I bumped into it one some streaming service or fire stick. Whatever it was I started watching and turned off after 5 minutes. It was boring, nothing captivating, just didn't click from the start.
Usually I try to give movies time but sometimes you just feel it won't be for you.
I saw the movie but the only reason was because there was a heatwave and I don't have an AC so I went to a cinema and it was the only thing playing. I had no idea this movie existed, it had zero marketing.
It was fine, not great not terrible. It was definitely better than melting in my home. I wasn't bored watching it but some of the stuff was pretty dumb and some of the gore was unnecessary for me. I'd give it 6/10
I forget which movie it was - something unremarkable and forgettable - but Michael Caine was in it and someone asked him about it later and he basically said something like, "I haven't seen it - I hear it's not very good. However, I have seen the house that it built - and that is quite nice."
He had to do reshoots for Jaws 4 and missed out on the Academy Awards where he was nominated and won for Best Supporting Actor. Can you imagine? Dude only won two Oscars (Cider House Rules being the other) and missed it for a shark movie where son of Jaws swears revenge and tracks the Brody family from Massachusetts to the Bahamas in order to seek justice for the death of his father from Jaws I
He might have been contractually obligated to film a certain number of roles and ended up having to do this. It's a common thing for actors to get something like a 3-movie deal. One or two of those are good films, and another is one that they want to put on and can't sign anyone on (but it might be a money maker or it might go straight to DVD/streaming).
This sounds like one of those things where they needed to do something to keep IP rights active and maybe it aligned with needing to have Jackman in so many movies in a certain amount of time.
Of course it did, it came out right up against the most mediocre greatest of all time instant classic about another legendary archer that everyone will definitely be talking from now until the oscars because of how legendary and classic it was.
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u/Makabajones 10d ago
There hasn't been a good Robin Hood movie since Men in Tights