Every once in a while my REALLY nerdy side rears its ugly head and I'll watch a really bad sword and sandalls kind of movie. And I have to say, I watched an atrotiously bad one earlier this week that reminded me of what a broad spectrum of nerds there are in this world.
Keep in mind the Venn diagram of nerddom that was required to produce a film specifically geared towards the intersection of fans of the Roman Empire, specifically Britain during the Roman occupation and the attempts to find some historicity in the Arthurian Legend during this period. Throw in an absurdly large laddle fall of rabid anglophilia, Ben Kingsley as a proto-Merlin with an absolutely hack Welsh accent, Colin Firth looking in no way embarrassed, a hot indian chick inexplicably kicking everone's ass, and some of those great moments where a telling line of dialouge is followed by a pregnant pause so that the brain dead audience can get the inference (for instance, Colin Firth lays dying on a battle field and the 10 year old exiled emperor of Rome approaches him to tell him he fought "like a dragon", Colin Firth then says "And you fought like the son of a dragon"...que pregnant pause so that the audience, who is nerdy enough to know that Pendragon means "Son of the Dragon" can absorb the fact that he has just been christened and will one day be Arthur's father...just first rate shit).
Anyway, it was a really bad movie...and there are probably people who loved it.
Much like this song...actually this song isn't that bad, it's just kind of bland...and there are probably people that love it.
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