Conan - Part 1

[Whiskey Tango]

Superboy, Conan existed well before the comics, so using that comic as a guide for how he's supposed to look is just wrong. Momoa looks more like the REH Conan than any depiction i've seen, with the exception of the Kurk Busiek/Cary Nord recent graphic Novel, which was based on the REH depiction.

Yeah something tells me this guy hasn't ever touched a REH story.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

You know Whisky, now after seeing you post his full collection of posts, I wish I hadn't bothered with my previous post. People like that just aren't worth talking to. I lose all respect for the opinion of ANYONE who tries to attack others for potentially being 'young' and then goes on to berate and troll in the most juvenile manner possible. Seriously, people like that have just been corrupted by the internet (or they were d*cks to begin with).

Also, as for the eyebrow plucking? Conan was always a fairly neat cat. He was described as 'panther like' with pure black hair, bronzed skin etc. No where in the books does it describe him as a big hairy, manly man beast. THAT would be more cliched than this supposed 'twilight' thing. Seriously, is that connection PURELY being made because both he and Jacob have similar skin complexion and both hairless chests? Yeeeesh.

 

[Superboy-Prime]

Wow, all my posts were deleted. pathetic.

 

[Morg]

OK, enough with the bickering and such. I don't like giving time outs but I will if the name calling doesn't stop

Also please remember when you hot link pictures and if any of the pics turn to porn you can get banned for it

 

[Morg]

Wow, all my posts were deleted. pathetic.

Better tune it down, I deleted not just yours but everyone in the bickering, now let's start over and no more bickering.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

You know Whisky, now after seeing you post his full collection of posts, I wish I hadn't bothered with my previous post. People like that just aren't worth talking to. I lose all respect for the opinion of ANYONE who tries to attack others for potentially being 'young' and then goes on to berate and troll in the most juvenile manner possible. Seriously, people like that have just been corrupted by the internet (or they were d*cks to begin with).

I'm all too easily drawn into bickering like that. No one comes out of it clean.

Wow, all my posts were deleted. pathetic.

You might even say they were plucked!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Better tune it down, I deleted not just yours but everyone in the bickering, now let's start over and no more bickering.

Affirmitive.

 

[Morg]

I plunked yours too Whiskey, now everyone play nice

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Ha, 'plunked' Just like 'Kerplunk!'

Isn't there a new reality TV candid camera show hosted by Jason Momoa called "Plunk'd"?

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Incidentally, if anyone is interested in reading the original Conan stories the way God intended then they should pick up the Del Rey collections, starting with The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian. Two more collections follow that one and they are most definitely worth it.

 

[Project862006]

good those posts likely including mine were plucked they got too bushy

 

[C. Lee]

Back in the 70's, practicly all if not all of REH's works were put out in paperback. I bought and read everything I could find. I'm always looking forward to adaptations of his various works (still waiting for the recent Soloman Kane movie to be available over here)....so I look forward to this movie.

 

[rogue trooper]

whats the budget on this?

$90 million-$100 million.

 

[rogue trooper]

(still waiting for the recent Soloman Kane movie to be available over here).

It's on youtube.

 

[ChickenScratch]

Back in the 70's, practicly all if not all of REH's works were put out in paperback. I bought and read everything I could find. I'm always looking forward to adaptations of his various works (still waiting for the recent Soloman Kane movie to be available over here)....so I look forward to this movie.

Lee, in a weird way I envy you. My first impression of Conan being a child of the 80's was Arnold. I was maybe 14 before I even knew they were books. It's weird, my dad had all the James Bond novels, got them the moment they came out, as well as Clancy, western novels, action, horror, he had a pretty good collection ... yet he didnt have Conan.

When I discovered the books it was mindblowing to me. Changed my whole idea of who and what Conan is. Whats weirder is that it was a
L. Sprague de Camp book. But from there I went on to get the REH stuff.

 

[MadVillainy]

$90 million-$100 million.

ANd this is reportedly rated R right?

 

[rogue trooper]

Yep.

 

[C. Lee]

It's on youtube.

That's like saying you have a flip book of it....when I watch a movie, I watch it on my large screen TV .

Lee, in a weird way I envy you. My first impression of Conan being a child of the 80's was Arnold. I was maybe 14 before I even knew they were books. It's weird, my dad had all the James Bond novels, got them the moment they came out, as well as Clancy, western novels, action, horror, he had a pretty good collection ... yet he didnt have Conan.

When I discovered the books it was mindblowing to me. Changed my whole idea of who and what Conan is. Whats weirder is that it was a
L. Sprague de Camp book. But from there I went on to get the REH stuff.

A kid in the 70's (if he was a reader) was in a golden age. So much of the great stuff from the 30's and 40's were being republished in cheap paperbacks. I still have my complete paperback collections of REH, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and so on. I was reading the original Conan stories before Marvel released the comic, which came out years before the movie.

 

[ChickenScratch]

That's like saying you have a flip book of it....when I watch a movie, I watch it on my large screen TV .
A kid in the 70's (if he was a reader) was in a golden age. So much of the great stuff from the 30's and 40's were being republished in cheap paperbacks. I still have my complete paperback collections of REH, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and so on. I was reading the original Conan stories before Marvel released the comic, which came out years before the movie.

Yes indeed it was a great time in literature. Hey, I went to college for Journalism and Literature so stuff like that I actually think about. You did grow up in a great era, but come on, the 80's had the techno-thriller and the birth of the airport novel. Nothing I love more than a door-stopper of a book ... that also happens to be action.

But getting back into Conan, I guess when I was a kid the Conan novels were in a bad place. Robert Jordan really did a pedestrian job on his run. Not that I read them in the 80's, but yeah, that's what was going on with Conan when I was a kid. LOL.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Pretty cool motion poster, but it might be months old for all I know. Haven't followed this thread closely until recently.

http://conanthebarbarianin3d.com/motionposter/

 

[zanos]

I've read a bit of the Coming of Conan book, The Sowers of Thunder and Fires of the Dragon and I can't say I'm all that impressed with Howard. I do like his prose, and his short stories aren't bad, but I have no idea why he appears to be so popular.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Well you haven't listed any reasons as to why you weren't impressed, so it makes it hard to converse on the subject...

 

[Morg]

That's like saying you have a flip book of it....when I watch a movie, I watch it on my large screen TV .


A kid in the 70's (if he was a reader) was in a golden age. So much of the great stuff from the 30's and 40's were being republished in cheap paperbacks. I still have my complete paperback collections of REH, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Doc Savage, and so on. I was reading the original Conan stories before Marvel released the comic, which came out years before the movie.

heh, same here was reading the Conan paperbacks back in the 70's t:
Got a ton of other paperbacks from other authors that did more stories.

 

[ChickenScratch]

heh, same here was reading the Conan paperbacks back in the 70's t:
Got a ton of other paperbacks from other authors that did more stories.

Yeah, I started with de Camp so I'm no different. But of course I read the originals after a couple of the pastiches. As far as the other authors go, the quality of the work varies as in all things.

 

[zanos]

@Wolvie

The stories are just simple entertainment. There's really no depth to them because they're so short. Even Fires of the Dragon was just a short story dragged out into the length of a novella.