So, Robin Hood?
May. 15th, 2010 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
laneroseBad.
Like, I would proactively encourage people not to go see it bad.
Or at least, it might be entertaining, but knowing that it's meant to be a prequel to the traditional story before you start watching it is kind of critical. 'Cause, y'know, when someone tells me Robin Hood, I think Sherwood Forest and Sheriff of Nottingham and stealing from the rich to give to the poor. And this? This was not that.
... and even then, it still kind of felt like good acting and naked men stuck with a pretty awful plot and scenes that felt like they'd fit more in Gladiator or Braveheart than Sherwood Forest. I mean, we basically got the history of the Magna Carta with a side of the Battle of Agincourt, thrown together with a dash of fictionalization and, of course, a woman who wears her dead father's armor into battle.
Bleh.
Like, I would proactively encourage people not to go see it bad.
Or at least, it might be entertaining, but knowing that it's meant to be a prequel to the traditional story before you start watching it is kind of critical. 'Cause, y'know, when someone tells me Robin Hood, I think Sherwood Forest and Sheriff of Nottingham and stealing from the rich to give to the poor. And this? This was not that.
... and even then, it still kind of felt like good acting and naked men stuck with a pretty awful plot and scenes that felt like they'd fit more in Gladiator or Braveheart than Sherwood Forest. I mean, we basically got the history of the Magna Carta with a side of the Battle of Agincourt, thrown together with a dash of fictionalization and, of course, a woman who wears her dead father's armor into battle.
Bleh.
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Date: 2010-05-15 06:53 am (UTC)1) "Are you ready to be who you are?", which is exactly the sort of dialogue that if I'd written I'd be trying to pretend had never happened rather than showcasing it in a trailer, and,
2) Russell Crowe screaming in the way I believe he is contractually obliged to do in every single "historical" film he appears in.
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Date: 2010-05-17 04:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-16 01:06 am (UTC)How can something that starts with "good acting and naked men" turn out BAD? It's a TRAVESTY.
Also hope your finals are going okay/done!! ♥
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Date: 2010-05-17 04:37 am (UTC)Sadly still not done - one more, and then competition for law review (which is like, SCARY BIG DEAL kinda thing right after finals end). And sadly not okay, either - or well, mostly okay, but my contracts exam was kind of a travesty because 1) poorly written exam and 2) teacher didn't know the subject so God only knows how she'll grade and 3) word limit that got announced during class was not included in exam instructions, and apparently we were meant to ignore her verbal directions even though she didn't tell them to announce that to us.
How 'bout you? how's life now that 3M is done? (It is done, right...?)