Robin Hood

We went with this one question begging to be answered "Why did they remake Robin Hood AGAIN?" There are over 50 feature films of this legend. What will director Ridley Scott bring to this new one?

Apparently, not much.

I like to be up front with my prejudices and here are two - we don't like medieval movies usually and we especially don't like Russell Crowe. That said, Kevin Costner's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has to be my favorite of all the Robin Hood movies. Alan Rickman is mainly the reason for that - what a spectaular villain!

But I digress...

If you love movies of this era and/or if you love Russell Crowe, you will most likely revel in every moment of this film. It is huge and broad and sweeping, no cost seems to have been spared to make it more historically accurate than others. The fight scenes are enormous and bring to life the true pain and suffering of war, not war of these days but the gritty, hand to hand, in the dirt kind of wars that were fought then.

Russell Crowe seems to be trying so hard to be so humble, so noble, so pure and honest that he just falls flat. Who wants a one note hero? I think the best heroes of all time are those that are multi-dimensional. The flawed heroes. They have issues like we all do but they rise above and come out on top when the chips are down. That's a real hero! This Robin Hood is purer than pure and borrrring.

Cate Blanchett really shines as Marion. She seemed very authentic, intense, strong, but still vulnerable. A very nice role for her and she handles it very well.

All in all we were wishing we had gone to see Ironman2 again. :) I have admiration for the time, effort and intense work that went into this movie so it can't be dissed totally or set aside. It just wasn't that enjoyable for us.

One irritating thing - it appears to be setting up a new franchise with this being the "How It All Began" movie. If the money shows up at the box office I have no doubt there will be another and another to come. That's why the film drags and milks this prequel story, I think.

We gave it a '2'. Pueblo Tinseltown was the place, popcorn was hot and fresh and served up with a smile by Erin.