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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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AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:01
AgentMOO
"The games business is much more exciting than the movie business right now,"

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!
EternalDeathSlayer's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:11
EternalDeathSlayer
I don't like his movies.

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.
Cheeburga's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:19
Cheeburga
Woo tony hawk movie.
Drop of Flame's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:47
Drop of Flame
Does 802.11N actually exist? And awesome collage, Alucard.
Dr Spaceman's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:49
Dr Spaceman
Epic face palm picture is epic!
B-Radicate's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 10:52
B-Radicate
X-Men 3 ruined the entire franchise for me. The taste in my mouth was THAT bitter.

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.
Dale North's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 11:04
Dale North
AlucardX24: well played, sir
JonDarkwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 11:15
JonDarkwood
Nothing screams talent and originality like walking away from Hollywood to direct movies based on other peoples' ideas.
Misanthrope's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 11:35
Misanthrope
It can't be worst than Uwe Boll....at least I hope so.
brosef's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 11:48
brosef
I can't believe I actually played that video.

Misanthrope is right.
Professor Pew's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 11:56
Professor Pew
Do not want!
casualweaponry's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 12:22
casualweaponry
Another asshole who sees that video games is eating his lunch, so he hops on the bandwagon.

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.
brainderailment's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 12:41
brainderailment
Yeah, GTFO dude, you lose.
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 13:35
Sharpless
Mr. Ratner, your movies suck and you're an idiot. Goodday.
RAB's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 13:52
RAB


PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE
DynamicSheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 14:07
DynamicSheep
I cannot forgive this man for what he did to the X-Men. Stay away from mah vidya games!
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 14:42
ace of knaves
Maybe he'll direct Pac-man.

[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.
ace of knaves's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 14:44
ace of knaves
That was obviously supposed to be italicized.
braulio09's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 16:16
braulio09
stupid vid was stupid...but hawt

dammit *faps*
Raidensolid's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 17:50
Raidensolid
I think Necro should be in it. Just because.
c0dek's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 17:58
c0dek
Oh for the love of Zarquon...if you hadn't put it in print, the marketing robots may have never made the connection...now you can just about guarantee there will be not only a Guitar Hero movie, but a Rock Band one as well. One will start Jack Black, the other will have that pie-humping kid from that pie-humping movie. Ratner will direct one, Michael Bay the other. They will open the same week to huge box office totals and a plethora of 0 star reviews, and the first time some wiseass walks out of one of them and says "Hey, they should make a game out of that," the universe will instantly cease to exist and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable.

Yes, that was two Douglas Adams references in one comment, I'm still coming down from Towel Day 08.
Jace101's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 19:52
Jace101
I'm almost sure to get flamed but I actually think the third X-Men was by far the best, the only probably I had was how much the changed the Phoenix mythology but they had already been started with the end of the second film.
Noah's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 23:20
Noah
Brian Singer is as much to blame for X-Men 3 as Brett Ratner is. Singer abandoned his awesome trilogy to make a mediocre Superman movie instead...he assured fans everything would be fine and even vouched for X-men 3. It's greedy decisions like that that hand over great video game franchises to B-movie directors (or in Boll's case D) in the first place.
VampireChrist's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2008 23:48
VampireChrist
x3 was pretty disappointing
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...
Volomon's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2008 00:05
Volomon
What I think? Its crap and he's crap. Neither one of the movies you mention is worth a damn.
deanhatescoffee's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2008 02:37
deanhatescoffee
I know it's contrary to popular internet opinion but I really enjoyed X-Men 3. I don't think I've seen anything else by Ratner, so I'd be willing to give his game-movies a shot.
JustLikeBuck's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2008 03:27
JustLikeBuck
But I thought he was already doing that?

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"
Demtor's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/27/2008 10:28
Demtor
Brett Ratner fails as a director after he made the following comment in behind the scenes of Rush Hour 2...

"American audiences can't handle that much action."

Fuck you sir. Go direct a romance comedy jackass. FUCK... YOU!
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