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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 1338059" data-attributes="member: 151">I remember when the movie came out.  A friend of mine went to see it, and we arranged to meet afterwards to go out to dinner.  He and his friend met up with another friend and I, and we both noticed he looked pale and drawn.  I asked him how the movie was, and he told me "I'm not sure if I should go with you to the restaurant, or head home and get a shower.  I feel dirty."  He honestly felt violated....a movie he truly enjoyed had been sorely misused by it's sequel. The appeal of the first Highlander film was that it was a nice mixture of modern and historical fantasy, with an awesome soundtrack, made capably for a modest budget and released with little fanfare or hype.  The original movie wasn't a blockbuster, and at the time, it was a little film that became a cult hit.  It cost $16 million to make, and only made it's money back with a combination of US and International receipts.  Compare that with Aliens, which came out the same year, with a budget of $18 million and a gross of $85 million in the US alone (why was highlander so expensive in comparison?  Location shots and Sean Connery). Oh, and Rackhir...my kids love Speed Racer.  Yeah, the animation is painfully bad and the dubbing is horrible...but it still has a quirky charm. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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