Ridley Scott Blames Millennials And Their "F***ing Cellphones" For The Last Duel Flop

Get with the times or die with the rest.

It's no secret more and more people, and not just millennials, are preferring internet videos and streamed TV series' which have more time to develop their characters and give us a chance to get attached to the story. I find 8 to 10 episode seasons of a show to be better than most movies and are certainly a better value than a 2 hour movie at an overpriced theater (which I can eventually rent).

And, frankly, I'm wary of any movie that is reviewed well. These days a well reviewed movie is just code for it having a politically approved message.

I know I'm sure as hell not going to a movie theater with high prices and maskless nutjobs coughing in my direction.

If this movie is good I'll catch it eventually.

Whatever their excuse — they’ve missed out on his best film since Gladiator. I’ll go see movies like this in theaters until they close the last one. Ridley still understands what cinema is all about.

Going to the theatre was already a bad experience for many. The pandemic just made things worse because it taught millions that watching a movie on your 40"- 60" screen at home without having to tell people around you to stfu or people in front of you to sit down or pay $20 for 50 cents worth of flavored water and 5 cents worth of salt and cholesterol soaked popcorn is not so bad. I remember going to the theatre to watch The Sixth Sense. There was nothing scary about the movie but everytime the kid saw dead people, someone in the audience would scream. Then a guy behind me tells his girlfriend or wife the plot to the movie and everyone around him groaned and were pissed, me included. The seats are too close together. The rows are too close together. Sometimes you get stuck beside a person drenched in perfume or cologne who elbows you constantly or who has to get up and pee every ten minutes or a guy behind you who uses the back of your seat as a footrest. The only time I go to the theatre now is when the movie has been out for a month or so and I pick an odd time of day when I know the place will be empty.

For various reasons people just are not going as often to theaters to see movies anymore. It may recover to a degree from what it is today but not to previous levels. I for one hope Scott still has time to make a few more movies.

He is right about misdirection though, as you are all being heavily manipulated by social media.

"as well as Alien Covenant, a film where..." What happened here? Did you get a text and forget to finish this sentence? Kids these days j/k.

He also forgets that a lot of people are fed up with Pedo Wood, cancel culture and wokeness and refuse to go to the movies, period!

Pandemic, bad marketing, the fact that most people will see it for free in a couple months had NOTHING to do with it. Its all them damn millennial's fault! I dunno if movie makers realize this, but they CAN retire.

Movie not withstanding, he isnt wrong about cellphones, but it isnt any specific group of people. A great deal of people are addicted to cellphones and honestly, its not making life better for them. Plenty of people cannot go a day, or even a week without using a cellphone.

I find it ironic that most of the millennials responding are offended.

Surprising that the current situation, the competition, the accessibility of the movie and market trends do not come to his mind before blaming people.

It's like when Gearbox blamed players for "not understanding" Colonial Marines.

Cott: your movie is great and scial media is garbage, yes. but you made a movie that is not for the masses. That's it.

I'm a big Scott fan, and somehow I hadn't even heard about this movie. Hey Ridley - whoever did the marketing for this movie failed. Either that, or I'm not really that big of a Ridley Scott fan. Now that I know no one's going to see it, I might check it out. I had to wait until the very last day to see Antlers because the theater was too full every night. I'm not sitting with a bunch of other people if no one's checking vaccination cards. Sorry. I'm sure the theaters have upgraded their air handling systems by now, but I'm not chancing it.

I find it dumb that even the comments section doesn't realize millennials are 35 to 40 now.

It's like he's forgotten how to make the kind of movie people will bother going to a theater to see. The entire premise of the film is one I would rather rent & watch at home, even before the pandemic. There can't be much that the "movie theater experience" adds to this sort of film. Disclaimer: Not a millennial, I'm GenX.

Scott should blame himself for that laughable casting. You couldn't pay me to see that.

funny. isn't Adam Driver the heartthrob of so many zoomers? lol

Never heard about it, not interested in it, and even IF I was interested in it I still wouldn't go to see it. I've already put off seeing movies I was/am interested in seeing (Jungle Cruise, Ghost Busters, Dune) in theaters due to living in a county that had the highest number of infections in California less than 3 months ago. Last thing I want to do is sit in a theater with a bunch of people I do not know nor trust.

Covid19 + streaming + weak marketing it's probably the answer he's lookin for. Also, gen Z and Alpha where brought up with smartphones, gen y only generally got around to it by theirs 20's or so.

Is Scott saying that only Millennials go to the movies? I would assume that adults in other demographics would be a larger portion of the movie going public that would be interested in a film like this. I find it interesting that the older directors like Scott and Scorsese. Are so upset with the people that are buying, or not buying, tickets to see their movies. I have to think that people like them in the industry are egotistical windbags that are totally full of themselves. Any rational creative person in entertainment and any of the other arts, is going to understand that not everyone will like their work. Regardless of how "famous" they are. I love Clint Eastwood, but hated his latest movie "Cry Macho".

the irony being that this article is written in a style to sensationalize the couple of statements of a much longer discussion SO THAT IT CAN BE MORE EASILY CONSUMED VIA SMARTPHONE BY MILLENNIALS (and younger).

But I'm sure your goal was to get everyone to listen to the entire podcast of a discussion about how media consumption landscape has gone away from longform towards short, for the sake of commerce, errrrrrrright?

Tell me, who is gamespot appeasing by censoring the word "fucking" in the title? Is this crossing the line into "vulgar, and otherwise objectionable" behavior?

Do you object?

i just take it as a eldery man complaining about those damn kids wont get off my lawn but then again it from the guy trying to make Gladiator 2 so idea what is going on in his brain.

Sooo I saw this trailer and had NO IDEA what this movie was about. I like Ridley Scott, but the way this movie was promoted was not all that great...

Hmm... $18 Canadian to go see this thing in a theater with overpriced food and drink... or less than that to pick from hundreds of movies to stream whenever I want throughout an entire month. Such a hard decision to make.

It has nothing to do with my phone and 100% you made a movie I couldn't care less about. Anything even remotely medieval or high fantasy puts me off.

Only a millennial would react the way the author of this article has.

My question is why is it all being put on Millennials? If it's a serious and intellectual period piece, it should capture the attention of a much wider audience, much farther reaching than a single generation. If I had to put the "failure" on any single one thing, my bet would be, Ben Affleck. He ruins everything for me.