The Highlander Films - Page 2

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Originally Posted by JLassiter 

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Originally Posted by duke fleed The...One Highlander I enjoyed was...Highlander Search For Vengeance!

Duke out of curiosity what makes you prefer The Search for Vengeance. I'll give you the fact that it's far better than any of the sequels but I still thought it was no where near as entertaining as the first film. I'd say it was very competently made but honestly I thought it was kind of boring.

Was Search for Vengeance the anime?  I thought it was decent, though the bad guy was uninspiring beyond "Yeah, I used to be an officer in the Roman Legions."  (Which was another interesting facet...the MacLeod in Search For Vengeance ("adopted" though he may be) would actually have been older than Connor or Duncan...not that the anime made any real effort to tie in to the other movies or TV series).

I've taken the plunge, having only ever seen Highlander I, far too many times; I've got ahold of all 6 films and will be sitting down to watch and dissect.

Highlander through to Search for Vengeance.

For the second film I went with the Renegade version.

You'll be entertained (to varying degrees) by most of the sequels, but I hope you have a bottle of liquor handy when you pop in The Source.  You're gonna need it.

I've seen them all....for now I just stop after the first one.  I enjoy it far too much to just ruin itsmemory.  Does anyone have the Highlander blu ray?  I've seen it for pretty cheap and I'm wondering if it's worth buying.

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Originally Posted by MoonBaseNick 

I've seen them all....for now I just stop after the first one.  I enjoy it far too much to just ruin itsmemory.  Does anyone have the Highlander blu ray?  I've seen it for pretty cheap and I'm wondering if it's worth buying.

I have it and it's definitely an upgrade from the DVD I had. But I love Highlander and I always have since I was a little kid. It's like some of you have been saying, it's not really a good movie in an objective sense but man, when you combine Sean Connery, the world's most famous scotsman playing an Egyptian pretending to be a Spaniard, Clancy Brown being baddest motherfucker who ever lived, Christopher "heh heh heh" Lambert hamming it up, Queen and Michael Kamen cooking up a killer score, and Russell Mulcahey's directorial flair you get one hell of a fun movie. 

No one should ever watch Highlander: The Source. I'll defend the original, the TV series and Endgame as entertaining and worthwhile. The rest are at least amusingly terrible, but The Source is so bad it cannot be enjoyed on any level.

If you resolve to watch it and give voice to your every reaction, and drink when that reaction is, "What?" you will die of alcohol poisoning.

I think a remake could do exceptionally well. The historical angle makes it easy to make it feel epic, the immortality angle allows for much more interesting characters than your standard action film, and the modern-day swordsmen make for a unique image. People WANT to like Highlander - so much so that they spent money on some of the shittiest films in recent memory in hopes that something would work.

You just need a charismatic lead and a decent script that drops the literal "There can be only one" ending. You're going to want to do a sequel, and it's less interesting to have the modern day be nearly immortal-free. Highlander is a perfect candidate for a remake: the original idea is solid, and the current status of the series is corpsefucked. Bring on a new McCleod!

I'll defend the Highlander: The Raven TV Series. The first Half of the series is kinda spotty, but by the second half it regains its footings.

The potential for an amazing remake is there.  There are a ton of interesting ideas and possibilities waiting to be mined from this franchise.  The real question is whether or not Summit will hire a screenwriter with a strong creative vision and let them run with it.  I really have no problem with Justin Lin being on board as the director.  If they can come up with a compelling screenplay then we might be in for a real treat when it finally gets made.  If not?  Well, there's honestly no way it can be any worse than The Source.

The one thing that truly inspires confidence is that they are letting Lin take his time to develop the Highlander movie he wants to make.  The man has been attached to the project for a couple of years and still states in recent interviews that he won't make it until it is ready.............and that Summit is sticking by that decision.  It will be interesting to see what film Lin directs next:  Highlander?  Terminator V?  Furious Six?  I imagine the man will make all three, but the question is in what order?

James Wan?  Do you mean Justin Lin?

Man, I don't even...

