t:
Ghost Rider 2 is written and directed by two directors whom I hate and I refuse to watch the trailer.It's not really that shocking considering the teaser. I don't know how good it's going to be, but it looks like a much more fun and action oriented comic book movie. At worst, it could be so bad it's good dumb fun considering the directors behind it.
The teaser made the movie look more lively than anything in the first Ghost Rider.
Plus, it's going to be released in February. Not really a risky month, and there's usually not many good movies (if any) released in February, which could be a sign for Ghost Rider.
t:
An excellent post. But I still disagree. As I said, adaptations are all well and good and, have indeed, been a staple of mainstream filmmaking since the very beginning but never, ever to such a high degree as we're seeing nowadays.
And although occasionally, a well done adaptation can bring something fresh to the the cultural zeitgeist, more often than not it's mainstream filmmaking's over-reliance on just filming and re-filming the same old stories that are directly getting in the way of them finding and believing in new ideas. And as soon as an art form, any art form, becomes afraid of new ideas... well, it becomes an irrelevance. And that's what's so scary. it's already happening... I mean, even in tfew short weeks since I set this thread up, they've announced an American Pyscho remake.
An. American. Psycho. Remake.
Seriously.
Say that outloud to yourself a couple times and tell me mainstream filmmaking hasn't almost completely lost it's creative nerve somewhere in the last few years.
Eeeeuuuchhh, just realised you made me use the word "zeitgeist"... now I've gotta go take a shower...
An excellent post. But I still disagree. As I said, adaptations are all well and good and, have indeed, been a staple of mainstream filmmaking since the very beginning but never, ever to such a high degree as we're seeing nowadays.
And although occasionally, a well done adaptation can bring something fresh to the the cultural zeitgeist, more often than not it's mainstream filmmaking's over-reliance on just filming and re-filming the same old stories that are directly getting in the way of them finding and believing in new ideas. And as soon as an art form, any art form, becomes afraid of new ideas... well, it becomes an irrelevance. And that's what's so scary. it's already happening... I mean, even in tfew short weeks since I set this thread up, they've announced an American Pyscho remake.
An. American. Psycho. Remake.
Seriously.
Say that outloud to yourself a couple times and tell me mainstream filmmaking hasn't almost completely lost it's creative nerve somewhere in the last few years.
Eeeeuuuchhh, just realised you made me use the word "zeitgeist"... now I've gotta go take a shower...
Didn't like it.
