Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves has a reputation people love to argue about, so we finally put it to the test and then immediately wondered why we ever doubted it. What we found is a full-blooded 1991 action adventure that’s somehow gritty, romantic, and genuinely funny, with the kind of big swings that make movies feel like events.

We talk through the real debate everyone brings up first: Kevin Costner as Robin Hood, the accent that comes and goes, and why his sheer charm and presence still carry the role. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:02

Hello

Welcome And Robin Hood Pick

SPEAKER_00 0:03

and welcome to the We Recommend Podcast, a movie podcast where every week we recommend a movie for you to watch and then come back here and listen to us discuss. I'm Jesse. I'm Jason. Nobility is not a birthright, it's defined by one's actions. Cause this week we recommend Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Jason.

First Impressions And Why It Works

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Save a horse. So I was under the impression that this movie wasn't the best movie. But I have to say, this might be the best movie I've ever watched. I know. It's so good. It is insanely entertaining. I loved it. It was my favorite movie growing up. Probably watched it a billion times. I mean, everybody just putting all the charisma they had into this movie. And I'm like, I don't remember the last time I've seen an adventure movie other than like, you know, the classics that was this good. I didn't know it was gonna be funny. Oh, I was hooting and hollering watching this. I was like, Natalie, I think I really like this. I can't shut up and about it. And I think this is one of Alan Rickman's best roles. Oh, I didn't know he was doing this in this movie. Otherwise, I'd own it by now. Insane. He was just like, I'm going for it. You really did.

The Accent Question And Casting

SPEAKER_00 1:26

Like, so one of my main questions is does the charisma of Kevin Costner outweigh his accent?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

What accent?

SPEAKER_00 1:33

It's well, so yeah, he it comes and goes so much. It's like, and I do have some facts about it, but just from watching it for the first time, I was like, he seems like he might be doing an accent. Nah. And then it seems like every time he yells, he kind of starts doing something. I don't know. Or maybe it's because everybody else is around him doing an accent. It makes me think he's kind of doing it, but he's not. I mean, it is weird to, you know, just like put somebody that can't do an English accent in a movie filled with people doing accents.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

I felt like they were really worried about everyone doing an accent except for him. Except to him, yeah. It's wild. Maybe Kristen Schlater too, but he tries. Yeah, he does way better.

SPEAKER_00 2:20

But I will say Kevin Costner is, despite his accent, great as Robin Hood.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Yeah, man. I fucking love it.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

He feels so charming and charismatic and just kind of playful, which is not something you see a lot in Kevin Costner movies. He's usually, I'm serious boy.

SPEAKER_01 2:40

But that's Robin Hood for you.

SPEAKER_00 2:41

Yeah. He's supposed to be like that. And it was weird. I guess because the last time I watched Robin Hood, that wasn't like the cartoon. Like I watched, I love the cartoon, of course. I haven't seen that since I was a child. I love the chicken lady. Yeah. May Mary him. And then uh, and of course, I like men in tights. I mean, Natalie loves that movie, and so I've seen it a couple times with her, and it's just we don't get no roles if we can't get no toes. Yeah. And so those are kind of all I knew. I was like, oh, those are the funny ones. Those are the ones for like just to laugh. Because the other one I saw was Robin Hood, the Ridley Scott one with uh Russell Crow in it. Yeah, that one's cool. And that one, I just remember being like, why did we do this with Robin Hood? Is uh maybe this is just how the character is. And then seeing this movie, I'm like, no, I was completely wrong. This is the Robin Hood. The other versions are also aren't super serious. They're just kind of but it's also super gritty at the same time. Yeah. And that was cool. I was like, whoa, the first couple of of attacks, I was like, that's that's something in that guy's eye. That guy got got stabbed hard. Yeah. Or just cutting off hands to begin. Yeah. Because I was like, oh, this is gonna be a dreadful gritty take.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Yeah, I love the the transition between the music like brrrrr into the biggest issue of this movie, it's uh two hours to 26 minutes long.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

It's pretty long. It's like, uh, but then when I watch it, I'm like, outside of that opening where it's just a really long, you know, to show all the credits, I'm like, well, tapestry. Can we cut this out? We have credits at the ending now.

Cinematography And Music Hit Hard

SPEAKER_00 4:17

Um, so when was the first time you saw this movie? And uh why do you like it so much? Uh child? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Child. Um I just remember having it on VHS and watching it as often as I could. Yeah. I even watched it one time my mom took me to work, she's a nurse, and we I watched it on a it's something that that doctors use for monitoring like hearts. And he used VHS cassettes, you know, because it was then. And I put it in there and I had this little dial where I could slow down and speed up. Oh, that's awesome. So when it got to that arrow scene where he shoots it and close up on the arrow spinning, yeah. I was like slowing it down, like speeding it up, slowing it down. So great. That's amazing. No, but I I love it just because it's it's so epic. I don't know. It's the there's so many things about it.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

I'm sure we'll get into it. Yeah, but I didn't expect it to have as good of a cinematography as it does. Like, there's so many shots in this where I'm like, this is beautiful. Fuck yeah. I mean, to the like the the cliffs of Dover. The fog, just even on the uh like whenever he's like uh telling Maid Marion to like ah go back to your house, take Duncan with you. Oh right. And it's all foggy. I'm like, this is beautiful. And then yeah, like you said, all the shots of like the mountains and hills and stuff in the room.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

And that one fucking tree. Yeah. That tree, some asshole kids cut that down. Because movie? No, that it was like within the last couple of years. That tree has lived for like hundreds of years, and some assholes cut it down. They better be rotting in this prison in Jerusalem right now. It could be an evil hands cut off. Could be an evil debt tree. We don't know. We don't know what that tree is. We don't know the sexual abuse of that tree. We don't know what it does to people. I was quick to judge.

SPEAKER_00 6:09

Maybe it had the soul of the sheriff of Nottingham in it. Uh, but to speak on the just picking up children, yeah, the cinematography again. The explosion behind Kevin Costner while he shoots the flaming arrow might be one of my favorite shots I've seen in a long time. I was like, whoa! Now he's like, yep, that's the epic shot from this movie. I was like, that shot in this movie? It was so cool. Because I mean, he looks great. The explosion's like it really burned him. And it happened in like the perfect time, and it's just like, oh, this movie rules, baby. There was no point in this movie that I was like, can we pick this up? It was just constantly like, I'm enjoying everybody, even the second time, watching it maybe like two days after I watched it the first time. I was like, this movie still goes.

unknown 7:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Um did did your version have the Brian Adams song at the end?

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Yeah, yeah, that's that's how that song got. That was made for this movie. Yes. Yeah. And it's like because Natalie, I guess for marching band, she played, she did Robin Hood and ended up like their halftime show was Robin Hood, and they got to do one of the songs.

SPEAKER_01 7:22

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

Because while watching it, she was just like, Yeah, I know how to do this song. And I was like, whoa, cool. I didn't I don't remember y'all doing Robin Hood. That's incredible. Might have been before I got to high school. Um, so I'm assuming this is your favorite version of Robin Hood? Yes. It is mine now, too. 100%. I think mine was probably the cartoon, which I can't even say. It's probably Minn and Tights because I haven't seen the cartoon in a couple of things.

SPEAKER_01 7:43

The cartoon one is good. But I would suggest never watching the um like the DVD with the the out the cut scenes that

Deleted Scenes And The Witch Twist

SPEAKER_01 7:55

were taken out. Don't watch those. What were the cutscenes? The c they're like um I can't remember most of them, but is that the racist bird movie? It's um that this this movie, it's with with the deleted scenes.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Don't watch it with the deleted scenes because it shows like the witch is like it yeah, I have some of that my fact that like there's like weird, like the witch is trying to it was all a plan of the witch, like this whole situation.

SPEAKER_01 8:23

Yeah, well, it it really a lot of the deleted scenes are about her because she has like this series of tunnels throughout the castle where she's watching everything through the walls, yeah, yeah. So that's how she knows how everything is going on, yeah. And it it just kind of ruins it.

SPEAKER_00 8:38

Yeah. I don't know. You know, and it's just because they do such a great job with their makeup, and like the the actress is so good in that role that she's got a snake. I'm just like, can you not show up anymore? You're scaring me. It's and every time she comes in, she's doing something gross, and it's like, I don't want to see her anymore. I want to hold my teeth. It's like, let me cut myself and then spit it and then have my fingernail make a terrible noise on some pottery. I'm like, oh, I hate this.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

That's how you know it's magic.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

But then it but it does a great job of building her up to that when she you know bites the dust, it's like, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_01 9:15

Yeah, hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

Tough old broad though.

SPEAKER_01 9:17

But if you watch the deleted scenes, it kind of takes that away because she's not so evil anymore, she's just like smart.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

And then and then Morgan Freeman just killed a really smart old lady instead of a really evil lady.

SPEAKER_00 9:29

Well, she was trying to take over the country simply.

SPEAKER_01 9:32

Well, yeah, she's just but not showing how she does things r gives more mystery and like she's just evil and with the devil. Yeah. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

I know are you team are you Team Robin Hood or Team Sheriff at Nottingham?

SPEAKER_01 9:49

No, Robin Hood. I kind of love the the house, like the tree houses in the forest.

SPEAKER_00 9:54

Oh yeah, that sure would fucking like just once we can't afford anything, we should just try that. I think there's places like that. Yeah. Um I mean, Alan Rickman's performance is so good that I kind of probably just hang out with him, even though he might kill me.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

Yeah, very much.

SPEAKER_00 10:10

If I was rich, I'd hang out with Nottingham. Oh, even kill his own cousin all day. At least he didn't do it with a spoon. Spork. Um, it's something just while watching it, I was just like, why can't we have more movies like this? Like this movie, I mean, they keep trying to make Robin Hood movies, and it's like, stop, you guys are have terrible takes on Robin Hood now. Just redo I just stop doing it. We have like play this one again. We have we have so many Robin Hoods that you can find. You if you're into foxes, you can watch the cartoon one.

