Conan the Barbarian (2011)

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by jumpy

this could be really good, or really baaaaad.
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This has an awful lot to live up to.

Indeed. Considering its a remake, my spidey sense tells me it will probably be really baaaaad.

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I'm also a longtime fan of Howard and all his creations. I liked the movies with Arnie because, as you said, he seemed to be made for the role. On the other hand I hated what they did to Robert E. Howard's world.

I really liked the first movie. But you can tell, they went a whole different direction with Conan the destroyer. Seemed very D&D influenced to me. Too much high fantasy elements. I own both movies, but the first one, has a grit the other one doesn't have. And im deliberatly ignoring Red Sonja, it could probably be cast in this movie series, but, it came after Conan the Destroyer, and there was a sharp drop off there.

[Weiss Pinguin]

CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?!

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.... and Rachel Nichols."

[joegrundman]

there are so many great lines in that film, and in fact it is probably the film i've seen more often than any other. i love it, even the crap bits*. But actually i seem to be the only one who doesn't much love the 'crush your enemies' line.

It's just a paraphrase of a famous quotation of Ghengis Khan's, and is used to illustrate Conan's central asian martial arts training. It doesn't really reflect Conan's character.

Far inferior to "Heeee didn't caaare anymoooore"

*crap bits delightfully include Conan and Subotai prancing across the desert, and the meaningful moment in the sex scene

edit: it is my suspicion that a real new Conan cannot be really made until we have mastered human cloning and can create a new young Schwarzenegger for the role

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Weiss Pinguin

CONAN, WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?!

[Wolfehunter]

Hollywood will ruin it. Just like they did with the others. It will be all special effect and noise.

Oh well another fail...

If they could only use old days stories lines and today's special effects movies would rock....

I am ashamed to say that as a life long (23) Arnie fan (Saw Terminator when I was 4) I have never seen the Conan movies. I need to find them on DVD and watch them.

But Jason was pretty cool in SG:A. One of my favorite character next to McKay (lol) Shepard and the pretty little doc in Season 4 and 5.

Would like to see this work out for him, but I can't help but feel it might fall flat. Can always hope for the best though.

[jumpy]

Conan The Barbarian http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082198/ is the best of the three 'conan' films. Great cast (james earl joans as thulsa doom is great), great score, and, for the most part, a fair plot.
The next two were spin-offs, sort of.
Conan The Destroyer (robert jordan story? I have a compilation book which is almost word for word) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087078/
not as good - a bit watered down, but grace joans is funny

The last is Red Sonja. But I won't bother talking about that.

[kiwi_2005]

I wonder if Arnold will make a cameo appearance