The dull part of Conan's blade is designed to be gripped for a technique called half-handing. Meant for very tight and constricting quarters you grip that part with one hand while the other hand remains on the normal grip to quickly jab and thrust the point at your target's face or weak points in armor with a gesture not unlike driving a crowbar into a door jam. It's notably quick, accurate, and offers better penetration, but at the cost of reach. In the films Conan has used it for quicker and more controlled parries and fast chops. Scottish claymores usually had a similar design, or a covering piece of leather on the lower blade to act as a grip to compensate for the slow length and weight.
Thanks for commenting, you're explanation is very good and saved me the work to explain all that 😂 Everybody seems to know katana or Chinese weapons but European swords are still very misunderstood and unknown even for western countries people.
Landsknecht, German mercenaries, were pros at handling giant two-handed swords like this. Especially when you're in narrow hallways that don't have good swinging room. Which is why they were paid double for their work.
According to Arnold, Grace Jones knocked out 12 stunt people with her staff including the trainer who attempted to teach her how to not hit people with it.
No one has ever beaten Chamberlains 100 point game. All try, but fall short. And Andre, no one wanted to go one on one with him in his prime. He was too damned strong!
8:40 Olivia d'Abo (the princees) was 15 in this maybe 14 during some of the recording born in 1969. She was 23 for an episode of Star Trek: TNG. 9:20 lookup the movie named "Caveman"
The young actress playing the princess was only 15 at the time. Rumor had it there was a love scene written for Conan and her. Problem? Yes! Arnold was already in his 30's and she was underage. So, naturally they abandoned that whole subplot. However, it remains in the novelization I'm told.
@@BarbaraL-b9i I'd say there's a bit of a difference between sex with a teenager and an extramarital affair. I don't approve of cheating, but there is a difference.
She had to be really young here, she played Kevin Arnold's sister in the wonder years, and that was like 10 years after this film. But if this was based on the time that the real era was based on marrying off a teen to an older man is right on point.
@@pencilnecked1579 - I spent most of my youth crushing on her in everything she appeared in. Thankfully it was entirely appropriate because I was born in 1970. She's as cute as a button.
Andre The Giant portrayed the horned monster that Conan fights in thr movie, which is pretty amazing and 3 time Oscar Winning VFX artist Carlo Rambaldi designed the monster suit as well.
@@zakarylux2271 There is a picture from the set with Andre on one side and Wilt on the other and they are picking up a tiny by comparison Arnold with one arm each like you would your little nephew at a cookout.
There actually is a technique called half-swording, where you grip the blade. It can help you direct the tip towards a specific target, or get leverage when thrusting. There's also a technique called a murder stroke, where you reverse the sword and swing it by the blade, to try and smash the cross guard into a skull. Bear in mind this is usually done with guantlets.
As an analogy for half-swording and leverage, it's much easier to dig dirt with a shovel when you hold one hand part way down the shovel's shaft as opposed to holding both hands at the end furthest from the shovel blade
I believe it. Those type of swords are all about brute force blows, not precision cutting. You can even use the sides of the blade to knock somebody out.
19:49 This is the same actor, Sven-Ole Thorson, that played the Hammer wielding Thorgrim in the first movie. He is a stuntman and bodybuilder friend of Arnold's and was in several movies with him, such as Red Sonja, Predator, The Running Man and Totall Recall, to name a few.
As a D&D player, this movie is an almost textbook old school D&D campaign. We've got the Fighter, the Thief, the Wizard, the Monk and they're escorting a magical princess on a quest to retrieve a magical MacGuffin. What more could you ask for?
All these people in the comments hating. What’s with these people? The movies may not be on the same level as the original but this is still a super fun epic sword and sorcery adventure! Around being Arnold with his band of Misfits. Like it’s not that serious.
@@XghostXfaceX2 this is because a very silly movie(which I enjoyed) called The Sword and The Sorcerer somehow scared the producers into not trusting the original formula that the first Conan film started. Bowing to a trend is shitting on the first one; which was crafted with great respect to the source stories.
@@waynezimmerman1950Sword and the Sorcerer was lighter in tone than Conan part 1 but it still was gritty R rated 80's fantasy. Conan the Destroyer does seem aimed at a younger audience but it still has it's moments... And Arnie no matter what is always charismatic.
1 Million Years B.C. was the first movie I ever saw as a child. Which, now that I think about it, explains rather a lot about how I turned out. 🤔@@AntiChannel1
There are some 'Caveman' movies around, but I don't think it was "Quest for Fire" - that movie should have stuck in her mind better. Definitively a must watch, and from the same director of "The Name of the Rose".
Yes, another Robert E. Howard character. Kull is from an even earlier time, thousands of years before Conan, when Atlantis was still above the waves. He was one of Conan's ancestors.
