Watching HIGHLANDER for the FIRST TIME - How Many Can There Be Again??? 😏
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Swords, Scots, and severed heads! With a side of cheese, please.
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Am I the only one who thinks MacLeod had more chemistry with Ramirez than Brenda?
Yeah they had kind of like "plot armor" romance. ""well this is supposed to happen..... sigh" love.
Absolutely. But you couldn't make a movie back then without a romance sub plot. McLeod already had his true love: Heather!
LOL! "Bro"mance!
@@MysterD. I’m such a sucker for a good bromance
One piece of the second movie explains some of this, they are actually connected like brothers by the quickening...no more info, it would spoil it.
A French guy is Scottish. An American is playing a Russian. A Scottish man is an Egyptian masquerading as a Spaniard. It’s that simple. 🤣
LMAO! Yep...that's about the size of it.
And wrestling is involved where anyone can be any nationality and even parts unknown
Highlander is an odd movie. I can fully understand that some people will not connect with it, but there is something unique about it. It has a surprising amount of heart and it feels like one of a kind.
I was 100% invested in his first love story especially, and the dynamic between him and Rachel was so touching. There’s way more here than it gets credit for.
I use Highlander as a personality check. If someone doesn't like Highlander, then I will pass on that friendship.
They made a Highlander tv show with Connor’s cousin as the lead. Connor shows up every now and then too. They were able to show a lot more backstory and lore because…TV show. It was a fun and entertaining show.
I really enjoyed the series. I agree, so much more lore. I particularly liked the reason why they don't fight on holy ground.
I just started rewatching the series tonight. I’d forgotten how handsome Adrian Paul was, lol. I have the dvds for all 7 seasons but being lazy I found where the show is streaming for free & am watching it on my iPad. There’s some corn, but nothing like in this movie, lol. It’s worth checking out if you liked the premise of the film at all. If you enjoyed the background lore & would like to see him in his various lifetimes, the series is the way to go. It focuses on Duncan McLeod, Connor’s cousin, but Connor makes cameos from time to time.
Connor was only in the pilot episode.
So glad that you reacted to this movie, it clearly went under the radar here on youtube. There are some deleted scenes existing which are very interesting too. Also love the soundtrack and the music video "princes of the universe".
I need to find those deleted scenes!
I will never tire of this movie. I know it's a bit weird to first time viewers but come on. Clancy giving us one of the best movie villians ever (for which he was paid 0 dollars), Sean Connery and the best band in history. How can you not love this
The weird is good, embrace weird 💜
Yeah, Clancy not getting paid for this was FUCKED. My theory is that shitty behavior is why the rest of the movies were cursed to suck; justice for Clancy!
Love how Queen said they would do the music as long as they got to do all of it.
Hell yes, Queen was next level!
@@RhetoricalThrill so apparently you also need to see Flash Gordon, also a movie scored by Queen... and the first movie to use a major band for the soundtrack. Flash Gordon is an equally... unique movie
@@kosh6612just don't check out Flesh Gordon
I loved the drunken duel scene as a kid. Crazy dark humour but hilarious. You rule, RT
No you rule! That scene was a riot
That scene is awesome
Yes lol
Such a shame they never made any sequels to this magnificent piece of cheese.
That’s what I hear! At least we can enjoy this one 😉
@@RhetoricalThrill There are sequels, but most people don't think they are...they don't exactly follow the storyline with the first one all that well.
Highlander 2: The Quickening from 1991 and Highlander The Final Dimension from 1994.
There was also a tv series in the 90s, though he wasn't a main character but he did appear in one episode, the series finale.
I liked them well enough, but none of those are really as good as the original.
They do provide a heaping helping of his back story, like you wanted to see...worth a watch for those parts.
@@NateAZ /woosh
There was also a cartoon as well.
That's not true. They made an excellent series that sadly only lasted five seasons and definitely never withered and died in a mediocre sixth season for the sake of a bad spinoff series that would only limp along for one season itself before dying like an Immortal caught with their pants down.
Christopher Lambert may not be the greatest actor in the world (especially next to Sean Connery) but I give him a lot of respect. If he's not wearing glasses in a role just keep in mind that the man is basically working blind. He has severe myopia and can't wear contacts so he can barely see at all when on camera. It's resulted in him getting a lot of injuries doing his own stunts over the years.
