A couple months ago, I looked at the copy of Blade Runner on my shelf and thought, "Hey, I should get around to watching that." So I popped it in. After about fifteen minutes, I remembered that I'd seen the movie before.

I also remembered that I'd done this exact same thing about a year prior.

So this movie has yet to click for me. Maybe someday. It sure is pretty!

I hate that Top Gun is the go-to movie when people think about Tony Scott, and that he gets written off based on it. That was a gun-for-hire movie he did to break into hollywood, and Jerry Bruckheimer is far more responsible for the content than Scott is. And for what it's worth, Scott directed the hell out of it, it looks amazing.

But the stuff that's really representative of his work is his 90s output, which married ultra stylish, flashy visuals, with good scripts and performances. Look at the casts he worked with, giving great early roles to James Gandolfini and Viggo Mortenson, making Denzel a star. And he wasn't complacent either, when people like Michael Bay started ripping him off (without any of the art, or moral center, or restraint), he kept pushing his style further and further to see how experimental he could get. This makes his filmography post Spy Game fascinating, because nobody else would take 100 million dollar R-rated summer movies and do the kinds of crazy experimentation he did with editing, double-exposures, hand-crank (and doing it all on film, not digitally in post). He finally went too far on Domino, but you have to admire that he was pushing to see how far you could take that stuff.

Basically, you don't have to like his movies, but it's extremely reductive to say he was just a lazy gun-for-hire, I'd kill for more Tony Scotts right about now to inject a little style into our blockbuster landscape.

The guy made Days of Thunder which is one of my I don't give a fuck if it sucks I love it movies, so he gets a pass from me.

One could even argue his post 90s output is slightly better then his brothers.

*shrug* I kind of like Top Gun.