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The Sequel may not be a highly-recommended as this one, but of course I'd be Interested!👍

Well, not so much. It's entertaining, but I think I read somewhere that it took so much negative criticism that it made Arnold avoid doing sequels entirely until James Cameron talked him into T2.

Absolutely ❤

RED SONJA

...not taking into consideration of the POSSIBLE After-Death possibility called "Hell"...please consider it...and know that nobody can disprove it's possible Existence one way or the other and please take note it would be an Eternal Existence of the worst suffering UNIMAGINABLE.

and don't forget a nice cup of tea

Shoft lavatary paper.

@@jamiemahoney2446 hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper

@@KingOfGamesssplease don't use based Hayabusa avatar to talk nonsense.

Correct...

This is True.

What I just finally realized was Valeria was Crom answering his prayer!

And the best weapon means nothing without the will to use it.

Conan became the first green lantern of earth. But that is tale for another time.

that's a terrible thing to suggest :)

Just Googled it and already I'm seeing typos in the sample text. Definitely somebody who read Sprague's Howard Pastiches and decided to poorly try their hand at writing something similar.

I enjoyed reading the books in grade school.

@@UKJesterVids totally funny in fact, the name of the main character alone: Grignr

My favourite book was _Red Nails._

@@jacobwalsh1888 Do you even know what "revitalize" means? Go buy a dictionary since you don't know how google works. Maybe buy an encyclopedia as well and go find out when Lord of The Rings was published.

I remember the other boys in my grade going nuts over this movie

Ok sorry, I didn't realize the first story came out in 31, but guess what asshole, doesn't change my point. Lord of the rings was what brought the surge of interest in fantasy. Conan did not.

I was alive then and saw it a few times in the theater. I love Conan, however the genre was already huge at that time because of Star Wars and D ‘n D, that year alone not only saw Conan but Sword and The Sorcerer (released a month prior), The Secret of NIHM, The Beastmaster, and The Dark Crystal. The year before was Excalibur Hawk, The Slayer just off the top of my head. Conan was a hit but not the hit Universal was expecting they were sure it was going to be a Star Wars level hit, it was a moderate success it made a profit but not much it still fell behind Star Trek II, Poltergeist, and even Best Little Whorehouse In Texas. The next year saw more and those films and were already in production when Conan was released.

​@@deathtoraiden2080We're talking about the 80s fantasy boom here, which has nothing to do with the LOTR movies. You obviously weren't sentient during that time.

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Robert E. Howard's Conan is part of the inspirational source material for D&D. Look into 'Appendix N' if you are interested.

Except in D&D the wizard would be by far the most useful and powerful, but in this movie, he does f-all.

@@raifthemad Dying Earth books by Jack Vance for magic inspiration. Hence vancian magic.

@@petegiant Thanx for the recommendation.

Truth though.

No such thing as gratuitous boobs 🤙🏻🤙🏻

The classic 1980s genre of B & B -- BOOBS AND BEHEADINGS!

Sandal Burgman boobs...come on... what's gratuitous about those? They were necessary for character development

I disagree; boobs are never gratuitous.

My fav was "Bird! Go get his girlfriend!" 😆

Never change, Jen :)

Ben Davidson, from the Oakland Raiders

She was also Shatner's lieutenant in the second Airplane movie.

She was also in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) & again with Arnold in Red Sonja (1985).

Valeria is in a box of extras to be played with Conan Monolith edition. Tabletop game

And she played Queen Gedren in "Red Sonja".

​@@MLJ7956and was Arnie's date in TWINS with Danny DeVito

He was in the film longer if you saw the flick in the cinema. Doom had him killed.

It'd probably still work as a silent film with just music and cut to black with text for the narration.

The score is 2nd to Arnold, John Milius had a quote to Dino when he was trying to sell him on Arnold as the lead, "If we didn't have Arnold, we would have to build him for this movie". Maybe Lou Ferrigno or some other bodybuilder would have worked, but I doubt it..

