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I haven't seen the latest Robin Hood so I won't weigh in on the argument as to whether it's good or bad. But my gut reaction is to agree with Parn. 

Robin Hood is a romantic character, he's always portrayed as a knight in shining armour for the poor. While I don't agree with re-treading old ground and making the same movie several times, if you're going to re-write a character entirely then it's not going to go down well with quite a lot of people.

The trend I'm picking up on at the moment (from reviewers, not you guys) is dismissing the previous incarnation of Robin Hood as camp and Kevin Costner as a bit of a lady-boy. (Even Crowe is bashing it, the guy is a good actor but he's an arsehole in real life.) Yet at the time of release that film went down a storm and people saw it as the definitive version. 

I may be blown away by the new movie but I doubt it. From what I've seen and read it seems to be another by-the-numbers action movie with a Robin Hood façade to give it some depth. Still, I'm open to being converted.

The General said:

Kudos to Activision.

They've found a formula where mindless 'tards will fork over a brand new games' value for map packs. All the while, LOL'ing all the way to the bank. Then a month or two down the road, those mindless 'tards ask themselves, “WTF was I thinking???”.

I think it started with COD4…

Rinse & repeat with WAW…

Rinse & repeat with MW2…

Rinse & repeat with ***insert title here***….

I think that's a formula being applied to DLC in general. Since PSN started we've seen a steady increase in price and not much of an increase in content quality to go with it. I paid a fiver for the new BC2 pack and all it included was camo patterns for four guns and marginal changes to the character skins. 

Re-hashing old maps is just cashing in on nostalgia. The same is happening with PSN titles. How many “HD” versions of old crappy arcade shooters have we got?

'Between Sh*t and Piss We Are Born' from the album Eschaton by Anaal Nathrakh.

At the risk of sounding like a cheaty-face, would it not be easier to just get a handful of guys to sign in using multiple accounts? 

I'm actually smiling in idiot delight.

That looks utter quality and if it turns out even half as good as the trailer suggests it'll easily trump the first LBP and that is no small feat. 

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The movie is still what it was from the beginning of release, but I was extremely dissapointed with the DVD/Blu Ray release having no Special Features at all. As much as I love James Cameron, even I find it a bit greedy for him to release such a movie with no features at all, considering the loads of money he made off of it. In November a four disk Special Edition will be released with hours of special features, so I think its probably a best bet for everyone to wait till then if they plan on owning the movie.

This is becoming a lot more common. I wouldn't blame Cameron too much though. Chances are it was a decision made by the publisher. 

Quite a few new releases have been dumped on us with zero features because there's some “Ultimate” nonsense being released a few months later. The Lord of the Rings trilogy did it. They released the theatrical cut first and the extended editions will come out towards the end of the year.

In the gaming world we're well used to multiple versions of a product being thrown at us but we usually get a simultaneous release so we can choose the standard or limited/special edition ourselves. 

Firing out a 'film only' release is just a way for publishers to make die-hard fans pay twice for something.

iiDiNkStErR said:

Only one difference though, Chelsea will be at home! 

Give me a break man, I'm clutching at straws here!

@iiDiNkStErR

Careful man, a lot of Arsenal fans probably thought Wigan would be a roll-over too.