Highlander Doesn't Need A Remake 

I posted coment before you drinker I won

Did you ever review or play Jedi Fallen Order ?

Oddly when I was 12 my Baptist Sunday school teacher held a guys only movie night ( it was the 80s) and he showed us his favorite movie: Highlander. Completely changed my life regarding movies and stories, ignited an interest in history, the soundtrack inspired me to become a professional musician, and needless to say it's my favorite film of all time. When it comes to sequels, TV shows, and remakes, all I can say is NO! There can be only one.

If done right, there CAN be two.

There can be only one....

😂

Even though they actually arent. Fancy it Sean?

Pretty sure Connery agreed to the role specifically because he would NOT being playing a Scot.

@@chonconnor6144 This could be the case

@@chonconnor6144 He was offered the role of the Highlander but turned it down ASKING to be Ramirez.

What? There is no diversity amongst white people… and Egyptian‘s. 🤔

Hahaha 😀... Good one

@@MamaMOB ehm, there is.

@@horribleIRUKANDJI yea that was the joke. 🤦‍♀️

@@MamaMOB really hope that's sarcasm

That outburst was a long time coming.

Let us have our complete Saturday... together?

Gotta say, that was fun to watch... although I fully share his sentiment.

😂😂😂 I loved it

Not without a Scotch 🥃

Nail on the head.

Truth

I admit that Clancy Brown is one of the most underrated actors of our time!

His performance in Highlander is amazing, the joyride he goes on with Brenda with Queen doing their version of "New York, New York" is one of the most hilarious sequences in any movie!. just a great performance.

Forgive me father…I am but a worm.

@@octomancer that's the best impersonation of Sean Connery I've ever read!👍

@@octomancer one ping only!

Only Sir Sean can make a guy like Hwhan Schanchez Villahah-lobhos Hramirez interesting

Yup

Lambert the only French guy charming - innocent enough in that roll to play a Scot and not be instantly called out on it.

Hollywood: “Nah it’ll be fine”

Ok but there are already 6

"There can be only one good movie."

No, it is "There can Be...Only...ONE!"

@Captain Caveman two horrible tv shows if you count that Raven spinoff

I thoughtScottish people always wore kilts

It happens most often when we get angry. It's ancient haggis magic.

Naaah, he'll be fine!

I thought Scottish people always are angry

You should change your name to Mr Obvious.

This was my first video of his that I've ever watched, and that rant had me in stitches....it was an instant subscribe!

F*cking legend! Lmaooooooo

Thankfully he was wearing clothes

@@Klaaism But probably not any underpants...

@@baybydilly742 As is tradition amongst us. ;)

Or, "there WAS only one" or, "there really should only be ONE!".

There were no sequels. There is only one.

@@RussellNelson that being said Russ, I enjoyed Adrian Paul in the TV series. Sure the writing was cringy at times, but he was dedicated to the training.

Happy Halloween ladies!

@@jimbomclachlan5892 Nuns. No sense of humor.

Oddly enough he's actually played a Frenchman (with an English accent) In the 2002 Count of Monte Cristo, a babyfaced teenaged Cavill played the hero's son.

Henry's mum is scottish tho. So he have Scottish blood in him at least lol

Lmao

🤣🤣🤣

The Scots play the Scots and the Ruskies play the Ruskies. No need for acting in this day and age.

Yeah, but with Sean Connery playing an Egyptian, and a Frenchman playing the Scot. That had to be sobering wake-up call.

@@dhunter1133 Ramirez was Egyptian, I thought he was a Spaniard.

@@KingofNewark - Nope, he was Egyptian. In his current "life," he was chief metallurgist to the King of Spain, hence the flamboyant outfit.

Hope that guy chose a career in writing manuscripts.

Yeah I remember hearing that it wasn't really going anywhere until they took a wild shot and sent the script to Connery's agent. Connery loved it, signed up and suddenly the whole thing took off.

Estrogen, hormones and the hatred of masculinity is to blame

And above all……he was a threat

Eh... nearly every mainstream lead man has been either super buff or super not depending on film demographic. But outright the number of films with very muscular male actors is huge over the last 30 years. The difference is the writing, and direction to bring actual menace to such characters shifting to a more superfulous prescence. Aesthetically nice, but little practical relevance.

It's cool!

That's so cool!

Its cewl :)

Some heroes are behind the lens. he did his part, and brought me joy. Shake his hand for me. I have tons of great memories attached to this film!

