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Acclaimed filmmaker Ridley Scott<\/a> isn’t holding back his thoughts on the state of movies today, lamenting that audiences are “drowning in mediocrity.”<\/p>\n The director of such classics as Blade Runner<\/em> and Gladiator<\/em> reflected on the quantity and quality of movies being made in the age of streaming during a career retrospective at\u00a0BFI Southbank in London on Sunday. “The quantity of movies that are made today” is in the millions, Scott said, according to Metro<\/em><\/a>, and “most of it is s\u2011\u2011\u2011.”<\/p>\n About “10% is pretty good and the top 5% is great,” Scott declared, adding, “I think a lot of films today are saved and made more expensive by digital effects because what they haven’t got is a great thing on paper first. Get it on paper!”<\/p>\n When asked if there was a film he liked to rewatch for comfort, Scott cited his own expansive filmography, thank you very much. “Well, actually, right now, we’re drowning in mediocrity, and so what I do \u2014 it’s a horrible thing \u2014 but I’ve started watching my own movies,” he said.<\/p>\n “And actually they’re pretty good!” Scott added. “And also, they don’t age.”<\/p>\n Scott said he recently rewatched his Oscar-nominated 2001 war film Black Hawk Dawn<\/em> “and I thought, ‘How in the hell did I manage to do that?'” Still, he’s hopeful about the future of movies. “I think occasionally a good one will happen,” Scott said. “It’s like a relief that there’s somebody out there who’s doing a good movie.”<\/p>\n