Ghost Rider gripes
5:47 AM 6/20/06 · While I suspect I'm going to love this film when it comes out...it hasn't yet so I can be as petty as I want. I've only seen the extended trailer and the international one, the latter which will be included at the end of this post, but I've already seen a number of things that're just bugging me. Some of it I'll probably be able to look beyond, during and after watching it, but at the moment...
All from the trailers:
All from the trailers:
- The film lists Johnny Blaze as being the Ghost Rider but the demon's form is that of Daniel Ketch's version of the creature.
- Ghost Rider's flame isn't supposed to be hot. Being hellfire the only thing it can burn is the souls of others, most people have described the sensation as being exceeedingly cold. However there's a scene where he's roaring down a street and the parking meters along the sides are melting.
- During Ketch's time as the demon, Blaze came back fearing the new Ghost Rider was the same creature that once possessed him. In contact with him, Blaze's shotgun took on hellfire properties but the demon itself didn't start carrying such a weapon; Ghost Rider uses a number of demonically enhanced spikes and chains. In this movie Blaze has a hellfire shotgun too.
- About as petty as petty can get: Blaze is supposed to be a strawberry blonde but the film has him with short dark brown hair.
- I was impressed to see the ancient Western Ghost Rider is in the film. Although a foe of the Blaze form of the creature, it shows that this kind of thing has happened before...even if the old one does ride a demonically charged horse.
- The special effects look beautiful!
- The transformation into Ghost Rider, for both Ketch and Blaze, is supposed to be exceedingly bloody. Literally the skull burns its way free, tearing out into the light. It's be cool to see but I kinda doubt its going to happen.
- Despite all the references to the demon that is the Ghost Rider, bit off from the movie here, both men differed in this somewhat. Blaze was possessed by the demon Zarathos and that's how he became the Ghost Rider; that whole bit on selling his soul is what got the ball rolling. Ketch on the other hand just transformed into Ghost Rider, not at all associated with Zarathos in this case, when he found that bike that never needed refueling. Ketch later learned he didn't need the bike to transform; first it was any bike would do and later he discovered the change came from within himself...he hadn't realized his family had a long history in the occult.