Basil Poulidoris the GOAT

@@benschultz1784 A hairy, muscled, war GOAT!

Ever. Takes this movie from a 3 to a 7 singlehandedly.

I find the entire movie quite well-made. Now the sequels (The Destroyer, Red Sonja) are another story.

@@Dunlop-hg2ql still better than jacksons tolkien desecrations

The creation of Conan the Barbarian is surrounded by a multitude of rumors and theories, some of which are as legendary as the stories themselves. Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan, was known to be a complex individual who died young under tragic circumstances. There are intriguing statements and anecdotes about the creation of Conan's tales that suggest Howard was engaging in something akin to remote viewing of the past. Consider this theory: many legendary stories that captivate us might have origins rooted in forgotten or misunderstood histories. Take Conan as an example. One commentator on a post about the Conan movies insisted that the story is completely fictional. But what if there's more to it? They speculated that the Sons of Aryas-often equated with Aryans-originated from India, later migrating to Europe, bringing the horse with them, and eventually evolving into the Vikings. There might even have been an ancient civilization like Atlantis. These Sons of Aryans, or pro-Aryans, could be a real people, providing a grain of truth behind the fiction. This idea isn't to say that Conan was real, but rather to highlight a well-known storytelling technique: embedding truths within fiction. Aliens serve as a great example of this method. For decades, movies have portrayed aliens as real entities. Recent Senate hearings have claimed that the U.S. government possesses twelve UFOs, allegedly recovered from ancient tombs and crash sites. Intelligence agencies have hinted at the existence of Atlantis and the Sons of Aryas. Now, factor in the story of how Conan was written. Robert E. Howard claimed he would have vivid visions of Conan, who would appear to him at night, demanding that he write the story of his life. Howard even suggested that Conan would terrorize him if he didn't write about the time before recorded history. There are numerous fantasy stories about barbarians, yet somehow, Howard's works have transcended them all. The Conan saga has inspired more movies, comics, books, and video games than any other fantasy series, with only J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings coming close to its scope. The enigma of Conan the Barbarian lies not just in the character himself but in the mysterious and almost mystical way his stories came to be. Whether through remote viewing of a forgotten past, an extraordinary imagination, or perhaps something else entirely, Robert E. Howard's Conan has become a legend that blurs the line between history and myth.

it might not be as fictional as we thought, a lot of weird shit was going on in the younger dryas period that we are only just now learning about

@@JohnSmith-wl8ts I assure you, none of it involved snake-men or flying apes. Robert E. Howard was an expert in history and geography, which is why his world seems so real, but it is fiction.

@@DarkVeghetta you were there?, damn you're old as shit

Yeah, like "Middle Earth" in the LOTR stuff. Same thing - fictional.

More like the Terminator heads off Darth Vader.

@@jefferywarburton2116 🤣🤣

Ming the Merciless too 21:32

Poor James Earl Jones. Nobody wants to be his son. First Luke denies him, and two years later Conan.

@@donkfail1 Simba fell for it but, perhaps that's drawing conclusions.

I just thought THAT was supposed to be an angel of some kind.

In fact she's one of the most mythologically-accurate Valkyries in pop culture. Valkyries weren't badass warrior chicks. They didn't fight in the battles themselves when they came to bring someone to Valhalla. Rather, the Norse saw them as all the little changes in fortune that were the difference between life and death on the battlefield. Like if your sword broke, or your opponent's bootlace came undone, making him stumble. That's EXACTLY what Valeria does when she intervenes in the fight against Rexor: She makes his stroke go wide, and then blinds him. It's physically dramaticized for the audience's benefit, but she's not ACTUALLY fighting him. That's why Conan himself isn't sure if he actually saw her or not. Instead, she gives Conan the opportunity he needs to finish the job himself.

