Ridley Scott blames The Last Duel's box office failure on millennials

[Luke Cage]

I grew up watching medieval movies and series. like Excalibur, Lady Hawke, Xena, Conan, so on and so forth. I'm basically done with them now. LOTR was the final crescendo
Westerns i watched alot too, i'm good on those, Gangster films was all i watched from like 00s to 2012. Those three genres need to just go art house now. do oscar bait films with them.
but stop thinking you can make a blockbuster with the same shyt.
Superhero films is my shyt now because these are what i always wanted as a kid when i watching the cartoons and reading the comics. Martial Art films are a close second, because i never felt like we get enough of them, as soon as a star rises he dies, or gets old then the movies dry up again.

 

[Meowth tote da Uzi]

It was pretty damn good. Glad I was able to catch it for the two weeks it was shown at the local theater.

Is this movie actually any good or is this like this time yall lames (not you specifically unless it was you) said The Green Knight was a good movie.

 

[Lootpack]

Is this movie actually any good or is this like this time yall lames (not you specifically unless it was you) said The Green Knight was a good movie.

Give it a watch and find out. It was good to me, but it may not be to you. shyt is all subjective in the end.

 

[Silver Surfer]

Good movie from a story telling standpoint

 

[MF_BREW]

He needs to blame the studio for not marketing it right. Oh and the Gucci movie

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I grew up watching medieval movies and series. like Excalibur, Lady Hawke, Xena, Conan, so on and so forth. I'm basically done with them now. LOTR was the final crescendo
Westerns i watched alot too, i'm good on those, Gangster films was all i watched from like 00s to 2012. Those three genres need to just go art house now. do oscar bait films with them.
but stop thinking you can make a blockbuster with the same shyt.
Superhero films is my shyt now because these are what i always wanted as a kid when i watching the cartoons and reading the comics. Martial Art films are a close second, because i never felt like we get enough of them, as soon as a star rises he dies, or gets old then the movies dry up again.

The only movies that should get over $100 million budget are super hero movies, movies aimed at kids and high concept action movies. Everything else is a losing bet for theaters. You might as well go streaming with the old guard of money makers like comedies, dramas, rom coms, thrillers, mysteries, etc.

 

[Renegade47]

nobody wants to see that bullshyt man. fukk that bullshyt man

 

[staticshock]

What don't these fools understand about the fact that we are in the middle of a pandemic?

If this was 2019, this movie and other movies would have made millions at the box office.

A lot of folks just ain't risking it, and those who are, are picking and choosing when they're willing to undertake the risk. For instance, I wouldn't risk going to the movies to see Dune or Eternals, but I'm tempted to risk it all for Spiderman (even tho I'm still not going then, as I value my life and health and the life and health of my family over ANY movie).

middle of a pandemic? Lol

 

[Smokin Rider]

Damn, I was gonna watch that, didnt even know it came out already

 

[Regular_P]

As @NZA said the film might be good but it looked depressing, reviewers kept referring to it as a #Metoo movie.

I haven't seen this yet but the #MeToo "marketing" or label was a terrible idea for this movie. In the end, it's about two guys having a sword fight to the death; the accusation is the backdrop to the inevitable. Anyone with a brain can see through that and this is a movie geared towards older audiences anyway. They cheapened it with the #MeToo tag.

I'll also say, I barely saw any promotion for this movie. I didn't even know it was a thing until I saw GQ's article on Matt Damon. Even after that, I didn't see many trailers on TV. It was just sent out to die.

 

[Megadeus]

How about blaming marketing and the fuxkin corporation that financed your failure.

Thank you

“I think what it boils down to — what we’ve got today [are] the audiences who were brought up on these fukking cellphones,” said Scott. “The millennian [sic] do not ever want to be taught anything unless you’re told it on a cellphone.”

Then thats squarely on marketing to make sure that they promote the shyt through cell phones. The fxck?


Imagine I come out with a drink, release it in stores and no one buys it because the labeling is in braille. Then I say "this is the problem with mankind right now. We're dealing with a generation of people who just can't seem to fxcking read anything unless it's visibly spelled out for them in text. It's quite sad really".

......when all I had to do is spell the labeling out in text like every other successful beverage does.

“Disney did a fantastic promotion job,” he admitted.

Obviously no the fxck they didnt. Because if they did, then this masterpiece of yours wouldn't have flopped, would it?

 

[FlyRy]

As @NZA said the film might be good but it looked depressing, reviewers kept referring to it as a #Metoo movie.

30 years ago it wouldn't have been a box office hit either so hes talking shyt. Plus its just a regular old man trope to complain about things being different to when they came up.

It will be interesting to see how House Of Gucci does, that looks way more entertaining and has Lady GaGa in the lead role. I think that will be successful and disprove his theory.

30 years ago this shyt would have won best picture. Or at least been nominated. even 20. And been a huge hit... But you nailed it on gucci commercially speaking