![]() I didn’t like Leo Howard as young Conan.The shaky camera used in the young Conan vs.Where are the guards? A Celtic hill fort again would have been more appropriate. These supposedly bad ass barbarians live in a village that can be attacked easily.Some wool tartans and Celtic mustaches would have gone a long way. The Cimmerians were barbarians, not cavemen.Maybe the film makers wanted some sort of connection to Thundarr the Barbarian’s sidekick Ookla the Mok. Made me think of the Wookie defense on South Park. Ron “the Jewish barbarian” Perlman’s disguised as a Wookie.The Lord of the Rings pastiche opening was truly amateur looking with the papier mache stars.Very influenced by the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Take home impression: This is a SyFy Channel movie with a big budget. That converts to it being steam and I wasn’t going to do an eight-mile bike ride the way I planned. I was thinking of blowing it off, but it got to 91 degrees today with a dew point of 72 degrees. I am on vacation and had planned on seeing it. I have been meaning to run this for some time and thought why not now? So, let us travel back to 2011: I put it up at the old Conan forum which is now gone. I wrote this review of Conan the Barbarian (2011) on Septemimmediately after seeing the movie. ![]()
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