Jason Momoa as Conan the Barbarian...

This evening I went to the preview showing of Conan the Barbarian.

Am I a big Conan fan? Not really, though I was once, heavily under the spell of the magnificent comic by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor Smith. Still among my favourites. And because of my love of that comic, I read vast quantities of Robert E. Howard stories, and read the comic long after I was actually enjoying it.

So: the movie excited me, a little. Particularly after seeing Jason Momoa as Kohl Drogo.



Watching the movie I kept thinking, "I've seen this before... No, I read this scene before... in a Robert E. Howard story." Which has to be a good thing. True to source and all.

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