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MonsieurChoc: Oct 12, 2013; Every species can smell its own extinction.

How about anime Robin Hood?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhm1z4MTbTE

# ? Dec 21, 2017 02:24

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# ? May 24, 2024 17:04

Halloween Jack: Sep 12, 2003; I WILL CUT OFF BOTH OF MY ARMS BEFORE I VOTE FOR ANYONE THAT IS MORE POPULAR THAN BERNIE!!!!!

Is that the show where Marian wakes up Robin Hood and screams BAKA and hits him with a warhammer because he has morning wood?

# ? Dec 21, 2017 02:27

DC Murderverse: Nov 10, 2016; "Tell that to Zod's snapped neck!"

Good news everyone!

Apparently ORC COP (aka Bright) is terrible!

# ? Dec 21, 2017 02:37

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

QuoProQuid posted:

It�s the superhero problem. How many times do I need to see Peter Parker get bit by that drat spider?

Less times than seeing Bruce Wayne's parents get shot, or Krypton blowing up.

(The last Spider-Man film briefly mentioned it, and that's it.)

# ? Dec 21, 2017 02:53

Casimir Radon: Aug 2, 2008

Legend of Tarzan sidestepped most of the origin story because nobody needs to see that origin story again. What it did show was important to the plot and fit in nicely. It also didn't have a sequel hook.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:00

Calaveron: Aug 7, 2006

Davros1 posted:

Less times than seeing Bruce Wayne's parents get shot, or Krypton blowing up.

(The last Spider-Man film briefly mentioned it, and that's it.)

And only two bits of dialogue, with Peter telling Ned he got bit by a spider, and Peter telling I forget who that May's had a rough time

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:04

muscles like this!: Jan 17, 2005

DC Murderverse posted:

Good news everyone!

Apparently ORC COP (aka Bright) is terrible!

Netflix has already said that Will Smith has signed on for a sequel.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:13

Timby: Dec 23, 2006; Your mother!

muscles like this! posted:

Remember how the last Robin Hood movie was also an origin story except for some reason they cast loving almost 50 year old Russell Crowe?

That's because that whole thing was thoroughly hosed with. When Scott was originally developing it with Crowe in mind, the script was called Nottingham, and the idea was that the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood were the same person. Scott and the studio got cold feet and it was re-tooled into a traditional story.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:29

resurgam40: Jul 22, 2007; Battler, the literal stupidest man on earth. Why are you even here, Battler, why did you come back to this place so you could fuck literally everything up?

DC Murderverse posted:

Good news everyone!

Apparently ORC COP (aka Bright) is terrible!

That is pretty good news, as the initial reviews for Greatest Showman, while not good, do not indicate the absolute train-wreck I was hoping for given the subject matter. (Seriously, PT Barnum was a bastard who exemplified the worst parts of capitalism; he should not be lionized or promoted at all and yet here we are). General consensus seems to be that it's total bullshit, but as a pure visual spectacle it isn't bad; no real vitriolic takes, yet, although this one from Vox is pretty good: "Right now there's something especially uncomfortable about watching a character based on the father of entertainment spectaculars praising exaggeration, falsehood, and ignorance for its pure pleasure value, reality be damned." Hell, :same:

OK, here's another good 'un: "In a broader sense, the mishmash does recall the real Barnum, who once sewed half a fish to half an ape and called it a mermaid." Well, at least I'm not alone.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:39

syscall girl: Nov 7, 2009; by FactsAreUseless; Fun Shoe

Young Freud posted:

Don't see why? The Magna Carta happened when Prince John became King.

Yeah but that movie really tried to shoehorn in US political documents without calling it as such.

I guess I should re-watch it but, naw

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:47

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

DC Murderverse posted:

Good news everyone!

Apparently ORC COP (aka Bright) is terrible!

A Max Landis movie bad? NO

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:50

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Codependent Poster posted:

A Max Landis movie bad? NO

He's gonna get 3 million for his next script.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 03:56

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

Timby posted:

That's because that whole thing was thoroughly hosed with. When Scott was originally developing it with Crowe in mind, the script was called Nottingham, and the idea was that the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood were the same person. Scott and the studio got cold feet and it was re-tooled into a traditional story.

So, the sherrif was creating a weak opposition to justify his tyranny, and then he cant stop it? Like that Force Awakens game?

# ? Dec 21, 2017 04:09

Macdeo Lurjtux: Jul 5, 2011; BRRREADSTOOORRM!

Taintrunner posted:

90 minutes of tech CEOs and finance dickheads getting the guillotine one after the other? I'd watch it.

In all honesty I would totally be down for a movie about Eisenhower set in the early fifties just so there could be discussion about a republican president signing a tax bill with a 91% tax rate on the highest bracket. Just force people to talk about Keynesian economics again.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 04:19

Codependent Poster: Oct 20, 2003

Skwirl posted:

He's gonna get 3 million for his next script.

Nepotism is a hell of a thing. Get famous even when your dad kills children.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 04:43

FreudianSlippers: Apr 12, 2010; Shooting and Fucking
are the same thing!

Timby posted:

That's because that whole thing was thoroughly hosed with. When Scott was originally developing it with Crowe in mind, the script was called Nottingham, and the idea was that the Sheriff of Nottingham and Robin Hood were the same person. Scott and the studio got cold feet and it was re-tooled into a traditional story.

