Understanding Brett Ratner

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Understand the enemy. Isn't that line from "Starship Troopers"?

Many of us here are called Brett Ratner (for now - although I myself am on a mission to increase my post count and break free to become...ha, we'll just have to wait and see!)

So this thread has legality.

I will keep posting comments from this greatly misunderstood filmmaker (known in respectable film circles as hack) so that we base our frustrations with the man on a foundation of insight and knowledge. Ahem.

“Hopefully (Roman) Polanski’s going to act in Rush Hour 3, so I created a part for him,” said Ratner. “I was just having lunch with him, and I said, ‘Oh my God, you have to be in Rush Hour!’ We’re shooting in Paris, so it’s perfect.”

“He treats me as an equal, he loves my movies, he’s a fan. If I was directing Harry Knowles from Aint It Cool News I wouldn’t feel very comfortable – he would be looking at me sideways the whole time. But Polanksi gives me respect and admiration and love, so I’m fearless.”

P.S. Karma has intervened. This is my 50th post. And look under my nick. What have I mutated into now?

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hahaha

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ya know after i saw X3 and after i knew how much it did at the US boxoffice...and after i saw how Brett Ratne's girlfriend looks like....i stopped believing in god.

Ratner mentioned that Spielberg has the remake rights to My Wife is an Actress.that's interesting.

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ya know after i saw X3 and after i knew how much it did at the US boxoffice...and after i saw how Brett Ratne's girlfriend looks like....i stopped believing in god.

Gotta be some of the funniest words you ever wrote, ani!! 

AK : I join you! 

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I will keep posting comments from this greatly misunderstood filmmaker (known in respectable film circles as hack) so that we base our frustrations with the man on a foundation of insight and knowledge.

But really - who thought Red Dragon was good? I liked that movie - I must actually say I was surprised by it. This could be because I love the three male-lead actors and realized this was directed by "that guy who made the American Jackie Chan movie".

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..and after i saw how Brett Ratne's girlfriend looks like....i stopped believing in god.

Post a picture. I've read that Ratner is big on the Hollywood party scene.

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A day in the Life of Brett Ratner

8am I'm incredibly busy at the moment, so I get up early despite having had a bunch of people - Paul Allen, Quincy Jones, Salma Hayek - over for dinner last night. My housekeeper prepares my breakfast and, while I eat, my assistant, Mike, goes through my call sheet - all the people I have to call today and all the people who've called me. On an average day I receive about 50 phone calls. Normally there are about ten things happening simultaneously.

9am I get into my Bentley and drive to Fox Studios, where I'm currently editing X-Men. The movie stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry and Kelsey Grammer and is going to be awesome. Editing is done on state-of-the-art digital equipment in three different bungalows, and I move constantly between them. [...]

1pm Lunch at Mr Chow on Camden Drive with Roger Birnbaum, who is producing the next Rush Hour movie. I'm friends with Mr Chow and normally go there for dinner - when it's more of a scene - but it's nice for lunch as well. While I'm there I catch up with Oliver Stone, who's sitting two tables down from us. He's made a documentary on Fidel Castro that hasn't been released yet. I'm dying to see it - I love documentaries - and he says he'll send me a copy. Courtney Love, who's a good friend of mine, is also there. She's sitting at the table next to me with Mike De Luca, the former head of New Line and DreamWorks.

6.30pm Take a limo to the Cosmo party with my grandparents (who live in my guest house) and my girlfriend, the model Alina Puscau. The party is fun. I catch up with Matt Dillon. We were friendly at NYU film school, but I haven't seen him for a long, long time.

10pm Carry on to Pen lope Cruz's house. She is throwing a party for Paul Haggis, the director of Crash. All the cast are there: Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton and Don Cheadle.

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 That's her and it.

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10pm Carry on to Pen lope Cruz's house. She is throwing a party for Paul Haggis, the director of Crash. All the cast are there: Sandra Bullock, Brendan Fraser, Thandie Newton and Don Cheadle

hahaha that sums it up!

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And he produced Running Scared...

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Many of us here are called Brett Ratner (for now - although I myself am on a mission to increase my post count and break free to become...ha, we'll just have to wait and see!)

P.S. Karma has intervened. This is my 50th post. And look under my nick. What have I mutated into now?

Guess who's become PETER JACKSON!

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Ooh Ooh! Peter Jackson, cleanshaven, with a scowl!

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Many of us here are called Brett Ratner (for now - although I myself am on a mission to increase my post count and break free to become...ha, we'll just have to wait and see!)

P.S. Karma has intervened. This is my 50th post. And look under my nick. What have I mutated into now?

Guess who's become PETER JACKSON!

iam still brett ratner, do you guys think i'll make it to David Fincher?

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Or Alfred Hitchcock for that matter...

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or even RIDLEY SCOTT