Robin Hood: Special Edition (2 Disc Set) (1 Viewer)

[Geoff_D]

Man, that cover is fantastic. And an extended edition of the film to boot! This is shaping up to be awesome. I love RHOT, but not enough to keep that horrible flipper version (I got rid of it years ago). Now I'll have a worthy version to sit on my shelf. All I can hope for now is that Warner turn their attention to their Tim Burton back catalogue and give them the treatment they deserve (aside from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which has gotten a decent dvd already).

 

[Matt_P]

Gorgeous cover art. One of my favorite films is finally getting the treatment it deserves!

The best part of all, Kamen's best score isolated in 5.1.....excuse me while I pass out....

......okay, I'm back. The release date can't come fast enough!

 

[Rob T]

Very excited about this one! I'm glad I held off on the crappy flipper version.

So am I.
The cover art is very nice!

 

[Rain]

That month will also see Yankee Doodle Dandy and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, both special two disc versions.

Great news.

Hope they've gone easy on the digital clean-up on these titles.

 

[Joe D]

The cover reminds me of a brown colored version of The Princess Bride

 

[Joshua_Y]

Wow...thats a hell of a cover! I'm gettin it! Alan Rickman is da man!

 

[Adam_S]

You know thinking about all the great Warner SEs coming out, often replacing early flippers, I get inordinately excited thinking about the Goodfellas 2 disc set rumored to be coming, that's a film I've been wanting to rewatch ever since I saw the p&s vhs I borrowed from our library but have been waiting and waiting for the ever rumored SE dvd (it was rumored two years ago when I joined!

Adam

 

[David Lambert]

let's not forget the original Robin Hood coming out at the same time

Oscar: TAoRH = The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn. :wink:

 

[Steve Blair]

This dvd is great news. I'll be getting this one and The Right Stuff. I already purchased True Romance and Unforgiven. Now, where is a 2 Disc LADYHAWKE special edition??? Please Warner let's start work on that disc and I'll be happy. The current Ladyhawke dvd is an embarassment and barely VHS quality. Great work on the other special editions so far!

 

[Darren Haycock]

Woohoo! I was basically hoping for a slightly better transfer and giving the flipper the boot. But it looks like my years of waiting to buy Robin Hood really has paid off!

 

[Aaron Garman]

Outstanding! I cannot wait for this one...thank you Warner Bros.!!!

AJG

 

[Thomas Agermose]

I believe that Morgan Creek are the ones actually responsible for producing the disc (according to Warner in the HTF chat october 2001), so I guess they deserve some credit as well. Looking forward to the next Warner chat in April.

 

[PhilipG]

Now, where is a 2 Disc LADYHAWKE special edition???

Amen to that!

Come on Warner Bros! An isolated score on that would be fantastic too.

 

[oscar_merkx]

let's get Richard Donner to do the commentary track for this one

Great performances from Hauer & Pfeiffer

 

[Matty P]

This being one of my wife's favorite movies (and I like it quite a bit as well!) she was wondering if the theatrical cut will be included in this set, possible via branching...? Anyone heard anything?

 

[Steve_Tk]

This will find a nice new home with me.

 

[John_Berger]

I remember when I was asst. manager at a local theater when RHoT came out. We had a castle, gate, working portcullis and so forth that the patrons had to go through in order to get to see the movie. We put a lot of work into that; and it's great to see the movie finally getting the same kind of treatment on this DVD.

I've already warned my wife that regardless of the bills that month, this DVD is being bought on the day of its release. I particularly can't wait to hear the 5.1 music and see the extra scenes.

Does anyone have any idea what these extra scenes are going to be?

 

[Paul E. Fox II]

Yeah...I'm interested in what Extended Scenes will be in there as well!

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

According to imdb, there was in a scene shown in the trailer in which Robin Hood jumps from a out-of-control carriage that was not in the theatrical release. Also there was a scene that revealed that the witch was the Sheriff's mother.
That's all I found though.

 

[John_Berger]

Also there was a scene that revealed...

Oh, be careful! Things like these should be in spoiler tags or else some HTFers will get the tar and feathers for ruining the entire movie! Anyway, this little tidbit was also in the novelization as well.

(Whoops! My bad! It's if a DVD dares not be released in DTS that the whole movie is ruined beyond repair! [/SARCASM])

There are a few different scenes in the novel that I hope make it into the movie, particularly the origination of the "There are no perfect men in this world" phrase. As it stands now, the phrase doesn't mean a lot. I hope that was an actual filmed scene that makes it in.