Your father is a Prince of the Universe.

HA

I like the drinkers guns in the background

As a Scotsman i agree!!!

😂

@@bemotivated8443 As a Texan, they were so small I didn't even notice!!!

And in The Shawshank Redemption.

*Cough* Buckaroo Banzai *Cough*

And as Mr (Eugene) Krabs at SpongeBob SquarePants 🤡

And “Viking” in Bad Boys with Sean Penn. A great but underrated film.

Oh crap!!!!!!!! That WAS him Starship Troopers!!!!!!!!!!!!!😯😯😯

The show is great and so is endgame that's about it

"There should have been only one" Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 👏

Thanks, I couldn't resist@@neilgodwin6531

Fun fact: The guy who wrote _Highlander,_ Gregory Wyden, also wrote the screenplay for another cult classic, _The Prophecy._ Both movies had really original mythological backstories, and both spawned absolutely god-awful sequels. No coincidence that Wyden wasn't involved with the sequels to either franchises, since he didn't own the rights, something very common in the industry, back then.

Didn't know that - I liked The Prophecy. I'll keep my eyes peeled for his next project. @@pcdm43145

Queen and composer Michael Kamen turned in movie history with the OST and score, also Queen doing the Flash Gordon score/soundtrack was just as legendary

I bought it on cassette all the way back in 1988. Well, my dad bought it for me. I was only 8.

Next one with Beyonce, Drake, Taylor Swift and Cardi B., to ensure to reach the young audience...

"Here we are!"

How can you hear, "here we are, born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe." and not feel like lopping someone's head off?

@@kidmosey no, but neither one is a writer or a producer so…

I groaned just reading this.

They are only creative when coming up with euphemisms for shite.

INDEED : ((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((

“The quickening”

A missed opportunity.

Yeah, that's the start of it; but George's idea for the sequels was to introduce the alien species that CREATED midichlorians AND The Force. His idea was to actually completely demystify The Force by detailing its origin.

@@patrickcromwell7554 which would've ruined it as well, I think.

Didn't demistify it as badly as the Sequels did by making it the ultimate plot contrivance power (even by OT standards) that immediately gets unlocked by the protagonist because the writers were too lazy and it takes me out of the film because I realize Im watching a poorly written film that uses the Force to excuse its shit writing. Ah yeah, and its also genetic because they make it a bloodline thing between good and evil ones. Midichlorians are silly but the menchildren saying 'I cant be a Jedi now, I need to be born with them!' Im like "you cant be a Jedi because the Force doesnt exist, and fucking nothing stops you from just imagining you have them. Plus its still about training, Yoda has less than Anakin but he can still kick his ass."

@@DeepEye1994 Personally,for me, what would have killed the "Awe" of the Force was Lucas's idea to introduce the species that created the Force into the sequels. He created this big mysterious power that seems to have a will of its own - like if human beings suddenly discovered how to wield God's power yet he's still in control and deciding whom to allow to use it. But then to take away all that awe and wonder by introducing the race that created the Force itself AND the medichlorians?? Not a very Star Wars thing to do. Which coming from its Father is a heartbreaking though to have. He already pushed his luck by creating the biggest waste of imagination when he created Jar Jar Binks.

@@patrickcromwell7554 What's truly sad about that is Star Wars (the first trilogy) is very much a story about the triumph of humanity over technology. The Force is effectively a metaphor for humanism. Demystifying The Force is a complete deconstruction/destruction of that theme. Between that, and "Han shot first" (Han shooting Greedo first establishes his selfishness and self-centeredness, making his ultimate intervention at the Death Star a vital culmination of character development; having Greedo shoot first guts an important character arc)...I'm pretty convinced that Lucas got lucky with Star Wars, because he clearly doesn't know what made it a compelling story.

"...WELL...MAYBE A COUPLE OF SEQUELS..."

The cartoon films werent that bad either

"I have something to say. It's better to burn out, than fade away."

In before the tv series

@@markswabey5870 Wait, WHAT! There were cartoons?

Queen Latifah as a Mexican-American lesbian with a past as a strong badass witch hunter. The bad guy can't be Russian this time. He wil be Jewish. And pale. The main character will fall in love with a Korean girl this time. Can't wait! lol

Dear God , NO !!!

well if enough of us stop throwing $$ at woke hollywood they'll stop ruining our childhood

@@Brian-s3m Got my vote !!

