re: Review of Conan the Barbarian

So why would he risk his life for her? That is where the incongruity exists. The movie tries to paint a budding romance where she transforms from a monk to a warrior, gaining his respect and love. They seal their relationship through passionate love making, and then she slips into the night without saying goodbye. It's one thing to paint him as a barbarian without any virtuous feelings, but in their relationship there is some virtue, or at least the director attempts to show that there is, but then in the next scene completely turns on what he had been building. If the writer or director had Conan leaving her after the intercourse, I might try to give the writer/director the benefit of the doubt, and offer that Conan is a conflicted character who is capable of love, but cannot escape his past. But the woman who is a monk? She's the one who leaves a man after sharing love? I know I've already put more thought into this relationship than the writer and director. Writing so poor doesn't even deserve to be analyzed. I'm wasting my time.

I'm sure some people will enjoy the movie, but for me it was an unpleasant time.