Ridley Scott says The Last Duel flopped because of millennials and their 'f**king cellphones'
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Raytrace3D
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Yeah, seriously... Ridley might want to blame the distributor 20th Century Studios for poor marketing. This is literally the first time I've even heard of this movie and I'm on YouTube all day and exposed to countless ads. lol
"is an epic historical drama set in 14th-century France that deals with social issues relevant today."
In other words... another WOKE pile of smoldering DUNG! I'll pass.
In other words... another WOKE pile of smoldering DUNG! I'll pass.
Vulcanproject
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Burty117
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Same! I've worked from home alot this year and I constantly have YouTube or the radio or something playing in the background. This hasn't come up once.
Experimentongod
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I'm a millennial, I barely touch my smartphone and this is the first time I've heard anything about this movie. Sorry Ridley :/
wiyosaya
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wiyosaya
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Have to agree. He's PO'd because the movie did not bring in more megabucks he does not need. So, he's striking out at what he thinks is the problem when the fact that the movie did not bring in the "desperately needed megabucks" is probably more due to COVID than anything else.
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wiyosaya
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Absolutely. The theater experience is total crap these days no matter the generation of the viewer sitting next to you. It is not worth it. If I decide to see this, I will wait until my local library gets it and then borrow it and watch it in my own home - free of screaming little kids, and everyone, no matter the generation, on their cell phones, not to mention crap theaters where you can hear all the booms and bangs from the next theater, too.ScottSoapbox
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People are tired of paying for entertainment and instead getting "relevant social issues".
You want to get paid? Entertain rather than propagandize. It's a free country so do either, but don't cry when the latter doesn't make money.
You want to get paid? Entertain rather than propagandize. It's a free country so do either, but don't cry when the latter doesn't make money.
Ridley is absolutely correct. Most millennials I know are boring dimwitted twits who spend their lives tethered to their phones, absorbing as much bullshit as they can through all of their external orifices. Companies like Netflix are guilty of pandering to their *****ic tastes. But it's OK, what goes around, comes around.
elementalSG
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"Millennials" like me are nearly 40. Ridley Scott could get with the times and release to a streaming service as well as the theater.
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I'm about 45 years past being a millennial, but always found medieval movies boring.. ever since "Spartacus" was on long ago. It was simply a bad choice for a movie these days.. recently read of Disney abandoning some other film that they knew wouldn't pay off. Sorry he thinks Marvel and DC superhero films are junk, but they pay... just like when Stevie Nicks and Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac - pay off is not necessarily related to quality.. it's what people buy. Kudos to him for trying to do something worthwhile.
Huh.. I thought "millennials" were 20 to 25 years old. I learn something new every day.. fm inet...
"Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation."
"Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 (ages 23 to 38 in 2019) is considered a Millennial, and anyone born from 1997 onward is part of a new generation."
cliffordcooley
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If his advertisers did a fantastic job. Why am I seeing a lot of people who never heard of the movie?
My take? Covid-19 and cell phones are quite likely part of the problem. But to me the real "problem" is we're being bombarded with so much content from various sources that consumers have become more picky about what and how they consume media. This means that many if not most theaters have fallen into disrepair due to low box office which only makes them a less attractive option. Get with the times Ridley, STFU, and release on a streaming platform...
cliffordcooley
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PEnnn
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Because lazy millennials need to be spoon fed that tired Marvel junk at each meal.
Anything that requires even the minimal amount of brain power will distract them and ruin their pathetic day..
Anything that requires even the minimal amount of brain power will distract them and ruin their pathetic day..
Ridley Scott is in his 80s. I'd imagine it's all the same to him
In any case, the point is still valid regardless of the demographic.
Theinsanegamer
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Millenials LOVED squid game, because it was different.
Ridley scott, after those two disasterous alien prequels, has shat HARD on his reputation. Nobody cares about his films, as its been made very clear he thinks way too highly of himself and has no idea how to write a smart story. his work before the alien prequels was already showing his best days were behind him.
If you write a dumb script, the internet is going to rip it apart, and thats where most young people hear about movies, not "critics" (read: shills) from movie sites that will praise anything that injects "woke" into a film and sing praises about the most cliched BS.
Also, advertising you old decrepid sock. Even on TV I'd never seen an ad for this film, and on the internet most young people run ad blockers, because internet ads are like syphilisAIDSclamydia. You have to have some actual interaction with people to spread awareness of your film nowadays. Although I'm guessing that if he did try that, he'd only dare go to the depths of reddit where SJW ideology is worshipped, and still wouldnt have gotten an audience, because the woke internet is a tiny place, and the wider audience would pan his movie for being garbage.
You'd think after the last jedi, star trek discovery, and ghostbusters, filmmakers would start to catch onto how out of touch critics are about films. But I guess their own cinnamon farts are still too strong to realize the woke twitter mob has 0 money, thats why they're on twitter all day.
The non "woke" have lives, we're not going to waste our time on garbage. No media that prioritized virtue signaling is going to have good writing, because those with talent are not going to pour effort into something nobody wants to see, and being offended is not a character that any normal person is going to identify with.
Ridley scott, after those two disasterous alien prequels, has shat HARD on his reputation. Nobody cares about his films, as its been made very clear he thinks way too highly of himself and has no idea how to write a smart story. his work before the alien prequels was already showing his best days were behind him.
If you write a dumb script, the internet is going to rip it apart, and thats where most young people hear about movies, not "critics" (read: shills) from movie sites that will praise anything that injects "woke" into a film and sing praises about the most cliched BS.
Also, advertising you old decrepid sock. Even on TV I'd never seen an ad for this film, and on the internet most young people run ad blockers, because internet ads are like syphilisAIDSclamydia. You have to have some actual interaction with people to spread awareness of your film nowadays. Although I'm guessing that if he did try that, he'd only dare go to the depths of reddit where SJW ideology is worshipped, and still wouldnt have gotten an audience, because the woke internet is a tiny place, and the wider audience would pan his movie for being garbage.
So once again pandering to the critics, which the audiences hate, and they wonder why audiences dont like it.
You'd think after the last jedi, star trek discovery, and ghostbusters, filmmakers would start to catch onto how out of touch critics are about films. But I guess their own cinnamon farts are still too strong to realize the woke twitter mob has 0 money, thats why they're on twitter all day.
Yeah, movies that try to push "modern social issues" are crap. They have always been crap, and they will always be crap, because the only type of person who wants to listen to out of touch hollywood elites whinge on about propagandized issues are out of touch shut ins that live in insufferable echo chambers (see: twitter and tumblr).OMG! Another "Woke" movie. Must be crap!
The non "woke" have lives, we're not going to waste our time on garbage. No media that prioritized virtue signaling is going to have good writing, because those with talent are not going to pour effort into something nobody wants to see, and being offended is not a character that any normal person is going to identify with.
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captaincranky
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You're technically right, (however reluctant I may be to confer that status on anyone other than myself). Mr. Scott was squeezed out at the beginning of WWII, and not in the baby boom immediately thereafter.
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How typical to blame millennials for the failure of anything. The movie was under-advertised and clearly he's out of touch with what people want to watch. How can you sit there and blame a single generation for the failure of a movie when we only consist of a fraction of the viewership population? Makes no sense.
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