Just watched Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance and.....umm....that happened. I have come to the conclusion that I'm not a fan of Neveldine/Taylor's style of directing. I'm sure some people do like them but they're just not for me. I was curious to see what they could do with the restriction of a PG-13 rating but I genuinely would like to see a rated R Ghost Rider film. The dude playing Roarke was fucking atrocious though, mugging his way through the film like an idiot. In fact, none of the performances were subtle but his had that extra bit of idiocy that made me wince.

Ghost Rider is one of my favourite comic characters concept-wise but I'm waiting for a good movie adaptation of him. Maybe it just isn't to be......

The scene just after that where you watch Cage go apeshit for five minutes on a motorcycle was great as well. The final car chase was fun. The last little bit of the movie was a let down in that the big bad of the movie was a complete pushover and then the movie kinda drags itself across the finish line after that.

I knew going in that it was going to be a crappy B-movie with crazy camera shit. I guess that allowed me to laugh at it instead of getting angry. Kinda like Skyline. Just never ever watch it in 3D. I'm amazed there haven't been any whiplash lawsuits brought over the snap-zooms-in-3D. My neck was actually sore the next day. I was so glad that the only other people in the theater were seated in front of me

Paul Verhoeven is now adapting his book "Jesus Of Nazareth" to film. Co-Written by Roger Avery. He basically portrays Jesus as just a dude whose story got blown out of proportion by writers trying to one-up each other. I tend to agree with him, though I'm not sure Jesus ever existed (or if he wasn't a number of dudes who kinda got rolled into one dude via said writers).

Anyway, I can't wait for this for any number of reasons.

1) New Paul Verhoeven film. Awesome. Kinda surprised I hadn't heard of Black Book before now...
2) I cannot wait to see how people react to news of this movie's existence and apparent plot.
3) Judging by Verhoeven's other book-to-film adaptations, I bet this movie will have an innocent bystander bodycount of biblical proportions.

Well, he wrote the book so maybe this time he'll stick to the source. That would be pretty funny, tho.

I actively disliked Fincher's version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo so much, that I turned it off half way through. The damn thing bored me to tears! I've seen, and enjoyed the three Swedish films but the US version changes some key events, and the result feels a little too Hollywood.

Nice music, nice title sequence, and some nice framing doesn't make up for an uninspired interpretation of a better film.

I didn't like how they wrapped up the mystery, but the way they wrapped up the US film I much prefer. I've never read the books, but I had assumed that Fincher's version was a remake of the book, and that things would be different than the swedish version because that version altered a number of things from the books from what people told me. I dunno. They seem pretty similar to me, aside from the bits I mentioned. I'm sure there are book purists out there who despise both adaptations, regardless of how good both of them are.

Hmmm, sounds like this is a film ripe for a forum member commentary....