@@Ambaryerno Well it isn't really "EXACTLY" what Valeria did - That is your theory. It is a fantasy movie . There is no reason to think that Valeria was shown just for the audience. - A guy turned into a snake in this film. The reason Conan wasn't sure if he had seen her or not is because 1) She's supposed to be dead - and 2) She disappeared immediately after she spoke to him. If she was never really there, - Or was just a twist of fate - That would mean Conan would not have seen her at all, or even heard what she said to him. There is no way Rexor could swing wide. Conan was on the ground, and Rexor was bringing the sword down on him. - We saw what happened. - Even Rexor looked at Valeria in disbelief. It doesn't need to be 'Rationalized' - using Norse mythology Conan is a mish-mash of various mythologies - It doesn't try to depict any of them with any type of accuracy. It just blends them all together, and creates its own.

Wasn't Valeria just one of the women in the group Iron Maidens in the comics? His romance was with the leader of that group wasn't it? Or am I just getting confused it's been decade's since I've read

@@Oz349 Valeria may have appeared in some of the Marvel comics, but she first appeared in the last Conan story Howard wrote before his suicide. I don't think she was part of a group, though.

but it's a comedy too. Do you think him punching the camel or falling with his head in the bowl... isn't comedy? The film is full of deliberately comical moments.

@@erosgritti5171 Just because a movie has some humorous scenes doesn't mean it's a COMEDY overall.

@@viceversar-do1cn - Yeah... I didn't last long watching this. Her: "I just can't with this movie..." Me: "I just can't with this reaction... byeee".

Read some Conan stories. They're kinda funny too. This movie does lose a step.

@@viceversar-do1cn Doesn't have to be 'overall.' Films are multiple genres.

Aku in Samurai Jack as well

RIP Mako.

And master Splinter in the animated TMHT movie

Also because he said he saw "infinity". Soon after that Doom asks, "which of you won't embrace oblivion?" or something like that. Conan improvised when asked what he saw in the water and guessed poorly.

@@BenWillyums But that lady didnt have time to run up all those stairs, run backstage, and tell Thulsa what Conan said. Thulsa could just sense that there was a traitor in the crowd.

@@TalaCruz After Conan hands over that jade crest (that he stole from the temple), you see them hand it off to a guard, who then moves quickly to inform others.

@@ElectricKnight. Yes I know. 🙂I was disagreeing with that guy who said that Conan got busted for what he said to the woman by the pool. But Conan didnt hand over the crest to someone, who then handed it to a guard.He was stopped by one guard, who took the crest from him - Then that same guard walked straight down the steps.He only showed it to Rexor and Thorgrim, who were waaay down the bottom platform.Then the 3 of them walked quietly up on Conan. At the same time as Thulsa came out, and immediately called out Conan.There is no way that any of them had time to tell Thulsa what was going on. ...Thulsa looked like he was ready to call him out, before he even stepped onto the balcony. So either he could sense a traitor with his powers - Or maybe someone found the dead priest earlier.

@@BenWillyums Yeah it wasn't infinity. I think the correct answer the cult was to embrace is nothingness.

sadly, the animated one, was never finished and did not get continued.... opposing those over-hyped hollywood blockbusters the animated one stayed true to the books...

don't forget the Marvel Comics of the 1970s -- Conan the Barbarian and The Savage Sword of Conan. those were cool.

@@Metzwerg74 Yeah, I LOVED the animated movie as a kid. It was such a rare treat to see it since you had to wait for it to be scheduled on regular TV programming. Which was almost never. As I understand it, the rotoscoping animation method was just too expensive at the time to make such a necessarily long movie. Did you ever see Fire & Ice? That was short enough in length that they managed to pull that one off.

Bed and breakfast in Isengart! 😊

Lord of the rings was started in WW1 or just after.