I was going to leave a comment saying you're wrong because a eunuch would make a terrible warrior having no testosterone. But after looking it up, you're right. Canonically, he was a eunuch.
the QUEEN thought that statue of the " PRINCE " would grant her IMMORTALITY & POWER but the warning that couldn't be translated because it was a forgotten language was a warning about it being a DEMON that was trapped & the 2 power stones hidden the jewel & the horn
8:39 - "How old is she? We talking like 19, or like 16? She seems very young." - Olivia D'Abo was 14 in this. I remember once reading a magazine article that said the original, scripted idea was for her to walk through the flames and retrieve the horn, in the nude. I forget exactly why it said they changed it. Common sense would say it was because of her age, but the same year that this came out, she she appeared fully nude in the movie Bolero with Bo Derek. Things were different back then...
During the filming of this Arnold went to watch a wrestling match Where Andre the Giant was. Later Andre, Arnold, and wilt had a picture taken together. Arnold looks like a child next to them.
another Fun Fact.... The One Guard that Conan did the duel with in the Forest was actually his weight lifting buddy. He was in the first Movie as Thorvid...he was also the main guard in the Running Man. He had done alot of movies with Arnold.
I remember seeing this on a double feature with Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone at a drive-in back in the day. That drive-in was torn down and an office was built on the land.
Talking about ahead of its time, this movie hired comic book writers of the original Conan Marvel Comics to write the screenplay for this, and Grace Jones' "Zula" was originally a man in the comics as well, but a gender swap took place. This movie, for better or worse, was the precursor to how comic book movies are made today.
The actor that played Conan the Librarian is a friend and former stand in for Arnold. Wonderful guy too, I got to do a fight scene with him here in Michigan for an indie film.
writer of conan the books robert e howard was friends with lovecraft and wrote storys for him , conan is placed in same universe and that monster at the end is one of the old gods
I train in historical European martial arts. You can hold a blade if you know the correct way to hold it. Also historically a knight would have worn gloves or gauntlets to further protect their hand. It's called half *wording and it's a common technique fahown in the surviv8ng training manuals from the 14th and 15th centuries. It allowed for more control when stabbing and also for you to use the hilt and pommel of the sword as blunt force weapons. To quote another movie, the blade is not the only part of a sword
I have a photograph of Wilt Chamberlain standing next to a childhood friend of my father, Richard Belzer, who played Munch on Law & Order SVU, the picture was taken at a basketball camp in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1959.
I did not expect to laugh so much in a reaction of this movie. You guys were on fire. I also liked the small touches, was that Winslet? lol As for the movie, as a kid I liked it a lot, same with Red Sonja (your reaction I watched earlier). I don't remember which of the 3 I liked the most, but I am glad I did when I was a kid. Good role models. Edit: Though the music in the first one was just superb.
In case anyone hasnt mentioned it yet, Conan The Destroyer was actually written by the people who did the 70's Conan comic, while the first was written by someone else. But I'm not sure if some of the goofy stuff in Destroyer was actually in the script as opposed to improvised by the director ans actors.
One of my favorites as a kid. It's a fun time, exciting, creative, a journey. The first movie is great too.. but in the end both movies are really two different sides a coin. Which I'm thankful for.
There is a deleted scene in which the guard got farther away and by the time conan caught up and rescued the princess, they were too far from the group and had to camp overnight. Well, conan being conan and the princess already having a crush on him,.. long story short, the reason why the ceremony went sideways was because she was no longer a virgin. Oh that conan.
I always thought it was because she had to be sacrificed at the very beginning and the monster went nuts because she wasn't. But given the actresses age I can see why it was deleted. Maybe it was in the script but then they realized she was too young and said scrap it.
Far better than the first movie. It doesn't take itself seriously and has no dull moments of pretentious nonsense. It's the perfect D&D movie right down the party of adventurers.
The tone is off, but it has a solid cast. If this film had delivered on the "Conan gets his kingdom" premise instead of delaying it again, it might have felt more essential and less throwaway.
Wizards cast memorized spells with spell components and/or magic items. Magic of arcane will is sorcery, cast by sorcerers. Magic cast by priests, monks, paladins, clerics, etc.. is divine magic granted by a god.
John Millius chose to direct Red Dawn instead of this. Production of The Terminator was delayed so this could be made. The actress playing the princess' aunt was in Superman II. The actor playing Conan's sidekick is also in Tim Burton's Batman. The actress playing the princess provides her voice in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
@youmeandthemovies , do you realize that with Dune, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, AND Red Sonja you guys did a mini Dino De Laurentiis month?? Great coincidence that!!
