by Animavore wrote:MattHunX wrote:Animavore wrote:Saw Robin Hood today. It was average in every sense of the word.
The dialogue was a bit ridiculous. None of the characters stuck out. The bad guy didn't have a point to any thing he done. The Commodus type King was uninspired. The "merry men" were the same character multiplied by 4. Russell Crowe was Russell Crowe. Maid Marion tried to play the role of the strong warrior woman but to be honest she looks like the type of woman who can't even darn a sock let alone swing a sword. The battles, lacking the dismemberment, decapitations and blood spraying we've grown used to since Braveheart, are pretty tame and lack any bite and one scene was a complete rip-off of the opening of Saving Private Ryan.
That is, to say, I didn't like it.
Hey Animavore,
I just read an article in a paper about it. It's said Crowe wanted to make Hood's character more dark, rather than the merry, prankster, children's book version. And that the fighting was more like Gladiator.
Which is GOOD, cause I like that darker approach, but did it really suck even on those terms?
He was in his shite "dark". He wasn't even "brooding" or even slightly "menacing". He was dull and boring. Like the film.
And the fighting was not like Gladiator. Without the blood and dirt it lacked the visceral carnage of of close combat displayed in its contempories.
Avoid.
Damn it! I was expecting arrows going through someone's neck or head. For some reason through the neck is visually more appealing...*shrug* and decapitations...etc.
Thanks for that!
Now, I don't have to waste my time downloading it, just to be disappointed.
