• ThisOne@lemmy.world
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      7 天前

      Yea none of this means its actually bad movie. Might be worth looking into, who cares if it was poorly marketed as a robin hood film.

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        7 天前

        All I heard about it was Andrew Garfield promoting it, saying it’s important for people to see and will hopefully inspire people who are feeling hopelessness in today’s world.

        If it’s truly a film about a population “rising up” against their oligarch oppressors, I’m not shocked it was poorly advertised. The quicker it flops at the box office, the quicker Hollywood can bury it. Don’t want to give a struggling population dealing with similar circumstances any ideas…

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          7 天前

          Something with this much of a budget a theatrical release totally has Hollywood money behind it. Its not like a purposefully orchestrated tax write off flop either, those are bigger budgets (Madam Webb = tax write off plus tactic to keep Spidey IP)

          Someone may want to bury the film with lack of advertising though. Or, yeah, its just a bad movie they dont want to throw money at propping it. I’ll try to see it in the next few weeks to decide myself.

          …“Hollywood” is just a bunch of investors who want their percentage back and dont give a fuck about what message the film has.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    The Robin Hood myth is so ancient it’s tied to demigods. There were Robins hooding after William th Conquer changed cow to beef. It’s a British archetype given name, right down to the bowmanship.

    tl;dr - Robin Hood is an anthropomorphic personification.

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    7 天前

    I heard this marketing is all studio push because they didn’t think people would want to watch a movie about peasants rising up against the wealthy.

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      7 天前

      I have seen the trailer for this twice, and I swear they changed the name of the movie from Plowman to The Uprising.

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    7 天前

    Is this the film that tried to paint Robin Hood as bad? If so then good.jpg

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      7 天前

      I thought that was The Death of Robin Hood. It’s about an aging Robin Hood who is tormented by his life of killing and robbing people and looking for forgiveness before he dies.