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It's okay, everyone has differing opinions on things. By the way would you like me to refer you to my eye doctor?

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WE WILL NOT SPEAK OF THIS

This. She may look nice in the suit but she would be poison to the movie as a whole.

That is possible that they may have his ghost in it, it wouldn't be the first time some misinformation has been sent out to keep details and spoilers from the fans.

However I don't think this will be the case, I think Murray won't be in it.

Also I agree with posts above that say that he isn't the be all and end all to Ghostbusters. His performance in GB2 could have been better and he's been holding out for all these years for assorted reasons (mostly money I would think), so yeah since it is a passing of the torch to a new team then make it without him. Ray, Igon and Winston will likely be support roles and trainers for the new team anyway while the new team takes over, hardly need Venkemen for that.

The latest GR comic had Blaze "Give up the ghost" as it were and he was essentially tricked into relinquishing the power of the Ghost Rider. However the new Rider was unstable and too naive to put it nicely and in the end Blaze realized that the Rider is indeed a heavenly force of vengeance and not a curse and reclaimed the Rider. So in the comics he's more at peace with his situation and probably more attuned to his Rider then before. So of course in this lame movie sequel he gets a similar ending.

Now if they would just stop screwing around with Blaze and focus on Dan Ketch who is also still a Rider....

You are pretty much correct about JMS regarding how he was interfered with by Marvel and how Joe Q rewrote the last part of OMD. I think JMS's plan, please note I am NOT 100% positive of this, was that he would have altered the past so that Gwen Stacy would not have been killed by the Green Goblin. Thus she would live and she would have been with Peter and thus Peter never marries MJ........however I have to say that undoing the death of Gwen Stacy would have also been a bad idea, perhaps not as lame as what Joe Q slapped together with OMD and especially OMIT, but still a bad idea.

Also Joe Q is an idiot for thinking that divorce is something Spidey shouldn't have to face.....

They tried that, it didn't work so she was retconned back and then they separated for a time then got back together. Then later comes Mephisto.

Both Ghost Rider movies are amalgamations of the assorted comic series over the years.

Blue flame: this occurred at the end of the 90's GR series when Dan Ketch was the Rider. This Rider attained his full power and went blue flame as a sign that he was now the Angel of Death and destroyed Blackheart, the son of Mephisto. After that his flame reverted to normal coloration and he became the new king of the realm until Mephisto returned and removed him. Years later in the next main GR series where Blaze was GR, Dan Ketch returned and stole the powers of all the other riders of Earth, went blue again and brought down the gates of heaven (long story and a bad one). This was also the series that revealed that all Ghost Rider's are agents of heaven sent to bring punishment to the wicked and that Blaze was first made a Rider to save him from the devil. (again, long and bad story).

So this second Rider gives us a broken and depressed Blaze that we've had in the comics before and he is barely able to control the Rider. This harkens back to the later issues of the 70's GR series where Blaze was a nervous wreck and had trouble keeping the Rider controlled. We see in this movie that there are times where the Rider is attempting to force the transformation and Blaze is fighting it just like in the later issues of the 70's GR series.

The plot point of the devil living on Earth in human bodies and jumping bodies as needed comes from the series where Blaze learned the Rider is a force form heaven. In that story Blaze had to defeat all 666 avatars of the devil knowing that each gets stronger as another is beaten and at the end he has to send the devil back home......just like he did in the second movie.

The kid in the movie, Dan, was likely named after Dan Ketch from the 90's series and his mother was patterned after what little we knew if Dan's mother from the 90's series.

The villain Blackout from the 90's comics is what that guy became after the devil empowered him after the Rider left him for dead. The only change was that in the comics he was a blood drinking vampire, in the movie he caused people and things to decay with his touch.

EDIT: the origin of Zarathos that we got in this movie is an amalgam of what we learned in the 70's Rider series along with the revelations of the GR series where we learn that the Riders are agents of heaven.

So, props to the writers/producers for their Rider research but that is about all I can say that is good about this movie, along with the FX.

The entire cast did a below average performance and while Cage's usual nervous trainwreck behavior actually fits the John Blaze character he was still bad with his performance.

This second movie even though they didn't call it a reboot pretty much ignored the first movie and that is too bad as the first movie wasn't as bad as some seem to think, main problems with the first was Cage's performance and that they made the fights more like Spiderman fights and not GR fights. Also I enjoyed the movie version of Carter Slade, very well done and was a nice nod to the 60's Ghost Rider. The Rider is not a character for all ages, his movies should be rated R by default and should have all the action, intensity that an R rating entails along with better plots and far better acting.

