Venue/Location: Bagdad Theater, 3702 Southeast Hawthorne Blvd, Phone: (503) 467-7521
Date: Friday, August 3, 2012 - 11:00 PM
cortandfatboy Midnight Movie: Conan the Barbarian
Admission: $3.00
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21+ only
"Conan! What is best in life?"
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women."
That's a mission statement, right there.
Closing out the cortandfatboy Midnight Movie's Summer of Schwarzenegger is John Milius' feverishly weird fantasy epic, Conan the Barbarian. Co-written by Oliver Stone, and co-starring James Earl Jones as mean snake-person-thing Thulsa Doom, Conan isn't exactly a faithful adaptation of Robert E. Howard's anti-hero - for one, Howard's Conan can talk - but of all the movies Arnold has been in over the course of his adventures in America, Conan might be the most ambitious. It's easy to blow up some miniatures and shoot guns at dudes in rubber costumes. It's another to have Conan tell God to go pound sand, sucker-punch a camel, and watch James Earl Jones turn into a snake all in the same 30 minute stretch of movie.
Doors open at 10pm, a pre-show entertainment reel plays at 10:30pm, and the Crom-cursing, Camel-punching craziness begins playing at 11pm. Attendees who are disruptive/disrespectful will be taken to a desert where they will push a wheel in a circle for 20 years while really loud orchestral music plays.
Poster art by The! Thomas! Wilson! Prints of this, and previous posters, will be for sale in the Bagdad lobby at the screening. For more, visit http://thethomaswilson.com The cortandfatboy Midnight Movie 2012 Schedule: September 7th – Batman (1989) October 5th – Poltergeist November 2nd – Back to the Future December 7th – Fargo Cort Webber and Bobby Roberts host cortandfatboy, a weekly comedy and pop-culture podcast that just happens to update five days a week. For commentaries on previous midnight movies, as well as episodes of the show, visit http://cortandfatboy.com