Whoa, no kidding 😮 I think he did a good job here, and he’s my favorite in Mortal Kombat. The accents in general made me laugh, but I like him a lot
I love Christopher Lambert!
Holy crap, someone on RUclips that made an independent choice without audience approval or suggestion. I'm sadly impressed.
😂 I like to do stuff that people ask for, but sometimes you gotta say eff it and do what you want
Queen has a whole album titled A kind of Magic that is basically a soundtrack to Highlander ❤
I think we had like a compilation cd or something, that would have been where I listened to it
Check out that Queen album has every song that is in the movie
"Heeere we are! Born to be Kings, we're the Princes of the Universe!!"
Your edits and commentary never cease to make me smile! 😂
I honestly love to hear that 😊
To me Ramirez and Heather are the best moments of the movie and any Kurgan scene lol
I like the flashbacks better than modern day too ❤
The TV series is also very good. It follows the life of another immortal Duncan Macleod. It's set in modern times, but has a lot of his background and previous adventures.
Loved this when it came out, but has really soured for me over the years. I'll take Duncan over Connor any day. There can be only one!
According to Ramirez there are very few and they are scattered around the globe. The probability that 2 immortals are born to the same clan is neigh impossible. Its the reason I never watched the TV show. I know now they needed the tie in to push the show but nope. Now if they has made a raven show I would have watched that.
The TV series sucks. I'm a Highlander snob.
@@kevinhope561 - Some episodes are poor, some are very good, but Adrian Paul is a far more convincing actor than Christopher Lambert.
@@jowbloe3673 Nope
"Is he French?"
Christopher Lambert's muddled accent indeed comes from 'Lots of different places'. American born, he was raised in Switzerland (where they speak French, Italian, and German) and then France. It's a very unique accent.
For a comedic Lambert cameo - Hail Ceasar, with George Clooney and Josh Brolin
Oh no kidding? I’ll look that up
@Peter Humphrey he is Scottish from the Clan McCloud, hope i spelt it right.
My friend, who was a huge Queen fan, dragged me to see this when we were teenagers. I had absolutely no interest in seeing what I thought was going to be a boring historical drama. I left the cinema feeling like I'd seen the best film of my life. A few years later the same friend dragged me to see the directors cut of Betty Blue, again I went under duress having no interest in a subtitled French love story that ran for over 3 hours, and again I left the cinema feeling like I'd seen the best film of my life. My friend had excellent taste in movies.
That’s a good friend to have!
With the exception of Hammer to Fall, all the music in Highlander was written specifically for it. There's also a relly cool interview with Clancy Brown about how the movie came to be.
Nice!
I'm so glad you did this! By now, you might know a bunch of things. Lambert spoke French, they got a voice coach in to practice every piece of dialogue. We know, but Brenda doesn't. It makes sense that she would research. There are scenes we didn't get, such as Kastagir and Connor going out drinking with one of the detectives. An Asian Immortal the Kurgan beheaded who was security in a company. The footage is lost, but there are stills. Rachel burning down the antique shop, and getting together with one of the detectives, and how Connor gave his fishtank to one....
I would rather have had that than the extended investigation stuff, but I definitely understand choices have to be made during editing 😂 Thanks for watching!
Yes, Christopher Lambert is actually French, and I totally missed the part where Sean Connery sees haggis as revolting when he actually is a Scot. There are a few sequels, there were two version of 2 both stand alone stories, 3 The Final Dimention is more of an actual true sequel, End Game was like a final episode for the tv series and The Source was just to end it all
It’s sad that they could never really seem to make the most of this amazing idea
Still believe the Kurgan to be one of the great outlandish villains of any movie. A real cult classic for all it's flaws, great reaction.
No argument here
The 'quickening ",when an immortal gets beheaded,a transfer of energy power,flows into the one who chopped off the head.
Loved your reactions. Huge Highlander fan here so if ya ever have questions, feel free to ask.
You probably have all the good behind the scenes info!
@@RhetoricalThrill a couple things, lol
Rhetorical Thrill: I didn't see the build up in the modern romance subplot...
Me: Well, e did establish early on that she just LOVES antiques...
