Conan the Barbarian - The Wheel Of Pain [HD]

[@robwalsh9843]

Basil Poledouris's score was so crucial to this movie. It really evokes that classic period of Hollywood epics.

[@annehaight9963]

And in this scene particularly, it's brilliant. The plodding tedium, even the rusty squeak you hear is from the orchestra.

[@yvc9]

you got that right

[@Lokazana]

Great soundtrack

[@woolfyx]

Seriously, sometimes I felt like this movie was a musical. Great one of course.

[@ed1pk]

They were originally going to use rock music. Thank the gods they didn’t.

[@xser4321]

There is a deleted scene where they are feeding Conan every day a kilo of beef, 30 eggs, 7 chicken breasts and 200 g protein powder.

[@alexwest2514]

He ate the other boy slaves.

[@rezaninorowzin1060]

Don’t forget 600 mg test 400 mg decca

[@David0lyle]

Naw, he just ate everyone who didn’t keep up. I mean I assume that’s what happened, you know movies, they have time issues so stuff gets left out.

[@TheReaperjd]

@Dimitar ruzhinov That's so cool to picture

[@robertschulz1234]

HaHa

[@JimboJoeAH]

the true secret to Conan's strength: everyday is leg day

[@VinayakPande53]

And steroids.

[@TheElderOne2003]

@@VinayakPande53 DBol baby! We use to eat it like 🍬

[@mikemoscato2995]

And every night, nonstop!🦵🦵🦵🦵💪💪💪🍐💉💉💉🧪🧪💉🧪⚗

[@fuffoon]

Cocainum!

[@VinayakPande53]

@@fuffoon Haha! Red Heat!

[@butwait]

for those wondering how Arnold got his protein intake. Note how there are fewer and fewer children pushing the wheel.

[@NevTheDeranged]

Underrated comment.

[@Megawatt]

I was on the point of asking!

[@henriksvensson126]

Conan: "Onomnomnomnom CHILD FLESH!"

[@Alysa-Aiday]

@@NevTheDeranged: Stop, you sick-O!!!

[@Alysa-Aiday]

@@henriksvensson126: STOP SUPPORTING TRUMPISM AND CANNIBALISM!!!!

[@josephupton3601]

"I fear we have created a giant and filled it with a terrible resolve" Said one guard to another.

[@ChickenRieder]

Personal trainers hate him. This guy found ONE exercise that works your whole body!!!!!!

[@XSAoRAD]

Best comment of 2021 🤣

[@bingbongabinga2954]

And no gluttony (the real secret to health). For you see..success can test ones metal as surely as the strongest adversary.

[@antoanto5301]

Try being a stage hand! You'll definitely be using your whole body that's for sure!

[@vaidotassakalauskas3681]

And no facial hair.

[@ian_b]

@@XSAoRAD 2022 is still waiting for a comment of this quality🤣

[@MrCrooot]

The thing that makes this scene brilliant is that there is no talking. Everything from the kids slowly growing up and disappearing to the changing seasons, to the foreboding music tells the viewer the story completely. As the adage: show, don't tell.

[@WolframtheBlessed3499]

Yeah this movie was an absolute Masterpiece whoever wrote and directed this I think was Dino de Laurentiis, both were absolute geniuses

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

There's a lot here that goes untold, it's really a mistake to say it tells the story "completely". It's more accurate to say they cut out unnecessary information for the sake of atmosphere and pacing. Which is both very difficult and laudable.

[@fuffoon]

The inverse of good horror, but it works for action.

[@BenjaminSteiner]

They grew up and left? I assumed they died from being overworked. Being chained to something called "the wheel of pain" doesn't really invoke a sense that one can leave.

[@TonkarzOfSolSystem]

@@BenjaminSteiner We don't know what happened to them. Perhaps they were sold, perhaps they died. But they probably didn't just decide to leave.

[@josephsheranda]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how REAL prop and set construction is so much more believable than CGI-everything.

[@papashango8442]

True. CGI crowd looks so fake. Also CGI explosions, rubbles falling, or waterfalls are always slo-mo. I dunno why they don't just stick to real physics

[@robwalsh9843]

Really really well done CGI deserves praise, but practical effects and real sets have so much more heart to them.

