Boy, I hate to complain, but this has been a bad year for summer movies. Back in my earlier post about summer movies, I picked 10 movies I looked forward to seeing. I chose not to see four of these: "The A-Team", "Shrek Forever After", "Robin Hood", and "MacGruber". At the same time last year, there was "Star Trek" (which I sort of liked), "Terminator Salvation" (which I liked), "Up" (which was my favorite film of 2009), and "The Brothers Bloom" (which I also liked). At this point, only "Iron Man 2" is a very good movie. Everything else is mediocre or worse. Hopefully, things get better starting with "Toy Story 3". Nothing like Pixar to pick things up.
06/13/2010
Good choice on "Robin Hood". My father dragged me to it, and we both laughed our way through the thing. It turns out that Robin wasn't of Locksley, that the Magna Carta was written by a bunch of illiterate peasants (and hidden under a public monument), and that D-Day took place in 1600. And those were the believable parts of the plot...
John
Posted by: John | 06/21/2010 at 02:37 PM
I had heard about the anachronisms in some reviews, but the worst part to me is that Robin Hood isn't Robin Hood. I don't mind a little deconstruction, but when you change the core of what it's about (a member of the ruling class who sides with the peasants), then I'm not watching Robin Hood. They did the same thing with that "King Arthur" movie with Clive Owen, where the knights of the Round Table were soldiers in the Roman army (huh, what?).
Posted by: The Out-of-Focus Guy | 06/21/2010 at 02:49 PM