Comment by scotty79
1 day ago
Best creators are a little mad. Their best work is usually early work when their madness is tempered by limitations and other people around them.
But when success comes they become too big, rich and influential and their next movies are pretty much whatever they want them to be. And they are crap, because pinch of salt of their madness becomes whole dish.
It happened with Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Neill Blomkamp, probably some others.
It's also said that a director makes the same movie for entirety of their career. It's very visible in case of Ridley Scott. His later movies hit again and again the same perverse things that he consistently finds exciting.
I know this sentiment but for me it does not apply to Scott. He made some great movies later in his career; Black Hawk Down, Hannibal, Prometheus and The Martian are all masterpieces imo. The Last Duel was also pretty good