[@PennywiseTheDancingClown274]

Everyone probably already knows but one of the best movies for practical effects is John carpenter's the thing

[@TheSnowballEarth]

Acknowledgement to the late Ron Cobb who designed the sets and costumes, and who also appears as the black lotus selling street vendor.

[@rromero7849]

Always! CGI is TOO CLEAN what makes practical work/sets good is that you can see flaws and differences in the surfaces and other little inconsistencies which make it look believable.👍

[@cizia69]

Nothing like a well rounded education

[@dcocz3908]

Just like everyday life, only a different wheel

[@franketwas6917]

A round wheel education...

[@JohnBrown-no4od]

You mean a “wheel” rounded education?

[@johnmorgan1629]

He thought he signed up to a diploma mill and got that instead.

[@zombiebiker5581]

The Wheel of life, The Circle of life, Nose to the grindstone, When life pushes against you, you push back All roads lead to Crom He feels that he is going in circles Ok that all

[@neilmcknight26]

I always come back to this video when times get tough in life. Just like Conan we keep pushing through the hard times, we may loose others on the way but we will be stronger because of our past struggles 💪🏼

[@MrSnrubIsRight]

Grew up to this movie since VERY young. After a series of recent catastrophes, I watched this film again, and wept at the swell and climactic moment when Conan raises his head in triumph. It reinvigorated me. That's the power of film as an artform. If life ever gets chaotic for you guys out there, the 3 things to check are sleep, diet, and exercise. All 3 important to balance the other, but I came to realize that order is specific. You won't die 20 days without exercise. You won't die 20 days without food (as long you have water and don't physically exert yourself). You will die 20 days without sleep. Priorities. Get your sleep schedule in order. Then diet. Then exercise. In that order. Everything else in life happens to fall back into place when those 3 critical functions are balanced. The 4th is stress management; however, doing those 3 directly reduce stress. Stress management is time management. Once time management is mastered, so, too, is stress. And if you do not listen, then the HYELL with you! 🪓

[@bobbywhite1645]

I do the same. It has inspired me for decades.

[@planetpizza5821]

The universe of Conan is just amazing. The ones who read his comics know. It´s a pity we didn´t have more Conan movies like this first one.

[@AgamemnonVsSocratesAandS]

It's just like THE babarian story I love them. The old Tarzan books are similar.

[@artokiiskinen1058]

you should read the original novels. This movie is true to the original writing

[@edwardlawrence131]

And I pity those who didn't read the comics. For they do not know.

[@gonzalogutierrez510]

@@artokiiskinen1058 except this very plot point. Conan doesn't spend his juvenile years as a slave, he only was captured for a short period of time after a failed raid

[@uhtred7860]

@@artokiiskinen1058 Whats the first one i should start with? been wanting the reading them for 30 years but never get around to it.

[@flashkraft]

The wheel is powering bellows that are blowing air into instruments and making that music play.

[@crispinjulius5032]

Lol!

[@tonyynot6151]

I heard it was for a juicer deep within a cavern in the earth...

[@WhipRunner]

The things people do for streaming music without paying a dime.

[@richardscaggs5936]

LoL 😂😂😂 lol probably

[@SnEaKyGiTau]

Brings a whole new meaning to the daily grind

[@teslagirl1]

Basil Poledouris wrote such amazing film scores, so perfectly fitting each story that listening to one makes you see the scenes again in your mind.

[@devinwhite5064]

Wheel of pain? More like Wheel of Gains

[@jameshalleluyah8133]

No, more like, wheel of snap your shit up in no time.

[@reminisce0208]

😂

[@JinxedByZ]

wheel of steroids

[@gigasrex]

No Pain, No Gain

[@DustyTurtle192]

All kinds

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

The music, sets, costumes, scenery, and cinematography make Conan The Barbarian completely different from the sword-and-sandal epics of the 1960s. A completely new departure. It's never been equaled.

[@michaelvaughn8864]

It most likely never will be either, sir👍

[@3PercentNeanderthal]

All the others were cheap imitations

[@michaelvaughn8864]

@@3PercentNeanderthal Damn right, sir👍 Often imitated, never duplicated

[@codiefitz3876]

Jerusalem Cruisers

[@carddealer34]

I’m not gonna lie. I was a kid when this movie came out and when you see the transformation of the kid to a man and how ripped he became, I was thinking...”so that’s the secret, where’s the wheel!”

