Escape to the Movies: Robin Hood
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Great review and sadly it's bang on. Just watched Robin Hood, who successfully robbed me of 131 minutes. Great cast, sets, director and possible the worst pile of crap I had to endure.
*Note to self, if a big budget movie comes out before the May long weekend, don't bother.
Now I have to try one of those Fluffernutter sandwhiches, which I know will be 100% better than Robin Hood.
*Note to self, if a big budget movie comes out before the May long weekend, don't bother.
Now I have to try one of those Fluffernutter sandwhiches, which I know will be 100% better than Robin Hood.
There is no true Robin Hood "book" or "tale". it's a bunch of folklore passed down about a real life bandit. Maid Marriean wasn't even added till years after the story was started. Robin Hood has been done but it has no real story to follow. There are options beyond options to it, the original script about Robin being a true outlaw sounds great. To bad it had to be "Hollywoodized" so badly.
This movie was actually great. You begin your review with some accurate points, listing aspects of the production that were excellent, but your review hinges on your opinion that the story is terrible.
You're wrong.
If your idea of Robin Hood were informed by more than just Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, and Carey Elwes, (Edit: and Disney, and Loony Tunes) you might get it. If you had ever read "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" you might have a better perspective. Hell, if you even had some understanding of English history, you'd be better off. Sadly, you seem to want another kid's movie.
The legends of Robin Hood are not kiddie tales for bed time. Sure, American movies have adapted them for that, but they're not originally silly at all. You and many other reviewers, however, seem unable to deal with seeing a Robin Hood movie for adults, and that's a real shame.
This movie is made for intelligent adults. It acknowledges that during this time period in England, Freemasonry was invented, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, Richard had bankrupted the country to finance a series of Crusades, and there were lingering tensions between Saxons and Normans. The story of Robin Hood is not the story of a man, it is the story of a country - England - and this movie tells that story.
If you want to see a debonair fellow in green tights crack jokes and sing "hey nonny nonny," somehow remaining immaculately clean and well groomed while living in a forest, this is not your movie. If you want to see a kid's movie, this isn't it. If you want to see a beautiful movie that captures some of the truth of 13th century England (even while taking liberties with a few facts) then this is an excellent movie for you, and you should definitely see it on the big screen - it is spectacular. I hope they make a couple of sequels.
You're wrong.
If your idea of Robin Hood were informed by more than just Errol Flynn, Kevin Costner, and Carey Elwes, (Edit: and Disney, and Loony Tunes) you might get it. If you had ever read "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" you might have a better perspective. Hell, if you even had some understanding of English history, you'd be better off. Sadly, you seem to want another kid's movie.
The legends of Robin Hood are not kiddie tales for bed time. Sure, American movies have adapted them for that, but they're not originally silly at all. You and many other reviewers, however, seem unable to deal with seeing a Robin Hood movie for adults, and that's a real shame.
This movie is made for intelligent adults. It acknowledges that during this time period in England, Freemasonry was invented, King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta, Richard had bankrupted the country to finance a series of Crusades, and there were lingering tensions between Saxons and Normans. The story of Robin Hood is not the story of a man, it is the story of a country - England - and this movie tells that story.
If you want to see a debonair fellow in green tights crack jokes and sing "hey nonny nonny," somehow remaining immaculately clean and well groomed while living in a forest, this is not your movie. If you want to see a kid's movie, this isn't it. If you want to see a beautiful movie that captures some of the truth of 13th century England (even while taking liberties with a few facts) then this is an excellent movie for you, and you should definitely see it on the big screen - it is spectacular. I hope they make a couple of sequels.
Maybe if they called the movie 'Longstride' and kept the fact he was actually Robin Hood away from us plebs, then the five minutes at the end would be illumination... and we'd think 'aaaah that's why he becomes this guy' rather than 'boy what a crap story that was'
I wasn't interested in watching this. Though wow, those trailers really were terrible. A friend of mine was actually rather irritated by the "Untold story" thing, since it really did just look like Robin Hood and that story has been told a ton of times before and damn well. It makes more sense now, but I'm still not interested.
Yeah, sure, its gritty, actioney and I'm sure its completely generic emptyness is just the thing that my dad would love to fall asleep during. I'd like a good grown up robin hood story, but right from the start, this just looked terribly uninteresting to me. It might be a personal bias about Russel Crowe though. The guy has some good films, but...