When I was a kid, this movie was enthralling to me. I can agree that it's a slow pace, even watching a condensed version like this it was taking forever. Maybe I was taken in by the adventure in a land of swords and magic, maybe more movies were of a slower pacing, maybe it's because we're all used to faster paced movies now, or maybe some combination of all three, who knows. When Dwayne Johnson went to Hollywood, a lot of us hoped there would be more Conan movies with him at the head, never happened though. You might enjoy watching The Villain, a movie set in the wild west with Arnold in one of his firt movies. It's very slapstick and funny. You should definitely check out the image of Wilt and Andre the Giant next to Arnold, helps you to see how a tall person can look tiny next to a pair of massive men. Thanks for the reaction and having us all over, hope everyone has a great day.
John Milius who wrote and directed the first Conan movie DID write a script for the third proposed Conan movie "King Conan: Crown of Iron." But the movie was scrapped in favor of the Jason Momoa Conan reboot which did not do well at the box office. The closest we may ever get for another Arnold Conan movie is a concept trailer done over at the "Buff Dudes" youtube channel called "Arnold Schwarzenegger KING CONAN concept trailer (2024)" They had someone professionally deep fake Arnold over one of them along with his voice and it's actually pretty damn good.
Arnold 6'2". Wilt 7'1" Andre 7'4". But if you look at promo shots Andre looks shorter than wilt. Thoth Amon in the books was the mightiest sorcerer in the hyborian age, he was Conan's greatest nemesis for many decades, his scene doesn't seem to pay proper homage. Mako (the wizard) IMO greatest fight scene as a martial artist was in "The Big Brawl" with Jackie Chan.
Pretty sure Arnold really isn't that tall. He has done some movies with Sylvester Stallone and Sly is all of 5'10 or 5'11 for reference. I helped an NBA player load his groceries into his car and held an umbrella over him, which looked ridiculous. He was 7'2 and I am 6'0.
1. Olivia d’Abo was fourteen when filming began… fifteen when it ended. 2. You mentioned Wilt in comparison to Andre the Giant…. well, Andre (uncredited) was the man in the horned monster costume. If you google the names of Andre, Arnold, and Wilt, then you’ll see two photos. One has the three men standing together… Andre is late 40’s, Arnold is 35, and Wilt is 55. The other pic has Andre and Wilt nonchalantly holding Arnold. Another internet search will reveal Arnold’s stories about dinner in Mexico with Andre and Wilt or the first time he saw Wilt in the gym. 3. The film was edited to be more family friendly… and it lost any gravitas it had. 4. What I really want to know is if you are planning to watch the 1987 movie, The Barbarians? It’s an Italian - American film, starring the Paul brothers. And it looks better than Conan the Destroyer, and is a lot more fun despite being twice as stupid.
9:16 The caveman movie could be, "Quest For Fire," or, "Clan of The Cave Bear." Quest came out in 1981 & has Ron Perelman in it, while Clan is from '86 and starred Daryl Hannah. They're the most non-(intentionally) comedic films about prehistoric people that came out around a similar time to the Conan films. There were others, notably, "Caveman," with Ringo Starr and, "One Million Years B.C.," with Raquel Welch, but they were usually either comedies or late night drive-in quality cheese. They were both closer to art films than either Conan movie, along with being relatively mainstream productions with higher-than-art house budgets, so they had TV ads, posters & the like. If Mrs. Movies' memories are based on ads or VHS covers etc. and I had to guess, "Quest For Fire," is the most visually similar to the Conan films.
Andre The Giant is in this movie. He plays the big horned monster at the end of the film. There's also a picture you can easily find online with Wilt Chamberlain, Andre The Giant, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold stands in between them. He's the buffest but also looks like a little kid standing next to them. It's a lot like Predator when Arnold was lifted by the 7 foot + Predator actor. -OG
16:50 - EVIL DEMON KING - Portrayed by British wrestler Pat Roach, who also portrayed at least one villain in each Indiana Jones movies, memorably the bald fist-fighting German soldier who gets decapitated by the plane propeller in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
I don't think it's better than the first but I still enjoy it. It always felt like a fun d&d type story. After all these years, i appreciate it for doing it's own thing. Also, I've read a lot of the original stories and this contains more elements from them. Not the campiness but the mythology stuff.
The dull part of Conan's blade is designed to be gripped for a technique called half-handing. Meant for very tight and constricting quarters you grip that part with one hand while the other hand remains on the normal grip to quickly jab and thrust the point at your target's face or weak points in armor with a gesture not unlike driving a crowbar into a door jam. It's notably quick, accurate, and offers better penetration, but at the cost of reach.
In the films Conan has used it for quicker and more controlled parries and fast chops. Scottish claymores usually had a similar design, or a covering piece of leather on the lower blade to act as a grip to compensate for the slow length and weight.
