"Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" Movie Stills

Love it or hate it, Nicholas Cage's head will be set on fire again in 2012 when we comes back as Marvel's Ghost Rider in the sequel to the first GR film that was pretty much hated by many.  I actually liked the first one for some reason even though it was crap storywise and villain-wise (a foggy Blackheart anyone?).

Anyway, Spirit of Vengeance looks like to be a much better one though based on these pictures courtesy of Empire and BleedingCool. Check them out: 

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That last picture is bad-ass. I wanna see this.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance is scheduled for a February 2012 release. Stars Nic Cage, Idris Elba and Christopher Lambert.

Movie Review: Kick-Ass (Film)

Kick-Ass
Directed by Matthew Vaughn
Stars Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Cage, Chloe Moretz,
Lyndsy Fonseca and Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Distributed by Lionsgate and Universal Pictures

When I came home last Sunday, I bought a couple of DVDs with Kick-Ass on it. I haven't watched the film before and I knew right away that I had to buy that freaking dvd once I saw the movie logo.

Since this is the film adaptation, the movie pretty much follows the plot of the graphic novel by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr - which is a story of an ordinary guy wanting to be a superhero in the real world and what happens when you mess with thugs, criminals and the Cosa 'Fucking' Nostra (also known as the Mafia)  - except for a couple of tweaks that I thought "enhanced" the whole thing. You just can't go copy the source material in these kinds of adaptations because again - there are some elements in the comic book that would not work in a film. 

So Vaughn focused on the element that the original comic book didn't care much about so his movie would be more effective and cohesive: character development.