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UK trailer for Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD is the better trailer
Hey folks, Harry here with a UK trailer for Ridley Scott's ROBIN HOOD starring Russell Crowe as Sir Robin. As many of you know, tied as my favorite film of all time is Michael Curtiz's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD with Errol Flynn. It is a movie I can watch without pause at any given moment. I love the movie for the lush 3 strip Technicolor, the lavish sets and costumes, the dialogue, the cast, the swordfights, the archery - and most of all the tone of the film and Erich Wolfgang Korngold's brilliant score.
As a result, I always have a problem with these "realistic" versions of what I have always considered a fantasy character. I know historically it was a filthy time, that it would all be fire lit and a very shadowy world - but I prefer the brightness of the Flynn film - the cheerfulness in the face of terrible times... the optimism of adventure.
Through the trailer, you can immediately tell this is a very somber looking affair. I'm curious as can be about this film, as it changed quite a bit through development, and it certainly looks better to me than Costner's version. I'm hopeful. I'd love a great epic version of the Robin Hood story - but much like my other favorite film of all time, the 1933 KING KONG, while I'm quite fond of Peter's... I doubt seriously my fave films have any chance of being supplanted by the latest remake.
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YEAH BABY!!
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No chance it will be as good as Gladiator though
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... but also looks too much like Gladiator.
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What's your opinion of Scott's quality in his output since 2000? I mean, we used to wait 2-3 years between each of Ridley's movies, but he's had one out every year since the start of the millenium. With the possible exception of American Gangster, do you think his current slew of movies hold up against the likes of Alien and Blade Runner?
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... of course, is Gladiator.
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About time we had a good Robin Hood film...I hope this is it.
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Curtiz's version is a fun ride indeed. And Errol Flynn had the vigor, the dash, the aplomb, and (best of all) the SWAGGER to breathe life into Sir Robin Of Loxley. Crowe couldn't be lighthearted if it meant the firing squad.And if Crowe's Robin is all somber & all too serious... then the whole movie heads south. MAYbe that interpretation would work, but I somehow doubt it.
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not sure about this one. Looks like fun, I suppose.
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Disney lied to us!
Looks considerably more epic than I thought it would. Much better trailer than the other one. Any chance of a 720p or 1080 MOV link? -
Adventures of Robin Hood, Prince Valiant and The Vikings make for a fun day of movie watching. I like some gritty movies too... but it's hard to beat Flynn in that role.
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wore sequins on his costume.
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Therefore, I'll still like Robin and Marian better.
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it is a good family movie, with one of the best villain performances of all time, I really cannot understand the hate for Prince Of Thieves at all.
I love that movie. I also like the Flynn version, it i great fun, even today.
And the King Kong remake is truly shit Harry, the original is a piece of cinema history, the new one was made by The Great Adapter ( Peter Jackson), and was devoid of any charm! -
I thought you were supposed have eight pieces of flair? (from "Office Space"). One down; seven to go. Maybe he had a bejeweled sword as well (not sure), but he did have a feather in his cap, yes? Now we're down to six.Fashion sense back in the 1930's (and for that matter, in Robin's time) was not as it is now. Cut him some slack, dude.
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The one saving grace of the Costner version was Rickman. The rest of it was unashamedly ripped off from the TV series Robin of Sherwood, right down to Morgan Freeman's Moor character.
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Dec 22, 2009 4:48:27 AM CST
Better trailer but this just looks so silmilar to other movies.
by sonnyfern
It looks like Braveheart and Gladiator and Kingdom Of Heaven and though I loved all those movies (of course) do we really need ANOTHER one?
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would've made for a brilliant Robin (thanks for planting the seed, themagicalhornofguntata).Let that idea sink in for a moment).
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fucking awesome!
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Cool... Crowe is sort of using an accent from Northern England, which fits because Robin was from the Yorkshire/Nottinghamshire area.
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I like the original Robin Hood.
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No 3D? No CGI aliens? No young Hollywood hearthrob as the hero's apprentice? - Seems to me that Scott does not know how to a 21st century movie.
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The sad thing is in 7-10 years we'll get Micheal Bay's "Robin Hood: The Final Chapter" with Shia LeBeouf as Robin, and Jack Black as his nutty, wacky sidekick Friar Tuck. With Michael Cera in drag as Maid Marian (or some such nonsense).
