Robin Hood my eye
7 October 2006 @ 19:02
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Chicken and I thought we’d try out the new series of Robin Hood. We couldn’t even last the episode. Flipping awful doesn’t even come close. First off, no one in it (bar Richard Armitage, but even he is hamming up as if he was Oliver Reed) can act at all, with Robin a grinning, drooling apeth. I won’t even get started on Keith Allen. Secondly, once again Sherwood forest/Nottinghamshire has been mutated in to something quite different. Nottingham seems to have become overly hilly. Sherwood, far from being flat and fern-filled as it was in recent years, was apparently quite a rock and, again, undulating place. With cliffs. No ferns though. Definitely not. But that could because it is actually Hungary. It even seemed to be ripping off Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, previously the shittest Hood “based” production. Rubbish, won’t be bothering again. Annoying, leaves very little on a Saturday. As usual. |
I liked it; it’s a fantasy and is not supposed to be true. I think it will probably get better, but then I always liked Robin, even the Prince of Thieves has probably the best line ever, when the Sheriff says, “Cancel Christmas…”
Are you of the Tony Robinson, Maid Marion etc generation; at least this time, its not sub-sub-sub Angela Carter myth busting, boy didn’t that take the magic out of a generation’s dreams. It’s good old-fashioned escapism. Go on, go on, go on, give it another try now…
The arrow shot graphic generator is going to get wearing though…