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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2229811" data-attributes="member: 1015">Now now, no need to resort to name-calling.  The loincloth seems to be the only consistantly recurring article of clothing in the Conan series.  In the stories focusing on younger Conan (Tower of the Elephant, Rogues in the House, the God in the Bowl, etc) that's pretty much all he wears, and even in the stories focusing on Conan later in life, it's not uncommon for him to get stripped of his armor and be left wearing nothing but a loincloth.If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Frank Frazetta's Conan paintings are thousand-word long essays about a loincloth-wearing, sword (occiasionally axe) swinging dude who likes to fight.Not that that makes them any less cool, though. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" />You might also be interested to know that there is only one segment of the movie Conan the Barbarian where he wears a loincloth; during his days as a slave and later a gladiator.  For the rest of the movie, Conan wears other clothing and even armor.  And as for his sword being too big to put away, he does have it strapped to his back or his hip when not in use.  Heck, he even has a nifty wolfskin scabbard he keeps it in.Your perception of the movie seems to apply more to Conan the Destroyer, in which Conan does spend the whole film walking around wearing nothing but a loincloth.  But John Milius had absolutely nothing to do with that movie.Actually, I don't read into things looking for snappy comebacks, but sometimes they're just too tempting to pass up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> As for the merits of the movie, I can see that somebody already posted a link to the essay "A Critical Appreciation of Conan the Barbarian", which, while not reflecting my exact thoughts on the film, does show that the movie has geniuine merit.Actually, that comment was directed more toward's Mr. Kaze and anybody else who thinks that Conan is about nothing but a loincloth-wearing guy who carries a sword that's too big to put away, but thanks for calling me stupid. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Glad I could be of service. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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