Good to know.
Thanks for commenting, you're explanation is very good and saved me the work to explain all that 😂 Everybody seems to know katana or Chinese weapons but European swords are still very misunderstood and unknown even for western countries people.
It's called half-swording
Landsknecht, German mercenaries, were pros at handling giant two-handed swords like this. Especially when you're in narrow hallways that don't have good swinging room. Which is why they were paid double for their work.
That's how I prefer to grip my sword... just saying.
According to Arnold, Grace Jones knocked out 12 stunt people with her staff including the trainer who attempted to teach her how to not hit people with it.
Explains a lot about Grace and Dolph Lundgren being a couple for awhile!
There is a photo of Arnold between Wilt, and Andre the Giant. He looks like a child standing between those men. May they both R. I. P.
No one has ever beaten Chamberlains 100 point game. All try, but fall short. And Andre, no one wanted to go one on one with him in his prime. He was too damned strong!
RIP to Mako, as well. Probably better known these days as Aku from Samurai Jack.
Fun fact; the "Beast" at the end is an uncredited Andre the Giant
Holy Crap I did not know that but given I've seen a picture of Andre, Wilt, and Arnie all on set together it explains a lot.
@donovanbradford8231 that's one of the most wholesome pictures I've ever seen
@@donovanbradford8231 same, I always wondered why Andre is in that picture. Arnold looks so small in it.
heh I was just going to say this.
Why was he not credited? Seems unfair.
The monster in the red cloak has got to be a blatant reference to the classic Conan story Thieves in the House.
the ape monster is known as thak
"My cousin's sister's brother." So...your cousin? I love this movie.
Well if you have a half brother and he has a half sister, then that sister might not be related to you at all. Her cousin wouldn't be your cousin.
12:08 "She's a biter." Yes she is, cause she actually bit Wilt in that scene. She was a wild one on set.
Grace Jones is still her usual wild self even at 70+. Moves the same too, and no wrinkles.
She has the genetics of an ebony amazon for sure
8:40 Olivia d'Abo (the princees) was 15 in this maybe 14 during some of the recording born in 1969. She was 23 for an episode of Star Trek: TNG.
9:20 lookup the movie named "Caveman"
Oh was she in the episode of TNG where a girl gets the power of the Q and she starts rushing on Riker
@@donovanbradford8231 yes. That is the one.
The young actress playing the princess was only 15 at the time. Rumor had it there was a love scene written for Conan and her. Problem? Yes! Arnold was already in his 30's and she was underage. So, naturally they abandoned that whole subplot. However, it remains in the novelization I'm told.
According to IMDB she was 14 when she started. Yeah, Arnold dodged a bullet with that one (finally) by not taking part in that scene.
I mean, in the world of Hyboria and during the times of Barbarians, that age wouldn't mean much. But definitely ick by today's standards.
@@BarbaraL-b9i wow escalated into dark territory quick
Olivia D'abo appeared fully nude in BOLERO at age 14 so I don't think she had any problem doing anything a director asked.
@@BarbaraL-b9i I'd say there's a bit of a difference between sex with a teenager and an extramarital affair. I don't approve of cheating, but there is a difference.
Destroyer was my first Conan flick as a kid. The wizard in the mirror room scared the crap out of me as a little guy.
The Mrs certainly clocked on to the Olivia D'Abo's age issue quickly, lol.
She had to be really young here, she played Kevin Arnold's sister in the wonder years, and that was like 10 years after this film. But if this was based on the time that the real era was based on marrying off a teen to an older man is right on point.
@@johnrife7134Yeah, she was 14 when it was filmed. Born in 1969
@@johnrife7134Wonder Years started around 4 years after this
@@pencilnecked1579 - I spent most of my youth crushing on her in everything she appeared in. Thankfully it was entirely appropriate because I was born in 1970. She's as cute as a button.
Andre The Giant portrayed the horned monster that Conan fights in thr movie, which is pretty amazing and 3 time Oscar Winning VFX artist Carlo Rambaldi designed the monster suit as well.
Are you sure? I've never heard that
Lol alien had already been made and here we have a 10 dollar rubber mask from any halloween store
@@zakarylux2271 There is a picture from the set with Andre on one side and Wilt on the other and they are picking up a tiny by comparison Arnold with one arm each like you would your little nephew at a cookout.
" Quest for Fire" is a good prehistoric movie.
Also has Rae Dawn Chong naked, which I like.
I came into the comments to make sure someone told her the name of the 80's caveman film.
when Malik was given the job of Fool, that's a huge honor and a big responsibility. their entire job is to call the royalty out on their shit.
