u/ImperatorRomanum

I got this Brooks Brothers 1818 suit recently for a slate of weddings this summer. It looked good in the store and when I was getting ready, but I was really dismayed to see how horribly the trousers bunched up in these photos from two weddings, a week apart from each other. Why is this happening, and how can I fix it (or at least avoid it in the future)?

Thanks!

I was in the mood for an old sword-and-sorcery flick, and it's hard to imagine a better option than one literally called The Sword and the Sorcerer, back in the days when they weren't afraid of American accents in period pieces or fantasy, and even a low budget movie like this had more practical effects and on-location shots than today's blockbusters.

I'm honestly shocked this was released before Conan the Barbarian, because the whole time I thought it was a lazy knockoff. All the archetypes are there: orphan-turned-warrior, special sword, evil warlords, maidens throwing themselves at our hunky hero. It felt like an inexperienced DM's first DnD campaign; the big screen version of The Eye of Argon.

The acting is flat, the story thin, the costumes and props LARPy, the tripartite sword / harpoon gun ludicrously silly, and its treatment of women demeaning or even offensive. But for all that, there are genuinely fantastic effects for Xusia, the titular sorcerer, and the whole movie is carried by him and Cromwell, the main antagonist.

This thing needed more Xusia.

2/5

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