You would think just on principle that a Ridley Scott adaptation of Robin Hood would be generating a little more buzz, but those horrendous first trailers certainly didn’t help things. Russell Crowe, the washed out look, the warfare- it just doesn’t look like anything we haven’t seen anything before. This third US trailer doesn’t help either, which is a shame because it was obviously made in a last ditch effort to get butts in seats come friday (Wow, that’s almost a Tobias Funke sentence.)
Anyway, they decided to focus less on the story and more of the action this time with fast cuts set to jarring and lame guitar riffs that sound like they were made by a third-rate nu-metal band. Nothing like a little “DAH DAH DAH DUM!” “DAH DAH DAH DUM!” to get the blood boiling for some medieval warfare, amiright?
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Wow. I have no interest in this. Zero.
Robin Hood is like that same tv episode you keep seeing whenever you turn on the tube. And not even a show you particularly like.
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YAWN. Which is too bad really, because about 10 years ago I would have been all over this. But really this looks boring and uninteresing.
It's still Ridley Scott though, so how bad can it be? Worst case scenario: The theatrical version sucks, and a year later a director's cut is released that completely blows our minds.
Yes, I'm talking about Kingdom of Heaven here. Great film, but not during its theatrical release. 😉
Um, I've already seen Gladiator, so there's absolutely no need to check this out. Ever.
Ponderous.
Looks much better than most of of you are saying it does.
I'm so uninterested in this, I'm not even bothering to finish this po
I agree with Terry. So fuck you guys! It's Ridley Scott. Show up to Robin Hood instead of Prince of Persia. I know you all plan to see that garbage even though there is not chance of it being good, then you will all come back here and bitch about how bad Prince of Persia is. So see Robin Hood, a movie that is bound to be good instead of Shrek 4 or some such shit.
this'll just be gladiator, and gladiator was better when they were wearing kilts.
"I declare him AN OUTLAAAAAAW!!!" makes me giggle a little by now but that looks fantastic guys, I don't know what jaded world you live in but I want no part of it. The music in that ad did suck though.
It's true what they say: 99% of the world's most joyless, irritating cunts can be found on the Internet.
There's about 50 tv shows on at any given time that look more interesting than this.
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"This is SERIOUUUUUUUUS!!!!" It's King Arthur all over again, made by people chasing past glories, who should know better. Or a terrible terrible trailer, cut down to the "seen it all before" moments to bring in the Pandoran Smurf Lovers.
Jesus Christ. That's just as bad as the fake Hamlet trailer in Lost Action Hero, but at least Arnie was in on the joke. (5 verification attempts).
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huge ridley scott fan, 0% interest in this move.
Nothing about this is lackluster. It looks exciting and well made. The worst part about all these jaded assholes is they don't realize that they're jaded assholes.
Saw a screening a couple of weeks ago and I enjoyed it. It's a littled confused, not sure what it wants to be, and it does yank the rug out from under some major Robin Hood elements, but it's still good. Just not great. But if you sitting at home watching tv, chances are you are not seeing anything this good. Sorry.
Robin Hood should be mostly a fun romp – this looks like it takes itself FAR too seriously.
Agreed. Robin Hood movies should be in essence, fun swashbucklers, like Martin Campbell's Mask of Zorro. Even Kevin Costner's Prince of Thieves managed that, and was a bit of fun. This just looks fracking dire. Who wants to see a grim, dark, "realistic" Robin Hood?
Saw this today in England, from the offset it really sweeps you along but then you get 3/4 of the way through and think 'hang on a minute, have we stopped?' and then you think back over what's been happening and realise that yes, you had been slowing down. And then they just seem to start the big end battle. I guess what I'm saying is that there is no clear pull, which Maximus had even though his family were dead and all he wanted to do was die as well. Mystifying.
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