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Yesh !!!
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Curtiz is my favorite old school Hollywood Director and it burns my ass just how little respect the man gets considering that not only did he Direct the before mentioned, The Adventures of Robin Hood, but he also did a little movie called CASABLANCA along with Angels with Dirty Faces, White Christmas, Mildred Pierce, Dodge City, Charge of the Light Brigade, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Captain Blood and, a personal favorite of mine, The Mystery of the Wax Museum (shot in early two-color Technicolor and co-starring Fay Wray in 1933, the SAME YEAR that she did King Kong) and was almost lost forever until they found a print in Jack Warner’s private vault. Curtiz made 173 films in his career and it amazes me that, considering the amount of full blown fucking classics the man made, he isn’t as highly regarded as his contemporaries such as John Ford and Howard Hawks. Even more appauling is how there are fucking losers on the IMDB that actually have the nerve to call the man a “HACK” just because he was soo prolific. Also, I’ve read that Eli Roth, on the Ichi the Killer DVD bonus features, had the fucking nerve to call Curtiz a hack. Can anyone verify this as I don’t have a copy of that movie nor do I want to see that little rat fucks face talking shit about one of Hollywood’s great Directors’.
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I thought it was Scott's most complete and satisfying movie since Alien IMHO. The script, performances and Direction were all perfectly solid. I also think it’s a better movie then The Departed, which I found to be terribly over-rated with the exception of Nicholson who was, as always, FUCKING GREAT!
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Dec 22, 2009 6:07:25 AM CST
"Crowe is sort of using an accent from Northern England"
by scratchmonkey
If that's true, it's from a part of Northern England no-one could point to on a map with any degree of accuracy.
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Believe it or not, Robin Hood is a mythical character from English folk lore. Th Errol Flynn movie, fine as it is, is a camp and fun take on an existing legend. Ridley Scott is British, and would be wise to ignore the prior versions and cut to the heart of what makes Hood such an enduring story.
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Granted only I know which one I was lol, but its there!!! :)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkYaauQkSFc
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If there's ever a sequel, and the producers can't get Peter Weir back on board, I hereby nominate Ridley Scott for the job.
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Dec 22, 2009 6:24:17 AM CST
Col. Tigh-Fighter, I DIDN'T SEE ANY LEPERS IN THE TRAILER!!!
by tehcreepythinman
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Who doesnt want to see that?
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Dec 22, 2009 6:32:51 AM CST
"ROBIN HOOD WAS A LIBERAL" SCREAMS THE RIGHT WINGERS!!!
by tehcreepythinman
"He stold mah money to give to black Cadillac welfare queens." They cry!!!
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Got chain mail armour, sword, and lance. There are pics! :) Ridley smiled at me, and I watched Russel fire an arrow at camera (proabbly the final shot of the trailer). Yeah, Im that sad that I was impressed by it all :D
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OK maybe Robin Hood hasn't been told in this way before, which is fair enough, but it's not what the general audience wants. Prince of Thieves was great at the fun and vibrancy needed for the Robin legend. Crowe should be the Sheriff and not Robin. Also, is there any British cast in this British legend???
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FLOCKA!!!
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with a better leading man, but not as good.
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... can't wait, No, actually, yes, yes I can.
Rid should get his head out of his medievel arse and take Cameron's advice: Make another Sci Fi movie, you talented old bastard. -
as some people make out. For a start, there's no need to waste all that time blacking every other extra's teeth. There were almost NO foods with sugar in (save for honey and fruit), and skeletons from around that period usually show a pretty good set of gnashers.
The peasant diet was also arguably more healthy than the kind of thing the McDonalds generation subsist on now. Also, in the UK most towns had bathhouses, and regular washing was encouraged.
Point being...maybe life in that period wasn't so different from the Adventures of Robin Hood as you might imagine, and in adding a gritty and "realistic" texture to the myth, Ridley Scott's movie might end up more anachronistic than it might have been otherwise. -
look no further than Maid Marian and her Merry Men: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj_aHCpZl4k
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Sigh.... why are International trailers almost always better than the domestic US promo? Why do US trailers have to be edited by monkeys and telegraph the entire movie as if designed for a 5 year old?
