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'The legacy of the epic film has beginnings before even sound was included with motion pictures. DeMille stereotyped certain qualities of these films and because of their great popularity with audiences they are produced up to the present day. They are getting increasingly digitalized, though, so actual fabrications of colossal temples and crowds of thousands of extras are increasingly less de riguer. This part of the Conan saga does not include any gradiose battle sequence. Most of the martial conflicts occur on a limited scale; Conan versus a squadron and some dueling. Needless to say, they were done with a minimal of further digitalization. So that leaves the gathering of thousands of the believers of the despotic mage. These sequences are done with extensive numbers of acting personnel; as possibly thousands of them file to the mountain temple as obeisance to the snake-charmer tyrant that has mesmerized them to submission. These enormous gatherings are what produces the epic feeling of the film. Except for them, this would still be a well-crafted movie about the barbarian. Some of the interior sequences, though they feature auccessful stunt work, costumes and acting, have an edge of pastiche that would suffer for being credible if not for the immensity of the gathered throng. The music and costuming also are supportive of the film's epic aura. There are some measures that sound thin and strained at keeping up with the fierce pace of action and certain costumes that seem to have been pulled from a rack, not exactly worn for months with no bathing. But they are still never less, done to a convincing enough degree. If any component replaces the epic battle, that would be the element of magic as part of the story. Conan's childhood as a slave to the tyrant barbarian has no suggestion of the occult, only the brutally primeval. But the sense of other-worldliness begins to be depicted as Conan answers riddles put to him and then gets mysteriously freed. The component of magic continues to be reificated 'til a wizard actually raises Conan from the dead to continue his quest to rescue a princess that the tyrant has enslaved hypnotically. The component of magic does not have a central place to the story, as the characters go on living and dying anyway. And except for the sequence about the mage resurrecting Conan, the magic depicted stays on a parlor level; hypnotism and potions instead of flying and digital weightlessness.'Read full review
This movie is definately one of my favorites. Based on the Robert E. Howard stories of his imagined Hyborean Age, this is keynote film in the Sword-and-Sorcery genre. There have been many to imitate, but none to ever duplicate the one and only Conan the Barbarian! An extremely well-done film: the cast, the action, the music, the story - they all make this an absolute MUST SEE! I'm proud to have this one as part of my personal collection and rewatch it often. Thank you for taking the time to read my review, I hope that it was helpful - please take a moment and rate it accordingly. Be fair and take care out there...
One of my favorite movies, some great action and an even better storyline. Conan must get revenge on the man who killed his parents and all his people and then enslaved him for his entire young life. Conan: Thief, Warrior, Conquerer.