. And so everybody over the years kept trying to solve that and change that. So it's kind of actually a faulty concept in a weird way. So that was odd. That's something that took me many, many months to finally crack it. And once I came up with the idea of the devil's bounty hunter, that there's rules in heaven and hell on Earth, [it made sense]. The idea is that Mephistopheles has to find the best rider in the world to become his Ghost Rider, that made sense to me. He has to give him this power, because he works for him. Then I got it. Then everything from there flowed. But at first it was tough."

They also caught up with Nicolas Cage, who said he was fine with the effects work on the Marvel adaptation. "I've always enjoyed working with effects," Cage said. "To me, it's just stimulating to be around it, to participate. ... After the production is finished shooting here, I want to go to where they're working on the effects and say hello and see what they're doing with all the painting and how they're going to make the fire work, because fire is, you probably know, the most difficult of all the digital effects to pull off. We've managed to really put a great deal of humor [in it]. That came naturally to me. I think that heavy material is inherently -- I know this is going to sound strange -- but it can lend itself very easily to humor. Because I think people, when they're in heavy occupations, you look at paramedics or cops, they have the blackest humor. But it's a way of coping with the situation."

Man this sounds bad.

I agree. I expect this to be somewhere around Daredevil bad, which is too bad because I really wanted to like it. Here's hoping MSJ doesn't get his hands on anymore superhero franchises, I hate to see what he'd do with Iron Man.