The thing about this film is that it's really not a Conan movie. The rest of the costumes are pretty good. I really don't like that silly looking fantasy armor that the Shadizar guards wear, though. Most of the sets look very good, even for today's standards (Thoth Amon sequence excluded, of course). That whole section with Thoth-Amon is just awful. #WHO PLAYED THE MOSTRECENT CONAN MOVIE#That ape-thing that Thoth turns into in order to fight Conan is just, well, not worthy of a D movie from a 1980's video tape. Too bad the Thoth-Amon scene in the room of mirrors couldn't be changed. Yes, it still looks like dude in a rubber suit, but it's a hell of a sight better looking than the original. They touched it up a bit, made the colors darker. But, I'll say this: Even the campy looking Dagoth climax monster looks a heck of a lot better in this version of the film. The cleaned up version + lowered expectations? It's a watchable a film.ĭestroyer remains no where near as good as Ahrnold's first at-bat, and I actually like the recent Momoa version much, much better than Destroyer. I saw the original version on Encore (or one of the channels) a few months ago, and it was a crappy and as campy as I remembered it being when I walked out of the theater after seeing it for the first time in the mid-80's. I will say that the cleaned up version actually makes the film watchable. The set is bare bones, but it does provide the most recent, cleaned up versions of both Ahrnold films. I purchased "The Complete Quest" (not so complete now that The Legend of Conan is being made) for $5 bucks off of Amazon. I re-watched Conan The Destroyer tonight.
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