[@Netseer2000]

Arnold had to trim down for the movie.

[@edwardlawrence131]

Ok if you were gonna lie, what would you say?

[@artdries5672]

That, and steroids, lots of steroids

[@michaelvaughn8864]

@@edwardlawrence131 He was probably gonna say that he couldn't find the wheel, Mr. Lawrence🤣

[@soulburst]

@@artdries5672 still have to push the wheel

[@blockmasterscott]

I read that the prop guys did such a good job on this that it rotated too smoothly, which resulted in the actors having to pretend that they were pushing hard.

[@ravenhull]

My understanding was that for the last bits, some of the crew was on the far side pushing back.

[@kongthao9935]

@@ravenhull must be pretty hard to push back against Arnold.

[@matcausey1778]

@@kongthao9935 you win

[@kurtbarlow9402]

On the first day Arnold pushed it, expecting resistance. Instead he was struck in the back by the next "spoke" of the wheel when it spun freely.

[@knightatthecrossroads222]

@@kurtbarlow9402 that's why...."wheel of pain".

[@flybeep1661]

Best film score out there. The entire score by Basil Poledouris is like a total symphony.

[@МаринаМартьянова-ь2н]

Музика хорошая

[@archon4412]

The slavers weren't too big on barbers, but at least they let him shave everyday.

[@johnbower7452]

That is what makes you laugh in a lot of these fantasy and ancient 'epics', no way to shave but the women all have smooth silky legs and the guys are clean shaven; often with short hair.

[@johnrico2527]

@@johnbower7452 Some men naturally don't grow facial hair. I used to have a roommate that couldn't grow a beard.....he was always jealous of my facial hair. And i was jealous of the fact he didn't have to waste time and money on shaving every day.

[@guileniam]

@@johnbower7452 the Romans were clean shaven irl and ancient...

[@ebertmesiascancharidelacru3669]

Hahahah

[@randyblackburn9765]

John Bower its like watching an old western where the Indian maidens use the Fox News makeup team 🤣

[@perfectionbox]

Conan actually started his warpath when he found out the mill wasn't grinding flour or anything at all, it was just a long, slow torture device

[@stevewolfe2492]

I always thought that.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Lol! I was looking for a comment like this lol!

[@georgeesquivel2517]

🤣🤣

[@areeareradaemair3119]

They were actually drilling for oil.

[@perfectionbox]

One could say that Conan... got a raw deal 🤣

[@petes.5167]

One of my favorite parts of the movie where the boy becomes a man and the music is icing on the cake. RIP Basil Poledouris.

[@alex9046]

the way the music swells as he looks up a grown man now, and it gets even more hype after each step is indescribably motivating just step by step

[@HeWhoIsNamedPatrick]

The story, the music, the acting, this was a great set of movies

[@Lobos222]

What?!? The second one was a preteen cash grab. Hardly a good movie.

[@nodak81]

After 15 years of being hunched over pushing that thing he'd look more like Quasimodo than Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[@seth6309]

perfect formula to participate in the miss universe! stay decades pushing this wheel ....

[@djtutty76]

marty meathead Laugh out loud

[@thesorrow4664]

😆

[@johnturrentine9610]

Quasimodo the Barbarian?!

[@oaw972]

I am sure they were fed well.. protein shakes and all!

[@unknownperson3649]

They kept him well hydrated and fed him a healthy amount of proteins.

[@starcruiser454]

Exactly my thoughts 💀 no way he gets that big on an average slave diet. They at least fed him good lmao

[@gnperdue]

One of the coolest flexes ever is this is an event at the Arnold Strongman Classic now. Arnie has people to push the wheel for him now, LOL. The strongest men in the world push the Wheel of Pain - an amazing replica reconstruction from the obsessives at Rogue Fitness. Whether this is a good way to get strong or not is still up for debate - but once you ARE really strong, this is an event you can compete in.

[@raymondraptorclaw2901]

To craft this, you will need 210 shaped wood, 200 hardened bricks, 200 steel reinforcements, and 160 twine.

[@kabal28]

Not to mention 90hrs to complete, or 500 diamonds, or $49.99 to complete

[@blockmasterscott]

I hate making those hardened bricks.

[@tygerbyrn]

Next time, on This Old House...

