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movie buzz Mon Mar 15 10, 11:55AM
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trailer break: ‘Robin Hood’

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Wow. This looks truly awesome, and I’m really, really psyched for it now. I was already, but oh man! Russell Crowe looks perfectly the part (I wasn’t sure if he’d work, but he does) and Cate Blanchett as a kick-ass, no-bullshit Marian? Excellent.

Oh, and the history! Is this gonna be as much about Magna Carta and forcing King John to sign the damn thing as it will be about the action? I hope so.

As Cinematical notes, this new trailer makes the film look less like Gladiator. Which is how things should be. I love Gladiator something fierce, but if I want to see Gladiator again, I’ll watch Gladiator again.

I mean, sure, this is yet another remake/reboot/retelling/whatever you want to call it of an old, old story. But at least it does seem as if everyone involved is dedicated to doing something fresh with it.

Robin Hood opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on May 14.




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Looking good!

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Looks cool!

"And, like certain other Robin Hood's, *I* can do an English accent!"

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Phew - I can't wait !

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I still think nobody looks especially merry at any given point here . . . people are laughing in one shot, I guess. I mean, yeah, I'll see this, but I'll be disappointed if it's as deadly serious as the trailers have made it out to be so far.

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They've got to find a new way to express sexual tension between the male and female leads. This "I hate you, no I love you" crap is so old.

She's cutting off his balls and then wham-o she's kissing him?

Cate Blanchett is so beyond this. Example: The movie Elizabeth. As queen when she makes love to Earl Dudley and her handmaidens watch from behind a wall from across the room. And one of her handmaidens is clearly in love with her (brilliantly played by Emily Mortimer). And then the next morning those same handmaidens bathe you and dress you. And she was warned by her advisers not to consort with Earl Dudley. She does it anyway 'cause she's the queen. That is so badass. Oh the pretext and subtext and tension of those scenes were brilliant. I can't breathe.

See how it's done!

Disclaimer: Perhaps handmaidens were treated like slaves in those times. They were not portrayed that way in this movie. If their treatment was in fact horrific, I'm sorry.

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