Gladiator Movies
Ridley Scott has had such a long career that every time a film fan looks at one of his films there is a temptation to see it in context of his other work. Scott has never been my favorite director and I am not a fan at all of one of the films he is most known for, Blade Runner, but overall I am pretty fond of many of his films, mostly due to the unique settings his characters get to play in. Alien is a superb horror movie in space, Black Rain is well made cop thriller with an edgy performance from Michael Douglas as a NY cop chasing a criminal in Japan, Thelma and Louise may be his most successful film creatively. Scott bravely took on Hannibal, the sequel to the Oscar winning The Silence of the Lambs, a high profile film that was destined to be far less loved than its predecessor. Scott accepted the offer because he liked the novel and didn’t worry about anything other than making the best film he could. More recently I enjoyed The Martian and All The Mone...