Over at GeekDad, there’s another review of movie based archery technique and this time, it’s not so good. The movie is The Avengers and the character is Hawkeye, the world’s greatest archer (in the comics world that is) . Except that, according to the review, with is technique he isn’t so great after all.
An interesting read. I suspect if one were to read these sorts of reviews enough, one could glean most of the basics to being a decent archer. Also noteworthy are the lengths the author goes through to try and not tar the movie in the process of excoriating the archery.
I wonder what this guy thinks of Legolas from The Lord of the Rings, Kevin Costner’s Prince of Thieves and Abigail in Blade: Trinity? Respectively, I’d guess fair (Legolas fires so many times, there’s sure to be some stinkers), good (the setup shots are pretty good, but the more fluid ones where he’s firing one after another probably not so much), and excellent, based on my reading of this one and the last couple of reviews the author has written.