Ridley Scott's filmography

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**jbunny**

Ridley is hit or miss. The difference to others like him is his hits are blockbusters, and his misses aer still watchable.

Legend - has to be watched in the time frame it was filmed. At the time it was good CGI and the story is alright.

Matchstick Men is a great con movie, almost as good as the Sting.

Black Hawk Down is probably one of my favorite movies. And that says a lot as I love movies.

As for Tony, another great movie.

Even though it is a remake Man on Fire truly captures the "You pissed off the wrong guy" feel.

Crimson Tide is a wonderful movie

Spy Games, might not be great but I enjoy watching it.

**cpt_fishcakes**

Legends a classic for Tim Currys performance as Darkness alone. The film also has some amazing physical effects and makeup. Having Mia Sara all Gothed up in that black dress is a bonus as well

The storys just your typical fantasy guff. Hero defeats bad guy and gets girl, and befriends alcoholic midgets.

It is another Ridley film with several versions like Bladerunner. Theres the original European version, theres the shorter US version with the Tangerine Dreams soundtrack. Also theres a 45 minute TV edit, just to add to the confusion.

**gorgon**

I didn't know about the alternate non-Tangerine Dream soundtrack until a decade or more later.

**IG_urban**

sebster wrote:
IG_urban wrote:Neat opinion. And it's yours.

I'm sorry you didn't "get" Domino, but that was a great movie. Man on fire was also good, it wasn't "Taken" good, but compared to most of Hollywood's Movies in the past 10 years, it's good. Enemy of the State is awesome and talks about issues we NOW face and basically "invented" the Patriot Act before the general public had ever heard of it. ( the telecommunications and privacy act, in the film). Pelham stood up as a FANTASTIC remake, as far as Hollywood remakes go.

anyway...most different and off beat movies get bad reviews and horrible movies are popular...like Mission to Mars or any Michael Bay movie or Wolfman, etc....

my most beloved and favorite movie of all time got a bad rap as well, Lost in Translation.

so you didn't like them, I do, deal with it.

Yeah, it's cool, you're welcome to like whatever you like. But whether or not you or I like a movie is quite different to whether or not it was made well. Note that there are plenty of well made movies I don't like, and plenty of badly made movies I've enjoyed.

So you liked some movies that aren't very good, deal with it.

There was nothing to 'get' with Domino. It was a complete mess that was almost universally panned.

It's very odd that you cite Mission to Mars and Wolfman as popular, horrible movies. Their box office returns were poor. Mission to Mars grossed $22m on a production budget of $90m, making it as disaster, Wolfman has grossed around $100 million on a production budget of $85 million, making it a minor failure category, unless it has remarkably good DVD sales.

Lost in Translation didn't get a bad rap, it's a critic's darling. I really liked it as well. There was some level of backlash against it, but that always happens to popular, acclaimed movies.

I am judging by critics comments rather than money made, Mission to Mars was acclaimed by critics when it first hit theatres. I am also speaking of hype on both interwebs and television. If we were using profit as a gauge, then everything would get all screwy. Domino was a good movie, it's not everybody's cup of tea, and it was a bit before it's time, but that does not make it horrible. Watch it more than once and at different points in your life, I didn't like it when I first watched it either.