Historically, Ridley Scott doesn’t have much of a filter. Currently, the same is also true. It’s one of the things we kinda love about him!

The legendary director of Alien , Blade Runner , and Gladiator turned up to give a talk at the BFI Southbank last week and certainly didn’t hold back when discussing the state of Hollywood’s modern movie output, slamming most of it as “shit.”

“The quantity of movies that are made today, literally globally – millions. Not thousands, millions… and most of it is shit,” he said (via Metro ), adding “80% – 60% – eh, 40% is the rest, and 25% of that 40 is not bad, and 10% is pretty good, and the top 5% is great. I’m not sure about the proportion of what I’ve just said, but in the 1940s when there were maybe 300 films a year made, 70% of them

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