CONAN THE REDBANDBARIAN

At least this has blood and fucking so it's already better than the second Conan film. And Conan fights more like the way he's described as in the books.

Still not willing to get my hopes up.

I always thought the way to pronounce the character's name was KO-NAN.  Here, they pronounce it the way most people pronounce Conan O'Brien's name: KO-NIN.

It just feels WRONG to me... not that I have any attachment to the character.

Let's face it: this is being made for people with bad taste who wouldn't even sniff the original films, never mind the written source material. The trailer, and that terrible music, confirm it.

Music aside, I thought that looked like a brutally fun Saturday matinee film. Guess I won't be going to any movies with GabeT.

Looks like a Syfy-quality movie.

Problem with the music was that they left the lyrics in. I was fine with it until the teenager started screaming his brains out.

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Originally Posted by Evi 

Looks like a Syfy-quality movie.

 

 

Oh come on. If you don't like it, that's fine, but there were clearly some decent production values in there.

Great, now I'm the guy defending this.

There are bits and pieces that don't look cheap. But overall, no, the production values don't seem that high to me. The last shot in particular looks terrible. Still, I'm only judging off a trailer so what do I know...

Plenty of blood and gore. Rachel Nichols.

I'll watch this.

Interest level...rising...

Seriously though, that music. Unless this is targeted at Hot Topic customers, I'm not sure who thought that was a good choice.

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Originally Posted by felix 

Plenty of blood and gore. Rachel Nichols.

 

I'll watch this.

My reaction to a T.   Esp. the Rachel Nichols part. 

Color me even more impressed.

Judging by the Joe Bob Briggs' 3 Bs system, it's a winner. Hey, I own CONAN 1 & 2, RED SONJA, and KULL on dvd (along will all the Corman produced trash, etc) and will probably own SOLOMON KANE when that hits the US too. I'll watch this. I, of course, would want the best for RE Howard's pedigree best in breed champ, but I ain't no Sword & Sorcery snob.

But yeah, that song blows.

The music was fucking dreadful, the dialogue almost equally awful, but, for some reason, the thing that has me most discouraged is that Momoa seems to have abandoned all the primitive fury he's channeled into Khal Drogo, and is playing Conan like he's a pro wrestler instead of an ancient warrior.

I've gone from not caring about this movie to maybe checking it out in theaters.   Why?  Khal fucking Drogo.   Game of Thrones is seriously legitimizing Momoa in the role of Conan.