SPEAKER_01 10:42

Maybe we'll make another one though.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Which I don't know if you know, but they're I guess growing up, um, I guess my generation, and maybe yeah, because it was more in the 90s. This was a the cartoon was kind of a problem for kids because uh people really thought that fox was hot. Yeah, man.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

Yeah, he's got charisma.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

I didn't realize it until I just I was looking stuff up about Robin Hood and then I stumbled on the Reddit post where it's just like Oh, is it like a furry thing? Well, I think it's just because you know, he's a fun character, he's great, and it's just like I don't know, people like animals. I think some people just thought he was like charming and cute. Okay, well it turned into something. To be fair, not saying people turned out to be furries because of it, but just say I think people have crushes on that fog.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Yeah, yeah, yeah. People want to fuck that fog. No, it's it's fine, it's fine because like whenever um Space Jam came out, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

I mean everybody wants to fuck that bunny.

SPEAKER_01 11:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

I never felt like I wanted to have sex with an animal. Just it's crazy. It's it's crazy. It's like whenever I got super upset or that they like took the bunnies' boobs away in the second one. I was like, never wanted to see the second one. People were like, I can't believe they got rid of her boobs. And I was like, truthfully, didn't think about that. Never once didn't see the trailer and thought anything about that.

SPEAKER_01 12:06

I didn't know I haven't heard that yet.

SPEAKER_00 12:08

Really know, it's a real thing.

SPEAKER_01 12:10

It seems like it would be a huge problem. People just want to go into everything.

SPEAKER_00 12:18

Insane.

Why Modern Adventure Movies Feel Flat

SPEAKER_00 12:21

But I would just love a nice adventure movie where everyone's having fun and you know, it doesn't look like shit. I mean, this because you know, this had that real world feel to it. And it's just like I re I know that's something I say almost every time we do a movie from like 2001 to back, because that's um before they started color correcting everything. But it's like I really do miss like the grainy feel of it. But that's digital and that's because most cameras now have it to where it's very unsaturated. There's almost like a grayness to it in the cameras, just so it makes it easier and um better to edit and kind of adjust the colors. Yeah. I have a camera that's like that. Should totally like use it more. Yeah, man. I haven't used it in five years. Let's do it. You know, spend a lot of money on it. Ravenhood. I've been thinking about just trying to do like weird, like maybe on my days off doing like weird analog horror. Oh, hell yeah. Or it's just like you don't really even have to try that much, but you can make like very small things creepy and things like that. I was thinking about maybe just seeing what I can do with the editing. Well, I mean, since if you do that, you end up getting to do a movie for A24, like the Backrooms movie. Hell yeah. It is wild. Like some of our best horror directors right now, or most of the movies that are coming out from horror directors, are YouTubers that were doing horror or stuff on YouTube. Like uh the guys that did the new screams, they're they start on YouTube. They do like prank videos and like alien like abduction videos and things like that. There's a movie right now called Obsession that's out. That was a YouTube person. Backrooms that's coming out. That was that's like a 20-year-old YouTuber.

SPEAKER_01 14:11

Yeah, my kids were playing backrooms on Roblox. Yeah, I can't wait for that movie. I'm so excited for it.

SPEAKER_00 14:16

And then even um like the movie Bring Her Back and I'm completely forgetting the other movie that they did. They were they started off as YouTubers, and it's like wow, they really are taking YouTube filmmaker uh filmmakers serious. And it's like, damn, I should have been making YouTube videos more. Do it. But it's also hard and very time consuming. I have no money. It's hard.

Behind The Scenes Facts And Feuds

SPEAKER_00 14:40

So let's get into some facts. That was a tangent. So um uh some of the sheriff's witty lines, such as telling a couple of winches, you, my room tonight, to 1030, you, my room, 1045, and bring a friend. Were devised by Alan Rickman's friend comedian Ruby Wax and playwright Peter Barnes. He enlisted their help in spicing up his dialogue because he felt the script was terrible. Kevin Reynolds, the director, enabled these script alliterations by not informing the producers or screenwriters or anyone in the crew. Rickman said in an interview years later that he knew these new lines were having the desired effect when during takes he noticed crew members covering their mouths trying not to laugh. So essentially, he he ad-lived so much in this movie. That's awesome. Like his famous line of Loxley, I'm gonna cut your heart out with a spoon, was improv was an improvised scene. He had found his character's dialogue to be bland and one-dimensional, so was always looking at ways to make it more interesting and amusing. Interestingly, Costner does not break character during the scene despite his improv improvisation. And the inclusion of it resulted in another scene providing explanation. So, like with his cousin, it's like, why did you say cut it out for the spoon? Because it'll hurt more, you twit. And then he also ad-lived uh cancel Christmas. I laughed so hard. I was like, that was well.

SPEAKER_01 16:06

To be fair, Christmas was a different thing back then in 1190. Yeah, you know, they had orties.

SPEAKER_00 16:15

Oh my god, say a lot of thrust on the back.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Um you get you open your present and it's your keys.

SPEAKER_00 16:24

It's like, oh great. It's like, all right, uh, here's one penny. Oh, great. I won't be able to buy anything with this. No, I could kill everybody else with pennies, and then I'll be able to buy something. Um more like a shekel. Yeah, I guess. Oh like, okay, gotcha. Um so Alan Riddman originally originally actually turned down the role of the sheriff twice before he was told he could more or less have uh um do whatever he wanted with adaptation, and that's eventually what led him to do the movie. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:58

Um Carrie Ellwiss was offered the role of Robin Hood, but turned it down because he thought the plot was too contrived. He did, however, portray uh Robin Hood in Robin Hood Men and Tights. So he eventually got it in. And that was something I saw a lot of a lot of people that do not like Kevin Costner in this movie. They're all like, why didn't Kevin Costner do why didn't they just reverse the roles? Kevin Costner would have probably been funny in Men and Tights not doing an accent, because that'd be a whole bit, and then have Carrie Elwes play this Robin Hood. He could do the accent and would still be good. I think he'd still be good in it, but there's just something I don't know. Kevin Costner's is kind of he's got a presence, he's such a manly man in this. And it's like you kind of need that, but he also pulls off the charm. Yeah. Um, versus I don't know. I think they both would have worked personally, but I am glad we got what we got. So uh Christian Slater ad-lived Will Scarlet's line. Fuck me, he cleared it.

SPEAKER_01 18:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 18:03

Uh director Kevin Reynolds kept it in the movie because it was funny, just about the historical inaccuracies. Like what? I guess they didn't say fuck me.

SPEAKER_01 18:12

Or they didn't use catapults.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

I don't know. Shoot people over walls. It was a wild scene. I was like, wow, thank god there was so much hay right there. What was the plan?

SPEAKER_01 18:21

It's where Assassin's Creed thing.

SPEAKER_00 18:23

And then my favorite thing is they get they get thrown over, they run like four steps, and then the gate gets pushed up, and I'm like, you guys didn't have to like y'all could have just died.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

I can't wait, Jesse. I cannot wait. It's gotta get in there.

SPEAKER_00 18:37

That's so wow. Um, so there was much criticism aimed at Kevin Costner's American accent, which was described as more LA than UK. Rumor has it that Costner wanted to use an English accent, but director Kevin Reynolds didn't want him to.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

He's like, You're bad at it.

SPEAKER_00 18:53

As it would just strike the audience. Supposedly, Costner would affect the accent when he was arguing with Reynolds, but not when they were in agreement, leading to an uneven delivery between scenes. Costner claims that he was initially asked to use an accent and hired a dialect coach, but this was stopped and the coach was fired when he did it poorly. So I think he just didn't know. I think they're like, just don't use the accent, but he's like, I can do the accent, but he couldn't do the accent. So when he started to argue and he's just like, shit, I kind of have the accent while I'm not spying to do the accent. I mean, that's gotta be trippy. You're spending probably months trying to do this accent, and they're like, now you're no, you're not doing it. You suck at it. And then it's just like everybody's doing an accent. I keep kind of accidentally doing it, maybe. I don't know. I'm assuming the director's just like, fuck it, who cares? He's great, he's good in the role either way. So, Brian Adams sang a song for the movie, Everything I Do, I do fool you. Uh, which went on to be the best single of Adam's career, maintaining number one on the ball U.S. Billboard chart for 14 weeks. Hell yeah, it was a badass music video. I haven't ever seen the music video. I don't have to watch it. It also spent a record-breaking 16 weeks at number one in the UK. However, the record label executives, who hated the song, initially tried very hard to talk Adams out of releasing it as they felt it could be do irreparable damage to his career. AM executive Jerry Moss reportedly said, Brian, if you want to put this on your on record, your career will be over. Wrong. It's like I don't maybe I don't know much about Brian Adams. I don't either. Really anything. Maybe it was the song. How do you hear this song and be like, this song sucks? I know. It was pretty good. It's like everybody loves a love song, uh, like a love song.

SPEAKER_01 20:36

I saw it like, and I every time I watched the movie, it it would play right at the end during the cr after like some of the credits. Yeah. And I would watch I'd watch all of it. Um I I did call in to a radio show and request it, and they made fun of me. Really? One time and I was like 12 years old. They laughed at me. Which station did you call it? 1029 the buzz.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Hey, 1029 the buzz. I know you play classic rock. You think you can play the Brian Adams song? My mom loves that song.

SPEAKER_01 21:09

No, she was more it was it was a little lady, and she was like, she was like, Yeah, we'll get to it.

SPEAKER_00 21:15

I'm rebelin Rhonda, and I hate that song.

SPEAKER_01 21:18

I was like, I hung up the phone and I was like, I don't care. I like what I like. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

After you play the song, I'll never listen to you again. Um, so uh yeah, so this was the second highest-grossing film of 1991 behind Terminator 2.

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_00 21:36

So um the producer, one of them being director Kevin Reynolds, longtime friend and main star Kevin Costner, um he was also an uncredited producer, took over the editing of this movie, going to the extent of physically locking the original editor, Peter Boyle, out of the out of the editing room. However, they were contractually obligated under director's guild to show their cut to Reynolds, who was less than impressed with what they Done to his movie. This called a fallen out with Reynolds, who finally walked out of the project weeks before its theatrical debut. Did not even attend to the screening. However, he and Costner made amends when the movie turned out to be a box office hit. Costner wanted Reynolds as the director of his neck one of his next projects, Waterworld. Hell yeah. Unfortunately, tensions rose high again during that production so much that Reynolds eventually walked off the set and Costner had to take over directing. Damn. He's like, well, I guess I'll do it. I haven't seen Waterworld in a lot. I liked it as a kid because you know I mean it was like Mad Max, but water. Yeah. Um but is it have you seen it recently? Is it good stuff? Yes. I know it's waterworld. We did it. We've never done Waterworld. We didn't? No. What movie do you think? We've done Mad Max.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

No, I thought we did Waterworld because I watched it. I feel like I don't watch anything unless it's for this anymore.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Is there a right safe? Is there like secretly a movie that you did not watch and thought we were doing Waterworld and you just kind of played it off the whole time?

