.and you are free to not watch it.
I don't love her.. She kicked me in the face!!

Lol. I never said they were weirdos though! ^^
"
Occasionally
I'm callous and strange."

Wow, I had no idea that the blacksmiths of ancient history were weirdos too! Thanks for the history lesson.

Then again, the use of nipple armor in film may very well have nothing to do with some weird director fetish, but rather with the costuming department's knowledge and taste for ancient armor which do include quite a number of stylized representations of nipples and pecs. Looking to the past, to history and archaeology, to draw inspiration in making a movie, is not isolated incident; it is, on the contrary, pretty common.
See a Celtic example of "nipple armour" here:
http://musee-archeologienationale.fr/?q=objet/cuirasse-de-marmesse
"
Occasionally
I'm callous and strange."

joel schumacher has
already
somewhat remade this film by putting nipple-armor into his Batman films. I'm surprised that he didn't direct this film as well, given both directors' strange creepy love for nipple-armor. The odds of two different directors both being that weird seem low.

Remake is dead in favor of new King Arthur movie.

True, I was more thinking and typing out loud, as there was a remake project in the last few years (Singer?) that thankfully was shelved.

Who is doing a remake? There is a King Arthur film being made by Guy Ritchie but it is an entirely different interpretation of the Mallory source material. It's not a remake of "Excalibur".