[7] Director John Milius (Big Wednesday, Red Dawn) brings Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian to the big screen with Austrian bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger in the title role. The film is an origin story, opening with young Conan witnessing the murder of his parents at the hands of Thulsa Doom (a well-cast James Earl Jones), a religious cult leader with a propensity for pillaging and …
[5] The Russians invade America and spark World War III in this Cold-War emblem from writer/director John Milius (Conan the Barbarian, Big Wednesday). Political correctness aside, the opening of this movie — the Russian invasion — is very effective. But the rest of the movie fails to live up to the promise of its first 10 minutes. It’s fun to see the cast, all of …
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