This looks generic in terms of special effects, and in an era where films showing superheroes with fatastic powers are commonplace, a guy who's only skill is being strong and swinging a sword doesen't awe me.
The only way to make this film great would be to have a really over-the-top Conan with a really over-the-top villain and really, really brutal and epic battles. They should have used a really monster bodybuilder here like Branch Warren as a body double, and put his musculature in the frame of Shaquille O'Neil with the voice of James Earl Jones. Like I said, a really over-the-top Conan.
Make the villain really perverse, depraved and despicable. Open the film with him raiding a village, burning everyone alive and then fucking a little girl down her throat until she dies of asphyxiation. Show the little girl turning purple and gasping in despair as the bandit laughs and thrusts his dick down her throat. Make the point that he got power by killing his older brother for the throne by slowly poisoning him to death in the most despicable way with no remorse and removing the uterus of his own mom so that she could never give him any brothers that could challenge him for throne. Make him a real monster.
The battle scenes should be so vicious and gruesome that most people will vomit in the audience. Make it into a huge "Friday The 13th" slasher flick showing guts spilling, skulls being cracked with brain matter splashing everywhere and nutsacks swinging from spear heads. This is how I would have made the film. I would have given the fans what they want to see...
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