#Conan the destroyer cast 1982 movie#
#Conan the destroyer cast 1982 serial#

(AndrГ© вЂњThe GiantвЂќ Roussimouff makes an uncredited appearance as Dagoth the god/monster thingy, but you wonвЂ™t recognize him.)Д«ut nothing is so disheartening as Conan himself. ThatвЂ™s about as much as IвЂ™m willing to say. Sarah Douglas, Ursa from the first two Superman pictures also appears in this movie.

HeвЂ™sвЂ¦well, heвЂ™s Wilt Chamberlain, but he has a wig.

#Conan the destroyer cast 1982 movie#

Wilt Chamberlain is in this movie вЂ“ really. Grace Jones is here to remind you that you are right in the middle of the 80вЂ™s. Olivia dвЂ™Abo plays Princess Jehnna but reminds you more of Willie Scott, the shrieking damsel from Temple of Doom (also still in theaters at this time). The acting is terrible across the board, really. Walter plays him as if it were a character from another movie in another countryВ that had been surgically introduced here and voiced by someone who didnвЂ™t understand the language. Humor in this case usually means comic relief characters, and this is no exception here, with the inclusion of Tracey Walter as cringe-inducing Malak. No, the problem is the other thing studios do to make a picture more family-friendly вЂ“ add вЂњhumorвЂќ. Less violence wouldnвЂ™t necessarily have been a deal-killer, since this was the 80вЂ™s and PG films still contained quite a bit of content that wouldnвЂ™t fly today. Maybe if this had been made a few months later when they had created the PG-13 rating weвЂ™d be left with something a little less jarring, but in the landscape the movie was made in, if the studio wanted to make bank, they needed to tone down the violence to get the PG. Part of the comic book feel must surely be attributed to the downgrading of the rating from an R to a PG. This probably would have made a very good episode of a Conan TVВ show, such as the Hercules show made in the 90вЂ™s with Kevin Sorbo (thereвЂ™s that name again). The picture simply feels like вЂњthe continuing adventures ofвЂ¦вЂќ without any importance and with the expectation of another equally bland tale next month. New director (Richard Fleischer) & new screenwriter (Stanley Mann), both downgrades, work off of a comic book storyline, which does lead to a very comic book feel, in this instance meaning episodic and without any real weight. All of the A-listers involved in the first picture are absent here. So where did they go wrong? Everywhere, really. I am also aware that there was one more film to follow this one, Red Sonja, in which Schwarzenegger briefly returns as Conan, but since it is universally regarded as one of the worst films ever made, IвЂ™m choosing to ignore it. My interest only goes so far.) I am uncomfortably aware that a third film is once again in development, called King Conan or the Legend of Conan, depending on who you listen to. (Kull is apparently another barbarian hero created by Robert E. They even recycled the script, turning it into Kull the Conqueror, вЂњstarringвЂќ Kevin Sorbo.

Plans for Conan the ConquerorВ as aВ third picture went straight into development hell as Ahnold became a superstar with The Terminator, released later in 1984. Conan the DestroyerВ was released a week after The Karate Kid, and with that, Ghostbusters & Gremlins still in theaters, why would you go see this? The other reason may have been that 1984 was a banner year for movies and this film looked even worse than it would have next to its peers. I rather suspect that the bigger reason that no further sequel was forthcoming is that Schwarzenegger was simply too big of a star at this point to waste any more time on it unless it was going to be a guaranteed success. It certainly is not a good movie, but it really shouldnвЂ™t have stopped the film franchise dead in its tracks. Watching it now, on the 30th anniversary of its release, itвЂ™s really nowhere near as bad as I remembered it being. So after the success of Conan the Barbarian, this film was inevitable and so should have been more successful.

#Conan the destroyer cast 1982 serial#

The characterвЂ™s roots were in serial stories that could go on more or less forever and the premise lends itself to multiple sequels. Spoiler-free Movie Review of Conan the Destroyer:Д¬onan was always intended to be a saga, for obvious reasons. Scant praise, maybe, but I remember it being truly wretched.

PG-rated sequel isnвЂ™t actually as awful as I remember.