Robin Hood Reboot: Avengers Style

[Marvolo]

Rotten Tomatoes...

Tomatometer: 13% (54 reviews)
Audience Score: 59%

Critic Consensus: Robin Hood robs from rich source material, but is ultimately just another poor attempt to needlessly gussy up a classic tale with amped-up action and modern special effects.

Just like the "Dark Universe" and all the gritty Robin Hoods and gritty King Arthurs before it this is another would-be franchise that's dead on arrival.

 

[Micromind]

Who writes those Critical consensus lines ? Because they are always hilarious to read. It's amuses me how many different ways they come up with to describe the RT score and make a summary of the reviews.

 

[TheVileOne]

I haven't watched Otto Bathurst's TV shows, but is all he does copy Guy Ritchie and Ridley Scott?

Seriously, throughout the film, Nottingham is filled with those exploding gas flares and firestacks like the city in Blade Runner. Except they are all over the place. They are worse than the lens flares in JJ Abrams' Star Trek.

It's also shot EXACTLY like Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie. The script is very similar as well. Except no supernatural elements. I've heard his TV work is very good, but based on this film he has no original style or thoughts of his own.

50 Shades' Christian Dornan plays Will Scarlet.

Eve Hewson is annoying as hell as Maid Marian. They try to make her a feminist hero, and it's awful and patronizing as hell.

If people want to know how to write strong, powerful, feminist women in medieval or medieval fantasy settings, they should study The Witcher 3. I practically worship at the altar of Yennefer of Vengerberg and I would do anything she asks of me if she existed in real life.

 

[Teelie]

Didn’t realize this opened tonight. This is not gonna do much business.

Me either. It just kind of showed up without any real advertising that I saw. They must have known it would flop.

 

[Iceman]

A Robin Hood film should be a bigger deal.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

I might have to check this out just to see how bad this movie is....

 

[AverageMan]

The people who green light these films when there is zero public demand should be held accountable.
The Ridley Scott 2010 film didn't set the box office alight - so I'd love to know who thought another stab at this would be a good idea.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Alan Rickman>Ben Mendelsohn.

For one Rickman didn’t give the exact same performance in like a dozen movies in a row.

Rickman is forever the greatest Sheriff of Nottingham. “Because it’s DULL you twit! It’ll HURT MORE!”

If only Cary Elwes or another actor would have played Robin in that movie. It was so close to being a great film but Costner’s miscasting just ruins it.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I haven't watched Otto Bathurst's TV shows, but is all he does copy Guy Ritchie and Ridley Scott?

Seriously, throughout the film, Nottingham is filled with those exploding gas flares and firestacks like the city in Blade Runner. Except they are all over the place. They are worse than the lens flares in JJ Abrams' Star Trek.

It's also shot EXACTLY like Guy Ritchie's King Arthur movie. The script is very similar as well. Except no supernatural elements. I've heard his TV work is very good, but based on this film he has no original style or thoughts of his own.

50 Shades' Christian Dornan plays Will Scarlet.

Eve Hewson is annoying as hell as Maid Marian. They try to make her a feminist hero, and it's awful and patronizing as hell.

If people want to know how to write strong, powerful, feminist women in medieval or medieval fantasy settings, they should study The Witcher 3. I practically worship at the altar of Yennefer of Vengerberg and I would do anything she asks of me if she existed in real life.

Yeah, some of my friends who saw the trailer for this thought it was another Guy Ritchie movie.

 

[Teelie]

Rickman is forever the greatest Sheriff of Nottingham. “Because it’s DULL you twit! It’ll HURT MORE!”

If only Cary Elwes or another actor would have played Robin in that movie. It was so close to being a great film but Costner’s miscasting just ruins it.

A mash up of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and Robin Hood: Men In Tights would have been fabulous.

 

[TheVileOne]

I still think Prince of Thieves is a great film. It's certainly the best modern Robin Hood movie that's come out in the last 30 years. It also wasn't made to start some sort of stupid franchise. It has a beginning, middle and end. It's just a single complete Robin Hood story.

 

[Loki882]

Really the entire cast of Prince of Thieves is good, especially Rickman and Freeman, with the notable exception of Kevin Costner. Now I like Costner most of the time, but he was just miscast in that role I think.

 

[Teelie]

Robin Hood: Prince of Men In Tights.

 

[Jonwo]

The problem with Robin Hood and King Arthur is that there is so many versions that it's not really that special anymore and I think because it's public domain, it's essentially free to adapt.

 

[Schlosser85]

Anyone actually seen this yet?

 

[TheVileOne]

Anyone actually seen this yet?

Yes, I saw it because I find bad movies fascinating. It's awful.

 

[Schlosser85]

I assume I’ve already seen Ben Mendelsohn’s performance in this in Rogue One, TDKR, Exodus, and Ready Player One?

 

[TheVileOne]

I assume I’ve already seen Ben Mendelsohn’s performance in this in Rogue One, TDKR, Exodus, and Ready Player One?

Yeah pretty much.

 

[MadVillainy]

I think a new Robin Hood and even King Arthur are actually very good ideas. It just seems like they get people who don't know what the hell they're doing.

I forgot this came out this week too until I got a T Mobile benefit to get a free ticket...still won't see this in theaters

 

[Marvolo]

There are multiple good and different takes on both characters in book form. Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles trilogy, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon, TH White's Once and Future King, Stephen Lawhead's King Raven trilogy for example. But Hollywood doesnt seem interested in adapting those.

 

[TheVileOne]

There are multiple good and different takes on both characters in book form. Bernard Cornwell's Warlord Chronicles trilogy, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon, TH White's Once and Future King, Stephen Lawhead's King Raven trilogy for example. But Hollywood doesnt seem interested in adapting those.

 

[MadVillainy]

this has to end up on the biggest flops of the year list

 

[Marvolo]

After 5 days it's looking to have made only $15 million against a $100 million budget and that's not counting the marketing budget.

 

[Schlosser85]

Ouch.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Robin Hood: Prince of Men In Tights.

I think I'll do this.