This is one of my personal favorite reviews of yours.

epic big guy

i'm with you on this pal

ghost rider from the demon behind one more day.

@@JeffreyPiatt don't remind me brother

Still. Would've been cooler if we got more of a fight out of it. Like he gets beat a bit, but them they drag water out of the water, and turn him to steam.

@@bannerturtoise1219 Yeah, plus that would make more sense. Water might not beat him, but that doesn't mean he should be able to beat a water demon in it's element.

maybe he is DarkHeart's cousin

You mean DAAARKHEART

+EmilBergstrom Plot Twist. Darkheart is a descendant of Satan.

Time for a game of disappearing Souls. 🤨

Time for a game of disappearing Ghost Riders.

Jami JoAnne Russell I've been liking the Ghost Rider they brought into Agents of Shield. Granted that isn't Blaze but still the effects look good and the character is a lot more sympathetic than Cages.

I'd be down to see Tom Hardy as Johnny Blaze, but that's just me. And I think they should have played it a bit more serious, but also allow for the silliness by letting his Ghost Rider persona be much more over the top and manic. Also, no stupid monster voice.

But Johnny Blaze isn't really an off the wall character like He's a broken man mostly

Disagree. This movie was firmly okay, just had a terrible villain and while Ghost Rider's design was cool, the deep monster voice was a stupid choice.

Mike Burnsy, nope. Ghost Rider is going more for the Grim Reaper, how often does the grim reaper have a growl monster voice? No one needs him to be Bengt Ekerot, but give him a stern and decipherable voice. People would be fine with it.

His transformation scene was badass too

Flaming chains as a weapon is also cool.

For real, the original origin is needlessly more complex, and he actually ASKS Satan to help him, making him even dumber.

I mean, he plays NIcolas Cage in Kickass, so I don't even know what you're talking about.

It's absolutely wild when you hear a line read in such a way that it saps out any coolness it even could have had. It's such a nitpick in this movie, but it's this perfect little microcosm of badness.

I mean, no, diablo is way cooler. Honestly, the lore of diablo is pretty rad and something I missed out on understanding as a kid.

Though, one of the major themes was a fight for control of Johnny's body with the spirit of the Ghost Rider, Zarathos.

And real one doesn't shows up ?

Because In every comic book i always see mephisto and not his boss..

@@vieiraverso8695 He does in Immortal Hulk. Though in there, he's called The One Below All.

That may be true for the comics but the film _explicitly_ refers to him as The Devil multiple times. At least as far as this film is concerned, Mephisto and The Devil are the same thing.

So that's crazy for you ? What if I tell you he was also considered to play Iron Man, Superman and Green Goblin.

He voices Superman in Teen Titans Go the Movies.

Four superheroes Ghost Rider, Big Daddy from Kick-Ass, Superman from the Teen Titans Go movie, and Spider-Man Noir from Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse.

(Raises hand)

KageMaxwell Me too, have it on DVD now too

Hello there.

I watched Reaper. I loved it.

I'm late but to this conversation but yes, I saw it (that's seven whole viewers)

Whats bad about it

But like that’s UNDERSTANDABLE 😅 what’s the issue?

@@gracekim25 IDK. I don't even remember making this comment if I'm being honest.

that song from Blue Brothers 2000 was also good

Yes it was

@@YEOsCanal No, they weren't. Disagree? Eat my butt.

Frankie Nolan im dying 😂

Why don't you go stick one up your ass, loser.

Sam Elliott and peter Fonda saved this movie

Just his head, though his body isn't exactly normal. He can also project fire from anywhere.

His dick too?

@@karlandersson4350 He pees fire in the sequel.

He can pull fire out of his ass though?

Because the NC don't read Comics but jet is very childish

Because the phrasing of the line is a play on the lyric from the song Something Stupid.

He literally uses the Penance Stare at the end of the film to kill Legion. That mugger's dead.

