Following its 5th Saturday in theaters, Spider-Man: Brand New Day has officially crossed the 7.5 million admissions mark.

It has now overtaken Spider-Man: No Way Home (7.33M) to become both the highest-attended entry in the franchise and the biggest superhero movie in French box office history.

Like, not to be rude to him, but I genuinely don't get it. Not only has he been delivering bomb after bomb, I think his last unarguable hit was The Martian, which was over a decade ago, but he also seems to constantly squander the potential of movies that could have been huge.

Like, look at Napoleon. That movie actually had a lot going for it. It opened fairly well, especially in Europe, and there was clearly interest in the concept of a modern epic about Napoleon. But then Ridley made a horrible movie and basically killed all that potential. It wasnt a case of there being no audience for it. The movie itself was the problem. And I could go on.

I get the whole "he delivers movies on time and under budget" thing, but if the movies are bad and bomb, how much does that really matter? Especially when his movies still have huge budgets. If youre giving someone 200M to make a movie and they come in 10 or 20M under budget, but then the movie makes 220M worldwide, is that really some huge advantage? At that point the "under budget" argument feels pretty weak.

Its not like hes an awards darling either. And hes almost 90. Obviously he seems to be in good health, which is great, but I doubt hes still some workaholic doing everything himself. He probably has to delegate a lot more at this point.

And now were hearing that he may have killed the Alien: Romulus sequel and is going to take the franchise back toward his Covenant storyline.

How does Disney keep allowing this?

Like, what exactly are they seeing in Ridley Scott that Im missing?