For a basketball player with no previous acting experience, Chamberlain did an EXCELLENT job of conveying mass and serious threat. It speaks well of how he was handled by the director as well. He didnt look like any newb chump handling those heavy weapons either. Sure he wasnt going to win an Oscar for the role, but he carried the role of a skilled, veteran, brooding, yet loyal and deadly violent BIG man. He and Arnold squared off so well here.
And for those asking about Bombaatas overswings, you are right. But the directors handled that by showing how physically gifted Bombaata was as well. He opened with a massive, full power lateral strike which missed and actually damaged a marble pillar. RIGHT after he misses, Conan moves in to take advantage with a counterstrike just as he should, being a thrust or cut. But Bombaata is able to react so quickly to this, that he forced Conans counterstrike to turn to a block which just about failed and almost ended up getting him killed. Bombaata was all about ferocity to the max, and yet had both the skill and speed to correct for errors and push back groups of attackers. He failed in the end, as he must of course. But how many great men have ever pushed Conan back to using a dagger for a win? I'll let you count.
Ever since I listened to this film score as a kid it hit me, and has stayed with for decades now. I still sing it in my head every now and then. So pleasant and soothing and uplifting.
Thats how you fight in real life, you dont need any unnecessary dialogue but it would be cool if we use real medieval and ancient combat like some Fiore.
@@44excalibur Oh, I do recall, and in this movie, too; I tried to memorize the moves as a kid, LOL. I just like how they didn't bother with it for this fight.
@@JediPhoenix1976 Well, this was a one-on-one fight, so no sword spinning was necessary. lol The sword spinning was used to ward off multiple attackers.
I think Bombaata was trying to go Dracula & bite Conan's neck. Oh God!! Now I say that, I want a story where Conan goes against the Count, Vlad Tepes himself!!
@@ameliabedelia7018 You're kidding right? Latin is the language spoken by Romans (ancient italians), this language is extinct since at least the 6th century...
Because Arnold is a nice fella. Sure has some problem keeping it in his pants, but not a bad guy. I mean, he's retired and if you are making a indie movie? He's often willing to take a minor role LOL. I never got why the "I WANT HORROR TERMINATOR!" people are always such dicks to him playing in the Terminator movies. It's his part man, its fun to see him add some comedy to it :).
the music was really cool for the beginning of this scene when they wander into the chamber and face off against bombaata... since their is no dialogue, the music did all the talking, and it was a bit tense, a bit playful as the two warriors loved to fight, and it was a symphony, as so much was going to happen at the same time... it was a great use of music
The fight between Conan and Bombaata was supposed to be the main one, but it was downplayed to give more prominence to the fight between Conan and Dagoth.That was the weak point for me because Dagoth is a ridiculous monster. Conan vs Bombaata was to be legendary fight like Conan vs Rexor in first movie.
It's kinda haunting that as long as Dagoth is born through the sacrivice of the girl, he'll emerge as a beautiful man; but if the sacrifice is omitted, he's reborn as a disgusting monster, and there is nothing he can do about it.
I saw this in the movie as a kid awesome picture. Both Conan movies are great very different movies. One is revenge ;one is adventure. This track is also in both movies.(of course a different variation)
The movie was originally going to be R rated but the Studio Executives demanded it be changed to PG due to wanting to appeal to a wider Audience. As a consequence the film was edited down to PG despite Arnold’s protests.
@@17Watman How many times has that strategy actually been successful in either making a better movie or gaining a better box office? You never hear it brought up when there is an absolute PG-13 masterpiece, only when it's a piece of trash that really needed the more realistic grit that R allows for.
@@willchurch8376 Personally if they made it PG-13 it could’ve done better but that’s debatable. Sadly Pg-13 didn’t exist at that time so it couldn’t have happened anyway. The studio and the producer Dino De Laurentiis forced many rewrites which watered down the original story.