[@kongthao9935]

The next gen model is an electric generator to power a food synthesizer.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

🖕

[@creekwalker8178]

I like the high five for child slavery at the end. Classic.

[@345mrse]

Junior High School. Ahhhh, the memories.

[@pullersinc.848]

One of the best segments in movie history in one of the best movies

[@Badchi]

What I love about this movie most is that in the prologue there are almost no lines spoken and the narrator speaks only a few words. This is what films nowadays lack: they treat the audience as idiots that need everything pre-chewed and put in their mouths.

[@uhtred7860]

Its from the "Show, don't tell" school of film making, this movie was directed by John Milius and written by him and Oliver Stone. Thats why its so good.

[@raymondraptorclaw2901]

The greater wheel of pain! Also called the column of sadness, this device strengthens the body as it breaks the mind. Can break up to eight thralls at a time.

[@raymondraptorclaw2901]

It’s Conan Exiles, a video game. Cool your jets...😂 also this is a good movie. This one was made in the 80s and there’s a new one, too.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

🤯

[@RCAvhstape]

Thralls? I wager 40 quatloos on the Cimmerian!

[@David0lyle]

Yea. We saw the marketing material too, not sure it lived up though.

[@davidwagner2931]

@@RCAvhstape 75 quatloos on the newcomers

[@gregfalco4528]

Crazy that the boy who first binds Conan to the wheel is the same person that eventually liberates him.

[@kongthao9935]

I think he bought Conan that day then left him behind to run the family business. Might have even sent extra money to ensure his investment grows big and strong. As we can all see. Conan was reserved and paid for. Otherwise the mill would not have been in operation so long.

[@ChalkisPinball]

How did you figured that out?

[@gregfalco4528]

@@ChalkisPinball The character's striking red hair is meant to stand out to the audience. It seems like the character's internal monologue is this: "It's bad enough to turn someone into a slave, but to turn a naturally good man evil is unacceptable."

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Cool

[@750kv8]

....Only to drag him away on a rope.

[@tsopmocful1958]

He'll look more closely at the labour contract next time.

[@johnrico2527]

how the made flour for bread before 1910

[@seth6309]

perfect formula to participate in the miss universe! stay decades pushing this wheel ....

[@SpartacusColo]

They don't have a union.

[@keithcronk7980]

Read the small print next time

[@MrScottreynolds123]

It just dawned on me, after all these years, that the read headed kid that shackled him to the wheel of pain, is the same one who came back as a man and freed him.

[@TheWinezen]

very Astute observation there

[@this_is_me7969]

Omg your right

[@Interdiffusion]

I thought that was completely fucking obvious.

[@chrisharris9577]

Yep great story telling, with out words.

[@easyeagle3730]

Conan never missed a leg day!

[@BTHDIzzavy]

"Guess what! Tomorrow is leg day!" "Every day is leg day! every day's been leg day for the last 20 years!"

[@mikemorgan5394]

THE WHEEL OF INCONVIENCE , " Oh this sand is rocky, I have a pebble between my toes! The food here is terrible. Why are you staring at me? Do I have dirt on my face?!

[@RogueReplicant]

That's called the Millenial Wheel, ha ha

[@bretthess6376]

"Oh, guard, I think I'm getting a blister!"

[@BruceWayne-mb4hk]

“I’m gonna buy a badass slave cheap”. _Fistbump_

[@criticalbill2090]

How comes my gym doesn't have one of these?

[@WalrusDoom]

Sounds like they haven’t solved the riddle of steel

[@christrotter3052]

Really? I have one at my workplace. It's called "my job"

[@hummercj]

Did you see the real one they built for the strong man at the Arnold Classic? Hard pass

[@velveetaslingshot]

It has been my dream to own a gym. I will install a wheel of pain and have the music playing.

[@keithcronk7980]

BUILD 1 SIR

[@randyblackburn9765]

He got to stay on the ride a long time , the amusement park must not have been busy

[@HighSpeedNoDrag]

Those were the days with Real Movies and the very best soundtracks.

[@cizia69]

When there is a wheel, there is a way (to destruction)

[@suresh8966]

Inspiration, I would say. I was barely 15 when this movie was released in our little town in a remote part of India. All of us kids hit the gyms then. Well none of us became Mr Olympia. But we kept away from bad habits. I am 53 now , alone, failed ,doomed, miserable and scared. But this movie still inspires me to keep going.

