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.
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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.
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...??
Crowe’s been taking a lot of heat for slamming the Costner version in an interview.
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.
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.
He was on the no Foster’s and vodka diet!
Well, the sheriff of nottingham is mentioned in Magna Carta (as least in one of the three versions). Robin Hood, not so much.
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.
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...”.
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?
That is not saying much, hee hee. That Costner version was awful.
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.
Indeed. A Robin Hood movie with a hideously ugly Maid Marian? What was Scott thinking?
I'll be in line to see this one soon after it opens.
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...
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.
Fanboys of the Costner pic are really flustered.
Nobody's mentioned Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio from the Prince of Thieves (Kostner) version. Not exactly attractive either, IMO.
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.
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