Yeah, sure, its gritty, actioney and I'm sure its completely generic emptyness is just the thing that my dad would love to fall asleep during. I'd like a good grown up robin hood story, but right from the start, this just looked terribly uninteresting to me. It might be a personal bias about Russel Crowe though. The guy has some good films, but...
I Lol'd, twice.RestamSalucard said:He seperated into two distinct entities, one went to Hyrule to fight Ganondorf, the other went into space and fought a giant monkey head.Sturmdolch said:But yeah, it is misleading. When I first saw the trailers for this I was thinking, what the hell... What happened to:
lol, I'm glad you said to the internets my exact feelings of this movie. Slow paced, very little action, stupid story, and -I felt anyway- it was trying to take itself waaay to serious. Roobin Hood is supposed to be about cool archery, a light somewhat silly mood, minor love interest, some nice sword play, a heroic rescue and generally the oppressed raising against a tyranical government. Hmm... I think I just described V for Vendetta...
A friend of mine recently saw Robin Hood and reacted with a similar "Nnnyyyyyeeeeh :/" like Bob.
And yes, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is really REALLY good, I thought so myself, and was surprised by all the negative reviews. But I wasn't even aware of the theatrical version, just the 4-hour-long one.
And yes, the director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven is really REALLY good, I thought so myself, and was surprised by all the negative reviews. But I wasn't even aware of the theatrical version, just the 4-hour-long one.
I LOVED this movie.
The writing is brilliant and yeah the story is a little strange but at no point did i find myself bored in the 2 hour 30 runtime. I actually came out at the end really happy i'd seen it.
The writing is brilliant and yeah the story is a little strange but at no point did i find myself bored in the 2 hour 30 runtime. I actually came out at the end really happy i'd seen it.
Was just about to ask wtf a fluffer nutter was but the credits answered that question at the last second. I put marshmallow cream + peanut button on a Ritz all the time but never made a sandwich out of it before.
omg god this movie was just sooooo boring. I watched a free screening of it and I wanted to leave halfway through the movie. I doubt changing the name to something else would save it. There were also these strange random close ups that felt like it was done free hand on characters faces. It was so jarring and it really didn't add anything to the scenes. If anything it took away any semblance of atmosphere.
I went to see this a few days ago and thought the same thing. There is only 1 scene before the end somehow pertaining to robin hood, and I know that because one of them just flat out says 'we are the men of the Hood.' The second that happened I was optimistic thinking that the real plot had already kicked in, but nope it went right back to unrelated events. I remember going out and telling my friends "Such a missed opportunity!" and thats what hurts me the most, it could have been a great movie but it wasn't.
Also, personally I thought How to Train You're Dragon was a great film and was probably as close as anyone is ever going to get to Pixar without actually being Pixar. One scene that sticks out in my mind is when Toothless 'tests' Hiccup's worth by making him walk around lines in the sand, this might seem like a generic scene to some but I thought it was deeper than that. Could this be some kind of ritual made by dragons with their young? It feels as though Hiccup and Toothless are part of a larger universe the likes of Star Wars or Avatar. To tell you the truth I was a bit disappointed when you discussed the possibilities in the Avengers movie instead of HTTYD. Not that it was't a great episode.
But yeah the animation just didn't work, but then again most animated films these days all look the same, there aren't any different styles being used.
Also, personally I thought How to Train You're Dragon was a great film and was probably as close as anyone is ever going to get to Pixar without actually being Pixar. One scene that sticks out in my mind is when Toothless 'tests' Hiccup's worth by making him walk around lines in the sand, this might seem like a generic scene to some but I thought it was deeper than that. Could this be some kind of ritual made by dragons with their young? It feels as though Hiccup and Toothless are part of a larger universe the likes of Star Wars or Avatar. To tell you the truth I was a bit disappointed when you discussed the possibilities in the Avengers movie instead of HTTYD. Not that it was't a great episode.
But yeah the animation just didn't work, but then again most animated films these days all look the same, there aren't any different styles being used.
It's a shame that for everyone that was in the movie, the director behind it, and the title, the movie couldn't of been better.
I'm fully aware of fluffernutter. I've lived in New England all my life, and I think I'm about 30min away from where Bob is.
I'm fully aware of fluffernutter. I've lived in New England all my life, and I think I'm about 30min away from where Bob is.