Hot Red Band Scene: ‘Conan The Barbarian’

COMMENTS (40)

• WOW, I really wasn’t giving this much of a chance before I saw this. This looks like it could be interesting, hope this is but the tip of the iceberg.

  Comment by Harkonen — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 8:40am EDT  Reply to this post

  • Uh, I would watch this…

    Comment by Surprised — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:00pm EDT  Reply to this post

• The early trailers were terrible, but this! Damn, this is now a movie I want to see.

  Comment by elfrunner — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 8:54am EDT  Reply to this post

• Tremendous, i hope the rest of the film will play out in the some vein and not lose its grip.

  Comment by Gaurav Jain — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 8:58am EDT  Reply to this post

• I normally hate this crap, but I’m kinda into it.

  Comment by jc — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 9:03am EDT  Reply to this post

• Thank you for this long clip of Conan. It was enough to get a real good idea of this film with Ron’s stirring speech to the young warriors (Conan, of course, the wild one being late). What motivation.

  The reason Conan could seriously kick ass on the warrior task was specifically because he missed Ron’s speech. So, like Conan I am going to miss it, too.

  Comment by pass — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 9:29am EDT  Reply to this post

• I prefer Conan the Comedian

  Comment by amirite — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 9:32am EDT  Reply to this post

• Yes. Much better trailer than that first teaser, which was awful. This was a LITTLE over the top (what is he 13 and he killed 5 adults AND didn’t break the egg?! C’mon!), but I may give this movie a chance.

  Comment by Ahnold Fan — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 10:10am EDT  Reply to this post

• looks good, not like those other 300 style made movies. Hope the rest is just as good

  Comment by ranger — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 10:57am EDT  Reply to this post

• Normally I hate movies like this, but that child actor’s Oscar-worthy performance, the brilliance of the fight choreography, the absolute perfection of the wardrobe, and the heart-thumping excitement of the foley work has convinced me to camp out at the theater immediately after submitting this comment. This scene really shows how awesome Conan is by having him beat up a bunch of warriors as a child! There is no better way to get the point across that this guy means business!

  This will be the greatest movie of all time, fun and action-packed just the way I like my enemas. If you aren’t sold on this movie by now then you are a hater who should be banned from commenting here.

  Also, elfrunner I’m making a coffee run you want to meet me downstairs?

  Comment by sensitive bitch — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 11:16am EDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, he’s really good.That kid playing Conan is Leo Howard.

    He’s a champion martial artist, who is trained in karate and Wushu.

    He also played Young Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe.

    Comment by cindercity — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:29pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Hey, SB: Are you in NYC, too? I take mine with milk and sugar, and none of that Starbucks mud, just regular bodega coffee for me.

    What can I say, a 13 year old Conan kicking ass looks like fun. It speaks to my id which, of course, is fueled by the triumvirate of maleness – sex, sports, and violence. Wait, if I add pizza, what do you call it then, quadrivate?

    Shoot, now I’m hungry and bloodthirsty! Forget the coffee, bring a pie with a freshly killed cow heart on it.

    Comment by elfrunner — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:43pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • maybe the worst response to anything i’ve ever read in my life.

    Comment by lane — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:30pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Really? You watch a 13-year-old beat up a bunch of adult warriors and you’re saying it’s an Oscar-worthy performance? God, I hope you’re just trolling. I can’t even fathom the ridiculousness of your response. It was a standard fight scene. Nothing out of the ordinary.

    Comment by B — Friday July 22, 2011 @ 12:00am EDT  Reply to this post

• Dig it! This looks cool.

  Comment by Seriously?! — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 11:29am EDT  Reply to this post

• This just did a total 180 for me. The original trailers looked terrible. They had me asking where did all the money go? But shit. this looks rad.

  Comment by damn — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 11:49am EDT  Reply to this post

• Other than the awful casting of ron pearlman, this looks great! But really, why Ron Pearlman on this? Not the right movie or role for him. And I normally love Ron Pearlman.

  Comment by agentbrown — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:05pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Perlman was a last minute substitution for Mickey Rourke.

