“Robin Hood is ONE STORY”

And, honestly, it’s no weirder than the guy who played skeevy teen perv Bud Bundy on Married With Children for eleven years doing a perfectly fine job of voicing the equally romantically hapless but non-sleazy hero Mako on Legend of Korra.

I actually just watched the old Errol Flynn version over the weekend. If we’re going to reboot this idea endless times, can we at least try another fun swashbuckler type? I have far more fun with that interpretation than I ever have gritty Robin.

Hell, the Kevin Costner movie was pretty damned gritty by comparison to how the story had been previously told. The trick about this isn’t really the “gritty reboot” buzzwords (any remotely “accurate” telling of Robin Hood would be somewhat “gritty.” The real issue here, I think, is the fact that we’re going back to…

Shared universe! Reimagining! Dark!

Robin Hood is many stories and has had his origin rebooted every few years since the 15th century. Why stop now?

The phrase “gritty reboot" needs to be erased from the English language. And gritty reboot for Robin Hood...what the fucking fuck???

I think if your film is subtitled :Origins you should seriously consider cancelling production and burning all existing script treatments. Especially I its a film based on a well known folk lore character.

Thank God someone is finally bringing Robin Hood to the big screen.

Olivia Munn continues her training.

Robin Hood needs a gritty reboot? Origin story?

Yeah along the same lines as what The BattleTurkey said, the entire movie up to that point had been building up to his creation. A major theme in the film was about legacies/consequences, and though Ultron was the dark side of that, Vision was the flip side of the coin. He was Ultron as he should’ve/could’ve been, had…

(Full disclosure: I was entranced by his smexy, smexy voice. I am also a heterosexual male so no homo.)

You’re entirely right. There is so much space for character development that the plot periodically grinds to a halt and then lurches ahead without warning. It doesn’t have the elegance of so much of Whedon’s work, where plot and character development are intertwined and work in concert with one another.

Well, yeah...he was one of the geeks from Freaks and Geeks. He gets it.

But Hawkeye retired! He gets to go live with Velma and the kids!

There are a few superheroes whose race has some play in their story. But the young ones who keep getting reboots, are not among them. I’d totally accept a black Johnny Storm or Peter Parker.

Really? Because I’m cool with all of it. (Probably the least of the movie’s sins anyway.)

Honestly, I know the writers and director are largely unknown and unproven, but reading quite a few articles and interviews about the new Spider-Man movie has got me really excited and feeling positive about it. They seem like legitimate fans of the character that actually get Spider-Man... I mean, imagine that!