🤣🤣🤣
In the TV series, it is revealed that one of them once violated the rule against mortal combat on holy ground. The place was called Pompeii. My question was always were to new immortals come from? We only saw Conner but never see where he comes from. The same with Duncan in the series but they show a few others. They all seem to be foundlings.
Most of them didn't know where they came from. In the TV series Duncan found out he was a foundling. That was why there where two immortals in the clan Macleod. He never really found out who his real parents were.
@@armorborgwarclass Yeah, Conner and Duncan. But foundlings doesn't actually tell us much. I remember a young girl. Adopted. Teen. So young but not as young as Kenny. I with there had been a second season to Raven.
Immortals use swords because they can only be killed by Cutting heads off and collecting immortal energy or quickening.
Mr. "He Looks Friendly" from Conan isn't in this one, but does have a scene in Highlander II (Renegade Version), and was almost cast as the bad guy in Highlander III.
This was one of my favourite movies growing up. Another fantastic reaction, however I'm going to have to bill you for a new keyboard as I spat my coffee over mine laughing at around 24:49 when you mentioned the guys having a swordfight 😉
Ahahaha! 🤣
Yes Kurgan is played by Clancy Brown who played Captain Hadley in Shawshank and played Lofgren in Bad Boys, also in Pet Cemetery, Blue Steel and many other films including the HBO series Carnival
SUBSCRIBED the moment Connor MacLeod pulled his sword out in a parking garage under a werestling match against a proto-matrix agent amith "As you do". Taking the bizarre in stride and processing. A rare talent. This is a woman I'd want beside me during an attack: Logical and head-on-a-damn-swivel for threats.
I live for the bizarre 💜 Very glad to have you here!
I had to subscribe to your channel. I’m 24:36 in to your video. Your sense of humor won me over. Happy Easter God bless you and your family!
Thank you and Happy Easter to you as well!
What a great review of one of my favorite movies! Excellent assessment of the film. Imagine if they did a trilogy where the first film is the origin story. Then the second film is Connors journey to 1985 then finally a 3rd film when he wins the prize
I liked this a lot, but I honestly wouldn’t hate a well-made remake of it. I think there’s a lot yet to be explored.
The quickenings are getting more powerful because of the immortals being killed have more strength and knowledge from more kills but also because they're getting to be fewer and the Prize is closer to being win. Wait till you see the explosion when the Prize is won at end
The novelisation of the film is worth a read, it fleshes a lot out well. We spend a lot more time with Conner growing up in the Highlands, especially his releationship with his cousin Dougal. And it explains better why his first girlfriend goes from seeming loving to wanting to burn him overnight - she thinks she is pregnant by him and is therefore carrying the devils seed and burning him is the only way to purify the unborn child in her (as we find out later she cant in fact be pregnant, but her belief she might be combined with her devout catholism provides the motivation for her otherwise seeming suden change of heart). The novelisation is full of nice touches like that.
The Brenda love story is basically a product of its time, it was expected, but the film could do without it and in fact I always felt the story would have been better had her part been largely taken up by Rachel (without any romantic subplot but focused on his fatherly role to her and in her raising) had it been her kidnapped and threatened by Kurgen at the end it would have been much more emotionally stronger than kidnapping a shoehorned in love interest whose story is repetitive and so much weaker than the Heather love story we already got. Brenda's character could just have been someone in police forensics on the police side of the plot following the trail.
I like that idea a lot! I’ll also check out that novelization, it sounds promising
I remember reading the novelisation many, many years ago (the Garry Douglas one from 1986, not the Garry Kilworth from 1998)
I liked the way the extra backstory and 'origin' of The Kurgan was fleshed out.
@@Grizzly01 That must have been the version I also read, as it was definently from before '98
The Krugan is one of the scariest villains in movie history. SpongeBob would be scared of him.
The water around SpongeBob would get very warm if he met the Kurgan
@@RhetoricalThrill he voiced Mr Krabs in SpongeBob.
Your summary description of the prize made me laugh out loud- thanks!
Any time! 😊
Love the Labyrinth shirt. And very apropos for the movie.
Hehe, I knew immortality had some part, and hey, same year and everything! 😂
@RhetoricalThrill I was in my mid-teens when they came out, and loved both of them. And it started my many years long crush on Jennifer Connolly. If you want another great fantasy from the era, I'd highly recommend Ladyhawke.