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Dec 22, 2009 7:25:54 AM CST
Because the majority of the American filmgoing public
by seppukudkurosawa
consist of monkeys and five year olds?
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always play to the broader audience, and downplay story over action.
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Ancient european forests were mainly made up of deciduous trees and looked crooked and spindly. Why does Scott insist on using coniferous forests for old england. We didn't have them until they were deliberately planted here. Consequently this film looks dissapointing. Not to mention Crowes accent.
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The scenes of Blanchett ruined it for me. Why do the recent movies of that time period, have to, for the purposes of political correctness have to pretend that the women of the time sometimes donned armor and fought? It completely ruins the film, even though Robin Hood is a fantasy. To buy into a fantasy, you still need to have plausible depictions of the time, and no women EVER wore armor and fought. So unless you are doing a new Joan of Arc film just STOP before you ruin the next one. Didn't Keira Knightly's awful appearance teach you Hollywood idiots anything?
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I'd actually like to see a decent take by a british director like Scott.
I loved the old Flynn movie and the rose tinted view of Robin Hood that exists outside Britain, but there is definitely room for a more realistic take on what is actually a pretty gritty tale and time.
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Still shit, just of another color
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All Ridley Scott movies have them, after all.
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ITS A MOVIE ABOUT ENGLAND,NOTHING TO DO WITH SCOTLAND OR WALES.DONT U KNOW BRITIAN DOESNT MEAN ENGLAND?ITS 3 DIFFERENT COUNTRYS UNITED TO FORM BRITIAN,
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I don't think so.
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...THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD?
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I mean really, we all know every beat this movie will hit a year before we see it. Doesn't directing that movie get fucking old? Also, my excitement on this is hampered even further by the fact that, imho, Ridley has made nothing but forgettable movies basically this entire decade. Nothing since Gladiator has been worth watching at all, imo, and even that didnt deserve its best picture honors etc. Body of Lies and American Gangster are both stories that have been told 100 times wrapped up in fancy new trimmins. American Gangster was basically terrible to me. Technically excellent, everything else was forgettable. What else is there? The "Under The Tuscan Sun" remake A Good Year starring Russell..again? No Thanks. We all kno Kingdom of Heaven was barely worth watching when it was in theaters...haven't gotten to the supposedly incredible directors cut yet. And then Matchstick Men...meh. Sam Rockwell is good. Black Hawk Down, actually, is the last excellent film he made. So...thats why this doesn't excite me. Don't get me wrong, Ridlet is a legend, and I'd never doubt him. I'm just saying, nothing he has made in the last few years makes me excited for his work. He seems more like Tony Scott than ridley scott to me lately.
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I know what you mean. Why was Maid Marion wielding a sword and wearing a helmet? I mean, they go for this whole grimy/ grungy realistic look, which I can live with. And then all of the sudden it's Marion, Warrior Princess instead of Maid Marion
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Well balanced though, with a chip on each shoulder. And it's B-R-I-T-A-I-N.
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England has its legends, locales and imagery, so does Scotland (kilts, bagpipes, red hair and the Loch Ness Monster), but poor Wales. Aside from being the birthplace of Catherine Zeta Jones, and from having a cool-ass flag, what does Wales give us?
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Dec 22, 2009 9:15:29 AM CST
"Rise and rise again... until llamas become lions..."
by failureatthecave
"That looks like Gladiator!" Except that it doesn't you morons.
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Gladiator = AMAZINGKingdom Of Heaven (Directors Cut) = AMAZINGBlack Hawk Down = AMAZINGAmerican Gangster = GreatBody Of Lies = GREATPeople may moan about his work but, for me, a Ridley Scott movie is an event. Scott doing Robin Hood = WIN.
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Check out the Mabinogion, which is the name for the collection of Welsh myths. Much of it has connections to Arthurian legend, and Tolkien unqestionably got some of his inspiration from it.
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No, Fuck you, you stupid Jock Cunt - now go back to your fucking deep fried, pizza and mars bar.
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if king arthur was thought to be a roman, why not robin hood, too...;D....
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I'm still pretty WTF that they ditched the sheriff being the protagonist idea. Now it's just the same as every other version, but with Russell Crowe's ego and Ridley Scott's pretentiousosity squashing it.
