How come they can't fight on holy ground? Why do aliens

I've never seen Highlander, is it actually good or is it memes?

>>81494298
Just watch the first one everything else is trash

>>81494261
It's unexplained. It's sci-fi. Use your imagination to invent a reason.

Perhaps the aliens know more about the universe than we do and things like "holy ground" in the minds of intelligent beings are more than mere concepts in the grand scheme of things.

>>81494261
Highlander 2 doesn't exist. I don't know what the fuck you're talking about

Highlander 2 is NOT CANON. Please stop this thread and delete all posts about aliens RIGHT NOW.

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>>81494261
>aliens
I see what you're doing, cut that shit out.

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ywn kill macleod and take over his 80's apartment

They actually explained this. All aliens on Ziest have immense respect for the religions of all planets.

It's best to just ignore absolutely everything else in the Highlander franchise.

The first is the only to exist.

>>81494261

They're not aliens, they're ancient extradimensional beings. Watch the Renegade Cut.

>>81494327
The series is better than the movie, any of them. True tvkino.

>>81494261
>How come they can't fight on holy ground?

It would be very rude

>>81494261
Watching old Spoony again?

>>81494261
>>81494350
>>81494368
>>81494373
>>81494469
They even removed references to them being aliens in later editions, so fuck off, OP.

>>81494298
The first movie is worth watching. Don't bother with anything else.

>>81494298
The TV series was good, and expands the universe in good ways. The concept is so good that it would be wasted on a single movie.

I also liked Endgame. You get Duncan and Connor in one movie, and the story ties things together well.

>>81494261

Bait aside, holy ground is a no-fight zone for the same reason there's "base" when you're playing tag, or guest right in Game of Thrones.

If you can't have a neutral zone where you can discuss shit without fear of getting murdered, it would just be a fucking free for all.

>>81495132
what if you are an atheist? Then what?

>>81494336
>It's unexplained. It's sci-fi. Use your imagination to invent a reason.
It isn't unexplained, they do get into it, it ties into leylines. I think the one with Mario van Peebles really got into it but it was explored in the show too.

>>81495132
Isn't that was the story is about? A free for all?

You probably don't experience The Quickening if you kill another immortal on holy ground.

I don't know, it's immortal magic.

>>81495259
It's alien magic, get it right!

>>81495210
well there you go

>can't fight on holy ground
>Jesus cast out money changers out of churches essentially flipping their tables and punching them

Jesus can fight on holy ground. Immortals can't.

>>81494261
Because DEUS VULT
>>81494298
It's OK, felt the rape and the death of the nigger were out of place

>>81495242

it's also kind of a sport so it's more fun to have some set rules

Highlander is actually about aliens?

A better question is: what happens if an immortal gets their head chopped off by someone who isn't an immortal?

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>>81494261

Holy fuck, what a bunch of Highlander casuals in this thread.

They explained the holy ground thing in Highlander the Series. Joe tells Duncan that the only recorded instance of someone taking a head on holy ground was in a temple in Pompeii in AD 79.

So apparently taking a head on holy ground obliterates the fuck out of everything.

Why the fuck did they get a person that couldn't speak English to be the main character as a Scotsman? And then they cast Connery as an Egyptian or something.

The cartoon was fun, weird af but fun.

>>81495543

This was answered in Highlander: the Raven.

There is still a quickening event with lightning and shit, but it's wasted if no immortals is in proximity.

>>81495049
This, the series was goat, pretty fun to watch until the post France season

>>81495549
I remember people being killed in the 4 movie in a cementery or something but I'm not sure

>>81495367
Sorta? Think multidimensional beings with infinite reality-warping abilities, so I guess you could call them aliens.
>>81495543
All the energy just goes back to where it came from

>>81495242
No. The Immortals are supposed to be warriors with honor, not mad men. That's why the Kurgan was so feared. They were all fucking around but he was actually trying to win.

Highlander: The Source implies nothing happens, it's just a respect thing. Which really shits all over the scene in the first one where the Kurgan tells MacCleod he raped his woman and Connor doesn't rip his fucking head off. Although I wouldn't take much in terms of canon from Source
youtube.com/watch?v=DvS1BdiVC7o

>>81495746

The Source is non-canon as fuck.

The Series says the only recorded instance of a head being taken on holy ground caused the destruction of Pompeii.

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The only decent followup to the first Highlander movie is 'The One'

>>81494558

There Can Only Be One.

