Conan The Destroyer – Serious Edition
by Leonenut
What is it about? This an attempt to make Conan the Destroyer (1984) a more serious movie. Conan the Barbarian (1982) was probably one of the finest fantasy films ever made. The sequel wasn’t unfortunately, it was toned down to get a PG rating, and added too much humour in the process. Annoyingly Conan was given not just one sidekick, but three of them, and each has cringeworthy one-liners or silly moments. Also a whiny girl was added into the mix, and Conan is made more of an idiot.
member ratings:
(14 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10, rated)
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Original film name: Conan The Destroyer
New film name: Conan The Destroyer – Serious Edition
Film studio name : Universal Studio’s
Date Original Film Was Released : 1984
Date Edit Was Released : Nov. 2007
Runtime : 79 mins
Fanedit details (please add here details about DVD contents as well as video and audio information):
- 2.35:1 PAL Anamorphic
- English Dolby Digital 5.1
- Deleted Footage Extra
Your intention for this fanedit:
- What I have done is reduce the humour and jokes to the bare minimum. Removed much of the silly moments with Conan and deleted as much of the naive princess as possible. Other changes include removing a scene explaining the bad guys motives too early, an awful fireside drunk scene and the ending is much improved ending on a more sombre note. When the monster dies at the end, Conan now kills it before it collapses, making him seem more heroic. Altogether 18 minutes have been removed.
Time needed for the edition: 1 week
persons involved: LeoneNut
Images:
cover art by boon23 (download here):
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REVIEW:
The edit:
Great. Never before have I enjoyed Conan The Destroyer more. I am thankful for each and every scene you cut from it, without destroying the flow or the pacing. Of course this does not turn Conan 2 into a masterpiece, the movie is still campy, embarrassing, badly acted, has terrible sets, unworthy action scenes, lame special effects and so on, BUT as it is now, it is for a completely enjoyable sequel to Conan. It has all the charme of a cheap 80s fantasy movie. The fanediting job was masterfully exercised.
editing: 5 of 5,
entertainment: 5 of 5
Image quality:
The image quality is perfect, given the quality of the original.
video quality: 5 of 5
Audio quality:
There is one hard cut, where the music suddenly breaks, when Conan is in the town (where the rich guy hides the amulet). Besides that I did not notice any flaw.
audio: 4 of 5
The DVD:
The DVD comes with an acceptable menu with pink links. There is a main menu, still (and very basic) scene selection and an info menu. All without audio. As an extra there are some of the deleted scenes, which are really worth watching, especially considering the faneditor’s warning about them. Of course the DVD setting could have been more beautiful, but with the nice extra included, it’s more than sufficient.
DVD: 4 of 5
resulting in a 4 of 5 overall rating from me. This is a great fanedit and an extreme improvement over the original movie, which now is just an old movie. I will rather watch this version than ever touching my original again.
I recommend everyone who has a heart for Conan to watch this.
Review by boon23 — December 11, 2007 @ 6:32 pm
Sounds great. getting it on Rapidshare now. Sure wish it was on torrents though. Rapidshare takes me about a week. but iv not been dissapointed yet. Will comment after i watch, but if anyones got this up on torrent i would love to know. cheers.
Review by bat-fink — February 4, 2008 @ 6:21 am
Files r18 and r23 are corrupt, I have downloaded both of them about 3-4 times into new folders, as well as restarting my computer. When I put all of the files in the same folder and ran the .md5 file, every time it says r18 and r23 are corrupt. Not sure what to do now other than scrap the whole thing. Bummer because of all of the time spent on Rapidshart
Review by johnpart2 — July 8, 2008 @ 4:36 am
This has been downloaded a lt of times and the files are definitely ok on RS.
You need to download them to a different folder to avoid problems with your temp memory.
I also found this, which migth help you:
Are you getting Corrupted files or CRC Failed errors in Winrar when trying to Extract files?
I figured out the solution to anyone who receives these errors in Winrar.
Solution
1. Open the .rar file(s) you would like to extract.
2. Click on “Extract to”
3. In the miscellaneous options, check “Keep Broken Files”.
Outcome: Winrar succeeds at extracting the files even if you are given Volume/CRC Failed errors. The extracted files will NOT be corrupted and will work flawlessly. Just ignore the error messages and it will work.
Why does this happen?
Although I’m not 100% sure about this, I believe that this has something to do with faulty memory. Large files such as multi-volume .rar files use alot of memory. Memory, if running at the wrong voltages, can be unstable and perform errors. These errors are reported in Winrar during extraction but don’t actually affect the extraction process.
So for anyone who’s going crazy from downloading and re-downloading “Corrupted Volumes” when the uploader claims that they are working fine, then save yourself the trouble and use this solution to save yourself bandwidth, time, and grief.
Review by boon23 — July 8, 2008 @ 9:19 am
serious edition is right! wow, what a huge difference. the movie tone is completely changed and now you have an *almost* respectable follow-up to barbarian. i shall not doubt your ability again!
entertainment 4/5
fanediting 5/5
original 2/5
fanedit 4/5
4/5
Review by joebshmoe — February 13, 2009 @ 9:10 pm
That is a movie that screamed for a fanedit.
Leoncut did a great job (some little rough sound cuts to my ears, but nothing too distracting, really).
The movie is still boring, mostly because of his uninteresting story, but no more bad jokes and less bad acting makes it watchable;
and THAT is a tour de force.
Review by TMBTM — August 6, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
The actual editing is good. But, sorry, I still didn’t like it.
This edit takes out a lot of the campy humor that plagued the sequel to the terrific Conan The Barbarian. Sadly, doing that alone still doesn’t make the film feel like a good follow-up. What it does is make it sequel watchable, so that’s always a plus. But, I think taking out the humor is just the first step to fully polishing this movie up. A couple things that I think would help work would be to trim Arnold’s dialogue. In Conan the Barbarian, he hardly speaks. Here, he speaks much more frequently. He doesn’t feel like the stone cold bad ass barbarian anymore. Secondly, any successful attempt to integrate the music from Conan the Barbarian would be tremendous. That film had such a identifiable and great soundtrack, that adding some of it in here would make leaps and bounds to making Conan the Destroyer “feel” like the first.
editing 9/10
film 6.5/10 (original is 4/10)
Review by asocialjester — June 12, 2010 @ 9:36 pm
I really wanted to love this one. I REALLY, REALLY wanted. And I almost did. The theatrical release was an abomination that insulted both the previous film and the audience, and this fanedit does fix a lot of that and improves the narrative a great deal. However, a lot of the audio cuts are resolved through the fadeout-fadein route (instead of crossfades or just plain cuts), which is totally distracting, clearly marks the places where material is missing, and took me out of the movie every single time.
I can’t rate it higher than a 6/10, but I encourage Leonenut to make a 2.0 version. This can be very good, it just needs to be polished.
Review by DwightFry78 — August 2, 2010 @ 11:55 pm