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Arnie is 68, he will be 69 this year, if this movie ever gets out of development Hell he will be in his 70s to play Conan. I call that elderly. Sure, there can be a story of an older Conan. He is one of the few popular characters that is not ageless. But then there is this whole in between time, from where we left him at the end of Barbarian (Destroyer does not count) and the time when he became king that will be unaccounted for and which I think would be fascinating to see (John Milius even wrote its script I believe).
It can be done: I could picture a Conan à la Godfather II. But in any case, Arnie will be playing an elderly Conan.
Older-elderly-old.
In action movies maybe. But I don't find it very believable.
Well, yes, but that's kind of a given. I want a Conan movie "as long as it is a good one". And I did say I think one can make a good one with an old Conan. Or an old Sherlock Holmes. Or an old Michael Corleone. Or whatever. What I am wondering is what to do when the initial project was meant to take place much earlier, when the character and actor playing him were much younger? Milius had a script, are they going to rewrite it to fit Arnie's age? Scrap it for something else? His casting in a beloved franchise is not a guarantee of quality, sadly.
It also never struck me that Conan could be called a beloved franchise. The first film could be called beloved, but everything after that was neither beloved nor did it really qualify as a franchise.
As there's more than one movie we can talk of a franchise, although yes it's only the first movie that was truly loved.
I loved the first movie.
I loved the the music (and the drunk scene) in the second.
I will see what the 2011 version has to offer.
On topic: I enjoyed T:G enough to buy the Blu Ray... but I can't really see where they can go from after that. It was like the last Indy movie; a last goodbye IMO. Not fantastic, but cool for us fans.
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Well, he is old. And that is okay for Conan, as I said he is not an ageless character, depending what you want to do with him.
That perfectly sums up why I didn't care for either, then! I will say that while I didn't like 'Genisys' at all, it did have a couple of entertaining scenes, and while I didn't care for them pretty much copying scenes from the original beat for beat, I do like that they shook it up at times by altering the events that follow.
I think Iron Man 2 was my least favourite Marvel movie so far, and I didn't hate it.
I'm starting to think that he's just such a friendly guy that everyone just wants to cast him so they can all hang out and have fun! The name escapes me, but I understand the final casting decision was down to Courtney and this other guy- I googled him and he's a dead ringer for a younger Michael Beihn!
Oh well! It didn't kill the movie for me by any means, but a better Reese certainly would have helped
If you ever find out who he is, do let me know. I can't think of too many choices worse than Courtney; perhaps Sam Worthington, but thankfully they aren't dumb enough to let a guy like THAT near a 'Terminator' mo--
...wait a minute.
I've never seen him so I can't comment on his acting, but how they went with Courtney over him is beyond me!
They took a turd ('Die Hard 5') and sprinkled a little more poo (Jai Courtney) atop it.
You've all seen this publicity shot of Reese:
Obviously the Tech Noir after he starts shooting up Arnold. But look who's sitting in the background having a merry ol' time! I've seen this photo a hundred times and never noticed!