UNCUT - Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Conan has thousands of stories. told in book and comic form, I grew-up on Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan comics. Thulsa Doom is but one of Conan's many foes. Will you watch Conan the Destroyer now, or will it have to be a Bridge Crew pick win?

They did build a bunch of huge sets for the movie but they also employed the use of foreground or hanging miniatures for for off city shots which looks so real and uncanny. They place a miniature at the top, close to camera and film past it to the back round and it gets the same sunlight as the rest of the scene.

This is a great movie and demonstrates why everyone love Arnold back in the day. It is maybe my least favorite of his awesome movies but that on,y shows how great his movies were back then. He could almost do no wrong for a long time. A decade or so.

Imagine if every mainstream film wasn’t a remake or a reboot and we got films like this still.

Good reaction!! BTW, they couldn't have gotten a NC17 rating. It didn't exist until 1990. It would've been X rated.

In the right mood, with decent headphones, that soundtrack will really get into your head.

The character of Conan dates back to 1932 and featured in several pulp magazine short stories by creator Robert E. Howard. My favorite version of the character was in The Savage Sword of Conan comic book series, published (eventually) by Marvel from 1974-1995 and lasting 235 issues. In addition to the Conan the Destroyer sequel, Arnold also appears in 1985’s Red Sonja film, about another Conan spin-off character - and starring Brigitte Nielsen from Rocky 4 (who was briefly married to Sylvester Stallone).

Great reaction guys, and I am glad you liked the movie. I am a big fan of Conan and Robert E. Howard's writing. He wrote the Conan stories - along with dozens of others - for pulp magazines like Weird Tales back in the late 1920's through the mid 1930's. He sadly took his own life at age 30 in 1936, and I think it's easy to look back at the story of his life and see he had some untreated mental problems. But he was a larger than life character himself and left a legacy of amazing stories not only in swords & sorcery fantasy, but in historical adventure, westerns, sports (mostly boxing) stories, and horror. I will say that I love this movie, but the Conan of this film is not the Conan of his stories. That Conan is EVEN MORE BADASS! The script borrows a lot of elements from several different Conan stories, and the originals are highly worth checking out. You can find them for relatively cheap on Amazon (and as audiobooks via Audible) or read them for free online at Project Gutenberg. Anyway, once again, great reaction!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I actually watched a Blu-Ray. I had to dust off the old PS3 for this one.

The two reactions to a villainous James Earl Jones calling you his son. Luke Skywalker: whines, cries, and jumps into a pit. Conan: chops his frakkin' head off.

When you watch 80s movies, I think of Siskel & Ebert - movie critics that became icons. Here is there review of Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJ5DKAapW8

I remember seeing this with my friends on the big screen the year I graduated from high school. Arnold was an unknown outside of the bodybuilding world, but this came out the year after "The Empire Strikes Back", and everyone knew going in that the main villain was played by man who voiced Darth Vader.

I am soooo glad you guys liked it. This is one of my favs and I was a bit nervous if the travel section might lose you if you thought it dragged. It never did for me, but I could have seen it. Also, I used to listen to the sound track all the time back in the day.

The relative lack of dialog is more than made up for by one of the finest film scores in the history of cinema. The soundtrack for this film is the one I listen to most often. I was a little disappointed (but not surprised) that no mention was made of the score in the reaction.

The movie sort of takes for granted some things that viewers might miss unless they are familiar with the lore. For instance, the sword Conan finds in the tomb is supposed to be Atlantean (as in, made in Atlantis) and is of the highest quality since Atlantic was a much more advanced civilization than the ones which exist by Conan's age. The sword easily breaks the shackle he still had on. (I think the king in the tomb may have been Atlantean too, or just another later king who took it for himself as Conan did.) Later in the film it shatters the sword the bad guy was holding, which if I recall is the sword Conan's father made and Thulsa Doom stole, showing that as good a sword smith as Conan's father might have been his work was no match for Atlantean craftsmanship. It's 100% "show don't tell" but without *any* tell things might get missed by audiences.

There were many bodybuilders in the movie. Doom's brothers were played by Sven-Ole Thorsen and Ben Davidson. Sandal Bergman as Valeria was not a bodybuilder, but a professional dancer.

Crom is pleased

Man this was great! Im so glad you guys liked this movie as it is one of my very favorites. And yes, the Ahhnold grunts pay for the movie all on their own. 😁

Watched this for the first time a few months back. A bit of a blemish on James Earl Jones's resume if I'm honest. Very strange movie, not what I expected from such a recognizable name in classic Arnie action. Would not watch again.

high adventure??

The only streaming version available is theatrical but it looks like I can get the extended version from the library. Waiting for it to come in.

This should be fun not sure I have seen this since renting it on VHS in the 80's