Allow me to preface this review by saying that while I love Basil Poledouris’ score to the 1982 Conan the Barbarian, as a fan of Robert E. Howard’s original Conan stories; the film isn’t really a “Conan” movie. While elements are definitely inspired by parts of the Conan mythos, Arnold’s performance is about as far from Conan as you could possibly get. Where Howard describes Conan as “panther like” and actually a brilliant warrior and tactician, Arnold turned him into a brain-dead lumbering oaf. That’s not Conan.
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