I recently realised that the gun nut who got stabbed was the father from Labyrinth! LOL
Holy crap, that’s funny!
I always meant to watch Ladyhawke, I developed a weird fixation on 80s Broderick in like 1998.
Christopher Lambert was thought of for this movie after his portrayal of Tarzan in the movie Greystroke.
Ooh, I may have to check that out
Correction: An actual Scottish guy is playing an Egyptian, who once married a Japanese princess, who now has a Spanish name. Don't know why _he_ couldn't technically be the Highlander, but whatever.
That would have been amazing!
Clancy Brown that plays the Kurgan is incredible! 😊
Soo intense! 😱
Fun fact. Connery did the opening intro voiceover as Ramirez in his hotel bathroom. Hence the echo
This was kinda the start of Sean Connery doing the old mentor roles like The Rock and Untouchables. The tv show was fun when i was a kid.
He was great in this part, looks like he’s having a great time!
🎶Here we are!🎶
I unabashedly love this ridiculous mess of a movie. The Queen soundtrack alone is worth the watch, but you throw in Christopher Lambert, Clancy Brown, and an Egyptian with a Spanish name, a Scottish accent, and a Japanese Sword? It's a pure product of the 80's.
The only remake I could ever accept would be a rock opera.
For more of Christopher Lambert weilding a katana - The Hunted (1995)
Ooh, a rock opera would be insanely good!
Best comedy of all time to me called
The Heavenly Kid, from 1985, hilarious 😂 😂😂
The Highlander tv show is SOO good, I would highly recommend. More Queen soundtrack, lots of lore, lots of cool flashbacks. Its so fun!!
"The Predator coming to fight?"...No...something much much worse. The Kurgan
For the Quickening concept (a single source of power shared among certain people) but with martial arts - The One, with Jet Li and Jason Statham.
Ooh that sounds good
If you like 80's cheese and Queen soundtracks you have to see Flash Gordon!
I have, it’s great!
Love your reaction almost as much as I love the movie itself :) 12 year old me was mind blown and 49 year old me still is.
It’s such a vibe, just embracing what it is 😊
Eight year old me thought this was the greatest thing since Return of the Jedi.
MacLeod: How did this happen?
Ramirez: Who knows?
Me: I mean, it's not like they're aliens from the planet Zeist. (Not anymore, thank you, merciful editors!)
Omg does it really go that way at some point? 😭
@@RhetoricalThrill The original cut of Highlander 2 which can only be found on VHS tape. The DVD releases removed that stupid idea.
Clancy Brown who played The Kurgan was also in
Shawshank. Redemption, TV series Lost , Nightmare on elm Street 2010 remake and loads of others movies
Sorry , bit late to the party. and yes, I am a Highlander fan (the film and TV series) and I must say this review is one of the top ones on RUclips for this film! (I swear some reviewers never really watched the film) if you are going to review another highlander film, try part 3 not 2 as that will have you climbing a wall!! great review!! 💐👍
Thank you!!!
Not too many reactions to this movie, yet. So very nice choice. I *LOVE* this movie. Granted when I've seen it as a kid on TV, it was version dubbed into my mother tongue, so the entire accent issue was not a thing... but I love the 80s cheesiness.
I'm soo glad that Queen through their principles over board and decided to make the soundtrack. It's the bomb. (After "Flash Gordon", which was not a good movie and consequently tanked pretty hard, they decided to never do another movie soundtrack) Although there is no official soundtrack for this movie, all original Queen songs are on the Queen album "A Kind of magic". In addition, there is a cover version of Frank Sinatra's "New York" and "Hammer to Fall" from the earlier Queen album "The Works" in the movie.
That cover of New York, New York was so good! I was sad to see it’s not widely available.
@@RhetoricalThrill If I remember right, according to the band, they only recorded what was used in the film. It's a real shame. Loved the mix of industrial beats that progress into a mix of hard rock and show-tune. 🤘
I knew a guy in college who was the best impressionist I've ever seen or heard. Including people who do it for a living. This was his favorite movie growing up, and he could do any line of dialogue (excluding the women) perfectly. Had the entire thing memorized. I hated him at first because until he came along I could do the best Sean Connery impression. But between his Highlander, The Princess Bride, and The Untouchables impressions, I couldn't stay mad at him long.
That guy sounds cool as hell!
