Aikidoka
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Post by Aikidoka on May 26, 2015 18:48:02 GMT
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Post by DigsFossils-n-Knives on May 26, 2015 18:57:51 GMT
It should be great! I hope so!
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Post by Adrian Jordan on May 26, 2015 19:04:53 GMT
I've been waiting since the first time I saw Conan the Barbarian as a tiny kid, hahaha.
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Post by MOK on May 26, 2015 22:12:08 GMT
Yeah, it's cool and all... I'm just bummed because this means I'll have to wait that much longer for someone to make an actual adaptation. For Crom's sake, there are faithful Gor movies out there, yet no one has ever even attempted Conan!
PS. Well, no, that's a lie - there was Conan: Red Nails... but it died in production.
PPS. Also, Basil Polidouris will not be composing the score. For me that's easily half of any attraction of an Ahnuld!Conan movie gone, right there.
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Post by crazywolf on May 26, 2015 22:46:13 GMT
I read they are going to bring two to three of the actors from it beside Arnold.hope one is his archer side kick
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Post by Anankai on May 27, 2015 0:14:51 GMT
I'm not sure if I want to see an old Conan movie... He's gonna have to hit the gym big time. But at is age, I don't know... This could look a bit awkward...
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on May 27, 2015 0:23:29 GMT
They're going to have to give Arnold some time to get back into halfway decent shape again. He could do it if he wants to, Steve Reeves looked great even in his seventies but then again he never let himself go like Arnold did. Never thought I would see the day where I would be better built than Arnold. I have a six pack, Arnold looks like he's been drinking too many six packs.
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Post by LG Martial Arts on May 27, 2015 1:15:32 GMT
to be fair, Arnold had to stop doing major exercise/body building after he blew out his heart valve and had to get a replacement years ago
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Post by Aikidoka on May 27, 2015 4:21:29 GMT
I'm not sure if I want to see an old Conan movie... He's gonna have to hit the gym big time. But at is age, I don't know... This could look a bit awkward... Haha! Yeah, but this is not like the Terminator 3 role where he tried to come back and play a cyborg who looks the same as he did in the original. He is going to play an old Conan, 30 years after the the events in the first movie. I'm sure he will hit the weights the best he can to look the part, but I don't think he'll have trouble pulling it off. I like the fact that they want to build on the first movie and ignore the garbage that came after it. And I agree that they will need to get a great composer to write the score if they are going to come close to reproducing the feel of the first movie.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on May 27, 2015 10:20:23 GMT
Steve Reeves had a major shoulder injury and couldn't lift heavy anymore but he still kept in shape with a workout he developed called Power Walking and working with his horses. Hey, I'm an Arnold fan, followed his bodybuilding career, seen all his movies and have a lot on DVDs but lets face it, he looks like he's been enjoying too much of the good life. No one expects him to be in his bodybuilding shape again but don't turn your back on what made you what you are. I workout at least once a day and I still have to work a 42 hour a week job.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 11:19:21 GMT
send the studio some photos, maybe they can put you in the film!
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Post by Suho on May 27, 2015 15:46:00 GMT
I would very much like to see a follow-up that is 30-40 years later story-wise. I think Arnold will be able to get into decent enough shape for that. Hell, I really don't want them to try and make him look like he did back then. It takes the movie too unrealistic (Yes, I realize it's a fantasy story...). I just hope the story is good.
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Post by William Swiger on May 27, 2015 16:09:34 GMT
Arnold would have to start the steroid regiment again to get really pumped up. In his late sixties, doubt he would take that risk but some of the older guys like Stallone (Expendables) appears to be still juicing.
I think just some moderate getting in shape would be good for playing Conan at his current age.
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Post by MOK on May 27, 2015 16:19:54 GMT
Well, they could just adapt some of the iconic stories of Conan's later life as king of Aquilonia, like "The Scarlet Citadel" or even "The Hour of the Dragon" - the latter is almost like a long form summary of Conan's past life and career, and both have some really great badass moments I'd love to see in live action - but they won't, of course. They'll just dig out some generic stock script and slap Conan's name on it, just like every single time before.
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Post by William Swiger on May 27, 2015 16:49:36 GMT
Yeah - for me the movies were so far off from Howard's creation that they in my mind were never really Conan.
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Post by sonofarwyn on May 27, 2015 22:45:16 GMT
The problem I have with Hollywood is they just cant leave well enough alone. The Conan tales needed no Hollywood embellishment. They were pretty good rip snorters from the get go. After all, they were all action driven stories from the pulp fiction days. Despite that, there was an awful lot of pretty interesting social and political commentary in the stories.
Robert E. Howard was no dummy. He wrote pretty lurid pulp tales because thats what paid the bills, but he did write with some pretty intelligent prose (used lots of big words). Hollywood, on the other hand, cant write anything anymore without A) Explosions, B) a mandatory case scene, C) Explosions, D) Boobs.
The only way you would get close to getting a true to the writing Conan tale is to get Eastwood, Spielburg, or Peter Jackson to do it. They are the only guys with enough pull, or enough money to get around Hollywoods institutionalized stupidity.
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Post by MOK on May 28, 2015 1:46:28 GMT
Honestly, you'd just have to get someone who would do it like a spaghetti western. No generic save-the-world plots, no clean goody-two-shoes heroes (gratuitously evil scenery-chewing villains are OK, though!), no wacky sidekicks or comic relief characters in general, no damn origin story, no silly set piece battles, no shaky cam and no gratuitous CGI - just beautiful cinematography with wide open shots and vivid colors, mostly physical effects, a stirring orchestral score, good dramatic fight choreography, a cast full of magnificent bastards of the sort who pretty much write the script for you, you just throw in a McGuffin and watch them bounce off each other trying to grab it... and a writer with a grim, laconic sense of humor. I mean, The Man with No Name essentially is Conan with a six-shooter, you know? I think the Coen brothers could do it. Del Toro, too. Guy freaking Ritchie on a good day. Even Tarantino, if you got a good co-director to restrain him a little. PS. Jackson, on the other hand, would need a good co-director to restrain him A LOT. PPS. Boobs I have no problem with! Eye candy for all sexes and tastes is perfectly in-genre for Conan.
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Post by Suho on May 28, 2015 20:09:18 GMT
...PPS. Boobs I have no problem with! Eye candy for all sexes and tastes is perfectly in-genre for Conan. I agree! Oh yeah, I mean with all that other stuff you said, too.
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Post by Gunnar Wolfgard on May 29, 2015 0:35:25 GMT
For some reason I don't think they're going to have a nude love scene with Arnold in this one. Lets hope they don't. There was one shot with Arnold and Sarah Douglas in The Destroyer but they left it out to get a PG rating. There was talk about coming out with an extended version DVD that included it but I don't think it ever happened.
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