Trailer: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood
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The accent will probably be an improvement over Kevin Costner’s (although I liked that Robin Hood).
But I’m still partial to the BBC’s Maid Marian, Lucy Griffiths.
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This is Robin Hood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iA1VxAsBQ8
Ridley, Crowe and Cate – 3 good reasons to check out the movie.
Shiny.
yup, just what I like in a movie. Lots of blood and gore and 1-dimensional bad guys who are EEEVUL. You know, just because they are.
Russell Crowe and swords. Seen it.
Here’s hoping the script tries a little to show people with actual medieval attitudes, the way HBO’s Rome did with Romans.
seriously, how could it NOT be an improvement on Costner’s version? That performance is still to me the nadir of bad cinematic performance…
SEX. SEX. SEX. This is going to be … OMG. Cate Blanchett? Hummina. Is this based on the Stephen Lawhead books? I’m reading those right now. They’re slow to get going but good once they do, even if they do make Robin Hood Welsh.
The BBC’s version was at times very good, if always very cheesy, but this last season sucked donkey balls and the way it ended was so painfully bad I laughed out loud. I did like that their Marian wasn’t a tanorexic stick figure, but they dressed her straight from the H&M bargain bin and she had far more chemistry with Sir Holy Hotness Guy of Gisborne that she did with that little twerp who played Robin. Sam Troughton, however, ruled my heart and soul. I want a Much of my very own.
This, though, is going to be fucking amazing. Russell Crowe and the Robin Hood story and Cate OMG HOT Blanchett and lots of asskicking and costumes. It’s like all my favorite things wrapped up in some shaky slo-mo and really loud fight scenes. Merry Christmas to me!
A.
There was another Robin Hood movie that came out around the time Costner’s did, but with Costner being a big deal and having a big ego (see: Wyatt Earp vs. Tombstone) his movie got more attention.
Right? At least he’s got pants on this time.
The only saving grace in the Costner version was Alan Rickman.
Not even
GodMorgan Freeman as a Moor?What about Robin Hood: Men In Tights then?
I didn’t see series 3 of BBC’s Robin Hood, but the reason I liked that show is it reminded me of the straight up adventure shows I watched as a kid. I like good dramas, but something can be a fun romp too.
“Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?”
“Because it’s DULL, you TWIT! It’ll HURT MORE!”
A.
speaking of the BBC version of Robin Hood, has that been canceled? I hope not, I love that shot.
I recently became a big fan of the old Robin of Sherwood TV series from the eighties. It really emphasized the pagan elements of the myths, and built on the more recent trend of structuring the rich/poor divide as a Norman/Saxon conflict. Both those elements probably make it resonate better with audiences who grew up in England, but a lot of us Yanks find it refreshingly different and a lot more interesting than the Costner-ized version.
I love Morgan Freeman, but I’m sorry — a black man does not belong in Sherwood Forest.
Best line of the whole movie.
“a lot more interesting than the Costner-ized version.”
What isn’t? 30 years down the road Costner will be forgotten.
Yep. Errol Flynn, Basil Rathbone, Alan Hale Claude Rains. The best of the bunch. Great fun.
I liked the 1980s BBC Robin Hood series, though I have to say the synthesizer music gets to be a bit much at times. But it had a great cast, good scripts, and a freaky guy who lived in the filthy dungeon with his rat and always said, “Feet first, that’s the only way” whenever anyone tried to get out of there.
And most importantly, like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and Jabberwocky, that version had the correct amount of filth.