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Conan the Barbarian (1982) - Super Serious Film Fest

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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S2F2: Fantasy kicks off with Conan the Barbarian, a film that helped launch the career of one Arnold Schwarzenegger into the stratosphere. And sure, we can quibble with some of the sillier plot points happening in the margins, and some of the casting, and a lot of the hair and makeup, but Conan is a serious film with some great set pieces, an absolutely magnetic star, and it even manages to land a few points that approach the profound. Stream Conan the Barbarian online: https://amzn.to/2E4Bvg2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It was a time, when ruevle danger was a part of life.

0:07.0

When rueful danger was a part of life. It was orphaned at the hand of the young Conan was orphaned at the hand of falser du.

0:22.0

And so it became a time. at the hand of theusadou.

0:26.0

And so it became a time for vengeance.

0:38.0

But only after his body and his will were shaped by slavery on the wheel of pain, could Konaan begin his search.

1:07.0

First he had to learn the daring of the thief, the cunning of the fugitive, the bravery of a warrior, the warmth of friendship, the passion of love and the wisdom of one who has suffered. Only then would Conan understand that revenge is the answer to the riddle of steel.

1:18.4

Conan, the Barbarian, a film by John Millius.

1:30.0

Conan the Barbarian is a 1982 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian, Sandal Bergman as Valeria, the Queen of Thieves, and

1:38.9

James Ril Jones as Thalsadoom, the villain, is directed by John Millius, who was the writer for the first two Dirty Harry films.

1:49.0

He received an Academy Award nomination for his work as Screenwriter on Apocalypse Now, and then went on to write and direct,

1:56.5

Conan the Barbarian and the Red Dawn among others, and it was little known fact written by Oliver Stone, who later went on to fame and fortune writing and

2:05.7

directing such films as JFK platoon Snowden naturalborn killers any given Sunday etc.

2:13.0

This was actually Arnold Schwarzenegger's first commercially successful film.

2:18.0

Made a hundred million dollars you can definitely see that it's he's kind of rough around the edges in here but I think that's part of this

2:25.2

movie's charm it's been I have a lot I have a lot of affection for this film

2:29.3

because my cousins and I grew up kind of like you know we were eight to 10 year old

2:35.2

boys when Conan and the destroyer the destroyer and the destroyer came out it's very

2:39.7

quotable it's got a lot of action and scantily clad females

2:45.0

Jim it like I said it's been it's been a minute since we've seen this film. I don't know how many times you've seen it and how long it's been for you but

2:53.2

kind of like what you think how did it hold up thoughts I can't actually remember how many

2:58.6

times I've seen this movie because I know you know we watched it together as roommates but at least I think we did that might have been the destroyer

3:07.6

Yeah, I can't remember but I know I have seen it before

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