OH SHIT!
No! No no no no no! XD It never occurred to me that it would seem I was intimating that. Oooops! :O

No I was simply commenting that like him I've studied all of that stuff and written papers on them, and talked and talked and talked about them, but in the end it's somewhat phony because the closest I've ever been to any of them is a art history text book.

Personally I preferred the sequel "Good Will Hunting 2: Hunting Season" but that's kind of off topic.

That's a nifty sword handle, thanks!

When I was last in the Louvre, I was overwhelmed by the amount of visitors ruthlessly documenting the entire museum. They'd go from work to work, photographing each carefully (often pushing in front of me to do so), but they wouldn't otherwise actually look at the work. The whole museum was seen only through a viewfinder. This is common enough at art museums around the world, I find, but for some reason, it's taken to extremes at the Louvre. Still, I'm happy enough for them to enjoy themselves, I just don't understand it. I wonder if it's still the same.

I remember the Musee D'Orsay being much more relaxed.

I want this sword in real life. It calls to me...

Sword: *blergh*

Keeps enemies completely baffled until you have the time to cut off their heads.

Meh, swords...

How utterly boring, I want a spoon as weapon!

To quote infamous Alan Rickman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhfuuKiTcYQ

Nah, the two-handed swords in Dresden's Ruestkammer were more impressive. You could run those things through a horse. Lengthways.

Which reminds me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VDvgL58h_Y

An ages old classic, beware of posting that more than three times or it will start to haunt you as well...

Talking about fictional swords, i suppose my favorites are:

1) Gut's 'Dragon Slayer' from Berserker
pic

...nothing subtle about that one, i bet it would look ridiculous in any other context, but Guts is just that badass. Seriously. Just read the manga.

2) Elric of Melnibonê's Stormbringer (Michael Moorcock)

Runic demonic sword that kills Gods and eats the souls of its victims? Yes please. Read the novels for description :)

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On RL side of things there are great many swords - but apparently looking like heavy metal singer makes you decent at "chopping" as well.

That looks like it would fit right in shivering isles. I agrees with the head shooting fire.

I like many sword mostly long swords and claymores. There are some interesting designs in the Final Fantasy series like Tournesol http://images.wikia.com/finalfantasy/images/archive/f/f8/20130704231523!Tournesol-ffxii.png from FF 12. The other side has a sun.

One more vote for Stormbringer here! Awesome sword! :-)

Sword in the original post does very little for me - just the boggest of bog-standard swords with a carved pommel. Meh.

I'm rather partial to Soul Edge:

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/1281/388254-nightmareb_1024.jpg

Or of course the lightsabre...

From certain angles it looks more like
Freakiest. Penis. Ever!

"You're just no good, Will Hunting"
The best thing about watching Good Will Hunting is understanding that Jay and Silent Bob scene a whole lot more afterwards!

Here ya go: Man at Arms makes He-Man's Power Sword