Have you seen Big Trouble in Little China? That has the ultimate wizard off.
Ya! Because it has the ultimate EVERYTHING in it 😊
Second only to Gandalf vs Saruman, I'd say. But that one came years later …
Chris Hansen in the background cracked me up!!!! Nearly spat my beer out. Sheer BRIALLIANT!
There actually is a technique called half-swording, where you grip the blade. It can help you direct the tip towards a specific target, or get leverage when thrusting. There's also a technique called a murder stroke, where you reverse the sword and swing it by the blade, to try and smash the cross guard into a skull. Bear in mind this is usually done with guantlets.
As an analogy for half-swording and leverage, it's much easier to dig dirt with a shovel when you hold one hand part way down the shovel's shaft as opposed to holding both hands at the end furthest from the shovel blade
I believe it. Those type of swords are all about brute force blows, not precision cutting. You can even use the sides of the blade to knock somebody out.
Fascinating.
Sarah Douglas plays Queen Taramis, she also was Ursa on Superman and Superman II
37:45 Andre The Giant showing us a proper grape pressing technique.
"You GRAB him...and TAKE him!"
"Grab him...and take him?"
"TAKE him!"
Yay Grace Jones!
37:26 That's Andre The Giant.
There was a caveman movie called Caveman with Shelley Long, Dennis Quaid and Ringo Starr.
She might be thinking of Quest For Fire
Quite right.
@@hastingscutoff1304 I love it, quite a beautiful film. Definitely in my top 50 of all time list. It's the role Ron Perlman was born to play.
@@hastingscutoff1304 Dumpster fire? It's a comedy that I think Mrs. Movies would find entertaining.
19:49 This is the same actor, Sven-Ole Thorson, that played the Hammer wielding Thorgrim in the first movie. He is a stuntman and bodybuilder friend of Arnold's and was in several movies with him, such as Red Sonja, Predator, The Running Man and Totall Recall, to name a few.
Well "Caveman" the movie has Ringo Star, Dennis Quad, John Matuszack, and Shelley Long. A classic early 1980s comedy I think you'll enjoy.
Nipple curtains had me rolling lol...
As a D&D player, this movie is an almost textbook old school D&D campaign. We've got the Fighter, the Thief, the Wizard, the Monk and they're escorting a magical princess on a quest to retrieve a magical MacGuffin. What more could you ask for?
8:37 She was probably 14 when they were filming, and 15 when the film was released.
Olivia D'abo 1969.
I had a mad crush on Olivia after this movie!
All these people in the comments hating. What’s with these people?
The movies may not be on the same level as the original but this is still a super fun epic sword and sorcery adventure! Around being Arnold with his band of Misfits. Like it’s not that serious.
It's not bad but it is a noticeable step down from the first.
@@cory6266 That’s a fair assessment. I just think shitting on it, isn’t fair.
I like this one just as much as the first. Loved Conan when I was a kid.
@@XghostXfaceX2 this is because a very silly movie(which I enjoyed) called The Sword and The Sorcerer somehow scared the producers into not trusting the original formula that the first Conan film started. Bowing to a trend is shitting on the first one; which was crafted with great respect to the source stories.
@@waynezimmerman1950Sword and the Sorcerer was lighter in tone than Conan part 1 but it still was gritty R rated 80's fantasy. Conan the Destroyer does seem aimed at a younger audience but it still has it's moments... And Arnie no matter what is always charismatic.
what i liked is the picture of Arnold, Wilt and Andre together and seeing Arnold so small at 6f 2
I would like to recommend Willow from the year. 1988 where Val kilmore met his wife on set.
Sorsha (Joanne Whalley) is why I've had a thing for red heads my whole life 😁🥰🤣😂🤣
I loved Mrs. Movies looking at that opening shot of Conan going, "oh yeah candy for the ladies😎"
The "caveman movie" that Mrs. Movies is thinking of might be Quest For Fire. Great movie. You guys should add it to the list.
Or Clan of the Cave Bear. Maybe One Million Years B.C.
Or possibly Caveman, starring Ringo Star, Shelly Long, and some stop motion dinosaurs and beasts.
@@michaelpytel3280
Yes the most famous one with Raquel Welsh.
One Million Years B.C.
1 Million Years B.C. was the first movie I ever saw as a child. Which, now that I think about it, explains rather a lot about how I turned out. 🤔@@AntiChannel1
There are some 'Caveman' movies around, but I don't think it was "Quest for Fire" - that movie should have stuck in her mind better.
Definitively a must watch, and from the same director of "The Name of the Rose".
Not sure if it’s correct, but I remember hearing that Kull the Conqueror is in the same universe.
Yes, another Robert E. Howard character. Kull is from an even earlier time, thousands of years before Conan, when Atlantis was still above the waves. He was one of Conan's ancestors.
