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Home (Re) Viewing: Ghost Rider burns and crashes

By Eric Robinette | Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 11:18 AM

Let’s see … on this week’s video slate, we have the dumbest big-budget movie Marvel Comics ever made, and a pretty smart spy thriller with an Oscar quality performance. Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks, to be sure, but for me, the choice is a no-brainer - and it’s not the no-brainer movie!

Ghost Rider: I know comic book movies are supposed to be stupidly silly to an extent, but this one’s stupid quotient is off the charts. It comes out just three days shy of the release of the Fantastic Four sequel, and that’s interesting timing, because Ghost Rider makes the first Fantastic Four look like the first Spider-Man. AND the cycle-riding, skull-burning movie comes in an “extended cut,” just to drive the point home! Hoo-ya! Original, loopy review here. GRADE: D

Breach: This thriller about notorious traitor Robert Hannsen (Chris Cooper) and the FBI agent who brings him down (Ryan Phillippe) tends to be a bit dry at times, but benefits greatly from Cooper’s frightening and haunting performance. Between this and Shattered Glass, director Billy Ray has proven his skill - it’s only a matter of time until he knocks one out of the park. GRADE: B+

Also out today

Blood and Chocolate: Apparently so lame that even the horror crowd went “eh.” The talented Agnes Bruckner needs a better agent fast.

Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls: When Perry came out with his Madea movies, people wondered whether the selling point was Madea or Perry. I think this movie proved it was Madea.

The Verdict/The Hustler: Two of Paul Newman’s best performances come out on two-disc DVDs, making his recent announcement that he was retiring all the more bittersweet.

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By Derwood

June 14, 2007 12:12 AM | Link to this

I liked the extended version of Ghost Rider. It actually did some focus on Johnny and his dad, so you felt like there was a better background, and more cause for Johnny to sell his soul. The theatric release didn’t have that.

By SRCputt

June 12, 2007 3:13 PM | Link to this

Unlike Sean Connery, Paul Newman went out on a perfect note with Cars, especially with Newman’s well-known love of racing.
 

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