[@Bananer95]

@@suresh8966 I empathize and sympathize for you. We must press on, my friend. Maintain heart and continue forward no matter what this arduous life throws at you.

[@suresh8966]

@@Bananer95 Yes ,Thank you for your kind words. I still keep going. Thank you.

[@uncletom1971]

@@suresh8966 You are not failed, and you are not alone. As long as you are alive and well, there is potential.

[@suresh8966]

@@uncletom1971 Yes THank you.

[@chrislaney930]

Crossfit Austria takes attendance way to seriously.

[@MartyInLa]

Wheel of Pain, hell, this looks like a paid vacation compared to the shit I have to do to put food on the table!

[@Axgoodofdunemaul]

This not for grinding wheat, it's a magic spell that drains the fighting strength of everyone chained to it -- except one.

[@robertlandin40]

The forging of will and body.....perfection

[@mrthomjonson]

3:08 when you go in for a high five and end up in some weird hand hug mess

[@Glori4n]

For those not familiar with Conan lore: Conan didn't actually ate the other Thralls, nor he killed them, it only took less time for them to be converted into Thralls. Conan took this long becuase he is Conan.

[@tamas_k]

his childhood was so much fun.

[@boomer2095]

I am sitting in my chair watching KZbin videos recovering after rupturing both my quad tendons right before thanksgiving 2020. You see Arnold’s legs and think if you just lift heavy and eat right you will get that big. Truth be told you have four muscles tied together connected by one tendon connected to your patella. My doctor says it is a miracle more powerlifter don’t tear their patella or quad tendons. I grew up watching Arnold and Stallone movies, but Arnold has stayed injury free compared to Stallone.

[@gnperdue]

Me, watching from my couch, eating snacks: “I bet that actually wouldn’t be a good way to get stronger”

[@vincentchang0093]

@four eleven forty-four lots children at beginning, only one live to the end.

[@powerofberzerker9487]

It will make you very strong. Any type of consistent work where you need strength will make you strong as nails. Edit: My dad never went to the gym but climbed trees as a lad and after that, worked his entire life in a mine. He still has incredible grip strength and all around physique.

[@wage7621]

@@powerofberzerker9487 it would make you strong if you were being fed properly. If not, you would probably be dead or disfigured from hard labour coupled with malnutrition.

[@powerofberzerker9487]

@@wage7621 Ofc, you gotta eat. In our country we eat food that's pretty strong, so, yeaah. He ate a lot.

[@xminord6580]

@@wage7621 he made the machine work with less slaves, it could be that his masters would give food the equivalent of the amount of slaves he replaced

[@lkgrave4959]

Meanwhile in Springfield, Lenny is asking Carl how the Donut Display spins.

[@Beardman29]

I was 14 when I saw this in a packed movie theater with my dad and little brother back in 1982. At the end of the scene, when the two men greet each other, my dad says out loud,"High five!" Nobody laughed except my brother and me.

[@uhtred7860]

Because kids are obliged to laugh at their old mans lame dad jokes. :-)

[@JohnA891]

Is your dad's name Borat by chance?

[@docnickmacaluso112]

Rogue Fitness built a real wheel of pain to use in strongman competitions. Martins Licis and Tom Stoltman are very good at it.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

You know, for a society with so few luxuries, their barbering & hair care is on _point._

[@Saturnia2014]

It's always a fun thought that Conan is also tied in with Lovecraft.

[@fierypandaofdoom]

To think a movie prop would turn into one of the most brutal strongman events. Amazing

[@farnwang7431]

This is one of the greatest plot in the movie that well explains why Conan has such great strength and determination. The sequels were just weak in this aspect. In the newest sequel, why Conan is so strong. Oh, because he happens to be a genius in martial arts. Cheap!

[@finegamingconnoisseur]

2:10 Great badass acting by Arnold there, can see the unquenchable fire burning in his eyes. It's probably what kept his character pushing the wheel day in and day out, from child to man. Goes really well with Conan's desire for vengeance against Thulsa Doom for the death of his parents and the destruction of his village.

[@skipper4126]

The wheel of pain goes round and round.. round and round, round and round!

[@machinist7230]

They now have a wheel of pain at the Arnold Classic as one of the strongman events.

[@samikasht5045]

That wheel of pain made of Conan the best Warrior of his time! Strong and tough!!!

