Compared to Uwe Boll Bay and Ratner are Kubrick and Bergman, they may not make masterpieces but no doubt there's more going for their films than any of Boll's do.

Godawful director. Up there with Michael Bay and Uwe Boll in terms of pure un-talent.

I agree, he f'n sucks!

red dragon is a very great and underrated movie.
Ratner is not a bad director
ehy H2 haters, look this
http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr226/zombiezombie/suck.jpg

Ratner, McG, and Bay, yes they make terrible movies but surely the real question should be why do so many people pay to watch these movies? Studios want to make money they don't care about art or even good writing they care about money ideally with as little risk attached as possible!
If you really dislike their movies (which I can understand), figure out how to make the paymasters change their mind about the risk/reward balance or convince the more stupid in the ether to stop paying money to watch these movies.

Brett Ratner, is the hackiest hack in hacksville; Brett Hackner. Although I'd argue there's stiff competition from Len Wiseman and Shaun Levy in terms of the lame studio moviemaking fare. It makes me sad that those people are allowed to make films, and they're basically studio whores.
McG is a woeful director, but he doesn't quite make enough films to qualify as a hack, for me; a hack generally makes quite a few films, because the studio trusts their lack of soul to bring the films in and cater to the lowest common denominator, hence giving them work in place of other directors with talent.
Technically, I'd argue Bay isn't really a hack. He has a distinctive enough style and enough tropes and continual motifs throughout his films to make him an auteur (he said grudgingly). A really, really crap auteur.

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This man is a Crook . Check this out.
2000 made FAMILY MAN budget 60,000,000.00 his salary 5,000,000.00
2001 made RUSH HOUR budget 90,000,000.00 his salary 5,000,000.00
2002 made RED DRAGON budget 78,000,000.00 his salary 6,000,000.00
2006 made X MEN LAST STANDING budget 210,000,000.00 his salary 8,000,000.00
2008 RUSH HOUR budget 140,000,000.00 his salary 7,500,000.00
Is this man for real. Moulin Rouge in 2001 cost 52,000,000.00 to make. he spent 90,000,000.00 the same year for RUSH HOUR. There is something very wrong here.

The rush hour movies were terrible. I'll never understand the hype. I think they are actually racial against asians, and I don't get offended easily. I liked ratners Family Man. Other than that I haven't seen many of his films. It looks like he's moving to documentaries or shorts. Not to comare, but I can't place him with direcotrs like Spielberg, Howard, Scorcese who continue to put out great films that stand the test of time.

LOL that would be "The beep
Rush 2 still had a lot of good jokes, and it had Ernie Reyes Jr.!!!

Rush Hour 2 was just re-hashed jokes from the first one
and heres a new pieces of information you folks are just going to LOVE
new Brett Ratner project hes trying to get greenlit
here it is.
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rush 3 was def the worst out of all 3, but the first 2 were phenomenally entertaining

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Balboa76 that scene on the boat happens to be my fav scene1c84 in the movieeasy now your treading on thin ice
listenBrett Ratner is my god

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LOL I sure as hell would show up to the midnight showing of Rush Hour 4
arguing back and forth like this is going to prove futilewe'll just say I have a different opinion then those who started this thread lob68l
WAtch any of the behind the scenes fottage from a Brett Ratner Movie ( I suggest After the Sunset), and you'll see this mans talent and passion for film-making It might even turn u into a fan
You can't make it big in Hollywood on connections alonecmon nowThats just some weak rationale

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In this article it mentions the steven spielberg funfact
http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/celebrity/brett_ratner
he didn't produce anything but it's a hell of a gesture for "the Spielberg" to give a random newcomer a production grant, and may instantiate just a "smidgeon" of crediblity I think
Im just sayin that in terms of pure enjoymentthe majority of america disagrees with you guys when you say these are not good movies
I consider my self the typical action fan.I've been into martial arts and sports my whole life, and have been going to movies every friday(hehe well almost every friday) for the last 15 yearstheyre my passion and I grade them solely on enjoyment and how psyched I feel when I leave the movie theater.And Brett just delivers that formula I want..
I may have come off too harsh with the "bad taste" line, I'll take that backSome people just have different tastes I suppose
And I will say that X-Men 3 was a disaster, but I believe thats really the only exception and I hear he didn't have too much time to really work with the project

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You guys don't know what your talking aboutLet me give you a few reasons to why Brett Ratner could be considered a good Director
1.Steven Spielberg had faith in him and initially got him started in Directing (cr1c84edibility point # 1 )
2. His movies gross a LOT of money.people like his moviespeople think his movies are good..(credibility point # 2)
3. Very big established actors want to work in his projects ( Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Ian Mckellen, Jackie Chan ( Who may be one of the biggest star in the world) (credibility point # 3)
4. If you enjoy action cinema you will appreciate how his movies are shotAn action movie fan who doesn't like his movies IMO just has poor taste
This is the dumbest thread.

Brett is a total goof! The guy makes all his movies look the same. Why big studios keep giving him big titles is beyond me. I think they should STOP!!! RIGHT NOW! and give him so low budget, indy films to shoot! He clearly has no right to be directing movies with budgets that exceed 20 million! He is a pure waste of film! There ain't one original concept to his movies, and its like he simply lets the actors do whatever the hell they please!
If I was an actor, and my agent sent me on an audition to one of his movies I would FIRE my agent, but not before I took it upon myself to kick his As$! Every single one of his movies FLOP, with the pure exception of Rush Hour, and that was only because it was the first, and it had Jackie Chan.
I am officially declaring a state of HATE on Brett "ratface" Ratner, and all of his BS movies!

Well said, 1500

And this guy is remaking The Incredible Shrinking Man with Eddie Murphy Sigh. why
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you guys are idiots, its all about money, look at the gross of the rush hour films who cares about artistic crap anymore, mindless public wants to be entertained, something for everyone, you get your martin scorcese films and people get their bret ratner films.