@@RhetoricalThrill he was. We used to make our own versions of movies on his VHS camcorder. He would hook up a microphone, we'd pop in a movie, then rerecord all the dialog. It was pure ad-lib and made for some weird stories. We made our own version of Star Wars that apparently made us celebrities on campus for years. No plan at all, just whoever showed up for a recording session and started talking when a character was on screen was now that character. I think we ended up using eight different Darth Vader's by the end of the film. One of whom insisted on a Jamaican accent.
Why do you mention The Princess Bride? Sir Sean Connery wasn’t in that one
@@timcook6566 because my friend Vince did impressions from that movie as well. I didn't mean to imply that it was also a Connery movie. He did flawless imitations of the grandpa, Inigo, Fezzik, Vizzini, the Man In Black, Miracle Max, the count, and the prince. He was amazingly talented.
@@timcook6566 basically, I mentioned it because those were his three go to movies for impressions.
Your description of the Prize will forever make me relate Highlander with "The Bachelorette".
😂
There's an interview out there with Clancy Brown who talks about the pure luck involved in bringing this movie together.
I should try to find that, I love that kind of stuff
The Prize is pretty much whatever the immortal wants it to be.
That explains why the Kurgan getting it would be so terrible 😮
It speaks to the strength of the overall tapestry that Queen, originally slated to do just one song for the film basically scored the whole thing after seeing it. Something about it touched Freddy on a deep level. A lot of people don't realize that, these songs were made FOR this movie out of love for the story.
This is one of those movies that tipped me over on sequels. Sometimes its better that a work stand on its own and not be franchised to Hell and back. Sixteen movies in, you've cheapened everything.
Another example is the entirety of the slasher genre. We had some compelling and terrifying icons. A silent killer stalking middle America which after a dozen sequels has almost none of its identity, and so many people who watch the original Halloween now are dissappointed by it. The Nightmare on Elm Street movies, though they are campy fun, none of them quite live up to the original genius of a demon stalking your nightmares. The original ALIEN, a classic horror frame work with sexual subtext and fears associated with violation, being trapped, and lost in an uncaring machine world. Now? It's a space monster franchise stretched out across five decades.
Highlander as a film and television series basically solidified the idea that sometimes one and done is the best. The series is a lot of fun, but this original film stands head and shoulders above any of the film sequels. By far the best of its kind.
I’m overall not impressed by sequels either. Very few second movies have been worth my time, and even more rarely, a fantastic trilogy that tells a complete story appears. I haven’t seen most slasher sequels and I’m happy with that.
A super underrated sci-fi/fantasy type movie. Soundtrack maybe the best ever, all by queen. Caused them to split with their record company, and go out on their own. They did the soundtrack as a Opera. Also the scenery and camera work, is amazing! Henry Cavill is supposed to be doing the remake!😮😮😮. U can skip part 2 or the TV shows. . Also the bad guy here, is maybe the best, pure psychopath , evil protagonist, ever! He was about broke and homeless, but he said he really wanted this gig, so he could work with Sean Connery! The opening, drag in camera cut around the ring and then close up, to the actor, is amazing! The guy that lets Connor out of his village? Old guy in Braveheart!😮😮😮
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR SHIRT AND NOW THAT SONG IS STUCK IN MY HEAD! Which I'm just fine with of course.
I like it better than the Dance Magic song actually! That’s a movie I wish people would react to!
I like it better too, although As The World Falls Down is my favorite from the movie. Fun fact if you didn't know. Bowie did the baby sounds from the Dance Magic song.
Ahahaha I actually didn’t know that 😂
Under NO circumstances should you watch ANY of the sequels. Trust me!
Don't worry, I've been scared off of them 🤣
That was a damned cool reaction. The best I've seen for this movie so far :-)
I really appreciate that, thank you! 😊
They made a few Highlander movies and a TV series. It has always had a cult following....Thanks for this one....
My pleasure!
Christopher Lambert (Highlander Connor Macleod, Raiden) also stars in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984), which has a strong Beauty and the Beast vibe.
This movie has the
Best. Transitions. Ever!
YES! I wasn’t able to mention them all but they are SLICK
Another movie that really needs to be seen in the theater. Saw it when it first came out. It was something else.
I wish I had a theater near me that played classics!
