#fuck ridley scott

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I just would like to take this moment to say FUCK YOU, Ridley Scott.

Hope you're all doing well. I'm still alive but i'm over on my other blog, I still check in here obviously. Have a good end of 2023.

[napoleondidthat]

A cringe fest of Napoleon movie WTF moments.

The sad part is that I can actually see Napoleon doing some of these things, but something dies inside of me when I look at these.

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

I’m sorry but whoever decided to put the Taylor Holmes recording of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Boots” that’s used for US Military SERE Training in the 28 Years Later trailer deserves a fucking award

[aeonfvx]

Alien: Covenant (2017) / Director Ridley Scott

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Cailee Spaeny in this!!😍

[xenobean]

My take on the newer Alien movies

[chaoswillcalmusdown]

i think the last time i saw a ridley scott film was alien for uni and like.

he's so boring and i just don't care ?

he picks dudes out of a hat bc they 'look right' and doesn't care to audition them if they're big enough names, he assigns ethnicities by throwing darts at a board and he has never once met a woman he likes.

wow, so fresh, so unique, so interesting

[proosh]

[with increasing amounts of despair] at least we'll always have Waterloo (1970)

[knighthelm-aes]

Your knowledge of ancient Rime going into Gladiator 2 will only be a hinderance to the experience best to leave it at the door on your way in. Not that this wasn’t expected but like genuinely a like strange experience and at first I was like “whoops I meant to rewatch the first movie before this” but I don’t think it would have saved me

My dad (tiktok trend type male Roman Empire enjoyer) turned to me during the credits and asked “What did you think?” And I paused because like I’m a known hater and didn’t want to start negative so I was like “I’m so confused” and he was like “Yeah I thought her son was Caligula” LMFAOOOO

[folkteeth]

[callmeanxietygirl]

[napoleondidthat]

I Am Dying A Thousand Deaths…

I’m currently watching the director’s cut of Napoleon by Ridley Scott. There is quite a bit new material that does fill out the story, explains things better and overall makes the movie flow better. There are gross inaccuracies still that makes the Napoleonic historian, us, cringe, but the average viewer wouldn’t care.

Some scenes are good, some are meh and then a few like what the hell am I looking at?

I haven’t been through the whole movie yet because I have to stop it every now and then but I had to stop and talk about this fucking scene.

This. Fucking. Scene.

Napoleon seeks out Hippolyte Charles to get advice on how to get Josephine pregnant.

Scene opens with Hippolyte waiting to be summoned by the Emperor and he seems nervous because he probably thinks Napoleon is going to confront him on his affair with the wife. Cannons are being fired outside randomly, who the fuck knows why, and every explosion makes Charles fidget more and look more guilty.

He is summoned.

Napoleon asks him if he can keep this conversation to himself and be discreet. Charles agrees. Napoleon then asks if he has children.

Yes, he has three sons, he says.

Napoleon asks if it took long (the act) to conceive.

Charles says he can’t remember.

Napoleon then asks, I shit you not, “is it important to pleasure a lady before you enter her”

Charles is like “dude” and mumbles about loving his wife. Napoleon says he loves his wife too and doesn’t want Charles to be shy, speak openly. Charles says he doesn’t know what the FUCK is going on.

Napoleon then says, again I shit you not, “tell me is it important for me to use my mouth down below between my wife’s legs before I enter her. “

The fuck is going on! Am I having a stroke? Am I stroking out?

Charles says he believes that a more a woman is aroused the more likely she is to conceive.

Napoleon thanks him and says he sought him out because he is a man of good “cocksmanship”, has a pretty face and the aire of a hairdresser.

I want to throw myself out of a window. I am dying watching this. Not laughter, like I want to go crawl under the bed and never come out again.

This fucking scene.

What in the absolute actual fuck did I just watch?

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By Andrew Roberts

British historians — including friends of mine such as Paul Johnson, Sir John Keegan and Sir Alistair Horne — have had immense influence on the bleak way Napoleon is viewed. Claude Ribbe’s book Le Crime de Napoleon portrayed him as a genocidal dictator on a par with Hitler, and the US historian Paul Schroeder wrote: “Hitler did it for the sake of an unbelievably horrible ideal; Napoleon for no underlying purpose at all.”

Unfortunately, Scott’s movie perpetuates this absurd myth. No mention is made of any achievement beyond the military ones. He rightly shows Napoleon as being popular with the French people but the evidence given in the movie makes this incomprehensible.

Without the context of the Napoleonic Code — the reorganisation of French laws — the financial reforms, the restoration of law and order, the concordat with the Catholic Church, the infrastructure projects, the new education system, meritocratic social advancement, the creation of the Banque de France and Légion d’Honneur and Council of State, for example, the film’s emperor is reduced to a man who merely throws food at his wife, has sex with her under the table with servants present, and almost never takes off his hat while indoors.

[seasonsbloom]

sometimes the people i go to uni with post some of the worst takes i’ve ever seen on letterboxd and i just have to lay down for a while and weep

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yay serious historical biopics about white men are on the rise again love to see that