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Pure trash, but entertaining trash


Hey, this movie was pure trash, but it was entertaining trash! I liked the campy feel to it. Don't take it too seriously, and you'll have fun. If you start worrying about the anachronisms (the peasants are way too clean! the fabrics have more dyes than just earth colors! the town is very multicultural! there are weapons from traditions on five different continents! the bad guys enjoy a ridiculously high standard of living for people who live in the middle of a desert with very little peasantry to exploit or merchants to tax!) you'll only start nitpicking and that will take away the enjoyment.

Of course, you have to beware, for the reason Groucho Marx gave once (supposedly about the movie "Samson and Delilah", starring Victor Mature and somebody else): "I never go see movies where the man's tits are bigger than the woman's."

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