I'm turning 50 this year. This has been my favorite movie since I was 14. Clancy Brown as the Kurgin. (Shawshank, Starship Troopers, Mr. Crabs). Christopher Lambert (Raydon, a Frenchman, Tarzan). Sean Connery C'mon! Clancy Brown did this movie for free.
It’s a pretty special one, I’m glad I liked it too 💜
Excellent reaction and nice editing lol, could have put in inigo Montoya line before his head get chopped off lol
Did you get bit by that spider? Do you have spider powers now? Should we call you madam web? Lol
😂 nah, I was too quick for it
I don’t know if you react to TV shows. But if you do, then you might want to consider reacting to Highlander: The Series. They had to retcon the events of the movie a little (The Gathering hadn’t happened, it was just a personal vendetta between Connor MacLeod and Kurgan), but otherwise it’s very faithful to the original film and even expands on the lore (like WHY immortals never fight on holy ground, for example).
Think about it and maybe give it a try.
I’ll definitely think about it, though I’m pretty set on keeping tv series a Patreon thing, at least until I can afford an editor.
In the original American release, in the parking garage fight, Fasil does ONE back flip off the car, which while useless, was a pretty cool boss move. When they stuck the European multiple back flips down the length of the garage in later video releases, most of us were going WTF in between our giggles.
I don’t know what makes the difference between good silly and bad silly but I love this movie either way!
@@RhetoricalThrill Highlander has many faults, but somehow the whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. Just a heads up, none of the movie "sequels" are worth anything, but the 7 year television series is a pretty good alternate universe version of the concept.
One of my favorite movies and franchises (despite the "terrible" sequels) and kudos to figuring out he was immortal early on, most assume time travel, also Rachel is his adopted daughter and secretary, and despite being an evil bastard, The Kurgan isnt stupid enough to violate the holy ground rule
I see what you're saying about the modern mundane stuff interfering with the immortal journey but it illustrates the point that immortals are unvthe backdrop of reality on earth
All those songs from Queens 1986 Kinda Magic LP were in film except Friends Will Be Friends and One Vision was in Iron Eagle film
I do love watching the acting skills of Mr. Krabs!
5 seconds in and I'm in awe you look so pretty❤
You are the sweetest, my Z
Your commentary cracks me up everytime , can't get enough
That’s the goal! Thank you!
Anytime, looking for more , hardcore fan obviously lol
Christopher Lambert , the Highlander , was born in New York , his father was French. He then moved to Switzerland , grew up in Geneva basically ,then the family moved to France.
So he basically has a French accent as you so astutely observed .
Great actor , great movie , a cult movie in fact !
He’s clearly giving it his all, so I always appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
Christopher Lambert, aka, Raiden and Macleod, is a confirmed native French actor.
Cool shirt! I just bought the soundtrack on modern 180 gram vinyl LP (my original LP was stolen in 1995). I'm glad you left the beaten path to pursue an item of personal interest! This was one of several 1980's films that molded a generation of Dungeons and Dragons geeks (I was one) and fed the imaginations of many other fans of the fantasy genre. Here is a list of the nine biggest films that I recall: Highlander (1985), Labyrinth (1986), The Dark Crystal (1982), Dragonslayer (1981), The Beastmaster (1982), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), The NeverEnding Story (1984), Legend (1985), and Clash of the Titans (1981). Most of them are beyond "dated" and are exceptionally cheesy, but every single one is a fantastic tale in its own right! It's the kind of thing where the stories are so entertaining, you can overlook the flaws. I'm glad you enjoyed this one and that you brought us along on your journey! Thank you!
Yes! No fantasy like 80s fantasy! I’ve seen (and loved) all of those but Dragonslayer and Beastmaster.
Haha, great movie, great review. The Queen album was for this movie
I didn’t know there was an album for it, I got exposed to Queen through compilation CDs 😆
@RhetoricalThrill one of the greatest soundtracks in film history
Highlander has many sequels, there is more than only one lol
Highlander 2 The Quickening
Highlander 3 The Final Dimension
Highlander Endgame
Highlander The Source
Great movie. One of the best sci fi sword movies ever made. The sequels are not that good except maybe end game which is decent. Fyi you know the start sequence Sean Conrey recorded in the toliet :) .. A great Sean Connery rip movie is The name of the rose. Another great Christoper Lambert is The Fortress. Fyi there was an Highlander tv series and the guy who worked on the sword scenes in The Princes Bride worked on this movie.
