In Reply to: Any reports on the latest "Robin Hood"? posted by Mike K on May 14, 2010 at 22:34:41:
It's suitably muddy and the storyline becomes ever less likely.
Cate looks lovely in a tired and worn kind of way and all sorts of 8 year olds could have cracked the double dealing but not the king of England.
It's enjoyable but don't mistake it for anything like history.
Crowe does a nice job of being in two places at once towards the end when he leads the archers on the cliff and miraculously accompanies the cavalry along the beach.
Errr...
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Follow Ups
- JUst been to see it - dave c 05:10:56 05/15/10 (18)
- Does the sun come out? - Tom Brennan 07:44:29 05/15/10 (17)
- I thought that was.... yeah... you're right - dave c 14:20:51 05/15/10 (16)
- Ebert mentions lots of ultra-violence, including juicy decapitations. Did - tinear 14:41:25 05/15/10 (15)
- A decapitation without a head coming off - dave c 19:48:57 05/15/10 (11)
- There is a very large experiential difference between reading - tinear 11:18:20 05/16/10 (10)
- very little blood - dave c 13:27:01 05/16/10 (9)
- Well, for me, it'll be "The Silence of the Lambs." Enough crappy - tinear 14:49:58 05/16/10 (7)
- Very scathing analysis... - dave c 19:29:16 05/16/10 (6)
- I've never drunk a shit shake, either. You'd drink one to form an opinion? nt - tinear 09:24:42 05/17/10 (5)
- See it, don't see it, why would you want to write about eating shit? - dave c 13:45:33 05/17/10 (4)
- Because the film is of that quality. BTW, I didn't invent that metaphor. It may help - tinear 07:50:17 05/21/10 (0)
- This place ..... - afilado 20:46:01 05/19/10 (0)
- RE: See it, don't see it, why would you want to write about eating shit? - mpathus 18:29:14 05/17/10 (1)
- Good choice... - dave c 20:56:23 05/17/10 (0)
- "A lost lamb of a film".... - afilado 13:51:52 05/16/10 (0)
- Review here mentions a lot of violent acts, but - Road Warrior 16:10:06 05/15/10 (2)
- Who could pass up Crowe in tights? :-) nt - tinear 17:47:13 05/15/10 (1)
- That'll save me the cost of lunch... ;-))) nt - dave c 19:49:34 05/15/10 (0)