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Originally Posted by conceived in fire

I didn't think it was necessarily great, but definitely not bad either. I think the fact that it took 6 months to complete (being ready in December, in hopes that it would get Oscar recognition) could bias my opinion.

The stories are mildly similar, but I don't think they'll be the same film.

Someone correct me since I'm probably wrong: Aren't the Crusades the only opportunity for the seemingly epic battles depicted in the trailer? There are definitely other battles, but I don't think they're very...big.

The earliest stories of Robin Hood don't even place him in the crusades. He was a commoner who poached a king's deer and wore a hood.

[BillSPrestonEsq]

Most of the earliest legends I have read have him as a very low grade nobleman. He is a noble, but his father just keeps the forest. The whole thing is very much a tale that serves a political purpose, which I think the magna carte shows in retrospect what it was.

Some of the legends I have read deal a lot in the supernatural as well, using English superstitions as major plot points.

If they really wanted to do this right, I think they would have to keep the story right, of a low grade noble, who is being persecuted in essence by the agents of the law, outlawed for attempting to obey the law. (being the rightful keeper of the forest, he is not poaching deer)

Since the events around this are set in the period preceding the magne carte, it seems only reasonable to assume that the spirit of the king being under law was an emerging cultural force.