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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2220888" data-attributes="member: 2205">Oddly enough, I just watched the documentary Frazetta: Painting with Fire and John Milius was one of the interviewees (wow, I had no idea the man was such an enormous nerd-looking guy; although he still looks like Brad Pitt next to Ralph Bakshi... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> )  They actually did try to incorporate as manyFrazetta homages in the movie as they could, to dubious success, IMO.barsoomboy; I may have to watch the movie again; it's been a long time.  I remember thinking that it made me cringe, even as a teenager.  Story good?  Which story again?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />  Anyway, I'm not one who believes in being a slave to source material, unless your source material is obviously better than the material you have.  In this case, I think a more Howard-esque story would have been head and shoulders taller than the story they did have.  And Arnold was only chosen to play the part because of his Mr. Universe thing.  He later proved that he had some decent performances in him, and he was even convincingly scared and in trouble in Predator, but a Conan lead who can act doesn't seem to be too much to ask for.</blockquote>

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