swan_tower: (Elizabeth)
swan_tower ([personal profile] swan_tower) wrote2011-04-14 12:16 am

I think I'd prefer a Marlovian film.

It had to happen eventually, I suppose.

SCENE: The inside of [livejournal.com profile] swan_tower's head

SWAN: Let's go look at movie trailers. Anonymous -- what, like the group?

PAGE: <loads>

SWAN: No, it's something set in Elizabethan England! With Derek Jacobi and other cool people! <reads further in synopsis> . . . oh, shit. It's a "Shakespeare didn't write Shakespeare's plays" story.

TRAILER: <plays>

SWAN: Old London Bridge! <swoons in a fit of historical geekery>

DIRECTOR: <is Roland Emmerich>

SWAN: grk.

IMDb: This movie's theory is apparently Oxfordian, since Rhys Ifans has top billing, and he's playing Edward de Vere.

SWAN: <sigh> But . . . London Bridge . . . Elizabethan geekery . . . but Roland Emmerich. And Oxfordianism. <more sigh> Well, at least it seems I'm over my knee-jerk "please god no more" reaction to the sixteenth century. And that's something. Whether or not I can bring myself to watch this movie . . . we'll have to see.

[identity profile] kniedzw.livejournal.com 2011-04-14 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I have a soft spot in my heart for Erik the Viking. Then again, I have a soft spot in my heart for the IMDb Bottom 100, so....