Movie Night: Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves

As we're watching this movie on Netflix streaming video, we're discussing Kevin Costner's lack of discernable English accent (which this film is infamous), while it's clear Morgan Freeman was prepared and instructed by the director Kevin Reynolds, to give the role authenticity.

When Hugh sees the opening (wide shot of Locksley castle) he says he's reminded of the scene from Robin Hood: Men in Tights where the sherriff's men haul the castle away.

When the Lord of Locksley ventures out of the castle to defend a villager who double crosses him, he charges into the ambush of the Sherriff's men with a big-ass sword, he's defeated by guys with torches...he has a sword and they have torches. What the hell?

Blinken! The Lord of Locksley has been dead for weeks, why does the blind dude's face still have blood streaks? I argued that he could've rubbed the wounded sockets and Hugh said "What, he didn't have time to wash his face?"

I don't know what it is, but when the Sherriff yells to Robin, "I'm going to cut your heart out with a spoon," I always think of a melon-baller.

Robin throws down his bow to give his uplifting speech to the merry men. It's not like bows are easy to come by. Watching the montage where the men are creating their bows and arrows - one would think they would try to retrieve the arrows they spent. Those things are handcrafted. It's not like retrieving bullets. I would get pissed at Robin Hood just shooting anything and splitting them in half without a care. Dude you're gonna replace those!

It's not a Kevin Costner movie without a gratuitous bare butt shot.

Apparently there is an extended directors cut, because there's an extra scene where Mortiana tells the Sherriff of Nottingham that he is her son, and she killed the infant who would become the Sherriff and replaced it with her own baby. That would've made the audience pity the Sherriff, but the studios or whomever decided the good vs evil storyline should have no gray area. Later the Sherriff says, "For once in my life I will have something pure..." That line before didn't make much sense because of the missing scene. At the climax of the final fight scene, Azeem (Morgan Freeman) throws his scimitar into the witch and she flies backwards, landing on the body of the Sherriff, mother and son are reunited in death. Wow, makes you kind of want to know more about their character's background.

The ad-lib "are you alright?" from one of the prisoners to be hanged to Wolf Little is pretty laughable. "Yeah I gotta noose around my neck, but I'm alright."

If you haven't seen the movie, get out from under your rock. Lots of historical mistakes and a few continuity errors; all in all an entertaining movie.

Anti-Facebook Parenting Posts

For my first post, here's a little something I find absolutely irritating...

I would post this on facebook, but alot of my friends and family members would read this and probably take it the wrong way...well me contradicting them by saying their kid is annoying and nobody cares about what utterly stupid thing their dumb kid did that they find so adorable that they have to share in facebook posts. For instance, my cousin's wife talks about her kid dumping a whole bowl of soup on the TiVo remote, and the kid peeing on the dog because she was too lazy to pause some idiotic kid show that she uses to babysit her kid in order to get to the toilet in time. Oh yeah, so adorable. Also I love to hear you bitch and moan about how you need a "babymoon" or "time out" when your little one won't give you a break. I need to keep abreast of these obnoxious idiosyncratic moments in your null life.

http://www.lemondrop.com/2009/10/08/10-reasons-not-to-talk-about-your-kid-on-facebook/

http://shine.yahoo.com/event/coolmom/facebooks-five-most-annoying-parents-546972/?pg=2

A few friends are becoming new parents, and I'm so dreading the day when they have to report every single thing their new baby does.

Baby's crying, can't sleep, Ahole husband won't help, My body is destroyed, Baby threw up on me, Baby peed on me, Baby shit on me, Baby smiled at me, Baby sleeping, Baby is the most perfect baby in the world.

There I did the work for you. Just cut and paste when situation applies. You can just repost it all again tomorrow, and only to you it will be fresh and new and an endearing experience that must be shared ad infinitum, ad nauseum.

Unless this is your baby, I don't want to hear about it. This is the coolest baby ever.


Yeah some may say I could change my tune once I have a baby, but since that day hasn't arrived yet, I can talk all the smack I want. I don't have the need to validate myself for making a choice I partially regret by posting incessantly about my demon spawn....but our cats are just ADORABLE!!! ~J