Conan - The Complete Quest

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Actor: Arnnold Schwarzenegger, Grace Jones, Sandahl Bergman, Wilt Chamberlain
Brand: UNI DIST CORP. (MCA)
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 233 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-01-20
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Reviews of Conan - The Complete Quest

DVD Review: cult classic
Summary: 5 Stars

Arnold big and barely speaking english. what's not to like? magic, swordplay, bad acting, beautiful women...a good get away from it all movie

DVD Review: Awesome
Summary: 5 Stars

To put it simply, this two movie dvd is an awesome combo package at a great price. The First Conan movie, Conan the Barbarian is off the hook. It has great, memorable characters, a really good story of love and vengence and ofcourse at the end, justice always prevails. As for Conan the Destroyer, i must say that it is alot better than it gets credit for in other reviews. While it is slightly toned down, the PG rating didnt hurt it much as there is still plenty of violence and blood throughout and right from the start. The story is not quite as good and more sci fish but its still a decent story and at the end of the day you just want to watch Conan destroy enemies which he does plenty of. And the end leaves it open for a sequel although one has not been made to date. Hopefully that will happen soon though. All in all, The destroyer isnt quite as good as the first one but its still pretty good. You have to keep in mind that Conan the Barbarian is so bad a** that its impossible to make a sequel better than it. Buy this DVD. You wont regret it.

DVD Review: 2 and 1/2 stars...... for art direction
Summary: 2 Stars

Everyone hates it when the guy or gal who's read the book, critiques. There's good reason to cringe because we all know that the books can't be the movies, right?
In this case, however, there was no attempt to incorporate the stories into film. Simply stated, this film comes nowhere near the writer's character.

Never was Conan a slave.
He was not a pit fighter (what's with this psuedo machismo attraction to dirty, bloody arenas anyway?).
He did not learn to fight by way of Eastern sword arts or quote Eastern pilosophy.
Never was he a lout. Conan had a clear, sharp mind even if he was known to drink to excess and womanize.
He did not quote any philosophers but it's easy to see that eventually they would quote him.

The character that Robert Howard created was complex, he was an enigma.
No offense to Arnold but as the muscled man in the film who grunted and waxed poetically of killing with his heavy accent he could not be the man Robert Howard wrote about. Not the way it was written, directed and performed.
That's not Arnold Schwarzeneggar's fault. It's not art directors and cinematographers, or the guy who did the great musical score's fault.
The fault lies with the writers who ignored Robert Howard other than to loot some of his lines. The rest falls squarely on the shoulders of an otherwise decent pair of directors who had no idea who the character was or what he did. And they made no attempt to remedy their ignorance. I was not looking for a strict adaptation of any of the stories because Hollywood is incapable of taking the simplest ideas on face vaue.
This was a vanity project for John Millius and a paycheck for Richard Fleisher. They set out to make entertaining films and could not have cared less about the source material much less the epic they missed by ignoring that source.
The story in CTB has no real plot besides a spaghetti western style revenge story. Arnold is miscast to the point of almost being ludicrous in scenes where he grunts and squeals like a piggy (the scene where he falls in the crypt to retrieve a sword, on the run from wolves), or cries at the feet of his tormentors and Thulsa Doom because Doom killed his parents (most un-Conan-like) and all the endless posing with a sword was just terrible.
Sandahl Bergman playing Valeria (horrible dialogue and all) is much closer to the actual Conan than Arnold's character was allowed to be.
Why does everyone in CTB speak in pronouncements?
James Earl Jones is perhaps the most dissapointing. Why has no one mentioned his channelling of Darth Vader (he voiced Darth Vader in the Star Wars films)? That actually was ludicrous. Mako was very entertaining as Conan's wise man in his entourage.
Conan the Barbarian might just as well have been a satire of the sword and sorcery genre. Very little would have to be changed to make that happen..
Conan the Destroyer is like a movie length version of something that could have been culled directly from the comic book series of the time (oddly enough the comic book adaptations are superior to the films). In that it's actually more entertaining because it takes itself so much less seriously than the first film. The rubber monster in the climactic scene is the clincher.
Please don't assume that because Conan's not the CTB film that I'm ignoring a great film. This is in no way great even if the lead was named "Frank" and he came from Chimeria.
This film doesn't hold up against better sword & sorcery type fantasy films like Dragonslayer and Excaliber. Both of which predated Conan the Barbarian by about a year.
There were also worse films. Many of them.
The expectation of this film is, honestly, part of it's problem. Conan has survived in print for decades. There's a reason Robert Howard's work remains in print (even as marketing forces during this period kept most of his Conan work at bay or married to pastiche in order to see print).

I can't resent people for liking the first or both films. Everything is measured in personal taste.
Besides, at the time Conan pastiche was easier to access than the original stories. For a lot of people (who read those inferior attempts at writing Conan's tales) they see the film as superior to those weak efforts in prose. Unfortunately that's not high praise. The fact is CTB was marketed as something unique and the marketing people were good because that's become the truth in spite of the facts proving otherwise for anyone who really wants to look. There's also no doubt that readers of Robert Howard's stories were not exactly vast in number. It's easy to quash a small opinion when there's no outlet for that opinion to be expressed. That's what marketing agencies are for- to keep other opinions from being heard. I remember at the time that not one reviewer even made reference to Conan other than the current comic books.

I do resent the industry for wittling down what could have been a timeless epic into this drab but muscular effort.
It's too bad the art directors were not THE directors. Ron Cobb and Bill Stout had a much better grasp of the character.
Finally, I want to address something that's been mentioned about the lacking of sorcerous elements. Actually, this is one area where there was little room for improvement. Those elements of sorcery in Howard's tales are just the spice of the story. The point is, there are no fairies, gnomes or dragons strolling through the market places of the Hyborian age.

DVD Review: All pumped up and no one to slay.
Summary: 5 Stars

Arnee in his golden years, the 1st movie rocks, not to sure where they were going with number 2.

DVD Review: A Great Adventure story both of them!!
Summary: 5 Stars

I've been a fan of Arnnold Schwarzenegger since I was a little girl and when I heard he became the Gov of California a few years ago I own the complete Terminator trilogy but I am not going to see the fourth terminator movie since it looks really not so great but otherwise these two movies: Conan the barbarian & conan the destroyer is a great adventuroues movie from start to finish on both, you will be on the edge of your seat from start to finish on both movies. They are great action/adventure flicks right to the end and I strongly recommend whoever likes action/adventure movies should get this movie!!

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CONTAINS: CONAN THE BARBARIAN: AND CONAN THE DESTROYER.

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