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Dec 22, 2009 9:36:24 AM CST
CreasyBear: Ever heard of King Arthur?
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
Thought so!
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Dec 22, 2009 9:36:32 AM CST
I'M GETTING SICK OF SCOTT'S HARD-ON FOR PERIOD WAR FILMS....
by tehcreepythinman
Gladiator was decent, Kingdom of Heaven was meh and Robin Hood looks like more of the same. The one thing I like is that Scott’s been fairly prolific over the last decade, having made 9 films over the last ten years, while varying his output more-or-less except for said period action films. I wish he’d do one more Sci-fi movie and NOT A FUCKING ALIEN SEQUEL. I don’t really see Scott as an “auteur” as much as a classical Director in the mold of Michael Curtiz who Directed movies in multiple genres. Scott’s main flaws are that he’s somewhat emotionally shallow and sometimes focuses too much on the visuals like so many Director’s who come out of the commercial industry.
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Dec 22, 2009 9:38:38 AM CST
RighteousBrother, WE WORE SKIRTS AND STILL KICKED YOU ASS!!!FACT
by tehcreepythinman
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The copying of the sound and visuals of Gladiator is more blatant than I would have expected. This just isn't Robin Hood, much like Craig's Bond just isn't Bond. It will go down as about like Costner's version, watchable for a night out but not memorable.
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Too bad the script sucked which was the result of the book being shit. I wish he Directed Red Dragon because that book is fucking great. I think Crowe would have made a fine William Graham. The List of Seven would also be good in his hands.
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Dec 22, 2009 10:05:55 AM CST
RighteousBrother, DEEP FRIED PIZZA'S ARE GOOD BTW....
by tehcreepythinman
They don't just fry them, they dip them in batter before hand, and are quite delicious. The Mars Bar thing is gross though. What do you expect when they eat Haggis and Blood Sausage. Some of my relatives tried to get me to eat that shit and I told them to get to fuck.
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I knew I was missing an ingredient. I'll try one, one day, but I'll skip the Mars Bar.
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Dec 22, 2009 10:19:20 AM CST
RIDLEY SCOTT SHOULD DO AN H.P. LOVECRAFT ANTHOLOGY.....
by tehcreepythinman
Take The Color Out of Space, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Call of Cthulhu and do them as short films rather then pad them out with a lot of bullshit. Oh and do Color in Black & White which would help avoid having to create a color no one has even seen before.
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How's this for a deal, scotsman75: everyone will promise to correctly use the words "English" and "British" when and only when you learn proper spelling and grammar.
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I just came by typing that. Oh fucking Ceiling Cat that would be soo fucking cool!!!
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by Joe Haldeman. Ridley Scott optioned it a while ago, and its much more interesting than any of the other projects he's got on his slate.
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...the English trailer has dialogue whereas the Yank trailer is trying to come off as a fucking music video.
Honestly... release this in the States. A much better trailer and it will communicate much better than the last piece of shit trailer you rolled out. -
the legend of Robin Hood.
Robin & Marion and Robin of Sherwood are the best modern tellings of the story.
The Disney animated version and the Errol Flynn versions were fun, but they are not definitive template of the story, even if Flynn's is the "classic" version.
The Costner film was plastic and horrible. Even Rickman's Sheriff, while funny (his threat of using a spoon to gouge eyes out still gives me a chuckle) but ultimately was very broad. And that rape scene is played all wrong IMO.
Scott is a master of "look and feel" film making. Despite his missteps, there is no doubt he can do amazing things when he has good material. My hope is that this is the definitive version for the screen. But the lack of Guy of Gisbourne makes me nervous... I don't mind it being somewhat revisionist, but I still want it to me true to the oral traditions and material that has come before. -
That Robin Hood was a conservative, and Sheriff Nottingham was the liberal, cuz he took everybody's money in the name of taxation. Robinhood was just a hands-on tax cutter--returning the money to the people who earned it. Plus he was good with the bows and arrows and whatnot.
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You've got bolls of solid rock!" Maybe they will have that line in this version. The only thing I remember from Costner's version...
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Cut a trailer with yuk yuk.
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Generic Ridley Scott look and feel, generic action. Interesting accent Crowe is using there however. Yorkshire, it sound like? Or is it a Nottinghamshire accent?
