Sunday, November 4, 2012

Conan the Barbarian (2011)

When young Conan's entire family are slaughtered and his village is destroyed, he vows revenge.  After he becomes an adult, Conan wields a sword, has fun with his men, and tries to find the jerk who killed his father.

The ancients/gods/whoever split a headdress into seven pieces and gave each piece to a different tribe so that no one group could ever have complete power.  Well you know how that goes, and soon enough our villain is on a quest for all the pieces.

There is lots of blood, violence and Conan baring his large chesticular region.  Part of the movie reminds me of the sacrifice in the first Indiana Jones movie, what with the ceremony in the cave, the blood, silly helmet, and woman as a human sacrifice.

Everything is well done.  It's pretty entertaining except there is one thing that doesn't fit.  The villains daughter is a young goth looking teen who could be thrown into a Twilight movie without a change of hair, costume, or smirk.  As an adult she's more like someone from Star Trek the Next Generation.  But either way she's annoying as hell.

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