When you don’t actually know what the adversity is, numbers-wise.
The good news is that I am no longer alone in my freaking out, having dragged a loan agent, her entire management staff, 2 realtors, my extended family, and the sellers of the home we’d like to buy into the morass of freaking out along with me. So I’ve got that going on, which actually kind of cheers me up. I’ve always been a “share the pain” type, and not in that altruistic, Obama-care kind of way. For me, sharing the pain involves more of the “oh, Hell no–if I’m suffering you’re coming with me” Ghenghis Khan-type sentiment. But if you’ve been reading this blog you probably already know that…
Speaking of Khan and all things sort-of Barbarian, I finally saw the movie Conan the Barbarian last night on G4. Wow, that movie was horrible. And I’m not talking about the cheesy dialogue, Arnold’s complete lack of acting skills OR James Earl Jones’ wig. I’m talking about the fight choreography! Pretty much the only reason I was watching Conan was to see burly barbarians whacking the crap out of each other, but the whacking, it was sorely lacking. Frankly, the fight scenes on Deadliest Warrior are way more compelling. It was like they couldn’t afford slow motion cinematography, so they just made the actors slow down instead. Likewise, they couldn’t afford decent props (the giant, obviously painted styrofoam war hammer winning the BAW cheapest prop of the night award), or stuntmen, or script writers, or…
How did this movie not show up on MST3K?
August 20, 2009 at 12:48 am
Because MST3K only does bad SCIENCE fiction movies, and Conan doesn’t qualify. I’d love to see them rip apart “Total Recall”…
August 20, 2009 at 2:17 am
I don’t think that Puma Man qualifies as Sci-Fi, though, and they did that one. They could make an exception for Conan.
August 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I’ve never been into fight scenes all that much, but hate when they aren’t done right. OTOH, my son started karate a week or so ago at the ripe old age of four. The ones with the proper equipment actually spar a little. Now, these are some interesting fight scenes.
August 21, 2009 at 3:46 am
MST3K did plenty of bad fantasy too. Including this crappy Conan rip-off.
August 21, 2009 at 5:36 pm
This link probably has little to do with Conan, idiot PMI companies and banks, but it will make you laugh and I am CERTAIN you can post some delicious comments.
http://dontjudgemyhair.com/
Enjoy- and make sure you page through several pages to see some really fabulous styles…..
Happy Friday!
August 21, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Check out Rifftrax, done by some of the MST3K crew. They might have done Conan by now. If not, they may be planning it.