Red Sonja
Dir: Richard Fleischer
1985
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After the success of the Conan films the genre really took off but no film ever matched John Milius passionate Conan. Richard Fleischer directed the sequel, kept Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sandahl Bergman in the production as different characters and hoped everyone would get behind it. It's fun for sure. It also has a big Asian influence about it, Babycart among many other films come to mind. I think that is why it's enjoyable, it's stolen loads of great scenes from other great films; The water creature was from Star Wars for example, just elaborated. To be fair most of Star Wars was stolen, again from Asian films so I guess at best Red Sonja is a good example of fantasy/action film evolution. Lets not take it that seriously though, it's classic 80's fantasy cheese. We all fancied Brigitte Nielsen as Red Sonja, any guy that tells you he didn't is lying.