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Scott's movie's take themselves too seriously. I'd rather watch Prince of Thieves again.
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you forgot Northern Ireland, it's part of Britain as well.
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Think he must've just spent a few hours talking to The Bean on his phone.
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These movies are becoming far too casual about wracking up the body count with arrows and axes ... battle scenes are becoming filler. That's fine in a Lord of the Rings style story, but these aren't orcs that Robin Hood is fighting. I can't tell from the trailer what the context of those fight scenes are, but I don't get any sense of dramatic tension from the clips, just a feeling of sorrow for all the working stiff soldiers sent into the meatgrinder against an unstoppable lead character.
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You do know that it's not a true story, so those people didn't actually exist...
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Looking forward to this. We need more medieval swordplay epics. Please, Hollywood, bring on the knights!!!
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...was excellent, BTW. A true masterpiece. (Sorry for the double post.)
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I was skeptical when I first heard of this, but it looks good...awards-worthy good.
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The legends of Robin Hood grew out of the actions of outlaws over the ages ... and they are going out of their way to make it look "gritty and historical" as opposed to mythical. Comparing the two trailers, the UK one feels more comfortable in the formula of medieval swordplay, while the one part of the US trailer I liked was that atmosphere of war-zone fear.
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This looks like some studio head became frightened or confused by Scott's original revisionist take on the material which would have Crowe in both the Robin Hood and Notingham roles and from the point of view of sheriff as hero, so instead we get formula: Proven director/actor combo + recycled plot of an already successful movie, ie. Braveheart/Gladiator.
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yeah, what is up with Cate Blanchett in armor? This isn't Lord Of The Rings.
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Dec 22, 2009 1:16:53 PM CST
Dreamfasting, I always felt bad for all the stormtroopers in Sta
by mattmanreturns
Those poor guys. If only just one of them had learned how to aim.
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still the hottest Maid Marion. That is just sad. I'm so tired of jerking it to a cartoon fox but it's this, Cate Blanchett or Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. Yeah. I'll stick with the fox.
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But it's Ridley, so there's still a glimmer of hope.
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He's the one third from the left. His wife's a total bitch and the bank's about to reposess his bitchin' speeder-bike. When the Death Star blows up, it's actually a relief for him.
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Unless it's Lois Griffin.
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It's apparent who got the better genes in that deal.
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if she wore a red wig and did the Lois Griffin voice.
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Except this time they're not slapstick comedians; they're gritty, morose warriors with tragic backstories who mope around a lot speechifying before entering into grim and bloody epic battles where there's usually a lot of mud and/or rain. Russel Crowe can play Curly.
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Everybody, right or left, except for small children understand that stealing from the rich and giving it to the poor is socialism.
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Except this time, she's a gritty, morose warrior woman with a tragic backstory who only yells "Supercallfrajulisticexpialladocious" as she's wielding her umbrella-sword above her head while entering into a grim and bloody epic battle. Russel Crowe can play the Chimney Sweep.
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Most people aren't geeks. So they'll think that Avatar looks like a big video game and they'll eat this Robin Hood up because it's like Braveheart and Gladiator and they feel like they're hardocre for loving this. I was at college and we had this nearly retarded friend who kept quoting on Braveheart (and the french version of it) and now he's a cop. Regular people, while sucking, outnumbers geek. Hence the Watchmen box-office debacle.
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it was a flat adaptation by a director who is way too highly regarded for a video game style cg nipple orgy.Was it terrible? No, but it wasn't great either. It was also way too inaccessable for the general public, who, like it or not, make up most of b.o. grosses.
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The trouble is the same with both this Robin Hood and Ritchie's Holmes. The thing that makes Robin Hood an archetypical hero, one that has stood the test of time, is not that we imagine him as a rugby player screaming and running toward us with a sword while explosions go off behind him. Likewise, the niche that Holmes fills in the world of literary characters is not the brash, smarmy action hero. We have perfectly good other characters for that. Robin Hood is not powerful. He is not vengeful or angry. He is a trickster. He lives by his wits and, this is important, his band of Merry men. He should laugh and there should be a twinkle in his eye. There should be comaraderie among his band of versatile rogues that he assembles. Ocean's Eleven is the Robin Hood story re-imagined. This Ridley Scott mess is more like the Chronicles of Riddick re-imagined. Robin Hood is a merry tale of adventure and when you take the merry out of it and make it a grim tale of murder and savagery, you aren't telling the same story, You are just cashing in on famous names.