@@frankn356 Nah, the main character (a Pacific Islander/Inuit) will fall for a half-panda Timorese refugee who is fleeing an abusive arranged fiancé who is an oil company CEO.

My gods, we've got Scottish Royalty in these comments (whether you're Scottish or not, you are after that). Do you have any other cool stories from your days?

That would be a memory I would treasure always. Cool story.

Had a Highlander weekend in NY city with a buddy many years ago. We went to Soho, Central Park, and saw the Silvercup sign from the top of the Empire State Building. We walked by Madison Square Garden and stopped at a Comic Shop across the street. I wanted to find the parking lot, but was in a rush. When they came out with the 20 Anniversary on DVD I found out the scene you were referring too was part of a stage built in Scotland. Makes me glad I went to the Comic Shop.

@@Naptosis Sadly I'm not Scottish. Yes I have loads of stories, but my 'career' as an extra has been sporadic, interspersed with 'proper jobs' (to pay bills etc.) I'm now working as a subtitler, mainly Japanese and Korean films/TV series, but also creating Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (SDH), subbing corporate videos and subtitling American TV series for an English Language School in Vietnam (to pay bills etc.) Anyway, here's one very brief 'extras' tale. I was hired to play a 10th Scottish warrior on Justin Kurzel's 'Macbeth' (2015). One week shooting on the Isle of Skye...in February! Some of Highlander was shot on Skye, by the way. So, driving rain, snow, sleet, high winds, you name it, we had it. Long shoot days. One day we were filming on The Cuillin, with a wind chill factor of -20deg C. Soaked through to the skin. I literally froze my nuts off. Three of us came down with hypothermia and ended up in an ambulance, wrapped in silver blankets. It was a very tough shoot, but I'd do it again in a sec if they called me back. Extras are like nomads, roaming around and meeting up on different shoots so you get to meet and swap stories with some wild people. My stories are tame compared to some I've heard.

@Projekt Kobra LOL yes I know exactly what you mean. Look, that's me...ooh you missed it.

I didn’t even realise that. I was too busy laughing at how ridiculous it is that an American girl was in Germany in 1943.

sad as fuck.. she loved that dude and he said nah i ain't fuckn u.. i been thru hell.. she waited till she was old and useless.. she looked out for him too.. the film is actually dramatic for a fucking slasher flick

@@AutomaticDuck300 Wait, wasn't she British?

@@gethric she was Jewish.

My favorite has to be Roach from Apocalypse Now. Everything about him fascinated me.

So that’s what all Scott’s men looks ike I was right

I feel like an idiot lol I saw the shirt and started thinking "yeahh... it's a decent shirt.... maybe I could pull it off.... I wonder what it's even c- oh shit it's part of the kilt outfit isn't it?" I only realized that once I saw your comment and saw there was a joke around the corner. Still.... looks like a pretty dope shirt.....

@@mutt9779 Extremely dope, I want it

Just his lounge wear, my dude

No shit, i was like holy crap!

There was only 1. I keep hearing rumours that they made a 2nd and 3rd, but that is completely untrue .

@@Flakey101 And a 4th and a 5th!

plus two sequels and a tv series

Yes 😄. The TV series is kind of good thou.

@@HappyCatholicDane I enjoyed the TV series until the last season. That one was pretty awful.

Movie fans do believe in that mantra. Would be nice if movie studios got the fucking memo too.

This right here....

I second that.

Slight Correction: There *Should* only be One".

After finishing all MCU movies ( i liked most of them) i felt tired with all those universes, full of easter eggs, references etc. I wanna go back to watching stand alone stories which are satysfying on their own. Ok, i can watch nice trilogy , if it has good ways to expand story, not overblowing it to eleven, turning it into self parody, or subverting tropes for cheap shock value.

You should check out the happy hour recordings on his "Critical Drinker After Hours" channel.

That's definitely going to be a gif. "Ya don't have the brains, ya don't have the creativity, ya don't have the skill, ye've got nothin'!"

What especially surprise me was his guns they look pretty cool

Ikr

@Schatzi we only saw his office, what we didn’t see was him wading through the waist-deep piles of empty Jack Daniels and Jim Beans in the next room.

Hollywood: Nah, it'll be fine!

Hollywood is dead. Zero creativity. Endless remakes, reboots, bad copies... ...there will be nothing to reboot from this generation, nothing to remake, nothing and no one to remember.

Highlander 2: There should have been only one.

