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GO WATCH ROBIN HOOD. NOW.

No, seriously, I mean it. Do not read my review until you've seen the movie. I want you to go see it with all your current thoughts and feelings about the movie, all your hesitance, all your wariness. I want you to go in not expecting to feel about this movie the way I do now.



Guys. Guys.

I have a new second favourite movie of all time. Maybe even favourite movie of all time. I don't know, I need to rewatch both this and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark a few more times before I can draw a firm conclusion.

THAT WAS THE SINGLE MOST FUN MOVIE I HAVE SEEN IN AN AGE. MAYBE EVEN EVER. GUYS. I CAN'T COMPREHEND THE SHEER AWESOME OF THAT MOVIE.

Everything. Everything. I went in expecting a po-faced, Kingdom of Heaven, deadly serious movie (RIDLEY SCOTT AND RUSSELL CROWE AND THE TRAILERS I LOVE YOU FOR GIVING ME THIS IMPRESSION) that would be terribly pretty if a bit dull with exquisitely executed action scenes.

And for the first ten to twenty or so minutes of the movie, that's more or less what we got; that and the ABSOLUTE UNDYING JOYFUL SHOCK of someone remembering, in a Robin Hood movie, that Richard the Lionheart was a COCKING GREAT DICK OF A BASTARD. With fabulous curls, I should probably add.

And oh, god, the first two action scenes. I think I came about fifty thousand times. The arrows, the gleeful French chef dude going "OMFG GUYS YOU GUYS SERIOUSLY I JUST KILLED THE KING OF ENGLAND :D", Little John helping shove a battering ram up a hill and oh god oh god my hormones just EXPLODED, the arroooooows <3 <3 <3 EVERYTHING OKAY EVERYTHING, Robin and the others in stocks, just, ASDFASDFA GOD.

And then. And then. Marion, oh, Marion, oh Cate Blanchett marry me, she was beautiful and fiesty and fun and hilarious and ASDFASDFASDAFSLDFJAL GOD and when she first walks out in the movie with her bow and I just ASDFJALKSJFLA.

And then we had all the lads sitting around a fireplace and Little John saying "Sing something about a woman. A big woman." and I DIED, I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN AND HEAVEN IS HEARING KEVIN DURAND SAYING THAT LINE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN, and then later, when he's drunk in the tavern and the jokes about "Little John" and "I AM PROPORTIONAL" and and and him looking across at his lady of choice and yelling "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU SMILE" and asljdfakljdafklasjklafjd just GOD, GOD, KEVIN DURAND IS LIKE A HUMAN TANK AND I WANT HIS TREADS ALL OVER ME.

And there were sheep-shagging jokes and bee bombs and Marion stabbing a would-be rapist in the neck and Marion and Robin's romance being the CUTEST CUTEST BEST THING EVER I CAN'T STOP SMILING NO SERIOUSLY IT HURTS and the over the top ttly srs moments were so over the top ttly srs that they were hilarious and epic and amazing and it just, it just, IT IS SO MUCH FUN, IT WAS SO MUCH FUN I AM STILL SORE, I AM STILL GRINNING, I AM STILL WEEPING WITH LAUGHTER AND JOY.

And and and the sheer, sheer undying gleeful sequel-baiting ridiculous over the top silliness of the ending and JESUS, YOU GUYS, I CAN'T EVEN. I CAN'T. I JUST.

I AM SORE FROM SMILING ABOUT THIS MOVIE. I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER LIKED A MOVIE THAT I'VE SEEN IN THE CINEMA THIS MUCH BEFORE IN MY ENTIRE LIFE. I AM SHAKING WITH HOW MUCH I LOVE THIS MOVIE. I THOUGHT I WOULD CALM DOWN BY MORNING.

I AM WRONG.

Guys, this movie is the best thing to happen to me since I first saw Advent Children and that 90% of the love was born of nostalgia and omg pretty. Robin Hood on the other hand is like - it's like -

There are no words. Serve me with potatoes and an orange sauce, I am done.