SPEAKER_01 23:03

Hey, that's possible.

SPEAKER_00 23:05

That is insane. Maybe it was one of those episodes where I was like, Jason's not talking a lot. I'm not gonna lie. He's just laughing when I say stuff sometimes. It could be it. I don't know. Um, so a scene was filmed but cut and was later reinstated for the extension uh extended version DVD. That sheriff learns that Mordiana has been spying on him, the witch. And Mortiana reveals to the sheriff that she is his mother, and that when he was born, she murdered another baby boy who is to be sheriff, so he could take the child's place, and that she had manipulated him and secretly masterminded the plot to steal the throne from King Richard, and that Mordiana wants a grandchild of pure blood to sit on the throne. It is kind of wild because once there is the one part where it's like you need to put she's ripe, you need to put a baby in her so you could take the throne. I was like, is that what came out of nowhere fast? I mean, it works, but I was like, it seems like that would be something we're trying to set up here at some point halfway through the movie.

SPEAKER_01 24:03

Yeah, I never thought about that. I never really took a second look at that scene. I always just thought it was super weird because she's super weird.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Yeah. And I guess before we get into the plot, I do want to say something. I flipped my shit when Sean Connery showed up at the end. Just like you y'all think that Kevin Costner is doing a weird accent. I'm gonna come up here and be Scottish rest of the King of England. But he is Scottish. Yeah, Sean Connery is. Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, it's just like, no, I was like, no one has any graphs that the King of England has Scottish, yeah. Scottish accent.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

They hated the Scots for like most of history. So maybe.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

Really? I didn't know that.

SPEAKER_01 24:46

Yeah, I think yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:47

I need to find a good podcast that talks about like medieval era and like the politics of it.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

That'll pretty much tell you everything.

SPEAKER_00 24:54

Yeah, I do remember that being pretty accurate.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:00

Oh man. But I don't know. It was just fun. Because as soon as I saw him, I was like, oh, this is there's just so much joy in this ending scene. Even more now that Sean Connor. You've got an accent, you could be the king. Oh, also, who is um just a shout out because we haven't talked about him yet, but Friar Tug, you my boy. I know, I loved Friar Tug. I loved him before he joined him, I loved him after he joined him. He's so fun. I that actor, oh he I gotta watch every movie then because he absolutely was one of he was probably my third favorite character of the whole movie.

SPEAKER_01 25:37

Every time he falls down like a fat asshole, I love him. Yeah, it was great.

SPEAKER_00 25:41

And just like his this, you know, when he was drunk, the way he was talking was great. And like a lot of his a lot of his little scenes of just like, I don't know, he had a lot of growth in the movie, and I was like, this is so fucking sweet.

SPEAKER_01 25:53

Yeah, the scene with him and Morgan Freeman, that was great.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Yeah, and then even the um You talk, I'll drink. Yeah, and then the um kind of at the end where he just looks at the camera and essentially says, What? But that's all, folks.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

And then he throws that motherfucker out of window. Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_00 26:11

Yes, talk about a that was talk about a religious man I did not like in this fucking movie. Oh, I was so satisfied when he died, and then all the beggars started coming. All the gold spread out. Yeah, it was amazing. The peasant people started taking his money. I was like, Yeah, and also spit on him. All right, so before we get into the plot of Robin Hood, we all know the point of Robin Hood because we've heard it forever. But I would like you to think, what is the point of Robin Hood Prince of Thieves? Uh leave us some fan mail about it. There's a link in the top of the description. Click on it, it takes us straight from your phone. At the very bottom, there is an email we recommend at mailbag, or we recommend mailbag at gmail.com. I mess it up the same way every time. Cool. So, Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, 1991.

Walking Through The Plot

SPEAKER_00 26:58

Robin of Loxley, an English nobleman who joined Richard's the Lionheart's army in the Third Crusade, is captured and imprisoned in Jerusalem, along with his comrade Peter. Robin engineers and escape, reluctantly saving the life of a Moor Azine in the process, played by Morgan Freeman. Yeah, who at first I was like, he's barely doing an accent too, it seems like, but it kind of got better throughout the movie. Yeah, I don't feel like it matters. Uh Peter dies in the attempt and has Robin swear to protect his sister, Marion, who's played by Mary Lee with Master of the World.

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Yeah. Where he pulls, like, I'm gonna show you English courage. Yeah. You never, I guess, like, don't because I've seen this in other shows and movies where you like you tie something to someone, their body part to cut it off. Like, there's a Viking in the Viking show, there's a scene where they're gonna move it, right? Yeah, but they're gonna cut off his hair in the Viking show, and he like yanks it back and cuts the other guy's fucking fingers off. I'm like, y'all have done this a lot. I feel like this is your professional duty. Well, we had to keep the belt. You've never had anybody just like yank back all of a sudden. Yeah. I know.

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It's just like they they just were just like, let's just get this over with. We're cut we got we have 15 more hands to cut off. But they were they were kind of impressed by it. Yeah, they're like, okay, I believe this guy.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Shit, my arm.

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It's like, dang it, I didn't see this one coming. Who would have thought this prisoner about to get their hand cut off would move?

SPEAKER_01 28:29

I fucking love that scene, just staring him in the eyes, and like he pulls out the blade, it's like steaming hot from the fire, I guess. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:39

Oh, yeah, so like I'm assuming so it uh Yeah, so it cut him easier. Well, and just uh carterized the wound, so he also has to stay alive. Yeah, they want to keep him alive. Be a prisoner down or torture. Just figured they'd just kill people pretty quickly.

SPEAKER_01 28:53

Anyway, yeah, that scene was a fucking great fucking escape scene, tossing a dude in the fire. Yeah, escape through the dirty sewers. Immediately a rush of energy. Do you ever think whenever they're escaping through the sewers that Robin Hood's like, hey, we should have sewers in England?

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Yeah, it's like maybe we'll get less plagues and stuff.

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Maybe a little less dysentery. Yeah.

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So uh Robin returns to England with a Zeeem who vows to accompany Robin until the debt of saving his life is repaid, despite Robin telling him to go away.

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Yeah, he even tries to kill him. Yeah. He's like, fuck you, I'm completing my vows.

SPEAKER_00 29:31

Get out of here, dude. And these melons look delicious. What do you think those were? I don't know. I just seemed like some weird melon, but I thought it was like a grapefruit, maybe, but like I don't know. When people look very disheveled and like like they're good at acting and then break open something and start just like shoving in their mouth, always looks delicious. I know.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

You know how hungry they were.

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That is kind of the best stuff about older movies. It's like, man, people used to just be able to get food all over their faces and no one gave a shit. Yeah. So nice. It's like I kind of missed that. I love just have a bunch of grease on my face while eating and be like, I'm eating. I don't give a fuck. I'll clean up later. And maybe I won't because we don't have water.

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His hands are so dirty.

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Yeah. So in England, with King Richard away, the cruel sheriff of Nottingham, played by Alan Rickman, rules over the land, aided by his cousin, the guy of Gisborne. Or guy of Gisborne. Um, along with the witchman is Mordiana.

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Guy.

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Yeah. Guy.

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He's just a guy.

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Hey, I'm Guy. And the corrupt bishop of Hereford? Hereford? Sure. I don't know. Hereford. Who we will meet soon. At Loxley's castle, Robin's father is lured to the gates and captured and killed by the sheriff's man after refusing to join them. Ratass Rose. That's fucking awesome.

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He grabs the sword off the mantle. Yeah. Yes.

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I just love when he comes out. They're wearing these fancy robes. I'm like, why? They do not play a part in the rest of the movie. I'm like, why do you have these robes on? It's the the KKK kind of. And then I love it. Join us or die. And why did you run right in the middle of them? Be by himself. Here's what I put in my notes. Go back in your castle. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

Back the horse. Maybe the horse doesn't have a reverse function.

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It's like you won't die immediately, but maybe you can come up with a plan, or maybe there's a back entrance and you could run away. Yeah. Just literally go anywhere. They're all on foot, except for Alan Rick.

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You have a castle.

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It's like, get on your horse, go to Marion's place, and be like, we gotta go somewhere, get some people because Sheriff Nottingham's trying to kill everybody. Instead of running straight into everybody. Honestly, one of the big biggest crap I had in the movie. I was like, that was really stupid. He probably killed like one dude. I don't think he killed a single dude. He was immediately overthrown. It's just not smart. When you have everybody on foot, you're safe to run away.

SPEAKER_01 31:58

He was really obsessed with how his servants would see him if he just backed up.

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Yeah, I'd just be like, yeah, have everything in my castle. I'm about to come back and kill you with an army. Right? Just gotta wait till what's his name gets back. Um, so four months later, Robin returns to England to kiss the beach of his homeland. Yes. One of my biggest things was in this movie, I was like, you guys gotta stop wearing so much clothing. Because he gets and he just falls into the water. I'm like, you're gonna be so uncomfortable.

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He's gonna be wet for day for so long.

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Cause there's no sun anymore. There's no sun in this cursed country. Which I loved when he said that. I was like, hey, that's true. It's like because we watched Taskmaster, Taskmaster on YouTube, and it's like they're always doing stuff outside. I'm like, is it ever gonna be sunny in the show? Nope. It's like, man, that's wild. Um, so Robin asked Azim many questions. We learn Azim means great one, and that Azim was to be executed because of a woman who is worth dying for.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

That was a great scene. Yeah, because you're gonna be executed because of a woman.

SPEAKER_00 32:58

Well, it's there, there's such a like a even though Kevin Costner looks to be like 35 to 40 in this movie, it's just he's so childish, dude. And it's well, I think he's supposed to still be a child. Yeah, I think he's like supposed to be early 20s. I don't I don't know how old Robin Hood is in those stories. Um, but there is something like so like, ooh, I get asked all these questions. You like girls too? Um, it's great, love it. Um so and then whenever he's like, was the woman worth dying for? He's like, Yeah, it was. Now, where is the sun so I can pray to it?

