Sam reviews…
Mar.14, 2007, filed under Miscellany
Just forget about the predictable plot and the cheesey, written-by-a-seven-year-old dialogue. Forget about it all having been done before in Warlock. Forget that it’s thin and forgettable even for a Marvel movie.
Dude! What the fuck has Nicholas Cage done to his head? I’m not talking about the flaming skull — that was actually pretty cool, even if it rendered him monosyllabic and lacking in character. I’m talking about his damn head! When did the guy who played Cameron “Put the bunny back in the box” Poe start mutating into Leonard freaking Nimoy? It was scary. I spent the entire film agog at this bizarre apparition, and the bare torso scene… Nick. Oh Nick. People are not going to be fooled by dry-brushing fake tan over your abs. And the hair? Really. I could forgive Christopher Walken in The Prophecy because it was somehow fitting on an archangel who didn’t give a fuck for talking monkeys, but on you it was just bad hair. Really bad hair.
I should say that I’ve never read any Ghost Rider, so was not left ranting about how inaccurate it was and how the character would never do such a thing. This is a good way to watch Marvel on the big screen. And if you’re going to see it, do go to the cinema: the FX make this movie, and it will be desperately disappointing when confined to a corner of your living room.
A few in-jokes for lovers of old Chuck Norris films and I was left with a strong craving to get the old motorbike out again. Being a sad Marvel fan-girl I felt it was worth the price of admission for the trailer for Fantastic Four – Rise of the Silver Surfer. The Silver Surfer looked damn hot. And the trailer for the next Spidey movie revelaed it has Venom in it!
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Singularity
~something that is singular as (a) a separate unit, or (b) unusual or distinctive manner or behavior; PECULIARITY;
~the quality or state of being singular;
~a point at which the derivative of a given function of a complex variable does not exist but every neighborhood of which contains points for which the derivative exists;
~a point or region of infinite mass density at which space and time are infinitely distorted by gravitational forces and which is held to be the final state of matter falling into a black hole. Sight
