Films

Clara and I working through all five of the Robin Hood films:

The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938 Errol Flynn)
Robin Hood: Price Of Thieves (1991 Kevin Costner)
Robin Hood (2010 Russel Crowe)
Robin Hood: Men In Tights (1993 Mel Brooks)
Robin Hood (1973 Disney)

Tonight we got about forty mins into Men In tights before turning it off, it's rubbish, and really unfunny. Which is a shame, as the lead from The Princess Bride is Hood, but wasted. We've still got the Disney one left, but the original Errol Flynn version is by far the best. It's such an awesome film. Ridley Scott's recent one is okay, but a bit average.

Highlights so far have been: Alan Rickman; Errol Flynn laughing heartily at EVERYTHING; Russel Crowe's accent bouncing around every part of the British Isles; Alan Rickman "I'll cut you heart out with a spoon!"; the slo-mo flaming arrow; the kid saying "did god paint you black?" to Morgan Freeman; incredible fight sequences and cheorgraphy in the '38 version; Alan Rickman.

But why?!