Robin hood Movie

[oxiana]

Gladiator 2? Did anyone ever see the treatment that Russell Crow commissioned Nick Cave to write? Utterly bonkers. Maximus meddles with Roman gods in the afterlife, is reincarnated, defends early Christians, reunites with his son, and ultimately lives forever – leading tanks in the second world war and even mucking around in the modern-day Pentagon... 

http://goneelsewhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/gladiator-2-script-review/

PS. My vote is for Errol Flynn in glorious technicolour. Always! 

[JollyBob]

Gladiator 2? Did anyone ever see the treatment that Russell Crow commissioned Nick Cave to write? Utterly bonkers. Maximus meddles with Roman gods in the afterlife, is reincarnated, defends early Christians, reunites with his son, and ultimately lives forever – leading tanks in the second world war and even mucking around in the modern-day Pentagon... 

http://goneelsewhere.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/gladiator-2-script-review/

 

I want this to be made. Now.

Hop to it!

[Hammers]

Bwaaa-hahaha!

[assi]

...but landing craft with drop down ramps?? Come on.

You the "Saving Private Hood" - Part? I loved it!

[Captain Blood]

All I have to say is I was almost, sort of, enjoying it until the french landing craft scene! What the **** was that! I know we are not taking this entertainment as archaeologically accurate to any large degree but landing craft with drop down ramps?? Come on.

A fatal combination of influences - Saving Private Ryan meets Orcs crossing to Osgiliath.

Ridley Scott is famously a magpie when it comes to borrowing and recycling cliched / dramatic moments from other movies he has enjoyed.
Witness (sorry, yes, I know I keep going on about it - but only because it's such an outrageous steal) the Zulu chanting of the German tribesmen in the opening battle in Gladiator. A straight and unashamed lift from a classic movie sequence in 'Zulu'.
  

[Hammers]

Ridley Scott is a favorite of mine and he is in no way alone in 'stealing' for others. Themselves, they call it 'homages'.

It is all in how elegantly you do it. In the Gladiator/Zulu case I think it is fine. This Robin Hood film not so much.

Plus it is high time he chucks Russel Crowe. He has to big an ego to do interesting roles.

[assi]

Imho R Scott never tried to achieve historical Accuracy, he tries to achieve entertainment, and:

Are you not entertained? *waves his bloody sword*

I usually take stuff like this, like I take Lotr. With a light heart and a big bucket of popcorn. And i never regretted it

[Captain Blood]

Yes, it's always entertaining stuff, even when bits are so obviously derivative.

[FifteensAway]

I'm right there with the Saving Private Hood group.  And I'm right there with movies are ENTERTAINMENT - not history group!  (History on film is called Documentary, yes?)

But this version of Robin Hood?  I'll take Prince of Thieves over this one - it did have Morgan Freeman, after all.  Erroll Flynn version?  Always the tops - and stands pretty well the test of time.

Ridley Scott?  Take him or leave him, is my take.  Sometimes I can take what he does, sometimes his movies elicit a large yawn.

Sean Connery version?  Well, well, I'll have to track that one down and check it out.

Russell Crowe - I actually like his performances.  We could be saddled with Colin Ferrel (sp?)   Good way to lose breakfast, lunch, and dinner in one cleansing act of vomit.  Yeck.  Perish the thought.

FifteenAway casting off

[assi]

Sean Connery version?  Well, well, I'll have to track that one down and check it out.

If you mean "Robin and Marian": Its one of the best free Interpretations I've seen. Definitly a MustSee!

[Hammers]

I'm right there with the Saving Private Hood group.  And I'm right there with movies are ENTERTAINMENT - not history group!  (History on film is called Documentary, yes?)

But this version of Robin Hood?  I'll take Prince of Thieves over this one - it did have Morgan Freeman, after all.  Erroll Flynn version?  Always the tops - and stands pretty well the test of time.

Ridley Scott?  Take him or leave him, is my take.  Sometimes I can take what he does, sometimes his movies elicit a large yawn.

Sean Connery version?  Well, well, I'll have to track that one down and check it out.

Russell Crowe - I actually like his performances.  We could be saddled with Colin Ferrel (sp?)   Good way to lose breakfast, lunch, and dinner in one cleansing act of vomit.  Yeck.  Perish the thought.

FifteenAway casting off

What ever. One thing is clear: there has never been a better Marion than Judy Trott. She gave my heart a jolt back in the 80s which wont go away. 

[Captain Blood]

Russell Crowe - I actually like his performances.  We could be saddled with Colin Ferrel

I agree. I actually like Russell Crowe as an actor.

Compare Colin Farrell as Alexander. Truly laughable and appalling. What I like best, is that because Colin Farrell can't do accents, the entire cast playing the Macedonian court all had to assume Irish accents, so that the Macedonians were Irish, and everyone else was English / American, including poor old Val Kilmer, as Philip of Macedon, struggling along under an eyepatch and a terrible cod Irish brogue... Dire.

[Verderer]

You the "Saving Private Hood" - Part? I loved it!

I dunno whether it was meant as a joke, or a serious scene? I mean, were the poor bastards meant to row those monstrosities (Higgins boats (LCVP) set up with oars and painted in wood colour) all the way from France??? In any case it was totally, completely wrong. Up till that point I had patiently ignored the crappy plot (why do we have double pair of an evil monarch and his vile henchman - the king of France & and King John, and Godfrey and the Sheriff of N??? What does this bring to the movie? Why do we have to include Magna Charta in here? Why isn't robin Locksley but some nobody by the name of Longstride? Is this a socialist movie?)

Anyways, after the invasion of Saving private Ryan we also get Lord of the Rings in the beach fight when Galadriel, ehm no, Eowyn, no sorry Marian aka. Cate Blanchet enter the fight dressed up as a knight, disguised by her armour. And not only that, the 'orphans of Sherwood' (aka the Peter Pan bunch) are charging with her, riding some Shetland Ponies?! Really, she's taking some 10-years olds to a battle? Are they Hobbits or what?

I felt insulted by these gross underestimations of the viewer. What utter drivel. Even if the movie was rated as PG13 in the USA, and UK13 in the UK (same as Harry Potter I believe?), there's no call for such stupidity. I have to wonder what's going on in the mind of Ridley Scott? I mean, this is the man who directed Blade Runner and Alien? Has he gone soft in the head like George Lucas (the prequel shit)?

[white knight]

Glad I gave this a miss from the sounds of it.

I also seem to recall a version with Richard Todd which I have fond childhood memories of, though not as good as the erroll flynn version.

[Doug ex-em4]

Regarding accents - specifically Irish ones. Poor little Russell got in a terrible strop when interviewed on BBC Radio 4 and the interviewer suggested his accent in Robin Hood owed more to Ireland than the East Midlands. Every toy in the pram was despatched over the side.

Doug