Why was Conan the Destroyer hated? I fucking love this film. It's like a fun RPG quest line from a video game but in movie form
>Warrior rides into town
>gets spit on by a camel and knocks it out
>Meets the Queen
>She's kind of suspicious and weird, but she has a quest for you to do
>accept
>pick up a bunch of party members, like a rogue, and a mage
>go adventuring
>kill a wizard in a tower
>come back to the queen
>"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha" turns out she was playing you
>kill the horrific demon she summons and kill her and rescue the princess
>the end
Fucking love it
Why was Conan the Destroyer hated? I fucking love this film...
Joshua Nguyen
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Ryan Brown
Sword & sorcery flicks are my guilty pleasure, and I really like Destroyer. I watch it at least twice a year.
I believe it was hated due to the studio insisting on a family-friendly Conan. Which meant no nudity or gore. The director, Richard Fleischer, wasn't happy about that, and tried to make it as hard as he could. It was a 15 cert in the UK, but a PG-13 in the US. I hear there were many cuts to the picture, with a removed love scene between Taramis and Conan.
Henry Rogers
It was kino. Autists hate it because they physically can't enjoy something without gore and sex.
Justin Ramirez
I didn't realize people hated it. One of my favorite movies.
Lincoln Ortiz
I love it too OP. And of course it isn't as good as Barbarian, and that's fine with me. the soundtrack is great, yes it's mostly redoing themes from the first movie but it does add some nice original stuff. Parts of it seem cheesy or cheap, but the entire design of the palace and that climactic sequence with the awakening horned god is amazing in my opinion.
I like Red Sonja too, it's the spiritual sequel to Destroyer. Fun movie, some cool sets and fantasy action, just a fun movie.
Conan the Barbarian is far and away the greatest movie of its genre ever and nothing can really touch it. There's no movie quite like it. The other Conan-esque Arnold movie are still worth watching.
Bentley James
>with a removed love scene between Taramis and Conan.
We truly missed out on some sex scene kino
Anthony Sanchez
I accidentally said "fun movie" twice in the same sentence.
Anyway I forgot to mention that Red Sonja has a pretty good score also, it was done by Ennio Morricone.
Angel Mitchell
yeah i agree.
its not as grande as the first one or as competently made, but its still a neat little story with all the good fantasy tropes.
and the lovecraftian god they tried to bring back was the icing on the cake.
Henry Cruz
People were expecting philosophical kino of the highest caliber like Barbarian but were met with a fun S&S popcorn flick.
It's not that the movie was bad, its just not what people expected.
Dylan Sullivan
because the first one was a masterpiece while the sequel was a wacky mcdonalds.
Isaiah Robinson
I can't name a single line from the second one.
Justin Evans
>the real patrician's choice for conan movies
Levi Reed
but you sure as shit remember the scene when ahnuld ko´s a camel with one punch.
Evan Brown
Mcfucking kill yourself
Joshua Gutierrez
morricone made the score for that one? weird.
Benjamin Carter
I don't know, it's better than the majority of sword and sorcery movies.
Evan Price
>The scene where she spanks him
Jose Lee
>you online vs you in real life
Brandon Hughes
It's a perfectly fine run-of-the-mill S&S movie. It pales in comparison to the original, but how could it not? I don't know if Milius could have made another Conan movie, I'm not sure there was anything left to say. Perhaps it would have been more of a war movie, like instead of Red Dawn he makes Conan 2 and it's about a war with the Picts or something.
Robert Hill
top looks like a faggot
Benjamin Parker
he's a villain, he's supposed to be faggoty
Kayden Ortiz
i remember that from Barbarian. i do not recall them rehashing it in Destroyer but it would not surprise me.
Angel Rivera
I will say this much. Destroyer has an appropriately climactic ending. With The Barbarian, you thought it might end up some big battle with a giant snake and it ends on a much more somber note. Destroyer has the big epic ending, and I kind of like that more.
Asher Ward
Because it was goofy and didn’t take itself seriously. Funnily enoigh its a bit like modern movies in that regard. Nothing is allowed to be serious and genuine.
Jose Wood
I watched this multiple times when I was a kid. Also, Olivia was my first Britfu.
David Garcia
based
mcfiltered
Chase Wood
I really like the crystal labyrith scene.
>tfw no Conan the Conqueror movie
Jack Hughes
This has nothing to do with anything in this thread but if I were Conan, I would have ridden off with her on a horse (away from everyone else) and just kept her as a sex slave. But I guess Conan was too busy simping for some dead bitch.
Landon Richardson
She was 14 you sick fuck
Jason King
I was 6
Elijah Walker
King Conan is going to happen, right bros?
Christian Clark
I was 9.
Adrian Wright
if it does, it's gonna be pozzed. sad.