Alright, Highlander reboot idea
>first of all, scrap everything but the first movie from canon
>Conner Macleod, since he can now grow old and star a family, has done exactly that
>he is now on his deathbed
>his son is called to let him know his father won't last the night, so he gets in his car and rushes to the hospital
>along the way he gets in a car crash and dies
>but it's his first death, as he was set to be an immortal
>you see the whole allowing you to age part of the prize was a safeguard to protect from someone like the Kurgan getting it, as he would eventually relinquish it when he died
>this allows for a new fight for the prize
>through blind fate or luck, Conner does not die before his son
>this means since he is no longer the only one, he is immortal again
>though still old, he is now healthy again, and can essentially play the Ramirez role for his son

So, good starting idea, or complete dog shit?

>>81495677
It was a Sanctuary for immortals who didn't want to fight anymore. In the third one Mario Van Peebers kills a holy man on holy ground and gets super powers.

>>81494569
That's not much better. Best to ignore all versions of Highlander 2.

>>81497788
too complicated. you need like half a film for exposition alone.

the whole thing just needs to be rebooted with new actors, otherwise it becomes a mess.

>general Katana from planet Zeist

Late 80s and early 90s was such a weird time where a lot of crazy shit got into movies because everyone was trying to impress the MTV generation by doing outrageous gnarly shit.

>>81498076
I think you could accomplish it by having some other immortal show up and say he had a "vision" when he died and needed to deliver a message to Conner. Then then he just gives an exposition dump about all of the stuffin his vision. Have it be a narration over the scene of him dieing in some interesting way so it's not boring and I think it'd be fine.

Highlander is a weird franchise because they really only have one finite story to tell which each installment tries to get around and it just keeps getting more and more retarded.

>>81498250

It's because the concept is so appealing.

The opening scene in H1 has it all.
Two intense modern-day dudes with swords duking it out in a parking lot because of some odd unexplained rules. The dudes are intense and there's no banter.

All you need is there.

>>81494261
Highlander 2 is not Canon, at least the theatrical version.

>>81498336

I've never really understood why they don't just try making prequel movies. Surely you could come up with some sort of bullshit storyline where the bad guy is trying to cheat the game somehow? Yet they keep going back to the idea that it has to be as much of a rehash of the first movie in one form or another.

>>81498130
>Highlander II: The Quickening
>Plot Synopsis
>In August 1995, news broadcasts announce that the ozone layer is fading, and will be completely gone in a matter of months. In Africa, millions have perished from the effects of unfiltered sunlight. Among the dead is Connor MacLeod’s wife, Brenda Wyatt MacLeod. Before dying, Brenda extracts a promise from Connor that he will solve the problem of the ozone layer.

what in the actual fuck lmao

>>81494261
The most noteworthy thing about this movie is that they cast a Frenchman to play a Scottish guy.
And a Scottish guy to play a Spanish.

>>81499060
i thought he was egyptian?

>>81499072
That's just Pablo pretending to be KANGZ

highlander is one of the few movies i'd like to see get a reboot if it was actually done right

>First Highlander
>Good

It's like watching the stage effects from every single 80's concert Cher and Kiss played put together

>>81499167

>Cory Yuen martial arts choreographer
>Gerard Butler as Macleod
>Kevin Durand as The Kurgan

>>81499449

Clancy Brown saves it with all his adlibbing, of which there was apparently a lot.

>>81499575
>Gerard Butler as Macleod

I thought it was meant to be GOOD.

>>81495202
How can you be aethist if you're an immortal who is unable to die by normal means, defying science and nature?

>>81499631

I just want an actual Scotsman to play the Highlander, and it's a damn sight better than RYAN REYNOLDS

>>81499672

Easy, it means -I'M'- God, and all other ones are false.

>>81499449
aye blossom

>>81499797

There's always Michael Fassbender

>>81500225

Yeah but he doesn't yell as awesome as Butler does, plus he's a fairy.

>>81499672

>signature look includes trenchcoat and katana
>theist

Highlander proves Celts are the Master race.

>>81494298
first is epic

rest are trash, but still great
2nd cyberpunk
3rd is shadowruny (with magic)

>>81494584
nah, Lamas is shit ... also endless number of this immortal race?

