UNCUT - Conan the Barbarian (1982)
Added 2025-01-02 14:00:35 +0000 UTCThank you to BRIDGE CREW member Connor Fallon for this request!
There are a few different versions of this film out there. This is the version with a 2h9m runtime which is 3 minutes longer than the theatrical. All differences happen after 1h55m into the film in the last few scenes (includes princess character in the scenes who was removed in the theatrical). They are minor, but obviously your sync will not match up if you are watching a different version.
Comments
Conan has thousands of stories. told in book and comic form, I grew-up on Conan the Barbarian and Savage Sword of Conan comics. Thulsa Doom is but one of Conan's many foes. Will you watch Conan the Destroyer now, or will it have to be a Bridge Crew pick win?
MrDeadstu
2025-08-10 05:43:23 +0000 UTCThey did build a bunch of huge sets for the movie but they also employed the use of foreground or hanging miniatures for for off city shots which looks so real and uncanny. They place a miniature at the top, close to camera and film past it to the back round and it gets the same sunlight as the rest of the scene.
Mike Rogers
2025-01-07 06:18:56 +0000 UTCThis is a great movie and demonstrates why everyone love Arnold back in the day. It is maybe my least favorite of his awesome movies but that on,y shows how great his movies were back then. He could almost do no wrong for a long time. A decade or so.
Carl Peterson
2025-01-05 07:51:04 +0000 UTCImagine if every mainstream film wasn’t a remake or a reboot and we got films like this still.
AzoriusMage
2025-01-04 16:55:34 +0000 UTCGood reaction!! BTW, they couldn't have gotten a NC17 rating. It didn't exist until 1990. It would've been X rated.
startrekiborg
2025-01-03 04:21:57 +0000 UTCIn the right mood, with decent headphones, that soundtrack will really get into your head.
Alan Thompson
2025-01-03 03:09:34 +0000 UTCThe character of Conan dates back to 1932 and featured in several pulp magazine short stories by creator Robert E. Howard. My favorite version of the character was in The Savage Sword of Conan comic book series, published (eventually) by Marvel from 1974-1995 and lasting 235 issues. In addition to the Conan the Destroyer sequel, Arnold also appears in 1985’s Red Sonja film, about another Conan spin-off character - and starring Brigitte Nielsen from Rocky 4 (who was briefly married to Sylvester Stallone).
Matt Everkoul
2025-01-03 01:51:07 +0000 UTCGreat reaction guys, and I am glad you liked the movie. I am a big fan of Conan and Robert E. Howard's writing. He wrote the Conan stories - along with dozens of others - for pulp magazines like Weird Tales back in the late 1920's through the mid 1930's. He sadly took his own life at age 30 in 1936, and I think it's easy to look back at the story of his life and see he had some untreated mental problems. But he was a larger than life character himself and left a legacy of amazing stories not only in swords & sorcery fantasy, but in historical adventure, westerns, sports (mostly boxing) stories, and horror. I will say that I love this movie, but the Conan of this film is not the Conan of his stories. That Conan is EVEN MORE BADASS! The script borrows a lot of elements from several different Conan stories, and the originals are highly worth checking out. You can find them for relatively cheap on Amazon (and as audiobooks via Audible) or read them for free online at Project Gutenberg. Anyway, once again, great reaction!
Paul O'Neal
2025-01-03 01:50:14 +0000 UTCIt better not be hagga!
Paul O'Neal
2025-01-03 01:43:57 +0000 UTCThat Ebert guy might be onto something 🤔
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-01-02 23:03:55 +0000 UTCI didn't realize it had been so long since I actually watched a Blu-Ray. I had to dust off the old PS3 for this one.
Jeff Cornell
2025-01-02 23:02:29 +0000 UTCThe two reactions to a villainous James Earl Jones calling you his son. Luke Skywalker: whines, cries, and jumps into a pit. Conan: chops his frakkin' head off.
