View Poll Results: What is your favourite Robin Hood?
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939)
49
54.44%
Disney's Robin Hood (1973)
13
14.44%
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
13
14.44%
Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993)
11
12.22%
Robin Hood (2010)
4
4.44%
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Best Robin Hood
09-13-10, 05:35 PM
#27
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Best Robin Hood
Flynn for sure. That movie has everything you could ask for and for the most part holds up incredibly well all these years later.
09-13-10, 05:46 PM
#29
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09-13-10, 05:59 PM
#30
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Best Robin Hood
Prince of Thieves for me. I've never seen the Flynn version though and I'm a big Alan Rickman fan.
09-13-10, 08:37 PM
#32
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
Re: Best Robin Hood
Prince of Thieves for me, followed by Disney's '73 effort. I loved Alan Rickman in the former, and the sheer goofiness of the latter. And I make not one damn apology for either.
09-14-10, 07:07 AM
#33
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Re: Best Robin Hood
I have to go "Men in Tights" simply because I can endlessly quote that movie.
But I always feel a bit torn as Alan Rickman is the most hilarious Sheriff ever.
But I always feel a bit torn as Alan Rickman is the most hilarious Sheriff ever.
09-14-10, 09:25 AM
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I'll have to check out the Flynn one, obviously, as well.
09-14-10, 11:31 AM
#37
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09-14-10, 12:29 PM
#38
Re: Best Robin Hood
No mention yet of "Rabbit Hood" (1949)???
09-14-10, 03:08 PM
#40
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Re: Best Robin Hood
I watched Ridley Scott's film last night. A decent but totally misguided effort. I *LOATHE* how filmmakers insist on dispensing of legend, fantasy, and whimsy and *INSIST* upon presenting "historical truth" or "as close to reality as possible". Which ends up giving us average to mediocre swill like Robin Hood (2010), King Arthur (2004), Troy (2004), etc. Gritty, bloody (well PG-13 bloody, anyhow), sweaty, muddy, magic-deficient takes on properties that are supposed to be either high fantasy or epic supernatural or somewhere in between.
You know who did it right? John Boorman with Excalibur. A perfect balance of grit and fantasy. It might have had a few flaws as a movie, but as grand entertainment it was fantastic.
You know who did it right? John Boorman with Excalibur. A perfect balance of grit and fantasy. It might have had a few flaws as a movie, but as grand entertainment it was fantastic.
everyone has done the fantasy side of classic stories. i like this new trend of the close to historical versions.
i looked up King Richard on Wiki over the weekend and apparently he hardly spent any time in England during his reign. I think the article mentioned that he hardly spoke any english if any at all. his french territories were more important to him and he used england as a source of money to fund his wars in the middle east. but watching one of the old robin hoods you would think he couldn't wait to get back to england. even the latest one did that as well but presented him in a better historical context where he put robin in jail for daring to question him ordering the killing of innocent civilians
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09-14-10, 03:11 PM
#41
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Best Robin Hood
i saw this last week after watching expendables and prince of persia. i think it's the best one yet.
after watching a lot of old films, i don't like them artistically. i think a lot of the old so called classics were over acted and too westernized or americanized. it was like they were trying to replicate theater acting in the movies.
after watching a lot of old films, i don't like them artistically. i think a lot of the old so called classics were over acted and too westernized or americanized. it was like they were trying to replicate theater acting in the movies.
09-14-10, 04:09 PM
#42
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Best Robin Hood
I find these movies dismal and inert.
i looked up King Richard on Wiki over the weekend and apparently he hardly spent any time in England during his reign. I think the article mentioned that he hardly spoke any english if any at all. his french territories were more important to him and he used england as a source of money to fund his wars in the middle east. but watching one of the old robin hoods you would think he couldn't wait to get back to england. even the latest one did that as well but presented him in a better historical context where he put robin in jail for daring to question him ordering the killing of innocent civilians
09-14-10, 06:19 PM
#46
DVD Talk Hero
Re: Best Robin Hood
To each their own. I find these movies dismal and inert.
So why a Robin Hood movie if you have no interest in presenting the folklore? A Richard/John/Crusades/Magna Carta flick would work just fine on its own, if done right. It doesn't need Sherwood mythology shoe-horned in.
I find these movies dismal and inert. So why a Robin Hood movie if you have no interest in presenting the folklore? A Richard/John/Crusades/Magna Carta flick would work just fine on its own, if done right. It doesn't need Sherwood mythology shoe-horned in.
You need a personal story to make a good movie. Grand historical movies with no personal stories are hard to make
09-14-10, 06:37 PM
#47
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Best Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood easily.
Robin and Marian second.
Robin and Marian second.
09-14-10, 06:38 PM
#48
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Best Robin Hood
Why shovel in folklore that simply doesn't fit?
