Hemingwayoffbase
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Anybody ever watch it? Is it any good?
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What are your opinions on the Highlander tv show?
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Ammogeddon
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The only good Highlander is the first Highlander movie.
Trunx81
Member
It’s better than anything that took place on the silver screen after the original.
Yes, it’s a product of its time, but they took the lore and developed it further. Great choreography sometimes. A charismatic lead. Beautiful women. And the flashbacks never get old.
Methos is GOAT
I liked it quite a bit, but of course the standards for genre TV were very different back then.
Still, the story of Duncan MacLeod, as a stand in for Connor, was pretty compelling, Adrian Paul is charismatic enough, and they had enough decent fights and other immortals running around that it was a fun show. Some of the more religious type stuff (encapsulated in the 4th film) weren't my cuppa, but otherwise I thought the show well done with a lot of, for the time, exotic vibes as an adventure show.
Plus it gave rise to the flesh scabbard idea, which will NEVER get old
Oh jeez, just thinking about this stuff is giving me flashbacks to the endless "which sword is better" or "which fighting style would win?" discussions on the old newsgroups and sword forums.
Still, the story of Duncan MacLeod, as a stand in for Connor, was pretty compelling, Adrian Paul is charismatic enough, and they had enough decent fights and other immortals running around that it was a fun show. Some of the more religious type stuff (encapsulated in the 4th film) weren't my cuppa, but otherwise I thought the show well done with a lot of, for the time, exotic vibes as an adventure show.
Plus it gave rise to the flesh scabbard idea, which will NEVER get old
Oh jeez, just thinking about this stuff is giving me flashbacks to the endless "which sword is better" or "which fighting style would win?" discussions on the old newsgroups and sword forums.
willothedog
Member
Decent series much better than that shit 'Raven' spinoff
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
Theme song goes to 11.
Lunarorbit
Member
You mean the one from the 90s? I remember really liking it but like Hercules and xena I wish it had been darker
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
It was cool. The theme song always had my hyped.
DeafTourette
Perpetually Offended
Yes. In the premier. They're kinsmen.
Wow, that youtube clip image shows him giving her the quickening all right. She is about take all of his little head
ManaByte
Gold Member
Wow, that youtube clip image shows him giving her the quickening all right. She is about take all of his little head
ManaByte
Gold Member
As Ricky Bobby said, Highlander won the Academy Award for best movie ever made.
All of the sequels are terrible, but Endgame gets a pass because it's really the movie version of the series (and its sequel too) instead of being Highlander 4.
The series is a relic of that time in the 90s after Star Trek: The Next Generation became a huge syndication success and everyone wanted a piece of that. So you had stuff like WB trying to anchor their own syndicated block of shows called PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network) with Babylon 5, and cheap syndicated shows produced in Canada exploded. Highlander was one of those.
All of the sequels are terrible, but Endgame gets a pass because it's really the movie version of the series (and its sequel too) instead of being Highlander 4.
The series is a relic of that time in the 90s after Star Trek: The Next Generation became a huge syndication success and everyone wanted a piece of that. So you had stuff like WB trying to anchor their own syndicated block of shows called PTEN (Prime Time Entertainment Network) with Babylon 5, and cheap syndicated shows produced in Canada exploded. Highlander was one of those.
Sorry, sorry. It's either vent here or go buy a corvette and (try to) pick up college chicks
Where are we at with the new movie? Cavill still doing it?
ManaByte
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PendekarRajawali
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I dunno why I feel quite old reading this thread....
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
First movie is one of the greatest ever. Second is shit but with a watch out of curiosity purely for Michael Ironside (a favorite of mine). Everything else is utter shit.
Big Baller
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Putonahappyface
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ForAcademicPurposes
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I don't even have an opinion.
NecrosaroIII
Ultimate DQ Fan
adrian paul > lambert
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There, fixed it for "modern audiences"
Northeastmonk
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That film had mixed reviews. I remember thinking it wasn’t good and having the same conversation with someone else I worked with at the time. Didn’t they try to introduce multiple highlanders, not just those two? It got weird. Or was it the Source? Yea, I think it was Highlander The Source that sucked.Not just in the Premiere, they made a theatrical movie with Connor and Duncan:
My mother introduced me to this show as a kid. I use to think it was really cool.
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ManaByte
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Endgame's problem was it was a sequel to the first movie (it reuses footage from it) and a sequel to the show. But if you liked the first movie and the series, it's the only movie to watch after the original. Donnie Yen was the fight choreographer (and in the movie) and Lambert did the best he could even though he's literally blind in all the fight scenes (he can't see without his glasses).
Straight Edge
Member
I loved it as a kid but it doesn't hold up at all.
ZehDon
Member
I was working in a video store when this hit home video (obligatory Milhouse: remember home video!?) and I had to watch it because we had to know all the new release movies. It wasn't good, but it wasn't as Highlander-sequel bad as you might expect.Not just in the Premiere, they made a theatrical movie with Connor and Duncan:
OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
I never saw much of it. I love the og film. I just bought it on 4k not long ago. Remember that anime film that came and went? I think they even got the director of Ninja Scroll to do it.
