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Things I Don't Understand About Highlander

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I don't understand why any self-respecting wrestler would go up against the Fabulous Freebirds with Greg Gagne as a tag team partner. I mean, seriously? The guy had all the musculature of Clay Aiken.

Dude. Greg Gagne and Jumping Jim Brunzell was a hell of a tag-team back in the day. WTF are you talkin about?

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I should kill you. They killed Connor because Adrian Paul was younger, and effectively killed the entire series of films because he sucks. The series was mediocre at best.

And you know what, i should kill you. Christopher Lambert is awesome. Gunmen is a great film. And you know what else is great. Me fucking kill you.

I have a black and white of Christopher Lambert as the Highlander hanging from my wall - it depicts him just before his battle with the Kurgan, and fuck you.

ROFLMFAO :rofl:

Bring it on! There can be only one! :fencing:

I disagree about the tv series. Amanda was a great character. And Methos was the coolest immortal ever. There was some good vilains too : Callas, the guy who got his hand severed by Duncan and came back later angrier and even more evil for example.

The whole story arcs about the Watchers, especially with the evil watchers are the best of the series.

My favorite villain was Xavier St. Cloud.

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I've found the ultimate troll posting:

Highlander

Highlander: The Series

Let the gates of hell open and unleash its minions upon us all!!

I don't see any problem with this.

I'm apprehensive about the remake. Mainly because it has been said that it's being aimed at franchise material. I think the route they can go with it is really expanding the mythology. Not just about The Game and the Highlanders themselves, but the force of magic which does (or doesn't) govern The Game and how people around it are affected. And flashbacks, of course.

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So I finally watched the (only) Highlander movie the other week. I'd never actually seen the actual movie. I guess it's ok. My god, Lambert is a weird, weird actor, and seriously, the whole franchise would have gotten nowhere without the Queen soundtrack.

Now, for some reason, and despite having way, way better things to do, i'm rewatching the series - i've seen it in bits in pieces, but never the whole thing. I think theres several seasons i've never seen at all, and theres some episode featuring stolen paintings in france i've seen like 8 times, based on the whims of Ukrainian television.

Anyway...The series is also weird. Lambert is weird in episode 1. Adrian Paul is ridiculously pretty. It's such an odd show, for a tv show, all totally irony free grand Romanticism. Death! True Love! Destiny! Grief! It's got no other register. Can't seem to stop watching.

I actually started rewatching Highlade some time ago but my friends didn't like it so we stopped :(

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I know it's got some stuff in later seasons that's fairly well regarded, and it's not bad, and it's not even dated too badly (it's 20 years old. Twenty.) It's just got this very odd sort of voice for, y'know, a sci fi tv show. Other stuff that was around is, like, X-men and Star Trek and here you have this kind of European aesthetic with the unironic emotionality and sexuality (Like, 4 sex scenes in episode one) and the whole bizarre set up (WHY? WHY can there only be one?) really blatantly there just so they can have the imagery and the angst. It doesn't really have a plot, it's just...character porn.

Ironically, when doing the abovementioned Highlander re-watch it was the first time I really got a sense that A) The 90's had a separate, distinct aestethic of their own and B) This aesthethic is no longer "current".

Highlander is just so very, very 90's.

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God I have to watch this series again. But every time I even remotely feel the urge I remember Spoony's reviews and Bruce Payne's infamous line and keep my money in my pocket.

If I were to watch them though, I'd skip to Endgame and The Source. Everything else seems merely middling. Those movies are hilarious.

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The director gives me some hope for the remake of Highlander. I loved 28 Weeks Later, one of my all time favorite movies. And it cemented Jeremy Renner into his role as military badass.

Who knows? Maybe this will break Ryan Reynolds free from his roles of sucking ass.

Dream Theater should do the soundtrack to this one--I am sure at some point in their careers they could have passed for Queen.

I also think this is a movie that could benefit from a reboot. The first movie is great as is, but since it never had any sequels or anything (except maybe Beowulf starring Lambert, that might've been a sequel...), a reboot could do some cool things. Like remember the first immortal Connor fights in Highlander? It's like some old guy in white sneakers. They could develop a core group of badass immortals that Connor has to fight. Who don't wear white sneakers. White sneakers just don't scream "IMMORTAL BADASS ON THE LOOSE!" like they did in the 90s.

You've seen things - horrible things... How do you sleep at night, when you keep seeing those things in your head?

You know this whole thread is like an HP Lovecraft story...something horrible is being hinted at but I can't ever make out what the hell it is.

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Ryan Reynolds has never been a bad actor (he's been fucked on some projects, like Origins), but I just feel like I went to sleep with him as the guy from Waiting and woke up to find that he was apparently an action star. I don't know if he dropped off my radar or Hollywood just decided that they needed a leading man and decided he was a star all of a sudden, but it's weird.

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As far as I can tell he was Van Wilder, then "Hey do this Applebees movie and be Van Wilder!" and then "be in a Blade sequel but act like Van Wilder" to "Dude, be Van Wilder in a Costco; you get to snog Jessica Simpson" and "would you like to star in Green Lantern? Yeah? Make sure you're like, Van Wilder and stuff." etc.

I was pleasantly surprised that in the safe house movie there was no trace of Van fucking Wilder.

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Ryan Reynolds is a good actor with great screen presence who apparently can't pick a decent script to save his life.

Someone desperately needs to save him from the shit movies he keeps deciding to appear in.

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I never saw the movie. The other night Mrs Ix and I tried to watch it. We probably made it 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through before going to sleep. I don't think we are going to finish the movie but we'll see. So, yeah. Don't really see a need for me to go any further into the Highlander world.

Christopher Lambert's performance was best summed up by Mrs Ix: "Why does he look so confused? Is that how he always looks or was he directed to look that way, in every single scene?" I didn't have an answer. Then she asked what other movies starred Christopher Lambert. I didn't have an answer to that, either.

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