The director every fanboy loves to hate, Brett Ratner, has been offered the director's chair for the upcoming Conan movie. He is mulling it over, as it seems that he is considering a ton of other movies to make. This is a guy who has gotten a bad rap among movie fans, so I am sure the fanboy community is up in arms about this news. Let's take a look at some of Mr. Ratner's movies. He has done 4 movies with actor Chris Tucker, the 3 "Rush hour" movies, as well as "Money Talks". The first two "Rush Hour" movies were good buddy/action movies, #3 was just terrible, "Money Talks" was good dumb fun. He directed "Red Dragon", a remake of the movie "Manhunter" about the capture of Hannibal Lechter. "Red Dragon" was a decent movie, not great, but decent. I think what gave him the bad rep among fanboys was "X-Men:The Last Stand". It was certainly the weakest of the three X-Men movies, a lot of people I know who loved the first two absolutely hated Ratner's film, citing that it totally strayed from the comics. Well, movies almost never truly follow the comics, so I don't see why that is a big problem. They also didn't like the fact that they tried to cram too much into the movie, which I agree with. There seemed to be an effort to incorporate more mutants into the movie, but so many got very limited screen time, and they should have either been left out, or given more screen time. There is no reason that the movie could not have been over two hours long, 2 1/2 to 3 hour movies are more common than ever, and make money. I think Ratner's attempt at squeezing so much into 1 hour 44 minutes when he could have just as easily extended the movies running time is what pissed off a lot of people. Either way you look at it, the guy makes watchable, if not spectacular movies. I understand the concern at letting him helm a Conan movie, it's an epic story and deserves to be told as such. Ratner has not made anything resembling an epic to this point, so he had better step it up if he is going to make a Conan movie that people want to see. Does he have it in him? At this point I am going to say no. But who though Mel Gibson could direct "Braveheart" as well as he did? Something tells me Ratner should stick to what he does best, and epic film making is not what he is best at.
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Brett Ratner To Possibly Direct Conan
The director every fanboy loves to hate, Brett Ratner, has been offered the director's chair for the upcoming Conan movie. He is mulling it over, as it seems that he is considering a ton of other movies to make. This is a guy who has gotten a bad rap among movie fans, so I am sure the fanboy community is up in arms about this news. Let's take a look at some of Mr. Ratner's movies. He has done 4 movies with actor Chris Tucker, the 3 "Rush hour" movies, as well as "Money Talks". The first two "Rush Hour" movies were good buddy/action movies, #3 was just terrible, "Money Talks" was good dumb fun. He directed "Red Dragon", a remake of the movie "Manhunter" about the capture of Hannibal Lechter. "Red Dragon" was a decent movie, not great, but decent. I think what gave him the bad rep among fanboys was "X-Men:The Last Stand". It was certainly the weakest of the three X-Men movies, a lot of people I know who loved the first two absolutely hated Ratner's film, citing that it totally strayed from the comics. Well, movies almost never truly follow the comics, so I don't see why that is a big problem. They also didn't like the fact that they tried to cram too much into the movie, which I agree with. There seemed to be an effort to incorporate more mutants into the movie, but so many got very limited screen time, and they should have either been left out, or given more screen time. There is no reason that the movie could not have been over two hours long, 2 1/2 to 3 hour movies are more common than ever, and make money. I think Ratner's attempt at squeezing so much into 1 hour 44 minutes when he could have just as easily extended the movies running time is what pissed off a lot of people. Either way you look at it, the guy makes watchable, if not spectacular movies. I understand the concern at letting him helm a Conan movie, it's an epic story and deserves to be told as such. Ratner has not made anything resembling an epic to this point, so he had better step it up if he is going to make a Conan movie that people want to see. Does he have it in him? At this point I am going to say no. But who though Mel Gibson could direct "Braveheart" as well as he did? Something tells me Ratner should stick to what he does best, and epic film making is not what he is best at.
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