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  Conan the Destroyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conan is left with no choice but to join her and the group returns to Shadazar.
Conan is badly outmatched by the monster, but is able to hurt the monster by destroying the mirrors.
Conan The Destroyer was the fourth film on which the great British director of photography Jack Cardiff worked with Fleischer.
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 CONAN Official Website
Taramis, the witch queen of Shadizar, promises to bring Valeria back from the dead if Conan will conduct a mission for her - that of leading her niece, the innocent princess Jehanna, to locate a horn of sacred importance.
Jehanna’s virginity needs to remain intact for the sacrifice and Taramis has sent along her bodyguard Bombaata to ensure that Conan and his group of followers be eliminated once the mission is completed.
Conan is sent on a mission by a queen to accompany her princess daughter to a distant castle to retrieve some mysterious and magical gems.
www.conan.com /destroyer.shtml   (138 words)

  
 CONAN THE BARBARIAN • CONAN THE DESTROYER
To the disapproval of many fans of the Conan books and comics, Milius uses the film as a means of indulging his affinity for Nietzschean philosophy.
The ponderous, drawn-out ending, in which Conan's ultimate revenge is rendered anticlimactic (and is even longer with the addition of extra footage on the DVD), is a misstep fortunately negated by most of what has passed before.
The goofy expressions on Arnold's face during the struggle are almost as laughable as the cheesy rubber Halloween mask of the monster.
www.eccentric-cinema.com /cult_movies/conan.htm   (1419 words)

  
 Conan the Destroyer (movie) - Conan Wiki - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan the Destroyer, directed by action/fantasy veteran Richard Fleischer (20,000 Leagues under the Sea, The Vikings) as a sequel to Conan the Barbarian, was released worldwide in 1984.
While they're forced to watch, Conan fights a monster of the mirrors Conan is badly outmatched by the monster, but is able to hurt the monster by destroying the mirrors.
Conan The Destroyer was filmed in a number of locations in Mexico--including Pachuca, the extinct volcano Nevado de Toluca, and the Samalayucca desert (near El Paso)--as well as in the Churubusco Studios (also in Mexico).
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 Scifilm -- Reviews, CONAN THE DESTROYER (1984)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN was an international success and got Arnold Schwarzenegger's foot in the door of Hollywood.
She orders him to kill Conan once the treasure is secure, and to protect both the treasure and Jenna's virginity as the young girl is to be sacrificed to Dagoth.
CONAN THE DESTROYER pulled in far less box office than its illustrious predecessor and as such, talk of any future film projects involving Robert E. Howard's character remain firmly in the realm of conjecture.
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 Conan the Destroyer mistakes, goofs and bloopers
Audio problem: When Conan is fighting the half lizard/man monster and discovers that breaking the glass panes hurts him, it cuts to a shot of his friends behind one of the panes and the thief says, "That's exactly what I would have done, exactly." His lips don't match the words at all.
Continuity: When Conan is fighting the half lizard/man monster, the first two times Conan smashes glass panes, you see large gashes appear across each of the monster's pectoral (chest) muscles.
Other: When Conan etc. are walking through the ice palace looking for the princess, not only do they miraculously dry off, but not one of them gets goose bumps, even though it is cold enough to fog up their breath.
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 Artículos. CD Conan The Destroyer
In an attempt to distance themselves from the original CONAN, the creators of the sequel abandoned Milius' grim narrative and hypnotic visual rhythms in favor of a cinematic menu emphasizing action and modern special effects (typical of early 1980s fantasy films) with splashes of humor on the side.
Poledoris' quasi-operatic score for the original CONAN was a marvel of film composition, an effort which succeeded in breaking down some of the barriers which separate absolute music from film music.
A brief, restrained statement of the Conan theme is heard in "The Katta", while the "Riders Of Taramis" theme reappears in "Dream Quest" (a flautist gives a somber spin on the melody).
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 DVD Verdict Review - Conan The Destroyer
In this sequel to Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard's proud Cimmerian sets forth on a heroic quest to recover a magical treasure and restore the life of his beloved Valeria.
In the morning Conan and the others discover she is gone, and head to the crystal castle to rescue her.
Conan himself is written quite differently in this second outing as well, becoming more of the comical muscle-bound buffoon than the noble, savage warrior that he was in the first film.
www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/conandestroyer.php   (1690 words)

