Thelma and Louise is genuinely great, Gladiator as well I reckon, plus heās from South Shields or something so 5/5 for that.
Also, A Good Year is one of the most bafflingly awful films you could ever wish to see, I adore it.
Thelma and Louise is genuinely great, Gladiator as well I reckon, plus heās from South Shields or something so 5/5 for that.
Also, A Good Year is one of the most bafflingly awful films you could ever wish to see, I adore it.
Someone I need to make a conscious effort to delve into more of their filmography tbh.
Thelma & Louise and Blade Runner are both incredible films but a lot of his recent output has been pretty fucking dire really tbf.
It was the transformation of Hannibal Lecter into a supervillain, then making him the good guy, then having Starling fall in love with him and run off into the sunset, even though he had kidnapped her and fed her human brains that did it.
Probably made too many films imo
Just looked up Kingdom of Heaven to remember about it and its three hours and fourteen minutes long. What the fuck was he thinking and why did they let him get away with that!?
The Martian is a good and fun film
Technically they didnāt, they just let him do a directorās cut after
Running time
144 minutes
194 minutes (Directorās cut)
Supposedly the Directorās Cut is a lot better.
Like alien, not seen blade runner. Saw gladiator and black hawk down to know if theyāre any good.
Probably go a 2 idk
Alien and Blade Runner - excellent
Thelma and Louise - nearly as good
Have a soft spot for black rain even though I know itās very much not good. Ditto for the martian
Hannibal is atrocious
Gladiator is rubbish
The rest (that Iāve seen) suck
5/5
actually finding it very hard to score him: his best films are fantastic, but thereās an absolutely massive drop off after that
Alien is great.
The Duelist would be great with 45 minutes cut off the running time.
So long since Iāve seen Thelma & Louise I canāt really remember but I think it was decent. Maybe I was disappointed because it didnāt really seem to match the hype.
Blade Runner annoys me.
Everything else barely worth mentioning/outright awful.
5 for Alien but overall a 2 maximum, feels generous tbh.
MIght watch Black Rain again soon. Havenāt seen it for years and I bet itās aged really badly in all sorts of ways, but I have a soft spot for late 80ās early 90ās neo-noir type cop nonsense.
donāt think heās a hackā¦ just an absolute nothing of a director. he will assemble the film together competently but has zero bearing on whether it will be any good or not.
just look at the amount of shite heās directed. can only be blind luck that the good ones turned out that way rather than because he had anything to do with it.
Feel Iām gonna be giving out a lot of 3/5s
Saw the Duellists for the first time recently and it was pretty good
Iād completely forgotten he directed Hannibal . Find it amazing that a director who made 3 or 4 all time classics managed to also make so much utter shit
I will never get bored of Alien and Blade Runner though
Find him to be quite sterile, dull and pompous really.
Maybe thatās why alien and blade runner are good, they fit his natural vibe.
Hated gladiator - so boring, goes on forever, should have set it in space / the future
Makes me wanna revise my Nolan score upwards
from what Iāve seen
Alien - stuff of legend. Amazing. Best film
Blade Runner - this is good too
Thelma and Louise - hey I like this!
Gladiator - too long but not sure why this is getting so much hate. Thereās tigers and swords and all sorts of cool shit in this one
Prometheus - guess what? I donāt hate this
Hannibal - yeah this is bad
The Martian - fine.
Alien Covenant - hahahahaha
Iāve seen both (Why? I donāt know why) and while the directorās cut is better, it still doesnāt make it a good film.
That said, Ridley Scottās directorās cuts often do actually bring qualities other than just āadding back all the footage that got cut to make the film viable at the cinemaā - he will go back and cut transitions and shots that he feels inversely affect the pacing in addition to putting stuff in, plus fix bits of post-production that were rushed or bodged. His directorās cuts of Blade Runner all improve on each other.
He went through a period of seemingly making one good film followed by one bad film. Latterly, he doesnāt seem to be able to maintain this ration sadly. That said, Iām going to rate these guys based on the films that Iām going to revisit rather than their dross which Iām never going to watch again, so itās a 5 from meā¦
Can I shock you? I liked The Counselor.