SPEAKER_01 33:36

Or what's the pray to Mecca, which is in the east? Oh, okay. I don't I don't know anything. I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 33:43

Shouldn't have said anything. I should have asked the question instead of assuming to the sun. Well, I thought he was like trying to find the sun because he'd be like, it should be in the east. So I was like, maybe he's praying to the sun, but I guess now I know.

SPEAKER_01 33:54

Because the rises, you know, rises in the east in the morning, and that's where Mecca is to the east. You always, if you don't know where you are, you always pray to the east in Islam.

SPEAKER_00 34:02

Oh, interesting. Did not know that.

SPEAKER_01 34:04

The big rock.

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Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. So while uh I definitely don't know, obviously.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

It's like a big asteroid or something. It's weird.

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Really? I'm gonna have to look things up later. Yeah, dude. So while traveling to his home, Robin rescues a young boy, Wolf, from a tree. He'd been forced to climb while being chased by Gizborne and his henchmen. Robin fights off the thugs and corners Gizborne, telling him to leave the nearby countryside that is that he owns, which um belongs to his father. The boy had killed one of the sheriff's deer to feed his family, which Gizborne considered a crime. Robin tells his new enemy that starving starving a family is a greater crime, and Gisborne scurries off defeated. All while Azim prayers. It's like, you know, for you to have a pact that you're supposed to protect me, you sure didn't do it. And he's like, I decide when I feel my philosophy.

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I'm like, Wow. Could have said that earlier.

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To me, there's just like there's a few points in this movie where they're just like, the plot didn't want me to help you. I have to save you later, not now. But he kicked so much ass he didn't need help. Yeah, that is true. It's like we it was mainly just then. This is also our save the cat moment, our second one in a row. Yes. But literally, instead, it's a boy named Wolf and he's in a tree. So save the dog moment.

SPEAKER_01 35:25

I guess good rules when he gets to ask, he's like, Hey, did you really kill a deer? Hundreds of them.

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With slaughtering those motherfuckers. And the wild thing is, I'm like, well, you know, like the reason we have like hunting seasons and stuff in in our country is because, you know, we gotta kill off deer because they populate so fast. And I'm like, Sheriff, do you do you need that many deer? You can't have like one or two people kill one, and he's like, ow, I have to kill you. Well, it's not like that. Unless he has them in a stable. No, there's no way. I would I mean it wouldn't be they can jump pretty high, so it wouldn't make any sense too. They stop us. We needed the meat. We needed the mate. Oh god, I can't wait till we get to that whole gang. I love them. The little goofballs in it, and then Will Scarlet. The beginning. We'll we'll be there soon. We'll be there soon. I love this movie. So Gizborne goes to the sheriff who's abusing his power with a woman. Uh his cousin tells him of Robin's return, but he thinks he has nothing to worry about. He hasn't been home yet. Yeah. He hadn't been home. Not yet. Or had he been yet. The sheriff of Nottingham uh is inappropriate with women in this movie.

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Yeah, he sucks in every way.

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It's like as much as I'm like, hell yeah, I love this character, and then he always is like, you shouldn't. I'm like, damn it. They just had to add that in it. So Robin arrives. Robin arrives at his home to find his father dead, his home in ruins, and the sheriff and his men oppressing the people. Robin finds his father's elderly servant, Duncan, who was cruelly blinded by Gisborne. I will say, when it comes to Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves versus Minnetites, I like the blind guy more than Prince of Tites. I'm guessing no one's coming. Just like gets on the horse backwards. So fucking funny.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Duncan was kind of a dick before he got his eyes clawed out.

SPEAKER_00 37:22

Yeah. I mean, he still kind of is like is with the Zim, at least, where he's just like, I hate people from his line. I'm a blind racist. Where are you from? Exactly where you said, oh god. And then five minutes later, help me, Azim. It's like, yeah, that's what I thought. But I mean, I I feel like the benefit of making him blind is that it makes Robin more sweet of a character. Um grew up with him. Yeah. And then it's just like, oh, he's protecting this old blind man. Um, then we see the sheriff goes to his witch who sees into the future where Zim will be the one to kill the witch, and he's like, You have to kill him. Go. What's up with her fucking swamp basement? I don't know. It's like, how'd you put that down there? Did you make a swamp appear? Is this magic?

SPEAKER_01 38:12

It's horrible. I bet it smells so bad.

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I know. She loves yeah. Oh, but when it does, when it's kind of like some call got a bow constrictor. Yeah, it's like, where are you finding this stuff? She's just got a vacation photos from Florida. Yeah, I just think she has like one of those Mary Poppin' bags. She does like a giant bag, she can just keep digging. She's full of bones and teeth. She likes gets in it and transports her to another place. I mean, she can teleport, right? I mean, at the end of the movie, she's got all those tunnels through the castle.

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Yeah, man.

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I don't know. I feel like maybe we should at least added a tunnel scene, you know? Yeah, maybe one. Yeah. Yeah. So they travel to Marion's family home. He is first met with Marion's maid, Sarah, who pretends to be Marion. The years have been kind. She's like, thank you.

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And he's like, I'm gonna protect you. Yeah.

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Oh girl, I think you can protect yourself. I'm actually out of here. Just kidding. Uh, she is one of my favorite characters in uh Men and Tights, though. She's hilarious in that movie. Um, when offering protection, and um Marion disguised um as like a protector, I guess, uh, attacks Robin, who thwarts her off. And then eventually, like as they're fighting, all the fight scenes are great in this movie. Yeah, she bought his ass. Yeah, she does really great. And then like he gets advantage and then like hears her go, like, yeah, or she bur burns her with a candle. Yeah, and he's like, oui, I'm a girl. And then he's like, by God, could this be? It is so um Robin tells her of his of her brother's bravery in Jerusalem and gives her Peter's rings. Marion is not pleased to see Robin. She sees him as a spoiled rich boy. She wants new. She is the cousin of the king and wants to stay in Nottingham to protect her people. Um, it's like she hates him, but she totally wants to bone them at the same time. And she's just like, the whole time, she's like, Well, none of this would happen if you just guys weren't like two overconfident boys going to fight a war that you did have to go do and stuff like that. Yeah. But all in all, Marion, it was a good thing that all this happened. Because otherwise, you would be toast. Married to Nottingham.

SPEAKER_01 40:24

Yeah, it should be toast. Yeah. But I love the scene, whenever uh they sound the alarm right after this, and it he gets they puts the telescim is putting the telescope together.

SPEAKER_00 40:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh shit, I didn't add that. It was so annoying that I didn't add that. And like because um they I guess England doesn't have that. No, they don't know shit. And then when Kevin Cost or Robin Hood goes and looks through it, he thinks it's right in front of him. He's like, oh my god. He's like messing with a sword of trying to figure out with it. It's like, how does this work? Wizard. What does his name say? It's like how you guys were able to take over countries or something is beyond me. Rama is like, yeah, you're right. Oh, that is so good. So Gizborne suddenly appears, and um, there's a furious chase. But first, oh, I put the spygas glass bit here. Um, Marion plays off like they are stealing the horses. Yes. I runs off, but and then after Gizborne comes off and she's like, Oh, uh harboring fugitives. Like, no, they're obviously stealing my horses. He runs off, and then she just kind of smiles as she walks away. I'm like, she's she's a little devious in this movie. I like it. She's kind of devious. Yeah, she's a great character. I will say I am a little bummed that she wasn't able to put up more of a fight towards the end. Yeah, you know, because we did see her kind of fight Robin Hood. I was like, oh, so she's gonna be able to fight really good. She's pretty good, and we don't really see it the rest of the film, which kind of bummed me out a little bit. Um she does give them the knife, yeah. I know. Oh I was like, yes, I love when movies do this. Full circle, baby. So Robin and Azim's horses are unable to outrun their pursuers, so they ride into the Sherwood Forest.

Sherwood Outlaws And Learning To Fight

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Yeah, I got shot in the butt and air to believe to be haunted.

SPEAKER_01 42:16

That was cool. It's got all the like the wind chimes. Yeah, it's like Blair Witch up and that shit, bitch.

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Yes, but here comes like one of the best scenes. My favorite scene of the whole movie.

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Well, John Little.

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Because I'm just like, this movie's so playful. I didn't know it was gonna be so playful. And that river is beautiful, yeah. For real. Oh, I love little John. So there we meet a band of outlaws hiding from Nottingham's oppressive rule. Um, there was a rich man from Nottingham who tried to cross a river. What a dope. He tripped on our rope. Now look at him, shiver. Big for mercy, rich man. I completely forgot how he sang the song, and I was like, damn it.

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What a dope. He tripped on a rope, and now look at him, shiver.

SPEAKER_00 42:59

Christian Slater is so good in this movie. I was like, he's so weak, though. Like he seems like a weakling. Yeah, but I just loved his bad attitude.

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Yeah, he does.

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I don't know. I am such a Christian Slater fan now. After Heather's in this movie, I'm like, I gotta watch all of it. Gotta watch all of them. Um, so uh Yeah, so they they ran to the woods because oppressive rule separated from the family. They are led by John Little, whose son Robin saved earlier. Wolf. After a short battle in a river where Robin outwits the much larger and stronger John who can't swim, lol. Um and Robin gives him kind of the semi-mocking title of Little John. And then Robin and Nazim join up with him. Because it's like at first he gets Robin Hood gets knocked in the water twice, and on the second time he pretends to be like gone, and like little John's is poking the water. He's like, Where is he? And then he comes out and knocks him into the water, and he's like, I can't swim, I quit swimming. He's like, Stand up. It's like you are literally. A giant man staying up. Yeah. How do you not know this yet?

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But that was a badass fight, a bow staff fight. Yeah, it's great.

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And I like that they're not like insane people trying to kill them. They're just beating them up and taking their money.

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So the taxes. Yeah.

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So good. It's just like such a oh, you rich people probably don't pay the taxes, and we take your taxes. Hell yeah. I'm assuming it works just like it worked back then how it works now, where like mostly rich people don't pay taxes, and it's just all us uh unwealthy people paying taxes. Sure. So also among the bandits is Will Scarlet, a surly young man who takes an instant disliking to Robin. Robin thinks that they should rise up. But the uh band of mis uh misfits thinks it's too perilous. Like Will Scarlet's like, you fucking rich boy, you think you can just come in here, take my friends. And the reveal at the end, I was like, I didn't know. There's everything was a surprise in this movie for me, and I love it.

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That's amazing.