Landon Campbell
>Terminator had 6 fucking movies
>predators had a bunch of sequels and spin-offs
>Conan only got two and a half movie
Juan Brown
It'll be gayer than the rocky horror picture show.
Cooper Perez
Hard to compete with the first one and its soundtrack. I didn't mind Destroyer though.
Levi Robinson
>Hither came Conan, the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth.
Jace Sullivan
I want to see old Arnie team up with midge, the court jester
Jonathan Cox
Probably because of anti-whites screeching "WHITE SUPREMACY!!"
Aaron Torres
and that's a good thing.
Isaiah Mitchell
So what are other good Sword & Sorcery movies bros?
Landon Rogers
Top kek. Didn't he became a monster cause Conan refused to let them kill godly tits
Dylan King
Her body was prime firm youthful fertility
Alexander Clark
>Britfu
For me, it was Judi Bowker in Clash of the Titans.
Robert Garcia
The Beastmaster
Nicholas Carter
Love that movie.
Anthony Reyes
It was a downgrade from its prequel.
Ayden Morris
>the soundtrack is great
Yes
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Hunter Gutierrez
makes me want to swing a sword that's for sure
Dominic Wilson
iktf.
Matthew Russell
PG13
Parker Martin
Indeed, but still a great movie. However it had some fuckups behind the scenes, mainly for being shot at the same location/studios from 1984 Dune, so it was treated as a B-movie.
Jack Bennett
Never knew those were 14 year old tits. They're even better now.
Bentley Young
it was directed by a guy who made 20,000 leagues under the sea and a bunch of other 50s/60s adventure films for families, full of rubber monsters and comedy sidekicks.
he used the exact same formula for the sequel to an 18 rated, violent, mostly realistic classic hero's journey.
it was terrible. awful cash grab.
Colton Lewis
Bolero (1984)
Mason Harris
there should have been a cherry popping scene with conan and the princess.
15 minutes of that might have saved the film
Camden Hernandez
My friend, you are based.
Joseph Ortiz
Because it wasn't as good as the first movie. That's it. We don't have to blow this out of proportion. You don't have to start this typical 3chin "contrarian" thing and start demonizing people who prefer the first one because it's the more popular opinion. The second one is alright, maybe even underrated considering the undeserved hatred it gets for easy youtube clicks, but let's leave it at that. Enjoy both movies, stop being a contrarian faggot and start a black and white cult-war because it doesn't get the praise you think it deserves.
Colton Fisher
red sonya and destroyer were made for retarded five year olds to watch.
conan was made for adults to watch and for it to have some meaning and depth and effort in it.
it is a shame it is even in the same genre as that other rubbish, destroyer being made was a crime, when every other fantasy adventure from the time was made for small children. there was no reason for it to exist beyond greed
Gabriel Sanders
Absolute soulful kino holy shit. To think even an autist like Villeneuve can't manage to do one singular scene this great with his endless budgets and effects.
Aiden Morgan
>the dogshit tier rubber mask and gloves fucking 1950s throwaway guy in a suit was the dogshit icing on the dogshit cake
fixed
Gavin Gomez
you have no taste whatsoever and I hope I never have to spend five minutes in a room with anyone like you.
you're utterly oblivious to your own stupidity of which makes it far more grating
Jaxson Wood
imagine if bakshi and frazetta made conan after this
Brandon Foster
OP here. I never even mentioned the first film you autistic little shit. For the record I love both films. I've never watched both movies back to back, but I think the Destroyer is more "fun". The first movie has a completely different tone, but I don't know why the second one is so underappreciated.
Brayden Fisher
>"red sonya and destroyer were made for retarded five year olds to watch.
>conan was made for adults to watch and for it to have some meaning and depth and effort in it.
>it is a shame it is even in the same genre as that other rubbish, destroyer being made was a crime, when every other fantasy adventure from the time was made for small children. there was no reason for it to exist beyond greed"
Nathan Sanchez
It's a fun D&D mission but a major let down after Milius' masterpiece, which had real cinematic ambitions and thematic depth. I like its simplicity.
Liam Brown
Bros, I NEED arnie to make one last Conan film.
He would be perfectly aged for the role now
Logan Bell
Arnold kino. He grew out his own natural hair for this movie too.
William Cruz
too many ruber suit monsters for my taste
Henry Morgan
no, it was shit and an utter waste of its potential because they turned it into an identical carbon copy clone of every other fucking useless low budget fantasy film in the 80s, of which there were hundreds. goofy, comedy sidekick rubbish.
conan the barbarian was the only one that escaped that, and then they dragged t back into the sewer with the wrecked sequel, because they knew that 90% of the audience were utterly retarded and would swallow anything they were fed, no matter how appalling it was, and you prove them 100% right.