@@stlawstlaw7585 Depressingly true. The end of days. Burn Hollywood Burn.

@@jcb3393 so fn true... I remember going to the cinema to watch it being excited cause the original was soooo great. For the whole movie I'm like WTF is this shite.!!

Until they run out of money, which I pray it will be happen within 10 years if not less.

Hollywood: All of them.

When this new generation start watching the OG classics and show the middle finger to the assholes in Hollywood.

Drinker is right.. They will butcher it...

Hollywood: Must consume all, ALL!!!

Mulcahy knew Queen from his other line of work and sold them on it. Made the film so much better with Murcury's haunting lyrics.

credit is due also to Neil Young for the line, "it's better to burn out than to fade away", from whom Queen lifted it

@@NondescriptMammal as an ‘80s teen when this movie came out I always gave the credit to Joe Elliott from the intro to “Rock of Ages”.

@@darthcy9790 It's a Brian May music.

The cinematic effects were quite amazing for a film that had such a shoestring background.

I was the only person in my English literature class, who wrote in cursive. No one could read my notes 😅.

"Joined-up handwriting..." 😆 I fucking lawled at this

Or like with predator

No joke, I tried watching it and I couldn't tell if I'd seen it before or not. Gave up after 20 minutes.

Yeah probably try make it PG too

This is such a perfect comparison

The Robocop remake had Abbie Cornish who was quite a babe, reallyoved her husband, and didn't take any corporate crap.

Any studio: Disney

“That’s a lovely independent intellectual property you have there it would be a shame if someone bought it and pandered to China with it”- Disney

Immortals = Jedi, Aliens = mitachorians Lucas should have learned don't explain the magic.

*every studio

Cavil might be up to it, but the publishers, directors and writers will likely strip it of everything that made the original a gem.

@@Fizz-Pop Who is Cavil supposed to be playing in the remake, MacLeod? He would be better suited to playing the Kurgan imo

@@Anw4rr10r I think he has the range to do both. How an actor is directed is very important.

@Tom Ffrench with Stahelski and Cavil attached it doesn’t seem like it would have the humorous cheese factor. They will probably play it straight, which could be cool but one dimensional.

There's been so many bad highlander sequels...this hardly a sacred cow. There's been spin offs shows, so not as if the movies stopped at one and nothing else ever happened. I'm fine with it being rebooted, as I think this could be done well, but I can understand people being leery of it happening.

True dat

Absolutely

Just imagine if they put a based on true events tag at the first of Highlander! 🤣 I would love to see it happen now just to watch idoits freak out and try to convince people its not a true historical film! Because you know some idiots would say its not a true film like Braveheart!🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brave heart never claimed to be a documentary. Unlike The Patriot which bragged, and took great pride in its accuracy.

Longshanks was the man!

It’s so ridiculous that it’s almost good.

@@AutomaticDuck300 It was certainly a wild ride

The next level: remaking the remakes!

b: all of them over and over and over and over... and over and over and over and over...... and over and over and over..

@@matthewwilliams9200 I wouldn't be surprised if one day they say: That's it! No more original IPs! We're now only gonna remake what we got!

@@tomasburian6550 after you go so far copyright takes alot of time

@@tomasburian6550 We are already there. Most recent "Mummy" was a remake of a remake, for instance.

My idea always was he meant a Wurm, a dragon..

My teenager and I are quite fond of "Mom!", when he hijacks that old couple's car.

"Nuns, no sense of humor."

There can only be one.......and 13 sequels

@@KelticTim there's a reason their all poopoo...no matter how many you make

Literally everyone was thinking it

Yeah there was never supposed to be a sequel.

@@AD1978leo Yeah, I liked Micheal Ironside since I'm a Splinter Cell fan boy. But that didn't make Hylander 2 a good movie..

@4Freedom4All Unfortunately not everyone ages so gracefully, even with expensive cosmetic treatments.

@4Freedom4All The first time I saw him admitting his age---AND his baldness---was in Robin and Marian, where he plays an ageing Robin Hood, returning from the Crusades. He was great in Outland, as well, from about the same period.

Every band that’s ever come out, has outdone Queen.

Whoa whoa whoa Lucas...you need to give examples if you've got the courage

@@lucaschudleigh7193 sure...

Queen is LEGENDARY. Instantly recognizable. Sinatra. The Beatles. Aretha Franklin. QUEEN. It gets no better, Lucas, they’re in a class of their own.

