All hell breaks loose.
Ghost Rider. The hell with bad reviews...this movie's a bomb. Ok, maybe not on the story and casting departments (like I said, Nicholas Cage is a fine actor, but he's just too damn old...even with the leathers.) That's three (yeah, three) thumbs up on the SFX department (and don't forget the hot bike, literally), and I gotta admit they looked so cool and realistic that I couldn't help feeling a bit uhm...ok, scared. My favorite scene is that part where Ghost Rider, astride his bike, jumps off the building, whipping his flaming chain around, on slow-mo. It's like so porma talaga, pare! *faint* (Honda Riding Academy, here I come.) The origin sticks pretty close to the comic book, but I was expecting more on the screenplay. And can we just do without the comedic reliefs? I was expecting it to be darker, like Batman and The Crow. Never mind if kids won't be able to watch it.
Cell by Stephen King. Think George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead, cellphones, and
computer programming. Throw some Darwinian evolution into the mix and
you get Cell. One minute, everybody's using their cellphones, the next minute, everybody's crazy and killing each other and walking towards some unknown destination. Suddenly they're listening to music, lifting objects with their minds, and talking to you through your dreams and reading your mind. It seemed like a good idea for a story, but Mr. King just failed to meet my expectations. Some parts in the story are just...weak. Like most Stephen King novels, the story gets weirder by the chapter. And of course, the ending's either hanging or it's just plain weird (or both, depending on how you take it)...not the nice kind of weird, the huh? kind of weird, which made it seem like a weak spinoff of Romero's Dead Trilogy.
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