Robin Hood Sits at 44%

I wondered what happened with this film.

Last year as Robin Hood was announced, I felt very optimistic.  I was a bit worried that Robin Hood would have a hard time overcoming the shadow of the Kevin Costner version, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.  But as the months went on I wondered why this film wasn’t getting more press, and why the promotion end of this film was all but quite.

Now a few days before the release of Robin Hood, I still can’t remember seeing a single commercial for this film run this week.  You would think a film with an award winning director in Ridley Scott, and with an Oscar winning actor and actress in Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett would at least warrant a few commercials.  Well that was until I checked Robin Hood’s rating this morning on Rotten Tomatoes.

To my great surprise, Robin Hood was sitting at 51% on Rotten Tomatoes and continues to move downwards, as it now sits at 44% (as of the writing of this post) on 63 reviews. This is kind of disappointing as I like Ridley Scott as a director and I was looking forward to see this film.

Well, I guess I could rent it.

Why Aren’t People Talking about Robin Hood?

Is it just me or is no one talking about the new Robin Hood movie.

On Sunday, I went to a Christmas party/dinner where I ended up mentioning the new Robin Hood movie and no one really seemed to care.  And you know, I kind of don’t blame them, since I find myself not really caring either.   There was an earlier trailer of this film that was posted to the ‘Script to Screen’ blog and I remember not caring much to see it.

Robin Hood has one of the best directors on the planet directing it, one of the best actor and actress in the world acting in it, but no one is really talking about this film.  Why is that?

For myself, I feel that the problem is that such a good job was done with the 1991 film ‘Robin Hood Prince of Thieves’  that I can’t even picture another Robin Hood film.  Nor can I picture anyone other than Kevin Costner playing Robin Hood.  I guess that Robin Hood comes just a little to close to the previous film for me to really get into it.

In any case, I hope that this movie really starts to get some real buzz behind it.  There really isn’t any reason why Robin Hood shouldn’t be talked about.