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As a Robert Howard fanboy it gets so much wrong with the character of Conan it’s bordering the edge of sad and funny. But everything else about the movie fits so well into Howard’s setting it’s uncanny. The snake cults, the sad king, two friends sitting on a hill discussing their gods. Thulsa motherfucking Doom.
Might be the best DC live actiom movie but that's a low bar to clear.
Great stuff.
A remade Blazing Saddles would be most interesting by moving the time period ahead a hundred years or so and changing the setting to the current "blue" west like Washington, California or Colorado.
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Have you read Howard's Kull the Conqueror series? I remember being told that Conan the Barbarian (1982) is a blend of Conan and Kull.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, I really like the ‘82 movie. It’s got style and gravitas and the score is amazing and you’ve got James Earl Jones being great and Mako is there and it’s all fucking fantastic. I just really like Howard’s Conan and while Arnold has the look he falls short in so many ways. (Which isn’t his fault so much as the scripts.)
Arnold’s Conan is kind of naive and slow and seems quite content being a slave until dude literally throws him out. Howard’s Conan is cunning, charming, ruthless, and way faster than any dude his size has a right to be.
Is he, though? What level of risk aversion, or lack thereof, and acceptance of one's own mortality reaches the "insane" threshhold?
Anyway yeah that shit cray
I kinda wanted a documentary about the people making the movie even more. It’s hard enough to make a documentary when you’re not also hanging off a mountain on a rope with a camera in your hand!
Wildland firefighters? Crab fishermen? Riding a motorcycle/driving a fast car like an asshole on the regular?
People do lots of risky things, doesn't mean they're insane.
He doesn't appear to be suicidal or extremely depressed. His brain literally works differently than most. Whether his (lack of, imo) emotional development in his early life resulted in this, or he trained it in later through climbing: hard to say. I think it's fascinating. I would pee myself doing one pitch of El Cap on double ropes.
I found the scenes where they are visibly contemplating that they're about to watch their friend die, on camera, pretty compelling.
None of those things are as risky as free soloing, the odd fisherman or logger will die while working but as far as I can tell if you're into free solo you will die doing it. You make a mistake crabbing maybe you'll be injured, maybe you die. Make a mistake free soloing and you are dead, some park rangers get to scrape your remains off the bottom of a cliff. Thrill seeking is fine but if you come to the conclusion that a margin of error just takes too much away from the experience maybe you need to re-evaluate what you're doing.
Actually, they had just ate the black lotus that one vendor in the marketplace sold them. So they weren't drunk, they were tripping their balls off.
~ Buckaroo Banzai
That's not really my question, whether it's worth it. It's not worth it, for me. It's worth it, for him. We have different levels of risk tolerance and different goals in life.
My question (taking off from a probably facetious "lunatic" comment) is whether Honmold should be considered insane or crazy. I think nah.
Is the last part directed at me? Don't worry I'm very aware of my personal limitations, I was just commenting that El Cap is awesome 😁
I haven't seen the movie, but from what I've read it sounds pretty close. Does he have kids? If so, that'd be a kicker for me.
No, but if he did I'd call it irresponsible/selfish but not insane.
Also you should see the movie! It's good!
It seemed like Happy Death day, but straight comedy?
No, it's definitely not straight comedy.
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-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Fine, fine. But it better be good! :P
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It feels like a lifetime since I saw something so well scripted, cast and acted
Well maybe now you can answer my question about Queen Anne's attitude towards the Penal Laws
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"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Every single time I see that title, I immediately think it's a mockumentary (or perhaps an actual documentary that doesn't realize how ludicrous it's being) about some irate Star Wars fans trying to break into the Skywalker Ranch to retrieve Lord & Miller's actually-completed-but-not-released-because-conspiracy version of Solo: A Star Wars Story.
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