CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 12: Director Brett Ratner attends the "Robin Hood" Premiere at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2010 in Cannes, France.
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Thursday announcement of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand) as a producer of the 2012 Academy Awards telecast (with experienced Oscar producer Don Mischer) hit the Twittersphere like an explosion in a Brett Ratner movie.
A few tweets were on Ratner’s side, like joshbrunsting, who wrote, “I wonder…debating whether or not Ratner producing the Oscars is bad. kind of think he is oddly a good fit for something like that. Maybe.”
Most tweets on the subject were akin to brandonspears (possibly channeling Ratner dialog): “For the love of God, no. NO. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.”
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Here are ten gut-reaction tweets to Ratner’s new gig, more or less representative of the majority:
“8/14/11 — Dow drops 500, Margaret gets a release date and Brett Ratner is announced as Oscar co-producer #apocalypseiscoming“
— HitFixGregory
“Brett Ratner producing the Oscars is like letting Thanos manage the Justice League – not just wrong ‘side,’ wrong UNIVERSE.”
— the_moviebob
“I don’t know why everybody’s Chicken Little-ing about Brett Ratner producing the Oscars. 1) It keeps him from producing movies…But I will forgive Ratner everything if he can make sure Robert Evans wins the Lifetime Achievement Oscar (get Irish to present it).”– jessehawken
“Sponsors include Axe, Ed Hardy and Four Loko.” –MadisonMathews
“Host Chris Tucker: ‘Do u understand the nominees that r comin outta my mouth?'” — publishersteve
*”Brett Ratner is co-producing the Oscars because apparently they couldn’t meet Uwe Boll‘s quote.” —
ADuralde
“They asked Malick, but he needed more time. They gave him the 2020 ceremony.” — moviedork18
“The Oscars telecast has been so terrible in recent years that it could be the first thing to ever be improved by Brett Ratner’s involvement.” — alexlitel
“I guess they wanted it to suck in fresh, exciting new ways. Kudos!” — CEDownes
“There’s no one in Hollywood who is more Hollywood than Brett Ratner, and it seems as if Hollywood is having trouble accepting that today.” — Justin_Marks
*Editor’s note: This quote was erroneously attributed to mikemovie. The correct author is ADuralde, aka Alonso Duralde.
