*sigh* It's a nitpick yes because it's only about some low grade stuff so it doesn't matter much indeed, but relevant because of the form. Conan is presented as a legend and those are supposed to leave hints, links no matter how foggy and blurred to things relatable to the real world, no matter if the story carries complete fantasy elements such as magic etc. It brings the necessary ingredient of doubt and mystery legend-type tales need to work as such.Squire Grooktook wrote:I honestly do not understand the point at all. It feels like a totally irrelevant nitpick that might make for a good chuckle but barely constitutes a flaw, let alone a grave one.
It doesn't matter as long as you don't realize the two things I've said: that (at least in the film) it borrows massively to a real world period and setting, which works to hook up a legend to, loosely as it's supposed to, until you learn he places the events about 10,000 years further in the past, which is utterly impossible for anyone who'd know even a tiny bit about our world's history. It breaks all the elements of relatability necessary to even a poorly told legend as it intends and clumsily puts it in the pure sci-fi category. Yes that's a considerable flaw even for b-grade material.
My point is that the story at least as far as what the film covers, would have been a nudge higher in quality without that, which isn't saying much, and again after all as long as people don't know shit the fact remains unnoticeable.
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