Conan sequel script review at AICN

[ReaperFett]

www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=10000 (http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=10000)

When AICN gets scripts, they are always real from their sources, but not neccesarilly the filming script. From the sounds of it, I hope it stays this way

[Darth23]

"Ah zwear ah will not slay anyone..."

;)

[Hart Kenobi]

I hope it won't have Arnold in it.

[Jedieb]

The Conan sequel with Wilt Chamberlin and Grace Jones was one of the worst sequels EVER made! I think I remember Ebert gave it a thumbs up when he first reviewed it, something he probably regrets now. The original with Arnold and James Earl Jones was awesome. Arnold at his early bloody best!

[Darth23]

I always heard it was better than the original. :p

I've never really seen any of them. I was a fan of the comic, but I never thought Conan should look like a weightlifter.

[Jedieb]

I believe the second one was called Conan The Destroyer. Chamberlin and Jones were simply ridiculous. The action was very cheesy. If I remember the producers lost the edge of the first movie by toning it down to a PG rating. The movie lost all of its edge. The first one was pretty gritty for its time and had some memorable sequences. Well worth a video rental.

[IndianaJones]

What a great review. I found it to be enthusiastic, and enthusiasm is something that generally can sell me. If someone likes a movie enough to let it over flow their mind and flood out of their mouth and writing I know I'm missing something. In the same way I know I'm missing this script.

I was a big fan of the original Conan film. I've seen it about a dozen times. I hated the sequal. But something I must say is that Arnold was the best Conan, he is the only one I can imagine in the role, and I will be not only disappointed but heart broken if they use The Rock to fill the role. I skipped The Mummy Returns because of him. He doesn't look like Conan, or what I'm used to Conan looking like. Arnold was a prime choice, especially when Arnold was at his biggest and baddest form. Conana is supposed to be a monster of a guy built from his turmoil and hatred into hardened spirit of a warrior. This script sounds to be every little bit the action film that Hollywood needs to release since action films have a bad rap as only mindless violence. THis script sounds to be full of dep plots and ideas remenicent of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Political turmoil and distress. Plus I love sequals, when they are done right,and few are. Star Wars, Indy, and a few others have ones that work for them. THis sounds to me, like a possibly masterpiece of writing and sequaling. This must be made, but not if they want to put The Rock in it. For the sake of making it a film that is taken seriously, not the Rock.

[Darth23]

I think sword and sorcery has gone downhill since the bodybuilders, heavy metal bands and fake wrestlers took it over.

:-|

[buff jedi 2]

and whats wrong with bodybuilders???? ;)





buffjedi/wookieboy

[Darth23]

Nothing's wrong with bofy builders, it's just that most people living in sword and sorcery type environments don't have the time to work on the lats and deltoids. :p

Body builders look they way they do because they engage in acticity speficically designed to get a certain body shape. This isn't what Conan should look like. Maybe Hercules or Samson, but not Conan.

[Jedieb]

Conan always looked pretty ripped in the comics to me. Certainly more muscular than characters like Spiderman and the Flash. I don't think having a muscular Conan is a bad thing, especially when the character's great strength is a prominent trait. But casting a big actor could be a mistake. I wouldn't rush to theaters to see the Rock as Conan. I'd rather see Buff in the role.

[IndianaJones]

My biggest concern with the casting of the Rock is the crowd they would hope to be attracking. The wrestling crowd. Not that I have anything against pro wrestling, but the Rock is not a serious actor, casting him in the role would be just a boxoffice enticement. He would be the audience draw, not the character of Conan.

[Darth23]

Conan has muscles, but he didn't have body builder muscles. Actually he was a little on the skinny side in the Barry Winsdor Smith version.

Interesting quote:


from www.geocities.com/mbrown1...nan1.html: (http://www.geocities.com/mbrown123/greatest_comics/conan1.html:)

While filming the 1982 Conan movie, Schwarzenegger had to tone down his workout, as his arm and chest muscles were too big to allow him to properly wield a sword.

[ReaperFett]

I can better that fact :) :



The Mattel Toy Company started to make some Conan action figures, but after viewing the film, the executives realized that they couldn't afford to be associated with a film with such graphic sex and violence. They gave their doll blonde hair, called him "He-man", and thus created "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" (1983).

[Darth23]

hee hee

Another srike against Arnold.

;)