Comments on: Conan plot synopsis released!

By: LORICARIVS

LORICARIVS — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:59:15 +0000

The saddest thing about this and all the butchery of excellent now older films with terrible new remakes is that they actually appeal to the younger generation to whom it’s all new- and they get the perverted idea that Abram’s Star Trek is not utter crap, and Steve Martin’s Pink Panther is not a travisty and so on. Remakes and ‘re-tellings’ are so rarely good- mainly only when the original could stand a deal of improvement because it was made on the cheap, etc. I could count on one hand the truly superior remakes of the last 30 years. I have a horrible feeling this brutal ‘Conanesque’ (I can’t even bring myself to refer to it a a real Conan movie) offering will be just loved by the young and ignorant who simply don’t know any better…

By: Silver Fang

Silver Fang — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:02:04 +0000

I grew up with the 80s Conan films, but only liked the first one. I’ve read some of Howard’s original books and definitely agree that this script doesn’t sound like them. It seems to be more about the girl than about Conan. Can you say Mary Sue?

The sad thing is, I don’t think Howard’s bad-ass barbarian Conan will ever be put on film because the big studios want to be “famblee frendlee” and politically correct, which means dumbing everything down and cutting out the violence, sex and swearing so Mommy and Daddy can bring the kiddies to see good, heroic Conan wielding his sword to save the princess.

By: Caboose

Caboose — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:31:22 +0000

*facepalm*

By: Aquaman

Aquaman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:39:00 +0000

Wow! A heaping pile of sh#t! I hate to say it but I won’t be seeing this garbage.

By: Berkley

Berkley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:08:41 +0000

The Conan stories are true horror stories. Stark, living fear as steven king was quoted about the stories. The stories create that true sense of fear in the reader’s head. This synopsis shows no fear, just as the 80′s film had none. This is utter crap.
Its tough to watch other characters from comics and literature get faithful adaptations ( Batman, Ironman, lord of the rings, etc) and we REH fans are left with this mess. The story is terrible, casting is terrible and I am sure the rest will be terrible. Where is a good axe to swipe their heads!? Crom!!

By: Fayric

Fayric — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:53:32 +0000

Ha, this movie is becoming the one great enemy everyone can join up an bash. Before the character outline was revealed basicly everything exept the genuine REH text was put down. Now even the Decamp and Marvel Conan is considered decent!

By: GP

GP — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:02:13 +0000

in 2 days you have one coment that is not an attack, this is the oldest and most beloved of all sword and sorcery characters. There are plenty of great Conan stories, hundreds of good ones, and even more decent ones.
Instead you have chosen to butcher the backstory again, REH only ever said that Conan was born on a battlefield. Since the 1930s people have paid money to read Conan in one form or another, when marvel got the franchise the first thing they did was revisit REHs stories and they were great, even the Decamp and later writers stories had the comon decency to not mess with the character. After all Conan has been around for 70 years based on the merrits of Arnold Swartzeneger right, couldn’t possibly be that the character was writen well by his creator. the first Conan movie should be a warning to others. Hollywood is a town full of people who believe in themselves when that belief is foundless.if they could really write they would not allow their work to be sent to hollywood before it was published somewhere respectable.

By: Yakinthos Sekeris

Yakinthos Sekeris — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:51:09 +0000

Seriously , why dont WE all write a draft of a new script and submit it to Paradox?…

I am pretty sure that every single one of us will do a lot better work than this crap!!!!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:24:03 +0000

Auughh! thanks for clearing that up for me Kike, and here I thought the movie was improving hahaha well so much for my slender hopes.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:20:29 +0000

Perhaps I can draw parallels between us and Conan. Imagine Conan standing high above the landscape surveying the ongoing hills. He yearns to experience life beyond those hills. And we yearn to experience REH’s Conan not Hollywoods written on the back of a napkin experience. The really good movies not only entertain you but they make feel something afterwards. Thats what I would have liked to feel the adventure, to feel like i have somekind of understanding of who Conan is. In a very real and realistic way. I guess I want the movie to make me want to live in Conan’s world.