Baraka_Guru

This trailer popped up on my radar completely unexepectedly. I had no idea this project was under way.

Robin Hood, starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, and directed by Ridley Scott.

OMFG!

It may have simply been the music and/or the sharp edits, but I got some serious chills watching this trailer for the first time.

How can this not win?

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nomcat

Yeah I've been waiting for the trailer to be released... nice find!

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Willravel

I love Gladiator.

Baraka_Guru

Is there room in your heart for an outlaw?

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LordEden

'cause you just invoked Murphy's Law there, Sir Wordsmith of Torontshire. I loved Robin Hood: Prince of Theives and the classic comedy remake Robin Hood: Men In Tights. While I won't say that I didn't get kinda of excited about an "action-based" Robin Hood movie (which RH happens to be one of my favorite myths/legends/stories), this still has all the right ingredients to be an epic fail. It will have to have a lot to beat the Kevin Costner flick.

Remaking movies is not the American Court System; They are Guilty until proven Innocent (Read: Epic).

Will I go see this? Yes.
Is this an Auto-Win? No, not even with Ridley Scott at the helm.
I am hopeful for another great movie like Gladiator? Maybe.

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Seaver

Ridley Scott is on fire, and he loves Russel Crowe as he is great in giving the Gritty-Noble protagonists so often used by him. After seeing "Body of Lies" recently, which I premptively wrote off as a moral relatively crapfest which has been all Middle Eastern Movies since 9/11, I'm fully in his corner. If he could make a good movie where so many others have gotten bogged down in their own filth, I would not doubt his ability in this one.

Although I loved Price of Thieves, I would not doubt if this one blows it out of the water in depths of character development and pacing. Regardless of how much you loved it, RB:PoT had a lot of dead parts that should have been edited down for pacing.

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nomcat

I hope the music in the movie will more along the lines of Gladiator, rather than '300' as implied by this trailer!

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Baraka_Guru

I'm not so sure about the comparisons to Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Has it aged well?

I think it's more apt to compare it to Gladiator. Not only because of who's working on it, but also because of the storytelling capabilities even amongst the backdrop of eye-catching visuals and totally awesome fight scenes.

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Lucifer

RB:PoT had a few great things going for it, namely, Allan Rickman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (who, let's face it, is totally babe-a-licious), Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Michael Wincott, as well as a great score and great battle scenes. Unfortunately, it also had Kevin Costner, strutting around like he was in his senior class play.

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Charlatan

This has been completely off my radar. I suppose that's just a part of being so far from the hype machine.

I love Robin Hood. I can't wait to see this.

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What I really want is a Rocket Robin Hood movie.

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highthief

Exactly - Errol Flynn and Sean Connery's versions have aged better than Costner's.

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onodrim

Didn't realize the trailer was out already. I think it looks good as a Ridley Scott action movie, I'm just concerned that it's too much Gladiator 2.0. Would be nice to see something a bit more original, but that could also be the trailer editing. This thread makes me realize I need to see Prince of Theives. Always wanted to see it when I was younger but wasn't allowed, and then forgot about it.

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oliver9184

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.

Lucifer

Charlatan FTW!

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SecretMethod70

I have the same reaction to this as I do the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie....

Why does everyone need to be a super-man these days?

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Baraka_Guru

Because antihero has been overdone lately. It's all about balance.

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seamaiden

Looks like we may finally get to view a version of the Robin Hood story that comes close to portraying the brutality of the era it depicts. I hope it's in IMAX!

Baraka_Guru

Second trailer below. This looks good enough for me.

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SecretMethod70

Robin Hood: The Gladiatoring.

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Shauk

Robin Hood: Men in Tights is still gonna be my #1 Robin Hood. You just can't beat it.

Vaultboy

My thoughts exactly. Ridley Scott will deliver on this point, I have no doubt.

When I heard Guy Ritchie was doing Sherlock Holmes, I held similar hopes - that Ritchie would unmask Victorian London for the cesspit of crime, opium and human sewage it was. He delivered a stunning movie, but glossed over London. Hopefully Guillermo del Toro will deliver a London as a central character when he gets around to making Drood.

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Vaultboy

Ah, Ridley Scott never fails to produce watchable movies. Even though the adaptation did not stray into radical or thought-provoking territory, it well executed and the cast delivered solid performances. 8/10 for entertainment. Bye Bye Kevin Costner. This will be the Robin Hood I hold in memory.

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dlish

looks pretty cool..but why is russell crowe speaking in an Irish accent?

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telekinetic

I heard this was borderline unwatchable, unfortunately

edit: 44% on RT at the moment...maybe not representative of pure cinema detritus, but not exactly a rousing vote of approval either.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/robin_hood_2010/

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Vaultboy

44% on RT? "Ridley Scott's revisionist take on this oft-told tale offers some fine acting and a few gripping action sequences, but it's missing the thrill of adventure that made Robin Hood a legend in the first place."

Thrill of Adventure? Scott went for a more historically accurate telling of England at that time. Sorry folks, but if you're pining for the romantic sentimentality of Robin Hood and his band of Merry Men, then you'd be dissapointed.

An added bonus for me were the sweeping vistas of England that Scott and his cameraman create. The Thames estuary, London castle, and the open landscapes were impressively done.

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