SaltwaterServr
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Conan The Barbarian Trailer
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This role is custom made for Jason Momoa. I enjoyed his role as Ronon on Stargate Atlantis: lots of hand-to-hand fighting, swordplay and very little dialogue.
Newcomers may find him a bit smaller for the role of Conan, but it's probably because Arnold Schwarzenegger's image has been so ingrained into us. He does have the physique to pull it off.
Newcomers may find him a bit smaller for the role of Conan, but it's probably because Arnold Schwarzenegger's image has been so ingrained into us. He does have the physique to pull it off.
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It goes without saying that the special effects will be greatly improved in this new version, but I can't for the life of me imagine that any other part of this movie won't be greatly disappointing.
The actor playing Conan is too scrawny, to coherent, and too damn pretty.
Lame. I'll watch the originals again...and again. See sig.
The actor playing Conan is too scrawny, to coherent, and too damn pretty.
Lame. I'll watch the originals again...and again. See sig.
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DallasEast;3971368 said:
If you read the books, the Schwarzenegger style Conan is actually the one that's off. Conan is described, not as some muscle pumped bear, but as a panther. IIRC Schwarzenegger lost 30-40 pounds for the second film, as well. The Conan films were kinda turgid potboilers anyway, so this new one has a low bar to shoot for.
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kmp77;3971566 said:
My beef with the film comes largely because of changes made from the books. Milius (who I usually like or appreciate) made some really dumb changes, imo. Conan as a slave, worked endlessly to bulk up? Nothing like that in the books. In the books Conan was a dexterous, sometimes foolhardy teenager, come south to escape trouble and make his fortune. Etc.
Milius added all sorts of junk to the movie, stuff that wasn't that helpful. Guess he felt the need to whizz on it, to leave his mark.
The trailer for the new one is not impressing me. Momoa looks just fine, but I suspect the new producers/director will be doing their own bit of whizz bang on it. Hope it turns out to be okay, despite the 'actioneer of the week' trailer campaign.
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In the books, Conan was supposed to be near 7 foot and very muscular. This casting does not fit that but then again, it would be hard to find anybody who fits that.
He was also not particularly attractive in the books. This casting doesn't fit that at all. That's Hollywood.
He was also not particularly attractive in the books. This casting doesn't fit that at all. That's Hollywood.
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Hmm. Doesn't get me all that excited to see it.
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ABQCOWBOY;3973643 said:
He's referred to as a panther.... Not exactly the bear that he was in the first film. Even if you were to take that as a jaguar (pretty much the most muscled up of the big cats), it's not exactly Arnold. Not that I really have complaints against him, he plays tough real well. And has comedic timing! Who would have guessed?
Yeah, you do have to throw out anything like the 7' requirement.
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Well, looks like both views have the day! Depends on the era it appears.
"...Conan is described as standing 6 feet (1.8 m) and weighing 180 pounds (82 kg) when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown. Although Conan is muscular, Howard frequently compares his agility and way of moving to that of a panther."
and,
"During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.""
It was also mentioned that no man was ever described as stronger than Conan, though some where noted to be bigger or larger.
"...Conan is described as standing 6 feet (1.8 m) and weighing 180 pounds (82 kg) when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown. Although Conan is muscular, Howard frequently compares his agility and way of moving to that of a panther."
and,
"During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.""
It was also mentioned that no man was ever described as stronger than Conan, though some where noted to be bigger or larger.
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zrinkill;3973755 said:
Wow...they wrote a book after the movie?
Looks like Chachi the Barbarian to me.