_{Wait for Rammstein to lead the charge.}

Note to directors: heavy metal music isn’t always the best accompaniment to your visuals. You think it gets the viewer all amped up, and I’m wondering what the hell a gritty guitar riff has to do with chain mail that isn’t part of a S&M scenario.

The trailer for the Ridley Scott directed Robin Hood adopts the recently popular convention of making everything rock. Maybe it’s because Russell Crowe is fat now and he needs music to make him appear bad-ass. I remember a time when putting down a turkey leg and picking up a dumbbell did that. Get back in the gym, Crowe! It’s going to be hard to draw that bow with turkey leg grease on your fingers.

The production of Robin Hood has been hampered with so many problems it’s amazing that they got a trailer together at all. It gives us a taste of the bandit who steals from the rich and gives to the poor, but it’s a taste that tastes an awful lot like other things that Ridley Scott has touched. And I was intending that to mean his sack.

Check out the trailer after the jump and let me know if you’re down with The Hood.