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Count_Drachma posted...

I had overlooked Conan since it kinda bombed. Now I'm disappointed it didn't get any sequels.

I feel like it mostly bombed because the average person has the indelible impression in their minds that Conan = Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Jason Momoa film is probably closer to the actual Conan stories in terms of how he's presented and the sort of story being told, but that doesn't matter because the average person/moviegoer doesn't actually know anything about the original stories. Sort of similar to the thing that hurt John Carter when that came out (because the director was an idiot and assumed everyone today grows up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs, so they didn't bother to advertise it effectively).

Though it also kind of suffered from being a "too many cooks" situation that got stuck in development hell for a while and never quite gelled the way it was meant to. A more streamlined production probably would have resulted in a better movie (though it still likely would have bombed, because again, Arnold).