@@willchurch8376 - When a film is rated R there are a much smaller number of theatres that are allowed to show it and the number of times a film is to be shown, as Regulated. At that time, Film studios earn by the number of Film Rolls that they sell to a Theatre, not from the ticket sales, those goes directly to the Theatre Owners. Of course it goes without saying, the more people watch the movie, the more the Theatre owners will buy more copies of the Film (since continious playing of the film would scratch and deform them because of the projectors heat, rendering then unwatchable). That's why some savy Theatre owners would show a Movie to 3 or more Theatre house by using only one set of copy of the movie (a single movie would sometimes go from 8 to 15 Reels of films, the theatre owners would just just switch one reel to one cinema to another). After the Film run is over, those Film reels are destroyed or thrown in the trash, but some are stored in each Theatre companies storage rooms. That's why some old Film restorers would sometimes get complete copies of an old film locked away in a small theatre house in Cuba or Romania.... etc.
What a freak athlete. Wilt was 47 when this was made (a time when we didn’t know nearly as much about longevity/staying athletic while aging) still got offers to return to the NBA after this film came out.
Bombaata is absolutely badass. Not someone you would pick a fight with. And the statue of Dagoth is really cool and gets creepy as fuck when the priest is killed.
Well the sword was made of atlantean steel so it would be light weighted maybe half a kg or one 1 the mace in another hand is probably 3 or 4 kilos but if you consider fighting with it so long huh.
I remember there being a iconic photo of him , Arnie and Andrea the Giant with Arnie in the middle and he looks very small compared to them. Iconic as Arnie was not a small guy himself either but compared to both of those big men he was.
This seen reminds me of that friend of a friend that finally reveals themselves as your true enemy who no longer hides in the shadows. This may be a lesson on the wonder years perhaps
I can’t see Bombaata as a “villain”. He’s loyal and following orders, but obviously his agenda is at odds with Conan’s. He probably believed Dagon would come to life as a benevolent god, not a fish-monster...
The detail of "all for all battle" even bitting ears and with mouth abd nose bleeding and a couple of dagger puncturings, the mace failing a hit and crushing sone of the stone column, the visible sweat mixed with blood , the echoes of the hits sounding in the room, one tall muscled barbarian,more strenght than battle skill (arnold is 6 feet 5 inches or so) versus one taller warrior/soldier more disciplined /skill but less strengh and taller (bombatta's actor is 7 feet 7 inches or so). Hate amounted but retained through time that flows rageously at end, And a fight without ornamentings, nor dramatic "beautiful" actuation. Only two nasty guys killing theirselves to the limit..... This scene hides more than surfacial eye can see.... Law vs chaos, discipline vs wildness, cold calculated intelligence vs instinct, loyalty to the govern and orders (bombatta) vs loyalty to own moral and pride, sophisticated wrap n (bombatta's mace) vs rude but more strong weapon (bastard sword of conan), armored warrior (bombatta) vs unarmored barbarian, and the dificulty of overcome the disadvantage of reach (bombatta's height gives him more hit range than conan). One not speak and only take care of himself (bombatta) and other (conan) only speaks for telling his friends to save the princess (being altruist). It hides more than meets the eye. It is one of the best fight scenes of the cinema. And of course arnold muscles are awesome for sight. And scenario is elegant and luxurious. Great,great battle scene. Hides much more than could be supposed
Well said my analytic friend. It's a very epic scene indeed. Quite possibly the most epic sword showdown in cinema history also taking the beautiful and impressive palace and the Dagoth ritual into account. All together perfectly.
I enjoyed both quite a bit. Trying to add kid like humor ruined some of the second, but you also got some characters with depth, and on a few occasions, rivals that damn near bested Conan. Bombatta was interesting in that he didnt particularly hate Conan. He was a very loyal follower of his sect which truly believed it had eternal good intended for the world. He was a professional veteran soldier who also happened to be a giant, who was a highly skilled fighter as well, just about at Conans level, with perhaps even MORE physicality. And he was DEEPLY brave and violently so. I like how when he finally sees Conan here and all bets are off, he conveys 110% "You? Okay, lets get this show on RIGHT now". And he attacks with all the violence he wants to apply against a guy who will, in his mind, prevent the world from being a better place.