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Originally Posted by neoolong 

James Wan?  Do you mean Justin Lin?

Man, I don't even...

WHOOPS!  Fixed!  That's what I get for reading news on one tab and posting in a thread on another.

All I want is something that respects the original and makes something new for its self.  And yes, Summit has handled the Twilight series pretty well so I'm excited.

I remember reading somewhere an alternate approach would be Kurgan had cheated into becoming the last Immortal somehow, making the rest had forgotten or lost immortality and when McCloud cuts his head of, it would "release" the hidden immortals, along those lines. Would be a good to poor hook for the remakes and kaaaching-quels.

So why was Highlander: The Sauce made in the first place, years after endgame? Was it for the TV fans. Which I've never seen apart from the pilot with Lambert.

How many versions of Endgame are there exactly? Remember in the original trailer McCloud cutting down Bruce Payne's villian only for him to split in 2 and also the 2 McClouds jumping through what may have been a portal??

Also, I've seen versions of Highlander referred to as The Director's Cut, whats the difference?

More longing looks from Christophe?

Endgame feels more like it was made for fans of the TV show, by bringing in Methos and the Watchers and such, over The Source.  I have no idea who The Source was made for, and suspect that it was written as a standalone thing before Highlander got shoehorned in.

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How many versions of Endgame are there exactly? Remember in the original trailer McCloud cutting down Bruce Payne's villian only for him to split in 2 and also the 2 McClouds jumping through what may have been a portal??

 

Wikipedia is your friend. I remember those shots in the trailer. Apparently they were for Promotional purposes only and were never in any version of the scripts.

The Source was apparently intended to be the first in a new epic Highlander trilogy.  Problem is that they couldn't get the money they needed to do what they wanted and rejiggered the screenplay into what we ended up with.  I think they just made it into an abridged version of their "trilogy".  The shot it, realized it was shit, and it sat on the shelf for years.  I guess they finally gave up on it (and the franchise).  It was first dumped onto the SyFy Channel and then onto DVD shortly after.  After that they sold the franchise rights and Summit scooped 'em up.

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Originally Posted by felix 

Wikipedia is your friend. I remember those shots in the trailer. Apparently they were for Promotional purposes only and were never in any version of the scripts.

 

So is IMDB turns out, thanks felix.

It's a bit ridiculous to shot such "big" scenes for the trailer and using them in posters and I remember in Empire.

So theres 3 versions of Endgame?

The first cut (100 min?), the theatrical 88 min cut and then the producer's 101 min cut.

Whatever happened to Gregory Widen?

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Originally Posted by SecretAsianMan 

 

Also, I've seen versions of Highlander referred to as The Director's Cut, whats the difference?

More longing looks from Christophe?

The main thing I remember the Director's Cut adds to the original is the scene during World War II when Connor saves Rachel as a little girl. It also adds the quick flashes of fighting in Scotland during the wrestling match at the beginning, and I think a scene of Connor and the modern day love interest at the zoo with The Kurgan stalking them in the background. There aren't a lot of major differences, just some little bits to flesh things out a bit. 
 

Want a breakdown of all the differences? Here you go.

Alright, let's Quicken this bitch!

A remake is upon us (probably hitting screens in early 2013)!  Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is directing from a script that Justin Lin developed for a few years (Lin is still on board as producer, by the way) for Summit.

What you like to see retained?  What would you like to see done differently?  Assuming they keep most of the characters, who would you like to see cast in the film?  What are your thoughts on the project in general?

Clancy Brown as Moran (played by Alan North in the original).  

Gotta get him into the remake somehow.

To tell you the truth, i much prefer we got another Highlander TV Series than the remake instead.

Highlander: The Raven wasn't all that good in its first half, but it morphed into a fairly decent entity in its second half.

Highlander is another Army of Darkness and should be respected as  such. It's ham, it's camp, it's 80s flavor are what make it work. The originality in the execution is what is people overlook, no it is not the perfect movie, it is not a new story, and it is not all the well paced, but it is down in a way that makes it better than it should be and that has to be given props.