was the biggest star in Hollywood, still collecting money and plaudits for Dances with Wolves well into 1991, getting the best of Goodfellas in a best picture race that was, frankly, not that much of a nail-biter.
It's a great movie. With one of the best cameos ever. Not going to read your article.
Lol so now millions will probably go watch it, many who had not previously-are you getting a cut? And it is far from 'joyless '
For the most part this is a disappointing and unwarranted review. Ok the film has scenes that would be rightfully cut today (another is Crocodile Dundee) but you deserve backlash for this article. KermodeMovie what do you think?
You are a joyless hit that should stay in the 90s
Also.....the accents. My gawd...the accents. 🤦🏻♂️
Love Kev Cost.
it's a fun kids' film that should not be taken seriously but enjoyed for what it is. I liked it. What next? Back to the Future: a Scientifically Illiterate Film that Ignores Newtonian Physics
😯
Oh, get bent
You need a new film writer, your current one is losing you readers. May I suggest AliPlumb
Fuck off. It's an absolute masterpiece.
What the fuck are babbling about?
katmpc Sorry, but I will always adore the Great Alan Rickman chewing up the scenery as the Sheriff. He and Michael Wincott were (perhaps not always intentionally) hilarious.
an utter hack of a soulless production, a glaring lack of intelligent discourse among its bloodless husks it calls employees. Zero faith contrarian articles for clicks, no sincere belief in any artistic endeavor, collapse under the weight of its own inanity imminent.
D:
This is like saying Christopher Plummer as General Chang, a Klingon, was part of a 'fallow period'. Plummer and Rickman did the same thing: brought energy and joy to those 'offbeat' roles because of the kind of actors they were. I miss them both!
For all of you wondering about how a Kevin Costner movie no one talks about anymore would be received today.
Alan Rickman chewing scenery all over the place and it’s glorious
I will light your castle on fire knave! 🗡
Whoever wrote this piece of crap editorial needs to be fired. Joyless? If making $390 mil and entertaining millions is considered joyless than count me in.
Yeah, so terrible literally every other person attempting to play the sheriff has failed miserably in comparison to Mr Rickman. Get in the bin, you have shite taste. This movie was nothing but fun and the inaccuracies, bad accents and geographical cock-ups only made it more fun.
Who writes this crap. Absolutely quality film. Even Brian Adams was no 1 for months and months after this film. Priceless
The Guardian used to be readable, why have you climbed aboard the 'shit takes on movies for clicks' bandwagon? Sad to see.
“Fuck me he cleared it”... hysterical
This really needs to be ratioed more than it is.
You shut your mouth!
I know you're the Guardian, but you don't need to be THAT Guardian all the time. It's a fun film not to be taken too seriously. Unfortunately, you have, indeed, taken it way too seriously. Utterly joyless article looking for problems no one who watches it cares about.
This was clearly written by someone who isnt old enough to have to had listen to the Bryan Adams soundtrack song 4632863 times on the radio when this came out.
'Hello Christian!' STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM MOVIE REVIEWS!!! I just watched this with my son during quarantine and he gave a better review at age 8! The boy getting hung and Costner hits the rope had him at the edge of his seat. Its 2021 and a 8 yr old and his father LOVED it!
alanrickman diehard
Who hurt you?
I loved this film as a kid. It made me want to move into the forest and live in treehouses. Also Alan Rickman!!
Next week, more films from the past that are c*nts, my hot take in The Guardian. FO
scott_tobias a 40/50 something joyless man who likes to be kind of repetitive with his opinions on beloved classics that almost feel like baiting the audience for clicks. No in fact, they are baiting for clicks.
Robin Hood is far more enjoyable than the the passable mediocre content churned out by Netflix every week.
Rickman was great and Field of Dreams is better
Rickman is amazing. Costner’s a dud.
joyless? if u never watched the movie just say that
No arguments there.
Bugger off, Guardian. 🙄
Movie was pretty good but it's no Men in Tights
But you're talking about in 2021? riiiiiiiight.
But without it we wouldn’t have had Men in Tights!
So. You never watched it. Got it.
Come in his Nottingham accent was flawless.
You should sit down before you get taken apart a piece at a time.
tell me you have shitty taste, without saying 'i have shitty taste'
Did Boris Johnson pay you to write this just to he didn't say the worst thing in the country today?
Who pissed in your Post Toasties this morning? The fantastic Alan Rickman in this film is the very definition of joy.
Scott you’ll need plenty of help carrying all those clicks... on your way to hell
Counterpoint: Robin Hood Prince of Thieves The Adventures of Robin Hood precisely because it is silly, unserious, and utterly joy-filled. It also set a new standard for having actors on film actually learn how to hold and shot a bow somewhat realistically.
