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The Gladiator<\/a> and Blade Runner<\/a> director argued that the industry is \u201cdrowning in mediocrity.\u201d So much so, Scott revealed that he has taken to re-watching his old films.<\/p>\n Scott made the comments during an interview reflecting on his career at BFI Southbank<\/a> in London on Sunday. Metro and Yahoo!<\/a> were among those reporting the Oscar-nominated director\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n \u201cThe quantity of movies that are made today, literally globally \u2013 millions. Not thousands, millions\u2026 and most of it is s**t,\u201d he said. Scott added that films are too often \u201csaved\u201d by digital effects because they haven\u2019t got a \u201cgreat thing on paper first.\u201d<\/p>\n Asked if he has a go-to comfort movie, the British director said: \u201cWell, actually, right now, I\u2019m finding mediocrity \u2013 we\u2019re drowning in mediocrity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source m.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ridley Scott, a filmmaker not known for pulling his punches, has issued a withering assessment on the health of Hollywood output right now. The Gladiator and Blade Runner director argued that the industry is \u201cdrowning in mediocrity.\u201d So much so, Scott revealed that he has taken to re-watching his old films. Scott made the comments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2071965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2071964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ridley-Scott-Says-Hollywood-Is-So-Drowning-In-Mediocrity-Hes.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2071964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071966,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071964\/revisions\/2071966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2071965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}