>>81500238
Butler would make a better villain than a lead in the film and would play well off Fassbender being slightly more meek. Throw Tom Hiddleston in as another immortal and Idris Elba in the older than dirt mentor role, and you have a pretty good seller, but the budget for actors alone would be bloated.

>>81500456

I laughed but fuck you.

>>81500468
Yeah, I deserve that...

>there are people on this planet who do not FUCKING LOVE Highlander 1.

How is that even possible?

>>81495286
It's a kind of magic.

>>81500693
By the princes of the universe.

>>81494327
The first one isn't that great.

Like, it's fun, it's got a cool sound track, but it's also kind of kitsch.

Don't get me wrong I like it, it's just not exactly a cinematic masterpiece.

Were Allah (swt) and Muhammad (pbuh) Immortals?

>>81500304
>3rd is shadowruny (with magic)

Doesn't shadowrun already have magic?

>>81500304
2nd is unwatchable (haven't seen the "renegade version" though)

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>>81499167
>highlander is one of the few movies i'd like to see get a reboot if it was actually done right

I don't want a reboot of Highlander. I think the original still holds up.

Also, I can't imagine a proper Highlander film without a Queen soundtrack.

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There is nothing wrong with the Highlander franchise.

Also, pic related, thanks for this thread, I needed something new to (re)watch.

Anyone remember that French cartoon version of the Highlander? Some kind of weird dystopian/post-apocalyptic science fiction.

Scotsmen are aliens?

>>81502077

No. Highlander 2 isn't canon.

>>81494261
They weren't intended to be aliens in the first one, it was supposed to be a supernatural thing, hence why the holy ground thing made sense

>>81502224

Why would a psycho like the Kurgan abide by these ruies? Who or enforces them?

>>81502431

It's never disclosed. All that is said about it is that it's the one rule that no Immortal will violate.

>>81502224
>>81502431
>>81502515
Eeeeh wasn't there a special cut of II that retconned the retarded alien scenes into scenes from a long lost technological civilizations form Earth's deep past?

>>81502146

Then where did Scotland come from?

>>81500751
Your input is shit. Shut the fuck up and kill yourself, no one cares.

>>81502582

Earth?

HEEEEEERE WE ARE

>>81500751
>but it's also kind of kitsch.

You use that word like it's a meant to be a negative.

>>81502671

BORN TO BE KANGZ

>>81501993
yep, was actually good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVQqXO9h2TU

>>81494615
>Later editions
>Implying they exist.

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Which one?

>>81494261
>Highlander 2
>canon

Literally every follow-up cancelled that garbage out entirely.

In Highlander 3, Connor's and Van Peebles' swords broke while fighting in church. In Search for Vengeance, Colin got struck by lightning for drawing his sword in Stonehenge.

Not sure about the series. Always hated Adrian Paul.

>>81503368
>Not sure about the series.

Also not canon. The original film ends with Connor obtaining the prize. The series continues as though the game is still going on and that the events of the original film didn't end with Connor and the Kurgan being the last two Immortals.

And I always enjoyed the series despite it's lack of canonicity to the film. Just like Stargate and Stargate: SG1.

What's the one where he rapes his wife? What the fuck is the go with that, like surely being immortal you could just wait 40years or better yet go fuck some other slut. Seriously ridiculous.

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I fucking love Highlander but never seen the sequels. Nor will I ever. Not heard a single good thing about them and most people say they almost ruin the first movie. So I'll stay in comfortable bliss and pretend only the first one exist.

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>>81494327
the tv series was kino

https://youtu.be/Ze58HhMlObk

>>81494336
If we only take into account Highlander 1 then I always just assumed there wasn't anything special about holy ground per se, it was just a mutual agreement made centuries ago by all the immortals and was stuck to.

>>81503635
Highlander II, while dumb as fuck and fucking up the continuity and lore, is a damn entertaining movie. The most memorable scenes in the franchise are in it.

>>81500773
Nah that shit is so overdone in similar franchises. I think in Highlander the immortals are just random dudes duking it out through time and not every single important person ever.

>>81503635
The only decent follow up was the anime, which did the smart thing and put it in a separate timeline.

I also heard the western animated series was alright, too, and took another smart approach. The main character of that was Connor's grandson, and the game started again the day Connor died of old age.

>>81503635
3 was okay.

It's not great, nor does it help strengthen the franchise, but it was the most fun. Nobody took anything seriously in that movie. Mario Van Peebles hammed it up and the obligatory sex scene was fantastic.

