8. Ghost Rider/Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage) - Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance
I am one of the few people I know that was happy with the first Ghost Rider film. It was not perfect but it was not bad either. However, Nicolas Cages second stab at the character of Johnny Blaze proved if you are not happy with the first try, you can make it worse. What made Cages second run at the character so annoying was the fact that he seemed randomly to go nuts. I think the intention was to invoke a creepy factor into the film and to make moviegoers wonder if the Ghost Rider might come unglued at any moment. Instead the Geez, this guy might snap moments turned into Not this crap again moments. Nothing seemed to fit with his fits of psychosis and there was never a real satisfactory resolution to the idea. Better to have not gone there at all than to subject the audience to such heavy weirdness. Cage himself is a huge comic fan and it is hard to believe he would let his performance to turn in such a way. He named himself after Luke Cage (For the three people who might not know his real name is Nicholas Coppola, nephew of Francis Ford Coppola). Then again, Cages roles have been going to some odd places the past few years almost to the point he has made his own genre. For the most part that seems to be working for him so who am I to say he should stop, but does not make his Ghost Rider and Johnny Blaze less annoying.