>Remember Highlander. Remember your home. Another galaxy.

>>83247665
Violent abdominal pain

>>83247665

Saw it as a kid still thought it was really fucking stupid. To this day I do not know what they were taking to think it was a good plot idea in any sane way.

>movie is called highlander
>main character is actually from another planet and not the Scottish highlands

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>>83247665
>flashback to desert planet zeist
>where they punish mcloud and ramirez for war crimes to earth where they're immortal.
>your punishment is immortality.

>mfw

I was really young when I saw and it even then I was really confused and angry. Even today I think it still deserves it's reputation as the archetypal bad sequel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqrkWLXK7wQ

This is the only scene I remember from the movie. Now that I watched it again .... well its a lot worse than I remembered.

I forget about it until years later. I think my brain may have deleted that information.

Can you even get the "original" cut of Highlander 2 anymore? I feel like it's been virtually scrubbed out of existence. Damnatio Memoriae.

>>83248253
>>83248665
same here

I've only ever seen the original.

I'm gonna keep it that way.

>>83248997
I have it on dvd but it has no box.

The ones made after Highlander 2 (that tied into the tv show) were significantly WORSE.

>>83249203
Didn't matter at that point. The Quickening was such an insultingly bad follow up to the original (which didn't really beg for one anyway) at the time it's THE archetype of bad sequels just like >>83248665 said. While the whole movie is bad it really is just the Zeist thing that gives it's reputation.

>you now remember they had a video game planned for Xbox360 and it might have been pretty good

>>83249203
The anime movie is pretty good

>>83248574
>mentor is a 3000 year old Egyptian named Ramirez living in Spain with a thick Scottish accent.

>>83249876
And has a Japanese wife.

The Highlander series is like a series of arguments among the producers and creative people: Each film ignores or shits on the previous movies' story. Maybe the most nonsensical 'franchise' (such as it is/was) around.

>>83249876
turns out, that being a native speaker of ancient egyptian language translates into having a scottish accent when talking in english.

deepest lore.

>>83247665
howl

>yfw they're remaking it with Tom Hardy as McLeod

>>83250294
you mean The Rock?

>>83250294
Never heard of the Tom Hardy thing but holy fuck, If that remake they keep talking about gets off the ground they will have gone too far.

>>83250294
I really hope Aidan Gillen gets in somewhere

>>83250317
Batista's already gonna be the villain

>>83250317
I heard Hardy, but apparently Dave Bautista is the Kurgan and John Wick 2 guy is directing with fucking Tyler Bates doing the music

It's already dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se9HY3X00-c

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>There's no way they can do worse than The Quicken...

How come no one ever talks about Highlander III?

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>>83251016
>If the Kurgan gets the source, mankind is doomed to an unending Tyranny!
>lol, jk, there was no way in fuck he'd ever be able to get it
>neither could anyone evil
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!

>>83251068
Because who cares?

>>83251509
is it the most forgettable movie of all time? no even bothers to talk about how bad it might be

>>83251068
>>83251552
It's basically a retreading of 1, but with everything worse.
It's not awful, but it is completely pointless. The only merit it has is completely retconning 2, but nobody without autism wouldn't just pretend it didn't exist anyway.

>>83247665
>I was such a Highlander fanboy when I was about 10.
>I loved the show and the first Highlander movie I saw was the 3rd one, which I thought was fun.
>So I saved my money and bought the first two on VHS.

>Watched the first one.
>Thought it was one of the best movies I had ever seen.

>2nd one has to be good, right?
>right?
>What the fuck is this?!

>>83249876
No one in Scotland talks like Connery tho

>>83250294

You can't re-make a classic. Both the Robocop and Total Recall re-makes were nowhere near as good as the originals.

There can be only one!

>>83251672
99% of remakes are pointless and shit and sell only because of brand recognition. Remakes, reboots and especially soft reboots are absolute fucking cancer.

Best part is they want this new Highlander movie to be a trilogy, so it'll be two pointless nothing movies where nothing happens.

>>83251672
Once they remake Highlander they've gotta be coming to the end of 80s hit movies to remake. What's left? Top Gun? Back to the Future is off limits.

>>83251987
If Ghostbusters isn't off limits, nothing is

>>83252288
Theres a death clause in the contract Zemeckis signed with Universal. we're good.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2015/06/30/back-to-the-future-remake-will-never-happen/77531184/

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HA HA HA !! I'VE TRICKED YOU KURGAN! YOU SHEE, NO BAD GUYS CAN WIN THE GAME AND ACHIEVE THE SHOURSHE! THISH ENTIRE DRIVE FOR US ALL TO COME TOGETHER AND FIGHT FOR SHUPREMASHY OVER COUNTLESS SHENSHURIES IS ALL BEEN A RUSE! ALSO WE'RE ALIENSH FROM PLANET ZEIST TOO! HA HA HA !!

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Is Highlander 1 Connery's best movie? Is it Clancy Brown's?

>>83255452
Probably Brown's best live action.
While nobody in the film was bad, he really brought it up a notch

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>>83247665
>it's a sequel completely shits on the first movie and ruins it retrospectively episode

>>83256993
Truly, Dragon Age is the Highlander of Video Games.
Pity there wasn't one that copied the original and was ok, but was worse is every regard

>>83256993
>tfw you liked da2 because it had an interesting setting and being a mage mattered

>>83251608
am i high, or did mario van peebles make little flying drone minions out of spare parts in that movie?

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>love the shit out of Highlander
>rent Highlander 2
>mfw

>>83249203
I don't mind Endgame that much.
Either way I think shitting on the series makes a movie more unbearable than poorer entries that fit the tone. Alien Resurrection comes to mind.

>>83247665
it kind of ruined the original mystery for me.

I saw Highlander 2 in theaters as a kid and I was so disappointed. It seems the story/screenplay was originally a completely separate project with no relation to the Highlander world and the studio needed to do something with it to make some money, sot hey shoehorned the characters into it.

T R A V E S T Y
R
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V
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S
T
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no one should've greenlit this shit.

>>83249203
the TV show >>>> the movies

>>83260004
Go away nigger

>>83247665
As a kid I thought it was really cool and an appropriate explanation.

they missed a huge opportunity to give clancy brown a cameo as one of the prisoners being sent

>>83260087
We all thought stupid things when we were kids.

>>83247665
The theatrical version is non canon, the Director's Cut is and the Director's Cut has nothing from that Zeist Bullshit in it.

>>83251987
hahaha
HAHAHAHAHA

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/24/top-gun-2-is-definitely-happening-says-tom-cruise

highlander 2 was recovered from an exploration of a parallel universe.
its the only explanation.

how the fuck did they get queen to soundtrack

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>>83247665

>Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert were secretly ayy lmaos who were also married in a faraway planet ruled by an evil despot named General Katana

The original anti-kino

The Queen song from it was pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEJ8lpCQbyw

>>83255452
>Is Highlander 1 Connery's best movie?

Absolutely not, though he is one of the high points. Ramirez is onscreen just for long enough to maximize his charisma (though the sequences with him and MacLeod running on the beach and the training montage I feel could be shorter or even removed altogether)

>>83247665
>RAMIREZ!!!!
>Soul bounces of the planets forcefield and is reincarnated
WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY MEAN BY THIS?

In my head it all started in Scotland, hence "highlander". It gave the whole film a sort of mystery that my imagination amplified. Never seen the sequel, it sounds horrifying.