  
 DVD Times - Conan The Destroyer: Collector's Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan is persuaded by wicked Queen Taramis (Douglas) to take her niece, the virginal Jehnna (D’Abo), to an ancient castle, guarded by a wizard, where she will find a key which only she can touch.
Conan The Destroyer is a load of nonsense but it’s enjoyable, exhilarating nonsense which is likely to delight anyone over the age of 10 who is capable of not so much suspending their disbelief as placing a noose around it.
“Conan’s Quest”, however, is a waste of time; a series of ‘randomly generated’ quiz questions which are as much about the careers of cast and crew as the career of the central character.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=12888   (2199 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Conan The Destroyer [1984]: DVD: Arnold Schwarzenegger,Grace Jones,Wilt Chamberlain,Mako,Tracey ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan the Destroyer is not a grim, dark mythical tale like it should have been; it's a fun filled fantasy adventure.
But for the 1984 sequel "Conan the Destroyer," the key factor seemed to be coming up with casting in a similar vein to the logic that had landed Arnold the role.
The story of "Conan the Destroyer" was by Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway, a pair of writers for Marvel Comics.
www.amazon.co.uk /Conan-Destroyer-Arnold-Schwarzenegger/dp/B00004Y3Q8   (1871 words)

  
 Conan the Destroyer (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After the worldwide success of CONAN THE BARBARIAN, it was inevitable that a sequel would be made (director John Milius envisioned the saga as a trilogy, with an aged Conan ruling his own kingdom in the final chapter).
While the fight between Conan and Toth-Amon (Pat Roach), in a hall of mirrors, is well-staged and exciting, much of the rest of the film seems flat, with one scene, of Conan blind drunk at a campfire, ridiculously out of character and silly.
CONAN THE DESTROYER didn't achieve anywhere near the success of the original, but Schwarzenegger had no reason to worry; his next film would be a low-budget SF thriller called THE TERMINATOR, and he was about to become a superstar!
www.imdb.com /title/tt0087078   (604 words)

  
 Conan The Barbarian at DVDwolf.com
Conan The Barbarian: The Movie (1982): Years after the brutal murder of his parents, Conan the Barbarian sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance on the evil Thulsa Doom.
Conan The Destroyer: Richard Fleischer, yes son of Max Fleischer (Betty Boop and Superman cartoon fame) takes over the reigns from John Milius and brings in the sequel.
Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas)gets Conan and Malak (Tracey Walter) to join Princess Jehnna (Olivia D'Abo) and her bodyguard, Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain), on a quest to wrest a magic key from the wizard Toth-Amon (Pat Roach).
www.dvdwolf.com /Reviews/C/Conan.html   (470 words)

  
 Conan the Barbarian (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Conan The Barbarian is a 1982 film by director John Milius and is recognized as the acting breakthrough of bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Conan is sold into slavery with the rest of the children from his village and forced to perform intense manual labor.
Schwarzenegger and Gerry Lopez as Conan and Subotai
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 Conan the Destroyer
Conan accepts, because Taramis has magical powers and thus she is the only person who can bring his dead love back in life.
Conan, the swashbuckler, is promised that his dead love will be revived if he procures a magic horn from a magic fortress.
He is also required to rescue the Princess Jehnna for the treacherous Queen Taramis who plans to betray Conan and rule the world.
www.filmsafari.com /movie_database/movie.php?mid=0087078   (166 words)

