tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post3952358114877393708..comments2024-02-20T10:12:20.623+00:00Comments on The Blog That Time Forgot: Conan the Barbarian Review Reviews: Roger EbertTaranaichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-44065674057298146292011-08-30T07:12:25.537+01:002011-08-30T07:12:25.537+01:00While I'm glad Ebert gave the movie a thumbs u...While I'm glad Ebert gave the movie a thumbs up, I disagreed with most of what he had to say about it. I think David C. Smith's criticism of the film is much more accurate and useful:<br /><br />http://www.barbariankeep.com/ctbds.htmlDMnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-14146233429758039872011-05-22T17:43:22.519+01:002011-05-22T17:43:22.519+01:00Even Howard said: "My heroes are too stupid t...Even Howard said: "My heroes are too stupid to do anything other shoot,slug or cut themselves out of a jam". <br />I love that review and whole heartedly agree with it! The movie is an interpretation- and is faithful in spirit and tone to Howard.<br /> As an aside Al I think Milius was more inspired by the end of "Apocalypse now" in the beheading of Doom where Brando suffers a similar fate at the hands of a crazed, drug addled fiend wielding a machete...Steve Dilksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-55317446079696585812011-05-17T00:19:25.180+01:002011-05-17T00:19:25.180+01:00I read this review some time ago. i found it hilar...I read this review some time ago. i found it hilarious, as he is very dismissive of the genre as depicted in film as in literature.Like anything else at times i tend to agree with him (ex: read and compare his reviews of the exorcist and the version you've never seen, the former is superior to the current even though the current is slightly more faithful to the novel, a good read i might add) and in cases like this I dont.I think there's a review of kull on his site too,and it's very similar(if I remember correctly) showing that outside genres he's interested in, he's not worth reading...and besides word of mouth goes a lot farther with me than a critics review.-MarioAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-25041253976733700502011-05-16T14:54:32.498+01:002011-05-16T14:54:32.498+01:00DC here-
so is there any other fandom that gets t...DC here-<br /><br />so is there any other fandom that gets this level of "I know all about the stories I have never read?" from people who review adaptations of it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-31194828161557115652011-05-16T12:53:44.951+01:002011-05-16T12:53:44.951+01:00Any news on your Encyclopaedia Hyboriana? Have you...Any news on your Encyclopaedia Hyboriana? Have you got a release date for the book?treacletrousershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01896572703416044269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-24265218242047186962011-05-16T06:36:23.290+01:002011-05-16T06:36:23.290+01:00You're right, that was a bit unnecessary on my...You're right, that was a bit unnecessary on my part. I'll take that out.<br /><br />The other thing about Hyborian Age ethnography is that (I think) it's a lot closer to the level of genetic differences between Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon and so on than in modern ethnicities. I won't out-and-out say Cimmerians were a different species from, say, Hyborians or Aesir/Vanir, but considering recent theories on Neanderthals...Taranaichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02176999342965850175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7177193073415704349.post-16140788459967795092011-05-16T05:03:02.388+01:002011-05-16T05:03:02.388+01:00Great stuff, but to be fair, Ebert didn't say ...Great stuff, but to be fair, Ebert didn't say Howard wrote the Marvel Conan comics.<br /><br /><i>Indeed, if Conan does display some sense of disdain for certain races being inferior to the mighty Cimmerians, that's because unlike ethnicities in modern times, the Cimmerians were <b>demonstrably</b> more powerful, more durable, and more dangerous than other peoples of the time.</i><br /><br />I like how the Cimmerians are superior to other Hyborian Age people in (more or less) concrete real-world terms, like adaptability. Some people may have a problem with say, Tolkien's Numenoreans being singled out by the gods or the people of Elven descent being longer-lived (but it's the way of mythology, and the bigger they were the harder they fell). But in Howard's case it's the environment, more often than not (if not always), which shapes cultures. (Well, you could say that for Tolkien too... long story short, humans with more exposure to Elves and/or the gods tend to lean toward "good".)Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05315348028756856231noreply@blogger.com