dhermann1
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I can see it now . . . Conan struggles to balance the Barbarian state budget.
One of my favorites was The LabyrinthNot from the 1980s, but it sure looked like it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130414/
Then there is "The Neverending Story"
One of my favorites was The Labyrinth
Even as a relatively young’n, I found most sword and sorcery movies to be poorly done. As a big fan of Robert E. Howard stories and Conan, I looked forward to the Conan the Barbarian movie. I enjoyed it but not so much the sequel.
Excalibur for me, it's a kind of masterpiece of style and storytelling plus it features an extraordinary use of Wagner's music.
Did you ever catch the 2011 version of Conan the Barbarian? I had an afternoon to kill in Glasgow after a meeting and before meeting friends, and I went to see it expecting it to be entertainingly crap. In fact, it was rather good and I enjoyed it 'straight'. Put me in mind of how a lot of other stories, last made as campy movies in the 80s, have been remade in the last decade or so as very sincere projects.