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Andrew Clifton

Oh hell yea the original. The newer one is really good too but this is a classic.

Mega Reacts

Conan is set in the fictional Hyborian Age taking place sometime after the sinking of Atlantis and before the beginning of recorded ancient history. Most later editors and adaptors such as L. Sprague de Camp and Roy Thomas placed the Hyborian Age around 10,000 BC.

Mega Reacts

You have forever changed scenes with horses for me.

Molly McAllister

Conan the Barbarian was originally based on a series of novels by Robert E. Howard in the 1950s. They are the OG definition of 'Pulp Fiction' and aren't really expected to have much depth beyond acting as a platform to provide sex and violence to titilate and excite the reader and the movie reflects this.

Molly McAllister

This is not to say these books were low-effort on Howard's part, if you do some digging you can find easily nearly as much background lore on Hyboria as you can about Middle-Earth or Westeros. It's just that while Tolkien was planning his future epic with Heroes who were paragons of virtue and righteousness, Howard was looking to spin an entertaining yarn where the word 'Hero' uses the much older definition meaning, "Some asshole that's stronger than you."

Shawn Leaf

I watched a short documenting on the original author that was interesting. Apparently he woke up one day and just felt this presence behind him. Angry, haunting and menacing. He later said it was Conan forcing him to write the series. He sat and wrote for days and knew if he turned around Conan would Slay him.

Molly McAllister

What I remember seeing this movie for the first time, it was years before I even knew the books existed but I was 'aware' of Conan in a pop-culture sense. I didn't find it confusing at all really, but I came into it from the get-go understanding that the genre it was marketed as when I saw it was Fantasy so I went in without expecting any grounding in history or realism and just went-off from there. It was obvious to me from the start why Conan's Mom gave-up so easily and why Conan himself almost gave-in, Thulsa Doom is a sorcerer with powers beyond mortal ken. Beyond the shape-shifting, beyond the snake-arrows. I'm an old-school DnD nerd and I know what a Charm Person spell looks like. >xD It's possible they could've done more to elaborate on that aspect but sometimes less is more. As for the gore? Eh, not really remarkable for the era, not for Anything back then which carried an R rating. For heaviness with the Gore in the 80's I'd suggest Robocop CGI? Nah, this was 1982, WAY before CGI could do any of the things you might expect it to do. You wanna see what CGI could do in the 80's? Watch Tron, and I'll guarantee even then most of what you see there and think is CGI, actually isn't.

Matthew Langley

I think the reason this movie is so slow with a lot of filler content but still loved is because it's more about living in a world, in a setting, than telling a story.

Harold Ashworth

With actual crucifixion they don't actual drive nails through you. You are bound with ropes and you don't die from exposure but by suffocation. If it was taking to long they would break your shins so that you couldn't support your body weight and all your weight would push down upon your diaphragm and not allow you to breath.

ExtraBigAssTaco

This is why the spear to the side was actually an act of mercy, which I think many people misunderstand.