Comments on: Open Forum Friday: Gore Verbinski… Overrated or Underrated?

By: Primal

Primal — Sat, 26 May 2007 05:49:10 +0000

The only Verbinski that I really enjoyed was The Ring. Although being the director of the PotC movies, I don’t think he is a sought out director. There is nothing about his films that show me that this is a Verbinski flick.

Maybe he should go back to the horror genre.

By: Rian

Rian — Fri, 25 May 2007 23:43:26 +0000

I’m one of those hated people who didn’t like the first Pirates, hasn’t seen the second, and isn’t interested seeing in the third. I also haven’t seen Weatherman, but I thought that The Ring was a well made film. I can’t honestly say that I think Gore Verbinski is overrated, because despite the popularity of the Pirates films, I don’t really hear his name tossed around a lot. Nothing like Sam Raimi in regards to the Spiderman films or Bryan Singer with Supes and X-Men. However, I’m not sure he’s really underrated either, because I haven’t been absolutely wowed by him yet.

By: Marina

Marina — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:30:48 +0000

I don’t think he’s a name that will be the name synonymous with the Pirates movies but I do think that he has some great potential. I liked “The Ring” and “The Weather Man” and though I wasn’t a huge fan of P0tC2, it was still ok.

I’d like to see where he goes from here. Hopefully it’s into the smaller quirky films.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Fri, 25 May 2007 20:03:45 +0000

The only movies he has done that is worth watching is The Weather Man, and alot of that has to do with Nicolas Cage… Hell, alot of people say that the only reason that pirates even works is because of Johnny Depp. Both not exactly performances that the director has to fine-tune… Even though nobody knows his name, I still vote for overrated.