In the movie, one of Kull's lines is when he introduces himself as Kull of Atlantis
Correct, Thulsa Doom is a Kull villain.
When the princess accuses Bombata of not being a real man it probably means he's a eunuch.
I was going to leave a comment saying you're wrong because a eunuch would make a terrible warrior having no testosterone. But after looking it up, you're right. Canonically, he was a eunuch.
A lot of middle eastern rulers had eunuch bodyguards back in the day - probably because they wouldn't cause any trouble with their harems.
I assume the god went nuts there at the end cause they didn’t kill the girl to complete the ritual.
I was 12. This was the greatest movie ever, that Saturday.
And the young blonde girl played the older sister in the original, the wonder years.❤
Happy 40th Anniversary Conan the Destroyer!!⚔🎞😉
the QUEEN
thought that statue of the
" PRINCE "
would grant her
IMMORTALITY & POWER
but the warning that
couldn't be translated
because
it was a forgotten language
was a warning about it being a
DEMON
that was trapped
&
the 2 power stones
hidden
the jewel
&
the horn
8:39 - "How old is she? We talking like 19, or like 16? She seems very young." - Olivia D'Abo was 14 in this. I remember once reading a magazine article that said the original, scripted idea was for her to walk through the flames and retrieve the horn, in the nude. I forget exactly why it said they changed it. Common sense would say it was because of her age, but the same year that this came out, she she appeared fully nude in the movie Bolero with Bo Derek. Things were different back then...
During the filming of this Arnold went to watch a wrestling match Where Andre the Giant was. Later Andre, Arnold, and wilt had a picture taken together. Arnold looks like a child next to them.
Andre playes the final boss monster here uncredited in costume you know
Olivia D'Abo was 15 when this movie was released, and was between 13 and 14 during filming. This didn't bother me when I was 14.
The Oriental magician was played by the late, Great MAKO.
another Fun Fact.... The One Guard that Conan did the duel with in the Forest was actually his weight lifting buddy. He was in the first Movie as Thorvid...he was also the main guard in the Running Man. He had done alot of movies with Arnold.
I've seen him pop up in a few films and didn't realize that they were buds but given he's bigger than Arnold I can see them lifting together.
I remember seeing this on a double feature with Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone at a drive-in back in the day. That drive-in was torn down and an office was built on the land.
A part of me dies inside every time they tear down a drive-in.
Olivia D'Abo was born in 1969--she was 14 when Conan the Destroyer began filming.
Talking about ahead of its time, this movie hired comic book writers of the original Conan Marvel Comics to write the screenplay for this, and Grace Jones' "Zula" was originally a man in the comics as well, but a gender swap took place. This movie, for better or worse, was the precursor to how comic book movies are made today.
* were made until today.
Lately they switched to people who do not read the source material or were involved in any of it. And it shows …
What about "Conan the Librarian"? 😊😉
Don't you know the dewey decimal system!
the books are a bit overdue....aaah!
I can’t think about Conan without thinking of UHF
Such a great skit in a great movie!
The actor that played Conan the Librarian is a friend and former stand in for Arnold. Wonderful guy too, I got to do a fight scene with him here in Michigan for an indie film.
There is a picture of Arnold with Wilt Chamberlin and Andre the Giant for size and height comparison.
Olivia d'Abo was barely fifteen when the movie premièred. So during filming she was 14.
WHAT?! 😮
@@hulkslayer626 yep. Young, pretty, talented actress. I'd say she did a great job, didn't she?
@artursandwich1974 I'm not at liberty to say anything on the matter... lmao I no longer have an opinion 😆
writer of conan the books robert e howard was friends with lovecraft and wrote storys for him , conan is placed in same universe and that monster at the end is one of the old gods
There are pictures of Andre the Giant on the set with Wilt and Arnold.
Because he played end boss monster
I train in historical European martial arts.
You can hold a blade if you know the correct way to hold it. Also historically a knight would have worn gloves or gauntlets to further protect their hand.
It's called half *wording and it's a common technique fahown in the surviv8ng training manuals from the 14th and 15th centuries. It allowed for more control when stabbing and also for you to use the hilt and pommel of the sword as blunt force weapons.
To quote another movie, the blade is not the only part of a sword
Chris Hanson peeking around the corner had me rolling!
The actor who plays the wizard in this also did the voice of Uncle in Avatar The Last Air Bender animated series. The actor's name was Mako
Sad fact: The director, Basil Polidouris the Composer and Mako the actor all died in 2006. Not a good year for those involved with this movie.
I have a photograph of Wilt Chamberlain standing next to a childhood friend of my father, Richard Belzer, who played Munch on Law & Order SVU, the picture was taken at a basketball camp in Bridgeport Connecticut in 1959.
