Why They Can't They Leave Highlander Alone!!

Discussion in 'Misc. Films' started by WeaponZ2, Apr 30, 2006.

  1. WeaponZ2 Guest

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    The first movie was cool everything after that was bad but that animation is nice.
     
  3. The Question Objectivism doesn't work.

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    ......what the **** to spider legged machine gun toting robots have to do with Hilander? Also, there wasn't any Queen music, so the trailer (and thus by nature of relation the film) is dead to me.
     
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    Personally, that looked kickass...
     
  5. WeaponZ2 Guest

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    But its not Highlander.....I mean, Colin MacLeod?
     
  6. Immortalfire In the pale moonlight

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    Rather watch the show.
     
  7. guitarsingerguy Who am I?

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    Just like Duncan MacLeod.
     
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    I hate to be the one to break it to some of you, but the original Highlander wasn't that great a film to begin with. It was ok, and that's about it.
     
  9. Stringer CHAMPS AGAIN!

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    I guess the only route left for the series to take is anime.
     
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    Hahaha, Highlander. There can be only one.
    ******s. :rolleyes:
     
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    First was great (Queen also made awesome soundtrack), but sequels were bad.
     
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    Ugh....Animation was cool....but that's not highlander. For Christ's sake...he doesn't even have the right sword!!!
     
  13. Movies205 Corporate Money

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    I been waiting for a decent Highlander remake for like ever :(
     
  14. Kevin Roegele Do you mind if I don't?

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    Why?!

    The movie only came out in 1985. It's not like it's King Kong.
     
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    Well this sure as hell isn't it. :mad:
     
  16. Dr. Fate Registered

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    That's about the size of it.
     
  17. Kevin Roegele Do you mind if I don't?

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    Making sequels to Highlander was the ultimate silly decision. Why did the producers, director, someone, anyone say, " Hold it....a sequel will ruin the original. The original ends the story, MacLeod is the one. But he's lived for thousands of years, so we can make movies set anytime between Connor's birth and 1985. Or, without Connor, we can do it with Ramirez, or make up immortals."

    Imagine, if you will, a trilogy made backwards...Highlander in 1985, the middle movie in 1991 (instead of Highlander II) and the start of the trilogy in 1994 (instead of Highlander III). Think of all the stuff you could have....samurai, world wars, musketeers, Spanish civil war, pirates, you could go Last of the Mohicans....they could have done anything.
     
  18. tzarinna Mamochka

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    Link wouldn't work for me. But I suppose it would be nice to relive Highlander. I really miss the TV show,too.
     
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    Thats what I always thought.
     
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    That reminds me there was a sequence cut from the film showing Connor saving Rachel back in WW2.
    I personaly think that would be a great movie in its own.
    Highlander v.s Nazis.
     
  21. cryptic name No Limits

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    connor was only alive for 400 years. "i am connor macleod of the clan macleod. i've lived for nearly 4 centuries and i cannot die..." and so on and so forth. but your trilogy idea still works.
     
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    A remake should remake something that had a good concept but was poorly executed. I know you love Highlander but it's merely a mediocre movie plastered with the 80s. It'd be cool if someone with some vision took the property and completely reworked the idea. Like just take the core concept there there are these immortals who walk the earth and they are fighting each other for a grand prize they don't know, but forget everything else and start all over again. Just my two-cents... I think that'd be cool because you wouldn't be ****ting on fans of the original highlander because it something completely different, and you'd actually be introducing something new to the general public.
     
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    I would say that the original Highlander was above mediocre. It was an enjoyable popcorn flick, but it wasn't really groundbreaking. A nice cult film.

    From what I saw of HL2, it didn't really make much sense or interest me. I never saw HL3, though it looked like it might be better than 2. Watched a little of HLE, but it didn't do much for me either.

    Also, I never really got into the Highlander TV shows. I'm not much of an Adrian Paul fan. I preferred Christopher Lambert.

    So, I said all that, to say this. I think Highlander could be remade or reimagined because the concept is a good one, but the execution has been haphazard.

    Now, with the virtue of hindsight, somebody with talent and vision could go back and redo the HL saga and make it cogent.

    The old fans would still have the original movies and TV shows, but new fans might be able to get into HL without worrying about the muddled mythology and baggage.
     
  24. Movies205 Corporate Money

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    Why must it be a saga? Simply make one damn good movie and leave it at that, the concept is "There can only be one!" am I correct? It's completely ******ed to have sequals.
     
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    I hear that.

    Woe the Highlander, woe.
     

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