I think Barbarian was maxed on its potential, at least for the special effects and such of its time. It's pretty much flawless, despite being so actually unfaithful to the original Conan stories. Destroyer on the other hand, never came close to its potential. There was a lot of absolute magic with the cast, plot, characters, etc. It just sort of failed to pull it all off. There's glimpses of the genius throughout, but as a finished work, it falls short. It does remind me though, that most of my favorite 80s action films never seemed to conform to the 'white casts only' narrative that is tossed around about Hollywood's past now.
I really enjoyed both Conan movies. I had been reading the books for a few years before the first one came out. I remember when it hit theatres and my buddy, who was being raised by his grandmother, invited me to go with him and his nonna Vai. I was only twelve then I think and when that sex scene with the witch came on I remember looking down towards Vai and she had her head in hands and she was shaking it. We absolutely loved the movie and about an hour after I got home Vai called my mom to apologize for taking me to a rated R movie at age twelve and how her grandson Chris told her the movie was just fantasy and blah blah blah 😂. God knows I replayed that scene in my head many times. My mother came to me and asked if I had any questions about what I saw lol 😂!! I said no just that it’s dangerous to sleep with witches lol. Sorry for the diatribe but this just flooded that memory back into my noggin for some reason
LOL, that's pretty funny. Not sure how they let you into an R movie at 12. I was about 8 at the time, and I remember my family friend a lil older than me telling me about how epic this Conan movie was, with heads coming off in it, and I was like wtf?!
@@Retro-Future-Land I can't imagine doing that back then. Friends showed me Robocop and Aliens on VHS when I was 14, and they were too much for me then.
Conan series is much better than all Aliens and Predators (and I would also like to see him against Xenomorphs) but I am wondering: why did this series not continued?
@@yallowrosa sold long ago. Currently Funcom owns the intellectual rights to Conan and is partnered with Netflix to make a Conan series. But why the OG films stopped mainly because Arnie was so disappointing with this one he was only willing to do a third if they paid way more. The script for the third Conan was tweeked and turned into Kull the Conqueror staring Kevin Sorbo. Kull was an earlier Robert E Howard character.
I just realised today, after so many years, that Bombata ended up being the virgin sacrificed to Daggoth, since he was an eunuch; quite ironic, somehow.
Thought bombata would of done a full 180 and help the princess in the movie but nah he hated conan and didn't even say a word about a damn thing before trying to kill them both.
She had no way to know how much longer they had to stop the sacrifice. You would feel really stupid if you doomed the entire world because you decided to waste a precious second to turn around and stab bombaata.
When I first watched this on video I was wondering what happened to Conan's ear now I know because I didn't see all of the fight scene between Conan and Bombaata and I also didn't see the status turn black
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For a basketball player with no previous acting experience, Chamberlain did an EXCELLENT job of conveying mass and serious threat. It speaks well of how he was handled by the director as well.
He didnt look like any newb chump handling those heavy weapons either. Sure he wasnt going to win an Oscar for the role, but he carried the role of a skilled, veteran, brooding, yet loyal and deadly violent BIG man.
He and Arnold squared off so well here.
And for those asking about Bombaatas overswings, you are right. But the directors handled that by showing how physically gifted Bombaata was as well. He opened with a massive, full power lateral strike which missed and actually damaged a marble pillar. RIGHT after he misses, Conan moves in to take advantage with a counterstrike just as he should, being a thrust or cut. But Bombaata is able to react so quickly to this, that he forced Conans counterstrike to turn to a block which just about failed and almost ended up getting him killed.
Bombaata was all about ferocity to the max, and yet had both the skill and speed to correct for errors and push back groups of attackers.
He failed in the end, as he must of course. But how many great men have ever pushed Conan back to using a dagger for a win? I'll let you count.
@@shkotayd9749 damned barbarians is what they are!
Wilt was more than a Basketball Player !
@@CP-kb1du Obviously lol.
@@CP-kb1du - But, He's definitly the Best there is.
Ever since I listened to this film score as a kid it hit me, and has stayed with for decades now. I still sing it in my head every now and then. So pleasant and soothing and uplifting.
Yep same, this score is something else, it combines so well with what's happening on screen, it's a masterpiece in that regard I'll say.
It's such an cheerful song to play during a human-sacrifice.
@@ShadowPa1adin Haha..Good they didn't succeed.
It's is the same score from the first film, the assault on the Doom orgy chamber.