[@brandenburg2388]

What a perfect way to create a super strong enemy who will come for you later on to take revenge. Feed him a high protein diet, make him do heavy muscle-building workouts for years, and then train him to fight like a professional in the ring.........

[@cizia69]

Perfect training for Californian politics

[@johnnymcblaze]

Really? So the wheel gets one ready to join the ruling party?

[@dudemanbroguy3464]

@@johnnymcblaze no, it’s just goes round and round without actually going anywhere

[@johnnymcblaze]

@@dudemanbroguy3464 It just blows my mind how far people will go to keep themselves in the dark.

[@deirdremorris9234]

Love the profile picture.

[@johnnymcblaze]

@Fred Wright It makes me think we need mandatory IQ testes in order to breed....

[@seanhayes9769]

After pushing the wheel for about 20 years he decided on a new career path and went and played bass for iron maiden

[@scottbert9556]

I'd stick with the wheel.

[@ஓம்நமதமிழ்]

Basil's Bgm score is phenomenal.

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

this as a grinding wheel for grain - normally pulled by livestock or streams of water to grind wheat into flour

[@Andrewcranky]

Actually, given the shape of the grinding pinions. I'm going to say olive oil. granaries tended to use flat stones grinding on top of flat stones.

[@crotalusatrox7931]

Arnold as Conan brought the classic books to life.

[@thiagomeloteixeira1195]

Essa cena eu carrego para minha vida, resiliência e perseverança.

[@RICKONORATO]

They should bring this wheel back. Good source of renewable energy...

[@fuffoon]

The wheel of pain. The tree of woe. The holy hand grenade.

[@criticalw88]

Conan could have exerted less force had he pushed further from the center. :)

[@HeLpLOstGOdAny1]

Sounds like Life of Brian

[@speculesgorgoth4055]

Smarty now make a comment on the physics chan's they need the lols

[@jonbeauchamp156]

Epic

[@flashkraft]

Yes but he would have ended up with less muscular arms but more muscular legs as he would have walked further.

[@organiccountrylife]

Hes a barbarian, he wasnt taught physics, but only push forward and fight what stands in front of you.

[@ChalkisPinball]

Director of the movie was once asked about the wheel of pain during an interview and he answered that is just a mean wheel in the middle of nowhere 🤣

[@AfaqueAhmed_]

Movie :- Wheel of Pain . Arnold :- Pain makes you a man .

[@thebiz5665]

I'm surprised that he was able to walk straight after 20 years of spinning

[@domlang4722]

lol!

[@luxthedopestar9073]

Yes exactly!

[@MusMasi]

💀

[@novakingood3788]

It's nice that they fit him with new trousers every so often as he grows.

[@1101millie97]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how we keep our rugby and (American) football players in shape.

[@Zvalgryn]

Damn that scene is sad as fuck. Hits yippy right in the feels watching those kids slowly disappear.

[@jeremypaluck4246]

Pretty much how I feel at work

[@killersalmon4359]

Those slavers really messed up by feeding Conan a high protein, high calorie diet, and giving him sufficient rest and recovery time to build a godlike physique. Otherwise, he would've slowly wasted away and died of caloric deficit, having been worked to death.

[@eneasanquises8426]

Its just a film

[@lewisdean22]

When he was finished he couldn't stand up straight for a year and couldn't turn right.

[@DaManBearPig]

lmao

[@FlyingSeaMan256]

lewisdean22 lol holy shit

[@mungo7136]

@@lewisdean22 And his left leg was slightly shorter as it balanced the shorted distance it walked every turn.

[@dontbeled]

Memories. I pushed one of those for years before I wised up and went back to school.

[@bodesbodes9408]

Amazon "employees" generating power for the web servers circa 2025.

[@gregrock7451]

Holy crap...I can still remember seeing this when it debuted on HBO...right after it's theatrical run...40 FRIGGIN' YEARS AGO. The early-to-mid '80s were a great time to be alive if you liked: 1. Movies taking place in post-apocalyptic wastelands. 2. Movies about seemingly invincible psychotic serial killers who slay horny teenagers/college kids/camp counselors. 3. Movies whose synopses include copious references to swords, wizards, barbarian hordes, quests, evil wizards, kings, and...you get the idea. Boris Vellejo was a very busy man during the '80s, no doubt.

