If you take Arnie out of the equation I think Momoa was PERFECT as Conan !!!... he managed to hold his own...
and his sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet ass helped (not enough of his buns of steel in my opinion)
very good film..... Who else could of played him ?? (excluding Arnie)
Who else could have played him?
Well, Karl Urban, for starters...
Momoa was waaaay too wooden in this, for my tastes. Everything people disliked about Arnie in the 'proper' films, I'd apply equally to Momoa.
OTT moments aside, I was loving this film right up to when Momoa appeared and then it just went from fail to fail.
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I agree he played the part well but the guy is to skinny to be Conan, totally spoilt the film
shareActually, the Conan of the books is supposed to be muscled but lithe 'like a panther', which is why Momoa looked good for the role and why so many people were excited about it coming out.
However, looks ain't everything and his acting... Well, Momoa *can* act, but only if you give him a vaguely decent script to work with!!
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Well, Momoa *can* act, but only if you give him a vaguely decent script to work with!!
It is a fantastic line... *IF* you include the whole passage of dialogue that preceedes it and gives it its proper context, which is what the book has.
People got such wet panties hearing that line, screaming how it's a direct quote and how close to the books this film is because of this... Kinda like taking the entire LotR intro and just saying, "There's this one all powerful ring, right... and that's it"... doesn't really cut it, eh!
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I haven't read the book so I didn't know the context or the rest of the dialogue that could have made this line better. For me, it just seems so silly on its own. Maybe if I were to read the rest of the passage it would make better sense. You wouldn't happen to be able to post it...would you?
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He shrugged his shoulders. "I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I seek not beyond death. It may be the blackness averred by the Nemedian skeptics, or Crom's realm of ice and cloud, or the snowy plains and vaulted halls of the Nordheimer's Valhalla. I know not, nor do I care. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content."
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Ok, now I see what you are talking about. You are right on, it works perfectly when you have the rest of the dialogue to go with it. Too bad the filmmakers didn't add that it, or at least most of it.
Thanks for posting it.
Exactly, thanks. If you look at the old Weird Tales illustrations, he was far from being a slab of beef. Bigger ain't always better… Too bad Hugh Jackman is too well-known nowadays, he might have fit in !
shareDid you notice the ladies with fake breasts? also the director knows nothing about fantasy. The sword was plastic, sorry but a person cannot hold a broadsword like a dagger!
shareNot gonna argue much, but swords really aren't as heavy as people seem to think.
In other cases, like Katanas, they're considerably heavier than people expect.
I haven't seen him in a ton of things, so he could be different in other projects, but there's something about the faces he makes when trying to look menacing that I just don't buy. I don't find him intimidating.
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He does look like the classic Frazetta imagery. So thats good.
shareI think he's kind of a cheeseball to be honest.
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He was perfect for the role.
shareI thought he looked really good, but the moment he opened his mouth to talk
...it went downhill. He has this surfer dude way of talking and said his lines the same way. Shame because I thought he was good on Game of Thrones.
payback's a bitch. thanks for tempting me to do it