![]() Conan the Destroyer was released a week after The Karate Kid, and with that, Ghostbusters & Gremlins still in theaters, why would you go see this? The other reason may have been that 1984 was a banner year for movies and this film looked even worse than it would have next to its peers. I rather suspect that the bigger reason that no further sequel was forthcoming is that Schwarzenegger was simply too big of a star at this point to waste any more time on it unless it was going to be a guaranteed success. It certainly is not a good movie, but it really shouldn’t have stopped the film franchise dead in its tracks. Watching it now, on the 30th anniversary of its release, it’s really nowhere near as bad as I remembered it being. So after the success of Conan the Barbarian, this film was inevitable and so should have been more successful. The character’s roots were in serial stories that could go on more or less forever and the premise lends itself to multiple sequels. ![]() ![]() Spoiler-free Movie Review of Conan the Destroyer:Ĭonan was always intended to be a saga, for obvious reasons. Scant praise, maybe, but I remember it being truly wretched. PG-rated sequel isn’t actually as awful as I remember. This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Conan 140 Character Movie Review – #140RVW
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