Mebbe MUSE? *still remember their Highlander Queen tribute when they sing "There can only be one" in "United States of Eurasia" ^.^)

It made us all fall in love with Heather right along with Connor, and miss her too.

Drinker suffering from the news and withdrawal at the same time. He's going to need an entire bar of alcohol to deal with the sequel.

He should have added "Intergrity". Lots of talented film makers out there but no morals that they'll follow their corporate Hollywood leaders to make thier propaganda piece instead of nurturing a piece of art that has the balls to be creative & free like these classics that will "forever" be loved by the fans thru the test of time.

Truth!

They are true words but they’re not really going to help anybody. I mean those words are why they keep making remakes. If they had any brains, creativity, or skill they’d make something new.

That's the thing, they DO live by it Why else would they pump out so many remakes?

The original specifically.

@@mrpj1390 That's why I didn't mention the sequels.

@@milicadiy I just don't want people to eventually mistake the remake for the original when it eventually comes out.

@@mrpj1390 Thanks for the information.

watch it everyday

When I was young I thought this was how all Scottish people introduced themselves. "I am William McWhatever of the the clan McWhatever."

Exactly!!

Or the name Duncan lol

Goddamit you got there before me.

MacLeod actually, of the clan MacLeod

Yeah, its like resurrecting a long gone childhood pet only to have its maggot infested corpse follow you around making you wish you had left it to rest in peace.

they're trying to act like 80s were like the 60s.. except it wasn't ha.. they take these old films and remake it with social agenda's.. here's the shit.. the kids like the stone age version lol.. nobody in the 8o's was like the KKK is kool.. but gen Z is like "WE LOVE THE OG MOVIEZ" haaaa

@@jrcrash4644 Pet Sematary Lol

Just saw they're rebooting Night Court... With a woman judge of course.

I did enjoy the Tv Series though. Never saw the Raven spin-off though.

Now now, while Highlander 2 did really screw with everything about the first film, it was a fun entertaining movie if you considered it a standalone story.

That last film, The Source, well the less said the better

@@-Keith- ironside as the villain was fun and it has a bit of predictive programming with the whole blocking out the sun

@@-Keith- I completely agree with you. I couldn't have put it better myself.

The first two films were decent, but that's it. The TV show was meh.

I don´t know i think the Anime movie was pretty good.

@@Erikjust Wait they made an anime?

@@lastswordfighter It's over 10 yrs old at this point. It's called Highlander Vengeance or something like that

Friends don’t let friends watch Highlander 2.

@@thereckoning8326 I agree, she was terrible. And not much to look at, either...

Well, whaddya know. Just discovered that Heather was played by Beatie Edney, daughter of Sylvia Syms, another spectacularly beautiful British actress.

She really is.

Like most of Nolam's flicks since the the Dark Knight.

under the copyright law, they don't need to renew their movie because it's protected for 95 years before entering the public domain.

@@CahyoPrabowo and all of that only applies in the US and the countries that may have treaties on copyright with the US, the rest of the work doesn’t care. Wonder what a Chinese Highlander film would be like.

@@InterCity134 Feel like that'd basically be The One with a little bit of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

They should have let it fall into public domain, as it will likely more successful under Indie's direction.

@@stormryder4305 The Bollylander. Rather than sword battles, they have 15 minute musical dance scenes.

The best „ Not a Sound Track“ sound track of any Film. Queen set the bar with highlander

I am immortal: I have inside me blood of kings!

@@DoctorSess I have no rival! NO MAN CAN BE MY EQUAL!!!

I am your rival, I have inside me blood of kings.

I We Tall Did

“I’m Candy.” “Of course you are.”

And then twists his arm behind his back.

I have something to say, it's better to burn out than fade away.

you can always tell a true fan when they recognise the kurgens remarks

If I'm not mistaken, I think that may have been ad-libbed, Clancy just thought of it on the spot & the real priest just went with it.

exactly what i was thinking, he is like ETERNALS he only shows up when needed. get it?

its not just this movie in particular. all hollywood does is shit out reboots and remakes these days. there is no originality in hollywood anymore. this is just what it is now. cycling through remaking and more often than not mixing identity politics in there. its just fucking shite.

@@ravinarf5224 I see what you did there!

Actually small amounts actually improve it's function actually .... that's why I never drink , and when I do it's usually just a few shots all at once , or shotgunning beers , nothing else , ...not ever, but that's about once or twice a month ....tops.

