What's particularly bizarre about Conan? I mean... It's no more out there in terms of content than a lot of other fantasy films. What sets it apart is that unlike so many other films of it's type that came before that weren't say, biblical dramas or stories set in the Roman or classical Greek eras, it's actually got a very textured feel over all, great production design, costuming and locations so it has a lived in, real world feel. Adding to it is Milius' going for the jugular in terms of the presentation of this "ahistorical" time, making it again, visceral and tactile, even when, hell perhaps, especially it gets ugly and vicious, as such a world would be. It's also pretty thematically consistent all around and it climaxes well. Again... Is this about content for you? Cuz, yeah, it's a crazy barbarian world of wizards turning into snakes and ceremonies where animated shadows come to claim a half dead Austrian accented form gladiator/slave/thief. It's supposed to be out there. A fantasy tale of high adventure, to paraphrase Mako.