​@@FilmBrain It's perhaps ambiguous but I don't think Blackheart/Legion died either, I think the intention of the scene is that he's rendered catatonic, the same as the mugger. Like I said, there's _pointedly_ a shot of the mugger blinking after he falls down that clearly only exists to confirm he _isn't_ dead after the stare. Granted, a cursory bit of research tells me the penance stare is kind of inconsistent and ill defined in the comics too re:whether or not it kills people but, at least as far as the film describes and portrays it, I don't think we're supposed to think of it as fatal. (Thanks for responding by the way, I'm sorry I'm splitting hairs over a decade old review of a silly movie, I've been a fan of yours for a long time and I'm honestly pretty embarrassed that I'm wasting your time on this, sorry about that. I really enjoyed your Blackbird review from last week and that Independence Day video you did recently.)

I think you've misinterpreted the blink as suggesting he's alive, rather than an involuntary twitch of the dead. The film suggests that the Penance Stare literally incinerates a person from the inside, and later when Johnny revisits the scene, he shys away from a body bag being loaded up into an ambulance. I'm glad you like my videos, and hope you keep on enjoying them. Just think you might have misread this one. (It happens) 🙂

@@FilmBrain Update: Annoyingly I just wrote the long comment below and only then decided to check if the film's director said anything on this subject in the DVD commentary. He says during the mugger/Penance Stare scene: "You can see [the mugger's] eye blink there. It's a little CG eye-blink. I really wanted to make it clear that he wasn't dead. The Ghost Rider doesn't kill, at least not people. He never kills. That was important to me". So, that's that. The comment I was going to leave is kind of pointless now in light of that confirmation but I'll leave it here anyway since I think I made some decent points. *** Original comment: I really don't think that's the case re: the blinking, watching the scene I don't see how the blink could possibly be interpreted as a death twitch. When the penance stare is first described by Slade it's as "searing the souls of the wicked", I think that word choice is important since it doesn't imply the souls are destroyed. I know it's muddied by Blackheart and Ghost Rider using the term "burn" later, which does carry a different implication, but I still don't agree with the interpretation that it's supposed to be fatal; even "burn" doesn't necessarily mean "destroy". I think you've got things a little muddled on the body bag part, Johnny never sees it when he gets to the crime scene, Roxanne sees it a couple of scenes earlier and it's made clear that it's the body of the worker Blackheart killed, not the mugger (we see the corpse's blackened skin and the cops have a discussion later connecting the victim's sulphur poisoning to the bikers Blackheart killed earlier). Plus there's the fact that when the cops question Johnny later they only talk about that same Blackheart victim and the mugger isn't mentioned at all. I also just don't think we're supposed to think Johnny is lying when he's insisting to the cops in that scene that he didn't kill anyone (I mean, I know he kind of _is_ lying since he did kill that demon/elemental guy but I don't think that's supposed to "count" as murder under Johnny's/the film's morals due to the guy being what he was). For whatever it's worth, Mark Steven Johnson's screenplay for the film describes the Penance Stare like this (admittedly an earlier draft where the victim is a corrupt cop rather than a mugger): "Every act of violence, every evil he's ever committed, is revisited back upon him. This is the PENANCE STARE. And compared to this, death would be a welcome relief. OFFICER PLOOG falls to the ground, shuddering and glassy-eyed; his brain on eternal overload as he relives his sins forevermore." It describes Blackheart's fate the same way. I know, earlier draft, but much of the script is quite close to the finished film so it's something to consider. You have to at least admit, whether it's intended to be fatal or not, the film does a very poor job of communicating what the stare is supposed to do. Any kind of follow up on the mugger after it happens would've cleared this up easily. Whether he's supposed to be catatonic or dead it's rather odd that the cops don't mention or discuss him at any point.

That's fair. I've not seen the film in a decade, and only tried to refresh myself with low quality clips. I'm not hugely knowledgeable on the character, so to me as just an average viewer, I just read them as dead. Given that it reduces them to an empty shell, it is more or less a living death, even if not technically dead.

at least theres no porno spoof about "riding" ghosts or skeletons.

Rule 34 shiirow

I'm pretty sure if you'd ask the Cinema Snob, he'd be able to point you to one or two ;)

Response: why is your criticism not criticism at all?