Nicolas Cage's Most Divisive Action Movie Franchise Is Finally Back on Free Streaming
Nicolas Cage’s two Ghost Rider movies are now streaming free on Tubi — and his unhinged performances make these superhero flops worth revisiting.
Nicolas Cage’s two Ghost Rider movies are now streaming free on Tubi — and his unhinged performances make these superhero flops worth revisiting.
The short version
- Watch Cage chew the burning scenery in these goofy non-MCU movies In the short, strange history of comic book superfans, the number one spot is taken and there are no realistic contenders.
- As long as Nicolas Cage is alive, he's earned the right to call himself the biggest comics nerd who’s ever lived.
- Even once Cage no longer walks this Earth, it will take the work of decades and tens of millions of dollars to dethrone him.
What happened
Most crucially, Cage played Johnny Blaze in not one but two live-action adaptations of Ghost Rider , which have attained a bleak reputation over time. Both movies were box-office successes and have surprisingly great casts (Eva Mendes, Peter Fonda, Sam Elliott, Idris Elba, Christopher Lambert, the late Anthony Head), but critics and fans alike have spent the last 15 years tearing them down.
Why it matters
The word that keeps seeming to come up in reviews is "lifeless." As you may be aware, however, there is a significant difference between a simple bad movie and a bad movie with Nicolas Cage in it.
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