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Anyone a fan? I think Clancy Brown in the original is one of the great movie villains of the last 20 years... "Happy Halloween, Ladies!!"
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I have always liked the first Highlander film since I saw it as a little kid. and liked Clancy Brown as the Kurgan and thought he was great villian and also Sean Connery as Ramirez etc and the music by Queen, and I still watch today now and again and still enjoy it and a shame the rest of the series didnt hit the same standard.

I dont really like Highlander 2 that much have seen the US cut and then the Renegade version both are pretty sub-par, but even though it isnt the greatest film ever I do quite like Highlander 3 and thought Mario van Peebles was ok as Kane in it though , though it had its little moments I didnt like Endgame, as said it is a shame none hit the heights of the first film which is dissapointing.
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I need to watch it again.

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for those who didn't see it, here's Highlander in 30 seconds with bunnies.
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I liked Highlander 1, I liked Clancy Brown's Kurgan (he could easily have beaten up all of the villains who vainly followed him in the sequels), and I kinda liked the TV series with Duncan, but I wasn't big on the sequel or the Raven series.

Useless trivia: Clancy Brown originally auditioned for the lead role of Superman/Clark Kent in Bruce W. Timm's Superman: The Animated Series (1996-2000), but was cast as Lex Luthor instead while Tim Daly was cast as Superman/Kent.
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i wish the Highlander franchise had ended after the first movie...nothing that followed, not the sequels, or the series, or the spin-off series ever came close to the original
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is it just me, or did anyone else think after they say, "There can be only one," a flashback of HeMan jogs through your memory?

eh, it's probably just me.

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Nearly everything post-Highlander was a bad idea. Highlander 2 was enjoyable in a schlocky-am-I-seeing-what-I-think-I'm-seeing kind of way, 3 pretended 2 never happened, the series was kind of weak, and Endgame... I haven't bothered to see. Same goes for The Raven.

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i saw like 20 minutes of this and thought it was total crap. i thought it was supposed to be some kinda classic seeing as how many people like it
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In spite of hearing about it for many, many years from people who are into the same kind of movies I am, I had avoided seeing Highlander up until last week, when my friend finally forced me into watching the first one.

The concept of the story was good, but ultimately my first insticts were right, I thought it was a badly executed film. Undeniably 80's. I was surprised to hear the prominent use of some Queen songs in there that I was familiar with from elsewhere, like "Who Wants To Live Forever", which is one of my favorite songs.

For me, it's difficult to see Clancy Brown as anything else but the prick captain of the guard in "The Shawshank Redemption". Christopher Lambert has the personality and like-ability of dogfood. And Sean Connery all but phones in his performance.

As a whole, I can take the film for what it's worth and appreciate it in the context of the time it was made. It was mildly interesting. Mildly entertaining. But when the story ends in the first one, that's it. Case closed. Story over. Period. End of conversation. There's absolutely no room for sequels.

Yet there are sequels. Many of them.

I hear the sequels are pretty much unwatchable.

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Idon't know about some of you guys but whenever I read some of the things y'all write about movie i can't help but wonder if i'm just an idiot for liking certain films. Can somebody please explain to me what exactly, using empirical evidence quantifies a good film? It seems like I like alot of films on here that other's just plain don't. It's hard to articulate right now. I will say this though, I thought the first highlander was alright. It wasn't the greatest in the world by any means but it was alright. the second one just seemed so cheesy to me. It looked like the entire thing was done on soundstages. The third one was okay at best. I only watched endgame to see the nudity and that was the only reason. Watched some of the series it was okay at best. never even heard of raven.
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Quality of a film is hard to judge using empirical evidence, because empirical evidence usually requires some sort of deconstruction and itemising. Film is about whether or not the elements work together, which is very subjective. It's the same reason why the current film ratings system in the US doesn't work. Sure, you can say that any film containing more than 2 F-bombs nets an automatic R, or that any drug reference will net an automatic PG-13, but what does that say about whether the film is offensive to a person?

On the other hand, some films are so egregiously bad that it is clear to everyone, yet some people enjoy films like that for that very reason. Again, this all goes back to subjectivity. My modus operandi has always been to watch a film based on whether or not the subject matter interests me, and go from there as to whether or not I think it's any good. For example, I have no desire whatsoever to see "Karla", a film about the serial killing exploits of Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo. The story was splashed across the media for years, and frankly, I don't need to see any more about it. On the other hand, I'm curious about "Nanny McPhee" with Emma Thompson and Colin Firth, because I'm a parent and think my kids would enjoy it, but I'll judge its merits once I actually see it. Will I listen to critics' reviews? Yes, but I also know what those critics' biases are and will be able to judge their reviews based on that.

I also want to see Underworld:Evolution, because I'm hoping it's as much fun as the first Underworld was.

All goes back to subjectivity. If you look @ my list of DVDs online, you'll see a fair number of movies judged as crap by others, yet I love these movies dearly. Go figure.

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Queen music was the key to the appeal & quality of Highlander. Once they lost the Queen music, series appeal and quality went into noticeable decline.
I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an Obi-Wan to go.

Red heads ROCK. Blondes do not rock. Nuff said.

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InfoDroid said:

In spite of hearing about it for many, many years from people who are into the same kind of movies I am, I had avoided seeing Highlander up until last week, when my friend finally forced me into watching the first one.

The concept of the story was good, but ultimately my first insticts were right, I thought it was a badly executed film. Undeniably 80's. I was surprised to hear the prominent use of some Queen songs in there that I was familiar with from elsewhere, like "Who Wants To Live Forever", which is one of my favorite songs.

For me, it's difficult to see Clancy Brown as anything else but the prick captain of the guard in "The Shawshank Redemption". Christopher Lambert has the personality and like-ability of dogfood. And Sean Connery all but phones in his performance.

As a whole, I can take the film for what it's worth and appreciate it in the context of the time it was made. It was mildly interesting. Mildly entertaining. But when the story ends in the first one, that's it. Case closed. Story over. Period. End of conversation. There's absolutely no room for sequels.

Yet there <span class="Italics">are</span> sequels. Many of them.

I hear the sequels are pretty much unwatchable.

They say "There can be only one." Well, maybe there should've <span class="Italics">been</span> only one.

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I liked the TV series enough to watch a few episodes when it was new tv, not enough to own the DVD's.

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Switch Radic said:

Idon't know about some of you guys but whenever I read some of the things y'all write about movie i can't help but wonder if i'm just an idiot for liking certain films. Can somebody please explain to me what exactly, using empirical evidence quantifies a good film? It seems like I like alot of films on here that other's just plain don't. It's hard to articulate right now.

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