@@mantabond except it’s like a high school band version of it. The Conan the Barbarian soundtrack is superior.
Love this fight. No unnecessary dailogue and right to business. They all know what they're there for.
True 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😉😉😉😉
Thats how you fight in real life, you dont need any unnecessary dialogue but it would be cool if we use real medieval and ancient combat like some Fiore.
This scene features some of the best Arnold noises ever captured.
"PUTDAT KOOKIE DOWN!!" Still the best line from this movie
Sounds like my gf in bathroom
No fancy sword spinning, no acrobatics. Just two warriors getting down and dirty, to the death. I love it.
Arnold did plenty of sword spinning in the first Conan movie, if you'll recall.
@@44excalibur Oh, I do recall, and in this movie, too; I tried to memorize the moves as a kid, LOL. I just like how they didn't bother with it for this fight.
@@JediPhoenix1976 Well, this was a one-on-one fight, so no sword spinning was necessary. lol The sword spinning was used to ward off multiple attackers.
He does spin his sword when facing the lone knight in the forest
😂
He spins around and then slices his leg afterwards 😊😆
2:08 IS WHAT INSPIRED MIKE TYSON TO TAKE A BITE AT HOLYFIELD'S EAR
Omfg... 👌😂 yeah he watched this movie before the fight night
I think Bombaata was trying to go Dracula & bite Conan's neck.
Oh God!! Now I say that, I want a story where Conan goes against the Count, Vlad Tepes himself!!
Was thinking the same thing.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Nah that is deep inside how men fight as barbarians...Mike was just a barbarian
The music is absolutely fantastic in both movies.
Wow! This brings back memories of the 1980's when my family finally got cable,and the cable company ran this movie at nauseam.
Child, what does at nauseam mean?
@@ameliabedelia7018 "Ad nauseam" is latin, Ad=untill, Nauseam=puke, it means "untill you are sick of it"
@@fabmax41 I never been to Latin. Where that is?
@@ameliabedelia7018 You're kidding right? Latin is the language spoken by Romans (ancient italians), this language is extinct since at least the 6th century...
My family got our first VCR in 1984. Caddy Shack was one of the first movies I remember recording.
Arnold said, "Wilt was the strongest ever. He could lift me up with one hand."
Wilt Chamberlain was the strongest and tallest man.
Because Arnold is a nice fella. Sure has some problem keeping it in his pants, but not a bad guy. I mean, he's retired and if you are making a indie movie? He's often willing to take a minor role LOL. I never got why the "I WANT HORROR TERMINATOR!" people are always such dicks to him playing in the Terminator movies. It's his part man, its fun to see him add some comedy to it :).
Yeah, I’d have to see that to believe it!
@@vr4892 You callin da Terminator a liar? I want to be around when you guys have a meet and greet.
@@Frisbieinstein 🤣🤣🤣. You do know Arhnuld is an old man now, right?
Sarah Douglas looks nice with long braided hair. I'm used to her look in Superman.
When I was in the Marines my buddy would lift Weights to this Music. LOL
The Orgy music ? Weird choice, lol.
Haha. I couldn't get pumped to this.
What is best in life
I also listen that when I workout 🙂
Based
Bombataa was a beast
Probably my great thousandth uncle
@@chincheck6423 LOL.
African.bombata.
Arnolds shape was the best in Destroyer from his whole movie career
commando?
@@sanctuaryism In commando is good but a little bit smaller. Just look at the size of his chest in Conan
Terminator 1
Not the first Conan movie?
the music was really cool for the beginning of this scene when they wander into the chamber and face off against bombaata... since their is no dialogue, the music did all the talking, and it was a bit tense, a bit playful as the two warriors loved to fight, and it was a symphony, as so much was going to happen at the same time... it was a great use of music
the music is the same as The Barbarian at Dooms place!
Arnold said that Wilt was a beast in the gym.
7x Mr. Olympia vs. 7'1" NBA Legend
Two different great athletes going down and dirty at each other in raw sword duel to the death. OUCH!
I love that "Oh SHIT" face from Conan when Bombaata lifts the urn.
