{"id":10280,"date":"2011-05-16T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2011-05-16T09:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T22:28:18","slug":"looks-like-a-conan-movie-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/looks-like-a-conan-movie-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like a Conan Movie to Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been busy lately, and I haven&#8217;t been able to keep the Undead Backbrain properly fed. Lots of good things coming soon, but in the meantime, there&#8217;s this newly released trailer for <em>Conan the Barbarian<\/em> (US-2011; dir. Marcus Nispel).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/movies\/site\/player.swf\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=25116575&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"576\" height=\"324\" src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/nl\/movies\/site\/player.swf\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"vid=25116575&amp;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Despite a certain affection for Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s earlier version of Robert E. Howard&#8217;s iconic warrior barbarian &#8212; a product of the magazine <em>Weird Tales<\/em> at its height, mingling swordplay, dark magic and monstrosity to create a compelling imaginative world of its own &#8212; I&#8217;ve always been disappointed by cinematic versions of the Barbarian King&#8217;s adventures.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for me this new trailer looks like it&#8217;s got all the right moves &#8212; and Jason Momoa as Conan has the right sort of muscle and an appropriately rough appearance, indicative of strength gained not through a gym regime but through a brutal life of conflict and near-death experience. Along with giant tentacles, sorcery and other magical adversaries, he gives me hope that this Conan will reflect well on Conan&#8217;s literary origins.<\/p>\n<p>Bring it on!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/conan2011-poster.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-10281\" title=\"conan2011-poster\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/conan2011-poster-690x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"467\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/conan2011-poster-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/conan2011-poster-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things have been busy lately, and I haven&#8217;t been able to keep the Undead Backbrain properly fed. Lots of good things coming soon, but in the meantime, there&#8217;s this newly released trailer for Conan the Barbarian (US-2011; dir. Marcus Nispel). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/05\/16\/looks-like-a-conan-movie-to-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,145,126,4,44,50],"tags":[655,603,656],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10280"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10288,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10280\/revisions\/10288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}