Date: 2010-05-15 02:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
Oh yeah, and Iron Man 2 was pretty great.

XD

IT IS HILARIOUS IT'S NEARLY 24 HOURS NOW SINCE ROBIN HOOD TIME AND I AM STILL GOING ASDFJAKLSDJFKLAJFLAJAFSL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH :D :D :D ABOUT IT

Date: 2010-05-15 04:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fahrenheit-f430.livejournal.com
Otoh, I have my sensible head on re: both movies, because I am sensible!girl. However, watching you flail around is glorious payback for the weird looks you gave me after Transformers 2. *smugs*

I got my keyboard!mash when I got in. I know you love Robin Hood with squeeful eternal devotion... Just be ready for the day I turn up on your doorstep with my Strike Back DVDs, 'cause THAT THING is killing my interest in everything. Hence, I am a picky wench, atm. ^^

Date: 2010-05-15 04:18 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] irish-dragon.livejournal.com
can't i'm a bit broke w/ like 2 dollars to my name for the two days...

Date: 2010-05-21 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
Hehe, aww <3, that's okay. I'm just reccing it for anyone who has the means, if not necessarily the will, to go watch it if they can :)!

Date: 2010-05-21 10:40 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] irish-dragon.livejournal.com
yeah i know, but i was feelin like replying anyway, it is a movie I would like to see though...that and losers.

Date: 2010-05-16 12:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thevinegarworks.livejournal.com
I READ IT I READ IT












No, just kidding, I totally didn't. But I do want to see this movie now that I know Msr. Durand is in it.

Date: 2010-05-21 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
HOW DARE YOU CONFUZZLE ME LIKE THAT

HOW DARE YOU

;)

He's not in it much (dear Hollywood; FIX THIS PLZ. Also, SEQUEL. NOW. I NEVER EVER ASK FOR ONE, EVER, BUT I'M ASKING FOR ONE RIGHT THE HELL NOW, WITH THE SAME MERRY MEN KTHX BECAUSE THEY WERE AWESOME. I MEAN IT) but maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, when he is, he is just <3.

&hearts

Date: 2010-05-22 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrasaki.livejournal.com
ROBIN HOOD OMG.

You know? At the end of the movie I couldn't decide how I felt about it, but a day (and a half) later, I think I rather do like it, and wouldn't mind seeing it again. LOL

Date: 2010-05-26 08:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
\o/ \o/ \o/

I got to the end of that movie and honestly thought "... will they notice if I sit here until it starts playing again? Because I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN. RIGHT NOW."

Date: 2010-05-27 01:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mrasaki.livejournal.com
btw. whatshisname from Legion as Lil John?? AWESOMESAUCE

the main reason I want to watch it again, if I'm totally honest!

Date: 2010-05-27 06:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emerald-embers.livejournal.com
He waaaaaaaaas <3 <3 <3, I heart my bb Kevin Durand, and not just for his torso (even though that is one HELL of a torso). And I love watching the interviews with him and the other Merry Men about the movie! Alan Doyle (who played Allan A'Dayle, which is a fun coincidence name-wise) seems to be a total sweetheart too and I love that they deliberately hired him for his musical ability, he hadn't acted before! They keep breaking into song in the interviews and it's adorable <3 <3 <3.

Plus I love that Kevin learned his accent the method acting way ;), by heading over to Scotland and basically getting adopted into a Scottish family for a bit XD, and practising it there, and he said he based Little John a bit on certain pub regulars, the ones who'll deck you for looking at them funny but if you're a mate then they'll go to the ends of the Earth for you.

Seriously, I want a sequel just for MOAR MERRY MEN PLZ because I'm kind of in love with the lot of them XD.

(Well, and Marion as well, but she's awesome anyway <3. And I love that the guy who played Will Scarlett was all starstruck over Cate Blanchett, talking about when he first met her and he was all "I'm sitting at a table with Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett and they haven't worked out that I don't belong here!" <3 <3 <3 SO CUTE OMG)

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