Highlander: The Reckoning

[Big s]

The soundtrack really was a key to the greatness of the original. The story was good enough and the action wasn’t bad and the main characters were pretty good and it was totally silly to have a Spaniard with a scotch Irish voice that used a Japanese sword, but everything glued together with the greatest movie soundtrack ever. 

[Wolf-1]

As someone who has seen them all, with the only omissions in the collection being Highlander 2(don't care how it's cut/edited, it just doesn't work) and The Raven ( I liked Amanda, just not that much); I'm bound to see it.  I'm actually really surprised to hear that P.S. Davis is okay with this, as the whole point behind The Source was to allow W. Panzer to die knowing a "prize" had been achieved.  Bring on the Queen but why not add some Who? 

[Dynaman]

19 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Watch Vin Diesel show up as Ramirez...

Not Scottish enough for the part.

[TangledThorns]

9 hours ago, Dynaman said:

Not Scottish enough for the part.

Nor Spanish, lol. They'll probably go with a well known actor, Antionio Bandera or Javier Bardem perhaps?

I'm curious about the villain, Clancy Brown was great as Kurgan. Personally I'd like to see someone not known for playing villains as Kurgan, Chris Hemsworth for example would be cool as Kurgan.

 

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Edited May 23, 2021 by TangledThorns

[Dynaman]

4 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Nor Spanish, lol. They'll probably go with a well known actor, Antionio Bandera or Javier Bardem perhaps?

I'm curious about the villain, Tom Clancy was great as Kurgan. Personally I'd like to see someone not known for playing villains as Kurgan, Chris Hemsworth for example would be cool as Kurgan.

Dave Bautista could pull it off.  A different take on the role but I think he would work.

[pengbuzz]

5 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

Nor Spanish, lol. They'll probably go with a well known actor, Antionio Bandera or Javier Bardem perhaps?

I'm curious about the villain, Tom Clancy was great as Kurgan. Personally I'd like to see someone not known for playing villains as Kurgan, Chris Hemsworth for example would be cool as Kurgan.

Clancy Brown was Kurgan, unless Kurgan joined Rainbow Six.

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, pengbuzz said:

Clancy Brown was Kurgan, unless Kurgan joined Rainbow Six.

HAHA! Fixed it

[Black Valkyrie]

9 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

Clancy Brown was Kurgan, unless Kurgan joined Rainbow Six.

 

You mean Mr. Krabs  . 

 

[M'Kyuun]

IMHO, Highlander was a unique film that needs no reboot, and no further sequels. I didn't care for the series, either. Let it go. Do something original. What happened in Hollywood to virtually stifle all creativity and originality? It's sad when they're still mining 30+ year old properties for movies today instead of creating new properties for the next couple of generations to work off of.  

Likewise with The Crow. First film was great- everything after, meh.

[Dynaman]

7 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

IMHO, Highlander was a unique film that needs no reboot, and no further sequels. I didn't care for the series, either. Let it go. Do something original. What happened in Hollywood to virtually stifle all creativity and originality? It's sad when they're still mining 30+ year old properties for movies today instead of creating new properties for the next couple of generations to work off of.  

Likewise with The Crow. First film was great- everything after, meh.

People were saying the same thing back in the eighties too.  We just remember the few knockouts that started a whole new trend that continues till now.  

As for the Highlander sequels, luckily I didn't go see them in the theater.  I don't think I've ever seen the 3rd movie all the way through.

[Wolf-1]

2 hours ago, Dynaman said:

People were saying the same thing back in the eighties too.  We just remember the few knockouts that started a whole new trend that continues till now.  

As for the Highlander sequels, luckily I didn't go see them in the theater.  I don't think I've ever seen the 3rd movie all the way through.

The Mario Van Peebles one; Final Dimension?  Other than changing up where Conor's sword originates from, or rather whom from, it actually holds up.  Granted the magic thing is a little over the top, but far less than what's pulled off in The Source, and there is no saving the "I want to be Dune" 2nd film.  Endgame suffers in that they are finally attempting to give us early Connor/Duncan history as previously set-up but it conflicts with already established stories for each; the who took whose head had to happen and was actually done quite well, IMO.  The fight scenes are the best in the Franchise, bar the final fight which is no worse than the original's.  The Source was gobbled together because half the creative duo behind the Franchise was dying; like the Animated Series it's a Bomb not The.  The Series is what actually has carried this Franchise so team D was bound to win the fight.  They missed the boat when they didn't offer P. Wingfield(Meethos) a Series after the original instead of going with E. Grace(Amanda) in The Raven.  P. Wingfield's character did appear in Endgame and The Source and his death was not confirmed, so I hope for a cameo at least.

 

[Dynaman]

Ack!  The sequels were worse then I remember - and I remembered them being feces.  The TV show was actually OK, but not OK enough that I bothered to watch more than a couple of episodes.