Basil Poledouris creator of score actually mentor of Hans Zimmer.

A forgotten bad ass woman. (no, not by us, but I hope you know what I mean)

The character "Valeria" in the movie is actually inspired by a couple of different characters from Howard's Conan short stories. The name and the look come from the character named "Valeria of the Red Brotherhood", a woman that Conan meets and adventures with in the "Red Nails" novella (which is imho one of the most atmospheric and outright best among the Conan stories). She is described as an athletic and very skilled swordswoman that is fleeing from a group of Stygian soldiers that intended to avenge the death of one of their officers, that Valeria killed in self-defense when he tried to molest her. In the novella both Valeria and Conan survive the adventure and in the end they ride into the sunset heading for the coast where they intend to put together a pirate crew. The scene in the movie that shows Valeria coming back from the world of the dead in order to save his life while he was fighting is from a different Conan short story titled "Queen of the Black Coast" (another great Howard's short story), where Conan falls in love with the Pirate Queen Belit. When Conan is almost overpowered by a monstrous winged ape-demon while trying to avenge the death of his lover, Belit's ghost comes back for an instant in order to help him win the fight.

then saying infinity instead of nothingness the priest had to play that off knowing he was fake then go after him later

lol what sorta weird 7 year old watches the oscars?

@@slickfandango7915 We only had one TV.

@@toddjones1480 for your whole village? wow! rough times.

The score was nominated for a Saturn Award but it lost to ET which also won the Oscar.

@@slickfandango7915 Back in the days when whole families watched such events on TV TOGETHER! Something you obviously never experienced. Poor guy ;)

It actually is very unfairly used as a cheesy film. The film is true to itself meaning the premise never oversteps its bounds, the characters stay in their lanes, the story is engaging and the pasing is good too. Add in a greats soundtrack and the film works.

Basil Polidouriis killed it!!

@@bbb462cid I might have to give it another chance. I never got all the way through it as a kid, as it seemed too cheesy. It probably didn't help that I fell in love with The Beastmaster first, so nothing else in the genre stood a chance for me at the time.

Valeria is one of the characters in the extras pack of Conan Monolith edition. She does not come in the base box. Be'lit is. Can you tell me about her?

@@josepablolunasanchez1283 A pirata Belit é o mulherão mesmo da vida de Conan, né não?

I loved this movie so much when I was a kid! I know I enjoyed the second one, but I really don't even remember it now. But this one I've re-watched many times over the years. I hope Jen watches the next one just to remind me what happens in it! Lol

Used to?

Yeah, it took me a couple viewings to notice that. Right after he gets out of the tomb and looks menacingly while the wolfs growl off screen...next scene he's wearing loads of wolf pelt. Brilliant way of showing a fight without having to shoot a fight.

The original hush puppies 😂

İn that chase scene dog bite Arnie from ass.

Apparently they’re never going to make that due to rights disputes. I’d love king Conan to be like the end of Beowulf so bad. Imagine him dying and he gets a vision of his love as an aged wife with him and they bring back the original.

The story for that would be Conan of the Isles. The last story in the series. L. Sprague De Camp finished it from the story remnants that Howard had assembled. I'd see it in a heartbeat if it were made. Just don't shoehorn a rock score in it. It just doesn't work as well when they do that. It just jangles against the nerves when you see these epic stories and the soaring score is absent.

Muscles, swords, boobs, and a good dose of existentialism.

And dont forget all the blood!

And the soundtrack. That glorious soundtrack.

Oh, I miss the 80s! 🙂

LOL! Yeah, totally 😂 I had forgotten about that. Particularly, the gladiator fights and the fall into the skeleton's cave were great!

Whoooo ARRRRRRe Yoooooooo? 10:07

And Dune a couple years after this.

To "Judge Dredd" in the 90s to "Ring of the Nibelung" and "The Minority Report" in the 2000s.

