• Ghost Rider wasn't good, but it was entertaining and it did make a kajillion dollars, enough to justify trying to make another kajillion dollars via a sequel. I think I will still slit my wrists at the thought of a Predator remake rather than "Predator 3". It will just be another CG filled crapfest. I saw both Narnia movies one time each, I don't see the appeal except for Tlida Swinton's deliciously evil White Witch.

• <i>Damn straight</i> I foresee a short and eventful life ahead of you.

• <i> Right, because God forbid our British schoolgirls should be anything less than hardened killing machines...</i> <p>Damn straight.</p>

• <b>Matt Owen:</b> <i>It's interesting that the Fox brand has come to represent war, sleaze... and family values?! Dude, it's like the Crusades all over again!</i> Is it? I mean, the saracens pretty had pretty much cornered the market on sleaze back then, after all. Or did you mean in a general sense? <b>Anon:</b> <i>And the movie was surprisingly good - they had to change the story a bit in order to make it fit a military/war narrative and put in some character angst and not make the women look like docile, feeble retards</i> Right, because God forbid our British schoolgirls should be anything less than hardened killing machines...

• I don't understand why they're trying to make Dawn Treader into a film. It isn't a coherent narrative with a goal or a serious plotline behind it. It's... two Pevensies, King Caspian and a bunch of people on a ship trying to sail to the ends of the Earth and on the way getting royally fucked by sea monsters and some weird socialist parody country. Prince Caspian at least had a discrete goal in mind - overthrow Miraz, restore Narnia back to its original state, etc. And the movie was surprisingly good - they had to change the story a bit in order to make it fit a military/war narrative and put in some character angst and not make the women look like docile, feeble retards - but it turned out very well. I don't see how Dawn Treader can ever be that good. If they were to do The Horse and his Boy, Silver Chair, or The Last Battle, they would be fine because they have a concrete plot behind them... Dawn Treader? Not so much.

• Good list, JohnMatrix. I would have preferred demon bikers rather than the Anne Rice rejects myself.

• It's interesting that the Fox brand has come to represent war, sleaze... and family values?! Dude, it's like the Crusades all over again!

• In my opinion Ghostrider was crap. Here are a couple of the reasons why I believe this: *Nic Cage in full-on hack mode. You should never give Cage a chance to out act his own reflection. *Not enough Sam Elliot. *Gratuitous cameo from a not particularly funny Australian comedienne. *The cue to the cow reaction shot. Unless a film is actually about a cow, the director should never assume he should insert a cow reaction shot. *The bad guys were 'teh suck'. And by 'teh suck' I mean they looked like they just stepped out of the Queen of the Damned film. *GR is an asshole to the cops for no apparent reason. Leading them on a chase, giving them the finger, acting like a punk. Doesn't he have souls to save or take or whatever? Isn't he the spirit of vengeance, or the spirit of misdemeanour vandalism and wasting police time? *Not enough Sam Elliot. *Too many CG-Scary-faces. If a villain is teh suck, no amount of CG-scary-face is going to save his villainous mystique. It just looks stupid and undermines your actors if you feel the need to override their role with intrusive CGI. *Not enough Sam Elliot or demonic cowboys. *The hero goes from Nic Cage set to 11 - to an expressionless unadorned skull. So when he's a normal guy you see him overact like a jerk, and when he's the title character he doesn't express anything. *Not enough demonic cowboy Sam Elliot. *Too much everything that wasn't Sam Elliot being a demonic cowboy.

• Thank you, Templar and Matt D.! To knock Dawn Treader just because it has none of the previous characters just shows you haven't read the book, PLUS there were so many mitigating factors that screwed Prince Caspian in the box office. I'm glad that SOMEONE has decided to save it.

• Ghost Rider should have sequel but Mark Steven Johnson should definitely be out. The first GR was not that bad but the Villains are sooo lame except for Peter Fonda. Daredevil is fucked-up because of that flaming DD logo shit fuck and the fucking playground scene. SHIT! Robert Rodriguez should just make Predator 3 with Statham. Leave the classics alone!