You have to wonder why, if a film is worth forgetting, those who think so won't let it be forgotten? The Guardian really is a rag.
Joyless? Lol
I remember seeing this in the cinema as a wee nipper - and it’s been one of my favourite terrible films ever since. I would rather have low brow tastes than be a snob.
Tobias!
It was terrible.
Look, we get it, you don't like the film. Was it seriously that important to write an article about it?
Did you get confused between this and Robin Hood: Men in Tights because even if you did, you'd still be wrong
I'm aghast. This is STILL one of my favorite movies. I most definitely owned it on VHS, rewound it to death, got it on DVD, and have watched it nearly as many times as Mary Poppins. FuckMeHeClearedIt
A joyless hit? Lol sorry, it's a fun and entertaining movie. The way it was meant to be. Sorry you're stuck with 90s hatred, you will grow out of it one day.
JFC whoever wrote this has no appreciation for the art that Rickman added to that film. He will be remembered in 30 years while you’ll still be a fool.
Joyless?!? It could be called a lot of things but hardly joyless. It was one of my favorites as a kid and it's still entertaining. I recently saw Kevin Costner's performance was ranked as one of the worst accents ever in film. I never realized he was going for an English accent😬
The Guardian, a joyless media outlet with outdated opinions and a desire to be interesting should stay buried in the past where it belongs.
Well excuse me, I'm gonna go watch it again now in protest
Alan Rickman is outstanding, it’s worth watching the film just for him, how can it be joyless, I wonder if some of the film reviewers at the Guardian of pure nihilists? It’s a fun knockabout, and Alan Rickman steals the show, suggest you get over yourselves a little, a lot.
Kevin Costner was indeed miscast in that movie. An epic failure for him.
Shut up. Despite casting human vanilla pudding as the lead, it was a great movie.
How dare you.
How very dare you!
Wrong. It's very entertaining.
You obviously have no appreciation for the late, great Alan Rickman.
You have no friends
This is their strategy. How do we enhance readership of this dying leftie rag? Take a popular movie that was ahead of its time showing a Muslim in good light and shitpost Robinhood
I’m not reading this but this guy seems performatively mad about a lot of things online
So why bring it up?
Loved this film as a child, its great fun and not joyless!
“The was a rich man from Nottingham who tried to cross the river…..” 🎶 🎶 🎶 Joyless my ass.
Is this why journalism is dead? Absolutely awful take.
Great movie!
Guardian out of touch as usual. You smug gits just don't 'get it' do you?
Wow
Bonkers
'Joyless' What is your damage?
All Robin Hood’s should have an American accent
🎣
Did not foresee Scott finding a robust career as 'Guy who takes down old movies that have lackluster support to start.'
who pulled your chain gobshite
Ok first of all f**k you. Second of all: young Christian Slater was a goddamned teenage girl's dream. 3rd of all: Alan Rickman.
Wrong on all fronts. It's a goddamn masterpiece.
Still one of my favorite movies!
Did someone cut your heart out with a spoon?
The Guardian takes the joy out of everything, ridiculous article
Were you touched as a child around the time this came out?
Happy to but you brought it up.
My nominee for the worst film ever made.
The author of this article must be so fun at parties!
I think RobinHood PrinceOfThieves is a big, bold, wonderful bit of cinematic escapism. Still watchable today. Guardian article is so wrong.
Alan Rickman did not accidentally give one of the greatest performances of his careers for this disrespect!
Nah. Should be a lesson to American actors on how NOT to do a British accent.
Can I get paid for my shitty opinions?
Joyless? It gave me plenty of joy when I was a kid! Has some epic scenes in it
Oh, shut up, this movie is a joy!!!!
The 1990s ? Is that the golden days when you didn’t have to beg readers for a few pennies?
The theatrical version was fine, extended cut was dull
Did Scott get into the medicine cabinet again? Seriously though, whats with this guy waiting decades to complain about films he doesnt like?
Does this person even like films?
My nostalgia for this film is so strong. First film I saw twice at the cinema. It's no masterpiece, but it is entertaining & it has loads of fun characters (Azeem, the witch, Tuck, Little John) & the action was great in the day. Rickman is brilliant. It's a fun romp.
The “joyless” sounds like pure projection to me
You came for Shrek and I said nothing, but you’ve gone too far this time.
you've been printing some exceptional trash recently guardian
Scott Tobias annoying geek who is paid pennies to slander films made before he was born 😂
The only thing that is joyless is the editorial staff who decided this would be a good story. Shame on you.