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So Robin goes to church in Nottingham. There disguises a poop on his first there, disguises a poor man. He talks to Miriam, where he learns there is a hundred dollars, a hundred gold on his head. She tells him that the sheriff is up to something, she tells him to take a bath because he's stinky. Well, let me see your butt. Yeah. I I just want to say I think that Kevin Costner and uh Master Antonio have great chemistry together. Yeah, man. And like every time like she would do a smile at him, I was like, damn, I believe this shit. Yeah, it's like she really amazing. I don't know. Every time she smiled, I just thought she was kind of devious, and it just made me like her character even more. Hell yeah. And uh um also like I love the actress because she's in the abyss, and that's one of my favorite movies. Um Robin goes to the bishop, who he thinks he can trust, while the sheriff tries to woo Marion to stay with him, but she says no, and he gives her a dagger, saying that she can protect herself, but she'll take the dagger, I guess. Uh the um bishop lies to Robin, telling him his father did not believe in God. Then the sheriff comes in and Robin cuts his face and then makes his escape. Robin of Loxley, I'm gonna cut out your heart with a spoon. Um and then, like on the chase, it gets to the end, Robin escapes, and then Sheriff just beats the shit out of a guard who we like see through the rest of the movie, and it's kind of great. Um but yeah, fuck this bishop, dude. As soon as he said it, he's like, oh, he just he just said he needed to see God. And I was like, how does that make him a Satanist?

SPEAKER_01 46:44

Well, he was maybe an atheist, and that was not the same as worshiping Satan. Yeah, but it was all a lie.

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Yeah. Yeah. Can we get some religious freedom in Nottingham, please? No, no, never. That's like why they all hate Azene.

SPEAKER_01 46:59

I mean, they probably did this to a lot of people that they just wanted to steal land.

SPEAKER_00 47:02

Yeah, I mean, it's just like it's just straight up kind of the wish trial situation. We have no proof, but we're killing you.

SPEAKER_01 47:09

Pope was a son of a bitch. All of them were.

SPEAKER_00 47:13

Yep, all of them worse. So when he returns, everybody is upset that he stirred up trouble. Robin eventually assumes command of the band, encourages his men to fight against Nottingham. Fuck yeah. And the sheriff is pissed.

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The speech he gives when he points to Azim, it's like Yeah.

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So good. So the sheriff he tells his cousin they need to give him a unique name so people fear him. His cousin goes to a village and pillages it and tells them to blame Robin of Hood.

SPEAKER_01 47:42

Oh shit. I live on Hood Drive. Yeah. I mean, I'm Jason of Hood.

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Ooh.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

Robin, our HR director.

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Oh my god.

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Lives on the same street.

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She is Robin of Hood. Oh shit. We're gonna next tomorrow I'm gonna be like, hey, Robin of Hood. Um so yeah, the village goes to Sherwood, where one woman is the wife of little John. I think her name's Fanny. Um the group are angry and blame Robin. Robin tells them even if they turned Robin in, they would not get no reward or pardons, and the sheriff will only become more power hungry.

SPEAKER_01 48:16

In Australia, Fanny means pussy. I think in the UK too, maybe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 48:24

It seems like an unfortunate name now. Yeah, I think it does. Yeah. Because watching Taskmaster, they make a joke about it. Oh, okay. Yeah. Um, because there is a there's a band called Fanny.

SPEAKER_01 48:34

I think there's a lot of British humor in this movie that really makes me.

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Probably goes a yeah.

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I love British humor.

SPEAKER_00 48:40

It's so silly and dumb. It's almost all we watch in this house now. Between like Taskmaster, the trip, and uh SNL, UK. It's like we're getting so much British humor. It's insane. Um, piss Will Scarlet throws a dagger at Robin who shoots him with an arrow in his hand. He gives a rousing speech to the group, convincing them to fight. One man fighting for his home is stronger than ten hired men. Hell, yeah. And then they're like, but they're they're taking everything. Then by God, we take it take it back. And it's just like, all right, Natalie, give me my sword. Going to take people that steal from people.

SPEAKER_01 49:21

Um This is where Jennifer Lawrence comes in with from the Hunger Games.

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From Hunger Games.

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They team up.

SPEAKER_00 49:28

Yeah, I'd take a that's what we should have now. A Kevin Costner movie with uh Jennifer Lawrence, and it's all about shooting bows and arrows. He's too old now. He probably couldn't well he could still pull back a bow, I just if he can protect his damn ranch in Yellowstone, the never-ending spinoff series. I like I cannot believe that they're they're spinning off more series off that. Oh yeah. Because they're doing Dutton Ranch now. And I'm just like, I'm so tired of people at work coming up to me. Have you seen this version of this show? I'm like, no, I haven't. They should just start. How can these people get in so much trouble?

SPEAKER_01 50:07

God. He's basically the sheriff of Nottingham in Wyoming. Yeah.

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So then we get a montage of everybody learning how to fight. Yeah. We get they're shooting bows and arrows. Really bad at it. They build a small community in the forest with most of their homes high up in the trees. We see why didn't they ever think about building anything?

SPEAKER_01 50:26

They're all just sleeping in like overturned logs.

SPEAKER_00 50:29

I think because I think their main leaders drunk.

SPEAKER_01 50:31

Yeah.

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And they're like, we have no leadership.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

That sounds really fun, though.

SPEAKER_00 50:34

I think they're just kind of they're like, eventually we're all they're gonna find us and we're all gonna die.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

So we're just kind of doing this. I guess you're right. They needed real leadership.

SPEAKER_00 50:42

Yeah. Um, we see Robin robbing the sheriff's men and the wealthy.

SPEAKER_01 50:46

Uh I love all those robbing scenes. They're so good. Like the one where they come out from the road and put the hooks on it.

SPEAKER_00 50:52

Yes, it's so rad. And like the first couple we see is well, the first one we mainly see is like the sheriff's men are going into this house and then Robin shoots an arrow at the reward uh page, and it's just like, come and get me, big bullies. So the sheriff, having already ordered a bounty on Robin's head, raises it several times in hopes that the poor will turn against Robin. However, they remain loyal since Robin and his outlaws give all the wealthy they steal to them. The sheriff speaks with Mordiana, who tells him to send a chest of gold to the other landowner barons around England, hoping they will increase their support. Uh the sh I love it though, because he's so pissed. So the sheriff comes in, he's like whipping himself in the back, and then there's like a plate of food, and he gets a knife and just starts stabbing it. I love how childish he is. It's so funny. Um, but a lion sheriff in Nottingham. That's it, then cancel this kitchen scraps for the lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas. Yeah, thanks, Trump. You, my room, 1030, you, 1045. Bring a friend. I mean, just bang your lines after they bang your lines. And they look so confused. Yeah, they're like, oh. Oh, not again. So in Sherwood Forest, Robin and his men attack the convoy, delivering the gold. One of their early captures is Friar Tuck. Yeah. The stout friar had been traveling with Gizborne and a small detachment of his men. Robin's band uses the natural foliage of the forest to distract Gizborne's men away from the large horse cart carrying Tuck and a large supply of alcohol. Fuck yeah, dude.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

When he runs and like slides under the little tent of leaves.

SPEAKER_00 52:32

So good. Because at first they have two people like pretending to make like a barrier so that they can't pass, and they go and attack him. So most of the men run with him. There's like three left. They come out of this like camouflage, beat him up, put all those men under the camouflage, and then they take everything and go. There's like one thing left, I think of like a helmet on the ground.

SPEAKER_01 52:54

No wonder they think this place is haunted. Yeah, it's so good. It's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 53:00

Just makes you think it's like anybody can rise up, you know. Hell yeah. So Gizborne is later unable to find the bandits, and several of his men who were killed, the bodies have been camouflaged very effectively on the fourth floor. Robin potent politely asks Tuck if his men can have the barrels of ale and mead that were captured. Tuck is quite defiant at first. Um, but it's his personal supply. But then God taught him a mility when Robin makes him wear the horse's uh reins to haul the cart back to their hideout place of the horse. Tuck heartily agrees to become their holy man. It's like God works in mysterious ways. Cannot do his accent. But I love it because he's like, You'll never give me again. He slightly gets hit in the head by a branch. It's like people really fall off things when getting hit slowly in this movie. Um, so and then R.I.P., our guy of Gisborne is later coldly killed by the sheriff for his failure when he returns with his heels. At least I didn't use a spoon. Spanish steel, finer than anything we have. Um, so Marion and her handmaiden are stopped by two of Robin's men while riding through Sherwood. Which one's left? The one that's not right. It's like who are we shooting? I don't know. Let's just go.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

If only they would have had sustainable.

SPEAKER_00 54:25

I love those two guys. It's such a classic thing. And it's and most adventure movies have like two dummies, right? Pirates of the Caribbean has those two pirates that are really dumb. The guy with the eye? Yeah, it always works. It's always great. Um always have two bad henchmen. Perfect every time. Robin's men are easily subdued by the much craftier Marion, who forces them to take her to Robin, who's buttass naked, taking a bath near a waterfall. Robin shows Marion around the compound, which she is amazed. Um we have a small bit where Robin tries to prove the point to Wolf, who is a good shot, but wants to see if he can do it when distracted. And then like Robin Hood blows, blows in his ear to mess him up.

SPEAKER_01 55:08

That scene gets me.

SPEAKER_00 55:09

Yeah. And then Marion asks him to do the same and distracts him. Uh and he misses. And it's just like ha ha ha ha ha ha.

SPEAKER_01 55:16

She gets right up next to his neck and just like blows in his ear a little bit. Like, puts her tongue in his ear.

SPEAKER_00 55:22

It's hot. Yeah. Oh, when she sees the large pile of wealth Robin and his crew have a mask, she offer, uh, she thinks, like, oh, it's like you're keeping it, aren't you? And it's like, nope. It's blood money. We're giving it to people, man. They're trying to take over, uh, they're taking over the land. They're gonna dethrone the king. She's like, oh, we'll take this.

SPEAKER_01 55:44

He's not swimming in it like Scrooge McDuck. Yeah. God damn, I wouldn't. He just lays down in it. Yeah. Doing it like a snow angel.

SPEAKER_00 55:51

It's like, oh, we give everybody 10 minutes a day to do this, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 55:54

That's how we're giving back.

