I think I'd prefer a Marlovian film.

[swan_tower]

It had to happen eventually, I suppose.

SCENE: The inside of 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.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Don't touch it! It's eeeeevil!

By which I mean, seriously, don't watch it, it will be worse than Erik the Viking.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I was about to say, "but how come such good actors are involved with it, then?" -- until I remembered the existence of Uwe Boll.

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

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....