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It’s not entirely desaturated, but personally I could use some more orange fire and blue clothing items to brighten things up. #CHEAT CODES FOR ROBIN HOOD THE LEGEND OF SHERWOOD TV#is George Steel, but I looked it up and it’s not George “The Animal” Steele, it’s a guy who mostly shot British TV shows including Peaky Blinders. #CHEAT CODES FOR ROBIN HOOD THE LEGEND OF SHERWOOD MOVIE#There’s some witty banter here and there, but the movie looks and feels a little too dour to seem light-footed. I got a kick out of that stuff, but this is no KING ARTHUR because it’s seriously lacking in giant elephant monsters with pyramids on their backs, and director Otto Bathurst ( Black Mirror, Peaky Blinders) doesn’t seem as interested in flash, humor or absurdity as Ritchie. Tuck (who was the narrator at the beginning, it turns out) has a look that suggests Russell Brand was the first choice, and when he wore a hat I swear he looked like the eclectic bassist and producer Bill Laswell. They’re war profiteers who get pissed at Friar Tuck (Australian comedian Tim Minchin). Murray Abraham, LAST ACTION HERO), an asshole who brags about the church making up the concept of Hell to scare people. The sheriff is an atheist conspiring with the Cardinal (F. John convinces him that stealing from the taxes collected can defund the unjust war. Sent home, he finds his estate ransacked and Marian with a new man (Jamie Dornan, MARIE ANTOINETTE) under the impression that he’s dead. Robin is a happy rich guy until he’s drafted and sees his side committing war crimes. The Sheriff of Nottingham (Ben Mendelsohn, KNOWING) wears a powder blue leather duster.Īnd Robin has a jacket that looks like it could almost have a North Face logo on the back. Many commoners wear almost-hoodies, and in a climactic uprising sequence they add bandanas over their mouths, and could be mistaken for modern anarchists or anti-fascists if not for the metal helmets worn by the riot cops who are clubbing them. Marian (Eve Hewson, BRIDGE OF SPIES) wears dresses and scarves not too medieval to be worn to a coffee shop. ![]() This goes for the costumes throughout the movie, designed by Julian Day ( THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALICE CREED, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES). Their outfits are medieval takes on desert camo and body armor, they crouch and creep around corners of dusty structures with their bows up ready to fire, they get shellacked by machine-gun-like crossbow fire that explodes through stone walls, and it’s all got that slight yellow tinting that signifies “Middle East” (here called “Arabia”). Here the Crusades (depicted as a bullshit war based on a lie) are clearly designed and shot to remind you of movies about American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. It did sometimes remind me of the scene where the long range archer laid out his bow and arrows on a blanket in the style of a contemporary sniper. I enjoyed Guy Ritchie’s goofy KING ARTHUR: LEGEND OF THE SWORD, which this seemed to resemble in the advertising. Much of the action (which includes exploding carriages and what not) is shot a little shaky to remind you of that not-a-bed-time-story thing, but luckily they can’t resist the occasional slow motion leap or rope swing. Through some decent training montages (sadly lacking in Stan Bush songs) he gets even better at shooting off a whole bunch of arrows real fast, including when whirling through the air in slow motion. who, in an act of defiance, he freed during the Crusades, even though the dude had almost killed him. It’s a Robin Hood trained by his mentor John (Jamie Foxx ), a Muslim P.O.W. The movie opens with a narrator bragging about how this is not the “bed time story” you know, and it kinda plays as a super hero origin story (in fact it was originally announced as ROBIN HOOD: ORIGINS). Taron Egerton ( LEGEND) plays Sir Robin of Loxley, a reverse Kingsman raised as a “spoiled toff,” he later fights with the commoners against the government, without his fancy clothes. I probly shoulda just seen CREED II again, but you know how it is. ![]() ROBIN HOOD (2018) was part 2 in my “have to be out of the apartment during certain hours but THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER’S WEB starts too late” programming series. ![]()
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