Everything I do... I do it for you!

[elisi]

Have I mentioned recently how much I adore my husband? Tonight we're having a child free evening, and after taking the children round to the grandparents Darcy brought home (amongst other things) a bottle of wine and two DVDs: 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and 'Robin Hood Prince of Thieves', the latter of which we have just watched.

*deep happy sigh*

I swear, that film leaves no cliche unturned, and nothing else can make me feel like I'm 14 again... (Darcy and I were trading quotes throughout. Incredible how we still remember all of Alan Rickman's lines.) (Also incredible how a story supposedly set in Yorkshire features not a single Yorkshireman. But hey - it wouldn't be so much fun if it cared about accuracy! *g*)

Anyway - I'll run away again. Hope you all have a brilliant evening! :)

Comments

[lilachigh.livejournal.com]

"And Cancel Christmas!" Still one of the funniest lines ever!

[elisi]

It really, really is... :D

[zanthinegirl.livejournal.com]

You mean Robin Hood was english? Who knew?? :D

[elisi]

You should watch 'Men in Tights'! ;)

[angearia.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that movie! And it never fails to take me back to right around that age, too.

I think it's the music of the film - yes there's cliches and inaccuracies, but it never fails to make me feel. It makes me happy to know others love that movie.

And I recall now in my college lit class where we read Chaucer in Middle English, my professor saying that the accent in England around that time more resembled some of the flat tones of American speech than what's understand as modern English accent. Heh. It's interesting to ponder what people actually sounded like back then, especially considering the mashing of different dialects coming together around that time in history (Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, so on).

[elisi]

Oh, I love that movie! And it never fails to take me back to right around that age, too.
I watched it three times in the cinema... *deep sigh*

I think it's the music of the film
Oh the music's lovely.

yes there's cliches and inaccuracies, but it never fails to make me feel. It makes me happy to know others love that movie.
Darcy said that it's like a big snuggly blanket, and he's definitely right. :)

It's interesting to ponder what people actually sounded like back then, especially considering the mashing of different dialects coming together around that time in history (Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, so on).
Indeed. (And I kept wondering language Robin and Azeem might have spoken together... Heh.)

[sevedra.livejournal.com]

as nonsensical and illogical as that Robin Hood film is, I have always loved it. Alan Rickman is made of WIN and candy-coated in awesome sauce. And Morgan Freeman ROCKS. It was also in the peak portion of Christian Slater's channeling of Jack Nicholson. The music was FABULOUS. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio had hair to DIE for. Who cared if it followed the Legend, at all!

[elisi]

Just so much yes to everything! :D When films are that enjoyable, who cares about accuracy, indeed. *squishes movie*

[shapinglight]

The spoon line. Once heard, never forgotten.

[elisi]

An absolute classic! (One of my friends had a crush on Kevin Costner, which was baffling, another likes Christian Slater, much more sensible, but *I* always loved it for Alan Rickman in all his awful, oTT glory!)

[jerusha]

I love that movie, too. In retrospect, I suppose it's terrible...and yet SO GOOD.

[elisi]

Darcy described it as a big snuggly blanket of a film which is exactly right. If you do not love it, there's something wrong with you! *nods*