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Film #30 of "Scavenger Hunt #3" Challenge!
Task #30 : A film depicting medieval times!
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Snape (Alan Rickman) at his snapeiest and it wasn't even a Harry Potter film! I've visited this film time and time again over the years and it wasn't Kevin Costner that kept me coming back it was Alan Rickman's often caustic, whiney, sniveling performance that thrilled me to no end! Without a doubt this is my favorite Alan Rickman film!

I also found myself enjoying Morgan Freeman's performance! But in the end it was the evil antagonist Sheriff George of Nottingham (Alan Rickman) whom we loved to hate and he obliged us by giving us endless opportunities to revel in our shared hatred of the man!

Without Rickman and Freeman's performances this would be just another boring affair!

"Locksley! I'm gonna cut your heart out WITH A SPOON!"

I'm pretty sure that if I watched this for the first time today, I wouldn't like it. I'd detest all of the inaccuracies, plotholes and dodgy accents.

But I didn't see this for the first time today. I've seen this countless times since I was a kid and back then it was only the film's sense of adventure that mattered to me and still does now.

Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, to this very day, never fails to transport me back to my 12 year old self.

Yes, you read that rating right. Five stars. I'm not going to be a Scrooge when it comes to this film, because it means so much to me. I watched it five times at the cinema in the summer of '91. Just watching it again tonight transported me back to those idyllic childhood days, of me and my mates cutting down trees in the woods to make our own bows and arrows and of Bryan Adams being at number one for a record breaking sixteen weeks.

Who cares if Kevin Costner doesn't even attempt an English accent or that Mike McShane's roams all over the land. Who cares that the writers nicked everything from Richard Carpenter's excellent Robin of Sherwood, right down to a Moorish Merry Man and the witchcraft elements. This remains, in my book at least, the greatest popcorn epic.

I miss Alan Rickman and Michael Kamen. Both men illuminated this film.

I wish I could give the film more respect because some actors are superb, like Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman, and I love medieval stuff... but the fact that Kevin Costner can’t even be bothered to try to do an English accent is appalling to me. I couldn’t get over it. 

They should’ve ditched Costner and made ‘The Adventures of Azeem’ instead.

A favorite since childhood, but I feel every time I watch it now I pull it apart more and more.  Arrow camera is still boss.

Kevin Costner was crap.  I get it.  

Sixth grade me still loved it and got excited when the local high school marching band played its theme during the halftime show of the football game.

This movie is a paradox. It's so terrible. There's Kevin Costner's vanishing accent to be sure but it's worse than that. The biggest problem is that Costner, Mastrantonio and Freeman are acting in a self-serious period piece while everyone else (most deliciously Alan Rickman, Christian Slater and Michael McShane as Friar Tuck) are acting in a campy folk tale. Also, I hope Costner's hair won a Golden Raspberry for worst supporting actor in 1991.

So what's the paradox? By the end, it's just so damn fun. The sword fights, the bows, the camera shots that ride the air with the arrows and the final siege on the castle to save Marian completely suck me in and I'm on the edge of my seat no matter how many times I've seen this before.

Through one hour, I was wondering what in the world I loved about this movie as a child while the second hour brought it all back.

Probably would’ve been a slog if I’d watched it alone, but with children it was better than I feared.

When the background give stronger performances than the lead.

finally got around to actually watching this movie at the guys' house.

Andy & jj hauled jonathan's tv upstairs for a better viewing experience... and since I'm not allowed downstairs. Tor talked on the phone for nearly an hour and missed a bit much of the beginning, but made it for the majority!

It's been a while since I've watched what I consider to be a classy/classic film, that the entire world doesn't yet know by heart, amongst a great group of friends. It was fun to hear their reactions at various spots... excitement over fight scenes... laughing at me as I still jump 2 feet in the air everytime that dern cat jumps down on the table... much fun!

a great way to end a long day & at the same time inaugurate the movie madness at the house!

alan rickman is the only reason this even remotely works, and i might just fucking love it.

A great telling and my favorite new favorite Robin Hood movie. Although I do still really like the TV show, this was great even with being a little dated and still very enjoyable (even though I was sick as a dog).

We Hate Movies was wrong, this is the best movie ever made, mostly because of the main title music that was later used for its production companies, Morgan Creek's later movies. It's the kind of music that gets you pumped up for what's to come. Sure, it's probably a movie that could be cut down in its runtime and Kevin Costner's accent isn't the best. But this is as good as it can get if you just want a movie that's willing to be a stunt show come to life on the big screen. A lot of the cast, even Costner, is doing all they can to give us a fun time. Alan Rickman is great hamming it up as the Sheriff of Nottingham. I wish when I went to the movies, I saw more movies like this that really made as good of a use of its large budget as this movie does.