Recorded in the toilet, that is hilarious 😆
You should have said There can be only one, when you killed the spider. Muwahahaha 😈
Spiders in my face = NONE
This movie is awesome. There is a TV series which is on Tubi. I love the Queen music.
The soundtrack is the main attraction of this movie. Queen rocks.
💯
Love that you are watching this classic!
Christopher Lambert is actually French, so you are hearing that poking through once in a while in this.
And yes, that is his real laugh, check out some interviews with him and you will hear it....still it wouldn't be Raiden without that laugh, right?
I love it more now that I know it’s his real laugh, it’s infectious
Thank you. So much for sharing this.
The cuts you added in for your editing, the pieces of movies, shows and cartoons, that this movie made you think of.
Some of those shows may and probably were inspired by this very movie. It's even more funny for me basically watching this in reverse.
"The Prize", I don't think there's any way for mortal men ( the movie makers ) to figure out all the pieces of the puzzle that would make an immortal's life.
They got the premise, and were able to flesh out ( yes, that was funny to me too as I wrote that ) - flesh out a common Scottish clansman abruptly finding out he was actually immortal after one stramash or another that could show up between Clans - and fortunately didn't involve the English.
-- sorry, due to the main character's culture of origin, it made me think of a piece of information during some dialogue in the book OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon. ( yes, the tv series is based on this book, and this series of books ). The word stramash was used in the book, and from the context, I believe it basically means basically a fight between rivals, with that fight having multiple fighter...like if football teams carried swords and might or might not kill each other while raiding each other to abscond ( lol, as if changing to that word doesn't mean stealing is still stealing, and using the word stealing would somehow be more offensive than the word abscond ).
Damnit, i got lost in this "conversation" b.s. and lost my train of thought.
If you want more lore for the Immortals, their lives and fighting for 'The Prize', the tv series covers a lot pretty well, covering even a few female Immortals, a harder thing for women, considering the limitations that religion and patriarchal cultures kept on them for centuries. And the show even covered an Immortal who ctopped aging after his first death, trapping him in the body of a child. I'm only telling you this because you expressed a desire for more lore.
- right. "The Prize", how sad that just knowing peoples' thoughts was the epitome of what the writer thought would be a worthy "prize" to get for all those beheadings.
...wrote themselves into a corner there, and didn't know how to "win", without leaving the main character as little more than a warlord.
If you want some other 80s cheesiness, check out My Chauffeur, a cute enough story, where another Hollywood producer figured a cute story wasn't enough to get more than just a female dominated viewers, but tossed in nudity to get more men to suffer through the cute romance to see the boobies. Worked to a degree, I guess. On the plus side, the dialogue was cute, and more than 20 years of first watching it, I and a few friends can toss in a quote out of no where that gets a laugh.
It's hard to not laugh at
"All I have to do is find a one-legged nun walking a goat, And I WIN."
Anyways, I'm glad you enjoyed the movie. I didn't care for the police investigation part of the story so much, but there was a lot of world building to do in a limited amount of run time...origin story, flashbacks,final fight. Not a lot to go on to suddenly include the modern era.
Glad you had fun.
I did have fun, and in the end that's the goal, so it's a W all around! I haven't decided if I'll try the series, I'm still iffy about doing series for the channel at all, but it's a possibility. I'm glad you liked the editing, it's always nice when people enjoy my randomness 😂
Thanks a lot, you just got me in trouble. I’m washing the dishes and my wife is in the living room…and then you make the joke about it’s a fake Scottish accent because your underwear is still on. The Mrs came in to see what I was losing my mind over. I tried explaining it and she just gave me a dirty look and walked off. Hahahahaha 🤣😂🤣
Whoops 😆
The actor who played the bad guy is Clancy Brown.
Yeah!!!! There can be only one reactor!! xx You are super funny
Aw, thank you!
Love this film, one of the most underrated films ever, the sequels suck balls though, don't bother
Christopher Lambert accent was designed to represent a man that been alive over 400 yeara lived everywhere and just adopted every accent and it kinda became how he talked in future rolls he did tarzan prior to this so that was a different accent for him
Yeah, it wasn’t so jarring in the present day parts, I think for the reason you gave
The Quickening is the life experience, knowledge and power developed over time by each immortal. When one kills another the Quickening is transferred to the victor. The older the immortal, the more powerful the Quickening. By this point there are very few immortals left, those who have survived are the most powerful who have ever existed in this cycle of immortality.
