OldGuy1026
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This morning I watched the latest version of Robin Hood on a very grainy pirate web-site and I must say I will not mind paying full price for the DVD when it comes out. Sorry to say movie goers but if I’m going to spend fifty bucks on a night at the movies it has to really really stir me. And well this disturbs me. The Producers just didn’t work hard enough to making the movie worth-while. And that pisses me off!!!
Robin Hood with Russell Crowe is indeed and entertaining movie. I enjoyed it but sadly felt that this epic film was only lacking in the technical department. Costumes were all uniform and proper for the period. Indeed history buffs would find it enjoyable to see a movie where 12th Century Knights are not carrying 16th Century Swords; however I see a few problems.
1. Knights: European Knights strongest attack was in the use of the Lance and Shield. Here the shield was reduced to being carried by spear carrying infantry troops and not properly used. Instead when mounted troops rode with a lance the lance was on the right side of the horse in a style learned in the 18th Century from India and not across the horse to the left using a shield guard or Jousting as in the movie A Knight Tail.
2. Mounted Riders: again a big mistake. Here everybody is dead wrong. Historically: Knights used a lance, Sergeants rode with sword and shield, and Men-at-arms rode with either a cross-bow or short bow. In this film they rode with the proper training of a Napoleonic Rider sword in right hand swinging down or upwards in well practiced moves of a very century later.
3. Assault landing Crafts: Okay here’s a big mistake. The landing craft of World War Two was a great piece of engineering where you took a barge with hollow ballast sides to keep the boat afloat. These were metal welded sides that displaced water and kept a boat afloat. People were working on the idea in the late 19th Century. So here we are oars out the sides, and landing ramps. Viking style long ships were actually used if you wanted to get across the channel quickly.
Okay other than that I really enjoyed the film. It blended ideas modern freedom and historical fact in a way people can understand. As a matter of fact there was even a little Shakespearian twist in the story as Maid Marion shows up disguised as a Knight leading the real bandits of Nottingham in the final battle. But what’s important too, is that England eventually became a Nation of Laws, but it didn’t happen overnight. I just wished they would spend the time and money to find all the elements to make the production correct. I will still eventually buy the DVD and try to ignore the parts that discomfort me. So enjoy.
Robin Hood with Russell Crowe is indeed and entertaining movie. I enjoyed it but sadly felt that this epic film was only lacking in the technical department. Costumes were all uniform and proper for the period. Indeed history buffs would find it enjoyable to see a movie where 12th Century Knights are not carrying 16th Century Swords; however I see a few problems.
1. Knights: European Knights strongest attack was in the use of the Lance and Shield. Here the shield was reduced to being carried by spear carrying infantry troops and not properly used. Instead when mounted troops rode with a lance the lance was on the right side of the horse in a style learned in the 18th Century from India and not across the horse to the left using a shield guard or Jousting as in the movie A Knight Tail.
2. Mounted Riders: again a big mistake. Here everybody is dead wrong. Historically: Knights used a lance, Sergeants rode with sword and shield, and Men-at-arms rode with either a cross-bow or short bow. In this film they rode with the proper training of a Napoleonic Rider sword in right hand swinging down or upwards in well practiced moves of a very century later.
3. Assault landing Crafts: Okay here’s a big mistake. The landing craft of World War Two was a great piece of engineering where you took a barge with hollow ballast sides to keep the boat afloat. These were metal welded sides that displaced water and kept a boat afloat. People were working on the idea in the late 19th Century. So here we are oars out the sides, and landing ramps. Viking style long ships were actually used if you wanted to get across the channel quickly.
Okay other than that I really enjoyed the film. It blended ideas modern freedom and historical fact in a way people can understand. As a matter of fact there was even a little Shakespearian twist in the story as Maid Marion shows up disguised as a Knight leading the real bandits of Nottingham in the final battle. But what’s important too, is that England eventually became a Nation of Laws, but it didn’t happen overnight. I just wished they would spend the time and money to find all the elements to make the production correct. I will still eventually buy the DVD and try to ignore the parts that discomfort me. So enjoy.
