RIDLEY SCOTT

actually i think i know the answer, nm

lol

lol

I've seen one since Blade Runner.

The Duellists was OK.

Number three, then?

g.i. jane landslide

anyone seen Someone To Watch Over Me?

Thelma & Louise is my pick.

thelma + louise

^accurately called "feminist claptrap" by Armond White

i <3 feminist claptrap

b-b-but most of his movies (even the good ones) are claptrap!

it's also a buddy movie. i <3 buddy movies.

those are some real stinkers between T&L and black hawk down

gladiator was pretty weak imo

yeah i hate to remember that he directed gladiator.

lol xpost

i srsly dislike gladiator, but the first scene in the arena is near perfect

White Squall is worth it for shots of pre-steroids Christian Bale leading just-legal beautiful boys.

guys i kind of like legend :/

did nobody else see matchstick men?

oh morbs... I think you forgot something...

http://cindyjacks.com/images/bradpitt.jpg

studs /= good movie

http://www.markdecarlo.com/images/head_shots/smile.jpg

"Says you!"

gladiator was just a warmup for kingdom of heaven, which is actually really good

i think people were sick of the braveheart/gladiator thing when it came out so it got ignored (plus it wasn't as much a tale of a single hero, plus it starred orlando bloom)

i don't even remember kingdom of heaven. also have people seen body of lies?

i sorta wanted to but at this point i guess i'll just catch it on dvd.

still haven't seen black hawk down

Went for Someone to Watch Over Me. Haven't actually seen it in about a decade or more, but I dug it. It's like an un-flashy, non-futuristic and stripped down sequel to Blade Runner (I know stylistically Black Rain is more akin to BR, but the thing about Black Rain is, it's a bit shit + Tom Beranger >>> Michael Douglas).

guys i kind of like legend :/

― horseshoe, Friday, November 14, 2008 1:34 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dont front girl this is top-5 RS for me

gladiator kind of sucks, but once you get it into your head that it sucks it becomes a pleasant surprise

also such a great movie to watch when all your friends come back to your house to crash after a fun/crazy night

I saw all but the last 20-30 minutes of Body of Lies. I didn't want to walk out but work called and I didn't get to go back in.

It was OK. Leo's good, Russell Crowe plays Philip Seymour Hoffman, the Iranian love interest is super-cuet.

i've seen black rain several times for some reason, dunno why

guess what i voted for y'all

a good year

wow american gangster was such a dud eh

i liked it tbh but i think it had more to do with the supporting cast and setting, i like those '70s nyc cop movies. denzel was pretty weak imo, crowe wasn't that interesting. it was pretty ridiculous.

Scott's movies this decade are mostly kinda fugly looking, cinematography-wise.

i've seen black rain several times for some reason, dunno why

Gotta be the signature vineyard shot.

max! i thought i was all alone! it's sort of boring but it's so pretty.

Matchstick Men zipped by pleasantly enough when I watched it on DVD, helped greatly by a typically barmy Cage performance. Hardly a classic though.

haha horseshoe its sort of WAY boring but it is really amazingly shot--plus fantastic sountrack and a++ super hot mia sara--hate to go here but perfect movie to watch stoned

you know what has a++++ super hot mia sara is timecop O_O

first google result for mia sara timecop:

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Mia Sara having great sex pleasure

i think Thelma & Lousie remains an awesome movie
i mean, even tho it has no alien or constant downpour

oh this is a dif poll!
alien is my comfort movie

awesome

Matchstick Men was a surprisingly good, for a con man movie.

Saw lady gaga on a chat show introducing a couple of clips, looked like a terrible TV movie.

Also saw The Martian on TV recently, such a nothing film, whole concept built on promise of stunning mise-en-scène, but everything felt completely flat and lifeless.

Has RS made an actual good movie since Blade Runner? I will not accept Thelma & Louise and Gladiator as answers.

T&L is way better than blade runner, a genuinely bad film that nerds like for some reason. this poll is antifeminist for ranking it over alien

Last Duel ruels

everything felt completely flat and lifeless.

So, true to the book, then.

IMHO, it's kind of telling that the version of Blade Runner without Ford's voiceover (which, as I understand it, he actively tried to make sound grating) is less engaging.

Last Duel ruels

― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Friday, July 8, 2022 11:36 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the perfect kind of movie to watch on a long flight with zero expectations going into it. at least 30 minutes too long but couldn't have cared less with affleck's wonderfully hammy count pierre

it's kind of amazing that the film manages to have a plot that hinges on a assault, tackles it very seriously, and still lets affleck be that ridiculous without detracting from the gravity of it

Rewatched The Duellists for the first time in decades. I'm wondering if it's my fave of his? His whole career and much of its aesthetic descendents are all kinda right there from the get-go.

Napoleon is not my kind of a movie, to put it mildly, and I went solely as a show of support to a rep theatre I like that's teetering on the brink. Battle scenes are like car chases for me: I zone out within the first 30 seconds, no matter now expert the choreography. Only a couple here, thankfully, but they're endless.

I probably liked it as much as I could have hoped for, or I at least managed to stay awake through almost all of it. There are a few funny/campy lines, the final shot is good, and there's some interest in terms of Trump. I was going to post on the Trump Movies thread I started, but I figured that would paradoxically be grasping at straws and so obvious as to be unnecessary. There's a speech by the Duke of Wellington in particular--the one about vermin--that's so on the mark that I thought "So that's why you wanted to make this."

I'm almost always impressed by Joaquin Phoenix, but I thought he was just okay here. It felt like he never really figured out what he wanted to do with the character.

Uhhhhhh ... Gladiator 2?

