Thursday, 31 January 2008

I want to beat Brett Ratner to death with a shovel.

I just heard that Mark Romanek might be replaced as director of The Wolf Man by Brett Ratner.

It would be enough if Ratner just farted out music videos for creatively retarded 'artists' like Jessica Simpson, Mariah Carey and a man dumb enough to insist everyone call him 'P Diddy' but somehow smart enough to not get run over every time he crosses the road.

Brett Ratner didn't stop there, he had to inflict movies on us. Worse still, he didn't make terrible movies we could ignore - he took good things and made them mediocre.


Jackie Chan - the Buster Keaton of martial arts, sharing screen time with Chris Tucker and not kicking him to death - FOR THREE MOVIES. As if that wasn't enough, Brett Ratner made Chris Tucker the highest paid actor in Hollywood.

Hannibal Lector - an iconic character festers in a lifeless adaptation that was previously made into an intense, disturbing thriller by Michael Mann.

X-Men - Bryan Singer built his two films to lead clearly into a third.
Brett Ratner delivered an entirely forgettable, uninspired X-Men film with lines referencing youtube videos instead of wit, replacing socio-political relevance and comment with throw-away cardboard cutout characters lacking motivation or purpose.

He is the cheap hack who is hired to exploit profitable stars or properties and he deserves a shovel to the face.

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