Ratner, McG or Bay?
-
Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Brett Ratner
Procrastinator77 — 11 years ago(July 26, 2014 06:51 AM)
Who is the worst consistently employed director in Hollywood?
My vote is for McG. As much as I hate Ratner's generic, pointless filmography I have to say McG is a bit worse. They're both unoriginal, tone-deaf hacks pumping out dreck for people entertained by any movie containing pictures in motion. But McG has spread his fungal rot to TV far more prolifically than Ratner to this point. It's neck and neck, or neck and chins in this case, but I also have to g111co with McG because there isn't a single good movie in his entire CV. At least Ratner had the ok Rush Hour and a not totally embarrassing Red Dragon.
Bay at least has a singular visual style. You instantly know you're watching a Bay film for better or mostly worse. He's just as tin-eared and plot ignorant as the other two but there is at least some creativity in his ongoing vendetta to film explosions and butts as stylishly as possible. -
anonymous-V — 11 years ago(October 22, 2014 11:23 AM)
Michael Bay is actually a good director especially in comparison to the other 2.
The problem with Bay is that he has terrible taste. He goes overboard on action, sexy girls, and lame pop culture appeal. Other than that, he knows how to film a movie. -
tbx5959 — 10 years ago(June 23, 2015 07:05 PM)
I didn't believe there was actually a guy that gets money to film movies called 'McG' looked it up, there was, and he was culpable for Terminator Salvation and some Offspring Music Videos. That's pretty hard to top
Red Dragon isn't bad, Manhunter is so Miami Vice that's it hard to really compare the two, but I think Red Dragon is better even trying to drown the awful music and wardrobe out. So, he made one decent movie and a bunch of meaningless nonsense. His name isn't BRat so he's certainly not last on this list.
Michael Bay. I really hatb68e his movies but they make a fortune because they give idiots exactly what they want so he's the Sam Walton of cinema but there is something to be said for that, I guess. Being best at being worst is better than going by a 3 letter nickname and he's basically Spielberg if Steveo was sexed up, puerile and avoided any decent source material. -
Ace_Sax — 10 years ago(January 27, 2016 10:55 PM)
It's funny that Michael Bay is always regarded as the quintessential unoriginal, unimaganitive, Hollywood hack but atleast he directed one movie that I really liked in The Rock. Which in my opinion trumps anything Ratner or McG have ever or will ever direct by a wide margin.
As far as who's the worst director, both Ratner and McG are equally sh-tty as far as I'm concerned. However Ratner has been given far greater opportunities and consistently put out garbage so he gets my vote.