Jeff Cornell
2025-01-02 23:00:39 +0000 UTCWhen you watch 80s movies, I think of Siskel & Ebert - movie critics that became icons. Here is there review of Conan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNJ5DKAapW8
C
2025-01-02 22:53:08 +0000 UTCI remember seeing this with my friends on the big screen the year I graduated from high school. Arnold was an unknown outside of the bodybuilding world, but this came out the year after "The Empire Strikes Back", and everyone knew going in that the main villain was played by man who voiced Darth Vader.
David Felgate
2025-01-02 21:11:29 +0000 UTCI am soooo glad you guys liked it. This is one of my favs and I was a bit nervous if the travel section might lose you if you thought it dragged. It never did for me, but I could have seen it. Also, I used to listen to the sound track all the time back in the day.
Prof Moff
2025-01-02 21:10:45 +0000 UTCThe relative lack of dialog is more than made up for by one of the finest film scores in the history of cinema. The soundtrack for this film is the one I listen to most often. I was a little disappointed (but not surprised) that no mention was made of the score in the reaction.
David Felgate
2025-01-02 21:02:23 +0000 UTCThe movie sort of takes for granted some things that viewers might miss unless they are familiar with the lore. For instance, the sword Conan finds in the tomb is supposed to be Atlantean (as in, made in Atlantis) and is of the highest quality since Atlantic was a much more advanced civilization than the ones which exist by Conan's age. The sword easily breaks the shackle he still had on. (I think the king in the tomb may have been Atlantean too, or just another later king who took it for himself as Conan did.) Later in the film it shatters the sword the bad guy was holding, which if I recall is the sword Conan's father made and Thulsa Doom stole, showing that as good a sword smith as Conan's father might have been his work was no match for Atlantean craftsmanship. It's 100% "show don't tell" but without *any* tell things might get missed by audiences.
Vina
2025-01-02 19:47:59 +0000 UTCI have seen it at one time or another. Love this movie.
Mike Rogers
2025-01-02 19:17:03 +0000 UTCIt's good, I'd never seen it before, its quite a bit longer and more cinematic, and lets you soak in a lot of the scenes more
Vina
2025-01-02 19:14:12 +0000 UTCThere is a roughness and under-produced-ness to the movie which is kind of a strike against it (the ADR for instance) and how some of the shots are cut and pacing in some scenes, but there are also so many good shots too, not to mention the soundtrack and the writing.
Vina
2025-01-02 19:12:51 +0000 UTCThere were many bodybuilders in the movie. Doom's brothers were played by Sven-Ole Thorsen and Ben Davidson. Sandal Bergman as Valeria was not a bodybuilder, but a professional dancer.
C
2025-01-02 18:38:13 +0000 UTCCrom is pleased
Terminaldogma01
2025-01-02 16:24:58 +0000 UTCI am closer to your assessment. I was not impressed with this film when it first came out in 1982. I am in the minority camp in that I prefer Conan the Destroyer over this movie. I think James Early Jones was hungry for a paycheck - not his finest role. I like old pulp stories, but this was not as good as I thought it could have been by a longshot. Also, I am not a John Milius fan. Did you ever see the Neal Adams storyboards for the what he envisioned a pretitle action sequence to be? Bad ass.
Collin Freeman
2025-01-02 16:22:43 +0000 UTCThank you for the request, Connor! I've loved this movie since I was a kid.
PIG
2025-01-02 16:03:14 +0000 UTCMan this was great! Im so glad you guys liked this movie as it is one of my very favorites. And yes, the Ahhnold grunts pay for the movie all on their own. 😁
Connor Fallon
2025-01-02 15:53:11 +0000 UTCWatched this for the first time a few months back. A bit of a blemish on James Earl Jones's resume if I'm honest. Very strange movie, not what I expected from such a recognizable name in classic Arnie action. Would not watch again.
Evan Guthrie
2025-01-02 15:21:21 +0000 UTChigh adventure??
William Roberts
2025-01-02 14:48:01 +0000 UTCThe only streaming version available is theatrical but it looks like I can get the extended version from the library. Waiting for it to come in.
Mike Rogers
2025-01-02 14:15:53 +0000 UTCThis should be fun not sure I have seen this since renting it on VHS in the 80's
AzoriusMage
2025-01-02 14:10:32 +0000 UTC
