Conan: The Complete Quest (Conan the Barbarian / Conan the Destroyer) [Blu-ray]

Great product

Review for Conan The Complete Quest DVD: This dvd pack is worth it just for the extended edition of Milius's Conan The Barbarian. It's beautifully shot, beautifully scored, and a very memorable film. Its a coming of age story, and a revenge story featuring humanities most beloved archetype, that of the hero. Milius took a good Robert E. Howard character and setting then put his own artistic vision on it. The result is downright Wagnerian. I'm not much of a Fantasy genre fan, but I love this movie. This is the film catapulted Schwarzenegger into a mainstream actor. James Earl Jones is amazing as Thulsa Doom. The relationship between the villain and hero is one of the most brilliant ones I've seen. He is not just the anithesis of the hero, but the catalyst of him taking on the archetype. Then there is of course the memorable quotes and the riddle of steel theme. The sum of all these things make it a great movie. As for the sequel, well it is pretty forgettable, It lacks what made the original great. It is a dumbed down action film with a lackluster quest and a stale "comedic relief" character. The good thing is you get two movies for the price of one. They come on one double sided disc but its still a good deal. That being said, considering the money, what is there to complain about? Bottom line is this is a good starting point for those new to the series, or for those who want the extended edition of Conan The Barbarian. Until the extended edition is released on Bluray with a great treatment, including a healthy dose of extras, this will do for me.

i dont remember anything quite like the old Conan the Barbarian movies - the music score and the fighting - pretty cool - fairly clean movie with a little bit of skin shown, i enjoyed watching these films again.

Harken back to Arnald's days playing the powerful warrior Conan. The muscles, a sense of brotherhood, the corny humor, and a D&D like script. In Barbarian , thrill as our heros seek revenge against Thulsa Doom and his evil minions. In the Destroyer watch Conan put together a rag tag team to pull off a magical Macguffin heist.

Looking at the Conan films today it's easy to dismiss them as silly old B movies, but in their day they helped shape the direction of cinema. By the time Conan the Barbarian came to the big screen, sword-and-sandal flicks, popularized by legions of Hercules films in the 60s and the stop-motion monsters of Ray Harryhausen, were already played out. Conan changed the game with brutal, realistic violence, a rough, ruined world full of dangerous warriors, and of course the epic, primal soundtrack of Basil Poledouris, who would go on to score such luminary 80s films as Red Dawn and Robocop. Conan the Barbarian stars Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. When Conan's village is destroyed and his family killed he is sold into slavery. Years later, his body honed by gladiatorial fighting and mercenary combat he unexpectedly makes his way to freedom. For a time, he leads an adventurer's life with newfound friends Valeria the Amazon (Sandahl Bergman) and Subotai the Mongol archer (Gerry Lopez). Inevitably though, Conan is led into a final showdown with the man who murdered his family: the evil snake-priest Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones, with a wig of beautiful blond rock hair). There are certainly viewers who will balk at the summary alone, and who will find the film's limited special effects and deteriorated settings hard to pay attention to. But if you sit down and take Conan at face value, it's pretty easy to understand how it spawned the whole barbarian adventure sub-genre of film and other media. There's an operatic, over the top greatness to this film- one that the sequel sadly fails to capture. Conan the Destroyer sees Conan tasked with rescuing a missing princess for a sorceress-queen. Unlike the first movie and its dark-ages assortment of blasted heaths and weather-worn cities, Destroyer features an abundance of predictable fantasy locales like magical castles and forested lakes. There are more special effects too, and more whimsical humor. These elements were added to broaden the film's appeal, but they sap it of its uniqueness and take it further from the essence of the violent, untamed pulp novellas that spawned it. The result is a movie that is imminently watchable but feels watered down and predictable. Red Sonja (not included in this set) takes much the same approach but succeeds far better, and I recommend watching it after destroyer to compare and contrast. All in all, the 80s Conan films represent an important early step in Arnold Schwarzenegger's career, influential watermarks in cinema, and damn good adventure yarns. While Jason Momoa was a great Conan, and the 2011 film was in some ways truer to Robert Howard's stories, these are the movies I will always associate with Conan the Barbarian. PROS: -EPIC soundtrack -Good action and buckets of gory violence -Odd yet appropriate injections of humor -A surprising volume of good actors chewing scenery and loving every minute of it -Sandahl Bergman (if you take my advice and buy Red Sonja you get to see her pull a heel turn and play the evil Queen Gedren)! CONS: -Sequel is a little lackluster -Special Effects are undeniably primitive STUFF TO WATCH FOR -In Conan the Barbarian Arnold punches a camel. In Conan the Destroyer he MAKES UP to the camel, but their relationship collapses and he decks it again. In the first movie, Arnold actually hit the camel, arousing the ire of the SPCA. -He's heavily costumed, but the sharp-eyed may detect that the evil god at the end of Conan the Destroyer is in fact professional wrestling's Andre the Giant. That dude ruled!

Classic vintage movie

Great

So I added screenshots for only Conan The Destroyer as I’ve already recently seen the first one but quality applies to both. I was quite confused honestly because I don’t remember there being two movies in this series although I remember scenes from both which led me to buy the two pack. I own the first already but the two movie pack is like $1 or so more, just get the two pack. The movie has been remastered in widescreen and looks great considering its age. There’s some film grain and softness to expect but be aware the remastering also helps bring out the technology flaws of that era like stop motion, green screen etc. If you were a kid watching this on tv then it doesn’t hold up the same as an adult but the nostalgia is there and you can see the movie in a different light. The original movie is rated R while The Destroyer is PG so keep that in mind. Still quite a bit of blood. My kiddo would likely get a laugh out of it tbh. I still say for $12 it’s worth it even if you watch it one time. Don’t forget the late Great Wilt Chamberlain is in it as well. Screenshots unaltered.

Oggi ho ricevuto il mii dvd ma ho chiesto la restituzione perché no ha audio italiano.Ho contattato il mittente e ho avuto subito autorizzazione al reso.Amazon è stato veloce ed efficiente.

Really good quality upscaled, worth buying

Excelente

We all know this is a great film, but this is also quite a good edition for the price. Two films with a surprisingly good amount of bonus features.

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