  
 Filmtracks: Conan the Destroyer (Basil Poledouris)
Conan the Destroyer: (Basil Poledouris) With the stunning success of John Milius' Conan the Barbarian two years earlier, a sequel set with Conan once again in the Hyborean age was inevitable.
Others will argue that Conan the Destroyer was a monumental failure simply because it lost the classic realism and solitude that made the first film so enticing.
The Conan the Destroyer score moves with greater agility on its feet while also utilizing about half of the themes from the first film.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/conan_destroyer.html   (866 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Conan the Destroyer: DVD: Arnold Schwarzenegger,Grace Jones,Wilt Chamberlain,Mako,Tracey Walter,Sarah ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan is now a notorious thief and a queen(Sarah Douglas) hires him to guide her niece(Olivia d'Abo) to find a sacred horn that will reincarnate a god.
The Conan here has a number of genuinely comedic moments, from punching a camel, a horse and attempting to teach a beautiful princess how to wield his sword, Schwarzenegger shows early promise in a genre that would not fully be realized until movies such as TWINS and KINDERGARTEN COP.
Conan rescues a blonde girl and is betrayed by the evil stepmother.
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 CONAN THE DESTROYER (1984) (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Conan The Destroyer DVD is region 2, its also a region free.
Conan The Destroyer - Collectors Edition DVD is presented here in 2.35:1 widescreen, with new 2.0 and 5.1 Surround Sound and comes complete with a collection of entertaining and insightful extras, including 'Conan's Quest: Quiz', 'Collector's Lobby Cards and Booklet', 'Cast and Crew Profiles', 'Image Gallery'.
While she was filming Conan The Destroyer, she would fly from Mexico to Burbank, Ca to film the nighttime soap opera Falcon Crest.
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 Conan the Destoyer review and host segments
Anyway, Richard Fleischer knew exactly what to do with the Conan story, which was to surround Conan with interesting characters and limit his dialogue to three words per sequence -- basically turn him into a fighting machine.
The last movie she made before "Conan the Destroyer" was "Army of Lovers, or Revolt of the Perverts," a German flick made in 1978.
"Conan the Destroyer," the film deemed "Unsuitable" by the Dallas Motion Picture Classification Board, even though it got a PG from the MP double-A. Universal had to go to court to get it released as a PG in Dallas.
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 Conan the Destroyer
Conan, the mighty barbarian and his companion, Malik are confronted by Queen Karamis of Shadazar.
Conan attacks him, but is getting his ass whooped.
Zula knows who Conan is even though he didn't tell her when he cut her loose from the villagers.
www.badmovieplanet.com /inferno/archives/conanlite.html   (1219 words)

  
 Conan The Destroyer - DVD - Title C Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
In 1986, Dino DeLaurentiis and Edward Pressman decided to produce a sequel to their 1982 hit film ‘Conan the Barbarian’ that was certain to be a box office success among Dungeons and Dragons players and regular cinemagoers alike for one reason: Schwarzenegger.
THE STORY Fighting off some random gang or other, Conan (Schwarzenegger) and his inexplicable and annoying sidekick Malak (Tracey Walter, a man) are approached by...
Conan The Destroyer : Conan the destroyer, not as good as the first....
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 Conan the Destroyer: Special Edition (1984)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
    Conan The Destroyer is a continuation of the story of Conan The Barbarian, which in turn was based on the characters created by Robert E. Howard.
Conan is hired by Queen Taramis (Sarah Douglas) to escort the young and virginal Princess Jehnna (Olivia D'Abo) on her dangerous quest to collect a religious relic.
On the perilous journey, Conan is joined by warrior-woman, Zula (Grace Jones), the Queen's Captain of the Guard, Bombaata (Wilt Chamberlain), a wizard, Akiro (Mako), and Conan's sidekick, and the movie's comedy relief, Malak (Tracey Walter).
www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=2058   (832 words)

