So I just saw the Conan trailer....

[For.I.Am.Mad]

Besides Conan having too much eye liner, I thought the trailer looked pretty good.

 

[Pinkamena]

What? There's a movie of Conan? Isn't Conan a comic from like, the 80's? I never thought people read those.

 

[Nulmas]

What? There's a movie of Conan? Isn't Conan a comic from like, the 80's? I never thought people read those.

No.

While there are lots of Conan comics, he was originally created by Robert E. Howard as a character for fantasy short stories in the 30's who was pretty much the creator of the Sword and Sorcery sub-genre.

Howard also helped H.P. Lovecraft develop the Cthullhu Mythos. Actually, some Conan stories are arguably part of the Mythos

 

[Taranaich]

Let's put aside the fact the the actor playing Conan looks nothing like Conan... Conan is supposed to be a mountain of a man and a good actor fitting that description isn't exactly easy to find, I guess.

Jason Momoa is 6'5 and 230lbs, taller than Arnold, and round about the same weight at the time of the film.

If you put aside the whole "mountain of a man" thing, Jason has a lot more of the hallmarks of Howard's original creation: hairy chest, black (well, ok, very dark) hair, scars all over his body and face, darker skin. The only thing Arnold has over him is sheer musculature (which is one of those things that's subjective, since one man's "muscular" is another man's "freakish Belgian Blue monstrosity"), and frankly, you're not going to get that again unless you use now-illegal steroids.

But the movie looks so bland and generic. The action sequences seem to be the usual CG over the top stuff out of Star Wars while they should be more brutal and "heavy-handed", so to speak.

Have you seen the Red Band trailer? There's quite a strong difference in tone, if you can get past the horrendous Hollywood Undead soundtrack.

Also I've heard that they didn't just make up an entirely new story for this one like they did with the original Conan movie (and subsequent squeals), but are instead basing it off of some of Robert Howard's original stories.

It is an entirely new story. Unlike the 1982 film, however, they're at least trying to make it compatible with Howard's original stories, though there are some things (like the bloody Quest for Revenge garbage) which seem to be enforced by the money-men.

What? There's a movie of Conan? Isn't Conan a comic from like, the 80's? I never thought people read those.

... You thought people didn't read one of the most popular comics of the 1970s, not to mention the 1960s reprints which sold in their *millions*, not to mention the original short stories which form part of the foundation of the entire Sword-and-Sorcery genre?

 

[Nulmas]

Jason Momoa is 6'5 and 230lbs, taller than Arnold, and round about the same weight at the time of the film.

If you put aside the whole "mountain of a man" thing, Jason has a lot more of the hallmarks of Howard's original creation: hairy chest, black (well, ok, very dark) hair, scars all over his body and face, darker skin. The only thing Arnold has over him is sheer musculature (which is one of those things that's subjective, since one man's "muscular" is another man's "freakish Belgian Blue monstrosity"), and frankly, you're not going to get that again unless you use now-illegal steroids.

Maybe (ok, definetely) it was a bit of an exaggeration to say he looks nothing like Conan (I really should stop using hyperboles so much). But I did say we should put that little detail apart as sometimes actor prove us wrong in this matters.

I should state, however, that I never liked Arnie as Conan. Sometimes I feel I'm a bit alone in that

Have you seen the Red Band trailer? There's quite a strong difference in tone, if you can get past the horrendous Hollywood Undead soundtrack.

Hmm, you're right. It looks better AND the soundtrack is horrendous. But, on the other hand, Ron Perlman Now I'm wondering if I was just too horrified to notice him or if he wasn't on the other trailer.