People underestimate this film. It actually has a surprisingly deep lesson, all centered around the Riddle of Steel. Conan's father believes in the power of the sword, that it is the only thing a man can trust to not fail him in life. Thulsa Doom argues that flesh is strength, without a hand to wield it, a sword is useless, and that a man who can control those around him has true power. In the end Conan learns that both are wrong, his father's sword failed, and yet it still tore Thulsa's flesh. Neither flesh, nor the steel in the sword represent true strength, it is will. Through will, man can overcome any obstacle, and it was by his will that Conan rose from a slave to a king.

Great Aku had taken human form and helped the Terminator take down the snake obsessed Darth Vader and saved the world. I feel something is off here

I think it's interesting how the whole story is essentially a perfect classic RPG story. A kid sees his family slaughtered, is enslaved, becomes a powerful fighter, escapes slavery, becomes a thief, meets a king, receives an epic quest that merges with his desire for revenge. Also, I really love the acting done for the king. Max von Sydow nailed that role perfectly to me, and sold it all the way.

That damn "Whoa" tree has been stuck in my head for days.

Conan and the Wizard meet W:I'll summon the demons of Hell C:You're joking W:Yes, I am.

Quick point: I'm pretty sure they're not drunk when Conan punches that camel. They're high. The guy tells them about the snake cult, then offers them some "black lotus." Next scene, Conan and Subotai are giggling, and Conan punches a camel.

Crom laughs at your review.

Doom hypnotized Conan's mother and tried to hypnotize him at the end, but he rejected it. According to Director John Millius, that was when he understood the Riddle of Steel, that metal becomes brittle and flesh grows weak, but your will power is as strong as you make it.

A small detail Decker forgets. That be Basil Poledouris' absolutely amazing soundtrack for the movie, which is WAY beyond 95% of the soundtracks of the era, with the horns and the drums and the roaring beats, to this day beats even Lord of the Rings in soundtrack if ye ask me.

"and raping the Hutts!" Jabba NO!

Minor point, but since DeckerShado asked, the "Wheel of Pain" is a Flour Mill. So on the brightside from a young age Conan is providing sustaining food for the population! It's also worth mentioning the films incredible Basil Poledouris score, which is viewed as one of Hollywoods all time best.

To be fair, in his only Conan novel--The Hour of the Dragon--Howard has the Cimmerian spend much of the early part of the story engaging in side adventures like escaping imprisonment in Nemedia and rescuing Lady Albiona. It's not until the halfway point where Conan learns he has to find the Heart of Ahriman to defeat the cabal of enemies led by Xaltotun. He does want to defeat the invaders but makes no headway till that point. In that sense, Conan the Barbarian is faithful to Howard's only full-length story in the series. The movie borrows modified elements from several Howard stories: The Phoenix on the Sword (Conan) Worms of the Earth (Bran Mak Morn) The Tower of the Elephant (Conan) By This Axe, I Rule! (Kull) Queen of the Black Coast (Conan) Red Nails (Conan) The Shadow Kingdom (Kull) The Cat and the Skull (Kull) A Witch Shall Be Born (Conan) The sequel obliquely references stories as well: The Phoenix on the Sword The Hour of the Dragon The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune Rogues in the House A Witch Shall Be Born

Wait, is He-man a kid-friendly version of Conan the Barbarian?

"If it ever looks like you're losing, Point straight at your Foe and declare them a Nazi" I damn near pissed myself after hearing that! This is why I love Decker

That Tree of Woe joke was so fucking good!!! One of the best Decker jokes for sure, thanks for the laugh!

"Without the flesh, steel is merely an object." Somebody should tell that to Gordon Ramsey. I've tried to "let the knife do the work" and the bastard never got around to doing the damn work! And Kudoz!!!! for the Tree of Woe micro-sketch!

My favourite quote is this: Thulsa Doom: You broke into my house, stole my property, murdered by servants and my pets, and THAT is what grieves me the most! You killed my snake. It's just the way James Earl Jones delivers that last line. He must really have liked that snake.

Fun (painful?) Fact: During the cave escape scene, Sandahl Bergman (Valeria) lost a finger about 1/2 way through the sword fight, but she continued the scene despite the loss of the finger. o.O

The wizard *did* tell Conan that fire wouldn't burn up there earlier in the movie. He even followed it up by saying that fire not being able to burn up there was why he made his house down below, and not up on the ridge. Edit: And now that I stop to think about it..How did you miss that, but mention the part where Conan told the wizard to look after his sword? Because the part about fire not being able to burn up on the ridge, was mentioned by the wizard just before that. Odd

I'm from Victoria, my house was wrecked, no power, and no water. But even with a dying phone. Still got time for the internet personality with the best hair

Conan the Barbarian is basically a movie about the DM pleading with the players to pursue the main story line

I was chemistry partners with Max Von Sydow’s grand-niece. I tried so hard to get Star Wars spoilers out of her.

