It could be possible to reboot but would you just re-write it all? its canon / timeline was always strange. Trad life, Women hitting the wall, no trannies, while Manly immortal dudes have it all and aged like wine, rockin soundtrack Connery in interviews admitting women can be slapped if they are hysterical and totally unreasonable, "Christopher" Lambert known for his savage nature in Tarzan, there is 'the silly' of a well known Scottish actor guy trying to be Spanish but with a Scots accent and a French guy trying to be Scottish but with French accent, but the star of the show is the horrific "Clancy" Brown, crazy villain the Kurgan. There were no LOTR movies, there was just really 'Conan' and HongKong and Japan had all those Samurai and Wire-fu movies but the West had Highlander franchise. Tv Series had one of tv's most shocking deaths with Tessa but was for no reason just a junkie mugger, the actor Stanley Kirsch who played Richie hung himself during that whole Covid thing. Both actors "Christopher" and Adrian Paul appear in 'Highlander: Endgame' and Adrian Paul was also in the tv show Arrow. Would be cool to see an old face as a guest role or cameo I hope they don't ruin it with Henry Cavill like the tinseltown type do with everything Marvel DC, LOTR, The Witcher etc
I'm a boomer and I hate it. It's the worst cult classic movie from the 80s. The movie sounds excellent in theory, the concepts, the designs, the soundtrack, etc, but when you actually watch it, everything about it is just nonsensically chaotic and devoid of style, emotion, harmony.
I hope so. As you stated the concept is easily the coolest i've heard of but the movies and show just made it a bit lame and never made full use of it. I'd argue tone down the Quickening because stuff like that only worked in the 80's but what do I know.
It's a movie that's made with SOVL and that's what makes it so good. Sean Connery playing an Egyptian Spaniard, a Frenchman with an accent playing a Scot warrior, Queen songs, the scene with the gay cop, Kurgan, the ending, the emotionally powerful Who Wants To Live Forever scene. It's truly something special and I doubt Henry Cavill, with every good intention, can ever get one iota close to that.
It's certainly a product of its time and that's something impossible to recreate but perhaps Cavill can find a way to use the story to make something epic in the current cultural context. That will be extra difficult given how much of current culture is shit but hopefully he finds a way to rise above that and mine into a vein of superior culture.
Highlander is his best bet to leave a great film legacy behind. It's a great action vehicle for his strengths with a great premise and a very promising director attached. It's now or never. It makes me wonder though what his Bond chances are? Then again, after DC I think rightly he doesn't want jackshit to do with franchises.
What would have been seen as a pretty simple and plain movie in the 80's is now too high-brow for this generation, without any irony. It has messaging that makes one ponder on their mortality and accept virtue and discipline and not aimlessly live to their desires' tempo which is the antithesis of Gen Z.
>French actor plays a scottish, Scottis actor plays a spanish egyptian
What were they tinking? Also I would've loved if the movie was split in two, the first one in the past and the other in the present.
One thing I like about Highlander is how The Kurgan doesn't have goons. It's like a standard trope that the hero is alone whereas the bad guy will have hench men that the hero will have to fight through before he gets to the boss. Nope. Not in this movie. Apart from in the first battle in the 15th century when he's leading a war band, based Kurgan does all his own dirty work, including killing the hero's best buddy and kidnapping the hero's love interest.
Kurgan is what will make or break the movie, assuming they put him in it which of course they fricking will because he's, arguably, the best character. You need someone who's big and tall and can act his ass off like Clancy Brown. good luck with that. Henry as Connor is good casting, I wonder who they'll get for Ramirez. Brian Cox? Lol
>both immortals have got bored of their long life, and are listlessly going through the motions >Kurgan only comes alive when he has the chance to be an butthole >Connor comes alive when he realises what letting the Kurgan win truly means
pure poetry
>the theory that immortals are fallen angels given another chance by god to understand humans and their suffering and be given a chance to be accepted back into heaven which is why they don't fight on holy ground
The original is a classic. The remake will be nowhere near a good.
I like Cavill but even he won’t be able to recreate the magic of Highlander.
