Rating: - song at the end
The soundtrack sucks, it didnt have Ghost riders in the sky by Spiderbait (was originally by Johnny Cash) on it
Rating: - END SONGS
THE CLOSEST SONG I HAVE COME UP WITH TO THE END WHERE THEY RIDE IS, THROTTLENECK (INSTRUMENTAL) BY BRAD PAISLEY ON HIS 5TH GEAR CD.
Rating: - Super hero score with a twist
The first of Christopher Young's two major 2007 releases, Ghost Rider is a super hero movie with a twist. Directed by Mark Steven Johnson and starring Nicolas Cage, Peter Fonda, Eva Mendes, Sam Elliott and Wes Bentley, the film follows the life of daredevil stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze (Cage). When his father falls terminally ill with cancer, Blaze strikes a deal with the devil: his soul to save his father's life. The deal, however, backfires on Johnny, turning him into a skeleton-headed motorbike-riding demon with a blazing inferno raging from his skull and hands! If this sounds all a bit hokey, you could well be right, but the fight between Cage's urban cowboy superhero and Bentley's evil son-of-the-devil strikes the right balance between over the top action and downright silliness. As befits the character, Young treats his protagonist almost as a modern day cowboy outlaw, cruising around the West on his trusty hog. The score is low, bass-heavy, action-packed, and makes liberal use of a throng of electric guitars which grunt down in the mix and underpin the entire work. The opening track, "Ghost Rider" is quite magnificent, a full-on gothic orchestral powerhouse with dark, trilling brasses and a powerful choir which hearkens back to the days of Hellraiser. Unfortunately, the rest of the score doesn't maintain the same level of intensity, only even coming close during the driving "More Sinister Than Popcorn", the operatic "Blood Signature", and the conclusive, Latin chant heavy "The West Was Built on Legends". The romantic theme, first heard in "A Thing for Karen Carpenter" is sweet and lush, with a prominent acoustic guitar element, "San Veganza" sounds like a refugee from a Morricone western with its lonely solo trumpet refrain, and some of the action cues, notably "Cemetery Dance" and "Nebuchadnezzar Phase" are impressive in their volume and intensity, although some of them do come across more like Metallica rock instrumentals than a traditional film score.
Rating: - why this sucks
this soundtrack is an absolute waste of money. the problem being that the only good song on the entire movie is not included, which of course is ghost riders in the sky by spiderbait. yes it was done performed by spiderbait and not released on any albums.
Rating: - Where is Spiderbait??!!
Seriously! Where is the Ghost Riders in the Sky song? Spiderbait did the version heard in the movie and it was way cool! Oh well. The Outlaws do a version that is closest to the one done by Spiderbait. Without that song I can't give it more then one star. Sorry.
- song at the end
- END SONGS
