It is actually considered a legitimate stand alone piece of classical music in those circles. It is so much more than just a traditional film score. You can actually listen to it from start to finish and the entire thing is beautiful with many great themes.

Horrible soundtrack while driving and keeping the speed limit.

@@czos9239 "trying to keep"

@@czos9239 this...

Aural testosterone.

The skeleton was supposed to animate to life and fight Conan. Alas, the budget did not allow such a scene, so we'll take your explanation.

*ArghHahhh ahrrhhghghahhhh ahhrhrrhaghhhhh*

@@ravenwind1062 It's better that didn't happen.

@@mrglasses8953 Well. a fight with dead King would definitely been more in line with something Howard would've written. I also kind of prefer that Conan earns the sword rather than he just finds it laying around. But to each his own. I still love the movie as it is.

And the use of a broken sword to slay a so called immortal.....

you took my fathas soad !!!

That's the answer to the riddle of steel, the power is not in steel (broken sword), not in the flesh (Tulsa's severed head) but in your heart (Conan's will to survive and fight).

@Odessa-James ah nice...I had alot of those large Conan comic books. More like a magazines..I wish I still had them all..

You lucky SOB!

... because they ARE ... instead of PRETEND TO BE. Just compare all of the Disney Star Was lightsaber battles ... CHOREOGRAPHED DANCES all of them, with illogical moves ... to Cary Elwes and Mandy Patinkin PRACTICING FENCING for a few months to deliver a believable performance in "The Princess Bride".

If only all, heck MOST, movies casted their talent in the same way. BE before you can pretend!

Yep! The movie doesn't do anything overtly obvious to indicate it, such as sparkly or glowing effects, and a lot of people miss the implication. I'm glad they didn't go hard on making it too obvious. The Snake-Man doing the charming. 😉

The force is strong in him.

I always thought that if Thulsa hadn't said "my son" Conan wouldn't have snapped out.

Conan made his Wisdom save. Unfortunately his mother did not 😢

Yeah, his hypnotic abilities aren’t always picked up by everyone. Maybe if they threw in some kind of mild effect like seeing his dad’s face on Thulsa Doom’s body, more people would’ve gotten it. It’s like when Conan found that sword underground, none of us were really sure whether that was actually Crom, or just some forgotten king, whose empire had crumbled long ago.

You're gonna throw out ol' Franco but ignore Sven Ole Thorsen? Or Jody Samson, the renowned swordsmith who designed and crafted all the swords in this film and whose hands and arms we see in the opening sequence forging the Father's Sword?

And the love of a ride or die woman!

I think the whole concept of steel and flesh is lost on her.

This! This is the answer to the Riddle of Steel. Trust not in swords, as his father taught, nor in flesh, as Thulsa Doom taught. But in Willpower alone, which defeated the mesmerism of Doom and set Conan on his path of vengeance in the first place.

And hear the lamentation of Cami....

@@gallendugall8913 now THAT'S barbaric lmao.

Honestly Conan and LotR are very different so there is no point comparing two.

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@@edwardleonetti2492 Conan was one of the inspirations for Dungeons and Dragons. Along with pretty much every other fantasy author of the era. Lovecraft, Lieber, Vance, Moorcock, etc.

@@Mecha82 Conan is sword and sorcery, Lotr is epic high fantasy, two differnt subjonras of the fantasy world.

By Crom!

it wasn't just a king's sword .. it was an atlantean refugee-king's sword the sword was forged in atlantis with superior technology. 1000's of years before conan's time . when atlantis sunk beneath the atlantic ocean many surviors made it to the main land , some became noamdic others set themselves up as kings using their superior weapontry they manged to birng with them , this king was such a king. Also, the cimmerican's themselves are descendants of atlantis they were the ones that turned to a nomadic lifestyle . which made this fact far more significant than the movie "told you". also conan is not the last cimmerican being nomadic they were also very tribal there are many tribes of cimmerians out there.

for the longest time I envisioned LOTR was from the 20s/30s and Conan from the 60s/70s. Guess I had it flipped around. Thanks for the clarification :)

It predated the publishing of Lord of the rings, but not the writing of Tolkien, which started all the way back before and during world war one, and Conan is not an influence on Tolkien.

