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TrystanGST

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I actually watched the trailer. If they called it anything other than conan, it'd be straight. But, yeah. Besides, Conan wasn't a hero.
Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
 

kathrynloch

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I actually watched the trailer. If they called it anything other than conan, it'd be straight. But, yeah. Besides, Conan wasn't a hero.
Mongol General: What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.

Agreed but calling him the protagonist in the trailer won't bring in the audience.

I loved the books but I doubt anyone will ever get a screenplay close to them. But there's always hope.
 

supervike

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I was hoping they'd return to the darker actual Conan stories....but it looks like they decided to go the over the top action hero crap.

The Arnie Conan wasn't quite Conan either, but at least it 'felt' better.

But, I'll reserve judgement until after I see it, next year via Netflix. lol
 

TrystanGST

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Agreed but calling him the protagonist in the trailer won't bring in the audience.

I loved the books but I doubt anyone will ever get a screenplay close to them. But there's always hope.

And that's the problem with the movies nowadays. Everything has to be black and white, and the hero has to get the girl. Robert Jordan would cringe to see what they're doing to Conan.

Even though I didn't like the movie overall, I have to admit I was a big fan of the way "No Country For Old Men" went. And I love "Requiem For a Dream". I just can't watch it too often lol.
 

IdofEntity

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And that's the problem with the movies nowadays. Everything has to be black and white, and the hero has to get the girl. Robert Jordan would cringe to see what they're doing to Conan.

Even though I didn't like the movie overall, I have to admit I was a big fan of the way "No Country For Old Men" went. And I love "Requiem For a Dream". I just can't watch it too often lol.

Robert Howard.

Robert Jordan wrote the Wheel of Time.
 

Torn blue sky

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I wanna see a good movie about an anti-hero. One where you know the protagonist is a bad guy, but you end up rooting for him.

Kina like Darkblade. Lets see the bad guys win more often, and less steriotypical bad guys while we're at it.
 

Dedwrekka

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I think that when it comes to actors, Jason Mamoa is probably one of the better choices for Conan, if not the best at the moment. He played Dex in Stargate Atlantis, and is currently playing Khal Drogo in HBO's excellent Game of Thrones rendition, so he has some experience playing the barbarian but still acting while doing it. Which is something I don't think a lot of the other candidates had. The physique seems to be antithetical to acting ability in a lot of actors.

I wanna see a good movie about an anti-hero. One where you know the protagonist is a bad guy, but you end up rooting for him.

Kina like Darkblade. Lets see the bad guys win more often, and less steriotypical bad guys while we're at it.

Dr Horrible per chance? Though it plays on stereotypes a lot. I suppose that there are no non-stereotype blackhats anymore. Some may be new hashes on a stereotype, but there's a lot of stereotypes out there.
Personally I'd both like to, and dread seeing a rendition of "To Reign in Hell" just because it's such a different view on the "bad guy" perspective.
 
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supervike

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I wanna see a good movie about an anti-hero. One where you know the protagonist is a bad guy, but you end up rooting for him.

Kina like Darkblade. Lets see the bad guys win more often, and less steriotypical bad guys while we're at it.

Like the Vin Diesel character of Riddick. In PITCH BLACK they did a wonderful job of making you both hate and root for him. Not so much in the sequel.
 

TrystanGST

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Like the Vin Diesel character of Riddick. In PITCH BLACK they did a wonderful job of making you both hate and root for him. Not so much in the sequel.
I was just thinking along those lines vike. Just making the hero less Disney would be a start. A reluctant hero, or one who's in it for self-serving reasons.
 

IdofEntity

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You both are sort of right. Robert Jordan wrote several books in the 80's featuring Conan. But Robert Howard was of course the original author back in the 30's.

Holy hell. He did from 82-84, and I never knew. I owe all apologies to Trystan.
 
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