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Robin Hood 2010

Started by DonaCatalina, May 07, 2010, 12:26:57 PM

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DonaCatalina

It's been a while since I was excited about a new movie. This one looks to have promise.
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Sir William Marcus

We've been anticipating this release for some time. Until then enjoy another trailer - Robin Hood
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OK Looks good except a few things

Landing Barges? This isn't D-Day in reverse

Merrian riding into battle as if she were Joan of Arc didn't happen

Merrian pulling back a longbow? It takes a trained archery to do that with a long bow. Modern men like most all of us who even shoot bows cannot shoot a real long bow as it takes years of training, very broad shoulders and lots of strength.

Ridley Scott may be a good movie maker but his attention to Historical Detail and Facts sometimes take away the believablidy in a historical story. He did it in Kingdom of Heaven and in Gladiator as well, but these three things? Com'on Ridley.

I will enjoy the entertainment aspect of this movie, but I am going to be grumbling hard about details.
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I agree and don't expect historical accuracies, only good entertainment value as Ridley can provide.

Its going to be good!
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Quote from: Lady de Laney on May 08, 2010, 06:39:12 PM
OK Looks good except a few things

Landing Barges? This isn't D-Day in reverse

Merrian riding into battle as if she were Joan of Arc didn't happen

Merrian pulling back a longbow? It takes a trained archery to do that with a long bow. Modern men like most all of us who even shoot bows cannot shoot a real long bow as it takes years of training, very broad shoulders and lots of strength.

Ridley Scott may be a good movie maker but his attention to Historical Detail and Facts sometimes take away the believability in a historical story. He did it in Kingdom of Heaven and in Gladiator as well, but these three things? Com'on Ridley.

I will enjoy the entertainment aspect of this movie, but I am going to be grumbling hard about details.

OK, I saw the bit with the "Landing Craft" and I had to LOL!  :o ::)

If they had only just used "Long Boats" it would have been all good... ;)

But no, they had to go and use something that looks just like the actual landing craft that they used on D-Day but power by oars...::)

But it still looks like it's going to be a great movie for all it's faults!  ;D
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This Robin should go over well with fans, says John Paul Davis of Birmingham, England, who argues in a new book, Robin Hood: The Unknown Templar, that Robin Hood may have been a former member of the Knights Templar (which among other things operated as the earliest bankers of Christian Europe). One of the earliest stories about him is that he robbed a corrupt abbot to lend the money to a needy knight.


Lady Kathleen of Olmsted

#7

Any film with Russell Crowe has promise!!!

A dear friend of mine who knows Russell and sent me photos of him with her taken at the Walk of Fame ceremony when ERussell's Star ws unvieled, went to  a Special Invitation only  screening in LA with a  Q&A afterwards with Ridley Scott last week. She says 'Robin Hood' is FANTASTIC !! I spoke with her on Saturday to thank her for the pictures of Russell she had sent me and she told me about the Special Screening of the film.

My friend thought of me when she saw the costumes because she had encouraged me to try to get on that film as a sewer, but I was rejected despite the kind words from Oscar winner, Janty Yates.
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Quote from: Lady Kathleen of Olmsted on May 10, 2010, 07:36:45 PM

Any film with Russell Crowe has promise!!!

This is exactly why I don't want to see the movie.  I know my husband is going to drag me kicking and screaming, though.  At least the visuals look nice.
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This is one of the reasons I try to pay as little attention as possible to the public/private lives of actors, just so I don't develop a "picture" of them that I can't let go of when I see them as a character in a movie.  If I am going to attain that "willing suspension of disbelief" that a truly entertaining movie requires, then I have to believe the character, and not the actor as the character. 

It does look to be quite entertaining...  :D  I've been thinking it might be time to introduce my daughter to the tales of Robin Hood, Ivanhoe and King Arthur, and this might just pique her curiosity enough to start on the books. 
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Mark Addy as Friar Tuck ;D Goin to see it tonight.
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The Earl and I went to a Saturday evening showing to a packed house! LOVED IT!!!

This film does not disappoint! Entertaining all the way!!!

I will be seeing this film numerous times before it ends its run!!!
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Craigmeister

I finally saw "Robin Hood" last weekend.  I was very surprised by how much I enjoyed it.  The castle sieges were amazing, as were the flights of arrows going into the surf of the English Channel.  AWESOME!  Russell Crowe did a lot better job than I expected.  I'll be getting this on dvd.  I'll try to ignore the Higgins landing craft the next time I see it.  Didn't the orcs in "The 2 Towers" have similar landing craft to invade Osgiliath though?
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Poldugarian Warrior

I too was surprised, by the landing craft, now I just may do some research, and I don't think it would've been all that impossible or impracticle to have those ships even before using them for war, I mean if you need to move carts and horses across water, this would've been the way, and it was near the end of the Middle Ages, almost beginning of the Renaissance when all this supposedly happened. So I think there were some pretty smart people back then designing these ships. And the reason we don't see examples of them as wreckage, is they were probably burnt up, or the wood scrapped to be used to build something else. I got so wrapped up in the film, I lost track of the time. And I was waiting for all the parts where they start the court intrigue and ambushes in the forest on the King's men, just like all the other films and the books, and T.V. shows, but I just hope they make several sequels based on the Robin Hood legends all the way to his death. And we'll have to deal with a little suspension of disbelief. Though not historically correct, this movie was extremely entertaining.

Mairte

This is definitely on my "need to see it!" list.