Oh my Christ, the new Robin Hood movie looks even worse than the last (Costner) one

and that's really saying someting.

Just saw a preview/advert on the tellie for the new Robin Hood movie.

Like so many modern movies, the film quality (meaning, literally, the quality of the actual film (or digital film)) looks fucking amazing.

But the quality of the actual movie - the script, the acting, the directing - looks positively cliche. Even worse than cliche.

Which is too bad.

It would be wonderful to get a Robin Hood movie, one of these decades, that was actually done ... oh, I don't know... how about actually doing one ****artistically**** ?

Is that too goddamn much to ask?!

so far as I can tell.

Maybe there's a real actor in there - even Costner's film managed to pull in Connery at the very end to ensure it wasn't a total shithole of a movie (and, of course, it had Alan Rickman, who is a fucking genius actor who unfortunately had a shitty script to work with in that abomination of a movie).

Starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Max von Sydow, William Hurt,
and Gary Coleman as C-3PO.

I think it'll be a winner!

R2D2? :D

as C3PO, ya know? LOL


:hi: Strange One.

But I might have to see it anyway for Cate Blanchett and William Hurt.

Hopefully he will bring the same kind of vision to this old threadbare tale.

we the only redeeming features to Kostner's 'Robin Hood'.

As for 'artistic' versions of 'Robin Hood'. Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn in 'Robin and Marian'.

He played Robin Hood in the latest one.

I saw the advert for it in a restaurant yesterday on their big flat panel. And as Rabrrrrr says, it looks amazing. I didn't hear any dialog or anything. Just saw clips of a lot of high-tech fight scenes.

Sorry. The emerging sequence of spellings got me.

I also enjoyed Men in Tights.

I loathe and despise Russell Crowe and almost every movie I've ever seen him in, with one exception - American Gangster. I don't think I will see this movie, because I love anything related to Robin Hood and I think this is going to be real crap.

Have you seen Russell Crowe in 'The Insider'? A very different role for him in a great movie.

I think I'll stick with the old Errol Flynn version.

Not in the opening credits, and, for the love of everything that is holy, please not in the final credits, and absolutely not in the love scene.

Otherwise, what's the point? Updating the story? :silly:

as Robin Hood. No pretense at being historical, just a fun movie. And of course "Men in Tights" - one of the funniest movies in an age.

about Errol Flynn.

Yes, he WAS Robin Hood. He defined the role. :)

Brightly colored and so impressive tasting...and absolutely no substance whatsoever.

At least the lesser-knows are doing good work. I'd like to see The Hurt Locker some day.

GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEAD, HOLLYWOOD!!! :mad:

okay?

edited to add: meant to add, he would be rolling in his grave right now

:evilgrin:

;) let me think!

That movie had it all...drama, comedy, romance.

They don't make em like they used to. :)

OK, you're right...

For three series. Just forget authenticity and enjoy the ride.

I'm watching the final episodes of Series 3. A pity they're not going into Series 4. Archer looks like a fun character. He has a touch of Flynn about him.

when the BBC had just done this new version which was popular and well-received.

That kind of artistically? Or the German Dieter annoyed by your presence in florescent lighting artistic?

but I will go see this one.
Why is it, peacenik that I am, I love films with combat with large blunt objects?

I dunno.

Explosions out the ass do nothing for me, but combat with blunt instruments, 'that' was the era.

Which I actually kind of liked, badness and all.

it might be a good movie, but they put the lame parts in the trailer so they don't scare away the people that are scared of quality movies.

Other than that the movie SUCKS!!!

though the image of Robin Hood I grew up with is a light-hearted/fun loving one from Errol Flynn and the Disney cartoon movie with Robin as a crafty fox... and Crowe is not one to play light characters.

I expect it to be better than the Costner one if only because Crowe is a much better actor than Costner and Scott is a better director than Kevin "Waterworld" Reynolds.

Anything that matches Errol's Robin Hood.
And Olivia DeHavilland as Maid Marion.
And that's the truth.
;-)

They say that was the best cast movie ever. :)

Errol Flynn was Robin Hood

Yeah!
Gritty Robin.
:eyes:

It may alert you right away that something will not be to your liking, but it's hardly a way to make a reasoned critique of the material. I particularly don't understand how you can claim to judge the "script, the acting, (and) the directing" from a 30 second trailer, most of which consists of some battle scene (which is, as I'm sure you know, designed to get butts into seats at the theater, not show off the film's Oscar creds).

You may be right. It might suck. But it might not - I would wager to say it probably won't. It's directed by Ridley Scott, who has made some terrific films. It's not like it's Robin Hood as reimagined by Michael Bay. Russell Crowe, whatever one may think of him personally, is a FAR superior actor to Kevin Costner.

And, frankly, who wants to see an "artistic" version of Robin Hood? It's frickin' Robin Hood. Not everything has to be an art house film. It looks like a spectacle movie, and Ridley Scott has a track record of making far better than average spectacle movies, so I'm quite looking forward to it.

A trailer is completly different then a movie depending how it is put together, it tells a story about a movie, the movie tells some other story.

You can get a sense of style from a trailer, but many times as you said they are not the same as the movie.

As far as everything being artistic, I agree there should be a wide range of movies. Although personally I think they need thought and questions in them also, but that is just my taste. Some people like to shut down and just watch flashy action scenes, some people like there minds to be challenged by being given things to think about.

I don't want to see. I hate Russell Crowe, and I hate extra violence, just for the sake of violence, and Ridley Scott has a long history with ultra-violent films.

Now, I have to say that Kevin Costner isn't all bad, and Prince of Thieves had its good moments. It wasn't all gravitas, and it had enough humor to keep it moving. When you consider how many actors out there are completely untalented, Costner can impress when he's got something to work with.