Robin Hood Flops - A Lesson In Condescension

Robin Hood (2018) is one of those terrible films that 250 people did a good job on. If it wasn’t for Gotti, starring a unconvincing doppelganger of John Travolta, it would easily be the worst major release of the year. But Gotti cost

Robin Hood begins by telling us to forget what we know. Oh I’m sorry, I mean “forget what you know” I’m an English person.

Or an Irish person. The filmmakers certainly couldn’t tell the difference.

It’s loosely a Robin Hood story – a man, an archer, robs from the rich to give to the poor, and that’s about a similar to the tradition as it gets. Oh and it’s in the middle ages too, kind of.

It more or less disregards the source material – which could work. I’m not against stories being told in different ways, what’s baffling is that the people behind Robin Hood, have no love for history, and no belief in their own audience’s ability to watch a movie that isn’t about themselves.

Robin Hood is a lesson in why condescending to audiences is a bad idea - they don't like it.