IF they decide to risk a third movie, either ignore the second and make the third a sequel to the first, or else bring in Dan Ketch as the new Ghost Rider and start over.

This.

Or let's put this into another perspective: Would you rather have the Hobbit in three movies, or a 2 hour movie based on DUNE? Cramming a book like the Hobbit or DUNE into one movie to me is a bad idea. SCi-Fi channel making Dune into an excellent 3 part miniseries was the way to go and I suspect 3 movies for the Hobbit will also be good.

Also sad to say a DUNE movie is slated for 2014........please no.

The whole thing was done because Joe Q. also referred to by some as Joephisto was bound and determined to end the Spiderman marriage one way or another. First they tried to "kill" MJ and the fan backlash was extreme so she was retconned back. Then came the separation which again made some negative fan backlash. They reconcile....then comes Spidey joining the Avengers, working for Stark, Civil War, the Unmasking, Aunt May getting shot.......

.....the final issue of OMD doesn't have JMS in the credits as writer, he had himself taken off the credits as a sign of protest over the whole thing and because his idea would have been to undo the death of Gwen Stacy, thus undoing the marriage.......

Logic error: most of the stories that have occurred post OMD/OMIT could have happened if the marriage wasn't erased.

Two main things would change:

1. Peter and Carlie never dated
2. Harry Osborn's return from the dead which is apparently credited to the Mephisto deal would not have occurred. Harry's return was justified by the change to history which makes no sense as Norman returning to mastermind the second Clone Saga was based on the fact that he was enraged over Harry's death.

OMD/OMIT dumped a load of.......tar....over 20 years of Spidey history. This shameless junkpile of an event needs to be reversed. Peter could still mess up his photo career and get his job at Horizon if the marriage were reinstated.

It is possible to restore the marriage, negate Mephisto's influence, save Aunt May and thus keep Spidey history intact, the only minor changes would be to all post OMD stories. The downside is that due to all the stories that have occurred with Harry Osborn in them, Harry's return from the dead is what I would call a "fixed" event in time, it is going to happen and negating his return would badly scramble some post OMD stories

Would be funny if they snuck a few Robocop catchphrases into this.....especially his prime directives.

That clip of the mudhole fight where Batman says he's not done yet looked like he was saying something else and they dubbed "I'm not done yet" over it for the trailer. If they kept the line for that episode of Batman TAS that gave us that fight then I bet they keep it for this.

As to Peter Weller...to be honest I like his voice over having had Baldwin voice Batman in JL: Crisis on Two Earths, I was glad that JL Doom got the JLU voice cast back as their voices fit the characters very well and like many I am used to Kevin Conroy as Batman. I'm a bit surprised he wasn't cast in this, guess they wanted someone different this time.

Also watching this trailer makes me wish for a Batman Beyond comeback.

Which will again likely raise the question in the trial: was it a cry for help, or was he bragging to the cops "HA! My home is a death trap that you shall not enter!"

I suspect that will be argued about and questioned in the trial for many weeks.

I dont think anyone is blaming the psychiatrist, I certainly am not. It is just ironic that this package was overlooked and sat in a delivery room shelf......if it had been delivered and read in time this tragedy likely could have been averted. But here's a question: did the shooter send it as a way of bragging about what he was planning or was it a cry for help to stop him?

Now they say he sent a notebook with drawings and his plans for killing to a psychiatrist at the school he attended and it sat for weeks in the delivery room before the attack.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/07/25...age-mailed-to/

Now this may not be a bad thing, it is nice to have some zones that are not susceptible to invasion for those that are either done with the event or don't want to be involved. Sure there is always Pocket D and Ouro but in DA one could run incarnate missions or trials without invasions getting in the way.

People are quick to knee jerk reactions, yes. However if it wasn't Batman and the Joker that this guy got fixated on and became inspired to do this heinous act, it would have been something else that set him off.

Just like I do not blame Doom, or Grand Theft Auto or other games for the other heinous act committed years ago in Colorado at a certain school.

Anything could set someone like this off at any time, people will be quick to blame the thing that served as the catalyst and not realize that those that commit these crimes are sometimes sick or sometimes just evil, or a bit of both.

Dredd deals with plenty of street level villains, gangs and crime bosses as well as extraordinary foes like the Dark Judges. But to bring Judge Death into the first movie I think would be an error. Let the first movie introduce fans old and new to Dredd and how he operates and build him and Anderson up in the eyes of the fans, THEN give us foes like the Dark Judges. Also the trailer implies that Dredd and Anderson will have a block war on their hands as they fight to the main villain. That would be spectacular and should help thoroughly cleanse the memories of Stallone-Dredd.