Maybe the remake will be as good Highlander 2; wouldn’t be hard to achieve.
This scene, the One Year of Love scene, the training montage. God, this movie was so fricking SOVL. You can just feel it in your bones this was something special. Movies are like this is what reminds me of what an absolutely elevated medium cinema can be. That combination of visuals, music and dialogue. Eccletic.
never seen it
It could be possible to reboot but would you just re-write it all? its canon / timeline was always strange. Trad life, Women hitting the wall, no trannies, while Manly immortal dudes have it all and aged like wine, rockin soundtrack Connery in interviews admitting women can be slapped if they are hysterical and totally unreasonable, "Christopher" Lambert known for his savage nature in Tarzan, there is 'the silly' of a well known Scottish actor guy trying to be Spanish but with a Scots accent and a French guy trying to be Scottish but with French accent, but the star of the show is the horrific "Clancy" Brown, crazy villain the Kurgan. There were no LOTR movies, there was just really 'Conan' and HongKong and Japan had all those Samurai and Wire-fu movies but the West had Highlander franchise. Tv Series had one of tv's most shocking deaths with Tessa but was for no reason just a junkie mugger, the actor Stanley Kirsch who played Richie hung himself during that whole Covid thing. Both actors "Christopher" and Adrian Paul appear in 'Highlander: Endgame' and Adrian Paul was also in the tv show Arrow. Would be cool to see an old face as a guest role or cameo I hope they don't ruin it with Henry Cavill like the tinseltown type do with everything Marvel DC, LOTR, The Witcher etc
most of them are trannies so i would imagine they do
the sword fights don't have enough flips and spins for them
The director wanted more flips in the first fight but was forced to cut them out for the American release, they were still in European release
I'm a boomer and I hate it. It's the worst cult classic movie from the 80s. The movie sounds excellent in theory, the concepts, the designs, the soundtrack, etc, but when you actually watch it, everything about it is just nonsensically chaotic and devoid of style, emotion, harmony.
They're remaking it with John Wick director and Henry Cavill. Thoughts?
Possibly good. I'll at least give it a watch through once.
I hope so. As you stated the concept is easily the coolest i've heard of but the movies and show just made it a bit lame and never made full use of it. I'd argue tone down the Quickening because stuff like that only worked in the 80's but what do I know.
wrong
Clancy Brown alone makes it worth watching, not even mentioning the great Queen tracks
>I'm Candy!
>But of course you are.
I think exactly the same thing, except the opposite
cringe boomer
It’s such a perfect movie. I can’t fathom why anyone would hate it
Like this guy right here
he’s a total gay with no soul
It's a movie that's made with SOVL and that's what makes it so good. Sean Connery playing an Egyptian Spaniard, a Frenchman with an accent playing a Scot warrior, Queen songs, the scene with the gay cop, Kurgan, the ending, the emotionally powerful Who Wants To Live Forever scene. It's truly something special and I doubt Henry Cavill, with every good intention, can ever get one iota close to that.
It's certainly a product of its time and that's something impossible to recreate but perhaps Cavill can find a way to use the story to make something epic in the current cultural context. That will be extra difficult given how much of current culture is shit but hopefully he finds a way to rise above that and mine into a vein of superior culture.
Highlander is his best bet to leave a great film legacy behind. It's a great action vehicle for his strengths with a great premise and a very promising director attached. It's now or never. It makes me wonder though what his Bond chances are? Then again, after DC I think rightly he doesn't want jackshit to do with franchises.
tests results are in and they say ur a big ghey and have tested positive for gay
I agree the TV show is far superior
No Connor as MC? Not watching.
Looks like Highlander 2 the cartoon from this poster.
>boomer
>moronic opinions
Sounds about right.
What would have been seen as a pretty simple and plain movie in the 80's is now too high-brow for this generation, without any irony. It has messaging that makes one ponder on their mortality and accept virtue and discipline and not aimlessly live to their desires' tempo which is the antithesis of Gen Z.
The homosexual: Anal Blowout Prolapse Edition
Let's see what she's up to now.
What the heck is that?
It's the same actress from Highlander in OP's pic. The show is some political whining thing angry about Brexit.
