Category Archives: Ghost Rider

Episode 11: Ghost Rider

Sometimes a movie comes along that’s so obviously pitched at a specific demographic, you wonder if the studio did a headcount during pre-production to make sure there were enough possible ticket buyers to make it profitable. If so, the producers may have overestimated the appeal of Ghost Rider, the only movie ever made entirely on location on the side of a guy’s van.

Ghost Rider has motorcycles, black leather jackets, chains and flames, skulls, daredevil jumps, heavy metal music and cowboys, and if they’d only included stock car racing and an American flag and made the lead character 100 pounds overweight, it would have been the perfect movie for that demographic.

This week on the podcast, I’m joined by my friend Sloane, the creator of the Hauntwares clothing line, to discuss this Nicolas Cage-infused epic of love, revenge and slow-talking demons. It is a crack-ass crazy film and I’m certain you will want to hear all about it.

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Ghost Rider 31.1: We Are Going to Have to Stop Finding Things Cool

Once again, I’m taking my life in my hands, performing the incredible daredevil feat of getting drunk and talking about terrible non-MCU Marvel movies on the Signal Watch podcast. This time, host Ryan Steans and I take apart the 2007 Nicolas Cage barnburner Ghost Rider, the first movie ever filmed entirely on the side of a guy’s van.

This movie has — 18 second pause — everything, if you like people who drive fast and talk slow. Nicolas Cage plays a mentally-uncertain motorcycle riding daredevil, who sells his soul to the Devil for a bag of magic beans and turns into a flaming-skull CGI desktop screensaver, battling a cadre of mean demons and that one guy who tried to steal a girl’s purse.

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