• I did not have fun watching Ghost Rider. I'm not a big GR biker/tattoo nerd, I don't hate Nic Cage. It was just generally not fun for me. It looked cool, that's the most I can say for it. The story was ass, the writing sucked, Sam Elliot played the same damn cowboy he's ever been, and the pacing was horrible. The badguys were the worst, and their fight scenes were completely extraneous. The water guy that he practically walks through without slowing down nailed the coffin shut. VotDT is the only Narnia book I've read, and it is a great adventure. But how are you gonna wedge a massive CG fantasy battle scene into that? After Planet Terror, I will gladly follow Rodriguez into anything that isn't titled Spy Kids. And I liked Statham in Snatch for sure. Somewhat in The One, but respect drops considerably for anyone who willingly stars in a Boll movie.

• Voyage of the Dawn Treader is by far the best Narnia book. If any Narnia book has a chance to become a classic movie, Dawn Treader is it.

• It should totally be Predator 3, not a remake. And Statham all the fucking way. As for Ghost Rider--it's awful because it fails at absolutely everything it should do. It's not exciting, it's predictable, it's boring, it's unintentionally funny, it's got atrocious--truly atrocious--acting, it's lit like a comedy (just like all the rest of that turd's movies--same with Daredevil), they squandered an awesome character/storyline...I mean it is an EPIC fail. Not one thing about it is redeemable. MAYBE the flaming head CGI. But that's it.

• Jason said: "Why not just make Predator 3? Why does it have to be a remake?" - My thoughts exactly.....why do people have to go f-ing around with soemthing that worked just fine. Make it #3 and bring the Predator franchise back with a vengance. Statham would also be hella good. As for Ghost Rider 2. I'd check it out, might be OK. I didn't mind Ghost Rider 1 and that was my favorite comic line as a kid.

• Hmmm Predator + Robert Rodriguez = Must-see. On the flip side, I refuse to ever watch a movie featuring Jason Stratham made after the year 2000.

• &#64;Jason, probably because Quentin Tarantino will cameo as the bespectacled Rich Hawkins, whose penchant for telling crude sex jokes and reading comics ensured that he would be taken out first and quite brutally. That seems to be Tarantino's fate in just about all of Rodriguez's film (well, maybe not taken out first).

• Why not just make Predator 3? Why does it have to be a remake? We all know and love Predator already. What's to be remade about it?

• <i>Fox will pay for Voyage of the Dawn Treader, despite the second film grossing half of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe...</i> Apparently due to being bumped from its original December release date to make room for <i>The Water Horse</i> (???) being underplayed in advertising and finally seeing released only two weeks after <i>Iron Man</i>. You'd almost think Disney was <i>trying</i> to kill the film...

• Uhm didn't daredevil murder a guy? I wasn't aware that was his gimmick. You know, taking guys he feels are guilty and tossing them into oncoming trains

• I agree with Kevin re: Ghost Rider (though I think Daredevil was just a bad movie, not so much because of Ben Affleck.) I had a great time at that movie and while it was cheesy, it was a fun cheesy and I don't think it took anything away from the character. I don't necessarily see a need for a sequel, but I don't think it constitutes bad news. Also, the Predator news sounds awesome to the nth power, all colors of the awesome rainbow.

• Ghost Rider sucked because the villains were lame. It was great to see Peter Fonda in the role of The Devil but outside of that I thought the rest of the bad guys were lame. I also thought Ghost Rider's voice sucked as well. It would have been better for him not to have said anything at all.

• What Kay said.

• No, fuck no, and don't give a fuck.

• I still see no good reason for anyone to think Ghost Rider is terrible. Perhaps formulaic, but fun and was a pretty good rendition of the character. Comic book nerds, for some reason, just can't stand certain actors playing their beloved heroes. Nic Cage is one. Ben Affleck is another. Daredevil was a bit mediocre, but not "OMG, Worst Movie EVERRR!" like so many insist.

• Fuck.

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