Conan is too violent and too adult to be considered as "proper" fantasy film by bien pensants that make critics' establishment. This isn't new, BTW. I remember how in 1980s critic in my home town's newspaper lambasted his colleague that had dared to give Conan the Barbarian positive review
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wow... thanks for the introspective and I suppose it makes sense. Especially considering the time period it was an extremely graphic film.
They toned it down in the 2nd one but by doing so they failed to attract a new audience and chased away the one that they had already established. I remember reading that Conan was originally meant to be a long-standing series or at the minimum a trilogy but when Conan the Destroyer did so poorly, they scrapped the whole idea.