Film critics have pre-Oscars "serious cinema" on the brain and are tightening their screener copies of aid and the artist as strings right now, praying that the arrival of Ghost Rider: Spirit of vengeance in the rooms is not too much of a physical assault on their delicate sensibilities. The suite, which was not screened for critics, Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze it. Cursed with titular character flaming skull and motorcycle correspondent who is asked by a secret sect to save a boy's Devil With little competition in the theaters and higher than expected follow-up, the second Ghost Rider could easily find its way to $ box office and do more in its opening weekend that best Picture shoo-in, the artist did in its entire run.
Before the pan Original Ghost Rider in 2007, Hollywood has had a long love affair with motorcycles on the screen. Marlon Brando plays the leader of the Black Rebels Motorcycle Club and rides a Triumph Thunderbird 6T in 1953, The Wild One, perhaps the first film to combine the rebellion with two wheels. Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper make a tour through the South and Southwest and to learn the value of freedom during the peak of the hippie movement in 1969 in Easy Rider, in which the duo ride atop custom Harley Davidson Hydra Glide bike. Another motorcycle movie of rebellion against social norms is 1979 of Quadrophenia, which is loosely based on the rock opera of the same name by WHO and follows a young Mod who finds an outlet for her anguish by riding his Lambretta Li150 with his guys.
Director George A. Romero took a break from making movies with zombies in 1981 and gave us Knightriders, featuring a Honda CBX-County Ed Harris as "king" of a traveling troupe of knights wearing armor that the other game on their motorcycles. In Mad Max, Mel Gibson played a road warrior of another kind, a crazy cop mourning the murder of his wife and son who takes on some post-apocalyptic badasses atop Kawasaki killer.
Some of the most memorable films of bikers were watching science fiction. Who can forget cyborg Arnold Schwarzenegger atop a Fatboy Harley in Terminator 2: Judgment Day as he chased down a truck in pursuit of the young John Connor on a motorcycle? Then, in 2009 Terminator Salvation, the futuristic motorcycles have mind of their own, and chased an adult John Connor (Christian Bale) and any other human in their path. While not being one of the most beloved suites in the annals of film history, The Matrix Reloaded at least as an epic highway chase scene that took Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) weaving in and out of traffic on a Ducati 996.
Is there colder than a motorcycle at high speed leaving one wall of neon colored energy in its wake for your enemies to crash? This is what the light cycles to the grid of TRON in 1982, and even more impressive in 2010 TRON: Legacy games during matches. Both films are available on DVD and Blu-ray, but you need to verify the sequence following the cycle of light on 3D Blu-ray to really immerse themselves in the sense of freedom only a ride on two wheels can give you.
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