Hammer of the Gods review
This is what happens when your Lord of the Rings cosplay gets overrun by Method stuntmen.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
imagine a David Cronenberg Return of the Jedi (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: What movies (or other entertainments) do a good job of sending up high fantasy?
The awfulness that is Your Highness intends to be a sendup of high fantasy but mostly just engages the clichés of genre and embellishes them with a few swear words and bong hits. What other movies (or books, or TV shows, etc) get it right?
Friday night fortune cookie: Dennis the peasant says…
“You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.”
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (review)
And they don’t come much geekier or more touchstony than 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail, not only damn near one of the funniest movies ever made but certainly one of the most quotable… at least for us endlessly self-referential types for whom all of life is but a never ceasing trail of opportunities to show off the ridiculous capability we have for retaining movie, computer, and science fiction trivia.