That is not really true. Fantasy has been in the movies since the 50s. What you see as what you think fantasy should be is based only on what you are familiar with. Conan is early 80s and would have gotten much of its inspiration from the 1950s book series and what they could do with early 80s filming. Star Wars is more fantasy but we don't think of it that way. Fantasy is speculative fiction involving magical elements. In literature this is old, hundreds of years but in movies we have seen them mostly since the 50s. LOTR had the benefit of being at a time that technology and filming techniques make fantasy movies for realistic looking. Before the late 90s there were many fantasy movies on the screen and made for TV. The Conan world honestly has never been done right to the books but the books are very hard to do in movie form. Like LOTR was hard Conan would be a crazy production. Many musicals from the 50s to the 70s were fantasy productions. Excalibur in 81 is probably my favorite fantasy film from this time. Conan had potential but needed a bigger production which probably would not have been possible at the time. LOTR had some attempts in animation but the estate really resisted allowing it to be turned into a motion picture.

@@rnkelly36 he said the key words "few" as in not the first or only, "films" as in not literature, and "respectfully" as in it took it seriously and didn't make it overly campy, childish, and the visuals were all done with care to make it look good. in other words, it was not the first movie to take adult or serious themes and well crafted visuals and writing in the fantasy genre, nor was it alone in doing so, but it is a rare gem for its time for doing so.

@@1Sky1 What we may consider as camp today was serious fantasy at the time. I can go with the world "few" but I would honestly say that few is small. Labyrinth, Willow, Dark Crystal, Dragonslayer, Krull, Highlander, Dune, Legend, Star Wars. Then you have things like The Thing, Abyss, Leviathan, Mad Max, Red Sonja, Inner Space, Clash of the Titans, Planet of the Apes and on and on. I would not consider them camp at the time but maybe today I would look back and think they were more campy. If you are under 40 you would be hard pressed to know 20% of the Fantasy genre. Many of the movies don't get played anymore. We moved on. As a matter of movie and entertainment history. the late 90s where Lord of the Rings and Star Wars Ep 1,2,3 sit was a time of major filming changes and the birth of VFX. With VFX and Digital Effects we have been able to really bring worlds alive that we just couldn't before so earlier films to us today seem not serious or campy. They were very serious and done with the best they had at the time. LOTR was just such a major jump in production costs and effects that it is a notable change in the game of movie making. At this time you had not only LOTR but Matrix and Star Wars Ep 123, Blade, Spiderman, Xmen and many others. What came before them built what they stand on. So "few" is questionable but a viewer of today would not know much of pre 1995 Fantasy/Sci Fi in the movies or even on TV. 1970s Spiderman movies were the greatest thing on TV at the time. Today I see them a little more camp. But they were serious attempts at comic book fantasy.

@@rnkelly36 i'm in some groups specifically for old sci fi, sword and sorcery, and fantasy movies. i gotta say man, for every excalibur or highlander you have a dozen barbarians barbarellas and flash gordons. they love the camp and there's a reason these movies were loved by them when they were little kids but the adults around them didn't gravitate towards these movies like they did conan or highlander

@@1Sky1 When I think of camp I think of Batman and Robin 1960s movie. Barbarella was camp and Flash Gordon really wasn't camp. There was not much comedy in Flash Gordon. Camp is really a difficult definition for movies to fall into because it really needs that comedy element and view that the movie is not taking itself seriously. The 1970s Spiderman seems camp but it really isn't. There are so many movies though between the late 40s to the 90s in the Fantasy/Fiction genre that are not camp. Like I said though younger viewers that are not familiar with older fantasy my see them as camp but honestly they were serious fantasy attempts made for the time. This made me look up the 1960s and Fantastic Voyage, The Time Machine, Magic Sword, Godzilla, Camelot, Bedazzled and so many more. Yeah today's fantasy seems serious in comparison but honestly there is so much out there we took as serious that look campy today.

Also there are smaller vultures too.

I wasn't aware that goths eat carrion. Learn something new every day.

Oh. I was wondering why it had black nail polish on it's beak.

Exactly. Never seem Trixy so disconnected from a character literaly crucified. Suffering... And she commenting about random things.