[@Delicious1922]

Facts. I am SO GLAD I lived in the 80s! That was truly a magical era especially in the realm of movies.

[@johnnyfavorite1194]

Is that not one of cinema’s greatest passage of time transitions? 2:08

[@Lobos222]

Good example of; "Show, dont tell..."

[@stevenraycopley8885]

And here we see a historical recreation of our blessed Emperor of Mankind, prior to him ending the Age of Darkness

[@judithtrost9071]

Builds focus, commitment, and the powers of will!

[@marcremillard4052]

This is actual footage of me using Facebook Dating.

[@redstaplerguyforlifepastpr5763]

Lol!!

[@Matt-ur3dm]

The results are unbelievable. Imagine building one in your back garden and freaking out the neighbors

[@sw1000xg]

I'll bet these kids wished they'd stayed home playing mine craft.

[@kongthao9935]

Nah. Staying home was what got them here.

[@fulippuannaghiti1965]

Staying home playing mine craft makes you dumber, pushing the wheel of pain makes you a Mr Olympia

[@ericstaples7220]

Not a single word of dialog needed to be said. That's what makes this movie epic.

[@cizia69]

Hyborian arithmetic Considering that young Conan said the sentence "I'll be back" to the guardian 45 times every hour, and considering that he was pushing his wheel 8 hours and 30 minutes a day, minus food/pee breaks that took approximately 45 minutes of his day. Considering that he pushed his wheel for 12 years and 7 months, how many times did Conan said: "I'll be back"???

[@congojack2666]

Approximately 1,600,726 times

[@rustyshackleford9588]

He never rested, not like other men.

[@paulcolburn3855]

What I want to know is, what was the wheel drilling for in the earth? Oil? Gold? What? There had to be some functional purpose to drill that ground other than to make a slave boy the strongest man in the world.

[@oildalestar]

@@paulcolburn3855 used for grinding ore rock into powder to extract metals or minerals

[@barthoving2053]

@@paulcolburn3855 It's a mill not a drill. Of course why they use men instead of animals I cannot phantom. Maybe donkeys or mules are not in this universe. Or it's actually a trading place for slaves and they are put to work until they are sold. But the you wonder why Conan seems to be the last one left.

[@Fred-maurice]

Best movie ever made !

[@jordi1967]

Una de las mejores bandas sonoras...

[@leandrobego154]

They should put this in every gym around the world , great result !!!

[@TheRmm1976]

So Conan is badass enough to topple armies and cults, but it takes him 20 years to get off the chain gang?

[@justinchalifoux4424]

He had the mind of a Slave still. Took seeing a reminder of crow to snap him out of it

[@RogueReplicant]

It was only 13 years. If he was 12 when he started and 25 when he stopped.

[@MrClifford1976]

I was always shocked by that. This film is memorable, but it is a far cry from the Conan of Howard's stories. In them Conan would never have let himself be enslaved, even as a child.

[@js11238]

True strength of Conan - mindful meditation.

[@cizia69]

True story, they originally considered making him run inside a wheel and call him "Hamstan the barbarian"

[@barriechips]

Please don't stop. I need more puns.

[@ForeverYoungKickboxer]

False!

[@nesserlisou3771]

😂😂😂😂

[@David0lyle]

It sounds reasonable but I think the focus group didn’t like it.

[@nesserlisou3771]

Head Clan Cheif: ”Hammy Hamster the Hambabarian! Whats best in life!!?.” Hammy barbarian: ”Push Wheel and here the lementation of the cyber haters pussies will be Hammy food!!!.”

[@zzzzoom6387]

Proverbs 16:3✔️ Philippians 2:13✔️ Job 37:14✔️ Your achievements are a Sign of the times😉 They started Conan off young didn't they and all he wanted was to be free from the Wheel of Pain but he went through it got over it in All Seasons...YES..Wind whistling in all and as we can see in this clip he ended up by himself but that's ok sometimes it may take longer but we have to make things happen for ourselves and it builds strength that we desperately need😁..God wants us to depend on him for any and everything he wants us to give him our worries and cry to him..He has enough for All of us so don't worry you will receive your Blessings in Jesus Mighty name ✨ I LOVE YOU🙋🏾‍♀️

[@Babygirlly555]

That's great way to interpret this scene.