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Post by judgejosephdredd on Jan 20, 2018 21:03:35 GMT
Of what? He's only ever had one good movie, and even then they had to radically change the character and his background. the first Conan movie is better than any formulaic, conveyer belt MCU movie. Not to mention the glorious music of Conan 1 and 2, there is more manliness and adventure in one bar of this soundtrack than in all of kiddy Marvel. Listen and grow a pair! Conan The Barbarian(1982) is a fine sword and sorcery movie, but as an adaptation of the comic and original stories its a disaster and a middle finger to fans who were well versed into the character before the movie. Conan as portrayed by Arnold is even a total wuss compared to his literary counterpart - For starters, he is not even a real barbarian he's a freed slave who learned everything from civilization. Literary Conan was a full-on barbarian who was born on the battlefield and was raised to fight, kill, and trick by his own people and their associates. At a young age he was already pissing off warlords, stealing from kings, and slicing and dicing demonic beasts (No way would this guy die in his first movie via crucifiction and be resurrected by a wizard, he'd slaughter Thulsa Doom and his men by himself in less than an hour). He is also, unlike Arnold's rendition, not a man of few words and freely speaks his mind as he wishes. He is also very complicated and perplexing - Civilized customs are foreign to him, yet he has a philosophy that is more sophisticated than the rest of the world with their warring religions; if he is real then he is real, if he is an illusion than he is no less of one, if there is an afterlife waiting for him then there is if there isn't so be it, no matter the turn out he is who he is and lives, loves, slays, and he is content with all that. Arnold's Conan also prays to Crom for help when going to war when in the literary source Conan and his people cannot pray to Crom because Crom is not the kind of deity who appreciates that - he expects ALL his followers to fend for themselves and if they request his help he'll call them weak and send nothing but doom their way. Truthfully, Arnold played a better Mr. Freeze than he did as Conan, he was just in a better movie. And yes, I am speaking the truth. Before Mr. Freeze got revamped for the Batman animated show in the 90's with a tragic backstory he was a one-note, goofy, OTT villain who made ice puns, dressed in snowy robes, and took glee in destroying lives. Arnold certainly played that in Batman & Robin, with an added dose of the animated show's backstory, so yes he did better as Freeze than as Conan when you compare how true he stayed with the character's roots and all. |
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