Now the real question here is not if Conan The Barbarian was a good movie when it came out, but if it survives in nowadays as a film being rather watchable. And the answer seems pretty difficult. Because on one hand Conan The Barbarian is an awfully campy and over-the-top movie. Even from the looks of a young Schwarzenegger you understand that the movie has little to do with seriousness and any type of realism. Yes Conan The Barbarian is a kitsch fest that most people would throw out of the window after ten minutes of running time. But on the other hand that deliberate trashy character that the film has produces some kind of allure. And you are not sure if this due to the time it was shot or due to some "artistic" decision. Whatever the case might be Conan The Barbarian is a movie that is, in a strange and weird way, referential for the 80s style of sword-and-sorcery movies. And it is referential not because it's such a good movie, but because it has something, something in its air that makes it a film that endures time in the most unorthodox and trashy way. Conan The Barbarian is pulpy beyond imagination. From the villain, till the costumes, till the battles, the whole movie stinks of a cinematic way that looks awfully dated and coming-from-another-planet. But you know that's maybe the beauty of it. That's what you get, that you can't find in contemporary productions. And that is what makes Conan The Barbarian to be considered a cult movie. It's not that it has something particularly strange, but the filming, the atmosphere and the style are already enough to take you back, like a fucking time machine, that seems to have lost compass and it is producing images of forgotten times like a clock that went bananas.
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