Is he still a good director, despite recent flops? Was he ever

Good director, yes. Good writer and storyteller, no. Give him a great script and he's spectacular, give him dreck and he doesn't even attempt to polish a turd, just create good visuals to compensate.

He's a good director. Even his worst are well directed films but with weak scripts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbw8EIVlzM0

>>83317942
alien 10/10

blade runner 6/10 (all style, no admirable story)

black rain 7/10 (decent 90s action flick, nothing remarkable though)

thelma and louise 3/10 (single 90s mom garbage)
1492 7/10 ok
White Squall 7/10 cheesy but watchable
GI Jane 5/10 garbage
Gladiator 6/10 overrated long winded, melodramatic
hannibal 2/10 garbage
black hawk down 5/10 stupid huzzah trash, corny, contrived
matchstick men 7/10 watchable
kingdom of heaven 5/10 boring
american ganster 5/10 boring, old tired type of movie making
robin hood 6/10 maybe this is worth watching again, i think i fell asleep when I watched it
prometheus 3/10 trash
the martian 3/10 trash
covenant 2/10 trash

He had 1 movie (Alien) that is significant

Mostly mediocre stuff after, then shittier and shittier

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good tier
alien
blade runner

meh tier
the duellists
gladiator
kingdom heaven dc
black rain

shit tier
anything else

>>83317942
He's a good director, but he needs to realize the difference between a good script and a bad script, and he needs to realize that if he's given a bad script, it's his responsibility to make sure that it gets fixed.

>>83318068
shitty review tb h

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Leave Blade Runner to me. And hopefully Alien too.

>>83317942
>or was it the source material carrying him?

lol

all his most revered films have garbage scripts

>>83318068
>boring, old tired type of movie making

hey /v/

>>83317942
the george lucas of directors

>>83318068
i would like to know what kind of movies you like. just to have an overall impression of your taste. there's no duelist on the list, but since you given such low scores to prometheus and covenant, i guess you're one of "those" guys... really, robin hood is actually better than prometheus? cmon give it a break for fuck sake

He's always been hit or miss and has always pumped out mediocre films. Some of those I've never seen and didn't know he did (GI Joe?).

Legend, American Gangster and Hannibal were kind of crap though.

>>83317942
>Sir Ridley Scott

Didn't realise he had been knighted. I bet the Queen loves a bit of Alien.

>>83317942
The Martian was Decent

He's an amazing director. It's just that the scripts he's working with are shit.

>>83317942
He's one of the best working directors right now. He shits on pretty much everyone else, the fact that there are threads like this doubting him suggests that something is horribly wrong with people.

>>83317942
technically he is top notch, but recently - in the past 17+ years he got really full of himself, thinking he is hot shit, while making only shit. he also started believing he is Kubrick 2.0 coming with those "grand ideas" like every Redditor has them.

>>83317988
fpbp

>>83319687
>>83319688
ok ridley

>>83319704
>he is top notch, but for more than half of his career he is shit

??

https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I

Is this his best kino movie flick?

gladiator proved he was a garbage director

>>83317942
He never was a good director. He only lucked out early on when he was surrounded by talented people who gave him great scripts, art design, performances etc.

Scott himself was alway a hack.

>>83319533
well, they're both parasites..i guess there's some feeling

>>83319735
like I said, technically from a craftsmanship point of view he is excellent and like other anons already pointed out he is only as good as the script lets him be.
he has a rather bad judgement when it comes to picking projects/scripts and it has gotten worse in the past couple of years.