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Originally Posted by Lucifer
Unfortunately, it also had Kevin Costner, strutting around like he was in his senior class play.
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That's an
outrageous thing to say!
This new version of Robin Hood appealed more when it was going to take a sort of revisionist approach, either taking the side of the Sheriff against Robin Hood (with Russell Crowe as the Sheriff) or else having Robin Hood start as an artificial construct - a sort of rumoured phantom - made up by the Sheriff, and him (the Sheriff) having to actually act out the role when the lie became too big to contain. It now looks like these ambitious - and frankly, appealing - ideas have been watered down to the extent that this is yet another straight retelling of a familiar version of the story.
I think the excitement generated by Russell Crowe is entirely justified and I look forward to him playing Robin Hood, but I still hold that director Ridley Scott is overrated. He is good at making films look expensive; he's good at handling top stars and high budgets; and the sets and production design in his films are generally beyond compare; but deep down he's still just a hack who got lucky a few too many times (Gladiator) - which is why he took the easy option with this Robin Hood, why he'll ALWAYS play safe story-wise and why he's one of the most conservative figures in working in Hollywood..... and why he's making a film of the board game Monopoly. I'll repeat that:
he's making a film of the board game Monopoly. Go figure.