44:00 ok, for the First time I abbandoned a Trixie BLUE vídeo. I am in tears watching the best character coming from the Dead as a Valkyrie to save her Man, and ...

THOSE would probably make HER $h!t blood!

Probablemente le explotaría el "cerebro" Marvel y las películas de super héroes han hecho mucho daño... No quiero saber qué diría al ver tiempos modernos de Charles Chaplin o nosferatu...

She should watch Metropolis.

Children these days

Too used to cgi

Rob was writing these stories in the world of HP Lovecraft back in the Hyborian age when the Gods were more active ....The Conan stories are part of the Chuthulian Mythos

Not 100%, while Subatai calls him Cimmerian the ,Sumarian Empire was the earliest known civilization in human history! Zamora the city where they stole the Jewel from is real, it dates back to the Bronze age! There are many truths mixed with fantasy, its not entirely fictional!

@@maverick2242 You forgot to mention that there are horses in it - Horses are real. 🙄

@@TalaCruz , true🤣

Was hoping someone would mention the Lovecraft connection

All of his hero's were Barbarians, Kull, Conan.

@@VadulTharys Not so sure about Breckenridge Elkins.

​@@VadulTharysSolomon Kane wasn't a barbarian.

@@wiseguy01 in a way he was, not bound by society, or politics or civilization.

"Barbarian" meant litellary "uncivilized". For the greeks whoever didn't talk greek meant that it wasn't born in a greek city, which was the pinnacle of civilization for them. Robert Howard took this topic and reflected it in his Conan and Kull stories. Both barbarians who hated most of the aspects of civilization, they were barbarians, uncivilized, but for that same reason, more honest and true people, etc.

I find it a little sad. He's trying so hard in this movie and then Hollywood went... so... robot?

@@nimz8521 I'd say post-Terminator was when he turned into a mega-star, yeah. He was, though not exactly an unknown, certainly not THAT BIG when he did THIS movie.

It did introduce the "AGHAGHAGHAGHAGHHAGGGH" of the Three Arnold-isms, though.

She's a child, so cut her some slack.

You obviously didn't understand what she was saying, because @ 7:35 you STILL don't SEE anyone being sliced. You see Darth Vader swing and a prop drops in front of the kid. What Trixy was saying was that you don't see the blades actually cut flesh. So I believe YOUR words need to be eaten. lol.

@@patrickcromwell7554 37:08 and 48:01 then?

@@viceversar-do1cn Too late. I'm not even going to bother verifying that because that's what you did right?? You saw that you were wrong entirely and LOOKED for something to help you out?? Sorry too late.

@@patrickcromwell7554 "And looked for something to help you out....." Yeah - it's called PROOF. Trixy said 'Sliced and slain" Don't try to mis-quote her. As soon as someone proves you wrong you start freaking out, going into denial and acting neurotic. You sound like a 12 year old nerd with a personality disorder.

Blue was dead-on when she said it was immersive. The music is a big part of that.

A hardcore pron flick with Shakespearean actors

They were tuckered out and needed a rest between all the humping

Instead of saying "Oh look another bag of fake blood" Why don't we just say "Oh look another CGI Shot of fake blood" What's with the "Ha Ha Ha fake blood!" Aren't most movies fake blood? At least it's actual liquid, instead of fake looking digital.

can you imagine the nightmare to edit THAT reaction?!

Do you think she'd be able to stand the sight of the dwarf? 😂

Ever seen a flick called Shogun Assassin? THAT's about the age of THIS flick and it's jam crammed with spraying blood, in fact I believe it might even be the flick that ORIGINATED it.

It can depend. You won't get the firehose-like spray you see in many movies, but melee combat with these types of weapons was NOT clean or pretty, especially if you cut a major vein or artery (IE the carotid, jugular, and femoral, all of which are major targets in many schools of swordsmanship).

