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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Meryl on May 26, 2010, 11:17:37 am ---I saw "Robin Hood" the other day and agree with Kerry and Katherine - great entertainment, and very nice depiction of the Middle Ages, though somewhat cleaned up. ;D
It was reminiscent of two of my favorite films: "Gladiator" and "LOTR: Return of the King." The opening was just like "Gladiator" what with the armies of the king on campaign in a foreign land.
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I forget who it was did the review in The New Yorker, but he suggested Ridley Scott filmed both openings at the same time and held one back. ;D
ifyoucantfixit:
I liked Robin Hood a lot, but them doing the pc thing with Marion, was off the charts
hard to believe. The women in that time were not warriors, or sword players or even
spear throwers. It just reminds me of the modern day womens movements complaints
about the womens roles needing more chutspah.
I think Russell Crowe is one of the best actors of our time. He did himself proud in
this bad boy romp. I can say he is not one of my favorite people personally, but I don't
have to be his friend, just an admirer. He is magnificent on screen. The film was great
with authenticity of time and place, that I haven't seen equaled since Heath's Knights Tale.
They obviously went to great effort to make the movie not all cgi. I thought there was
little sex appeal between Blanchett and Crowe. They were ok, but not much chemistry. I thought she was very believable and authentic until she tried to be a warrior. That just seemed
cartoonish. JMO. All in all I enjoyed it.
serious crayons:
Salon reviews SATC2:
http://www.salon.com/entertainment/tv/sex_and_the_city/index.html?story=/ent/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/05/26/satc2
Sample representative sentences: "It would have been more merciful for writer-director Michael Patrick King to have rented Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda out to the "Saw" franchise, or to Rob Zombie, so we could watch them get shot in the head or skinned alive by Arkansas rednecks. Instead of that, we get something that's truly sadistic: the SATC girls as haggard specters, haunted by their freewheeling '90s past and stupefied by the demands of work, marriage and/or motherhood."
So do you like it or don't you, critic? Don't be shy, just come right out and say! :laugh:
Meryl:
I didn't think after these reviews that another sequel was possible, but that "Saw" franchise idea has legs. ;D
delalluvia:
SPOILERS
--- Quote from: Meryl on May 26, 2010, 11:17:37 am ---I saw "Robin Hood" the other day and agree with Kerry and Katherine - great entertainment, and very nice depiction of the Middle Ages, though somewhat cleaned up. ;D
It was reminiscent of two of my favorite films: "Gladiator" and "LOTR: Return of the King." The opening was just like "Gladiator" what with the armies of the king on campaign in a foreign land, and the successor to the doomed Richard was just as self-centered and sneering as Joaquin Phoenix's nasty little Commodus. The manor in Nottingham reminded me of Maximus's home that he so longed to return to, and its pillaging did the same. The end was pure LOTR, though, with the giant horse emblem on the hillside, the Rohirrim Brits mustering and riding to battle with the orcs French, Cate's Eowyn Maid Marian tagging along in battle garb, right down to the hobbits feral boys on ponies. Loved the unsubtle Hollywood one-liners and dispatching of the bald bad guy, too. Oh, and the gratuitous chest-baring scene? Icing on the cake. ;D
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--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on May 27, 2010, 12:15:08 am --- I liked Robin Hood a lot, but them doing the pc thing with Marion, was off the charts
hard to believe. The women in that time were not warriors, or sword players or even
spear throwers.[ It just reminds me of the modern day womens movements complaints
about the womens roles needing more chutspah.
I think Russell Crowe is one of the best actors of our time. He did himself proud in
this bad boy romp. I can say he is not one of my favorite people personally, but I don't
have to be his friend, just an admirer. He is magnificent on screen. The film was great
with authenticity of time and place, that I haven't seen equaled since Heath's Knights Tale.
They obviously went to great effort to make the movie not all cgi. I thought there was
little sex appeal between Blanchett and Crowe. They were ok, but not much chemistry. I thought she was very believable and authentic until she tried to be a warrior. That just seemed
cartoonish. JMO. All in all I enjoyed it.
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My biggest dislikes. Maid - er Lady - Marian and the Lost Boys. The Lost Boys were in two scenes and mentioned once before the Big Battle. No relationship, no explanation, no important scene of Lady Marian using example, courage and rhetoric to bring together a band of punks. Yet there she is at the end, leading the boys. :P
I can buy her knowing how to wield a bow, but a sword? Skinny Cate? You needed muscles like Russell Crowe's to fight with a sword. That was completely ludicrous as was the taking time out for romance in the middle of a battle. That was a big ::)
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