I�ve also heard that at some point it was meant to be a medieval police procedural thing with Robin Hood as a sort of mythic figure that everyone talks about but would never be shown directly.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 05:12

The Saddest Rhino: Apr 29, 2009; Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.

honestly i was having some hope for the bad orc film until the trailer shows will smith stepping on a faerie yelling "Faerie Lives Matter!" as a joke

# ? Dec 21, 2017 05:17

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

The Saddest Rhino posted:

honestly i was having some hope for the bad orc film until the trailer shows will smith stepping on a faerie yelling "Faerie Lives Matter!" as a joke

Of all the mythical creatures they could have used that aren't real life slurs...

# ? Dec 21, 2017 05:20

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

QuoProQuid posted:

how many movies are already planned for the robin hood origins expanded universe?

Lots, at first. When they first announced the movie it was going to be followed by 'origin' movies for the rest of the Merry Men and all the other characters but that quietly got dropped over time because I guess they realised that no one wants to see Friar Tuck: Origins.

There was a discussion in the Justice League thread about whether the 'Marvel Method' had really changed the face of movie making and whether there were that many shared cinematic universes planned so I went and dug up a list and the RobinHoodiverse was one of them:

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Well there's the Godzilla/King Kong Monsterverse, obviously. There's also the upcoming Hasbro-verse (G.I. Joe, Micronauts, Visionaries, M.A.S.K. and ROM: SpaceKnight), the X-Men extended cinematic universe (spinoffs including the Wolverine films and Deadpool, upcoming films including New Mutants and Gambit), The Transformers films (they've got a spinoff Bumblebee film coming up and you can bet there'll be more), an upcoming Hanna-Barbera shared cinematic universe (starting with a Scooby Doo reboot), American International (!!!!) were planning on relaunching themselves with a shared universe and Lionsgate's upcoming Robin Hood film starring Taron Egerton and Jamie Foxx was supposed to be followed up by 'origin' films of all the other characters including Friar Tuck but they seem to have dropped that idea.

That Guy Ritchie King Arthur film was also supposed to kick off an Arthurian series/shared universe but

Valiant comics were also supposed to turned into a shared cinematic universe but it looks like they'll be TV series instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQcLClgLfkg

Edit: Sony were also pretty desperate to spin (ha) Amazing Spider-Man out into an expanded universe and had a Sinister Six hook in Amazing Spider-Man 2 but things didn't work out so well there. But they haven't quite given up and are shooting a Venom film and are also planning a Black Cat/Silver Sable spinoff.

Halloween Jack posted:

What was that British show where Marian ran the rebellion and Robin was a dopey mascot?

Maid Marian and Her Merry Men! With Tony Robinson as the Sheriff of Nottingham and Danny John-Jules as Barrington (their version of Alan-a-Dale)

# ? Dec 21, 2017 05:35

aware of dog: Nov 14, 2016

DC Murderverse posted:

Good news everyone!

Apparently ORC COP (aka Bright) is terrible!

I'm not at all shocked that it sucks, nor am I surprised at this:
https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/943592160888348672

# ? Dec 21, 2017 06:57

Tars Tarkas: Apr 13, 2003; Rock the Mok

A nasty woman, I think you should try is, Jess.

The Condorito movie already was released in Latin America iirc but will be here soon, it features a bird man and his nephew rescuing a potential mother-in-law from space aliens to try to impress her enough that he can marry her daughter. You know, a typical movie plot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE2eGfHI47c

# ? Dec 21, 2017 08:22

The MSJ: May 17, 2010

Tars Tarkas posted:

The Condorito movie already was released in Latin America iirc but will be here soon, it features a bird man and his nephew rescuing a potential mother-in-law from space aliens to try to impress her enough that he can marry her daughter. You know, a typical movie plot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE2eGfHI47c

This movie is a certified �PLOP!

# ? Dec 21, 2017 08:39

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

aware of dog posted:

I'm not at all shocked that it sucks, nor am I surprised at this:
https://twitter.com/slashfilm/status/943592160888348672

Better be called Brighter, with a trilogy capper called Brightest.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 11:50

Decius: Oct 14, 2005; Ramrod XTreme

FreudianSlippers posted:

e:
I think the oldest versions of the story we have actually have it set during the reign of Edward I (the badguy from Braveheart) so we could theoretically get a Braveheart/Robin Hood crossover. Or maybe it was one of the other Edwards, there was a few.

Different king for sure. Edward I. and the whole Scottish independence thin was late 13th to early 14th century.The first Robin Hood stories we know of are from the late 12th, early 13th century, at least 100 years before Edward I. reigned.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 12:04

Gatts: Jan 2, 2001; Goodnight Moon; Nap Ghost

feedmyleg posted:

Better be called Brighter, with a trilogy capper called Brightest.

No �The Brightening: The First Bright� ? Or is that the 4th part that�s a prequel.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 12:56

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

Gatts posted:

No �The Brightening: The First Bright� ? Or is that the 4th part that�s a prequel.

The Bright & The Wizardous: Narnia Drift

# ? Dec 21, 2017 13:24

Iron Crowned: May 6, 2003; by Hand Knit

resurgam40 posted:

That is pretty good news, as the initial reviews for Greatest Showman, while not good, do not indicate the absolute train-wreck I was hoping for given the subject matter.

*snip*

I initially misread that as "The Greatest Snowman." It made me wish there was some kind of movie about people loving each other over to win a snowman making contest.

# ? Dec 21, 2017 13:40