I wouldn’t call Conan the Barbarian cheese, not like Flash Gordon. Conan the destroyer, however, definitely has some cheese.

Not to mention 'The Exorcist'.

The Seventh Seal is one of my favorite films of all time.

I had a postcard Lovecraft wrote to Howard when HPL was visiting Quebec. Very tiny handwriting, pure Lovecraftian prose. I donated it to the Howard museum in Cross Plains, Texas, where I presume it is on display.

There was a movie in the 90's called The Whole Wide World about Robert E. Howard

@@alanfoster6589 that's awesome. 🤙🏻

"penpals with HP Lovecraft" In fairness, Lovecraft was prolific penpals with damn near the entire weird fiction community at the time...and many other people as well. He's estimated to have written over 100,000 letters over the course of his lifetime.

@@KthulhuXxx very true, but as this video is Conan, I felt it necessary only to refer to REH and HPL. But yes, I have a hardcover collection of some of his letters they are fascinating reading. 👍🏻

I totally agree. I think this might be Arnold's only role that goes beyond simply great entertainment and into the realm of cinematic art. Certainly, NOT a "kid's adventure movie" at all. It easily ranks among Lord of the Rings as one of the greatest fantasy films ever.

@@GnotMaiNeim It's in many ways HBO's GAME OF THRONES only DECADES prior. Look... I am the total opposite of Mileus but him, Oliver Stone, Arnold... It's a chemistry that studios think they can produce via fiat once creatives lay a groundwork but the difference is noticable. CONAN THE DESTROYER while attempting to recreate the comics is vastly different in all the areas the original succeeds in. Hell, even Arnold is on auto-pilot in the sequel. He couldn't be bothered to grow out the hair, or else the wig people were bottom of the barrel. Mileus and Stone are madmen but they are the right kind of mad for Conan. I might despise them politically (And both are very opposite ends of the spectrum.) but they understood how to crack the nut and the product speaks for itself. They "got" how to make this work for the masses. In CTB every element keeps you in the world. There's humor but it's not "genre Hollywood" humor. And it never takes up so much space it undercuts the characters or actions they take. The production design, costuming and the script and performances is far less "low budget adventure movie" and closer to a mid budget "Epic" punching above it's weight class. The result is a world you totally buy into so much as you can with anything "fantastical". I saw an interview with Stone and his take was that the studios should have continued with Arnold and Mileus and approached it like Arnold's James Bond. Lock in a star and creatives and then every three or four years pump out a new Conan entry. I really wish we were in that alternate universe.

Arnold gave us many movie treasures ❤

They used the theme in the teaser trailer for Gladiator. That was awesome.

I played this movie once with a new kitten in the room … after the last notes of the score faded away, I had a sabre-toothed tiger

Jen was spot on, the soundtrack is epic and really elevates this movie. Basil Poledouris was an amazing talent!

And steal a submarine.

Wind and the Lion...

You must be watching Shogun right now then. Absolutely epic. Hiroyuki Sanada is just chef's kiss. Jen needs to react to it.

@@ronweber1402That show quickly annoyed me with how much of a Brie´ish w-a-n-k it turned out to be. Treats the Portuguese missionaries like they are mustache twirling villains and the Japanese like they were born yesterday. But here comes England man from the future, riding his high horse over water to enlighten everyone on the things they should already know.

@@deathtoraiden2080 The irony to that, is that book version of Blackthorne was deeply ashamed of how backwards Europe was compared with Japan after his first few months assimiliating with their society.

It's the score that led me to this film in high school. A friend had it playing, and I had to know what it was for. So epic, the entire way through!

Basil Poledouris also composed the scores to Starship Troopers troopers and RoboCop. His soundtrack for all of those are epic, but especially Conan the Barbarian.

@@jrivademarjr those were some pretty epic soundtracks. But, they don't feel as complete, as in I saw an entire story in my mind from the entire score, as Conan the Barbarian. All before I ever saw the film.