  
 SMR DVD Review: Conan The Destroyer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan the Destroyer is the rather lightweight sequel to
Arnold Schwarzenegger reprises his role as Conan the Cimmerian and is joined by an interesting cast of characters including Grace Jones, Wilt Chamberlain, Sarah Douglas, Tracey Walter, Mako, and Olivia D'Abo.
Having seen the very mediocre DVD of the original Conan from Universal, I was not quite sure what to expect from the sequel.
www.smr-home-theatre.org /dvd/reviews/Conan_The_Destroyer.html   (304 words)

  
 DVD.net : Conan the Destroyer: SE - DVD Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Conan breaks Zondar’s arms, pulls them off his body and throws them in a tree, then snaps his neck in nine places just to make sure he is dead.
Conan the Destroyer, as with Conan the Barbarian, was filmed anamorphically at 2.35:1, and is transferred to DVD in this aspect ratio and with 16:9 enhancement.
Then there's a couple of small featurettes: Conan: The Making of a Comic Book Legend, which although only 14 minutes long is actually quite good, with a plenty of info from the guys who created the Conan comic book characters on their involvement in the films.
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 Conan the Destroyer News
Conan the Destroyer News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
Conan Returns to the Silver Screen - Remember the Titans' director...
Warner Bros. is ready to take audiences back to the days of high adventure for the first time in 22 years.
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 CONAN THE DESTROYER: COLLECTORS EDITION DVD (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
I have updated the Conan The Destroyer Region 2: Germany DVD with the Offcial Front and Back Cover for the dvd.
I have posted a messsage on the Conan The Destroyer page about the petition for the uncut version of Conan.
Back in 1984 before the second Conan movie was released, it edited from an "R" rating to a "PG" rating for younger audience to come and see the movie.
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 DVD Verdict Review - Conan The Destroyer
Since we last saw Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall, The Terminator, The Running Man) he has made quite an impression as a thief.
She sends a squad of her finest troops to capture Conan and his cowardly sidekick Malak (Tracey Walter, Erin Brockovich, Drowning Mona, Man on the Moon) so that she can present them with a proposal.
Their first goal is to steal the gem that will unlock the treasure, which is guarded by Toth-Amon (Pat Roach, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Willow), an ancient and powerful sorcerer.
www.dvdverdict.com /printer/conandestroyer.php   (1698 words)

  
 Conan the Destroyer Soundtrack @ Movie Music . com
Released 2/2/1993 on the Varese Sarabande label, catalog number VSD 5392.
Just like the soundtrack for Conan the Barbrian, this one is very good, although it doesn't have the magic of the first score.
The Destroyer sounds less bombastic and less "deep" than The Barbarian.
www.moviemusic.com /soundtrack/conanthedestroyer   (66 words)

  
 CONAN THE DESTROYER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
So Conan gets the virgin and starts off for the magic palace with his sidekick, a weenie named Maalox who looks like Gene Hackman's midget brother, but at the last minute the Bitch Queen decides to send Wilt Chamberlain along for the ride.
Wilt puts on a spiked helmet with horns and the queen tells him, as soon as they get the jewel, to kill Conan.
After Conan splatters some Viking geeks, he goes and gets snockered in a cave and passes out, and while he's asleep his weenie sidekick tries to put ointment on Grace Jones's thigh wounds and she durn near kills him.
www.joebobbriggs.com /bmovieguide/c/conandestroyer.html   (406 words)

  
 Conan Detailed Movie Review
Unaware that the queen has instructed her guard captain to slay Conan & Malak once the horn is found, Conan, Malek and the guard captain set off with the queen's daughter to recover the horn.
After facing down evil sorcerers, hordes of soldiers, and betrayal, they find that, with the horn, the dream god will really be a nightmare and that the evil queen plots to sacrifice her daughter, and both must be stopped.
Conan returns in a sequel in which he locks wits with an evil queen who promises she can raise his dead lover.
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