Prince of Thieves
Apr. 27th, 2002 01:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
burntcopper:snerk: y'know, there is nothing quite like watching a film with a really old mate, one that you've both seen so many damn times, constantly snigger over and can do nearly all the lines even though you haven't seen it for years.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is *so* our film. Not to mention all those bits the filmmakers give us on a plate - Dover! Hadrian's Wall! Nottingham! (the fact that it's getting on for late afternoon when they're at Dover, 'We'll be at my father's house by sunset', me going 'but it takes at least half an hour to get off the damn beach!' and Steph going 'On foot?') the costuming - 'what'd they do, rob people to get that kind of clothing?' and 'What do we need that the forest cannot provide?' - us going 'A blacksmith with several years training in making swords, a decent forge and metal ore!' Oh, and not to mention the caesarean - 'Uh, didn't most mothers die from those?' 'Excuse me, at least get her drunk enough that she passes out' and 'Um, hello, aren't you going to stitch her up?'
Then we had all the lines, and the Sheriff... ah, Alan Rickman, we worship thee, yes we do.... Damn, if that's what's left of all his bits after they cut out the good bits, what were the good bits like?
Steph went home. I channel-surfed, found one of the soft porn films on Channel 5. Watched for ten minutes, snickering, turned off.
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is *so* our film. Not to mention all those bits the filmmakers give us on a plate - Dover! Hadrian's Wall! Nottingham! (the fact that it's getting on for late afternoon when they're at Dover, 'We'll be at my father's house by sunset', me going 'but it takes at least half an hour to get off the damn beach!' and Steph going 'On foot?') the costuming - 'what'd they do, rob people to get that kind of clothing?' and 'What do we need that the forest cannot provide?' - us going 'A blacksmith with several years training in making swords, a decent forge and metal ore!' Oh, and not to mention the caesarean - 'Uh, didn't most mothers die from those?' 'Excuse me, at least get her drunk enough that she passes out' and 'Um, hello, aren't you going to stitch her up?'
Then we had all the lines, and the Sheriff... ah, Alan Rickman, we worship thee, yes we do.... Damn, if that's what's left of all his bits after they cut out the good bits, what were the good bits like?
Steph went home. I channel-surfed, found one of the soft porn films on Channel 5. Watched for ten minutes, snickering, turned off.
