Highlander

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Damn, only seen this topic now, if you can believe it.

Loved the original Highlander movie. One of my top ten without a doubt. Of course, the second one totally ruined the story-line. (I have refused to watch it on principle, even though I know what happens.)

The third wasn't that bad, (apart from the fact that the Gathering was supposed to end it all ) and I haven't gotten around to watching EndGame yet. Has anyone? And is it worth it?

Thoroughly enjoyed the series, but, again as Tom said, what the hell? Did they ever address the problem caused by continuing it after the Gathering? If they did ever offer some explanation for that, (and the second movie, omg!) I missed it.

Being a collector of knives and swords, and a one-time fencer, it's perhaps no wonder that I enjoyed it, and continue to, regardless of the ridiculous inconsistencies.

In terms of the series, my favourite character was definitely Methos.

Didn't know that the series were out on DVD, I'll have to see if I can find them out here.

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[Alynna Lis Eachann]

As you have saved yourself from Highlander 2, save yourself also from Endgame. In addition to being done like a two-part episode (really, why did I drive an hour to a theatre to see that?) it is so much worse than H2 because the alternate ending of Endgame actually made the movie worse, where the alternate version of H2 made it tolerable. I own director's cuts of the first three movies on tape, but I simply will not waste my money on this one. It was not worth it.

There was talk of a fifth movie called Highlander: The Source, but I doubt there's a market for it, except maybe for direct-to-dvd.

[Fist and Faith]

At least Endgame has one of the best fight scenes of all the movies and series, when Duncan takes on all those guys. MAN, he's hell on wheels!

Plotwise... Well, there were some difficulties. heh Still, I prefer it to either II or III. II is, without question, the worst sequel in movie history. To go from something as good as the original movie to something that bad is an accomplishment, of sorts. Not even Temple of Doom is as bad.


Av, I just try to think of the series as a different take on the whole idea. The first movie is complete in itself. Then, they said, "What if things happened this way?" It helps.

[ChoChiyo]

Highlander II???? I think you are all victims of a mass hallucination. There was no Highlander II. Zeist is a figment of a fever dream.

*denial, denial, denial*

It's not just a River In Egypt anymore!

For the fans that I was closely affiliated with for some time, Highlander the original movie and Highlander the TV series existed in alternate universes--like Superman and Bizzarro superman.

Heh heh.

I never liked the concept of "There can be ONLY ONE."

I was hoping that would be revealed as a fallacy. But the writers seemed to have taken up smoking crack at the end of the fifth season and moved on to injecting heroin and LSD cocktails for the sixth.

It's the only explanation that makes any sense to me.

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Highlander II???? I think you are all victims of a mass hallucination. There was no Highlander II. Zeist is a figment of a fever dream.

LOL, that's the point of the the director's cut... there is, indeed, no Zeist. Turns out much better than the regular version. Still bad, but a cheesy, b-movie sort of bad rather than a horrible bad.

Not even Temple of Doom is as bad.

Hey, I liked Temple!

... wait, I'm beginning to see a pattern.

I think I like bad sequels to 80s movies.

I saw every episode of Highlander, usually as it aired. Every one... until season six. It was painful. Horrible... horrible like the last season of E:FC was horrible.

[ChoChiyo]

I saw every episode of Highlander, usually as it aired. Every one... until season six. It was painful. Horrible... horrible like the last season of E:FC was horrible.

Crack. Heroin. LSD. The only answer that makes sense.

And perhaps prodigious amounts of twinkie scarfing. Bound to have an effect.

[Khat]

That's NEAT! Wish you could share that with us Cho!

Oh -- and I always like a guy who can fight in a kilt.

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Av, I just try to think of the series as a different take on the whole idea. The first movie is complete in itself. Then, they said, "What if things happened this way?" It helps.

Yeah, that's pretty much the way I've looked at it. Sad really. If they'd left the first movie's ending open, they could have carried on, but its as though they were so surprised by the positive reaction, that they went insane, (or as Cho would have it, started doing vast quantities of mind-altering drugs) and tried to push it as far as they could.

If I remember the third one, they just pretended that II never happened. I'll watch EndGame eventually, maybe when I'm bored and there's nothing better to rent, since I can't imagine them doing anything worse than II to the story-line.

I really liked the TV series, as far as I saw it anyway, which was probably only up to season 4 or so, and as Fist and Cho say, easier to pretend that the series is just completely unrelated to the movie. Damn! So much potential just wasted.

(P.S I liked Temple of Doom too!)

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