Robin Hood
2010 Directed by Ridley Scott
Synopsis
Rise and rise again, until lambs become lions.
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
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To misquote Oscar Wilde 'The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Ridley. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness'.
i.e. feck this was boring
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There is no real historical or linguistic concensus on whether or not Robin Hood really existed, at least not in the way he was portrayed in early writings and in film versions. So, filmmakers can work with a blank canvas to paint their version of this 12th century Good Samaritan. And Scott's version tries to be as historically accurate as possible.
And apparently history is boring as hell.
While I appreciate a completely new approach to this character and it is difficult to fault Scott's aesthetics here, I truly cannot understand why they chose to still fall back on so many of the fictionalized elements made famous in various earlier interpretations.
Most of the versions of Robin Hood have one…
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It's the prequel to the story of Robin Hood nobody wanted to see. It is a humourless bore of a film with poor performances from all but the ever reliable, Max Von Sydow. I really have no idea what accent Crowe was aiming for but he managed to pretty much do a whistle stop tour of every regional accent in Britain throughout the course of the film. I don't mind revising a classic legend, and I was hoping it would provide an intriguing twist to the mix, but instead it just got the film bogged down in pointless politics with a bunch of characters it was impossible to care about.
They have removed all the fun of a traditional Robin…
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Sir Ridley Scott rarely gets it wrong. The furore that followed Prometheus was quite frankly ludicrous. Unfortunately Sir Rid took it on the chin again for some dodgy accents in this a much maligned but hugely enjoyable epic.
So Russell Crowe struggles with a Yorkshire accent-so what. He has never been good at accents anyway. Did it really spoil the film? I don't think so.
Another terrific cast is assembled by Sir Rid as he brings together the likes of Mark Strong,William Hurt,Kevin Durand,Oscar Isaac and even Max Von Sydow as the elderly Sir Walter Loxley. Mark Addy pops up as Friar Tuck and Danny Huston has a fleeting role as Richard The Lionheart but the star of the show… -
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
I managed half an hour before I realised I didn't care about French plots on the throne, Mark Strong as yet another bald villain, and Russell Crowe presumably having been possessed by an Irishman pretending to be from Halifax.
Maybe I'll watch it again when I'm off work and drunk. My tolerance will be lower.
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An interesting, unusual and epic take on the story but ultimately I still prefer Kevin Costner or an animated fox. 6/10.
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I hate this movie, it was boring as hell! I fell asleep in the last 20 minutes of the film. This movie cost $200 Million to make, this is a absolute joke for filmmaker. This is my #1 worst movie of 2010!
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The first question is why? As an exercise on money making it wasn't particularly successful. The license of Robin Hood is fairly pointless, the story is very generic and could've been a new character instead of using the license which sets expectations by many people that are not met.
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okay. pacing seemed kinda slow though.
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In een verleden dat niet eens zo ver vervlogen lijkt, was er ooit een tijd dat we nog zaten te trappelen van ongeduld voor een nieuwe peplumfilm van Ridley Scott. 'Gladiator' ging immers een dozijn maal langs het oog van onze DVD speler en 'The duellists' is nog steeds met stip één van de meest onderschatte meesterwerkjes uit de jaren zeventig. Sinds 'Kingdom of heaven' heeft de regisseur zijn carrière als meesterverteller echter zwaar gehypothekeerd en liggen we er niet langer wakker om. Met 'Robin Hood' levert de man een epos af dat zowaar een ruime twee uur entertaint, maar tegelijk voel je nergens de punch die doorgaans voorbehouden is voor zulke epen. Driewerf helaas.
De invalshoek is in elk…
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To misquote Oscar Wilde 'The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Ridley. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness'.
i.e. feck this was boring
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for god's sake, from now on i proclaim: it's freaking enough of that modern u.s. shitful tradition to compensate poor battle choreography with even worse filming.
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A number of reviews I had read for Robin Hood this week had been highly critical of the film. I was very excited originally, as the Ridley Scott-Russell Crowe connection has been largely a positive one over the years, so I was very upset to learn that the film wasn't going to be very good. I probably wouldn't even have seen the film in theaters had a few friends not been going tonight (I tried to persuade them into seeing Iron Man 2 to no avail). Luckily, I really enjoyed the film. Sure, it's not really very Robin Hood-ish, and at times it feels more like Braveheart than anything else, but I found it to be an entertaining picture. It's…
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Ridley at his most mechanical.
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Ridley Scott is an exceptional director, no doubt about it. However, this movie is a bit too similar to a lot of other things I have seen. It is the classic story about the man who is not supposed to fall in love with the girl, but he does anyway. Don't get me wrong, both Crowe and Blanchett are brilliant. I've never really liked Russell Crowe, but after seeing him in Les Miserables, I have new respect for him. According to the original story, there are a few things that simply doesn't add up, and that bothers me. Other than that it is a good movie!