You'd never think Prince of Persia was the better movie...

[trinityvixen]

...unless you saw it in a double-feature with Robin Hood. I can't begin to explain what was wrong with Robin Hood without taking at least as long again as that movie was, and I refuse to spend that much time on it. Bad enough I sat through it once. Suffice to say, it was so not enjoyable that it literally sucked all the joy I'd gotten out of laughing at Prince of Persia with my sister and feiran. Credit where it's due: my sister got in the spirit of exaggerating lines from Prince of Persia so they were pick-up lines/innuendo. We were laughing so loud, we got shushed! At a drive-in!

Anyway, Robin Hood. Don't see it. Not only will it make your head hurt with its pretenses of historicity, it will bore you nigh unto death. It should be a crime to make a Robin Hood movie this boring. And if that's a crime, the sentence for it should be capital punishment seeing as how they squandered the talent they had in that movie. Anyone guilty of wasting Cate Blanchett's time that much ought to be stoned.

Prince of Persia, on the other hand, was as delightfully silly as it needed to be for me to enjoy it. Truth be told, I'm actually a little disappointed that it was better than I thought it would be because I wanted desperately to take the mickey out of it, and it managed to have some truly enjoyable-in-its-own-right moments. After seeing the behind-the-scenes and the trailers, I was sure it was going to be almost Spider-Man 3-level of over-the-top camp, but it was merely B-level passable. It was still overly long and needlessly convoluted. I could have done without the thousands of treks across the desert to each destination/set-piece.

On the other hand, one of the other princes--the one who wasn't an amalgam of Jake Gylenhaal and his wig--was played by the guy who was Jeff from Coupling, which was kind of distracting and hilarious all at the same time. Nice to see he's still getting work, though it's a shame he couldn't get more comedic roles. (He kills me as Jeff.) Oh well, at least he'll be Moist von Lipwig soon!

And that was my Memorial Day.

Comments

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

Good to know. Also, don't see Macgruber. Terrible the whole way through; take comments like "Best SNL movie since Wayne's World" as the damning with faint praise they are.

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Why would you even go see Robin Hood? That thing had "travesty" written all over it. Particularly in the furrows on Russell Crowe's face.

[newredshoes]

Oh lord. Yeah, that... was a Tea Party movie. I got pretty squirmy.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

Heyyyyy, you were supposed to see Prince of Persia with me!

[onefishonly.livejournal.com]

wait, what? there's going to be a Moist von Lipwig/Going Postal movie?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I've yet to see the SNL-inspired movie besides Wayne's World that was even modestly interesting, and Wayne's World is just that: only modestly successful. Besides which, I think Richard Dean Anderson parodied MacGuyver better in his thirty-second Mastercard commercial than anyone else ever could.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

We were upstate and the choices were Shrek 4/Iron Man 2 or Prince of Persia/Robin Hood. My sister and feiran both expressed a minor interest in Robin Hood, and the only way they'd see it is if it were cheap. A drive-in is $8 for two movies, so since we'd all seen Iron Man 2 and no one had any interest in Shrek, PoP/Robin Hood won out.

I agreed with you, for the record. I thought it looked like a less humorous Gladiator, which is saying something because Gladiator was such a dreary movie itself. Sure enough...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's not just that it's a Tea Party movie. It's that they honestly think that your hero should be a guy who a) deserted his army as it was still fighting the war, b) robbed a bunch of dead guys of their money to keep for himself, and c) was given Cate Blanchett and an estate all to keep his mouth shut about who he really was...AND WAS STILL UNHAPPY ABOUT THAT. I mean, wtf? LEAST SYMPATHETIC ROBIN HOOD EVER.

And then it ended with "Let's all live in the woods and avoid paying taxes!" Yeaaaaah....

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry lady. I make it up to you with some hot loving next time I see you. You and the hubby should go see it drunk together, let me know how that experience is. I missed out because I had to drive. Sobriety! My enemy!

[newredshoes]

Well, it makes him ~*complicated*~, doesn't it. Automatic anti-hero!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Indeed there is! ITV, which did Hogfather and The Colour of Magic movies, is doing another. I am looking forward to it because Going Postal is one of my favorite non-City Watch books. Also, it has Jeff in it!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

You're not wrong. He was certainly anti-heroic...in the sense that his actions and attitudes were exactly the opposite of heroism. Instead of, you know, making him acerbically heroic-against-his-will like your typical, watchable anti-hero. ::rolls eyes::

It pains me how boring this movie was. I can't even be arsed to care about the Tea Party thing because no one should have been able to even stay awake to the end to get that message. Gah. Makes Kevin Costner's Robin Hood seem like bloody Shakespeare.

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

I didn't have any desire whatsoever to see Robin Hood even before a couple of friends saw it and said not to waste my time on it. I heard it's just dull and boring.

A couple friends also saw Prince of Persia and I hear from the friend who has the closest taste to my own that it wasn't all that great and that it was pretty much a Prince of Persia version of Pirates of the Caribbean complete with a very Jack Sparrow-esque character. Last year, when I first saw the teaser, that was actually my first thought: "oh great, Pirates except it's Prince of Persia". I also hear the one-liners are pretty lame, but despite all of this, I do think it looks fun (I really don't need a movie to be good to enjoy it) and will eventually see it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to the Prince of Persia trailer. "This looks stupid, but so did the Pirates of the Caribbean trailer, and that turned out okay..."

Then there was stuff about ostrich racing and I went o.O???

Still, fun for a matinee.

hmmm....

[arcfox7.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the Ladies' Man and Night at the Roxbury in a campy ridiculous way.