The fight between Conan and Bombaata was supposed to be the main one, but it was downplayed to give more prominence to the fight between Conan and Dagoth.That was the weak point for me because Dagoth is a ridiculous monster. Conan vs Bombaata was to be legendary fight like Conan vs Rexor in first movie.
I wish they made one where Conan was king like now in 2020.. with Arnold as Conan and someone else as his two sons and daughter
Maybe his lovechild son could play the new conan. He has a good build for it
Dude! That sounds awesome. You should write a book online. Modern (SJW) Hollywood would only screw it up.
I recall we were hearing about this as a reality in 2013, and it was supposed to come out 2016. Don't know what happened there.
That throw at 1:46 is epic! right on the money!
Grace Slick launched that spear like a goddamn ballista bolt.
Love that woman!
Que película x dios...las dos...la música las peleas la historia... épicas
It's kinda haunting that as long as Dagoth is born through the sacrivice of the girl, he'll emerge as a beautiful man; but if the sacrifice is omitted, he's reborn as a disgusting monster, and there is nothing he can do about it.
Legendary Warriors Kick booty Badass men and Beautiful Babes . RIP Wilt Chamberlain
I saw this in the movie as a kid awesome picture. Both Conan movies are great very different movies. One is revenge ;one is adventure. This track is also in both movies.(of course a different variation)
If wilt was born 2000 1000 years ago he would've been a legendary warrior, and we would still hear stories about him today
or he would've got shot with an arrow in the head or died by some infection lol
In bible did talk about conan not much out side of that
@@azondaxx Nope Conan took place about 35,000 years BC
The greatest center in the history of basketball...
@@gregoryross9770 god skynet had one hell of a bug sending a T-800 there instead of 1984
Love that movie, specially the parts in which Wilt rides, he's so tall that his horse looks like a donkey.
You can tell that there was a real epic vision for this movie, and that the team just wasn't up to the task of making it work.
The movie was originally going to be R rated but the Studio Executives demanded it be changed to PG due to wanting to appeal to a wider Audience. As a consequence the film was edited down to PG despite Arnold’s protests.
@@17Watman I ain't surprised.
@@17Watman How many times has that strategy actually been successful in either making a better movie or gaining a better box office? You never hear it brought up when there is an absolute PG-13 masterpiece, only when it's a piece of trash that really needed the more realistic grit that R allows for.
@@willchurch8376 Personally if they made it PG-13 it could’ve done better but that’s debatable. Sadly Pg-13 didn’t exist at that time so it couldn’t have happened anyway. The studio and the producer Dino De Laurentiis forced many rewrites which watered down the original story.
@@willchurch8376 - When a film is rated R there are a much smaller number of theatres that are allowed to show it and the number of times a film is to be shown, as Regulated. At that time, Film studios earn by the number of Film Rolls that they sell to a Theatre, not from the ticket sales, those goes directly to the Theatre Owners. Of course it goes without saying, the more people watch the movie, the more the Theatre owners will buy more copies of the Film (since continious playing of the film would scratch and deform them because of the projectors heat, rendering then unwatchable). That's why some savy Theatre owners would show a Movie to 3 or more Theatre house by using only one set of copy of the movie (a single movie would sometimes go from 8 to 15 Reels of films, the theatre owners would just just switch one reel to one cinema to another). After the Film run is over, those Film reels are destroyed or thrown in the trash, but some are stored in each Theatre companies storage rooms. That's why some old Film restorers would sometimes get complete copies of an old film locked away in a small theatre house in Cuba or Romania.... etc.
Conan el destruor tanbien es una de mis peliculas favoritas que bien hola soy juan desde san cristobal venzuela asts pornto ❤😊
Bobbuta gave Conan one hell of a battle
Damn right.
Just look at the torque that Wilt had when he struck down at Arnies sword. 1000 foot pounds baby.
All the evil cults in Conan's world just listen to the same track on repeat... ;)
That's why they're evil. They've gone insane listening to that music over and over and over...
Imagine the royalties that composer is picking up from the amount of evil cults playing his hit tune.
Sinister cult are very evil
2:07 Iron mike tyson later used a varient of this move to much success in the boxing ring
You beat me to it lol
You beat me too it also
But he lost that fight do it wasn't successful
miubeuthungu
Mike Tyson: "beeth mode!"
