HORNS wrote:
This movie looks like total dog dick. I don't know what kind of cough syrup you guys are drinking, but fucking come on.
It has ALL the markings of the video game CGI over saturation that we've seen before. Its got every one. I don't think there was a believable lighting scheme in anything I have seen yet. I can do without the Cirque De Soleil pose striking and the gnashed teeth expressions that come at you ad infinitum as well.
This movie will demonstrate AGAIN what we already know. When a filmmaker doesn't have to solve problems... when they can just rely on CGI... they sacrifice their vision to others. Thats why the effects and landscapes in this movie look like so many other movies. I though I saw Harry Potter zip by on his broomstick in one of those shots.
Look at the original Conan and, for example, the tower of Thulsa Doom. They actually built that tower in the deserts of Spain. And they paid for all of those extras and then Milius deftly filmed it at angles to suggest more people than were there. And its believable.
If this guy (whoever the fuck directed this) were to film it now he would put it at Death Star proportions and have the masses extend to the horizon. And it wouldn't be believable or effective. What Milius crafted in the original is something no one had ever seen in a fantasy movie before - and more than that, film makers have been trying to emulate ever since.
This movie is schlock. Hack. Garbage.
On top of that, the soundtrack is fucking nu metal gay and the actor playing Conan looks like a nancy boy.
Burn Hollywood Burn.
Couldn't have said it better. And Marcus Nispel is a childhood-buddy of mine who I totally respect for actually achieving what he wanted as a teenager (becoming a Hollywood-director). Too bad his movies are shit.