Granted I’m in Japan which gets most western movies late, if ever at all, but I’ve never even heard of this.
Never even heard of this one, but reading the summary I’m left thinking “read the room”.
The rich are destroying the world. People want their blood, not regretful navel gazing.
Its funny cause it would be so easy to make robin Hood movie that slaps right now. The world is fucked people would eat it up.
There was a pretty good modern version released 2024 starring Luigi Mangione.
It is no surprise at all to me, that the folkloric heroes who take from the rich and give to the poor, a merry band of men of the people for 1000 or more years, perhaps as mythically relevant as King Arthur as a fundamental statement on the morality of rich people and their scumbag cop soldiers,
no surprise at all, that Hollywood, which cannot stop itself from telling stores of Rich People Who Are Actually Just Like You And Me, they spend millions (billions?) a year on pushing this “rich people are not evil” narrative,
it is no surprise that the ultimate enemy of the rich is being recast as a psychopathic villain in this ahistorical culture. The fucking poster straight up says “He was no hero,” as though a movie poster is capable of rewriting centuries of folklore.
Nobody gives a shit, for damn sure, and everyone involved should have “useful idiot” tattooed on their foreheads.
Lower budget movie, I have not seen any marketing for it and everyone says it’s gloomy.
Why the hell would I go watch it. I only heard about it once it started doing badly in box office.
Not to mention, reading the synopsis, it is apparently about Robin Hood dwelling on his actions in the past and regretting all the things he did or something to that effect. Who the fuck wants to see that movie? Especially in this day and age where the sheriff of Nottingham is the president and the closest thing to a Robin Hood we have in this world has just pleaded guilty and is about to be sentenced by a draconian system that is made to protect the rich at the expense of the poor.
Hearing your synopsis third-hand reminds me of the CollegeHumor skit “Nicolas Cage’s Agent” where one of the movie pitches is “To Kill A Mockingbird retold so that the black guy really did rape that woman”.
I only heard about it just now. Should probably advertise this shit, and not just on Facebook.
It was a gritty deconstruction of a story that hasn’t had a straight telling in decades. Who wanted this?
Not interested in this interpretation but I’m going to rewatch the complete opposite (going from what I’ve read here), Robin Hood: Men in Tights.
I was considering seeing it but the reviews all said it was relentlessly depressing and I’m not sure why I would want to watch that regardless of how well made it might be.
the depressing nature is not even bad if you are into that… but the story overall is just not there, there is no arc about him
I thought it was a great movie. super dark, which I enjoy. I imagine it didn’t rake in money because there was barely any marketing for it.
There hasn’t been a good Robin Hood movie since Prince of Thieves, and the director straight up gave up trying to get his star to speak with an accent, so he just let Costner speak American. And it was still great (though, I’d say more due to Freeman, Slater, and Rickman, though Costner was no slouch, accent or not). Or you could say Men in Tights, but that was a parody of Prince of Thieves that wouldn’t exist without it.
There was the 2010 Russell Crowe Robin Hood that straight up sucked. The Taron Egerton one was okay, but not great. Other than Prince of Thieves, you have Adventures of Robin Hood which was good, but is a bit dated, and the Disney one, which is a classic as well.
Meanwhile, every Count of Monte Cristo adaptation I’ve seen has been good. Interestingly, my favourite is also by Kevin Reynolds. Even the anime, with its headache-inducing graphics, was pretty good.
What can’t they get right about Robin Hood?
Robin Hood is one of those legends that people have heard about, but almost never read the source material. Yet because he’s such a cultural shorthand, Hollywood feels the need to do a “different” spin on it to keep things “fresh”, but really it just muddies the waters on what Robin Hood actually represents. It’s been decades since anyone has even attempted shooting it straight.
No mention of the one we watched heaps as kids, starring Patrick Bergin and Uma Thurman. It says its only PG, but i do recall decaying people in cages with their eyes plucked out by crows.
Havent seen it in 20+ years though.
Robin Hood (1991)I’ve never even heard of that one. It doesn’t sound terrible, sounds like it just came out at the same time as Prince of Thieves and got overshadowed.
Oh absolutely, its usually the case that no one knows it, but me and my siblings watched it loads cos we recorded it off the tv once 🤷♂️
Men in Tights is the best Robin Hood. Prince of Thieves or not.
This is the first I hear about this movie and I’ve been to the cinema thrice this past month. Was it even distributed in Europe? I feel like the marketing team dropped the ball.
I hear a ton of complaining of the industry in Europe people only watch a handful of block buster movies, not smaller/local productions.
But I feel like these movies barely play anywhere. Haven’t seen a movie in ages and ended up watching Spider-Man because besides The Odyssey, children animation and some horror movies there was barely anything playing.
I got about 20 mins into it it was a total disaster.
I thought the Huge Yakman was persona non grata now, politically?
Yeah not surprising. It doesn’t look good and having the cheater Jackman in the cast didn’t help it.
I mean, after that last Robin hood movie that had Jamie fox in it I’m unsure I can go to a Robin hood movie ever again. Just like…
Just… physics wasn’t just a suggestion, they took it out back with a shotgun. Some of those action scenes were just so laughable. Like, bolliwood was more grounded.