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Is fucking horrible. I know, because I live in Nottingham, and have thankfully lost mine.
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And as a regular movie loving geek, not a Level 19 Dungeon Master geek, the trailer looked okay. I'm trying to reserve judgment. Yeah, it looks reminiscent of other "historical" epics. But I generally don't watch movies for historical accuracy, unless maybe a western. Like Harry, my wife prefers the magical, mythical romantic aspect of the old legends. Sir Ridley is one of my favorite directors, so I'll have to see if this film gives Robin a proper level of badassitude.
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Except it's only socialism or it's darker cousin, communism, if you're taking a person's legitimately gotten gains. That's not the case with the Robin Hood legend. The people, the rightful owners of the money, were basically being fleeced by an illegitimate monarch. Assuming that all the rich people in the legend are in on the deal, Robin Hood's "stealing" from the rich would be more like taking money away from thieves and giving it back to the rightful owners.
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Does anyone recognize where the music in this new trailer is from? I was digging it quite a bit.
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Dec 22, 2009 5:09:42 PM CST
still cant enjoy any robin stories since i saw robin and marian
by brabon300
nuff said but at least this time they got an actor who can do an english accent whoever thought costner would make a good robin is a complete tool oh, and ridley scott refuses to use cgi effects...good for him
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As is typical for most Robin Hood films the costume and armour of the extras is much more accurate that the main characters...
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Errol was an Aussie!!!
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BRITIAN IS SCOTLAND WALES AND ENGLAND,THE UK IS BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND,GET YOUR FACTS RIGHT,OR GOOGLE IT,FUCK HEAD
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Why should we care whether or not you think this new Robin Hood will be better than the the Errol Flynn version you seem to like so much. This UK trailer was not made espefically for you. So, let's not go with the "world revolves around me" mentality.
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Can't fathom what the holdup is all about.
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Dec 22, 2009 8:32:18 PM CST
You'll never beat Prince Of Theives for pure entertainment.
by the_genteel_gentile
I feel sorry for anyone tryng to step to Alan Rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham or Michael Kamen's fantastic musical score. Also, Costner's cool, I don't give a Laura-Dern what Madonna and her ilk think. I'll take Costner's non-accent over Christian Bale's horrid American attempts anyday.
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Actually, it's not part of Britain, but it is part of the United Kingdom, the full title of which is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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This looks horrible. why are two aussies in the friggin lead.
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Thats what this looks like. Ridley needs to head back to the future, where he shines. Not more of this revisionist history crap.
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I liked it. Great acting. Decent action sequences, and a great score. What's not to like? Most Robin Hood remakes since then have been abysmal.
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if it's half as good as Kingom of Heaven then I'm sold. Sorry about the last error post. Also fucking Spocko you moron, don't know where the 300 comparisons are coming from. This looks like Kingdom of Heaven 2.
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I'm sorry but I'd rather quote Braveheart than quote Rorschach with a sock on my head. Fucking geeks can go to hell. And also the general public has spoken on Avatar, they liked it.
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Dec 23, 2009 4:16:17 AM CST
SCOTT SHOULD BE DOING CLASH OF THE TITANS, NOT GLADIATOR 3....
by tehcreepythinman
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Which is a shortened version of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Thus you cannot say Britain without including Northern Ireland.
I know it hurts to be corrected by someone who actually went to school but when you're finished being a shouty fucktard you'll notice that actually I'm right.
Words are power, learn to use them correctly.
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Dec 23, 2009 5:09:38 AM CST
Kizeesh, YOU'RE RIGHT, WORDS ARE POWER, SO FUCK YOU!!!
by tehcreepythinman
I'm more of a Strongbow man myself.
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united kingdom is britain plus northern ireland.britain is scotland wales and england.and my point is ,the movie isnt about britain,its about england.
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Is government control and regulation over the production and distribution of goods and services. Apparently people these days only know the "Sean Hannity" definition.
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What's up with the Alien Prequel?
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so I dont like it! Sorry, I mean '!!'