I watched Conan the destroyer on my dad VHF/VCR in the early 1990s,i became a fan of Schwarzenegger since then
This is one of my favorite scene and movie
That throw off the spear killing the priest was mega epic too. And then the statue of Dagoth gets creepy.
Filme relíquia anos 80 a melhor era dos filmes
What a freak athlete. Wilt was 47 when this was made (a time when we didn’t know nearly as much about longevity/staying athletic while aging) still got offers to return to the NBA after this film came out.
No words needed to be said. I hate you. You hate me. Lets finish it.
0:07 When you leave your entire party for dead to escape a battle area but they all survive and manage to catch up with your arse...
2:08 Похоже, что этим моментом вдохновлялся Тайсон, когда откусывал ухо Холифилда)
Exatamente 😂😂😂😂😂
Bombaata leaps at him like an actual whole beast. I mean jeez!
These were the kids movies back in the 80s, not the crap they watch now
True
I saw that movie as 10 yrs kid in 1985
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Man, it's so weird for them to use the Orgy music from the first one.
I think it fit better here in the Second one
Why? Basil Poldourieus(spelling) did the score of both
I noticed it too.
Technically the Orgy was a sacrificial ceremony. Remember the giant stone bowl of body parts Conan tips over!
Bombaata is absolutely badass. Not someone you would pick a fight with. And the statue of Dagoth is really cool and gets creepy as fuck when the priest is killed.
the first was a masterpiece, this one, well... entertaining at best
Que desfecho ! Imagine a sensação de assistir pela primeira vez na época !
man Arnold was so good looking with that long hair
Good fight
ah mosok
Man, those weapons looks heavy.
Well the sword was made of atlantean steel so it would be light weighted maybe half a kg or one 1 the mace in another hand is probably 3 or 4 kilos but if you consider fighting with it so long huh.
The actual movie prop weapons were way heavier than any real weapons would ever be. Like 2-4 times heavier. Which was weird.
@@MrBottlecapBill Yea, the Atlantian sword (metal version) was like 8 lbs.... There are 6 foot swords that don't even weight that
maxed out fighter vs maxed out barbarian.
you may as well flip a coin to see who wins
Chamberlain is a real life giant. He absolutely towers over Arnold who is 6 foot tall.
He was 7'1", after all.
I remember there being a iconic photo of him , Arnie and Andrea the Giant with Arnie in the middle and he looks very small compared to them. Iconic as Arnie was not a small guy himself either but compared to both of those big men he was.
The ear bite.. that remembers me tyson biting Hollyfields ear hehehe
It was the late Wilt Chamberlain's only acting credit I know of. He did a fantastic job of playing Bombaata as a first time actor
This seen reminds me of that friend of a friend that finally reveals themselves as your true enemy who no longer hides in the shadows.
This may be a lesson on the wonder years perhaps
Super film seen so many times.
I can’t see Bombaata as a “villain”. He’s loyal and following orders, but obviously his agenda is at odds with Conan’s. He probably believed Dagon would come to life as a benevolent god, not a fish-monster...
Anti-hero
*D-a-g-o-t-h* And I think he's a demonic dragon
@@Alysa-Aiday Deus adorado no passado.
He was loyal to the queen.
BOMBATA did a Mike Tyson move with that ear bite...
Mike Tyson se inspirou em Bombbada na luta contra Hollifield
That ritual is how the elites get down by a in the grove of the holly, if you catch my meaning.
Best movie blend the magic with fighting 🎉🎉🎉🎉
1:37 you rolled a critical succes on your attack throw!
Gotta wonder if Grace Jones and the blonde princess were among "Wilt the Stilt"'s 10,000 conquests!!
Doubt the blonde,she was 13 or 14, olivia da'abo believe name was, then did "The Wonder Years"
Grace probably had wilt. She likes tall dudes just ask Dolph.
Grace and Wilt couldn't stand each other, so I doubt it.
If u sleep with Grace Jones u r on her list of conquests
@Big Mike aka Heavy Mike i second that. Peace bruh
I didn't think about it until today, this was the only movie or TV show Wilt Chamberlain was ever in. Nothing else.
