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Conan the Barbarian
Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman View AllCrew
John Milius (Screenplay), John Milius (Director), Oliver Stone (Screenplay), Edward Summer (Story) View All
Release: Apr. 2nd, 1982
Runtime: 2 hours, 9 minutes
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Conan the Barbarian is one of the best movies of all time
I can't find a lot of people who will agree with me on this, but there's got to be someone who thinks the same out there. Sweeping vistas, epic battles, revenge plot, inspired soundtrack, early Olive...
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Even if Milius doesn't admit it in the special features, I find the ending of Conan the Barbarian to be Milius's way of trying to improve upon Coppola's ending of Apocalypse Now, and he succeeds because the ending of Apocalypse Now pretty much relegates THAT film to the state of mediocre.

It's not that he's unaware of how Conan feels, he just sees it through his warped world view, going on to point out how his drive for revenge is what gave him strength, in the same way an angry father would point out how much he gave his son.

This is mainly because it is so hard to take Arnold seriously because of his wonderful accent, and the film doesn't even take itself seriously the whole time because of the facial expressions that Arnold gives.