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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rgard" data-source="post: 5673863" data-attributes="member: 4157">I'm with you Johnny3D3D.  I enjoyed this version immensely.    Some thoughts:With all the background shots this one really felt more like Hyboria than the originals.  I wasn't certain about Mamoa when I heard he would play Conan, but I feel he nailed it, blue eyes or not.Lang was brilliant as Zym.  Great bad guy.  Too bad the character dies.  Would have been fun for Conan to duke it out with him again in a later installment.  I was not in any way annoyed by the job Rachel Nichols did.  That said, any Conan heroine will forever pale in comparison to Sandahl Bergman.  Ron Perlman is fantastic as Conan's dad.  I really like this guy's work over the years and he didn't let us down in this one.Like others I didn't get the ship as the villian's bedroom suite, other than the bad guy drags his ship around, because 'he can'.  I'm hoping that will get cleared up in the director's cut.The only thing that I felt slightly let down by is the cliche 'bad guy kills protagonist's dad so protagonist's motivation in life is to kill the bad guy'.  Yea, homage to the Arnold version maybe, but not needed.  I figure they worked that in for the whole Cimmerian steel thing from earlier version.  Howard's Conan didn't need that motivation.We sat in the seats that shake and move with the action on the screen.  Kinda fun, but would have been fine watching this in normal seats and 2D.  I hope this version does make money for them eventually.  I'd hate to wait another 27 years for another Conan film.  Maybe an HBO series?  I'd be happy with that.Agreed, but perfect is difficult to achieve.  Only two movies ever achieved perfection in my opinion: Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca.</blockquote>

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