I did not expect to laugh so much in a reaction of this movie. You guys were on fire.
I also liked the small touches, was that Winslet? lol
As for the movie, as a kid I liked it a lot, same with Red Sonja (your reaction I watched earlier). I don't remember which of the 3 I liked the most, but I am glad I did when I was a kid. Good role models.
Edit: Though the music in the first one was just superb.
16:23 That's Pat Roach from Indiana Jones & Foxy Brown.
No, that's actually Pat Roach, who was playing the wizard. But he also played all those big guys Indiana Jones fought.
@@gutz1981 Correct!!!
In case anyone hasnt mentioned it yet, Conan The Destroyer was actually written by the people who did the 70's Conan comic, while the first was written by someone else. But I'm not sure if some of the goofy stuff in Destroyer was actually in the script as opposed to improvised by the director ans actors.
One of my favorites as a kid. It's a fun time, exciting, creative, a journey. The first movie is great too.. but in the end both movies are really two different sides a coin. Which I'm thankful for.
There is a deleted scene in which the guard got farther away and by the time conan caught up and rescued the princess, they were too far from the group and had to camp overnight. Well, conan being conan and the princess already having a crush on him,.. long story short, the reason why the ceremony went sideways was because she was no longer a virgin. Oh that conan.
I always thought it was because she had to be sacrificed at the very beginning and the monster went nuts because she wasn't. But given the actresses age I can see why it was deleted. Maybe it was in the script but then they realized she was too young and said scrap it.
Mrs. Movies doesn’t need makeup. Her beauty is natural.
Conan!
Far better than the first movie. It doesn't take itself seriously and has no dull moments of pretentious nonsense. It's the perfect D&D movie right down the party of adventurers.
I loved this movie as a kid. I remember going with my parents to the mom & pop video store and renting this movie along with the VCR to watch it with.
The tone is off, but it has a solid cast. If this film had delivered on the "Conan gets his kingdom" premise instead of delaying it again, it might have felt more essential and less throwaway.
I definitely agree fall into the minority that I love this movie because I did watch this first, as a kid, so that nostalgia is there for me 😄
Wizards cast memorized spells with spell components and/or magic items.
Magic of arcane will is sorcery, cast by sorcerers.
Magic cast by priests, monks, paladins, clerics, etc.. is divine magic granted by a god.
Everybody piles on this movie. It's a movie about fur lined leather battle panties and sword swinging, relax.
It's lame compared to the first one.
@@lw3918 So? It's still fun on it's own terms.
It's supposed to be a more campy version of the original. Take it as it is.
@@davidlionheart2438 I disagree.
The girl playing the princess was only 14 when she did it, and it's her movie debut, Olivia D'abo
John Millius chose to direct Red Dawn instead of this. Production of The Terminator was delayed so this could be made. The actress playing the princess' aunt was in Superman II. The actor playing Conan's sidekick is also in Tim Burton's Batman. The actress playing the princess provides her voice in Star Wars: The Clone Wars
The "lot on your knife" line always makes me giggle. Arnold is a funny drunk.
The Princess is Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.
This was a great fantasy movie of childhood.
I saw this movie as kid many times on VHS, I'm surprised still remember lot of scenes...
I think the "Caveman movie" you're thinking of is Quest for Fire?
A good caveman movie is Caveman 1982, it has one of the Beatles in it lol
@youmeandthemovies , do you realize that with Dune, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, AND Red Sonja you guys did a mini Dino De Laurentiis month?? Great coincidence that!!
Wondering if Evil-Lyn from He-Man was based off Queen Tarimus or vice versa!!
When I was a kid, this movie was enthralling to me. I can agree that it's a slow pace, even watching a condensed version like this it was taking forever. Maybe I was taken in by the adventure in a land of swords and magic, maybe more movies were of a slower pacing, maybe it's because we're all used to faster paced movies now, or maybe some combination of all three, who knows. When Dwayne Johnson went to Hollywood, a lot of us hoped there would be more Conan movies with him at the head, never happened though.
You might enjoy watching The Villain, a movie set in the wild west with Arnold in one of his firt movies. It's very slapstick and funny. You should definitely check out the image of Wilt and Andre the Giant next to Arnold, helps you to see how a tall person can look tiny next to a pair of massive men.
Thanks for the reaction and having us all over, hope everyone has a great day.
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John Milius who wrote and directed the first Conan movie DID write a script for the third proposed Conan movie "King Conan: Crown of Iron." But the movie was scrapped in favor of the Jason Momoa Conan reboot which did not do well at the box office. The closest we may ever get for another Arnold Conan movie is a concept trailer done over at the "Buff Dudes" youtube channel called "Arnold Schwarzenegger KING CONAN concept trailer (2024)" They had someone professionally deep fake Arnold over one of them along with his voice and it's actually pretty damn good.