I remember Total Recall’s opening credits and the “anvil” beat hitting. So heavy, and then Fear Factory’s Demanufacture’s album came out a cpl years later, that industrial metal sound. Awesome.

@@3Kings_Industries agreed. Overall probably his best score.

A few years ago, he was even transported to the modern day and had a number of misadventures as a distant ally of sorts to the Avengers, but even moreso with Doctor Strange.

"That is good."

@@theriomrasputin8233 She was a very good dancer.

@@theriomrasputin8233 She was also one of the lead dancers in All That Jazz.

What kinda weird family you thinking about lol.

@@Fatherofheroesandheroines The kind that went to PG-rated fantasy films in the 80s.

There was no such thing as PG-13 until 1985 and Temple of Doom, so before then a movie was either G, PG or R. For it to be R, had to have blood, language and nudity (sexualized). There are so many PG movies that have full frontal nudity but not in a sexual context (such as bathing or a prank). Sheena comes to mind with this.

@@taylemgames2652 Yes, but the change for Conan's sequel was specifically to gain a larger audience with younger people in it. Hence why I saw it at 10 years old in a theater full of other kids and parents.

Don't forget Red Sonja was suppose to be the 3rd Conan film Then Arnold said no. They lost the rights and did Red Sonja. Though Arnold is technically playing a later and more successful Conan under his other name. The reason? They didn't have the rights at that point for Conan.

I always thought it was the perfect prayer to Crom - It was Conan's attitude that Crom liked and why the prayer was answered.

@@waylandblack I kinda like to think Valeria told Crom, "If you don't let me help him now, then to hell with you"

In the novels, Krom gave you your breath and your will to live. After that, he was hands-off and everything else was up to you. That's why no one prayed to him; he didn't answer. Conan's prayer was a big exception.

The sword and sandel movies were another sub genre. Homoerotic gladiator movies.

And to think they wanted to go with a contemporary rock score from 70/80's (I think I read it was too expensive to license the music they wanted), it woudnt have been the same without the musical score.

@@warlockEd73Honestly, I feel like the popularity of LotR actually ended up HURTING the fantasy genre....at least most of the popular works became just slight variations on the world that Tolkein had created, and the overall creativity of the genre just kind of shrunk

Hundra is the Red Sonja movie we all deserved.

Star Wars is fantasy, not sci-fi. It doesn't meet the definition of a sci-fi story. Even George Lucas has said that "Star Wars isn't a science-fiction film, it's a fantasy film and a space opera".

This is what I'm saying!!! 🥳🥳🥳

​@@warlockEd73Me too, that was a cool time. Then the D & D cartoon came out in 1983.

@@warlockEd73 I don’t know if I would say better, but it’s definitely different. Hard to compare high fantasy to sword and sorcery.

You have the right of it. That is a mistranslation of the original German which is closer to ''that which doesn't destroy me makes me stronger". The popular perception of the quote always struck me as stupid, even as a kid for a thousand similar reasons like you mentioned.

I want to go to Arnold's home.

Is that how his illegitimate child came about? The housekeeper was just "cleaning his sword"?

@@Cheepchipsable Vocês não deixam passar nada......🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

It seems that Arnold sold it a few years ago to Rob Liefeld.

@@Rigedana I no longer want to go to Arnold's home.

I’ve always wondered if WWE tag team Demolition’s members names of Ax and Smash weren’t taken from these two Conan characters. 🤔

No wonder Jay & Silent Bob were so scared of LaFours…. He was the only mall security guard who could take on Conan in a fight.

Basil Poledouris, absolutely epic :D

Excalibur, one of my childhood favorites!

Don't forget "Masters of the Universe"

No, it had already started the year before.

Aw man I used to watch that all the time when I was younger, I rewatched it a few years ago and you know, that dragon still looks pretty good after all these years.