L. Sprague de Camp visited with Tolkien and he told him he'd read Robert E. Howards works and that he rather liked them.

The first Conan, the barbarian short was published in 1932, the hobbit, tokens‘s first book was publishing 1937. They are contemporary authors.

CON-AN BARBARIAN also pre-dates GAME OF THRONES that viewers often compare it to, I don't know why,

wasnt done well in the film. stupid director

@@natmanprime4295 The new version was worse in my opinion. When will they learn that the original origin story is much better for the big screen than anything they can come up with. A 16 year old Conan that is one of the first over the wall of an Aquilonian Fort when his people take it and push back against the Aquilonian expansion. Show us why his people are so feared. Not some cookie cutter revenge story. Where a young Conan that discovers wine, silk and other luxuries and wants more of it.

@@Dreamfox-df6bg when conan was yelling "you killed my mother" etc, james earl jones could have asked him "what is best in life"? or something to develop the character of conan. and he shoulda recieved more than a simple head chop after all that evil he did, so unsatisfying, so simple minded

Conan ain't Star Wars and Tolkien. The originals and adaptations are very nihilistic, much closer to Lovecraft (minus the casual racism of his time) and Dune.

@@natmanprime4295 So... hold up... you're calling John Milius... stupid. 🤷‍♂️ okeedoke. 🤣 I get you might have done it differently, or wanted more... but give me a break man... you're not a better writer or director than Milius.

She was glorified by the GODS to return to Conan's side one last time.

Valeria the Valkyrie sent from Valhalla.

I think one of the Brothers was former Oakland Raiders Linebacker Ben Davidson(?)

Howard's books(12)plus all the rest of the books written about Conan total at least 47. Anyway that's how many I've read.

However juicy the background was, it is completely unnecessary to enjoy his work.

@@robertmaez6706 I have done the same. I loved Howard's work.

@@russellbuck4175 I'm going to be 76 in Sept. and I still have all the paperbacks.

The Whole Wide World was a passion project for Vincent D’Onofrio, who played Bob Howard. Newcomer Renée Zellweger costarred and that landed her the role in her breakout film, Jerry Maguire (1996), opposite Tom Cruise. It was based on the book, One Who Walked Alone: Robert E. Howard, The Final Years. It’s also worth mentioning that REH was also friends with H.P. Lovecraft, who created the Cthulhu mythos. Both were published in Weird Tales, the fantasy and horror pulp magazine that was started in the 1920s.

Arnold at that time was working on his speaking with a voice coach to minimize his Austrian accent. You will notice in Terminator 2 years later.

Arnie's english was even then fine, but abusing his Austrian accent, made him more popular/exotic.

Good... evil... Conan was the one with the sword or the axe.

And an Atlantean sword in the world of Conan KICKS ASS!!

You misunderstand her.

@@thebkg it was just a bit of dry humor, I don’t think she would claim this is exactly her cup of tea. I’ve seen a couple reacts, I view Cami as smart and insightful.

@@RepSummAw hehe I get you! You are right lol :) may have preferred one of those characters. But gotta love some old school Arnie! Thanks for the words as well!

@@Letstuneinglad you didn’t take it negatively but in all seriousness I agree with our friend @thebkg that you will enjoy the sequel more. If not… still okay 😊

And while his personality changes little, he never stops learning.

Robert Jordan wrote several Conan books in his early career. They were my favorites when I was in middle high-school.

I have also heard the the script for the movie Kull the Conqueror (the one with Kevin Sorbo) was origianly the script for the third Conan movie that had been orginaly planned with Arnold.

