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In Reply to: Re: Ridley Scott, Kingdom of Heaven posted by TA on January 1, 2005 at 10:43:48:
TA: I too liked Blackhawk Down, and thought Scott did a terrific job with it. While working at an acute care clinic (I'm a PA-C) in Addison, TX, I met one of the soldiers (Ranger, as I recall) who was not only there in Mogadishu, but he was actually portrayed in the movie!I can't recall which one--it has been several years ago, but I felt like I was in the presence of a hero--someone who walked the walk, and talked the talk. Very nice unassuming guy.
At any rate, he was pleased with Scott's handling of the material, and is actually featured in one of the interviews on the multi-disk set (I only own the superbit one-disc version--supposedly worth it only for the superb DTS soundtrack).
1492 was okay at best. I agree, not among Scott's best work by any stretch of the imagination, but worth watching a few times.
I have to say that the "non-Scott" directed track record for those historic epic movies is pathetic. While I enjoyed Troy (perhaps a guilty pleasure, but " . . . is there no one else? . . ."), Alexander was crappy, and Arthur was too "Hollywoody" (I attribute that to Bruckheimer, who also ruined Pearl Harbor).
When Hollywood makes these loser historic epic movies, we can't really expect more to be made. As I read several years ago, they probably got made riding on the wake of the wave created by Peter Jackson's LoTR (ok, fantasy rather than a historic epic, but similar grand scale), which demonstrated to Hollywood that if these grand scale movies are done right, movie goers will pay to see them.
all the best, townsend
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