Gore Verbinski directed The Ring, the American remake that made Japanese horror a commercial category in the West, and then three Pirates of the Caribbean films that turned a theme park ride into a franchise nobody had predicted.
His action has a comic architecture, closer to silent film than to modern blockbusters. The sword fight on a rolling waterwheel in Dead Man’s Chest is choreographed as a Buster Keaton sequence.
Rango won Best Animated Feature and is the strangest thing he has made, a Western about identity with a chameleon in the lead.
Gore VerbinskiThe Time Machine (2002) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. H. G. Wells's great-grandson directed it, collapsed from exhaustion, and Gore Verbinski shot the last eighteen days. The first act is genuinely good and the film throws…
Gore VerbinskiPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A film adapted from a theme park queue that had no business being good. Depp built a character the studio…
Gore VerbinskiMousehunt is one of the funniest physical comedies ever produced and one of the most overlooked. Gore Verbinski directed in his feature debut.
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