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MCT:September 26, 2008I loved this move! One of my favorites growing up. Classic Marc Singer Sword And Sorcery Revenge. Conan vs. Dr. Doolittle. It was fun. I liked the ferrets and 1982 Tanya Roberts in a loin cloth.
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MCT:August 26, 2008Anything after the first is just ridiculous. This film in the series is the best, most serious of them all. It has an interesting story, good action, and a black tiger. Cool.
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MCT:June 5, 2008
A really well-thought out world. Decent character development and spectacular villian-monster portrayel.
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MCT:May 23, 2008
great movie!! some sequels came out, i remember one of them not bein too bad, but this is classic, i wish i had a pet tiger!
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MCT:April 6, 2008
A version of Conan that I could watch with my son. Lots of violence and impalings but no blood - hence the PG rating. This "Conan" character has feathered hair and hangs with Tanya Roberts who wears the shortest skirt known to man. For some reason, he often refers to the mark on his hand that's shaped like a pair of pants. Directed by the guy who did "Phantasm" and "Bubba Ho-Tep".
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MCT:March 29, 2008Rip Torn is the devil I knew it! This is one of the better Conan knockoffs from the early 80s. PLUS: if you've ever wanted to see Tanya Roberts(Midge from That 70s Show) naked breasts this is the place.
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MCT:March 17, 2008
A film notorious for its showings on TBS, which is, I imagine where I believed I had caught it, but it seems that I was mistaken--certainly I remember Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, but apparently not this one. At the least, I know I had not seen the unedited version before.
As a film I watched--or so I thought--numerous times on TV, it sat on a fine edge as to whether I would pursue ownership or further viewings of it. Some of those movies I bought almost instantly upon beginning my DVD collecting, others I waited or ignored completely, knowing I had watched them simply because they were on and on constantly. However, I later learned that in fact this movie was written and directed by Don Coscarelli, who is, of course, responsible for the Phantasm films, which I dearly love. The fact that Anchor Bay saw fit to bestow a special edition upon it sealed the deal for me. It seems, though, that I was completely mistaken and really had never seen this before. I was not expecting to find Rip Torn as a villain in the piece, amongst other things, nor so much nudity, supernatural/magic stuff, violence (to a degree) and the rather darker elements that appeared in dialogue and some scenes.
Dar (Marc Singer) is the firstborn of King Zed (Rod Loomis), stolen from his mother's womb and planted in an ox (!) by evil sorceror Maax (Torn), after being prophesied as the source of Maax's downfall. As with most sword and sorcery, yes, he is a solo hero with some background sidekicks who raises himself up from nothing to reclaim the kingdom for its rightful ruler. The vague twist here is that Dar is the "Beastmaster," and he is not an ass-kicking mercenary so much as a relatively strong guy who has been trained decently with a sword, but who communicates with animals. He walks with his "eyes"--a wedge-tailed eagle, his "thieves"--Kodo and Podo the ferrets, and his "strength"--Ruh, the (dyed-black) tiger. He meets up with a slinky slave (of course) played by Tanya Roberts, who is cousin to Tal, a young boy and son of King Zed that Dar runs across, guarded by Seth (good ol' John Amos--see Good Times, etc.) who we saw earlier as the guard of King Zed.
Sword and sorcery flicks (unlike their more "realistic" brethren, the sword and sandal) never get much in the way of budgets, and with a name like Coscarelli behind it (instead of, say, Milius?) there's even less to go around. Despite this, the effects, costuming and especially the set design are quite good. The make-up for the less-than-human elements (such as Maax's prophetic witches) is quite good and doesn't show its seams easily. Marc is enjoyable as Dar, with a bit of arrogance, some humour and a little pinch of pathos. This is not Milius' Conan, he speaks regularly and has a heart (so he's sure as heck not Howard's Conan either). Naturally that film is the one most often compared to this one, but that's a bit ridiculous, as the script is, while not unbelievably stellar, far too well put together to have been hastily written, filmed, edited and released in a mere three months after the classic Conan the Barbarian. This is a relative at best, not a rip-off. There's a gentler sense of humour about it, and an awful lot more heart to it. Torn, of course, is pretty darn evil, with some dialogue that's actually reaching further than I expected, especially when he discusses his plans for the unborn Dar.
In all, very much one of the better put together movies of this genre (and there was indeed a mass of them in the 1980s, but it was one of the earliest, after all) and it does not suffer near the cheese level of, say, Krull as Coscarelli and friends tend to know how to hide the seams, at least so that you can go "Ah, good thing we didn't see a close-up from that other angle!" and the bemused approach to the whole thing helps to accept it as an epic fantasy that is just damn good fun. -
MCT:February 24, 2008
I saw this when it first came out. And thought that it was a really good premise for a movie! Marc Singer and Tanya Roberts were HOT too!
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MCT:February 11, 2008I love this movie. Marc Singer is so sexy in that tight little outfit he has on.
It makes me tingly inside thinking about it.
But Serious, I do love this movie though it is possibly one of the most homoerotic movies I have ever seen. Thats why I give it 2 very long and hard Podo's and Todo's. 5 fucking stars -
MCT:February 3, 2008
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MCT:February 2, 2008
This is a great film.
Todo and Podo are ace.
You also see Tanya Roberts' ass in this film (lovely) and there's loads of violence and swordplay.
Conan-style romp that feels like it's been made by the same people who made the original Battlestar Gallactica films (don't ask me why, it just feels like that). Thoroughly recommended though. -
MCT:January 26, 2008
This is one of those movies that was intended to be serious and comes out as a comedy. Interesting portrayal of The Occult as evil.
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MCT:January 2, 2008not that good... but interesting portrayal of the occult as evil... that was awesome but gruesome!!!
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MCT:November 8, 2007
This is one of those movies that was intended to be serious and comes out as a comedy. It is SO bad, that it is entertaining.
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MCT:September 26, 2007
It took me forever to figure out why Rip Torn looked so familiar.
John Amos half-naked made me laugh my butt off.
It is a bit cheesy, but that is what I expected when I watched it....I think that this could make an interesting remake. If it improved on all the ridiculous amount of unknown information in the movie. Some of the camera shots were preety intersting, but other than that...yeah a pretty cheese fillled movie.
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MCT:August 9, 2007Another guilty pleasure. Sort of a Conan-esque film with a Tarzan twist. I quite liked it when I was young. They don't do any of these fantasy movies anymore, do they?
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MCT:July 26, 2007
don't know why this movie fascinated me so much, I guess it was due to the fact that he was torn from his mother or could it have been the fact that he was the first to talk to animals?
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MCT:July 20, 2007
LOL - Tanya Roberts in that little bikini outfit! The main reason I only dated redheads in high school! Just watched this again the other day, I loved this movie, damn it is campy now.
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MCT:July 14, 2007
Swords and sorcery nonsense with a straight-to-video feel. Amusingly camp, and the Dr. Doolittle twist elevates it from the usual S&S mire, and it even inspired some hilariously bad sequels too.
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MCT:July 8, 2007
This is 80's cheese at its finest. Completely ridiculous tale of barbarians battling the forces of evil in a basic revenge tale. This one completely jumped on the bandwagon of the "Conan" movies.
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MCT:July 2, 2007
didn't interest me at all. i only liked the part where the monster pretty much liquidized that guy in the cage and when the sorcerer was throwing kids to the fire. yes, i am disturbed.
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MCT:June 24, 2007
This is 80's cheese at its finest. Completely ridiculous tale of barbarians battling the forces of evil in a basic revenge tale. This one completely jumped on the bandwagon of the "Conan" movies.
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