These films contain excessive graphic violence, intense or explicit sex, depraved, abhorrent behavior, explicit drug abuse, strong language, explicit nudity, or any other elements which, at present, most parents would consider too strong and therefore off-limits for viewing by their children and teens. NC-17 does not necessarily mean obscene or pornographic in the oft-accepted or legal meaning of those words.
It starts off somewhere in the future (like sci fi), yet it narrates to Medieval times. Weird.
But the sex scenes are amazing though! And it all looks like a made-for-TV movie, if you remove the sex scenes!