>Who can say where the road goes?
>Where the day flows? Only time
>French actor plays a scottish, Scottis actor plays a spanish egyptian
What were they tinking? Also I would've loved if the movie was split in two, the first one in the past and the other in the present.
Do zoomers opinions even matter?
Nope. But asking for it gives you (You)'s.
No, they just like whatever some youtuber says or if it appears as a skin on fortnite
>Do zoomers opinions even matter?
YOU STOLE HER CHILDHOOD
One thing I like about Highlander is how The Kurgan doesn't have goons. It's like a standard trope that the hero is alone whereas the bad guy will have hench men that the hero will have to fight through before he gets to the boss. Nope. Not in this movie. Apart from in the first battle in the 15th century when he's leading a war band, based Kurgan does all his own dirty work, including killing the hero's best buddy and kidnapping the hero's love interest.
>he's leading a war
he isnt
He isn't leading a war, he's joined a faction to kill Connor and threatened to kill them all himself if they touched him before him.
Kurgan is what will make or break the movie, assuming they put him in it which of course they fricking will because he's, arguably, the best character. You need someone who's big and tall and can act his ass off like Clancy Brown. good luck with that. Henry as Connor is good casting, I wonder who they'll get for Ramirez. Brian Cox? Lol
>kurgan
it'll be some emotionless, first-movie giga Black person that will eventually make cavill regret doing this like all the other nerd shit
>tfw i've seen Momoa as Kurgan posts
Lol no one can do Kurgan, just make some other villain as to not tread over the first movie so much.
Kurgan will be black and will be the MC. Mark my words.
The original Kurgan was from a Russian tribe, so just ham that bit up and normalgays will be all over it
Characters don't quip every 10 seconds.
Of course they don't like it.
>both immortals have got bored of their long life, and are listlessly going through the motions
>Kurgan only comes alive when he has the chance to be an butthole
>Connor comes alive when he realises what letting the Kurgan win truly means
pure poetry
>the theory that immortals are fallen angels given another chance by god to understand humans and their suffering and be given a chance to be accepted back into heaven which is why they don't fight on holy ground
Kino. I hope they make this canon in the reboot.
> In the years to come, will you light a candle and remember me on my birthday?
>Aye luv, ah will
I didn't come here for feels this close to the holidays, yet here I am with my feels kicked in.
>But touch my tears with your lips
>Touch my world with your fingertips
>AND WE CAN HAVE FOREVER!
frick you Black folk i spilled some droplets of salty water from my eyes
It's a pretty dumb movie tbh.
that's the charm of it
>be a 4chudcel
>come up with an imaginary situation in your head
>get angry over it
I like Mel I just think he's just bad at making historical movies, just like Ridley Scott.
Braveheart is a very reasonable deprecation nof the medieval English and the British royal family, except they were not so kind and generous(or clean)
The plantagenets are not related to the current ruling family, no matter how much they say they are.
>and the British
This term and medieval does not work
Sure. No way to get more age gap romances in a movie.
Argentino aquí.
I like Highlander and its sequel was garbage. I still remember that its sequel was filmed in Buenos Aires.
Here some videos of how Highlander 2 was filmed.
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Do you liked the TV series?
Oh I forgot to mention the series. Yes I liked the series and still remember that I saw it on CDs.
I also watched the Highlander anime that was Kino.
The original is a classic. The remake will be nowhere near a good.
I like Cavill but even he won’t be able to recreate the magic of Highlander.
Maybe the remake will be as good Highlander 2; wouldn’t be hard to achieve.
How the frick can anyone hate something so delightfully insane?
I want this life brehs
This scene, the One Year of Love scene, the training montage. God, this movie was so fricking SOVL. You can just feel it in your bones this was something special. Movies are like this is what reminds me of what an absolutely elevated medium cinema can be. That combination of visuals, music and dialogue. Eccletic.
the music was amazing, not just the queen songs
>the music was amazing, not just the queen songs
All the music in the film are Queen songs mate.
no, there are some songs without lyricis that I dont think were mady by queen, like the one in the training montage
I don't think they even know what Highlander is.