@@IanFindly-iv1nl Or possibly, that ending scene in Sanjuro (1962). At least, that's one of the oldest films I remember seeing it in.

Actually, there is such a thing as arterial spray. Hit a femoral or a carotid and you will DEFINITELY see it!

Apparently you have never heard of or seen an artery wound. The result can make a wall near the victim look like a Jackson Pollock painting.

We are old bud . So fucking old :(

@@mariovaudry6272 Only compared to a cheese, not to a tree.

Old enough to play Conan Monolith edition board game. Oldies play board games like me.

No that was just you rubbing them out in your bedroom with the VHS hooked up to the 12" TV.

​@@ronweber1402 Burned

People are usually a bit more restrained about those things when they're filming a reaction. They don't feel comfortable going into violent spasms of ecstasy, almost falling off their chairs, while they're on camera - Weird huh?

This is so slow, she is letting you know prefers fast and hard

@@davidward9737 HA!!

I'd hardly call THIS movie "puritanical". It's not purely Hollywood either (being it was an international co-production).

@@thewidget-nu9ou I didn't say any of that, I talked about classic Hollywood, during the 40s and 50s and the Hays Code

Ugh she's gonna hate Excalibur and giggle all the time. Still, it's interesting, and she's sincere with smart quips. Too bad she won't ever reply to reply to comments, nor even like them.

@@Gildizor Yeahh, now THAT movie, along with Beastmaster and Ator, was where it started getting SLEAZIER and more exploitative. Don't get me wrong though, I enjoy THOSE flicks too.

@@Gildizor Even Lucio Fulci, the Italian zombie movie king, did one of these called Conquest.

I watched several reactions, for some reason none of them appears to get that part. Kind of funny.

They came for steel and slaves. They got both.

@@awesomereviews1561 Exactly. And burning the homes draws them out of hiding.

it works if you are after metal goods or pottery.

First featured role. He was in a few movies before this one.

Right; first big role (tho highly featured in the Bodybuilding documentary, 'Pumping Iron').

He was cast in it because he was good friends with John Milius, the director.

Pumping Iron and The Villain are two other earlier films that I know of.

Arnold was almost 35 when he did Conan (in 1982); but he was 22 when he did Hercules in New York (back in 1969). So no not his first role NOR his first Feature.

Trixy sees boobs, forgets what she was saying... glad to know it isn't just me lol

ok that's funny. Land of imagination. Good one.

Stone only had the writing credit because of a legal thing buying the rights. Stone was going to do some post-apocalyptic version of Conan. So more like a Thundarr the barbarian movie.

The stories are fictional. The idea of the age before the flood is semi-real. Archaeology is starting to catch up but it’s hard to find ultra ancient stuff. Especially underwater. But google the meltwater pulses from the end of the last ice age. Science knows that the sea level rise around 400ft. Around the just before the known ‘dawn of civilization’ some 10,000 years ago. This is why Beringia was a place and the Native American proto Siberian people walked over. This is how the British isles were mostly occupied by people walking the sunken area called Doggerland. Indonesia to a large extent as well. Probpossibly Japan. This is why there is a standing stone structure under Lake Michigan. The reason there are formerly occupied caves under the Mediterranean in Levantine and along coastal France and places. We know civilizations often prefer to spring up along coasts and waterway points of interest. We know that anatomically homosapien us people evolved some 300,000 years ago and we are essentially the same brains with more knowledge access. It is unusual to the exactly known story that some of the oldest things like Gobekli Tepe and others are moderately well advanced and sometimes seem out of place. The reason why flood myth stories exist around the world independently from each other is real flooding sinking significant areas of landmass. Some of the best real estate on those landmasses , as modern historic shore is 400 ft uphill potentially hundred miles away. The first places humans significantly occupied are literally now underwater. Some form of civilizations are lost and there was a form of societal fleeing and reset in some regions. Those ancient stories are quite likely over embellished truths passed down from real environmental changes , some likely disastrous and cataclysmic to the first societies And Conan fits in there in this legitimate time period we don’t understand well enough too. If you forgive similar magical and divine embellishments. 😂 Probably metallurgic advancements and animal husbandry and megalithic structure, to column and arch levels , but we literally don’t know how far our blind spot is here, just presume.

