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.
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