Some angry, angry mail came in on Noah's column this week. I thought it would be good to open up the floor.
Personally, I find his feelings about this a bit 20something and short-sighted... really as simple as "he doesn't get it." But then again, he doesn't "get" Kingdom of Heaven's director's cut, so how can you argue with him. The heart wants what the heart wants.
After the jump, a particularly angry letter that has in its opening graph, "I felt COMPELLED to write this e-mail, to tell you in fact, what a jackass you are..."
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Ridley Scott - Overrated?
I know that in some circles, I would be torn limb from limb for saying this: Ridley Scott is simply not that great.
There, I said it.
Alright, yes, he's a competent filmmaker and is not exactly a blight on the cinematic landscape, but I don't really see why Ridley Scott is deified while his brother Tony Scott is vilified considering their styles are remarkably similar. Let's say you switched the material that each of them directed, do you think that Tony Scott would have ruined any of the films that Ridley has directed? Could Ridley have elevated Déjà Vu from something other than merely passable? I don't really believe that Sir Ridley is such a dynamo as a filmmaker that he would have been able to turn Days of Thunder into awards material, nor do I think that Tony would have made Gladiator any worse.
The column
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2007/10/noahs_frenzy_la.html