12 year old me loved it. Had wear marks on the VHS and everything.

>>81503718

3 is basically a remake of 1 and yeah I enjoy it a lot too, especially the illusionist schtick and Peebles is indeed a great villain

>>81503646
the Watchers were shit and brought it down imho

>>81503688

fucking asscreed

>>81494298
The first film and a lot of the TV series are good.

So what would happen if the Kurgan had killed McCloud anyway? McCloud was warned that an age of darkness would fall upon the earth but considering the pretty meagre powers granted to him I find that a bit hard to believe, especially since the Kurgan would have become mortal and killable by anyone at that point.

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>>81503753
>tfw they filmed a reunion episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXrvxBvr1Cs

>>81503846
fug I didn't know about this

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>>81503754
>tesla was an assassin
>edison was a templar

At that point I just sighed mentally

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>>81503813
Read somewhere that the Prize was whatever you wanted. Connor wanted to grow old and die with a woman he loved. Kurgan wanted the world.

Interesting, Search For Vengeance's Marcus Octavius was a lot smarter. He didn't give a shit about the prize, and instead ignored the Quickening, used his own immortality for personal gain, influence, and overall power, and ruled with an iron fist. Colin always showed up to dismantle it all, but that just gave Marcus the opportunity and thrill of building it back up again, along with giving him the chance to gloat over his old enemy.

>>81500456
>Butler as the villain
Yes.
Though I'd enjoy Thomas Jane as Macleod if he could do the accent right.

>>81503919
Jane's not that good an actor, but then neither was Lambert. They look really similar, too.

>>81503884

makes sense tbqh

>>81503943
Pretty much. And I agree that Jane isn't that great, but for some reason I really like him.

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>>81503943
>Jane's not that good an actor

What is The Mist?

>>81503986
Just because they are both famous and enemies it doesnt make sense that they are templar and assassin.

>>81504036
A less than stellar performance.

He's likable, but he's hardly great.

>>81504051
He is an objectively good actor.

>>81503906
Yeah but if all Connor wanted was to grow old and die with a woman he loved then he wouldn't have been given the additional powers of being able to read the mind of anyone across the world.

>>81504127
you a faggot nash?

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>>81504159

>>81499672
There's nothing unscientific or unnatural about immortality. We know of a number of species that, by our best estimates, are immortal barring being intentionally killed.

>>81499575
Use a true immortal, such as Keanu Reeves

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>>81495323

conor's cousin (?) who turned on him was such a cunt. so was his girlfriend.

>>81495323
It is one thing to forgive a slap across my cheek, but an insult to the Lord requires... no, it demands correction.

>>81504149
Alright, he wanted to grow old and die with a woman he loved and never have to get into a fight with her.

>>81495202
It's not dependent on the immortals' belief systems, dumbass. If it's an artificially built religious sanctuary, then it's off limits.

>>81494298
Highlander is one of those movies that are just right in every single way.

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>this cunt

>>81504587

>you can turn people into immortals

What a load of horseshit that was.

>>81499672
Because no religion describes this brand of immortality?

>>81495347
>It's OK, felt the rape and the death of the nigger were out of place

The Kurgan was a confirmed sexual deviant who killed immortals. It wasn't out of place. Hell, if he chose not to take those opportunities, then it would've been out of character.

They send one of yours to the Luthor you run one of theirs through with a sword

>>81494298

The flashback parts are goat the present stufg is a little hyper 80s but its still good

I just remembered that sword really was folded over 200 times.

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>>81495323
>Jew temples count as holy ground.

>>81504975
Does something count as holy as long as even one person believes it's holy? Does the site of a temple that's now a ruin nobody worships in still count as holy?

>>81505008
My guess is if it's intentionally built as some kind of sacred structure meant for religious rites, then it's holy ground. Only time in the franchise where an act of violence was attempted in a ruin was when Colin MacLeod swung his sword in Stonehenge.

>>81505054
I'd just like to see if the Church of Scientology worked.

>>81503635
Have you seen the series?

>>81505130
Does Scientology actually worship anything? From what I've gathered they see themselves as individual gods.

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I really liked this.

>>81505166
Not every religion is about worship, look at Buddhism. It's about reaching personal enlightenment, not sucking Buddha's dick.

>>81505008
Did the series or the first movie show any one taking refuge anywhere but a Christian place?

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>>81505182
Best villain in the franchise, with Kurgan being a close second.

