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Brett Ratner a.k.a. Boring Guy
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Ratner being a wild and crazy kind of guy.
Not too long ago I wrote an article on Roland Emmerich calling him a hack and saying that he shouldn't make movies. One good thing about Mr. Emmerich is that he knows to stay well away from me. That's a trait that I wish Emmerich's brother in hack directors, Brett Ratner, also shared. Not only is he from my hometown of Miami, he will also be speaking this Tuesday November 10th at the University of Florida. Ratner will be talking about his long and lucrative career of exploiting other cultures and franchises.
Ratner got his career going by having Chris Tucker yell at people of other races in his films Money Talks and Rush Hour. He created a resurgence of buddy cop/culture clash movies from the 80's and Chris Tucker became the new Eddie Murphy. Ratner then decided to do the more “serious” film Family Man in 2000 but nobody saw it because instead of Chris Tucker yelling at white people, he had Don Cheadle helping white people. Naturally, he went back to having Chris Tucker yelling at all sorts of people, including Don Cheadle, in 2001 with Rush Hour 2 to great success.
While trying to come up with more ways for Chris Tucker to yell at people he screwed up a remake of Manhunter even though he had Ed Norton and Ralph Fiennes. He also screwed up the 3rd X-Men movie and made audiences wish that X-2 had been the last stand. Then he figured how Chris Tucker could yell at Chinese and French people and made Rush Hour 3. Most recently he ripped off the film Paris, Je T'aime and did his own version instead calling it New York, I Love You. Any sort of creative bone had finally left his body.
The point I'm trying to make is what kind of scholarly influence is Brett Ratner suppose to have on the student body of UF. Sure, he's successful, but none of his films are meditative. He's not even crazy like Roland Emmerich or Uwe Boll probably are. His career is just bland. I could probably name ten other film makers that are much more interesting and would probably do it for less money than what UF is shelling out to Ratner.
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