The Last Duel (Scott, 2021)
The Last Duel is a big, new, studio film that is neither franchise, reboot, nor sequel. It comes at a point where everyone, even some of my friends who are… Continue reading "The Last Duel (Scott, 2021)"
Tag: Ridley Scott
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Alien: Covenant (Scott, 2017)
Prometheus and Alien: Covenant are like a Star Trek universe composed of nothing but red shirts.
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Kingdom of Heaven (Scott, 2005) — 10 Year Later
"No one has claim. All have claim."
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TIFF 2015 — The Martian (Ridley Scott)
It should not have been that hard, I think, to make a fully satisfying film version of Andy Weir's The Martian.
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Ridley Scott’s “Exodus”: An Unbeliever’s Perspective
"Exodus: Gods and Kings" is a DeMille-worthy spectacle, but an intellectually incoherent mess.
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Prometheus (Scott, 2012)
Prometheus's biggest problem is not a lack of ambition, but of execution. The film is at no loss for ideas, but it can't really pause to catch its breath long enough to develop any of them.
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Robin Hood (Scott, 2010)
My dominant impression, walking out of Ridley Scott's Gladiator Tw...er Robin Hood, was that it is nice to see Scott Grimes (closer to Party of Five mode than E.R. mode) getting work. My second thought was that Mark Strong could make a career out of playing pre-20th Century villains.