executive editor, barbell quarterly: there's an entire generation that doesn't remember prince of thieves at all but remembers the movie that is a spoof of it

Funny watching a new generation of studio executives discover why they stopped letting Kevin Costner make movies.

I think there's been some counterintuitive championing of both WATERWORLD and THE POSTMAN as being kind of underrated and fun but I think even people who kind of like them should admit that they are not movies that should be expected to be popular with audiences or justify their budgets.

And of course a huge piece of Costner's bankability that allowed him to make those was from ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES which sucks and has to be the least remembered movie in my lifetime to be the #2 movie in the domestic box office for a year

there's an entire generation that doesn't remember prince of thieves at all but remembers the movie that is a spoof of it

Imagine going back to 1993 and telling people that Dave Chappelle would wind up being more famous and bankable than Kevin Costner

ol kev would have done a lot better if didn't spend thirty years taking the "????" option at every single turn

But also to his right politically

My dude Yellowstone is just a license to print money

The spoof is just a great movie even aside of that

But I bet they remembered the Bryan Adams song.

its cuz only one of these movies has a Robin with a British accent

Missing out on a CLASSIC Alan Rickman performance

Which I don’t get. Alan Rickman AND the bad guy from the Crow? C’mon! That can’t be bad.

"an entire generation" confused me until further down Chappelle was named. I thought it meant people too young to have been around for PoT and some other movie I wasn't aware of in the last 20 years had been made making fun of it.

Can confirm that my middle schooler was shown Prince of Thieves at a sleepover this past year, and when asked, "Do you know what that's even making fun of?" responded with "Yeeeessss!" But I'm not sure.

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