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Ridley Scott's inventive and sumptuous retelling of the legend of Robin Hood...
Daily Mail ^ | May 12, 2010 | Chris Tookey

Posted on 05/12/2010 5:56:42 AM PDT by C19fan

The oldsters hit back. Two of the best movies this year have been by directors in their seventies, namely Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, and here comes a third. At the grand old age of 72, Sir Ridley Scott makes a triumphant return to form with this magnificent epic. It's an affectionate nod to one of the world's favourite legends, but it isn't content to be just a roistering romp, along the lines of the classic Errol Flynn picture of 1938.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: crowe; hood; robinhood; scott
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Confirms what I thought in the sense the story revolves around the Magna Carta.
1 posted on 05/12/2010 5:56:42 AM PDT by C19fan
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I’ll rent on dvd when it comes out but the 38’ movie was my personal favorite especially with Olivia De Havilland.

Kevin Costner’s version was garbage.


2 posted on 05/12/2010 5:59:20 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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We’re big fans of Ridley Scott, and I cannot imagine not seeing this when it comes out.

Anyone else think Russell Crowe will perform light years beyond Kevin Costner in this role...??


3 posted on 05/12/2010 6:00:10 AM PDT by Bean Counter (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office -- Aesop)
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Crowe’s been taking a lot of heat for slamming the Costner version in an interview.


4 posted on 05/12/2010 6:02:24 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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Russell Crowe - back to his action-man best after what must have been a gruelling diet ...

LOL! We can get it from Netflix eventually; teens would like it.

I was mildly interested until I saw it has the ubiquitously tiresome Cate Blanchett.

5 posted on 05/12/2010 6:05:10 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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Sir Godfrey believes King John’s feckless tax-and-spend policies, oddly prophetic of certain other regimes in Britain’s more recent history, will lead to civil war...

Maybe Obama and Pelose should see this.


6 posted on 05/12/2010 6:06:14 AM PDT by Hang'emAll
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He was on the no Foster’s and vodka diet!


7 posted on 05/12/2010 6:06:56 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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Well, the sheriff of nottingham is mentioned in Magna Carta (as least in one of the three versions). Robin Hood, not so much.


8 posted on 05/12/2010 6:08:11 AM PDT by donmeaker (Invicto)
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Crowe’s been taking a lot of heat for slamming the Costner version in an interview.

Why? Is there some Hollywood rule that you can't criticize the previous version of your latest flick, especially if you're accurate in your opinion?? The only thing that made Costner's version bearable for me was Alan Rickman.

9 posted on 05/12/2010 6:08:21 AM PDT by MozarkDawg
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Yeah, I just told the wife last night; I want to rent it on DVD when it’s available. She said “I already figured that...”.


10 posted on 05/12/2010 6:08:40 AM PDT by bcsco (Obama: Hokus Pokus POTUS)
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Has Costner managed to portray emotion in even one movie since “Young Guns”?

What happened to the man? Did he wreck his motorcycle into the back of a botox tanker?


11 posted on 05/12/2010 6:09:28 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Anyone else think Russell Crowe will perform light years beyond Kevin Costner in this role...??

That is not saying much, hee hee. That Costner version was awful.

12 posted on 05/12/2010 6:10:36 AM PDT by C19fan
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Seems to have fallen off it when filming was over - there was an article last week saying he celebrated getting his “Star” in Hollywood with an all-night booze bash.


13 posted on 05/12/2010 6:12:21 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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I was mildly interested until I saw it has the ubiquitously tiresome Cate Blanchett.

Indeed. A Robin Hood movie with a hideously ugly Maid Marian? What was Scott thinking?

14 posted on 05/12/2010 6:15:20 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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The Kevin Costner version was awful. Kostner was awful and Morgan Freeman as his muslim buddy back from the Crusades was ridiculous, to say the least.

I'll be in line to see this one soon after it opens.

15 posted on 05/12/2010 6:15:45 AM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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We’re big fans of Ridley Scott, and I cannot imagine not seeing this when it comes out.

Ridley Scott:

Black Hawk Down: terrific!
Kingdom of Heaven: multiculti garbage in which the Christians were the bad guys and the muzzies reluctant warriors who wanted to just get along...

16 posted on 05/12/2010 6:17:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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She’s the same irritating character in every film I’ve seen. Film-fragment, I should say, because I usually leave and go FReep when she turns up, and often don’t go back.

Apparently someone once told her she was mystically beautiful. Sorry, honey ... you’re just weird looking. Olivia De Haviland was beautiful.


17 posted on 05/12/2010 6:18:28 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Amateurish," agreed Janet Napolitano, the White House amateurishness czar.)
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Fanboys of the Costner pic are really flustered.


18 posted on 05/12/2010 6:21:41 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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"A Robin Hood movie with a hideously ugly Maid Marian?"

Nobody's mentioned Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio from the Prince of Thieves (Kostner) version. Not exactly attractive either, IMO.

19 posted on 05/12/2010 6:21:48 AM PDT by Mich Patriot (Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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She lends new power to the term “gawky,” and Ridley Scott’s “Kingdom of Heaven” was the most PC, pro-Muslim movie in a long time. Still, from the clips, there SEEMS to be a whiff of “Braveheart” in this one. We’ll see, and I’ll shut my eyes during the Blanchett scenes.


20 posted on 05/12/2010 6:22:47 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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