15:59 An accurate description of my 'stealthy-kill' run of Dishonored

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Its a great film with a cracking soundtrack, and arnold looks the part , john milius direction was great and he delivered a bloody great conan film with some cracking sword fights, lopez bergman and mako were great in there parts, wish the studios would give us a king conan film arnold could still do it . Great review .

Trivia: The guy playing the sword master that is teaching Conan the sword was Arnold's sword instructor for this movie in real life.

You shall forever be known as "Whoa-den," after lashing yourself to the tree of whoa as sacrifice for knowledge

Technically, before he went off on his snake chase, Val tried to talk him out of pursuit. Ultimately, it was his vendetta that made him go alone and get jacked up. Thalsa Doom also hypnotized his followers with his snake charm wizardry. His spell was broken on his followers once he was dead. He used the same spell on Conan's Mother, then on Conan at the end. It was Conan looking down at his Father's broken sword that broke the trance and allowed him to strike out. This movie has some really great subtext that has yet to be explored

Decker his owner freed him after his answer was more aligned with the owner's thoughts than anyone elses.

Who else drops whatever they are doing when Decker uploads?

About the plot and the (in)consistent motivation: 1. When Conan is a slave, he cannot choose to go pursue revenge because slavery. Besides that, we're still in act 1 and the big book of movie rules says we have to establish his character. 2. His choice to hunt for treasure and (having obtained it) goof around is addressed by the narration which is included in this review: "success can test a man's mettle as surely as a strong adversary" (paraphrased from memory). 3. The rest of the time he's actually pretty focused on his revenge quest. Conan's distraction from the plot is a deliberate creative choice. We can discuss whether it's a _good_ creative choice (I felt the movie sagged a bit), but it's clearly deliberate.

That jet fuel joke was pretty funny, man. My favorite from the whole review, I think. Tree of whoah was a close second And I honestly had never considered how muddied his motivation is in this flick.

(I suppose I should warn of spoilers here - even though this is a 35 year old movie) - You may be being too hard on the script-writers here. If you take the Nietzche quotation at the start as indication of the theme of the movie there is a fairly clear (possibly) plot thread. The main assumption is that Thulsa Doom is interested in refining and shaping 'flesh' like steel. He takes all the children from several villages and uses the wheel of torment to refine out the single strongest individual. He then arranges for him to be trained in combat and warfare (shaping). Once this is achieved, his henchman sets Conan free (quenching) and this sink or swim exposure to the real world brings forth his independence. Doom then relies on the thirst for revenge to drive Conan back to him as he hopes to use his hypnotic influence to convince Conan that he should accept Doom as his 'father', thus providing Doom with a powerful weapon to help him in his plans for world domination. And he almost succeeds except that Conan recognises the sword in Doom's hand and breaks the spell.

What is best in life ........ to crush your enemies, see them driven before u, and to hear the lamentation of their woman.

Arnold punches a camel in this.

Knocking out the camel still makes me crack up to this day. Its right up there with the Yeti kicking the bad guy through the goal in the Mummy 3.

Next is total recall I'm calling it

Great reference on the Robert E. Howard collection - those illustrated volumes of short stories are awesome!

CONAN'S MY FAVOURITE ARNIE MOVIE!!! And it inspired my life a lot. How lame is that?! 😂 But it's true. 😃👍

Amazingly enough, that giant snake puppet looks appropriate for a Titanaboa

14:34 I got such a good laugh off of that. Thats definitely one of your funniest moments.

'... And killed a PET!' To be fair, it is a giant goddamn SNAKE!

The wizard - Akiro - is referring to the fact that "there never burned a fire in this spot before", which seems to be of some kind of mystical significance. It's much clearer stated in the german version, oddly enough.

the older I get the more I think, this may be my favourite movie of all time. So much testosterone, yet so much humor. Arnold may not be exactly Conan, but he is perfectly cast in this.

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19:50 Ancient Atlantian Sword vs his father sword. His father sword, never had a chance.

Congrats on the engagement Decker!

Interesting, the wheel of pain is actually a grist mill, and the wheel itself is used to push around a massive mill stone to grind up grains.

Amazing epic! One of the best movie soundtracks ever!

3:51 Awggggggh..agggggggggggh.. Aaagggggghuuuuh.. awwwweggggg.... Aawweggghhguuhh...

It just cracks me up every time I see that camel collapse like that!

One of my all time favourite movies. Been waiting for you to review this for a while.

That stunt lady jumping off those rocks (Riddle of Steel) broke a standing stunt record at the time.

Good to see you getting back into it my dude! Stay safe down there, what with the hurricane and all.

Oh man, this is the first video of yours I have seen. And just... that Tree of Woah bit. I laughed so hard, well done!

I love that tree bit u did it was pretty fun good shit man.

Hollywood should cast Decker for a Sci-Fi Jesus film.

I've always taken it that the reason this movie doenst have a lot of exposition, backstory and world building is because Conan doesn't know or care about any of that shit.

