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Comment on We Have Seen ‘Ghost Rider 2′ and Now You Must Feel Our Hate by braak

braak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:46:01 +0000

My understanding is that filmmakers have had the capacity for high fps for a while, but when they first tried it out in the 80s, it looked too much like video, and so had the stigma of being cheap and shitty associated with it; the public just couldn’t get behind such a large change so quickly.

Comment on We Have Seen ‘Ghost Rider 2′ and Now You Must Feel Our Hate by Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:42:39 +0000

@braak, I just read a piece in Wired about faster fps (can’t find the link right now — I read my articles about techno-innovation on paper). But I think the faster the fps, the smoother the action so I guess that’s not the problem. Apparently, James Cameron’s next movie will be almost quadruple the traditional 24fps, and an early 80s director tried it but the public couldn’t handle it; it was just TOO HIGH DEF TOO SOON for their tired 1980s eyes.

That choppy machine gun strobe effect you’re talking about annoys me horribly. I always have to look somewhere else when it’s happening.

Comment on We Have Seen ‘Ghost Rider 2′ and Now You Must Feel Our Hate by Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:35:33 +0000

Man, The Professional is the only one I can think of! From now on I’m always gonna think, “Arr, this fucking kid,” every time one appears on screen.

I liked all the kids in The Wire, also, but that’s not a movie.

Comment on A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies by Christian von Schack

Christian von Schack — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:13:27 +0000

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Comment on A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies by Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:52:57 +0000

I see that you left off “ninjas,” which was apparently what Howard Mackie wanted to throw into the mix when he was writing Ghost Rider.

The best part of Ghost Rider as a property is that asking, “What if the skull-headed biker-demon fought some ninjas?” is thinking TOO SMALL.

Comment on A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies by braak

braak — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 05:14:19 +0000

I don’t even understand what the point of writing Ghost Rider is, if it isn’t about shit like this.

Comment on A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies by Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 04:50:53 +0000

If nothing else, this makes me a lot happier about having read Jason Aaron’s Ghost Rider run, which does in fact feature variations on a lot of these things.

Comics! Often better than movies.

Comment on A List of Things That Have Not Appeared in Ghost Rider Movies by Jason Gormally

Jason Gormally — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:20:39 +0000

OH MY GOD The Wraith.

If there is any film that deserves to be rereleased in theaters, it’s The Wraith.

Comment on We Have Seen ‘Ghost Rider 2′ and Now You Must Feel Our Hate by Jeff Holland

Jeff Holland — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:08:55 +0000

OK, I’ll give you The Professional!

And maybe whassername in Panic Room, except for a good 2/3 of that movie I was sure she was a boy.

Comment on We Have Seen ‘Ghost Rider 2′ and Now You Must Feel Our Hate by braak

braak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:03:29 +0000

Yeah, also, can anyone tell me — I think this is something to do with my old eyes being unable to manage the super-fast frame rates of modern movies — but whenever I see fast action sequences these days, it always looks really choppy to me. I don’t mean the editing and the jump cuts; I mean the actual movement of a character leaping up in the air and spinning around: it doesn’t look like a smooth movement to me, it just looks like a bunch of pictures of flailing legs that they sort of show all at once.

3D did not make this shit any better, anyway.