Would've loved to see Marcus and Kurgan against each other. They were practically opposites.

>>81505207
The anime movie had pagan stone circles.

>>81505204
>builds countless statues, at times made of solid gold, of Siddhartha Gautama
>not sucking Buddha's dick

Sure, they're about enlightenment, but they worship the fuck out of Buddha, whether they claim to or not.

>>81505236
Loved his psycho Japanese waifu too.

>>81495242
It's only a free for all at the end.
Until then, they just lived as they saw fit, but there was still nothing stopping people like the Kurgan declaring open season.
That's why there needed to be a sanctuary

>>81502431
Given that literally anyone who knows who he is would probably want him dead, he's got more reason than anyone to make sure people respect Holy ground.

>>81506745
That's implying Kurgan doesn't welcome every challenge to come his way.

>>81506804
He'd welcome a fight, but not being murdered in his sleep.

>>81507006
>implying he sleeps instead of being stoked up on cocaine all the time
Do you even into immortality?

>>81507050

>Implying cocaine as a narcotic existed for the majority of his lifetime

>>81507088
Stop criticizing my ideas!

>>81503760
>a lot of the TV series are good.
No.

>>81504232
Like wich ones

>>81507327

arctic clams, types of lobster, bowhead whale

>>81494261
maybe it isn't an earth religion... ever think about that?

>>81507376
None of those is proved to actually be more than 510 years.

>>81494298
Second one is great, first one is ok. rest are shit.

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>>81495549
I was just about to post this!

>>81494298
>Kino
Highlander
Highlander the series

>Okay
Highlander : Endgame
Highlander 3

>Meh
Highlander : the raven
Highlander the cartoon

>bad
Highlander 2 no matter which of the 3 versions cut of it you're watching

>terrible
Highlander : The source

>>81498953
The movie barely even touches on the why, how, when and what of that fucking ozone shit. It's so incoherent.

>>81501031
>Freddie Mercury already has his belt undone
Is this why Lambert is such a quiet man? PTSD from being raped by a pop star?

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>mfw used to love watching Highlander 2 as a kid
>check the internet years later
>imdb score 4.1/10
>everyone hates it on /tv/
>mfw still like it

>>81507790

His belt isn't undone. It's just really long and the end hangs down.

>>81505236
>Best villain in the franchise, with Kurgan being a close second.
Get fucked and fuck off back to >>>/a/

>>81507050
Wouldn't his regenerative abilities mean drugs have limited effects on him?

>>81507893
Connnor got good and drunk in 1783.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaVEGgsvM7o

>>81494261
If they do so, LITERALLY god interferes with a lightning bolt to remind them. It happens in Highlander 3 which is the only true canon thing in the franchise

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who were the GOAT highlander immortals

>>81508039
The guy Connor fights in the parking hall, he wore shades in the dark and did cool flip flops for absolutely no reason.

>>81508154
>parking hall
The fuck? Where the hell are you from?

>>81500456
>but the budget for actors alone would be bloated
Are any of them in financial duress? If they are fans, they might take a cut to get the thing going. A man can dream.

>>81502582
Irish migration to Scotland during the Migration Period. 'Scoti' is the Roman name for Irish (Ireland being a Germanic corruption of Erinn), and the term Scotia was used to refer to the Gaelic speaking areas in the Highlands, then later for the whole kingdom.

>>81494298
If you're a Queen fan you'll like the first one

>>81509349
Not an English speaking country, what should I call it? Carhole?

>>81507730
Is the anime any good?
All I know about it is this video, and that it's directed by the Ninja Scroll guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OatAcPIyPyg

>>81511366
It's the 2nd best Highlander movie.

>>81500621
Some folks are just human garbage, beyond any redemption.

>>81500621
>>81511834
Maybe they don't have any loved ones so they want to live forever?

>>81494298
Everything after the first movie is utter shit, just watch spoony's reviews or something

>>81512023

Fuck off Spoony.

>>81512233
Are you saying they aren't decent breakdowns of everything wrong with everything after 1?

>>81512023
Is spoony the dogfucker autist?

>>81512298

I'm saying YEAR OF SPOONY

>>81500751
lmao how old are you kiddo.

That shit was the height of class and style at the time. Just like how Queen was the best band in the world.