Congrats on the engagement, which may be ages old now but whatever. Congrats anyway! Also, I love that Tree of Whoa.

i shot milk out of my nose laughing at the tree of "woah" bit XD AND I WASN'T EVEN DRINKING MILK D:

Oh Decker, never fail to make me laugh. Great video! looking forward to future uploads!

why did i never realize this was the summer of arnold swarchenegger... i watched like every video this summer

I saw this movie when I was about 7 years old in the late 1980s and I remember thinking Valeria wasn't really pretty and disliked the choice of actress for the role. As a grown man however I think the actress is gorgeous.

That must have been fun to film. "Okay, so i´ll take of my shirt and you chain me to the tree over there...."

glad ur back big D....... also that u missed the worse of the weather.. fuck ur engaged now, that makes me happy so congrats 2 u! now dont stop what u do! ur awesome

Aku is narrator, holy fuck Mako is amazing, rest in piece, you told the story of big buff bodybuilder who would be named for action movies.

The less metal gear and more dishonored line was so good!

Hey! Another upload! Thanks decker!

He cast the Snakes to Arrow spell, a modified version of the reverse of Sticks to Snakes spell!

I happen to be a big fan fantasy adventure stories. Such as Hercules the Legendary Journeys, Xena Warrior Princess, Red Sonja, Kull the Conqueror, and Conan. I'm also a huge Arnold fan as well. So that being said, I'm a huge fan of this movie.

The voice of Aku was another great one for me in this movie. James did well too

(Sory for bad english) Who else remembers when they pillaged a village in civilization 4 and started to regret it

To be fair if you look closely the wheel of pain looks like grain mill or crusher in order to make flour from grain.

im 47 nowadays and luckily i got to see this in the theaters thanks to my dad. (:

It's got one of the best movie soundtracks ever. Basil polidorous produced an epic movie score for this film

"They can keep their free torch." - I don't remember it being established that the torches were free. Perhaps selling torches to cultists at inflated prices is how Thulsa makes all his money :P

Who got the Lemmy Kilmister joke? It can't be a lot, good job Decker

When decker uploads, you know it's gonna be a good day. :)

I wanted to name my first son Conan. I think my wife would have let me, but my mother-in-law flipped shit when she found out. So we had to pick a name before we could leave. We had like 20 mins to decide. I settles for Conan being his middle name.

Your reviews are awesome.. Keep the uploads coming

Just when I was bored as fuck, Decker comes to the rescue. Cheers man!

No matter how late you may be, I'll still be here to thumbs up and enjoy, Decker. Just don't respec out of Reviewer!

It's three spells...One to straighten the snake (could be necromancy, could be enchantment/charm, could be alteration), one to make it aerodynamically sound without fletching (negating the severe to-hit penalty that would be incurred - could be invocation/evocation or enchantment/charm) and one to auto seek (providing an additional bonus of 4 on to-hit rolls - could be invocation/evocation or enchantment/charm). This explains why he hit at such extreme range and why he rarely uses it in combat...Takes three rounds to cast. The reason why Valeria was not resurrected is because she died of poison. So she would not have come back even if the spirits were fended off since she would still be poisoned and would simply die again. Conan, on the other hand, simply expired. All he needed was a little bit of water. So HE could be resurrected, but not HER

I can't wait for the next marathon you have planned!😁

What do you see? Uhh, infinity!

The Smiley at 6:36 is the best! :D

oooh damn, i haven't watched your videos for waaaay toooo long feels good to see u again

Love this movie and love your review, had me in stitches. Thanks man!

cant belive u didnt mention ron cobb as the market stall guy

I’d love to see a modern day Conan movie!

Okay the tree of whoaw gag earned you my subscription! xD

Hope you're keeping safe with the storm, Decker. As soon as I heard it was in Texas, you came to mind. Take care, dude.

Honestly, Conan could do pretty well as an HBO series, I think. Kind of a more violent version of Hercules and Xena.

I love Conan the Barbarian to the point where my perspective might be warped.

@12:27 Sega literally used that guy's yell from getting elbowed in the stomach for the skeleton death noise in Golden Axe.

“ *Know* that flesh cannot mark steel. *Know* that steel may mark flesh. In *knowing* this, Zerthimon became free. ” -Second Circle of Zerthimon

I love your videos deker I've been subscribed for years keep it up bro and yes you do have the best hair

One of my all time favorite movie. Thanks for the 4 stars, Decker.

OMG....those nifty little references....jet fuel and such... very nice...also, that tailor lvl 3 again had me clean my monitor...thx decker! oh and that green soup...keep it to you, but it´s a soylent green predecessor...quite tasty^^ after all, I´d say Conan is THE medieval Mad Max

One of my favorite scenes is in the movie Conan the Barbarian starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The scene takes place inside Thulsa doom, the necromancer, mountain layer. Conan and his band of thieves are leaving with the kidnapping princess, when entering Thulsa doom top two henchmen. Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, then turns over the green soup of cooked human fesh...so the henchmen replies, "YOU". If you listen carefully to this scene it is an amazing stunt by Arnold Schwarzenegger. You can actually hear him strain as he turns over a container filled with gallons of water. When he perform this stunt, it adds to the thrill of this remarkable scene.