Arguably Bryan Adam's most recognizable song is Every Thing I do (I do it for You) from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
Yeah, yeah, We know Kevin Costner couldn't hold even his pseudo English accent, but we loved this movie.
Basically, the Robin Hood tale is re-imagined with Robin returning from the Crusades with a Muslim man played by Morgan Freeman in tow. Robin finds his father's lands have been taken by the Sheriff of Nottingham who rules in the absence of the King, in this case Richard the Lionheart. Alan Richman brilliantly and hilariously plays the Sheriff as a Satan worshiping miscreant beholden to a witch. Throw in a half brother for Robin, played by then heart-throb Christian Slate, and a rebellion and you have a fun, fun movie. You even get a cameo appearance from Sean Connery who was in an awful 70's era version of Robin Hood.
During the struggle against the sheriff, Robin wages a guerrilla war. We see all the tropes. A training montage, a selfless Robin, daughters of the rich being enthralled with Robin, a corrupted church, a titanic battle which takes the characters to their lowest point, a celebration in the woods, Morgan Freeman dolling out sage wisdom, etc etc.
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was one of those films that we saw on cable over and over again, so did everyone else in Generation X. One boring afternoon when we were 18 we were wondering what to do for a couple of hours when to our relief we saw Robin Hood starting on Cinemax. Personally it takes us back to a simpler time for us, when we were contended with an afternoon movie and a novel at bedtime. We miss that. We also haven't seen Robin Hood Prince of Thieves in at least a decade.
Time to fix that.
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