I agree with all of this. Milius definitely created a culture that felt pre-modern in a way that a lot of other ‘80s and subsequent sword and sorcery films really didn’t, just by leaving out all the quippy dialogue and letting Conan and his friends express themselves with their physicality.

It was a money making venture. It’s a grain mill. Spinning the wheel grinds grain into flour.

Wait, is that little girl a white male? Damn, he’s one fine actor! I really believed that he was a little girl. 

Part of it is an accident of timing. If he was as big today as he was in the ‘80s, he’d have the kind of contract JK Rowling and other big authors tend to get, with script and director approval. Back in the ‘80s Hollywood wasn’t at all concerned with faithful adaptations, and a lot of the time, they just wanted to be…

Yeah, Road Warrior is a good comp. Conan isn’t looking for trouble, but trouble keeps coming his way. There are a hundred classic Westerns with the same basic premise. And I would add that the crypto-fascism interpretation doesn’t really work for a character whose preferred mode is solitude - group identity and…

What, you aren’t just fascinated by “...and then there was King Aelon III, who married his sister and was killed by a dragon, and he was succeeded by King Jaemaerys VIII, who married his niece, went mad, and threw himself off a cliff, so he was succeeded by King Rhaeghoyl II, who was married to his second cousin but…

What I find sort of annoying is that he routinely HIMSELF mentions the damn book in these missives he releases. And then acts oh so put upon. Dude, if you stfu about it you would get SO much less shit.

It’s the literary equivalent of Zeno’s “Dichotomy Paradox” - every book only gets you half-way closer to the end, so there’s always another one needing to be written, even as the ending never seems to get any closer.

A well-written prequel can be a thing of beauty, but many of them do things that make me sigh in boredom and frustration, to wit:

A) “Hey, person I will eventually fall in love with, we’re meeting for the first time and I HATE HATE HATE you! Isn’t that ironic for the people who already know we get together? What a fun…

If landing a motorcycle on a moving train is not your most death-defying stunt,

I mean Crypto (and NFTs by proxy) are designed exactly for this. Scams, money laundering, criminal activity, fraud. Not a bug, definitely in the design.

I used to be a staunch believer that TWoW will never be released. As I get older though, I have come to believe it will be released, just posthumously, in draft form with some editing. He has some but not all of it, and the whole book will read like a series of vignettes in the lives of characters you might know and…

I saw Logan Lucky (2017) for the first time today, and by far this bit made me laugh the most.

The series’ villains, the Butterflies, have been secretly trying to save our planet because they believe we are incapable of doing it on our own. Are they right?

Just yesterday, before this particular announcement, Disney ALSO announced that they’re appointing someone to lead up their take on the “Metaverse.” So one way or another, they’re gonna trap you in some kind of dystopian altered reality.

The Deadline article this article was based on mentions Disney has tried planned communities before... hell, EPCOT was supposed to be a planned community, but ended up getting scaled back to theme park.

You never just call in the authorities.  I think it is a rule of some sort.

Vigilante is a classic comic-relief sidekick. He is actually unusually fleshed out and has his own moments, but nonetheless a big part of his purpose in the show is to keep the comedy beat steady.

I’m still wondering when we will get why Judomaster is in this show. Or if that is the joke. He just appears. Get beaten. Returns later on. 

me during the last 5 minutes of the episode: but i want to see the cow!!!