Valeria is also one of the most mythologically-accurate depictions of the Valkyries in film. They weren't warriors. The Norse and Germanic people saw them as the little misfortunes that could kill you in combat (your sword breaking, the sun getting in your eyes at the wrong moment, etc.). And that's EXACTLY what she does to Rexor: First she makes his strike to kill Conan go wide, and then she blinds him. It's dramaticized for the audience by having her block his sword and then slash him with her own, but that's ultimately all she actually does: throwing Rexor off balance so Conan can regain his feet and finish the fight himself.

@@mokane86 You probably know this but just in case you didn't. There are some very old ruins off the coast of India and the Sahara Desert has some long climate cycle due to ocean currents that makes it super moist and 7,000 years ago it had lakes bigger than Lake Superior and an extensive river system.

Also, it helps to show that both Conan's father AND Doom were wrong about the Riddle of Steel: Conan's father was wrong because the events of the film proved that you CAN'T put all your trust in steel; not only was his father's sword stolen by Rexor, but it ultimately broke in their final battle. Nor do you need worry about men not being trustworthy. Conan couldn't have survived the film without the loyalty of Subotai and Valeria. And Doom was wrong, because there's something even STRONGER than flesh, and that's will. It was Conan's will that ultimately allowed him to defeat Doom; It helped keep him alive, it gave him his purpose, and it allowed Conan to shrug off Doom's final attempt to manipulate and control him.

@@Ambaryerno But Doom said He gave Conan the will to live. And he was right. He gave Conan the need for revenge, which drove Conan all through his life.

Sorry, butI don't think she picked up on much of anything in this movie.

Her reactions didn't make a lot of sense.. I'll give you that.

there were some pseudo-crossovers like the Tower of the Elephant (the elephant was pretty much spot on for a Mi-Go from Whisperer in the Dark), the Vale of the Lost Women, the Slithering Shadow, the Phoenix on the Sword, etc. While never specifically named Shoggoth, Mi-Go, etc., the descriptions are pretty much the same, which makes sense as Lovecraft and Howard were friends who corresponded and traded notes and story ideas back and forth quite a bit.

Another fun fact. Although Conan and Valeria have a romance, in reality their characters barely speak to each other throughout the film.

It's a good thing there is only one 'N' in your name - Otherwise you would be Unforgiven.

@@TalaCruz Too True. I would never do that, its as close I can go as a Homage.

as she announced on the beginning of the video, she has onlyfans, so she delivers all the goods she has there. this is just the display for it.

I don't know if it's my single favorite movie, but I think it's still, to this day, the best fantasy movie. To me, this completely blows The Lord of the Rings out of the water.

I saw the 2011 Conan once on TV, several years ago now, all I remember it was quite violent and it was a fun watch. I never thought of it as a bad movie. I don't know how well it did in the box office, but I am guessing not that good since we never got another one.

the irony is, as bad as the Momoa remake was Conan's origins in that movie were far, far closer to the novels than the Arnie one. Despite that, the Arnie Conan is the only one for me movie-wise :)

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"Dewey decimnal, I have never prayed to you before....."

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Wasn't that in VHS?

It's one of the movie spoofs in Weird Al's movie "UHF".

I think she said "Being selfish. and cults that do orgies"

To watch old movies, see me react to it and hear the lamentations of the patreons!

You have totally confused the Romans with the Greeks. Barbaric was a Greek word and was also used to refer to the Romans

@@erosgritti5171 apologies to Greece

PG17

@@creaturecaldwell9858 I may be mistaken , but PG17 didn't come out until later. And even if it was PG17....Disney? 😖 they ruined the " Star Wars " franchise . What more do they want ?