The kilt was just the cherry on top

Did someone summoned me?

Also want to add that I notice that the quality of the "sword" fighting often gets ripped apart in reviews of the film. Being of the slightly older generation to have watched Starwars the first time around I am definitely more appreciative of the limited moves but more drama approach...think Luke wailing on Vader in RotJ. One of the reason the prequels/sequels left me largely cold was the over choreographed/ballet approach which after a few minutes becomes extremely sterile & boring. Keep it simple and more realistic.

I’m done playing games so I’m going down in flames

It’s actually from a Neil Young song, Hey Hey, My My

@@milton7763 Yeah! And IIRC Kurt Cobain quoted it in his suicide note. 🤯

The Kurgan delivered the line *way* better than Ol' Mr Young, though.

isn't it kind of the same thing?

@@zero7190 and a TV show...that doesn't follow the movie MC.

there can be only one...nuff said

@@Nempo13 that show was good fun though. Adrian Paul aced the role imo. Detached from the movie might have been a good thing there too. I'm not strictly against giving movies and shows slightly different universes, if the changes pay out

there going to base the reboot off of Highlander 2

No

There can be only one But what if they identify as they and are non binary then they might be more than one. Or if they have multiple personalities, do they not count Uh there can be only....fuck it

Stahelski is a chad, he don't do PC.

Right? Cant wait for Henry Cavill's wheelchair bound obese blue haired friend to come along and become the highlander at the end and show up all those cis gendered white males how its done.

@@wdf70 my name ? Its rey Rey MacLeod

@@wdf70 in the new version he eventually be free from immortality and live happily and proudly with the man he loves.

Cavil is a huge SF/Fantasy nerd. He actively lobbied for the Witcher gig because he is a huge fan of the Witcher computer games. He also paints minis and plays Warhammer 40k. He also does most of his own stunts. Cavill I trust, the studios...

If the remake is made he should play the new Kurgan. Would be interesting seing him as the big bad.

he clearly just wanted to show off his Connor McCleoud cosplay

Michael Kamen = legend. Lethal Weapon series.

Yes. Michael Kamen was an underrated composer. May he Rest In Peace

@@brandonmclendon5368 one that made Band of Brothers theme?

@@piotrd.4850 Yeah. And he did Mr Holland’s Opus, Iron Giant, X Men, and worked with musicians like Eric Clapton, Metallica, and Roger Daltrey.

"Who wants to live forever"--Majestic and heartbreaking at the same time. You know, like Scotland...

And Queen for the soundtrack!

I loved him in this one!0 Dialogues like: "Hi.. I'm Candy" ... "Of course you are...*meangrin* " It won't get any better than that! lol

I read an interview with him years ago where he said the studio approached him to come back in Highlander 2: The Quickening. He read the script, told them it was completely betraying everything about the original movie and if they wanted him back they'd have to fix the script to make it true to the original, and he never heard from them again. He said the studio guys had dollar signs in their eyes, the original movie was the only thing they made that made a lot of money and they were going to wring every penny out of it.

@@richtifilmpalast5373 Corinne Russell, her of Vixen game cover fame.

@@richtifilmpalast5373 you mean "Hi.. I´m Candy"....*rumbling of stones answers* "Of course you are..." his voice (and his acting) just super awesome and fitting.

And that's why we love him. For charisma.

He's perfect cause he didn't have a mother complex to make him a bad guy. He's just bad

"He's evil and fuckin' loves it."

Agreed, the mere fact he appeared live on the video, I think he was pissed.

My wife was laughing at that outburst. I said: "I have never seen him this mad!"

& how badly Hollywood screws up classics.

No, no, no, the answer is: (Drum roll for dramatic effect) 42

I've been wondering, what are midichlorians?

@@gnarkillguch they are what occurs between beginichlorians and endichlorians

Oh ffs!

You mean heroin.

There was if you refuse to acknowledge the rest. It is like star wars. You only watch the ones worth your time. 4,5,6, the prequel to 4 and then the Mandelorean.

@@mediaguyberlin Yup, I think I watched about 15 minutes of a sequel and turned it off. The first was a complete story.

As this includes the deleted ending (in the review) you might say that wrapped up any NEED for a sequel. The end of Highlander 2, though, was one of the more... tolerable bits, of that ill-starred effort, that said.

There was, just like there was only one Matrix movie and the three Star Wars movies. I don't know why people keep talking about hypothetical sequels that never existed. Weird.

