{"id":1155,"date":"2008-09-18T14:57:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T18:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2018-11-09T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T19:00:14","slug":"brett-ratner-to-ruin-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/18\/brett-ratner-to-ruin-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brett Ratner To Ruin CONAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/brettratner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1722\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" title=\"Brett Ratner, Champion of Mediocrity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/brettratner-208x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>OK, Brett Ratner may not be the worst director out there. It is just that he is\u00a0so blatantly average that he sucks any hope or possibility that a film under his direction will be anything else but trite pablum. He brings no style to the material he directs and the result is invariably flat and uninteresting to me as an audience member.<\/p>\n<p>It is with a certain amount of annoyance that I have to pass along a report from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140711204401\/http:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/story\/exclusive-brett-ratner-considering-conan\" target=\"_blank\">Dread Central<\/a> that Nu Image, the producers of the upcoming <strong>Conan<\/strong> film have approached Ratner to helm their planned film.<\/p>\n<p>I have long been a fan of John Milius&#8217; 1982 <strong>Conan The Barbarian<\/strong>, which captures the mood of Conan-creator Robert Howard&#8217;s original stories nearly pitch perfect. Unfortunately, he wasn&#8217;t involved with the 1984 sequel, <strong>Conan The Destroyer<\/strong>, as he probably would have saved it from being the silly mess that it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">OK, Brett Ratner may not be the worst director out there. It is just that he is\u00a0so blatantly average that he sucks any hope or possibility that a film under his direction will be anything <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/18\/brett-ratner-to-ruin-conan\/\" title=\"Brett Ratner To Ruin CONAN\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[199,636,22,72],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-brett-ratner","8":"tag-conan","9":"tag-in-development","10":"tag-pulps-to-film"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}