Highlander ANIME (SciFi)

[docm]

Just started and it looks GOOD; heads rolling before the titles even started <img src="/images/icons/laugh.gif" /><br /><br />It's set in a post-apocalyptic Earth where plagues have pretty much ruined things. Not the original storyline but still looks good so far.<br /><br />I'll report back later.... <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[CalliArcale]

It's not the one with Quentin MacLeod, is it? <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[Aetius]

I like the <i>Robot Chicken</i> "Highlander" parody, where all the teen starlets battle each other to the death. <img src="/images/icons/wink.gif" />

 

[jmilsom]

Is it based on the sequels. Highlander 2: The Quickening should have been called 'The Sickening' because that is what it did to most audiences when they learned that the immortals were actually from the planet Zeist - and went on to be treated to one of the worst sequels in history. <br /><br />If the anime is based on this you couldn't pay me to watch it! <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[sunforger]

LOL, I loved the first movie but never saw the second one. Guess I'm glad I didn't. That sounds horrible.

 

[CalliArcale]

Oh, you should see it. But you should see this version:<br /><br />MST3K: Highlander II: The Quickening<br /><br />It's a fan-made MST3K video. They also did Star Trek V, which was equally deserving. <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> It's available basically for the cost of shipping. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>

 

[pmn1]

I had heard stories that the writer of 'The Quckening' tried comiting suicide in the toilets at the premiere due to the complete changing of his story.<br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[sunforger]

Okay just saw it at Target, had it in my hand, but didn't buy it. Is it worth the 14 bucks?

 

[CalliArcale]

Highlander II: The Quickening? No, it is not worth fourteen bucks. It's barely worth the time to watch it, frankly.<br /><br />Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery both tried to get out of performing in it, but couldn't; they were on the hook contractually ever since being signed for the first one. Connery's presence is particularly inexplicable, given that his character had been killed off in the first one. He's fun to watch; he always manages to be entertaining, at least, even when the movie stinks. (Well, almost always. "The Avengers" was pretty cringe-worthy.) Ironside hams it up tremendously, as if he knew he was in a stinkburger, knew he'd get paid anyway, and was determined to at least enjoy himself. If you like crappy B movies, it's right up there with the worst of them -- but with half-decent production values. It's not as painful as, say, "The Beast of Yucca Flats". But it is not good at all.<br /><br />Trivia: Christopher Lambert nearly severed Michael Ironside's finger during filming of the climactic sword fight. Lambert is very nearsighted, and for whatever reason does not wear contacts, and thus misjudged a swing.<br /><br />It would be interesting to see a Bad Astronomy review of the movie. The premise is absurd on many levels, along the lines of "The Core". In the not-so-distant future, the ozone layer will be so destroyed that huge wards of skin cancer victims will exist, and humanity will be in danger of extinction. (Apparently Bedouin fashion was not considered as a viable solution.) Connor MacLeod financed a gargantuan effort to blot out the sun via a bad special effect called The Shield, which is for some inexplicable reason operated by a private consortium, which charges the governments of the world (or at least the US government; it's not really clear how other countries are involved) for the service of blotting out the Sun to save humanity. But it's been engaging in price fixing, and is concealing the fact that the atmosphere is act <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font color="#666699"><em>"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly . . . timey wimey . . . stuff."</em>  -- The Tenth Doctor, "Blink"</font></p> </div>