Where I live there is a used book store (Half Price Books for those in Texas) close to the comic book store and I found all the Conan the Barbarian stories by the original creator in an anthology for about 5 bucks. Then at the comic book store I found a bunch of the marvel Conan comic books from 70s - 90s in the dollar bin. I spent about 40 bucks.
I feel like they could do an awesome adaptation of Conan today if they cared about good stories. An animated version too. I remember Nerdrotic saying that a few years ago amazon was considering an adaptation but one of the higher ups nixed it due to “toxic masculinity”.
Since I’ve given up on most entertainment today until the woke era ends (with few exceptions) I’m finding so much stuff that I couldn’t finish in my lifetime. I still have Babylon 5 to get through and tons of old British stuff.
I remember in a comments section a feminist was complaining about Red Sonja being sexist and “male gaze”. Someone asked her if she is equally offended by how little Conan wears. She had no comment
This one is actually funny. Women's objectification of men is genuinely damaging to those men's health. They have to do very unsafe diets and go without water to look the way women want them to.
Meanwhile, men just want someone who looks somewhat attractive.
And I wonder why so many female characters now have to look like dudes. I guess I’m an evil chauvinist for preferring feminine women and believing there is strength in masculinity and femininity.
Maybe it's so they can trick people into thinking the protagonist is male. Only has to work for long enough to get their money. Doesn't matter if they play it after finding out.
Feminists like to say they are making things for women, and they aren't lying when they say that - because they believe it.
They are full of shit, but they aren't lying.
To a feminist there is no distinction between women and feminist. So, when the feminist says "We are making a movie for women!", what she invariably means is "We are making a movie for feminists!"
Men and women like seeing strong, masculine men, feminists do not (it makes them feel bad about themselves). Men and women like seeing beautiful, feminine women, feminists do not (it makes them feel bad about themselves).
Unfortunately, this wet turd of a ideology has taken near total control of the entertainment industry, so we are stuck with this shit for now.
Also, check out Korgoth of Barbaria, they only ever made the pilot episode but it's great. It's what I imagine a good Conan animation would be like.
Thanks for the recommendation!
REH is one of the greatest writers around. His Solomon Kane stuff is also worth checking out.
I definitely will. Thanks!
If you end up liking both, 'Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser' and 'Elric of Melnibone' are worth looking into as well.
I’ve heard of Elric and mean to check him out. I’ll look up the other one.
Amazon were going to but it got cancelled because Amazon are focusing on TV shows that appeal to women.
Geez. You can make shows for both men and women. Not sure why they don’t get that. Some things appeal to guys more and some things appeal to women more.
You actually can't make shows that appeal to non-feminists because those shows will instantly destroy feminists shows in the ratings, and then no one will make feminist shows. It's a bit like how capitalism existing anywhere disrupts communism everywhere.
They make shows that appeal to nobody . Even the SJWs that screech for more social justice politics in media, don't watch or read these things. If they actually wanted to make shows that appeal to women, literally look at what actually gets popular with women. Things like Twilight or 50 shades of Grey. Basically romance dramas with hot , strong but troubled men. Not ultra feminist stories with terrible writing.
What i've noticed is that when feminists complain about female characters in media, 99% of the time its really because of pure jealousy. They complain about characters with big breasts even when covered up, there's real women with big breasts so isn't that body shaming? In the past they used to complain about beautiful models "making too high standards and making girls insecure"(stupid cause i never felt that way about anyone that looks better than me). Like i said its all to do with jealousy, even over drawings.
There was already a Conan reboot film with that godawful Aquaman actor, Jason Momoa. I never saw it, but by all accounts, it was brain-meltingly terrible.
That’s too bad. Such a great character