The continuing saga of trying to find and watch (and blog about, see: http://patrese2.blogspot.co.uk) all the films in David Meyer's book 'The 100 best films to rent you've never heard of' led me today to:
'Robin and Marion' Richard Lester's excellent film about Robin Hood's later life, the core of which is the revival after 10 years away fighting in the Crusades, of his love affair with Maid Marion (and inevitably his continuing feud with the Sherriff of Nottingham - do they still have a Sherriff of Nottingham?? - can't be a popular position to hold!)
and
Predator - the Annie Schwarzenegger rumble in the jungle with guns, aliens, and muscles - blah!
So that means I've seen 82 of the 101 films (101 because Meyer lists both versions of The Wages of Fear (the remake confusingly titles Sorcerer). It's been a disappointingly slow process as I started in July 2011 and had high hopes of zipping through the 100 films in a couple of years - I've even collected several other books with similar titles in the expectation that I'd work my way through them too - la di da...
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