Arnold 6'2". Wilt 7'1" Andre 7'4". But if you look at promo shots Andre looks shorter than wilt. Thoth Amon in the books was the mightiest sorcerer in the hyborian age, he was Conan's greatest nemesis for many decades, his scene doesn't seem to pay proper homage. Mako (the wizard) IMO greatest fight scene as a martial artist was in "The Big Brawl" with Jackie Chan.
Pretty sure Arnold really isn't that tall. He has done some movies with Sylvester Stallone and Sly is all of 5'10 or 5'11 for reference. I helped an NBA player load his groceries into his car and held an umbrella over him, which looked ridiculous. He was 7'2 and I am 6'0.
@@davestang5454 I thought he was shorter too, but according to Google that's what he is.
@@davestang5454No he is pretty tall which is why he competed in the tall man category for the Mr Olympia competitions
There's also Kull the congurer
Never heard of Kull the Conjurer. Did he conjure up bad acting, bad dialogue and prehistoric fight choreography?
Is still see the map of California when the queen asked him "show me the desires in your deepest heart"
1. Olivia d’Abo was fourteen when filming began… fifteen when it ended.
2. You mentioned Wilt in comparison to Andre the Giant…. well, Andre (uncredited) was the man in the horned monster costume. If you google the names of Andre, Arnold, and Wilt, then you’ll see two photos. One has the three men standing together… Andre is late 40’s, Arnold is 35, and Wilt is 55. The other pic has Andre and Wilt nonchalantly holding Arnold. Another internet search will reveal Arnold’s stories about dinner in Mexico with Andre and Wilt or the first time he saw Wilt in the gym.
3. The film was edited to be more family friendly… and it lost any gravitas it had.
4. What I really want to know is if you are planning to watch the 1987 movie, The Barbarians? It’s an Italian - American film, starring the Paul brothers. And it looks better than Conan the Destroyer, and is a lot more fun despite being twice as stupid.
Not just a lady.
She's a Kryptonian
The best "wizard off" is the battle at the end of the animated movie "Wizards"
Did you notice that the spear / staff next to Conan when he’s on the throne is actually the head of it was made from his father’s sword
I think 'the caveman movie' she's thinking about is the Quest for Fire.
9:16 The caveman movie could be, "Quest For Fire," or, "Clan of The Cave Bear."
Quest came out in 1981 & has Ron Perelman in it, while Clan is from '86 and starred Daryl Hannah. They're the most non-(intentionally) comedic films about prehistoric people that came out around a similar time to the Conan films. There were others, notably, "Caveman," with Ringo Starr and, "One Million Years B.C.," with Raquel Welch, but they were usually either comedies or late night drive-in quality cheese.
They were both closer to art films than either Conan movie, along with being relatively mainstream productions with higher-than-art house budgets, so they had TV ads, posters & the like. If Mrs. Movies' memories are based on ads or VHS covers etc. and I had to guess, "Quest For Fire," is the most visually similar to the Conan films.
Olivia D'Abo was 14 in this movie.
She looked it. Definitely jailbait even by today's standards
Andre The Giant is in this movie. He plays the big horned monster at the end of the film.
There's also a picture you can easily find online with Wilt Chamberlain, Andre The Giant, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Arnold stands in between them. He's the buffest but also looks like a little kid standing next to them.
It's a lot like Predator when Arnold was lifted by the 7 foot + Predator actor. -OG
Kevin Peter Hall. Useless trivia time. This tall actor also played Big Bird for many years on Sesame Street
@@mcentepede And Kevin played Bigfoot on Harry and the Henderson's. Useless trivia. -OG
16:50 - EVIL DEMON KING - Portrayed by British wrestler Pat Roach, who also portrayed at least one villain in each Indiana Jones movies, memorably the bald fist-fighting German soldier who gets decapitated by the plane propeller in 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'.
31:43 He's a Wizard Conan!
I don't think it's better than the first but I still enjoy it. It always felt like a fun d&d type story. After all these years, i appreciate it for doing it's own thing. Also, I've read a lot of the original stories and this contains more elements from them. Not the campiness but the mythology stuff.
This movie is awesome, all you haters need to chill out.
Surely you will show her Excalibur. Some classic actors in it.
"What a really *_sh*tty_* aunt"
Read the Robert Jordan novelization and see the nightmare Jehnna was screaming about in the earlier scene.
Actually it's a common technique called half handing. Mostly used for extremely close combat using longswords, or to give added control for a party.
The background music always gets me... Amazing scores!