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[ivyfic]

I am watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. I watched this when it came out and remember being terrified by the body in the cage at the beginning, which I now see is on screen for maybe five seconds, tops.

Rewatching it now? Wow. Just. Wow. If it weren't for the A-list cast, I'd swear this was made for $5 in Romania for the Syfy Channel. I see why Mel Brooks parodied it. It should be parodied.

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[embroiderama]

Oh man, I was a senior in high school when it came out, and the main thing I remember was the excitement/uproar of Kevin Costner's naked ass.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I was ten. I just came across this review of the film from Ebert: "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is a murky, unfocused, violent, and depressing version of the classic story ... The most depressing thing about the movie is that children will attend it expecting to have a good time."

...that pretty much sums up my experience of it. It really scared me. I'm sure my parents thought it would be swashbuckling fun.

[embroiderama]

Yeah, I can only imagine. I did see it but IIRC I mainly thought it was stupid.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHHA. Oh, but Alan Rickman....ALAN RICKMAN!! He makes that movie, he really does. Chew that scenery, dude! More than you ever did in Die Hard And remember when Christian Slater had a career? Those were the days....

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Die Hard was his first film role! Also, the beginning of this, he may as well have been a Deatheater. I see why they cast him as Snape.

[xannoside.livejournal.com]

This. So much this. Alan Rickman chewed so much scenery in this movie, even Bloomie in the Three Musketeers doesn't compare.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Best line in the movie?
Guy of Gisborne: Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe?
Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.
Not even Orlando can match that. That's gold standard, that is.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It really is. I love that line. It was like he was in an entirely different movie. (I've sometimes gotten some of Rickman's bits confused with Men in Tights.)

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

That line is so great that my friends and I would quote it to each other all the time in high school. I still try to work it into conversation whenever possible.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I like when he later stabs Guy of Gisborne and then says, "Well at least I didn't use a spoon." God, Alan Rickman soooo awesome.

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, this was one of my go-to movies for watching while home sick. It doesn't hold up -- except, as others have mentioned, for Alan Rickman. CUSFS once held an event called "Alan Rickman: Beneath His Dignity" with clips of Alan Rickman's most memorable performances, and the Sheriff was up there. :)

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Oh god, this movie is so horrible. The directors cut is even worse because it has even more of the pagan-devil-worshipping-Sheriff stuff. Yet I have a lot of affection for it

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I don't think the movie is THAT bad. I admit a little grade school nostalgia bias, though. That Bryan Adams song was what all the 4th graders swooned to that year.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

When was the last time you watched it? Cause trust me. It's that bad.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It is not that bad. I saw it not too long ago. It's silly, to be sure, and the attempts at historicity are a bit more frowny-face inducing than necessary to tell the same story, but it's fun. It's not so-bad-it's-great fun, either, it's just kinda goofy adventure-y fun.

Besides which, I saw the Russel Crowe version, and next to that, Kevin Costner's is amazing.