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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 5662401" data-attributes="member: 10479">I was wrong, too, and was glad to warn people away from Conan.  I gave it a 4 on IMDb and I rarely even give bad movies anything below a 5 if the productions values are strong and at least one area shows promise (writing, directing, acting, etc).  I gave Nispel's Pathfinder a 6, FWIW.But Conan was absolutely so poorly directed and scripted that I was amazed.  It's REH, for Pete's sake.  The characters, much of the dialogue, and the plots are all there.  And talk about cinematic and unconfusing combat that jumps off the page?  The worse thing you can say about the first movies (and they weren't very good) was that Arnold was clunky and the stories tried to be a bit cutsie at times.  This new Conan is just a mess with Momoa being one of the few decent parts (if only they gave him dialogue to work with!) and Lang doing the best he could with horrible writing.  It certainly appeared, also, that Lang was able to work without a decent director and didn't have many bad takes for the final cut because it looks like every other actor in the movie had bad takes show up in the movie I saw.  That takes a director who doesn't use enough film to get good options and then chooses bad ones.There's a scene right after they check the priestesses for pure blood when they take a wide shot with the priestesses cowering and Lang doing something unspeakable to the high priest with all of the bad guy entrouage hovering around, a real tableau worthy of a Frazetta painting and McGowen is literally falling off of her platform Goth boots.  Seriously, all the actors have to do is hold still while the director gets six or seven seconds of footage, and you'd think they would have shot this a few times to be sure of lighting and whatnot, and then there's hot, tightly-clad Rose McGowan reeling across the shot.The combat was the best thing about the movie and it's all over the place.  Every combat scene seems to have at least a couple of shots that just don't fit the sequence or are long when they should be tight, or tight when they should be long, and blood spurts in odd directions considering the wounds, etc, etc, etc.  The best combat sequence is the one in the trailer with the young Conan.Some of these thoughts are expansions of my review right after seeing the film which I <a href="http://www.creativemountaingames.com/2011/08/conan-barbarian-2011.html" target="_blank">posted here</a>.</blockquote>

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