There is also the issue of possession. If a younger immortal somehow kills an elder, the elders Quickening can be too powerful and that elder can sometimes live again through the younger immortal.
In the TV series we discover that the cycle happens every 5000 years. That there is four immortals in the world from the previous cycle. 5000+ years old. Nobody in their right mind wants to fight them.
They are power personified and Duncan McLeod is friends with one. Methos. They never explicitly come out and say it, but it's strongly implied that Methos began the Watchers as a way of keeping track of the other younger immortals. The Watchers have absolutely no idea that he and the other three still exist.
If they did, they'd be ordering in bulk supplies of brown trousers!
During the ending fight in the ice rink, the director did not tell the actor playing Connor MacLeod that the windows were going to explode. He wanted an honest reaction when MacLeod received the Prize; the combined Quickenings of almost every immortal on Earth. So, he was told nothing but the line you hear him say, 'there can be only one!' And now, he is the one!
Oh jeez, I bet that was scary when those windows shattered 🤣 I love the lore behind the story, I'll check out the show one of these days, but it's too bad they couldn't do more with the movies
@@RhetoricalThrill as I said Adrian Paul was the absolute perfect choice to play Duncan. I just got reminded of a great description I heard by a woman doing a review of the show. She described him as an example of when Scottish and Japanese genes get together and have a real good time!
Paul had an absolute blast playing him. He even wrote an episode or 2, one where he taught a class on the Crusades and the class, unsurprisingly, is mostly young girls and they are practically drooling over him. Especially when he tells them about an incident in the Crusades which actually happened. How the European knights required huge stallions in order to carry the plate armour and other weaponry, not to mention the fact that when you start training to wield all these weapons with all that weight on when you're still practically in nappies you end up being built like a gorilla.
The Saracens, on the other hand, wore much lighter armour and preferred speed to power, so their preferred horse was a mare.
During one major battle, the Saracens didn't noticed that their horses were coming into heat and since horses are herd animals, once one starts, they all start!
The stallions got a nose full of the world's most intoxicating perfume and completely forgot about the battle.
It was the one time where peace had to be declared between the Knights and the Saracens as they needed to get their horses attention. Duncan summed it up for the class in a way that had them in stitches: 'it was the first documented case of make love, not war!'
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Yes Chris Lambert is French. Funny fact about this movie is that he didn’t speak English when they made the movie.
For all the negative things you say about the movie: "La la la, I don't hear you!!"
(Meaning you're absolutely right, but I *LOVE* this flick anyway.)
The negatives are very small overall anyway, I enjoyed this just as much during the edit process, and I can’t say that about everything 😊
He was in green mile the officer that killed that guy crying
I haven’t seen that, but I plan on getting to it
Angus was a real Scotsman.....He was in Braveheart too
I’m glad they had a few!
“I know who I am! I’m a Scottish Dude playing an Egyptian Dude disguised as a Spanish Dude!”
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13:32 they never say what made Ramirez seek out MacCleod cause he could’ve been teaching an evil immortal how to survive.
This may be the only movie where I’ve looked forward to a remake, there’s so much to explore in this world
@@RhetoricalThrill They are working on one with Henry Cavill. Someone asked Adrian Paul who did the TV series and the 4th Highlander movie what he thought of the remake and he felt the same way that there’s so much to explore and was thinking they should make a new character instead of Connor or Duncan(his character). It would be neat to see ot from someone else’s point of view fighting evil immortals and hearing about Connor MacCleod. The original scriptwriter for the TV series was brought on to rewrite the script for the new one. Out of the movies I place them in rank as 1-the first one, 2-the fourth one, 3-the third one, 4-the fifth one and 5-the second one. I can enjoy them by looking at them as individual films and not sequels. The second one I’m not sure what they were thinking and the actors pretty much said they did it for the money cause the script was crap. Lambert had to do it cause of contractual obligations. The rest of the movies pretty much ignore the second one. What’s funny is the second one takes place in 2024 so we can see what we missed out on. The producers created the tv series to regain filming rights.