SPEAKER_00 55:56

So you can take my spot today if you want to. She's like, no, I'm the cousin of the king. I could have this anytime. Um, and then so she gives him like the dagger that the sheriff gave him. Uh, here Robin tells Marion that the sheriff is planning out to overthrow the king. Marion is surprised because she uh because they thought they were keeping it safe. I already said all that. So as the two are falling in love, Robin asks her to stay the night. That night they party. A little girl asks him if God painted him for certain, because Allah loves wondrous variety. Hell yeah, dude. Um, Marion asks how Robin has found contentment living in the woods. He says, nobility is not a birthright, it is defined by one's actions. I'm like, point of the movie.

SPEAKER_01 56:38

Hell yeah. And then John Little comes out with the baby just shaking it like crazy.

SPEAKER_00 56:43

Not quite yet, because in a second. And I do have things to say about that.

SPEAKER_01 56:51

So my newborn baby! Look at it.

SPEAKER_00 56:54

Look at it. I'm sure the mother doesn't want to hold this thing. Let's have a bunch of drunks near a fire.

SPEAKER_01 57:02

No, maybe she was like pass them around to the drunks.

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Yeah. Give them all, let them kiss it. Don't wipe the don't wipe the goo off at all.

SPEAKER_01 57:11

Well, they didn't have immunizations back then. They had to do what they could. That's true.

SPEAKER_00 57:15

We need to make sure to give this baby every disease to start so he'd be big and strong.

SPEAKER_01 57:19

Right off the bat.

SPEAKER_00 57:20

Yeah. So here we learn that Robin and his father had a fight before he left for a war because he was mad that after his mother's death, he found comfort in a peasant woman's arms. But because he was so angry, his father broke off the relationship and he still resented them and left for the war. He's a little bitch boy. Yeah, he's a robber, he's a spoiled little rich boy. That's like the whole point of the movie. Um suddenly what growth? Yeah. Suddenly, Fanny, little John's wife, is having trouble giving birth. Azim knows how to deliver the baby because he's seen because he's seen it in a horse once. And then he successfully does, causing Friar Tuck and Azim to become friendly with each other because Friar Tuck thought it was a good thing. That's what I'm assuming. That's what I'm assuming. But she's up and walking pretty fast. But it doesn't say she's a tough lady. I'm sure like maybe a like a couple weeks went by, but I don't know how he was just like punching her in the stomach to turn the baby around.

SPEAKER_01 58:15

Yeah. No, like a horse. Is that what you do? Horses? I don't know. I don't know. Well, I know. I don't think he reached both hands in and turn it, right? Something like that. Surely he didn't do that.

SPEAKER_00 58:23

Something like that. But just by watching uh there was a vet a vet show called like Dr. Pole. And he would sometimes they would uh roll the cow. So like if a cow's baby wasn't turned right, they could roll it, and like that would sometimes help. Like a zipper at the county fair. Essentially, what they do is they get this giant chain. What? Um and they hook it, hook it around like the the uh calf's feet, and like they use like a crank to crank it out. They just gonna get out with a truck. Yeah, I mean that's what you gotta do. I mean, cat like cows have trouble giving birth all the time. Oh wow apparently that's crazy. It's very interesting.

SPEAKER_01 59:01

They're just got an F-150 if you hooked up the fanny. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 59:04

Rev it up. Is that a four by four?

SPEAKER_01 59:08

Is that getting got a coming?

SPEAKER_00 59:10

It's like it's kind of muddy around here, you don't need it. So um they all dance in the night, uh, just throwing around a baby. The next day, Robin sees off Marion and sends Duncan off with her, pretending so it so he can protect her, but it's the other way around. Um, also we get the line, like after Azim delivers the baby, um, it's a great little line. Uh Robin says, You truly are a great one. Oh, because he said it. Because earlier in the movies, he asked Azim what the what it means. He says, You uh a great one. And he says, Did you give yourself that name? Yeah, he's pissed. Yeah. Um, and something I love is in movies, I absolutely I hate it, but it's all I can always tell, oh yay, everything bad's about to happen now. Because they've had a good scene. This is such a high point in the movie where I'm like, I'm so happy. I love everybody, nothing's gonna go wrong. And then immediately, well, everything's about to go wrong. Um, but also this is a gorgeous lake scene. It's amazing. Yeah, that is absolutely worth this scene.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:17

Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:18

So the sheriff seeks counsel with a witch who bleeds and spits on a plate and calls it a sweat.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:24

That's that's like our medical insurance now.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

Yeah. And then uh she tells him to get the Celts to help defeat Robin Hood.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:32

But they drink the blood of the dead.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:34

Yeah, hiad thugs. She then tells him to have a child with a woman with royal blood, Marion. Marion writes a letter to the king, gives it to the bishop who sucks, and gives the letter to the sheriff almost immediately. And then later, Marion is kidnapped and taken to the sheriff. But first, before she's captured, we have a classic cat jump scare. Yes. Because in movies they're constantly cats are always ready to pounce and hiss at you. Even though most cats, if they live in your home, like you and don't hiss at you that much. Or at least jump out of nowhere and hiss. It's like, why do cats always do that in movies?

SPEAKER_01 1:01:11

Well, I feel like these cats were there for more of utility. Yeah, to get rats so they didn't get the plague. But yeah, wasn't the cat's name Nicodemus?

SPEAKER_00 1:01:21

Yeah, something like that. Yeah, like the fortune teller.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:24

Go get rats the prophet. Like, go find mice.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:27

Find mice.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:29

Yeah, but like every time I see them making these tapestries, I'm like, y'all aren't that good.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:35

Yeah, y'all can tough.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:37

I mean, they're they're pretty, they're cool.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

Yeah, they're cool to see now, but back in the day, they'd be like, this is shite.

Fire Attack To Castle Showdown

SPEAKER_00 1:01:44

So the sheriff and his army follow Duncan to track down the outlaws, how dye cut out, and initiates a massive attack which destroys the forest refuge. Robin's forces are able to route the ground assault, ver ground assault very effectively, causing the Celts to retreat. While Robin's forces cheer their victory, they suddenly see the sheriff has another assault planned with flaming arrows, fire, catapult projectiles that quickly destroy their compound. It's like, damn it, we didn't think of the fire. We thought we had everything planned. We didn't think about fire. Couldn't it have rained? It's always raining here except now. Uh Robin himself rescues Fanny and her newborn from a hot a burning shelter, but the rope he swings from snaps and he falls into a roof and losing his father's cross or medallion, little medallion thing that he has.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:35

He's dead now.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:36

Um the scene rules. Um the uh kilts are very funny. Yeah, they are wild and insane. Um but it's just like a great battle of Zeeem with his uh shimitary.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

I think that's what they're called. And he's just like just a dope ass looking sword. Just like I love the scene later, like coming up with his scimitar. Yeah. Like, yeah, this is a badass thing when he dumps all the gold out, and they're all like, fuck killing people, let's get the money. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:05

We're hired thugs, we don't care.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:08

Thugs with the D. That was great. And then like it's Friar Tug takes the kids away, but they don't get fucking captured.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:16

I guess they just let Friar go.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:17

Yeah, I guess so. I don't know. Maybe maybe they only maybe didn't get all the kids, he only got like half the kids. Yeah. I don't know. I'm sure they're everybody was kind of running. It took them to an island. And I'm assuming like a lot of the kids probably stayed with the parents. That makes sense. Most of them probably died. I will get any excuse to give my boy Friar took a break.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:38

He tried.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:39

Yeah, he tried.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:41

Yeah. The sheriff proposes marriage to Maid Marion, saying that if she accepts, he will spare the lives of the captured woodsmen and their families. Nevertheless, several of the rebel fighters, include little John Scrappy Son, Wolf, and Will Scarlet, are expected to be executed by hanging. Yes. Um, while they are tortured by the sheriff who wishes to know if Robin survived the assault, Will agrees to act as a spy and lure Robin into a trap. Very funny scene though, because Wolf keeps like shouting. They're both like, shot. Yeah. It's like, stop. Like Will's like, I got something going on here, okay? Um, but it's great. And because Will's like, so if I you're gonna kill me now, and if I go and I fail you, you're still gonna kill me. So win-win for you. It's like you're really not losing anything. Um, however, despite information to the contrary, Robin and a handful of his most trusted aides did survive the assault. We see Robin coming out of the forest with a lot of light coming from behind him, and it's just like, it's nighttime. How is this possible? And you know he's hung over. Yeah. Um, but what a dope ass shot. Making him kind of like like, you know, a larger than like character, you know, yeah. Ghost coming from the mist. A Phoenix riding from the ashes. Exactly. Beautiful scene. So many good shots in this movie. It's amazing. However, despite inf oh whoop Um, so Robin and Azim, Barry Duncan. Robin feels depressed that his perfect plan didn't come to work, uh didn't work. Azim tells Robin there are no perfect men, only perfect intentions. Thanks, Azim, for fighting so bravely. Great little line. Anytime Azim talks, it's pretty much like, well, he's the smartest person.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:23

Yeah, he's the smartest person in the whole country. He's very smart.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:26

Even though I don't know if uh I I doubt um Morgan Freeman had this, you know, aura about him, because you know, now we find him as like the voice of God and stuff, and he's like such a trusted actor that it's like, yeah, it makes sense. He's so trustworthy.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:41

And he was always like this, I guess. Yeah, this is probably one of those movies that really made that built that character for him.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:48

And then uh and then it was um Bruce Almighty. I was like, I cannot remember what the movie was.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:56

Mop on the floor. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:57

So Will returns and is immediately attacked by. By little John, who's enraged over the capture of his son. He's like, Ah, I knew I would kill you. It's like, I bet you told him everything. And then, but then he stops because uh I guess he was gonna strip him naked before killing him. I don't know. Um, and then sees like the horrible scars across his belly and chest, evidence that he's been tortured by the sheriff. Will tells them about the forced marriage of Marion to the sheriff, and that those who were captured in the forest will be executed before the ceremony, even Wolf. Will also reveals that he is Robin's illegitimate brother from an affair that their father had after Robin's mother had died, leading to the new understanding between them. Robin plots an assault on the sheriff's castle to rescue their comrades. Azim makes bombs with gunpowder, and Robin, even allowing Will uh, scene with the friar Azim when he throws it in there. Yeah. It's like, what are you? Some sort of wizard? Um, but the I feel like Christian Slater is so good in this scene, just like seeing his anger and his sadness. Yeah. And it was just like, I didn't know this was gonna happen. This fucking rules. That's why he was such a little shithead the whole time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:05

He's like, Will you will you stand by us? Will you be?

