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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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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.

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.

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

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....

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.

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

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.

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.)

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.

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.

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. :)

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

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.

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

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.

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