@guitarman8462 . It was PG17..I sneaked in the theater when I was twelve

@@creaturecaldwell9858 regardless , Disney ?🙄

I wonder if this girl has ever heard of Jack Lalane?

I believe she was referring to the time in which the movie was set not the time when it was filmed.

​@@nimz8521Oh. Good point. I'm sure men were relatively fit back then in order to hunt and survive. That was their gym. Nature. -OG

All you have to do is watch old footage of African tribes. They are all muscular and slim

That same meaning still applies today.

@@jimj9729 I know, but very few people know that.

There were some movies in the genre that preceded it in the 60s, but it definitely helped to popularize it in the 80s.

Excalibur, Dragonslayer, and Hawk the Slayer preceded THIS one. And I guess you could go further back and cite stuff like Sinbad flicks and whatever.

Never really thought about the equality aspect of this movie, great observation!

I'm not sure these aspects are precursors to the genre which followed though. Doom is a cult leader. It is part of his character to refer to those around him as 'My Child" and treat them as the 'loving father figure' - This is not a dynamic which exists between all villains in the genre....Also, the women Conan is given to breed with, are referred to as 'The finest stock'. ..I think as long as a woman has a sword, She might get some respect.

@@Wezwolf Maax of Beastmaster was absolutely a cult leader, as were many other villains in the genre. Also, Howard's views of women were...complicated. Belit, for instance, was introduced as virtually Conan's equal in combat and a badass pirate queen who EARNED command of her crew. And yet after she hooked up with Conan she suddenly becomes a damsel who completely submits herself to his will.

Better than *Twilight* that's for sure.

I'm a Millennial, born in the year this movie was made, and it's one of my all-time favorite movies, like within my top 3.

Atlantean sword.

The sad story is the actress ended up having bad mental illness and was committed to an institution.

@@manueldeabreu1980that is so sad. One of the most memorable scenes in the movie is where Conan loses his mom.

Kind of like how in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, there is never any shortage of hair product?

You do not know what the Opera is.

Arnold was still ripped from his bodybuilding days during filming with his final competition was in 1980.

Well I am not going to fight about it, but I prefer Blade Runner's soundtrack. Not that this one isn't among the best.

@@TrusteftReacts where do we meet to fight about it?

@@whispermason8052 550 Central Park West, 22nd floor. Just go to the apartment with the smoke and light coming out of the door.

I'm not trying to be mean ...but where did you hear that?

@@TalaCruz what do you mean, "god killer" was just areference to the comment, of Trixi, "atlantean sword" is directly from the movie... the track that plays when conan finds the sword, is named "The Atlantean Sword" in the soundtrack by Basil Poledoris. the thing with the meteorite metal, is mentioned in the books, comics and was even a main theme in the tv cartoon series.... just don´t ask which book it was, i would have to read them all again to find that....

@@Metzwerg74 Well then that's what I mean ... None of that information is in the movie.- So I was wondering where you heard it.

@@TalaCruz and with the old owner bowing his head, i referenced the head of the mummy that held the sword, falling of...

@@Metzwerg74 Yes, I know. That's an interesting interpretation.

Robert E Howard (1906-1936) wrote the Conan-stories in the 1930s. They were published in "pulp-magazines" at the time, printed on low quality paper, and thus cheap enough for youngsters to buy. Other authors have published Conan-stories later. In the 1970s Conan was published in comic-book format, with some new stories. The movie is closer to the comics than Howard's stuff. The film takes some liberties with Howard's source-materials. Conan is set in "The Hyborian Age", a fictional period of pre-history, most often dated to 10 000 BC. Howard used a lot of historical and mythological names in his stories.

@@HS-su3cf The biggest liberty the movie takes, and the only one that Conan fans were really upset about, is his origin story. Conan was never a slave in the books.