>>81495698
>not mad men.

top kek, this is the only time i've seen this used out of context since the tv show

>>81510960
Motormobile Haus

SHOULD I WATCH THE FIRST ONE

>>81512933
It's the only one worth watching

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>>81512933

Yes, do it for Clancy.

>>81503813
>pretty meagre powers
Did you miss the part where Conner screamed I KNOW EVERYTHING I AM EVERYTHING over and over?

Kurgan would have told the Americans about Soviet nuclear secrets and vice versa.

>>81501031
>Now now Cwisstopher... let's not turn this wape into a beheading.

>>81513198

Freddie Mercury talked like Elmer Fudd?

>>81512933

YES. You need me to tell you to whipe your ass too? Christ, fucking normies on this board.

You can't make a sequel to Highlander, just make a series of prequels where each movie focuses on a different age of man starting with Sumeria all the way through egyptian, roman, charlemagne, viking, etc, etc

>>81513273
I heard Mike Tyson.

>>81494298
here we are
born to be kings
we're the princes of the uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuniverse

>>81513345

That's good too.

>>81513371

I'm almost scared to go looking for covers of this song.

>>81505008
Holy ground is consecrated ground that has been specifically blessed by a religious leader. Like most churches are built on blessed ground. Even if the church is removed and something else is built there the ground remains consecrated.

>>81513371
>HEEAH WE IZ
>WE WUZ KANGS
>WE DA PWINCES O DA YOU-NAH-BUZZ
>WE GONNA 187 U IMMORTAL ASS WIRE BOI

why didn't some people just hole up in a monastery or something? no one could fuck with you, and some of them do martial arts and sheet so you could even practice sword fighting for if you ever wanted to leave.

further i'm sure after you stayed there for a few hundred years they would figure god bestowed some miracle on you for being so devout. you would be top dog. and could live forever. seems better then watching your back all the time getting into sword fights to the death no?

I mean i am sure i would get sick of it and leave sooner or later but i would prolly spend a few hundred years fucking around in some buddist temple learning to tie rocks to my nuts and all that.

>>81513835
>why didn't some people just hole up in a monastery or something?

If you're regarding the original film, some probably did for a long while. But when the Quickening happened, all Immortals were drawn out, probably by some kind of insatiable compulsion, to where the Quickening was to take place.

If you're going by the TVshow, there were a lot of Immortals, including Connor, who did this to pretty much escape life and were rendered comatose. But they were all killed by an Immortal who didn't give a shit about the holy ground rule and was out on a revenge trip on Connor.

>>81513835
>why didn't some people just hole up in a monastery or something? no one could fuck with you, and some of them do martial arts and sheet so you could even practice sword fighting for if you ever wanted to leave.

Happened in the series, still got fucking wrecked

>>81494327
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>>81495881
I thought the third movie was kinda cool. >>81497788
Nah man, I've thought about this since I was a kid.
Basically remake the first movie but with a little more exposition on being from the highlands and back story. Sean Conner's role is played by lambert instead. They spend a hundred years or whatever having adventures and prevent the kurgan from conquering lands by killing his armies or something. Connery now played by lambert would introduce other immortals like the illusion guy from the third one and others with unique powers. Then set up the new Highlander cinematic universe. Also we would use the same soundtrack all done by queen. Potentially a cgi Freddie mercury immortal seen in some flashback at a gathering of immortals.

Present day stuff would still be the eighties and could be a sequel or worked in like the original.

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>>81508154
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>>81512710
ayyyyy

>>81514621
>>81514523

>people will talk shit about this choreography but then praise The Duellist

>>81511939
Is that who wants to live forever?

I hate remakes but I would be fucking pumped for a decent tv adaption. There is so much cool Scottish shit they could still use for inspiration, they could even get Connery for a final role if they did it soon enough. Fuck I'm getting chills thinking about it.

>>81494615
There were later editions that people bothered watching?

>>81494298
watch the first movie and the anime
avoid the rest

As far as the whole reason for the "Game", I'd like to see some more exposition on it if there ever is a new series/reboot/whatever.

>Towards the end of the series/movie
>Time of the Gathering
>Ramirez (or whomever fills the part of the main character's "teacher") reveals some revelations
>He has actually won before
>The Game is just a game
>Entertainment for higher beings, gods, aliens, whatever you want
>When you win you get a choice
>Join their ranks and setup new games to watch and other shit that cosmic beings do in their spare time
>Or, fight again. New planet, new immortals, new everything
>Retain your memories but lose any power gained from Quickenings
>Ramirez just likes the Game that much and doesnt mind if it's his time to lose
>Figures being one of the Gamemasters would be boring

As far as what the main character chooses, who knows?
The Prize could also be granted wishes by the higher beings, like wanting to continue living as a mortal, having kids, resurrecting a past wife, etc
I also figure that after any particular Game is finished, the planet is left alone; life continues for the normies. Used as sort of an ant farm for Gods to watch and/or muck around a bit in their spare time.

