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Nov 11, 2022 - 11:15 PM
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Wedge
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GOSH it's good to have this one coming out at last!
Tom Servo wrote:
Seen apart from the first film, I found Conan the Destroyer to be amazingly fun, engaging and entertaining. I loved the "motley crew" that becomes Conan's band throughout the movie and the more pulpy, extraverted fantasy landscape of wizards, magic and creatures, which is in contrast to the first film's more sober, "historical fiction" type of presentation.
KeV McG wrote:
Re Tom Servo...above..
I've always enjoyed CtD over CtB for its pulpy sense of fun and adventure and its zippy pace (the film, I mean).
The Milius is slow and ponderous and boring and...zero fun, despite its epic score which is truly stunning, as everybody knows. Destroyer ain't a great movie by anyone's standard, but it does what it says on the label.
I actually address this in the liner notes. It was very interesting to go back through the initial media response to DESTROYER and see that many critics and genre writers, contrary to today's conventional wisdom, hailed it as the superior CONAN film. This was especially true for people who knew the character's roots and felt that Milius had weighed down the material when what they wanted was a simple, pulpy adventure. The first film, they argued, had missed a lot of the appeal of the "Sword & Sorcery" genre. To this subset of fans, DESTROYER was a marked improvement, more in keeping with the source stories by Robert E. Howard. (Nor was DESTROYER a disaster at the box office; it was RED SONJA in 1985 that bombed.)
Personally, I enjoy both films quite a bit for what they are, and am glad to have both takes on the material. As far as the music goes, I think fans will be extremely pleased when they hear this new release! It can proudly take its place as an essential companion to Intrada's CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
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I'll try to get in touch with the guys at Intrada. I'd like to believe this was not intentional.
This is the earlier version of my cover, which is, I believe the one they used.
Wow, I can see why they used your cover: it is terrific! (As are many of your other fine CD covers, which often up the original artwork). I'm sure it was not an intentional slight against you that they used your adaptation of the artwork without contacting you.
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It was awaited so long.
Im hope it will be much better release than Intrada "Barbarian" which was very dissapointing for me.
Im also hope that "Sword and Sorcery" is included
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Sarah Douglas was sexy and sexy bad, which adds an extra star to THE DESTROYER.
She didn't have tits like Arnold, though! Just sayin' 
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I'm half-joking here but...
Since it's been over a decade(!) since the original announcement of this title has Intrada remastered their own remaster with more recent advances in sound technology? Just curious.
Maybe it has taken so long because they were rerecording it, a track a month?
Oh I'm joking, incase anyone gets upset.
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The movie was complete garbage. Awful acting, cringe characters, terrible special effects. The showdown at the end was right out of a 50's monster movie after than ran out of money or something. The only redeeming quality was the soundtrack.
My perspective was that it was a comprehensively dull movie. Because of that, I've never heard the music outside the film, and it got pulled out of my memory with that viewing experience. I think I intuitively connect the music with the vibe of a picture so much that I subconsciously expect ... well, not bad, but maybe just dull music. Yet, here I am a Goldsmith fan, with numerous examples to the contrary, and clearly people are excited about it. How does it compare, stylistically, with Barbarian? We all have our "That's not for me, but I'm sure glad for the listeners who love it" releases, but I'm really just in the dark on this one.
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Nov 12, 2022 - 8:29 AM
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Solium
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The movie was complete garbage. Awful acting, cringe characters, terrible special effects. The showdown at the end was right out of a 50's monster movie after than ran out of money or something. The only redeeming quality was the soundtrack.
My perspective was that it was a comprehensively dull movie. Because of that, I've never heard the music outside the film, and it got pulled out of my memory with that viewing experience. I think I intuitively connect the music with the vibe of a picture so much that I subconsciously expect ... well, not bad, but maybe just dull music. Yet, here I am a Goldsmith fan, with numerous examples to the contrary, and clearly people are excited about it. How does it compare, stylistically, with Barbarian? We all have our "That's not for me, but I'm sure glad for the listeners who love it" releases, but I'm really just in the dark on this one.
It's a "smaller scale" score. No where near as big and epic as the first film. The main theme is jazzed up a bit on the request of the director. We all know how much Basil Poledouris disliked the performance of the orchestra. But Basil could do a lot with a little and his talents shine through. I put this more in league with RoboCop than a sequel score to Conan the Barbarian.
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