87-year-old Ridley Scott is still the firebrand he was half his life ago, when he broke into Hollywood. He's the director of some of the greatest movies of all time. And we've covered the best Ridley Scott shots, so we know you can spend weeks watching all the cool things he's done. And he knows that, too. Somehow, he never won an Academy Award, which is nuts, but the Oscar-nominated filmmaker recently reflected on all the good movies he's made at a BFI retrospective of his career. And he talked about all the bad movies being made today. According to Metro, the director told his son, Luke Scott:The quantity of movies that are made today, literally millions globally, and most of it is sh*t. So what I do, and it’s a horrible thing, but I’ve started to watch my own movies, and actually they’re really good! And also, they don’t age.I love how Scott can embrace his own work and how much he's looking back and is proud. You only have one life to live, and it's cool to see Scott happy with how he used it and the stories he got to tell. There's real inspiration and pride in that. And I think something beautiful about it as well. So what's Scott's theory on why all these modern movies are not good? Well, it has to do with the screenplays. Socct said, “I think a lot of films today are saved and made more expensive by digital effects, because...
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