Not a fan of Napoleon or anything (you do not have to hand it to him) but seems a very bad Trump surrogate, seems almost insanely flattering to the latter.

There are obvious points of similarity; looked around last night, and it comes up a lot in reviews. Analogies are never perfect.

Not a fan of Napoleon or anything

are you Russian

Alfred I'll let u know memorials to the many horrors of the Napoleonic invasions litter my home country of Portugal!

I don't know that there are that many obvious points of similarity beyond "caused a lot of trouble" and "kind of an asshole" (which tbf is most world leaders). Napoleon effected actual structural change and picked fights with major powers that he followed through on.

lol I'm not defending him

lol no I get that and my reference was also tongue in cheek, just have to fit in Portugal Things whenever I get a chance

six-hour director's cut is to be about the enactment of the code napoléon in vastly precise legalistic detail, it will rule

The Napoleonic Code--hey, I know that from A Streetcar Named Desire.

This felt like Paul Verhoeven without the fun. Also kind of ugly?

six-hour director's cut is to be about the enactment of the code napoléon in vastly precise legalistic detail, it will rule

― mark s

Directed by Albert Serra, mostly in close-up.

The Napoleonic Code--hey, I know that from A Streetcar Named Desire

That was an Animaniacs joke I remember as a kid - Napoleon appears, actually drawn as if he was Marlon Brando from the '50s, and he says "down here we have the Napoleonic Code - it says you don't start the party without me." It's like one of those WB cartoon jokes that introduces everyone to classic movie references long before they actually watch those films.

has it been noted how he rhymes with diddly squat

and cumquat

My gal is red hot!!

Your gal ain't Ridley Scott!!

mostly clean, sasquatch

Hid me pot

^accurately called "feminist claptrap" by Armond White

― Dr Morbius, Friday, November 14, 2008

Dr. Wrong-O.

Re Thelma and Louise. The action set pieces get tedious in the last half hour, and some of Brad Pitt's line readings are ridic (that body helps), but Sarandon + Davis give such lived-in performances.

i had no idea he directed this! i'm on my first viewing and good lord this a visual feast! there's a shot maybe 5 minutes in where Thelma walks over and opens her closet which should be taught everywhere.

I’m one of the weirdos who likes THE MARTIAN, in our household it’s the comfort food movie we put on after e.g. the chaos of Christmas lunch. Must have seen it six times now.

(and for the record I was underwhelmed and bored by the novel)

It's nothing special but I can def see how it would work as comfort food, kinda movie you could have on tv on a Sunday afternoon back when it mattered what was on.

I regret to inform u gladiator 2 whips ass

correction: DENZEL whips ass. Gladiator 2 the film was decent enough.

i expected it to be the absolute depths of boiled garbage but it was p watchable (except for the baboons, honestly wtf was that whole thing ugh)

i propose that Maximus Jr fill the coliseum w water & sharks & then freeze it for roman gladiator icecapades while atop a rhinoceros

is this late-period ridley scott run of the last duel, house of gucci, napoleon, and gladiator II "camp"? is it intentionally camp?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/28/i-turned-down-20m-to-do-terminator-3-i-cant-be-bought-dude-ridley-scott-on-directing-daleks-and-cherry-jam

Meanwhile, I got to go to his winery in the south of France. The wine is pretty good! And the gift shop is full of all sorts of stuff:

https://imgur.com/054cb4a8-d52c-4414-9034-de2b38378294

https://i.imgur.com/SPLQ8ho.jpeg

From that Guardian fan Q&A:

Were you really considering directing Terminator 3? bozo500

I’m proud about this. I turned down a $20m fee. See, I can’t be bought, dude. Someone said: “Ask what Arnie gets.” I thought: “I’ll try it out.” I said: “I want what Arnie gets.” When they said yes, I thought: “Fuck me.”

lol

https://deadline.com/2025/10/ridley-scott-hollywood-drowning-in-mediocrity-1236570875/

Asked if he has a go-to comfort movie, the British director said: “Well, actually, right now, I’m finding mediocrity – we’re drowning in mediocrity. And so what I do – it’s a horrible thing – but I’ve started watching my own movies, and actually they’re pretty good! And also, they don’t age.”

lmao

loved how in his WTF every time Maron began a question about one of Scott’ films, Ridley would interrupt as it was named to bark “Great picture!”

Should watch some Tony Scott joints

wow, Legend is a real drag... looks PHENOMENAL but then about three and half things, total, happen over the course of 89 minutes.

boooo how dare u

It stinks I tell ya!!! I swear they were in that dungeon for six weeks just mugging at each other. Pretty solidly my least favorite of the big 80s kids' fantasy movies, tho maybe there's one or two I haven't seen yet.

boooooooo

Finally watching HAWSAGOOTCHI i mean House of Gucci

this is like watching the expanded universe of a spaghetti commercial

the dialogue is so boring.
and the needledrops are baffling. watching the wedding i was like “no way are they playing ‘Faith’” moments later “oh they are really playing ‘Faith’ here”

Gaga is worthwhile, but idk about anything else.

Driver is so low energy

And Leto. This fucking human emoji. everytime his trash-ass does his Italian Christopher Walken i stare at everyone in the background waiting to see anyone cutting eyes or visibly dissassociating

I've always been obsessed with his Chanel commercials from the 80s and was wondering if he'd ever mentioned 'Last Year at Marienbad' as an influence as certain shots and the vibe are reminiscent. While googling, I only just now discovered that he directed Roxy Music's 'Avalon' music video (!)(his only) which has a very obvious 'Marienbad' influence.

excellent question and banging post

MHO, it's kind of telling that the version of Blade Runner without Ford's voiceover (which, as I understand it, he actively tried to make sound grating) is less engaging.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)