09-16-2011, 09:46 AM
I'd like to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes. That's on my list of things to watch, eventually.
I went to see the new Conan the Barbarian movie last weekend. As a "Conan" movie, it was awful. I love the original, with its strange mix of campy charm, brilliant music and Oliver Stone / John Milius writing.
This new one lacks all the those qualities. It has the subtlety of a belching elephant. It's all hack and slash, with a few lacklustre sex scenes thrown in, occasionally interspersed with such terrible dialogue that the audience groaned out loud.
The 3D seemed to have been used simply because everyone else was doing it. The special effects, were not-so-special. They seemed to have been reserved mostly for blood splashing and one cartoonish giant monster snake that looked to have been created as a project for a high-school computer design class.
Instead of a Conan movie, it should be considered as one of the Conan rip-offs that flooded the cinemas in the 1980s.
I went to see the new Conan the Barbarian movie last weekend. As a "Conan" movie, it was awful. I love the original, with its strange mix of campy charm, brilliant music and Oliver Stone / John Milius writing.
This new one lacks all the those qualities. It has the subtlety of a belching elephant. It's all hack and slash, with a few lacklustre sex scenes thrown in, occasionally interspersed with such terrible dialogue that the audience groaned out loud.
The 3D seemed to have been used simply because everyone else was doing it. The special effects, were not-so-special. They seemed to have been reserved mostly for blood splashing and one cartoonish giant monster snake that looked to have been created as a project for a high-school computer design class.
Instead of a Conan movie, it should be considered as one of the Conan rip-offs that flooded the cinemas in the 1980s.
David J. Cord
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