![]() The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Cookies store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. Your choice applies to using first-party and third-party advertising cookies on this service. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. It consequently feels like the silly goth flaming head dude is never actually Cage but rather a cheap, unimaginative computer recreation with little to none of the personality, likability and charm of the Oscar-winning Con Air icon.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences, and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]() It does not help that they put Cage’s very recognizable voice through so many “scary”, “dark” filters that it’s unrecognizable. It speaks to Cage’s extraordinary charisma and talent that there was not a moment Ghost Rider was onscreen that I did not find myself wishing I was watching Cage act instead of A FLAMING MOTORCYCLE DEMON WHO WORKS FOR THE DEVIL. There is a total disconnect between the man on the bike and the lame cartoon character with the noggin perpetually ablaze with deeply unsatisfying computer animation. He’s cheesy, alright, but not in a fun way or a way that seemingly has anything to do with Cage’s game, goofy performance. ![]() I’m not suggesting that Cage was channeling Elvis either.īecause while Cage is a cornball joy as Johnny Blaze, Ghost Rider is a CGI abomination, a charmless black velvet, carnival midway cartoon CGI flaming skeleton man who never stops seeming egregiously, unconscionably wrong. Now when I say that Cage plays Johnny Blaze as Elvis I don’t mean that his performance is inspired, on some level, by the King of Rock/his ex-wife’s dad. Yet Cage’s delightful star turn here does make it a fair amount of cheesy fun.Īs with Wild at Heart, Cage’s big idea here was to play Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider as Elvis Presley. Ghost Rider is consequently a very bad movie with a very entertaining lead performance that’s not quite enough to redeem an otherwise woebegone production. The writer-director’s only idea, however, seems to be “let’s shoot my terrible script as written.” Everything around him is fucking deadly, with the exception of fun supporting turns from Sam Elliott and Donal Logue.Ĭage obviously has a lot of fun ideas for the character and the film. Everything that Cage brings to the movie is fresh and fun and inspired. I regret to inform you that while Ghost Rider continues to fucking suck Nicolas Cage’ performance as Johnny Blaze does, in fact, kick ass. Then I saw Ghost Rider and had to wearily concede that not only was the movie decidedly non-awesome: it actually kind of fucking sucked. There is no way that is NOT going to be awesome.” When I learned that Nicolas Cage would be playing Ghost Rider, an Evel Knievel-inspired superhero who works as a bounty hunter for the devil, rides a motorcycle and has a flaming skull for a head I thought, “Holy fucking shit. Read previous entries in the column here, listen to the podcast here, pledge to the Travolta/Cage Patreon at this blessed web address and finally follow us on Twitter at The Travolta/Cage Project is an ambitious, years-long multi-media exploration of the fascinating, overlapping legacies of Face/Off stars John Travolta and Nicolas Cage with two components: this online column exploring the actor’s complete filmographies in chronological order and the Travolta/Cage podcast, where Clint Worthington, myself and a series of fascinating guests discuss the movies I write about here.
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