My favorite part of the movie is this fight scene
How good the world could have been, if the sacrifice gone ahead. We'll never know. Poor Dagos
Yeah, because killing an innocent virgin to awaken a god would likely work out really well.
@@josephmanno9091 that's part of humanity's history
During filming Wilt got a little carried away and smashed the vase directly on Arnold in the first take.
Is that why Arnold actually killed him in this scene and real life?
Even the score gives me memberberries. I was like 7 when this came out and watched it till the VHS wore out.
Made by the late great Basil Poledouris, who never disappoints.
2:08
Why is there stock footage of the Tyson/Holyfield fight in the middle of this scene?
The detail of "all for all battle" even bitting ears and with mouth abd nose bleeding and a couple of dagger puncturings, the mace failing a hit and crushing sone of the stone column, the visible sweat mixed with blood , the echoes of the hits sounding in the room, one tall muscled barbarian,more strenght than battle skill (arnold is 6 feet 5 inches or so) versus one taller warrior/soldier more disciplined /skill but less strengh and taller (bombatta's actor is 7 feet 7 inches or so). Hate amounted but retained through time that flows rageously at end, And a fight without ornamentings, nor dramatic "beautiful" actuation. Only two nasty guys killing theirselves to the limit.....
This scene hides more than surfacial eye can see....
Law vs chaos, discipline vs wildness, cold calculated intelligence vs instinct, loyalty to the govern and orders (bombatta) vs loyalty to own moral and pride, sophisticated wrap n (bombatta's mace) vs rude but more strong weapon (bastard sword of conan), armored warrior (bombatta) vs unarmored barbarian, and the dificulty of overcome the disadvantage of reach (bombatta's height gives him more hit range than conan). One not speak and only take care of himself (bombatta) and other (conan) only speaks for telling his friends to save the princess (being altruist).
It hides more than meets the eye. It is one of the best fight scenes of the cinema.
And of course arnold muscles are awesome for sight. And scenario is elegant and luxurious.
Great,great battle scene.
Hides much more than could be supposed
Well said my analytic friend. It's a very epic scene indeed. Quite possibly the most epic sword showdown in cinema history also taking the beautiful and impressive palace and the Dagoth ritual into account. All together perfectly.
That 80s stop motion is still creepy to this day
Am I the only one that likes The Destroyer better?
You’re not alone.
It's great but not better. They're different. Barbarian was a work of art. Very little talking and great score. What was said had weight.
I enjoyed both quite a bit. Trying to add kid like humor ruined some of the second, but you also got some characters with depth, and on a few occasions, rivals that damn near bested Conan.
Bombatta was interesting in that he didnt particularly hate Conan. He was a very loyal follower of his sect which truly believed it had eternal good intended for the world. He was a professional veteran soldier who also happened to be a giant, who was a highly skilled fighter as well, just about at Conans level, with perhaps even MORE physicality. And he was DEEPLY brave and violently so.
I like how when he finally sees Conan here and all bets are off, he conveys 110% "You? Okay, lets get this show on RIGHT now". And he attacks with all the violence he wants to apply against a guy who will, in his mind, prevent the world from being a better place.
I think Barbarian was maxed on its potential, at least for the special effects and such of its time. It's pretty much flawless, despite being so actually unfaithful to the original Conan stories.
Destroyer on the other hand, never came close to its potential. There was a lot of absolute magic with the cast, plot, characters, etc. It just sort of failed to pull it all off. There's glimpses of the genius throughout, but as a finished work, it falls short.
It does remind me though, that most of my favorite 80s action films never seemed to conform to the 'white casts only' narrative that is tossed around about Hollywood's past now.
Bombaata the RPG companion that you forgot to talk to between missions to get approval.
For a generally crappy film, this fight is real highlight. No unneeded dialougue, trash talk, etc. Just a good fight.
Wilt had so much power, how hard he hits the sword at 0:36 or how quickly he lift this vase at 1:55
He look fuckin scary as shit too at 1:55
1:44 That javelin was going straight for the girl.
So is this where Mike Tyson learned the ear biter move
Great movie.
