Originally Posted by 42nd Street Freak

I love "Conan the Barbarian"! It has the atmosphere and feel of a Conan tale, even if not much else is connected.
Conan himself is almost nothing like he is in the stories (true, Conan was impulsive and sometimes foolish when younger but he was never stupid or simple, and later on he became a very clever general, a very shrewd judge of character, a sly dipolmat and a very smart King...none of which you can see Arnold's creation becoming) and Thulsa Doom is not even from 'Conan' but 'King Kull'.

But the look of the film, the action, the costumes, the sets, the music, the set-pieces all add up to one of THE best fantasy films ever made, if only a half successful 'Conan' film.

"The Destroyer" on the other hand (despite using a couple of set pieces from Howard's tales) is not even half successful as a 'Conan' film and even as a general fantasy film it's the fucking dregs!
A cheap-ass piss-take of the most moronic kind.
I hate the thing.
Even the music is crap, thanks to it being just a lazy and bad re-mix of the great original score.
Real lowest denominator dross, and such a shame as this kind of junk is what gives people who have never read the superb Howard stories the utterly wrong impression of them and Conan.

Flush the turd and wave ta ta.