Sometimes one has to wonder if certain people would finally be happy if a historic movie would be 100 % accurate - in the case of Robin Hood this is quite ironic given the mythological / non-historical aspect of the character itself!
The other thing is: Would these people be happy if they got a Robin Hood version in the style of "Passion of the Christ?" - with original language and fricking SUBTITLES?
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And Alan Rickmen over acts in a fake looking dungeon that looks like a set from a childrens show. There's a witch A FUHGING witch for heavens sake and Alan comes across like Blackadder.

You are complaining about accents in a movie set in a time when you would not have been able to understand the English that was spoken? Should they have done it in the Heavy Nordic/Welsh/French English and then subtitled it to make you happy

I didn't bother me.

You have to love it when people take umbrage with accents but not with language.
"Nothing is more ill bred than trying to steal the affections of someone else's dog."

He can't be too swift between the ears with comments like that.

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Maybe they should have shot the movie in old English too?

Robin is also the son of a noble in the film which means he would have probably spoken French.
In some tales Robin is a yeoman and would therefore have spoken English as it was in the 1200s.
After the Norman invasion the language of the Court and the government became French. It was also the Normans who introduced castles as we have come to know them in England.

Its been said, by Alan Rickman, I believe, that Costner's American english accent is closer to 1200s anglo-saxon than a modern British accent.
In fact, had the movie been historically accurate the Sheriff would have been most likely speaking French. King Richard also spoke French and spent very little time in England

When has Hugh Grant ever played a man of derring-do? Brosnan might have been able to do something, but with this much star-power, I think they just did the best the could with the enormous budget they had, put it out there and hope people have fun with it. That's why Rickman hams it up so much, just to make it a more-fun movie. This isn't Henry V.
I'm not a woman much less Deanna Durbin, but the old-time glam-shot appeals to me.

English people in 1194 didn't sound anything at all like modern English accents. Today's English people would very likely not even be able to understand what an Englishman from 1194 was even saying, let alone have the same accent.

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I love this movie BECAUSE of Kevin Costner. I saw it 4 times at the theater and endless times once I got the DVD and the cassette tape too. Nobody else could have done the role. I don't care about accents. The movie was all for me.

I thought that Kevin did a tremendous job playing Robin Hood and totally looked the part.

For the English accent, yes, for Robin Hood, no way, I agree Andrew. Well put. He's known for playing either dorky looking, unsure of themselves, actors. Need a man of confidence. I don't think Pierce Brosnan could have done this role either.

Hugh Grant in
Robin Hood: Prince of Scamps
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No one in the 1200s (?) sounded like Alan Rickman, Mortiana, or anyone else did.

Okay put Alan Rickman and Morgan Freeman aside. Their accents were fantastic and they are both well established actors. But realistically you are trying to make a two and a half hour film that supposed to be set in the time of the crusades, which takes place in England. Naturally it would appropriate to have Robin Hood played by a British or Irish actor. If it was up to me I would have cast either Pierce Brosnon or Hugh Grant as Robin Hood.

Well, you should get your facts straight before jumping to conclusions - they literally had zero prep time on this movie.
Kevin did have an accent coach on set for the first week or so but that was slowing things down and putting production more behind schedule than it already was and they scrapped that.
Everybody in this movie has a different accent - from Christian Slater to Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickman.
I, for one, did not care one bit about accents - I enjoy the film for the great adventure ride it is and love it.