Conan the Barbarian (1982)

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Film, Comedy, History, War, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2019

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Can a personal war, be as powerful as a global war? In a fictional pagan society the rules of war can be as loose or as tight as the chains that bind a young barbarian. On today's episode, Adam, Ben, and John can't remember if they are good men or bad, while reviewing this 1982 adventure! This film is available on: Amazon, Apple, Fandango Now, Max Go, YouTube, Google Play, and Vudu Support our show! Next week: Heaven and Earth Available on: Amazon, Apple, Google Play, Fandango Now, Vudu, and your local Library

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0:00.0	Take any of the war films you've discussed on Friendly Fire and try to think of one without a main character.
0:11.0	A film purely focused on the macro.
0:15.0	On war itself.
0:17.0	Documentary is excluded, of course.
0:19.0	Isn't it strange that for all the shapes and sizes that war can take and in all the places a war can exist.
0:27.0	A war film story is inextricably united with a warrior proxy?
0:32.0	You would think, and I would think, that the concept of war is so rich and its theme so powerful, that a storyteller would never need a crutch like a lowly person to help tell the story.
0:45.0	Get some model airplanes and submarines and blow up a couple of airplane hangars.
0:51.0	Get yourself a powerful voice over and you're done. I did this literally every weekend
0:55.5	from the age of 8 to 14. Now, stay with me here as we do a little bit of reverse engineering.
1:08.0	Since we know that an essential component of any war movie is the warrior,
1:14.3	could it be that any film depicting a warrior's journey is a war film.
1:17.0	Aha! Class, welcome to war films 301.
1:20.8	I am your new favorite teacher ever Mr. Brannica. Only my TAs can call me Adam.
1:26.2	And in today's class I will tell you why Conan the Barbarian isn't only a war film.
1:31.8	It is a good war film.
1:34.0	It has all the qualities we like on this show.
1:37.0	It has a charismatic main character who almost loses everything at the beginning of the story,
1:42.0	just like Mongol.
1:43.2	Also, our hero enlists a ragtag team of criminals
1:46.6	to fight against a formidable army of evildoers,
1:49.6	just like the dirty dozen.
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