Conan The Barbarian Returns To Theaters For 40th Anniversary

[Peter Paltridge]

A generation of tough-guy action movies were defined in 1982 with the release of Conan The Barbarian to theaters. Now, multiple decades later, you can see all of Arnie’s muscles up close as Conan and his sword return to the big screen for two nights only, courtesy of Fathom Events.
After the release of Conan, Arnold Schwarzenegger became the default action movie hero for the next ten years, a position that would be solidified with 1984’s The Terminator. It was eventually just assumed at some point that any action movie would include a guy with an Austrian accent in the lead (either that or a mumbling, incoherent man who looked like Rocky). It all started here.
Following his parents’ savage murder, young Conan (Schwarzenegger) is captured by the cold-blooded Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) and spends the next fifteen years in agony, first chained to the Wheel of Pain and then enslaved as a Pit Fighter. Rather than allowing this brutal fate to conquer him, Conan builds an incomparable...

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[MarcButler]

There had been so many attempts to remake this movie like the Jason Momoa remake. Nothing beats the Original with Arnold. Arnold will always be Conan, The terminator and the eraser. Stop remaking his movies. Nothing beats the original.

 

[earth 2 batman]

Grace Jones' appearance in this movie made me realize I am attracted to tall Amazonian women.

 

[Fillio1999]

The OG Conan is a fantastic epic with a fantastic score, a stellar cast, and stunning photography. Nothing has changed since I first saw it on VHS in the 1980s; it was incredible. The film only improves with time; it does not age. The 2011 remake is a heinous crime that has no place in society.

 

[DuskyUser]

It is not attempt to remake the 1982 film! The original source material was written by Robert E. Howard in the 1930's and is leaps and bounds better than Arnold's Conan. Howard's original creation is intelligent — he knew several different languages, and was cunning and witty. As agile as a panther and not some big, dumb slow-moving oaf. He was never a slave — Howard's Conan would never let that happen. Do not get wrong, I really like the '82 movie, it is a great sword and sorcery movie, but if the world knew Howard's Conan it could probably be up there with Tolkien in terms of perceived greatness.