still the greatest movie ever made

with my recent spate of harsh movie criticism, namely, not liking star wars or the matrix or... uh, i don't remember what else, but it was total crap -- i worried that if i were to watch again the greatest movie of all time, conan the barbarian, i'd find some reason to be dissatisfied with it. i feared that whatever it was that caused me to see the lameness of star wars, be it age, boredom, wisdom, whatever, would remove the veil of awe from my eyes and let me see the awfulness of CtB.

whelp, no such luck. still the greatest movie ever. it even managed to surprise me with my favorite part, which i'd managed to forget. well, to be fair, it's only recently my favorite part. you know, when the attack begins on darth vader -- er, i mean thulsa doom -- at his death star -- uh, mountain of power, that is -- conan slices a guy up, then turns to a totally innocent candelabra, which had done him no harm, and viciously, mercilessly, and entirely gratuitously kicks it down.

AWESOME.

and everything before that and everything after that, also awesome. awesome to the max.