Did we watch the same film? I've seen it a bunch of times and always had fun. Admittedly that is mostly down to Alan Rickman's genius.
The Guardian really needs to quit it. All for clicks, nothing else
It's a great guys are just haters
The only joyless thing here is the muppet who wrote this article. Alan Rickman made this film superb.
I can't wait to read the next year a caustic essay on the rhetorical and imaginative vision of Dracula or the Basic Instinct cigarettes to be relegated to the 90s together with the fall of walls that in this last two joyful decades instead reappear beautifully high everywhere
…was it not doing that?
Perhaps watch the film and try writing the article again.
It's a fabulous film. Hilarious, great action and Alan Rickman is SUPERB!
Where’s my spoon?
The Guardian calling something joyless.
You're just full edge lord at this point huh.
Wrong
Wrong on everything level..for starters alanrickman was glorious and saved this film..so stop ✋
Of all the criticisms you *might* try to level against it, 'joyless' certainly aint it. Must try harder
bunnydarke read this if u wanna get mad
It appears I have stumbled into an alternate reality where all contemporary works of entertainment have been purged from existence, thus leaving reputable publications no choice but to critique daft films from back in the 90s.
I was about to chastise this take, thinking you were talking about Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Carry on
Says the utterly Joyless staff one look at your last ten posts confirms this, a media outlet who join the clamouring anti journalistic clipbate trytobeedgy reporting style
Sometimes I feel you have no sense of humour
The Guardian. A joyless shit that should stay in the bottom of a budgie cage
By the same guy who wrote the Shrek one the other week? Of course it is 😂
So, why remind us?
Joyless? Who hurt you ?
I don't agree with this but if you don't like it, don't watch. Simple!
I remember the scene with him trying to force her legs apart got a huge laugh in the cinema but it was cut for video/tv - rightly so
why are you like this
And yet here you are writing a piece bringing it out of the 90s
Did IanDunt write this?
Bollocks. It is brilliant.
Who hurt you?
A lot better than some of the newer ones. Although I will always be partial to the one with Errol Flynn and the wonderful Olivia de Havilland.
Are the guardian critics really that lacking in new material to cover?
Wow. People are looking for reasons to hate everything. Smh
Pls stop you are better than this
I know they'd find something problematic.
I’ll cut your heart out with a spoon, Guardian
'I'll write an article about a movie that should have stayed in the 90s and bring it new promotion to a new audience. That makes perfect sense. I will achieve my goals this way instead of just shutting up and not talking about a movie I don't like.'
Can't begin to tell you how much we disagree with this...
Sounds like *someone’s* heart got cut out with a spoon this morning
There is enough negativity in the world at present. Why do the Guardian insist on going and grabbing a bit more from the past. Some people like the film, some people do not like the film. MOVE ON!
Love it, especially Alan, of course. DVD & book with his signature 🤩
Is the writer American I see they’ve decided to spell it gray rather than the proper version! Also, they don’t know what they’re talking about, brilliant film.
Someone's joyless, anyway. 😒
I feel like people get too bogged down in Costner's god-awful accent. Don't get me wrong, it's atrocious, and I don't think this movie is great by any stretch, but hardly worthy of a retrospective kicking 30 years later...
If anyone was ever in need of a wank and a jam sandwich. Cheer up luv.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone being paid to shit on old movies forever.
It was a brilliant film with a timeless soundtrack.
Why do you hate everything? Seriously, how do your journalists get up in the morning?
Not entirely worthless, but most tiresomely mirthless. Badly-calibrated cheese, in the key of stale nostalgia. Elliot Ness was no Errol Flynn, that’s for sure.
Loved this film with Kevin Costner and Christian slater who at the time was my favourite actor
When Mark Kermode reviewed the Russell Crowe version, he pointed out that it compared unfavourably with PoT because that one was, at least, fun. It's a panto, with a glorious panto villain. If you want to slag off the song, go right ahead.
TO THE TREES!
Costner - crap History - crap Geography - very crap All the rest is good for a chuckle, and MF & AR are always stars.
Absolute bollocks. Yeah the inaccuracies and accents are awful, but this is a great romp of a movie with a brilliant performance by Alan Rickman. For me it’s one of those movies that I can switch on halfway through and will just sit and watch. It’s great fun.
What they will say Tomorrow about todays movies?
Bah humbug. A harmless romp with some glorious overacting by Alan Rickman.
Pfft, it’s great & is responsible for the *best* Robin film, Robin Hood Men in Tights 💜🏴
Wow that’s news
To be fair, it was Alan Rickman that most people adored.
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