Have you guys seen ROBIN HOOD (2018)? It's the most fascinating look into bad filmmaking you'll ever see.

The production design. According to IMDB it's supposed to look like those shanty towns in South America, but the town is sprawling and kinda well done.

There are random flame spurts going on everywhere in "the mines". They never tell you what the fuck the mines are and what they're mining. This looks to be around the 1700s, but I have no idea. But yeah, random flame spurts now and then. Cause, fuck it? I guess?

The costume design is bad. People are wearing leather jackets and blazers. Cause the look cool? The main characters wears bright colours, because the audience are idiots and we need clear signs on who the main characters are. Not cause the production went "bad guys wears black, goods guys.... don't."

The directing is baffling. Some Iraq/Afgahnistan-fighting type look in the beginning, then not a mention, then suddenly Robin Hood has a flashback-PTSD-moment in the middle of the 3rd act but he just shakes it off.

Jamie Foxx's acting is great. But he's supposed to be an "Arabian" (that's what the movie said) but his accent is 100% American. Cause who the fuck cares.

About the story logic, there are so many "what in the actual hell?" moments, but I will bring you one example:

At one point, "Rob" (Because Robin Hood is called Rob here, because fuck you) finally gets into the good graces of the Sheriff of Nottingham (after 3-4 scenes of Rob acting like a 1% dickhead (there's a lot of bad politics parables in here)) he convinces the Sheriff that he's on his 1% side. So, the Sheriff and the Cardinal kinda ignore him while he's in the room (they literally told him to stay) and begin to talk about how they're trying to overthrow the King of England and how they're funding the Arabs in the war against the English.

This comes out of nowhere. Rob (fuck you) and the Sheriff hasn't established anything about their mutual disagreement about the King, the Arabs, their love for the Cardinal or the Church.

The Sheriff and the Cardinal just randomly talks about their high treason in front of this guy that kinda likes what random stuff they've been doing in Nottingham. Nothing about the crown, the king, the war, nothing.

You wanna know what Rob (fuck you) does after this scene? HE LEAVES. Instead of killing these two, who are the masterminds of everything evil, he just leaves. (Oh btw, Rob (fuck you) has been headshotting and killing random soldiers throughout the movies so far).

And that is one scene. One.

There should be textbooks on filmmaking, and half of it should be "Robin Hood (2018) What Not To Do."

Edit: This movie is stupid, not outright bad. But it's so much fun. The action is good.

It's weird. The last 3 minutes are what we expect a Robin Hood-movie to be. But nope, we had to get a gritty reboot.

Submitted May 31, 2020 at 08:17AM by Quilled https://ift.tt/2ZSNUiE