SPEAKER_00 1:07:09

Or will you run away like the spoiled rich boy I thought you would be? Yeah. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:15

It was really good.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:16

Yeah. It's just I just didn't expect that. So you because you know they had all and it just makes all the little lines like, you know, oh my why he hated him. And I was just like, Oh, he's the whole time. I was like, Will's gonna turn on him? Will's gonna turn on him. The entire movie, I was like, he's gonna turn on him to Natalie. I was like, he's gonna betray him, he's gonna go to the sheriff, and he's gonna be like, I know where everybody is. And then he doesn't, and I'm like, this movie's perfect. I love this movie. So on the day of the sheriff and Maid Marion's wedding and the scheduled hangings, Robin and his men sneak their way into Nottingham Castle in various disguises, positioning themselves strategically around the compound and using barrels of gunpowder supplied by Zeeem.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:54

Um some barrels of mead for the Lord's fighting man. Yeah, and they're they're gonna start a famous battle. I love when they're walking in the gate and he's like, Swords, blades. Swords, blades. What do they say? You know what I'm talking about, though. When he's like, leave your weapons at the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:12

That type of thing. Then it's like they don't even like search them. They're just like, I trust you.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:16

It's like a coat check, but there's like, how are you gonna pick out your they all look the same? Yeah, I know.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:22

It's just a pile of mine's the pointy one that can cut people.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

I guess it'll just take a while.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:28

Yeah. So the original plan was to just free their friends and retreat, but their scheme is inadvertently spoiled when Wolf himself recognizes Will in the crowd and his cover is blown. Will is tied to one of the barrels of gunpowder placed near the gallows, forcing Robin to reveal himself to rush to his aid. Hell yeah. Robin is able to launch an arrow that cuts the rope around Wolf's necks, and another that kills the executioner as he's about to behead Will with one of the dopest ass shots I've ever seen. And then like little John's pushing over the gallows with brute force freeing all the men. I love it so much. Yeah, it's just insane panic. One of the wealthy people like turning knot uh the sheriff, like, is this what you call a ceremony? And he's like, shut up. I can kill anybody I want. Yeah, it's I I absolutely love the whole setup though. Yeah, like everybody slyly walking around playing their little bits, Fanny and little John climbing up this wall. Would have never worked if I was there. Yeah, I'm such like a people watcher, I'd be like, something's happening. It's like anybody see that? Nobody knows? You know they're not paying these guys well. Yeah, exactly. Um, but I don't know, just a fun little setup. And then of course I knew it. I was like, as soon as Will like I was like, Wolf's coming out. It's like, there's no way he doesn't see Will. He's just for some reason revealed his face to him. It's like there was no reason for him.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:53

No, dude, why would you do that? Unless he was just trying to like be like, hey, we're here to help you. We're here to help you.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:59

Fuck yep. Wolf is a child who's only disliked you from the start since Robin Hood came into be. So as everyone prepares to retreat, Azim announces his willingness to join Robin and fight the sheriff, finally convincing the peasants to revolt against the oppressive rule of the sheriff. Join Robin Hood. Join Robin Hood! And then everybody's like, okay, I'll do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:23

That fucking is fucking rules. And then like he's on the the the the wall and he pulls out his scimitar, and those dudes are like, oh shit!

SPEAKER_00 1:10:31

Oh no. Man, I just think like if I was one of these people, I'd be like, Yeah, let's all join them. Like sneak behind the wall. Then once it's all done, I was like, We did go. We did it. Like, hey, I know you didn't do that. So Robin and his name are launched by a catapult to get into the sheriff's castle. Fuck me, cleared it. Robin makes his way into the sheriff chambers where the traitorous bishop, who's found later and killed by Friar Tuck, when uh the bishop is putting a bunch of coins and gold in his bag. Yeah, defeat the devil! Give me your way to hell! Kicks him out of the door, and all the peasants can't come and take the gold. It's great. The blood and the gold all glittering. Yeah. That's one of my favorite shots. But uh, the traitorous bishop has just finished the marriage ceremony, and the sheriff is about to rape Marion to impregnate her with a male hire.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:23

Well, she is ripe.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:24

Very insane, like crazy rape scenes.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:29

Crazy how all this works.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:30

It's like we are still in the process of getting married and like already putting her on the ground, and it's like, what is happening?

SPEAKER_01 1:11:35

He did kiss her.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:36

But he does he did have this one thing because um the wife's or the witch is like, just go ahead and impregnate her now. He's like, I will not have her until we are married. For once in my life, I will have something pure. And I'm like, No, you won't. This is insane.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:51

I don't know. You have to he has to like forcibly spread her like.

SPEAKER_00 1:11:55

Yeah, it's like, this is not a pure act. Just let you know. It's like, man, people really have weird things about like how you have to be married for something to be right. It's like, guys, it's a lot of red tape, you know. This is like you think you just get married, you just do whatever you want. It makes no sense. It's crazy. It is one of those scenes where I was like, maybe we could have done this better. This is a very insane like way to get to this point. So, in a ferocious sword duel where the sheriff wields Robin's father's long sword, Robin's fucking cool. This look familiar to you. Hell yeah. Robin kills the sheriff by using or so, hold on, before I do all that. There's all this great, it's a great fight. It's a fucking awesome fight. They're destroying the entire room here. The sword's cutting through all the wood. Hell yeah. The sheriff's just throwing like benches at them, and just whatever they can get their hands on, they're just trying to kill each other with. Marion's standing next to a window, and the whole time, like, get away from the window. I I know people fall out of those things. It's probably the only source of fresh air, the whole content. And then she's kind of helping her. Um, uh the witch like runs off soon as soon as uh Robin came in there. But this is a great little fight. And then it's just like when he pulls out this dagger and gets a from his boot. I'm like, oh my god, it's all came full circle.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:19

Yeah, and the way he dies. I love the way he dies, too. He's such it's such a cool dev. Such a like a right in the heart. Little weenie dev.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:26

Yeah, it's great because he's the biggest weenie in this movie. Um, so where did I get? Um and then uh Robin with his guard down. Robin is attacked by Mordiana, the witch, who earlier was stabbed by a Zine.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:40

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:41

I put and I'm glad that he told me about the whole um suit like tunnel thing. Because I was like, my question in the notes was how did how did she get in? But yeah, she has tunnel systems, so that's good.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:53

Um badass when Azine kicks in the door. Yeah. And he throws a scimitar in it.

SPEAKER_00 1:13:59

I've paid, what did he say? I've repaid my death. Yeah. Oh, it's so good.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:07

Yeah, fulfilling his bow to Robin.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:09

Launches her across the room. Yeah. Ah, yeah. Love it. But I want to say through all this, and it's just like Alan Rickman is maybe the best villain. He's so good in cinema history. I mean, between like him playing being Hans Gruber, this, and then being a villain in Harry Potter for most of it, right? Um, it's great. He's so good. And like I know that like he ends up being a good guy in Harry Potter, but you can only slap so many kids in the face before I'm like, we can say he's a good guy, but he's also very abusive to children in a school.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:43

They don't have a school board.

SPEAKER_00 1:14:44

Well, they also think it's I I feel like whenever they're like, all right, it is this is the date. School's starting at uh Hogwarts. By the way, your kid's probably gonna die. Yeah, I feel like they gotta sign a release form every single time they every semester or something.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:59

Every kid he slaps, he can just heal it with magic.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:02

That's true. That is like the benefit that they can heal broken bones and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:05

Yeah, if the kid goes to what's his face, he's like, hey, that guy slapped me. He's like, did not deserve bruise.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:11

They'll just be like, just be like, well, I'm actually gonna slap you now. Um so Robin and Marion profess their love for one another and are married in the forest by Friar Tuck. Their wedding is briefly interrupted by the return of King Richard I. Yeah, played by Sean. God dang Connery, he's also Dragonheart, um, who agrees to bless the marriage if he's allowed to give Marion away and thanks Robin for saving his kingdom. The reason I say Dragonheart is because he voiced the dragon in the movie Dragonheart. Nice with one of the worst CPI dragons you'll ever see. But I love that. I watched that movie on sci-fi so much as a child. That's awesome. Um, but that's it. And then I'm ending it by pumping my fist because they added Sean Connery at the end, which is a beautiful ending.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:58

I love Fryot's last line there. He's like, get on with it. We've got more celebrating to do or something like that. You know, he's a drunk. He's like, let's get wasted.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:08

Yeah. Medieval times had to be great for like, you know, just like the holy men. It's like, they give us gold, they will never do anything bad to us, and we can get as fucking drunk as we want. Because for some reason, I guess back in the day, they didn't care if you got drunk.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:24

Oh man, it's like the only clean water you had to drink was alcohol.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:28

It's either this or I drink uh a bunch of plague water. Yeah, I get fucking dysentery. They like walk, they go to a well to pull out some water, pull it up, bunch of rats. Damn it, now I gotta get drunk today. So, Jason, that is the conclusion of

Takeaways Plus Good Bad Ugly Fine

SPEAKER_00 1:16:44

the plot. Oh, yay. So uh I guess for the point, I put uh that when a tyrannical government oppresses you, that we the people have the power to take back our freedom and make things right as long as we work and fight together.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:57

Hell yeah, man. As long as you got one guy that can like make convince everybody to work together, you can do it anyway.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:04

So watch it, Bezos. If you come after you, we just haven't found that guy yet.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:10

I think Mom Donnie might be that guy.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:11

Start stealing all our money, we're coming after you. Hell yeah. I uh I even though they have like sound weapons and we stand no chance at this day and age. So we're all pretty much fucked because they have drones in the sky that will easily kill us. That's why we need to bring back the bow and arrow. And so we have to somehow devise cloak for the poor people. Yeah. Did you have a point?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:37

No, you mean you pretty much covered it. Yeah, pretty much covered it. It's the whole point of it.

