I admit that I can be more than a little negative about upcoming movies that look like bad ideas. So, in order to do something different, I am going to write positive things about a movie which should be avoided at all cost. I am going to give you 10 reasons I am going to go see Conan.
1. Jason Momoa: I liked Jason Momoa’s character in Stargate: Atlantis. If he 
plays Conan with the same amount of intensity that he played Ronin, then you can be sure he’s going to throw everything he has into the role. I want to see him do well. The Sci-Fi Fantasy genre could use a good young minority lead actor.
2. Mickey Rourke: Mickey Rourke will most likely be cast as Conan’s dad. This
is a good choice. No one in Hollywood is as rugged and haggard looking as Rourke. He’s been riding his success in the movie The Wrestler and has turned it into numerous upcoming roles, especially as Whiplash in the upcoming Iron Man sequel. He’s a great actor, and is especially good at playing characters who aren’t necessarily evil, but have a skewed moral compass.
3. Conan: I am a fan of the character Conan. Conan the Barbarian and Conan 
the Destroyer starring Arnold Schwarzenegger are a couple of my favorite movies. It makes me happy to see a possibility that the franchise could be resurrected. Conan the Cimmerian is one of the few comics I follow every month. He’s a great character who often times finds a way to come out on top no matter the odds. He’s relentless, unforgiving, and fears nothing.
4. Arnold Schwarzenegger: Just a whisper of a rumor that he could make an appearance in the movie. That would be worth seeing it.
5. I saw Pathfinder (Marcus Nispel director of Conan, also directed Pathfinder) and 10,000 B.C. in the theaters….If I can spend good movie theater money on them, I can do the same for Conan.
6. Epic Fantasies are the reason I go to the movies. And I believe that Conan is going to be an epic fantasy. The interest level is so high for a Conan movie, and the studio has to be hoping for a franchise, so this has to be bigger than Pathfinder and 10,000 B.C.
7. Bob Sapp. MMA star Bob Sapp is apparently cast as a villain according to /Film. Sapp was pretty impressive in the last match I saw him in. So, the fight scenes will be good. And it’ll keep him off the streets.
8. It’ll be in 3-D more than likely, and I haven’t seen any 3-D movie in the theater, ever. Not even Avatar. Actually, when I was 11 I saw Starchaser: The Legend of Orin in 3-D, but I don’t count that. (at least I think I saw it in 3-D)
9. Djimon Hounsou: This movie will open up the possibility that the Thulsa
Doom movie starring and produced by Djimon Hounsou will become a reality. Thulsa Doom was an immortal sorcerer who was originally played by James Earl Jones in Conan the Barbarian. He’s a prominent character in the comics and in. According to Lobo, this movie will give us a chance to see an African culture that isn’t Egyptian in a movie.
Okay. I came up with 9. It was an ambitious list to begin with. Oh, and Conan the Cimmerian or Conan the Barbarian is a character created by Robert E. Howard. There’s a really good movie called The Whole Wide World starring Vincent D’Onofrio as Howard. Check it out.
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This post was written by Bedlam on February 26, 2010
