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.

Tuesday, 15 January 2008

Red vs Blue

Forget the Middle East, Global Warming, the Large Hadron Collider set to fire in May and Christian fundamentalists in Washington hovering over the button - Sonic and Mario at the Olympics is bugging me.

Sonic is a super-sonic running hedgehog, his entire thing is that he runs improbably fast, especially for a hedgehog. Mario is a plumber. This is the Olympics. Is Sonic being polite on the 100m dash? Is Mario on steroids?

Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever seen Mario plumb. Over 200 appearances and the closest I've seen is him spraying water over graffiti. Surely spraying water is everything a plumber is sworn against?

Mario is living a lie, maybe that's what he's running from.