Oh, Yeah, Ghost Rider 2 Is Still a Thing
Between Avengers, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Amazing Spider-Man, I’d kind of forgotten all about little Ghost Rider 2: Spirit of Vengeance coming out in the next couple of weeks. Bloody Disgusting has three new TV spots for the flick; I picked this one mostly because of a flaming skull doing a pretty solid Nic Cage impression while looming out of the car’s sunroof. But the reason I’m mentioning this at all is because of the synopsis BD posted, which I hadn’t seen before:
“It has been several years since making a deal with the Devil and
Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage), living in self-imposed isolation, finds
himself as the only person who can help save 10-year-old Danny – and
ultimately the world – thanks to his unwanted and uncontrollable power –
his ability to transform into the hell-on-wheels monster known as The
Ghost Rider.“
…Danny? Maybe as in Danny Ketch? As in the other Ghost Rider? Sure, maybe it’s a coincidence, but if I get to see the flaming skull of a 10-year-old in this film, that’s going to earn it a minimum of two stars.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.