Prime Arnold, so awesome 🥰
If i had to battle to the death or trial by combat… i would choose this song to fight to
"If the girl isn't killed at the first signs of life in our god a great catastrophe will befall us"
It's a crime, with the popularity of conan and King Conan comics, that Swarzenegger is still preventing from reprising his role
Mike Tyson must have watched this scene as a little boy......
1:04
What exactly was Jehnna thinking when she let the Vizier tilt her head back as he reached for a knife?? That he was about to do a throat massage?
Bruce had Kareem. Arnie had Wilt. Keanu had Boban. ~_~
Good comments
And Chuck has Shaq...
thats why wilt scored 100 points
Arnold Best of the Best on these days you can tell the rest...
this whole scene from Dagoth's revival is so epic !
we all agree first Conan was better... but this entire scene is just PERFECT !
i stand with Conan
The fact that D'Abo wasn't naked in that scene is a crime against Robert E. Howard.
This Conan was a bit toned down compared to the first one.
She was 14 years old.
She was 14.... it would have actually been a crime....
Please go to jail. Howard didn't promote pedo trash.
@@pappy374 14 years old of 1980’s
I really enjoyed both Conan movies. I had been reading the books for a few years before the first one came out. I remember when it hit theatres and my buddy, who was being raised by his grandmother, invited me to go with him and his nonna Vai. I was only twelve then I think and when that sex scene with the witch came on I remember looking down towards Vai and she had her head in hands and she was shaking it. We absolutely loved the movie and about an hour after I got home Vai called my mom to apologize for taking me to a rated R movie at age twelve and how her grandson Chris told her the movie was just fantasy and blah blah blah 😂. God knows I replayed that scene in my head many times. My mother came to me and asked if I had any questions about what I saw lol 😂!! I said no just that it’s dangerous to sleep with witches lol.
Sorry for the diatribe but this just flooded that memory back into my noggin for some reason
LOL, that's pretty funny. Not sure how they let you into an R movie at 12. I was about 8 at the time, and I remember my family friend a lil older than me telling me about how epic this Conan movie was, with heads coming off in it, and I was like wtf?!
jajajajajja Something like this has happened to all of us at some point 😂
Heady days of our youth...
@@germanicelt In the USA you can watch R-Rated movies as a kid at the theatre if you are escorted by parent of guardian.
@@Retro-Future-Land I can't imagine doing that back then. Friends showed me Robocop and Aliens on VHS when I was 14, and they were too much for me then.
Arnold best shape ever!
Conan series is much better than all Aliens and Predators
(and I would also like to see him against Xenomorphs)
but I am wondering: why did this series not continued?
DeLaurentis Entertainment Group-The Company that Produced the Conan Films, Eventually Went Bankrupt.
@@loanaoftheshellpeople5627 - they could try to sell the franchise
@@yallowrosa sold long ago. Currently Funcom owns the intellectual rights to Conan and is partnered with Netflix to make a Conan series. But why the OG films stopped mainly because Arnie was so disappointing with this one he was only willing to do a third if they paid way more. The script for the third Conan was tweeked and turned into Kull the Conqueror staring Kevin Sorbo. Kull was an earlier Robert E Howard character.
0:56 seems like he actually got hurt
I just realised today, after so many years, that Bombata ended up being the virgin sacrificed to Daggoth, since he was an eunuch; quite ironic, somehow.
Conan O'Brian got ripped for this role
Thought bombata would of done a full 180 and help the princess in the movie but nah he hated conan and didn't even say a word about a damn thing before trying to kill them both.
That may have been in the original script.
How come Grace Jones didn't turn around and stab Wilt in the back with her spear as she ran by him at 1:35 Would have saved a lot of trouble.
She had no way to know how much longer they had to stop the sacrifice. You would feel really stupid if you doomed the entire world because you decided to waste a precious second to turn around and stab bombaata.
Because it was a warrior's duel ?
@@naosou921 You would feel stupid for the rest of your life! lol
When I first watched this on video I was wondering what happened to Conan's ear now I know because I didn't see all of the fight scene between Conan and Bombaata and I also didn't see the status turn black
Arnold forever
When you and Friends were sneaking into the older brothers broom but he was home and now you have to face him.