robin hood who is BEST?

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who will defend kevin costner? i think everything about his version is awful except the sherriff of nottingham obv

haha robin of the hood

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:08 (twenty-three years ago)

b-but the bryan adams song is at the end of it: which makes it a classic obv.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:09 (twenty-three years ago)

it has a lot of making up to do is all i can say

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:12 (twenty-three years ago)

prince of thieves is my favorite one, thats part three of my costner trilogy along with the untouchables and jfk

robin and marion is good too

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:13 (twenty-three years ago)

how can you not like Kevin costner's 'Robin': its got an american accent for a start (as i recall, I've turned the telly on now).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

ok i'm gunna watch some more and see if my mind changes

the forest itself is incredibly rubbish, more paths and glades than trees THIS WAS PRIMEVAL WOODLAND PEOPLE!! WITH WOLVES AND BOARS AND CANNIBALS!!

robin and marian at least had connery when he cd still be bothered to get out of bed: the final death scene is very clumsily staged i seem to recall

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah mark good point!! and robin hood wasnt even a real guy, how can the movie be any good!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

so many 'factual' errors!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:24 (twenty-three years ago)

norman soldiers: "oh oh we are scared of the mighty forest!!"
small children: "why? it is more of a copse really!! don't for goodness sake go see blair witch you big norman pussies"

why is waterworld omitted from yr costner canon?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:35 (twenty-three years ago)

costner: "i shall make a tremendous fairbanksian epic of the imagination yet to make it even better i shall tone everything down"

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmm, Michael Praed [drools]...

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

waterworld is good but its a TRILOGY, i never saw the postman but i bet id like it i love kc!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 21:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I am descended from Robin Hood!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Does that make you a fictional character, Jel? I did wonder, the times we met. "There's something not quite real about this man," I thought.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

dude was real, robin of loxley! :)

yeah, I guess I'm pretty unreal! :)

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:10 (twenty-three years ago)

waterworld = better that RPoT and the untouchables bcz it doesn't have sean connery in it QED

"we have defeated the norman dogs and driven their iron heel from our green land!! rejoice!! oh look here is richard the lionheart back from palestine!! kneel to the norman dogs all over again!! we are anglo-saxon yeomen and we can't think our way out of yon stout paperbag!!"

jason connery = a bettah robin and a bettah connery

haha geraldine mcewan = top crone, and as mentioned alan rickman is pretty good also, but the energy slumps tremendously the moment the camera cuts away from either, and the final swordfight is all close-ups and bad editing

mention other robin hoods and assess them

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

cary elwes: still alive.

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

People our age (addressing Mark here, and possibly no one else!) grew up with Richard Greene. I remember little other than that he was constantly riding through the glen. They only had the one, apparently. He was very wet and weedy, to come over all Molesworth.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cartoon Fox.

― man, Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:28 (twenty-three years ago)

The complete Robin of Sherwood is on DVD now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.americanroyalarts.com/library/CJ100.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

alan rickman is in that? shit its been years, who is he

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

he is the evil sherriff of nott'm: he calls everyone "you twit"

http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/msl/lego/castle/6066.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

john cleese!!!

― jones (actual), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:41 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.perunamaa.net/romola/suomi/hoodA.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

mark i had that exact lego set when i was a kid, i had the robin hood dudes raid my lego castle and take it over!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:48 (twenty-three years ago)

ok in that case you will know the answer to my question: is that a piano, the big black thing the merry man is shouldering, near the goblets? or if not, what is it?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

or maybe a harmonium?

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

i think its the trap door!! in that set there was a secret hiding place for the money you stole from rich bastards, a complex moral situation for four year olds!!

― s trife (simon_tr), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

It's rocks to the secret entrance!!!

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 22:58 (twenty-three years ago)

It kinda sucks that make lego people with all sorts of facial expressions now.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)

not all :b

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:06 (twenty-three years ago)

(i meant "look it's cleese humping the trunk!". he probably wasn't the best robin hood - i can't remember)

the postman is part 4 of every trilogy

― jones (actual), Sunday, 24 November 2002 23:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Prince of Thieves = probably more factual than JFK

clearly Daffy Duck rules this thread.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 25 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The 1930s Errol Flynn version is fantastic and, again, one of my favourite films ever. I've seen it dozens of times and it always raises a smile. The soundtrack music is great as well. I saw a few snatches of the Costner one in the pub tonight. Bloody slow motion arrow nonsense.

― David (David), Monday, 25 November 2002 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Cary Elwes, Robin Hood: Men in Tights - "Unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak with an English accent."

The fox is still the best, though.

jel being a descendent of Robin Hood = today's best thing

― Miss Laura, Monday, 25 November 2002 09:02 (twenty-three years ago)

when we finishing our cinema studies MA in nottingham, the american girl in our class and her other foreign student friends watched every cinematic version of robin hood they could get their hands on in their final weekend in the city. apparently "prince of theives" was far and away the most inaccurate in terms of factual blunders

the best one by far is the rather wonderful "robin and marion" - i may not be a sean connery fan, but the whole tone of the film is so beautifully tender. i love it so

― chris browning (commonswings), Monday, 25 November 2002 09:19 (twenty-three years ago)

The Disney version roxX0rs but the fox was a bit dull. It was Terry-Thomas who made the film grebt as Sir Hiss.

― robster (robster), Monday, 25 November 2002 09:55 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.filmsondisc.com/posterarchive/kaye/COURTJ.JPG

Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They broke the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No!!! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 25 November 2002 10:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked Patrick Bergin. His movie would have done well too if it hadn't been brilliantly planned to come out at roughly the same time as the KC one.*

*This may not be true.

― Sam (chirombo), Monday, 25 November 2002 10:07 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.sausagenet.co.uk/prog/maidmarian/maidmarian_1.jpg
Robin of Kensington!

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 25 November 2002 10:17 (twenty-three years ago)

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