So I just saw Conan the Barbarian, the new one. It got 5.3 in Imdb. The scores on Imdb are infamously high. Usually a Imdb grading around 7 should in reality be about 5, which means that an Imdb grade around 5 translates to about 3, the scale is far from linear though but with reasonable approximations. However, for this particular film 5.3 is actually a very high score, way to high. The question for anyone, fans of Robert E. Howard or just cineastes is the same philosophical conundrum that people have been wrestling with in all ages: "How the fuck can anyone do this?"
Seriously? With a reasonable amount of money and the back-story that is Conan and this smelly garbage is what director Marcus Nispel manages to throw up from the darkest part of his worthless body! I really hope that he wakes up from his weed induced coma and when his brain starts to work again he should feel adequately ashamed. That should melt him into a wet pool on the spot so I guess I will actually hear if it happens.
The strange thing is that a film-production is such a large endeavour so someone somewhere sometime should have said no. I feel this being somewhat parallel to the massacres in Rwanda: someone needs to have the courage to say no and everyone needs the courage to listen.
Inga kommentarer:
Skicka en kommentar