New Highlander (TV) Movie

[Shade]

If ever a franchise could use a "reimagining", this is it.

If Batman could recover from the Joel Suchmacher years, surely Highlander could regain its cred under a visionary director or producer.

 

[trancejeremy]

I would love to see a Hong Kong style version of it. Which would make the title a little hard to explain, but I guess there could be "Highlanders" from China, they have mountains there.

Or maybe it could star Michael Wong, who is half-caucasian. Heck, he probably looks more Scottish than Christopher Lambert.

(I love his movies. He doesn't speak Chinese very well, being from New York, so they all talk to him in Chinese, and he answers back in English)

 

[Mouseferatu]

I, for one, would love to see a Highlander reimagining/reboot. I think the concept still has potential, but the franchise as it stands now is deader'n Brittney Spears' career.

However, there's one major caveat, at least for me. If the main character is going to be a Scottish highlander, than for God's sake, let him wield a claymore! No more of this "Oh, I got my katana from an Egyptian with a Spanish name and more of a Scottish accent than I have."

 

[Villano]

Sweet baby Jesus on a pogostick, that was bad! Cannibals?! Are you kidding me? And who actually thought that the superspeed element was a good idea?

The script was terrible, the director doesn't know how to shoot an action acene, the music sucks, and the editing...Dear Lord, the editing. Watching this mess, I was reminded of the Film Crew (the former MST3K guys) riffing on Killers From Space:

You know, guys, this is actually a well known editing technique. It's called 'take-all-the-pieces-of-film-and-throw-them-on-the-floor-and-paste-them-back-together-randomly'.

And whoever cast the Guardian should be dragged into the streets and beaten. Could he have been any worse?

Cannibals? I still can't believe that...

 

[James Heard]

Also, it was not any good.

 

[sniffles]

Okay, they re-ran it last night and once again whilst channel-surfing I ran across it. This time at the very beginning.

Voice-over narration is usually not a good sign. Especially not when it's a sort of "in media res" narration, like they couldn't be bothered to come up with a better reason for the characters to be doing what they were doing. And who thought screwing around with the Highlander continuity that way was a good idea?!

 

[James Heard]

As goofy as the beginning was, it had NOTHING on the ending. It was like Ewe Boll bought Highlander and said to himself, "You know what, I want to make a bad movie after all these great ones I've done before. Suck it, Highlander."

 

[Truth Seeker]

The 'old' TV series will wash this away.

-Pressing play-

 

[Taelorn76]

Whoever thought of changing the meaning behind "There could be only One" needs to be ... I don't know what , but something just needs to be done to them.