The issue with H2, even as fans, was how do you add to a complete story? Sure, it missed out the background stories of how the other Immortals got their ‘irresistible urge’ to travel to New York. But that wouldn’t be a Highlander film (look up Disney film ‘Solo’). Hence Sean Connery’s reluctance unless there was a decent script.

The whole soundtrack was Queen. Princes of the Universe, Who Wants to Live Forever and more.

The soundtrack was the best part of the movie.

Yes

still my favorite song ever

Kurgan: I have something to say: it's better burn out, than to fade away!

Hollywood: "Whatcha reading? Yoink!"

Much like the critics sphere on RU-vid

@@georgegrogee5991 also true

More like “Go away now”

‘Nothing to see here’

Bloody EPIC album.

@@eefneleman9564 Hells yeah! I want "Who Wants to Live Forever" played at my funeral.

Without a doubt my favourite movie as a kid. Then came the sequels and the series. That was a lesson to carry into adulthood. Also: Best villain ever.

Only thing is that the flashback comes after he fights the immortal in the parking garage. While watching the match he feels the other immortals presence and is on edge because of that. The guy sitting next to him is smacking his back while cheering and is lucky Connor didn’t do a pre mature beheading.

@@kbar3612 I literally just rewatched it and no, the sounds and imagery of the wrestling match was juxtaposed against a Celtic battleground. The scenes were flashing back and forth before. The guy was yelling at him, but the noises he was trying to drown out was the sounds of war from his past. He’s actively trying to fight an episode. He is only distracted from his episode by feeling the quickening and then promptly running off. Later when the cop is arresting him and pointing a gun at his face he starts to blankly stare off directly into the cop car’s flashing lights into a flashback of being dead for the first time. It’s only when he goes to his fortress of antique solitude surrounded by relics of his past his has a pleasant flashback to his two greatest love’s, his wife and best friend. Conner’s character in the present is also a lonely damaged person with almost everyone he’s known dead or killed by his own hand. In his youth Conner was boisterous and full of life. The Connor of the present is broken. When he asks the police consultant women to walk her home it can be seen as a way of using her as protection. Having a mortal there could avoid a fight with another immortal as they don’t want mortals involved. He miscalculated because the immortal chasing him was The Kurgan and readily kills mortals. Even at the very beginning Connor tries to talk Fasil out of a fight but Fasil won’t listen. He’s tired of all the killing. Near the end of the movie Connor’s character has healed through love and a connection to his life again. Only then does he have conversational flashbacks with Rachel and Kastagir, not PTSD ones. The arc of Conner’s character isn’t to get stronger, as he’s already strong enough to beat The Kurgan. His arc is to heal from all of his past emotional wounds. Being an immortal, his body will heal, his heart won’t. The Kurgan of the present being a great example of the mental toll it is being an immortal. Kurgan of the present was unhinged, not like the war lord of when Connor and him first met. The reason Connor won was because he overcame his damaged past and thus became one with all of humanity. He was alone lost in the past, now he’s connected to all things of the present. It’s a great take on the warrior archetype where the key to victory is human connection not power. Brenda saves Connor’s life after all, in a way even, humanity(Brenda) chose the winner. There is so much more than just guys with swords in this movie. This movie should never be remade...

@@ManicPandaz The main song agrees with you. It starts with "who wants to live forever?" and ends with "then we can live forever!". To me it is about a broken man being healed and finding a reason to live again.

I hadn't thought of it that way, but that does make sense, especially when you think about the fact that these characters live so long and see so much.

A very good take MP. A+

staring off into the distance with Hello darkness my old friend playing...

The first time I felt old was when I rewatched the transformers movie (you know the REAL one that came out in like 1985 or so) started out "In the far off future of 2005" and I was like Oh shit the far off future was 15+ years ago!

@@morriganbermejo4042 That has a certain American point of view too it.... 😅

@morrigan Modern is everything from 1500 to now

Film Major: Modern is everything since the popularization of CGI, the action genre and franchises in the late 1990s. History Major: The Early Modern Era began with the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453. Geology Major: Fuck off.

The quickening.

@@Serahpin I never thought his RU-vid pic would be actually himself lmao, I thought it was a random guy until this reveal

It wasn’t a reveal. He’s shown himself on camera a few times before.

