Unless you're looking for a reason to feel like your own skull is on fire, steer your chopper away from Ghost Rider, the worst adaptation of a Marvel Comics hero yet.

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Among Marvel's cinematic output, Ghost Rider crashes and burns resoundingly at the bottom, largely because the character's appeal has always been its unique visualthe leather-clad biker with the blazing skullover any compelling storyline. Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage), a young carnival biker, barters his soul to Mephistopheles…

If you loved Daredevil and I dare you to say you did, you'll marvel that director Mark Steven Johnson has done it again: taken a dark, twisted hero from the Marvel Comics playbook and homogenized him into a toy boy suitable for mass consumption. Nicolas Cage stars as Johnny Blaze, the motorcycle stunt driver who makes a deal with Mephistopheles (Peter Fonda). To stay alive -- after a crash sets his skull on fire -- Johnny will do the devil's bidding. He's haunted, of course, and Cage can do…