SPEAKER_00 1:17:42

That's what it's about. So we're gonna hit up our next category: the good, the bad, the ugly, the fine. So we discussed the good of a film, something we like, the bad, something we didn't like, the ugly, something that didn't age well, the fine, something that did age well. I mean, the good, the blend of the action, the grit to it, but also having blending the comedy with it and it all working is pretty hard to do. And also Alan fucking ricked me.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:04

Yeah, man, he kicks so much ass. And I think the music too, also like it just swells. Yeah. And you get it's so I mean, my hair is in my arm just rise up.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:14

It was when Natalie told me it's like they did it for a marching band for a year. I was like, Robin Hood? Does Robin Hood have like this movie had great music? And throughout it, I was like, fucking go. A lot of French horns. It really goes. Yeah. In England, they love a French horn.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:30

Uh French horns. French horns are so cool. You know, they're considered both brass and woodwind.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:34

Yeah, I didn't know that. Because it's all about the tip, right? The read.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:39

It's all about the tip, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:41

So for the bad, um, obviously accent work.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:45

Yeah. Well, I also feel like it wasn't really that big of a problem. It really was. I never even noticed it like growing up until you mentioned it, really.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:56

It's wild. I thought it was gonna be I thought his accent was gonna be terrible. Like, I mean, I thought he just didn't even really do try it that way. No, he didn't do it at all. And that's why I think it's better that way. Yeah. Like just be natural. You know what I think it is? It is like, and I know this is probably something everybody always said about the film, but I don't think it was until you know we had like YouTube videos like doing like lists and like worse accents and movies and things like that, which is like pointed out more to the point where someone like me is like, I don't know, I apparently there's bad acting in this movie. And it's just like it's just everybody trying to make some content to get people to click on their shit. And I was like, well, fuck, I wish I didn't ever click on anybody's content because I would have watched this years ago and been like I would have owned it by now. Um my rant about how I don't like the state of now. Um, did you have any bats?

SPEAKER_01 1:19:51

No, man. I don't like this is one of my favorite movies of all time. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:19:57

Maybe my favorite movie of all time. I remember this was one of the movies you wanted to do when we were talking about discussing doing a podcast, and I was it was just never on anything, and I'm like, damn, we should have just rented it anyway. Yeah, apparently it's on something called Howdy. Something I have. Thank goodness. I've had to watch like three or four of our movies on it. That's why I ended up subscribing to it. Me neither, dude. There's five billion fucking things now. Why can't we just have all the movies in one place? It's like I'm not someone that's like, I should I I pirate things, you know. I fully believe that you should pay for your stuff. I used to pirate all kinds of shit. I'm getting to the point where I'm like, the amount of subscriptions you have to have to watch it now is getting insane. And then half the apps barely work well. Yeah, it's like I should just start downloading shit at this point. So insane.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:45

So bring back Napster.

SPEAKER_00 1:20:46

Yeah. It's like, I don't understand. Like, you know, we're just constantly upping the prices of everything. And I'm like, how do you guys not have enough money yet? It's like when I think about Paramount Plus, I'm like, this thing costs the amount it does. And you guys can't make your app work better. And it's like, well, so I mean, where's this money going? It's obviously not going to pay people to make your app better. It's been a terrible app since day fucking one. Yeah, I think. Before it was Paramount Plus, it was like CBS Plus. It's still fucking sucked in.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:19

And how HBO went from HBO to HBO Max and then back to HBO.

SPEAKER_00 1:21:24

Though I will say, this is why I do not want Paramount to have HBO is because other than Netflix, HBO is the best app. It works every time. And even if your internet that doesn't have a strong signal, it still mostly works. Hell yeah. Man, I feel like every time we get to this point of the podcast, I just start yelling about stuff. Uh for the ugly, the um fact that it took me so long to watch the movie. Oh, I see that. Yeah. Yeah. That's really a bummer that I went 35 years of my life. 34. I don't know how old I am.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:57

I don't really know about like for me, like the only ugly would be like watching the deleted scenes, because after growing up with the movie and and then seeing those, it kind of ruins shit. Yeah. But then you wait a little while and just watch the old regular movie again. Yeah. It's great.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:15

Just you just gotta convince yourself, I don't have to think about this. I don't know about all that other stuff going on. It's kinda it's even like with remakes and like, you know, stuff, it's like you don't have to watch those elements. It's like with the new Harry Potter, everybody's like, there's an uproar about it. I'm like, then just don't watch it.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:31

Yeah. Well, the whole uproar with about the you mean the series that's coming out? Yeah. Yeah, it's because the owner the lady that wrote the damn thing said that she was gonna use all the proceeds to fight against LGBTQ rights.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:45

Is that bad? I'm just kidding. Just kidding. Yeah, I know. It's it's like, why, girl? Why? Why are you like this?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:55

She's got so much money she has to do something with it.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:57

It's insane. Just stop. Just stop. It's you know, you can just be rich and then not constantly have to tweet.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:07

Yeah, you don't have to put in your two cents to everything.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:10

And that it's just, I mean, I guess she thinks in her own way she's doing something good, but it's like, guys, y'all are fucking rich because y'all wrote a book. We don't need I don't know. I guess I can't say that because, like, you know, it's just because I don't agree with what she says. And like, whenever other people that are artists and are rich, it's like, I'm like, yeah, I agree with them. They should say stuff all the time.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:34

But it's just like, who cares what you say? Just make art. You may just do the arts.

SPEAKER_00 1:23:38

We made a book where people can literally transform into whatever they want. Yes. Which I don't know the full reason why she is against it. Like she has no problem with bestiality, though. That is sure. That is a fact. Well, yeah, because you can transform into a you could be a cat. A cat. Whoever you want, I guess. Well, um, that is our thoughts on that. You see, I swear, the end of the podcast always goes into like random hands. Um, so for the fine, I put the charisma, Kevin Costner, and Alan Rickman. Just great casting and cinematography. And Elizabeth Master Antonio is fantastic as Marian.

SPEAKER_02 1:24:16

She's great. I love her and everything she does. She's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:18

And a classic 80s like actress. This has been a really great movie to re-watch. I haven't seen it in years. Yeah. Probably 20 years or so. And it was it made me so happy. As long as and also like the the next one we're gonna do made me really happy too.

SPEAKER_00 1:24:38

So it's just like we're doing the British invasion maybe. Maybe our next movie, actually, after all Austin Powers should be another British movie. Oh, nice. I think it maybe maybe maybe we should do all right, we'll talk about it after this. All right. You guys aren't gonna know for a couple weeks or next week. So uh the fine uh already did that. Um

Double Feature Picks And Listener Calls

SPEAKER_00 1:24:59

cool. Uh double feature. What do you got, man?

SPEAKER_01 1:25:02

Well, I was thinking, you know, the um the Kevin Costner, not the Kevin Costner one, the Kevin Costner Robin Hood. The the other Robin Hood. Which one? The uh Russell Crowe. Yeah, the Russell Crowe one.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:13

It's I need to maybe I'll rewatch it out as well. It's not that bad. I just remember it being long. I'll say all Rudley Scott movies. Yeah. It just felt like they were doing like, hey, let's do Gladiator, but instead of Gladiator, it's Robin Hood.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:24

Yeah, that is true. And but it also kind of gives a uh a different telling of the story. Like he comes back from the war and pretends to be the son of the Loxley. Oh and they're like, okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:25:40

And they kind of like go along with it. I I let me ask you, because I'll I saw on the theaters when it uh when it came out. Um that was the last time I watched it, so I can only I only know like bits and pieces of how it looks. Anybody ever did uh Russell Crow run his hand through wheat? He loves that. I swear that's in every Ridley Scott movie, whenever it's like medieval times or something. It's a cool shot. Yeah, yeah. It's great. I'll love it. I could redo Gladiator right now.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:07

But I think in the Gladiator, he's like already dead and he's And Elysium at that point. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:14

Um, well, I chose the a another kind of medieval movie um that's also a comedy. It's called a night's tale. Oh yes. With Got Dang Our Boy Heath Lager Ledger, R. I P. Um Paul Bettney, always great. Alan Tudik. Alan Tudick is so good in that movie. I really want to watch it. Okay. So when I was thinking, I was like, what should I pick? I was like, oh yeah, Night's Tale. It was kind of like comedic vibes and stuff like that. Um, so yeah, watch that. Man, that's an amazing one. Yeah. I remember loving it as a kid. It's always it's crazy. It's got like great IMDb ratings. People love this movie. But yeah, so watch uh Night's Tale. It's kind of a perfect double feature, I feel like. Yeah, it's so good. And did you say yours? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:05

The other Robin Hood.

SPEAKER_00 1:27:08

I forgot we had a whole conversation. I'm losing my mind. And we have a whole nother episode to want to do. So, speaking of another episode that we're gonna record in five minutes, we are gonna be doing Austin Powers International Man of Mystery. I promise it's not mine. It's not my bag, baby. And one instruction manual written by Austin Powers that says, This thing is totally my bag, baby. One of the best jokes in the entire movie. Yeah, so join us for the very first Austin Powers movie that we're covering on the movie. Oh, I guess it's part of our British invasion that we're gonna end up doing here. Yeah, man. Yeah, boy. So join us next week for that. And thank you for listening. I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. Thank you. Um, we absolutely loved this movie, and we hope you loved this movie. Let us know if you did. Also, tell us how we're doing and Podcast. If there are any movies you want us to cover for you, then you can go to our link in the description, click on it, text us from your phone, or go to the very bottom. We recommend mailbag at gmail.com where you can also talk to us that way, and we will read your stuff there. And our boy Mark, who we did Heathers and Devil in a Blue Dress for because he recommended them. Um he just said, thanks for the shout-out, boys. Um, loving the long episodes because he's at work. Uh, I guess he also um redesigns homes for Redfin, which is cool. And then on our Devil in a Blue Dress episode, he said, another great episode, gentlemen. So thank you, Mark. I would say, outside of my wife, you are our biggest fan. And we appreciate that. Seriously, I mean, we just kind of do this, and most of the time we don't hear from people, uh, just kind of like our friends and stuff, and it just makes us feel really good. Yeah, thanks for talking to us and saying nice things. Um appreciate it, Mark. Thanks. Dog Mark with a C. Um and bye forever. I don't even know why I would say that. Um, leave us reviews, like us, follow us. If you're on social media and follow find us, you can do that too. I don't really post anymore because I think it's the bane of human existence at this point. Um, but yeah, thank you, Joey Prostor, for intro and outro music. You can follow him on X at Mr. Joey Prosser. This has been the We Recommend Podcast. I've been Jesse. And I've been Jason. And remember, there are no perfect men, only perfect intentions. So don't fucking believe everybody here, okay?

SPEAKER_01 1:29:42

Why a spoon, Cossack?