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Had to google Hannity (he's a no-name over here in England) but there seems to be a romantic version of socialsim (good or bad) that people have in there heads. I toyed with it in my youth but as soon as you live with the realism of it (beyond those twatish student Che posters) its a pretty bleak option
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stupid works xmas party in Glasgow
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Dec 23, 2009 10:43:39 AM CST
Looks interesting, and the Costner version tried to rip off
by lord elric
The excellent U.K. series ROBIN OF SHERWOOD. A show well worth seeing for it's attention to period detail and unique look on the whole "Robin Of The Hood" legend.
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Just got back to Birmingham from Glasgow after a mammoth session on the pish. I had sex with one of your women. Hope that dosn't offend you. The Scottish arm of the BNP are recruiting by the way
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Precisely. Here in the states it's a favorite political buzz-word of the corporate media that's used whenever anyone proposes to raise tax rates on the rich. If folks knew a bit more about Cuba or the USSR back in their heydey--I think they'd find that it's a pretty weak comparison.
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Um, no. Bathing was prominent pretty much everywhere BUT England. Though baths existed, most people could not afford them, especially the wood required to heat them in the winter, and Roman plumbing did not exist there, so a bath required someone to carry water in addition to the wood. A high luxury indeed, since most people had better things to do, and even less money to do it with. Also, English people during the Medeival and Renaissance periods thought bathing was actually bad for your health/spiritual wellbeing because it was done more for enjoyment than cleanliness (though interestingly the upper class did tend to wash their hands before and after meals and kept their faces clean) and communal bathing (the most common type) actually tended to spread plague during the Renaissance rather than hamper it for obvious reasons. In addition to this, bathhouses tended to have the reputation of a den of iniquity. It was also believed that simply immersing yourself in water or "opening your pores" in a steam bath made you vulnerable to disease. So even wealthy people did not bathe frequently. Hence the pomander. :)
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about it that attracts (i'm counting myself here). If you look at the history of Socialism in, as you say Cuba or the Soviet states, its bred nothing but intense personal poverty and, weirdly, fascistic policeing regimes. Also the top of the political food chain benefits greatly in a way that totally contradicts the ethos of the movement.
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Hangovers make me go to a dark place clearly. On the plus side Cuba has cool dancing, good booze and some stunning looking women. Russia has furry hats
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It's just one of those ideas that looks good on paper, but doesn't work in real life. Kind of like an Ayn Rand novel :)
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Good pomander facts! I shall pass that off as my own in the pub later
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Russia also has cool dancing, good booze, and stunning-looking women, on top of neat architecture and an interesting language. Oh, and furry hats :)
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*shrugs* Feel free. The only reason I know it is because a few acquaintances of mine are of the Ren Faire/SCA persuasion. They tend to go a little nuts for the historical accuracy :)
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You took the words right out of my mouth. It's designed to lift up the proletariat; but instead it just ends up giving him the shaft. (Also agreed on the Russian women; particularly Ukranians, perfectly proportioned--even their female heads of state are hot!)
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my knowledge of Russian architecture stops at Red Square and St Basils Cathedral. I only know the latter from Human Killing Machine on the ZX Spectrum.
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Most of Scandinavia has sort of a hybrid socialist government. This raises the question--do socialist nations have hotter women? I would like a 500-word essay on this by next week.
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a good buddy of mine is big into Ren Faire, and also a lapsed Red Army comrade. His game of 'Gulag' will never catch on as a family party favourite!
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The research shouldnt be too much of a chore!
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Same here, actually. But those examples absolutely kill (in my mind) any American examples I can come up with, and I live in Chicago. Our buildings are pretty, and don't lack in the detail department, but they just don't have that pizzazz, I suppose.
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HA! Now THAT'S a homework assignment!
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...and we have Hillary Clinton *shudders* Not that I can complain too much. I'm not the most stunning example of female beauty, myself.
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Yeah that's why everybody think's Palin is such a big deal (Kinda reminds me of Peggy from "King of the Hill", though), everything's relative!
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Robin Hood is a Book..its the same as people making a christmas carol or hamlet..those films are not remakes of films, just re-interpreation of literature...get your head out of Errol Flynn's asshole.
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He has to be a hundred years old.
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Yea, cause in this one we can see him slaughter innocent animals!
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god bless him...
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and didnt own dogs or other pets that were plague spreading which is why many blamed them for the plague
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