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Conan: The Barbarian. If you do not like this movie, then the hell with you!

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PhoncipleBone

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http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/01/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-conan-barbarian/

Reading this article today makes me want to watch the movie again. This movie is just too awesome.

And it still has one of the greatest opening themes of any film:
Intro narration and title theme

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Schwarzenegger in his prime.

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He gets the women.

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Subotai>all of you

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Mako being his normal awesome self.

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James Earl Jones continues his streak of awesome villains. Cmon, his fucking name is Thulsa Doom. Villains dont get much cooler names.

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Schwarzenegger will end you.

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I ask you this GAF: What is good in life?
 
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Discotheque

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LOL his prayer to Crom was amazing. God I loved this film. Way better than Willow, NeverEnding Story, Krull and all that crap fantasy back in the day.

Talking about it makes me pray to Crom for a King Conan film with a grizzled old Arnold. And if it never gets made, then to hell with him!
 
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Salazar

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Discotheque said:
LOL his prayer to Crom was amazing. God I loved this film. Way better than Willow, NeverEnding Story, Krull and all that crap fantasy back in the day.
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C'mon, man. Conan can get love without taking it away from Krull.
 
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spiderman123

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Discotheque said:
LOL his prayer to Crom was amazing. God I loved this film. Way better than Willow, NeverEnding Story, Krull and all that crap fantasy back in the day.

Talking about it makes me pray to Crom for a King Conan film with a grizzled old Arnold. And if it never gets made, then to hell with him!
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Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to HELL with you!
 
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antonz

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Certainly awesome and the music was so awesome even Nintendo fewlt it would be good tied with Zelda
 
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spiderman123

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crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women

NO ONE SAYS LAMENTATION like Arnold.
 
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Bregor

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spiderman123 said:
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women

NO ONE SAYS LAMENTATION like Arnold.
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Except maybe Ghenghis Khan.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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spiderman123 said:
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women

NO ONE SAYS LAMENTATION like Arnold.
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Took long enough.

Crom is disappointed GAF. Although viciouskillersquirell will be spared for the first quote.
 
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Spire

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The most masculine movie ever made. I wish to god Hollywood had the balls to make films like this again.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Discotheque said:
Talking about it makes me pray to Crom for a King Conan film with a grizzled old Arnold. And if it never gets made, then to hell with him!
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As long as the Austrian Oak lives, there is still hope. I highly doubt it would happen, but if Arnold were to get his ass back into shape, grow a crazy old man beard, and return to Conan I would die happy.
 
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spiderman123

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PhoncipleBone said:
As long as the Austrian Oak lives, there is still hope. I highly doubt it would happen, but if Arnold were to get his ass back into shape, grow a crazy old man beard, and return to Conan I would die happy.
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I don't know they will CGI the shit out of it.
 
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Ripclawe

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RE: john Milius

As a director, Milius can seem like a bit of a disappointment. After Conan, he made the fondly-remembered-for-pure-insanity-of-its-premise Red Dawn, and his career quickly settled into the Frankenheimer trajectory of TV movies and wise-old-film-sage talking head-ness.

But explore along the margins, and Milius has an incredible career of adding an essential dose of awesome to great projects. He co-wrote Apocalypse Now, and arguably had more perspective on the material than Coppola did.

He’s generally credited with writing the famous “Indianapolis” speech in Jaws, and many of Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry one-liners. He was vaguely involved in Rome; you can see echoes of the best elements of Conan in that show.
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And best of all, he was the basis for John Goodman’s character in The Big Lebowski.
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The hell?? Why is this man not more celebrated??? He wrote badassery!
 
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NotWii

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Black Lotus, Stygian! The best!
Crom smiles upon this thread

I only discovered a few weeks ago that there is a longer soundtrack with the unreleased music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJFDnVwOmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-e3ToZo5so is actually a song called 'Como Poden'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ZhiRQa3Qc

There's also a bunch of performances of the music, apparantely Basil Poledouris wasn't happy with the way certain instruments sounded on the film score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTPf0g4h9s Basil conducted one performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2f83GdJb8 but there are others!
 
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PhoncipleBone

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spiderman123 said:
I don't know they will CGI the shit out of it.
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Depends on who makes it. Part of me wants Arnold to make this his swan song to acting. Perhaps go out with a bang with either Milius or Cameron directing. Or perhaps Verhoven. Damn, a Paul Verhoven Conan movie would be BRUTAL.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Wii said:
Black Lotus, Stygian! The best!
Crom smiles upon this thread

I only discovered a few weeks ago that there is a longer soundtrack with the unreleased music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJFDnVwOmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-e3ToZo5so is actually a song called 'Como Poden'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4ZhiRQa3Qc

There's also a bunch of performances of the music, apparantely Basil Poledouris wasn't happy with the way certain instruments sounded on the film score
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRTPf0g4h9s Basil conducted one performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw2f83GdJb8 but there are others!
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WTF!? WANT! NOW!
 
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Plumbob

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I do not like it because I have not had the chance to see it and form an opinion.

To hell with me????

(I bought it on DVD a while back, maybe I'll watch it this weekend)
 
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NotWii

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Plumbob said:
I do not like it because I have not had the chance to see it and form an opinion.

To hell with me????

(I bought it on DVD a while back, maybe I'll watch it this weekend)
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Watch NOW
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Plumbob said:
I do not like it because I have not had the chance to see it and form an opinion.

To hell with me????

(I bought it on DVD a while back, maybe I'll watch it this weekend)
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Weakling. Stop posting on GAF and watch it now. No interruptions. This movie will put hair on your chest.
 
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Subitai

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You guys read any of the books?


Anyway, they don't make movies like this anymore. I remember seeing the Conan show at Universal Studios in California when they had one back in 1986.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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Subitai said:
You guys read any of the books?


Anyway, they don't make movies like this anymore. I remember seeing the Conan show at Universal Studios in California when they had one back in 1986.
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I like your name and avatar. Crom smiles upon you.

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Me too.
Though Poliderous was great in that too.
Basil Poliderous is one the best human ever, yes.
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Agreed. His "Starship Troopers" score is badass too.
 
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hylje

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Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth.
Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel.
Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters,
but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men.
Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery.
You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
 
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viciouskillersquirrel

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Fun fact: Thanks to the weird pronunciation in the Conan the Barbarian cartoon, I thought the name of his god was Crum. I always pictured him as being a bread-themed superhero.
 
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PhoncipleBone

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viciouskillersquirrel said:
Fun fact: Thanks to the weird pronunciation in the Conan the Barbarian cartoon, I thought the name of his god was Crum. I always pictured him as being a bread-themed superhero.
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Conan:The Adventurer opening credits

God, I still remember the theme song to the cartoon for the most part, and I almost never watched it as a kid because it never matched the awesomeness of Schwarzenegger.
 
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