Between yesterday’s post discussing the thoughts I had after revisiting the most recent Conan film (2012) and my friend Darran Hight’s post about the release of a remake of the movie Deathstalker (which I’ll be watching and reviewing this weekend), my mind has been contemplating the Sword & Sorcery movies I used to watch with my Opa on Sunday afternoons.
The opening scene is promising but it quickly unravels into a paint by numbers slog. I kept hoping for more weird, more surprises; anything to make use of this setting. The windsail cars were the best I got.
It is definitely paint by numbers. It's a remake of Shane and it has all the pratfalls of those adaptations, which miss out on a really good book that has more to offer than we've seen in most versions of the story.
The opening scene is promising but it quickly unravels into a paint by numbers slog. I kept hoping for more weird, more surprises; anything to make use of this setting. The windsail cars were the best I got.
It is definitely paint by numbers. It's a remake of Shane and it has all the pratfalls of those adaptations, which miss out on a really good book that has more to offer than we've seen in most versions of the story.