Ghost Rider (2007)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.2/10   

Director:

Mark Steven Johnson

Escritores (WGA):

Mark Steven Johnson (screenplay)
Mark Steven Johnson (screen story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

16 febrero 2007 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Fantasía | Horror | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

Long ago he made a deal to save someone he loved.

Plot:

Based on the Marvel character, stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.

Plot Keywords:

Mephistopheles | Devil | Blackheart | Cancer | Motorcycle

Premios:

5 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Burned Out

Reparto

Matt Long	...	Young Johnny Blaze
Raquel Alessi	...	Young Roxanne Simpson
Brett Cullen	...	Barton Blaze
Peter Fonda	...	Mephistopheles
Nicolas Cage	...	Johnny Blaze / Ghost Rider
Donal Logue	...	Mack
Tony Ghosthawk	...	Team Blaze
Hugh Sexton	...	Team Blaze
Marcus Jones	...	Team Blaze
Matt Norman	...	Team Blaze
Kenneth Ransom	...	T.V. Reporter
Lawrence Cameron Steele	...	X Games Announcer (as Cameron Steele)
Wes Bentley	...	Blackheart
Eddie Baroo	...	Motorcycle Gang Member
Jessica Napier	...	Broken Spoke Waitress

También conocida como:

Spirited Racer (Philippines: English title) (review title)
El vengador fantasma (Mexico) (Peru) (Venezuela) [es]
El motorista fantasma (Spain) [es]
Ghost rider - El vengador fantasma (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for horror violence and disturbing images.

Duración:

114 min | 123 min (extended cut)

País:

USA | Australia

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color (Cinevex)

Relación de Aspecto:

2.35 : 1

Sonido:

SDDS (8 channels) | Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

USA:PG-13 | Finland:K-13 | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Netherlands:12 | UK:12A | Ireland:12A | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | Hong Kong:IIA | Norway:11 | Germany:12 (f) | Brazil:14 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | South Korea:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Canada:G (Quebec) | Argentina:13 | Italy:VM14 | Malaysia:U | Sweden:15 | UK:12 (UMD rating) | Ireland:12 (UMD rating) | UK:15 (DVD rating) | Ireland:15 (DVD rating) | Peru:14 | Japan:U | New Zealand:M | Iceland:12 | Iceland:16 (DVD rating)

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia

Compañía:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Trivialidades:

A large group of on-lookers converged on a bridge in Melbourne to watch scenes being filmed in a nearby location. Over the four days of filming at this location, the crowds grew so large that traffic was often disrupted and public transport operators reported an unusual jump in passenger traffic to the area.

Errores:

Continuidad: When Johnny Blaze falls while trying to land he slides up and hits his back against a wall. In the next shot he is seen lying on his back several feet away with obvious drag marks made by his helmet when some crew member dragged him away from the wall.

Citas:

[first lines]
Caretaker: [voiceover] It's said that the West was built on legends. Tall tales that help us make sense of things too great or too terrifying to believe. This is the legend of the Ghost Rider.

Conexiones de Película:

References The Wicker Man (2006)

Banda de Sonido:

Satan's Penis

Burned Out

Superficially, this is yet another mildly interesting Marvel comic turned into an excruciating movie. When will these guys learn? When we stop buying tickets I suppose.

The comic is mildly interesting for the way it targets a certain demographic. As a matter of mere accident, the devil, skulls and motorcycles have become associated with each other. Separately, power and flames. These by themselves, just the symbols alone, are enough to define a life for some people, so strong is the semiotic power they have accumulated. In a sense, this meme is the demon.

The interesting thing about this is how that meme is coming home to cinema.

The modern motorcycle gang was an invention of the movies, pure and simple. The history of the Hells Angels, name, style, leather jackets, even the type of bike (war surplus), is all from movies. (A similar thing had happened earlier with American gangsters emulating their film types.)

Then that meme was colored by Peter Fonda's "Easy Rider," which overlaid an excuse, even a noble one, beyond a simply justified one, on the "motorcycle culture."

From that movie manger, this sprung forth into tattooland and eventually into Marvel's marketing department. And now it comes back, Peter Fonda, his Captain America bike and all. The interesting thing is that it is all symbols and no narrative.

That's the danger with comics in the first place that the temptation is to go with icons. The tradition is from stained glass and the role it played when people couldn't be bothered by words. Icons first, generating stories, rather than the way it usually is in film: the two coweaving each other.

So we shouldn't be amazed that this taxi with one wheel goes only in circles. Its dumb, as dumb as the symbols it uses close themselves into.

Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.