"Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of their women"
Today's 80's movie is the 1982 action flick Conan The Barbarian. Interestingly enough, this is both the second time an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie has been one of my "80's Month" reviews and this one also appeared on my "10 Arnold Schwarzenegger Movies Everyone Should See" list.
Schwarzenegger plays Conan who is, as the title would suggest, a barbarian. at a young age his village is raided and most of the people are killed, including his parents, with Conan being an exception. Instead he is taken as a slave and put to work pushing a big wheel around for several years. Once he's all grown up and super buff he's trained to be a gladiator and after a while he's freed. After a strange encounter with a witch, Conan decides to search for the man who killed his parents all those years ago Thulsa Doom (played by James Earl Jones). Along the way Conan befriends a thief named Subotai (played by Gerry Lopez) and a woman named Valeria (played by Sandahl Bergman). Eventually its revealed that Doom is actually the leader of a cult and he can also transform into a giant snake, as well as, shoot snakes like arrows... Yea some parts of the movie are pretty weird but it's entertaining and in the end, of course, Conan kills Doom.
Overall, it's a fun action movie with some quotable lines and the casting of a 30-something Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan couldn't have been more perfect. A big box-office success, the film also lead to a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984.
I wouldn't call this a great movie but I do enjoy it.
I give it a 3.5 out of 5.
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Schwarzenegger plays Conan who is, as the title would suggest, a barbarian. at a young age his village is raided and most of the people are killed, including his parents, with Conan being an exception. Instead he is taken as a slave and put to work pushing a big wheel around for several years. Once he's all grown up and super buff he's trained to be a gladiator and after a while he's freed. After a strange encounter with a witch, Conan decides to search for the man who killed his parents all those years ago Thulsa Doom (played by James Earl Jones). Along the way Conan befriends a thief named Subotai (played by Gerry Lopez) and a woman named Valeria (played by Sandahl Bergman). Eventually its revealed that Doom is actually the leader of a cult and he can also transform into a giant snake, as well as, shoot snakes like arrows... Yea some parts of the movie are pretty weird but it's entertaining and in the end, of course, Conan kills Doom.
Overall, it's a fun action movie with some quotable lines and the casting of a 30-something Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan couldn't have been more perfect. A big box-office success, the film also lead to a sequel, Conan the Destroyer, in 1984.
I wouldn't call this a great movie but I do enjoy it.
I give it a 3.5 out of 5.
Have a suggestion for a review?
Leave it in the comments below.
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