    Comment by cst — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:28pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Yeah, unfortunately this still LOOKS like a Marcus Nispel film to me i.e. the blocking is weak, not a single evocative frame in the entire sequence, and a fair amount of “stock” creative directorial decisions.

  Yet, I will see the film because I like the character mythology having grown up with early versions of Conan. I also direct movies.

  And with every new images, this whole experience becomes more and more frustrating my friends.

  Comment by richard — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:23pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • “blocking is weak”
    “I also direct movies.”

    Show us those movies. I wanna see how you block scenes!

    Comment by Kabbe — Friday July 22, 2011 @ 7:11am EDT  Reply to this post

• As long as Arnold stays the hell away this has a chance to be a good re-boot of the original.

  Comment by yougottabekiddin — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:24pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I’ll bet one unbroken egg that 90% of the comments here are from studio hacks (or one industrious intern – way to go, youngling!).

  And, nice one, “sensitive bitch.”

  p.s. There’s no way this movie will be good. None.

  Comment by Truth-o-Meter — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:24pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • You don’t need to be a studio hack to appreciate a 13 year old Conan smashing the heads of savages, just a fairly typical male. But what would have been really cool is if when he spit the egg out it hatched because of the passionate fire to be a warrior burning in his heart. Now there’s a scene!

    Comment by elfrunner — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:48pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I didnt know Conan took place in woods of north carolina…what an accent they had in those days.

  Comment by gemelo — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:40pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • Fear the Carolinians.

    Comment by Ozzi — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:03pm EDT  Reply to this post

• well… that was, uh, barbaric. now i have to go to the bathroom.

  Comment by absolutelyanonymous — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 12:40pm EDT  Reply to this post

• If the film is anything like the novelization, then this clip is a good indication of what to expect.

  I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.

  Comment by Jake — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:04pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I saw the original.

  This is way more awesome.

  Comment by ozzi — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:05pm EDT  Reply to this post

• lots of squooshy sounds. gross

  Comment by donnie — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:11pm EDT  Reply to this post

• I hate going out in the winter only to be accosted by half nude beefcakes wielding primitive weapons and who have no means of communication other than roaring. Fantasy or not this looks really stupid. That scene could have rocked.

  Comment by bd — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 1:58pm EDT  Reply to this post

  • C’mon! It was totally Mad Max meets Highlander!

    Comment by J. — Friday July 22, 2011 @ 11:15am EDT  Reply to this post

• Can you say $80 million bomb? Why would you hire the guy who directed Pathfinder? I mean come on.

  I can’t wait until this film sinks Avi and his company…

  Comment by BOMBfinder — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:40pm EDT  Reply to this post

• People complain that the blood in Spartacus looks fake, but the blood in this trailer looks like ketchup.

  Hate when the “bad guys” hit with a weapon and it barely does damage to the hero, like in this trailer, but when the hero hits with the same weapon they insta die, like in this trailer.

  This movie is going to be beyond awful and looks like a complete train wreck, this scene might make it better, but the trailers have shown that adult Conan is awful. Unless it is a total abomination I will be seeing it just for the fun of it, but I am not expecting a classic.

  Comment by Manny — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:43pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Wow. Never thought I’d see a “Gossip GIrl” looking Conan. The dialogue is atrocious. Young Conan looks so nice and perty. The action sequence relies entirely upon the gushing of blood and SFX rather than believable dazzling choreography. This is going to be embarrassing to watch. Maybe all the morons that clapped at every non-moment in HP7 will be in this screening too. FIngers crossed. C’mon morons, show up and clap at this so Hollywood can continue to make garbage! Woo hoo!

  Comment by bill — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 2:49pm EDT  Reply to this post

• Horrible sound work too. Watch and listen again when the knife goes into one of the stock Indian warrior’s shoulder. The SQUISH ‘n’ SQUIRT sound seems to be a direct recording an overfilled ketchup squeeze bottle being run over by a truck. Just – Plain – Stoopid

  Comment by Ursa the Urologist — Thursday July 21, 2011 @ 3:43pm EDT  Reply to this post