My friend Daniel Frederiksen is in this film, he's playing a bad guy called "Wallow". I meet Dan six years ago through film school and he played the lead role in a short film I made. He's a good actor, but I don't think his part in Ghost Rider is a very big one.  

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I would like to know what you guys and in some cases Girls think of the film. I think Mark Steven Johnson has done a great job. I'm not the big on my Comic book crossovers but there are still a few I would like to see come to live, Ghost Rider being one of them.

MSJ has posted on the boards there stating he has officially finished the film and so forth.

I'm not a big comic book fan, but I really liked MSJ's work on Daredevil. I know a lot of people had big problems with that movie I quite enjoyed it. Anything with Jennifer Garner is aces in my books (especially Alias and es, I think Elektra is tolerable).

Anyway, Ghost Rider certainly looks like a darker movie, which are the best kinds of comic book movies in my books, Batman Begins being my favourite, so I'm kind of looking forward to it. I'm not familiar with the Ghost Rider lore or anything but I'll probably take a look at this when it hits the movies later.


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I don't know, the more I see of this film the more I'm disappointed. It just isn't what I was expecting at all. Why the hell (no pun intended!) are the directors of these anti-hero movies trying to make them look and feel brighter, when their subject-matter is dark? I know it's probably to attract kids and all that, but look at the first two Terminator films and Robocop 1 and 2. They were rated 15-18 because they were so dark and bloody, kids couldn't get in to see them and yet the films were still very successful with adult audiences and the kids flocked to buy all the toys and merchandise. So why don't these guys like MSJ just make darker, more violent films that suit the subject-matter? Kids are still going to see them eventually and are going to make up a big proportion of DVD buyers queuing up in stores!

I mean, take The Punisher for example. Jonathan Hensleigh tried to make it like the Welcome Back, Frank series, with brighter visuals and a funnier cast. But the film is ultimately about an ex-FBI agent who's family is massacred, who then vanishes into the underworld to punish those who murdered them in the most vicious ways imaginable. Does that sound bright or funny to anyone?

I think the subject-matter of every film should always be reflected in the visuals, unless the aim of the director is to juxtopose the setting with the characters to provide some sort of dramatic irony. Comedies usually look bright and light-hearted, romantic flicks often look picturesque, horror is always portrayed as dark and bloody, and action films normally look rough and gritty. So why, then, did The Punisher look so bright, and often beautiful? It's an action movie! People are getting their heads blown off and their bodies dismembered! It's not supposed to look in anyway beautiful!

You only have to look at Terminator 2 to see what I'm talking about. This is a very distinctive film visually. The film is ultimately about robots and machines, and the colours are therefore mostly cold blues and steely greys. And when we get to the climax at the end of the film in the steel-mill, everything looks red and orange. It almost makes your temperature rise! This is how it should be done!

So, back to the topic at hand, I think MSJ should have made Ghost Rider much, much darker-looking and less cartoonish. In fact, the studio should have stuck with David Goyer's bloodier version from the very beginning.