Yes I had the privilege to work with him briefly as an executive on a script that never got made but his writing was excellent incredible

The screenplay was done by Oliver stone not millius he directed it though .

Milinus did a lot of rewriting. ​@@bobbombar6711

@@bobbombar6711 Milius rewrote the shooting script and shares screenplay credit with Stone. The finished film is very much his work.

@reidmason2551 funny that's not what he says on my copy of the movie in the special features . He specifically mentions Oliver stone .

Of note: Magic in Sword & Sorcery (low fantasy) is often dangerous and corrupting. Most of those who practice it are closer to demonologists than the do-gooder pointy hatted wizards of High Fantasy. I like S&S for just that kind of dark fantasy take ; the world is universally brutal and bleak with all manner of terrible things to be survived.

Dungeons and Dragons has dozens of official campaign worlds, many of which are on the lower end of fantasy. It's not all Forgotten Realms.

@@SleepingGiant77 Unless you were playing old school chainmail, Charlegmain or Vikings setting, Or happen to possess any of the extremely rareRed Sonja.Or Conan modules, Pretty much every setting unless you were doing a homebrew setting is Mid to High magic. Mystara, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, Dark Sun, Masque of the Red Death, Eberron, Planescape, Kara Tur, Blackmoor, Melnibone, Ravenloft, Maztica.. etc. The Howard estate Lawyers swiftly clamped down to reclaim the Hyborean Age setting for their own licensing purposes.

@@johannesbowers7467 first of all, you said that "Dungeons & Dragons is high fantasy". Even with the more commonly played of the settings that you mentioned, this isn't really true. Greyhawk(for instance) is, aside from elves and dwarves mingling with humans, no more fantastical in the experience of the average citizen then Hyboria. And Hyboria isn't even that low magic of a setting. Conan's always running into sorcerers, demons, ancient horrors, frog gods, giants, all manner of fantastical creatures, curses, the undead, etc. Spider-haunted Zamora and the distant land of Hyperborea ruled by giants are just as fantastic as anything in the Flanaess. Several of the other settings that you mentioned don't really have much more in the way of Fantastical elements than Conan does. Mystara gets wacky outside of Karameikos, depends on where you are. It could either be high fantasy or mid to low fantasy. Kara Tur and Maztica are no crazier than Hyboria, especially as they're merely fantasy versions of the same real world cultures that Howard cribbed from to make his more exotic locales. Blackmoor isnt really a setting that anybody played unless they were making up their own version. The only published material on it doesn't actually have any setting info. It doesn't really seem to be all that fantastical. Rather like Greyhawk. Melnibone- slightly higher fantasy than Conan in that it centers around a kingdom of what are basically elves and occasionally a demiGod shows up. That's not really crazy by Conan standards, especially as there's not a lot of spell casting going on. Also, there's no real published material on this setting unless you count Deities and Demigods. Ravenloft has numerous sub realms, many of which are low magic. It's kind of hard to have horror when everybody has superpowers. Birthright- you didn't mention this one but it's a great example of what I was talking about. Not that popular of a setting, but it shows that your standard D&D setting isn't really that high magic. Dark Sun is a Conan like setting with more fantastical creatures. It's definitely a step up. Not that far off though. Dragonlance- before the dragons returned to Krynn? I'd almost argue that it was higher fantasy but lower magic than Hyboria. And I'm not too sure about that. Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Planescape- definitely High Fantasy. At least Forgotten Realms is high magic. Although this one has changed a lot over the editions.

King Osric the Usurper. Great name

Correct, but actually he said it after she yeeted off like a short tail bottle rocket…

Watch the directors cut, it makes the movie even better.

Total Recall ?!?!?!?!?

@@aresgalamatis7022 Fun movie, but not in the top 3 for me.

Yeah, LotR is the best until you hit Tom Bombadil and then Arwen (the book version), then the Ents that kill the flow of the books.