What do you think of when you hear the name Brett Ratner? The Rush Hour movies? X-Men 3? Me? I think of his groundbreaking work on Mariah Carey's "Heartbreaker" music video. Okay, not really. But I definitely don't think of him as a successful videogame movie maker.
He wants to be, according to Variety. He's just finished up shooting a couple of spots for Activision for Guitar Hero, his first client for his new venture, Brett Ratner Brands. Ratner is now hoping that this work will springboard him into the "exciting" world of videogame movies.
"The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now," Ratner said. "I will be doing movies that come from videogames," adding that he'll now have "access to the Activision brain" and the people who create its games.
Are Ratner videogame movies a good thing? What's he going to make? A Guitar Hero movie?
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9:57 AM on 05.26.2008
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Ok Brett, stop right there - Just work on a producing an actual game then! A lot of story and cinematic technique goes into a game like Bioshock or Half-Life 2, the more experienced talent we can get in the industry, the better!
With that said, this is a perfect match made in hell. On one hand you have Activision, which is the new EA. And on the other, you've got this generic wanna-be who brings nothing of artistic value to the table.
It's like a machine, all nuts and bolts with no heart and soul.
Maybe he should focus on how to make good films before he puts his hands on any other IPs, period. Videogame IPs or not. Dude's a hack.
Misanthrope is right.
After the celluloid abortion that was X-Men 3, I'm not surprised. Now its just a contest on who can ruin a video game movie worse: Ratner or Boll.
PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE
[i]In a world...
where the spirits of the dead hoard the precious dots...
only one man dares to challenge them...[/i]
It writes itself.
dammit *faps*
Yes, that was two Douglas Adams references in one comment, I'm still coming down from Towel Day 08.
some okay ideas
but didnt have the budget to cover it
and not a good enough director to compensate
but..
the man fought to get ellen page in a mainstream film
so he cant be all bad...
on a side note, i've had a thing for mariah for the longest time, not sure why...
Good Graphics: Check.
Bad, Oh So Bad Plot: Check.
One Dimensional Characters: Check.
Action Scenes: Check.
Yup, he's not gonna do anything, he hasn't been doing for years :| This time, however he gets to blame the bad "source material"
"American audiences can't handle that much action."
Fuck you sir. Go direct a romance comedy jackass. FUCK... YOU!