@@AlcoholicBoredom it was new to me, and I haven't since his face in any videos till now

@@stefan1360 Check this one out from 2019 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rkP3TNMHXb4.html

I once posted the video of Princes of the Universe, recut so that it was just scenes of MacLeod walking around doing nothing at all, to see if people noticed. (They didn't.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Lfv1dE3OjD8.html

Might be my second comment on RU-vid.... But your vid left me in tears. Nicely done, thanks for the laugh

@@pjsmith4409 Thanks. I remember enjoying making it. The stuff I like best is when Freddie is pumping his fist with various pyrotechnics going off behind, while it intercuts with MacLeod putting his jacket and keys down.

@@KaitainCPS full disclosure, I used to act out the fight scenes from the video when I was a kid, so I knew what was supposed to happen at each part of the song. So yeah, just as you said, the song gets intense and he's just walking more rofl.

Amen brother!

"I have no rivals, no man can be my equal"

My favourite Queen song. Always makes me think of the movie & vice versa.

I prefer Princes of the Universe. Often missed but it launches the film so well. I also prefer the original version of A Kind Of Magic which plays at the end credits. This was before it changed from a rock song by Roger Taylor to a more pop oriented song with Mercury's input.

@@mjbull5156 Princes of the Universe represent!

"Today can be FOREVER" 💁 love it.

He’s not Spanish, he’s from ancient Egypt…Christ Sean Connery is always fucking funny

He picked up the Scottish accent during his many years in Japan

Same guy does Mr Krabs.

@@liamriddy358 Japan is wild

Yesh...

And fit 80's women

Yeah, the new fragile attempt will be mostly women and the soundtrack will be all done by gay dudes and lesbians with no talent like Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Sam Smith, and on and on!

The last one is the biggest reason. You cannot make this movie today, because the Highlander was an 80's special... It is a B movie, but with some A-listers involved. They picked Cavill because The Witcher showed them that he looks the part. It will no doubt be beautiful, with amazing visuals and stunning effects. Movies like Highlander, They Live, The Princess Bride... they are of a time. They rely on storytelling and performance more than visual effects and fancy editing. You can still tell stories like this, but they are rare today. And Highlander is an action movie in today's marketing, so they're not going to allow things to move as slowly as they do for large chunks of Highlander. Look for rapid edits, long action sequences with over the top chases. All of the hallmarks of today's tent pole movies. And look for character development and storytelling to suffer in the exchange. That sort of thing does exist today ... The first seasons of Game of thrones and Westworld, for example. But nobody does it in a theatrical release. And I don't see any way possible that they are going to make Highlander into anything other than a generic action movie except with a Scottish accent. My guess is it will be much closer to John Wick than to Highlander.

They can remake any of the rubbish that followed though.

I see what you did there. 😁

Highlander 3 wasn't too bad, if not for the eye candy that is Deborah Kara Unger alone. Nah, it's actually a pretty fun flick and sequel tbf.

Birthing people

there will definitely be a few females and it wouldn't surprise me if one of them ends up being the "one". Don't forget the perfectly diverse cast required..

100% medieval Scotland will be filled with black characters and strong wahmens

@@jacobhall979 Yes, and they'll be 4',11" and weigh 85 lbs.....sorry, I don't know what that is in British stones or kilos and meters. More then likely the remake Conner character will be gay or a birthing person.

Ramirez will be played by Brie Larsen.

They'll probably get Bautista to play him or something.

The scene in the church with clothespins in his neck is fucking legendary

loved his medieval outfit in-between him and Kael from willow i always wanted a skull helmet.

A while ago, Ray Stevenson was considered for the Kurgen in the reboot. IMO, he would have been great. He's an awesome actor and is really tall with a big frame. But I think he's probably out of the running since he was never as successful as he should have been and he's getting old. I would actually like to see Scott Adkins as the Kurgen. Just have him do it as a crazier Yuri Boyka and it would be great. Dude is also tall, built like crazy and can do amazing martial arts scenes. Unfortunately he has the stigma of being a direct-to-video actor.

Clancy Brown will blow my mind again in the upcoming Dexter series since he will be the new villain.

Famous page 3 bird Corinne Russel, on screen for seconds, could've used anyone but Mulcahy was making a masterpiece. Notice she had bruises on her arm? Deliberate wee details. It's the cuts between past and present and the way they're done which always blow me away.

HELLO PRETTY.

She did the silhouette dancing in the opening of James Bond Octopussy…

MOM!!! 🤣

@@Buster_Piles Yes, the cuts between time frames are just genius. It was a shame they made sequels that were such garbage.