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Choreography is shit.

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>oh man the duellists is so underrated, it's one of Ridley's best, the fight scenes are so well crafted

Fuck you and fuck your mothers

>>81494261

Because the Quickening energy would be absorbed by the site, which has been primed by years of latent human psychic energy.

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>>81513407
The eurotrash version from The Source made me want to rape my own ears to death.

>>81495132

This can't possibly be the reason. You think the Kurgan cares about "fair play"? The sanction must be supernatural for all immortals from any of Earth's cultures respects it.

>>81495589

God I miss the 80's.

>>81517802
The Kurgan does care about fair play as established in the official novelization and in his comic appearences

Highlander 2 is the inspiration for final fantasy 7

>>81499072

"Ramirez" is clearly a Spanish name. He may have been born in Egypt but he clearly spent at least some time in Spain.

>>81515844
Some nice ideas there but I think the less exposition there is, the better. Mystery is good.

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>>81500304
>Lamas
HIS NAME IS DUNCAN MACLEOD
BORN FOUR HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND. HE IS IMMORTAL, AND HE IS NOT ALONE. FOR CENTURIES, HE HAS WAITED FOR THE TIME OF THE GATHERING, WHEN THE STROKE OF A SWORD AND THE FALL OF A HEAD WILL RELEASE THE POWER OF THE QUICKENING. IN THE END, THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE.

>>81499167
>Connor replaced by a stronk independent womyn who don't need no man
>Ramirez becomes a wise Muslim gentleman from "Moorish Spain". He will be played by Idris Elba
>The Kurgan still played by a cis white male

>>81517975

Nothing gets past you, Lestrade.

>>81507327

Aspen are immortal, as are many types of algae and archaeans. It'snot typical for something as complex as a human but it's not beyond possibility that a human might just "naturally" fail to age. Tho in the movies it's explicitly an occult effect, that doesn't force you to believe in any gods, just in the occult.

>>81517890

You mean like how he dropped a hot rock down his mentor's throat as he slept before beheading him? The Kurgan gives no fucks, if some other immortal was fool enough to try to negotiate with him the Kurgan would play along and then murder the fool when he's off guard. The only reason someone like the Kurgan would avoid holy ground is if he knows or suspects Bad Things(tm) happen to those who fight there.

>>81518276
>it's not beyond possibility that a human might just "naturally" fail to age

It's also not beyond possibility that every molecule in your body changes at precisely the same split-second and you end up not being you anymore but some kind of strange lion/negro hybrid.

Some very basic lifeforms showing a supposed (because we don't know for sure) immunity to senescence is the exception that proves the rule.

>>81518612

Immortality is far, far, FAR more likely tho. In fact we may see clinical immortality within the next 50 years or so, if science can replicate it then it can't be beyond nature.

>>81518647
>Immortality is far, far, FAR more likely tho

The chance of a human naturally failing to age is in the same likelihood range as a human spontaneously transforming into a lion/negro hybrid. That range being "it has never been recorded and likely never will be".

>>81518710

No it fucking isn't, get your head out of your ass.

>>81495543
series did that and all the knowledge they had was just lost. like dumping a pitcher of water out on the floor instead of into another empty pitcher.

>>81503250
Lambert just because he's practically blind in real life so he had to memorize the entire fights because he literally couldn't see the other guys sword.

>>81513407

The Protomen do a cover of it

>>81511939
I can see that. Who would dare to love forever?

>>81519054

It's fine if you love another immortal, but even then all your family and friends will die before you. The only people who want to live forever are kids who've just gone thru their first existential crisis, and autists who have no interest in humans.

>>81499672
By not believing a god?

Pretty sure if I was a magical immortal warrior I'd be a pagan who worships magic spirits. Ain't much room for YHWH in that story.

>>81519185
>Pagan
>Atheist
Are you serious

>>81519028

Not bad, female singers were a nice touch, I deem it faithful.

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>DVDRip.XviD
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