Posts by Chase:
Ghost Ride the Shit
February 21st, 2007Nick. Nick Cage. Listen to me. You are a good actor. I didn’t believe it at first, but after Lord of War, Adaptation, Matchstick Men, and the Weather Man, you have convinced me. So why, why would you take that belief you’ve so carefully built from hours of flawlessly emotive facial acting, and irregular speech pattern quirkiness only you can provide and smash its unsuspecting skull against the rocks over and over again until you need dental records to identify the mass of blood and viscera that remains at the closing credits of Ghost Rider?
Now, I will say that you may have attempted the best you could with what you had to work with. Dialogue as deep and existentially mind-bending as “I’m gonna take this curse, and use it against you” or, “Don’t let the fear control you. Don’t let the fear control you.” begs the question, why would you let such verbal atrocities escape your very experienced and creative MAW, if you knew, as I think we all knew from the first trailer, that these very words discredited you and left your movie playing a game of unecessary catch up before it even opened?
I wash my hands of you for now.
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