Comments on: Conan The Destroyer – Serious Edition

By: DwightFry78

DwightFry78 — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 21:55:54 +0000

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.

By: asocialjester

asocialjester — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:36:09 +0000

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)

By: TMBTM

TMBTM — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:17:02 +0000

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.

By: joebshmoe

joebshmoe — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:10:29 +0000

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

By: boon23

boon23 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:19:37 +0000

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.

By: johnpart2

johnpart2 — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:36:51 +0000

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

By: bat-fink

bat-fink — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 06:21:31 +0000

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.

By: boon23

boon23 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 +0000

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.