Tag: fantasy
Conan the Barbarian (Marcus Nispel, 2011)
by Daniel Swensen on Sep.09, 2011, under Movies, Reviews
Watching the 2011 Conan, I came to the glum realization that Robert E. Howard’s grim barbarian might not be all that adaptable to film. The Conan of Howard’s stories “lives, loves, slays, and is content,” but that sort of aimless wandering doesn’t make for good film — or at least not the kind of film Hollywood will actually produce. The temptation to squeeze in some sort of world-saving or paternal revenge plot (or, in this case, both at the same time) is simply too great.
Hey, this looks awesome! Is this in the movie? No. No, it isn't.
Let me start off by saying that I am not an impartial audience. I went into Conan 2011 with the feeling that it would not hold a candle to the 1982 Milius film. I felt the same way coming out of it. Conan 2011 would have worked better if they’d just called it The Scorpion King III.
