Conan the Barbarian

What a waste of time. The only satisfaction I got from my evening spent watching Conan was actually the nachos with the melted cheese and the hotdog I had. It really hit the spot. I wasn't expecting much; this is a rehash of an old movie, but with unknown actors and 3D (yeah I kind of knew what to expect) The beginning was kind of good and made me want to see more action as the hero grows up. The best part of the movie were the first 20 minutes where you understand Conan's childhood. As the movie goes you encounter a bunch of sidekick which you don't care about. Story is a bit cheesy, but hey, this is Conan. There are girls and action, but the action is bad, and who watches movies for naked girls? Worse, the acting is awful. There is supposed to be this great fight between Conan and this king and some witches, but nothing happens, a few punches in the face and that's it. It's as if you watched Xmen or Superman or even Spiderman and the superheros were fighting with baseball bats instead of their superpowers. I went to see Conan expecting great action scenes but this was one bad lemon. 3D is ugly : they just copied and pasted 3D effects on top of an already bad movie. In fact, the only good 3D effects were the opening scene where you see the studios who created this movie and the title. 3D was beautiful on the title; that's the only thing I'll remember about the movie. That's as good as it gets! I do believe the movie is better without 3D. I do regret seeing this movie even though I had a free ticket. Thank god I had the nachos to comfort me. Only see this movie if you are into muscled men with long hair in torso riding horses and punching people.