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my primary complaint about the movie

posted 11 years ago by black_derby_80
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i don't mind that conan's people were slaughtered by an evil warlord.
i don't mind that conan fought and defeated a guy who had ambitions to CONQUER THE WORLD.
but it does seem awfully convenient that they happened to be the same guy, and that conan's little podunk village happened to have one of the 13 (i think?) pieces of the mask of destiny, or whatever it was called.
what's wrong with conan's nemesis being some run-of-the-mill warlord, or with the evil megalomaniac who wants to rule everything not being the guy who burned the hero's village?

"Cinema was made for fantasy, rather than normal types of stories." - Ray Harryhausen

[–] The_Usurper_Robb_Stark 11 years ago

I think they borrowed from the 1982 version where essentially the same thing happened and it is a lazy way to give the character a motivation to engage the villain.

If I kill you I'm bound for hell...It is a price I'm willing to pay...

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

...was that it didn't seem to have the slightest sense of humour.