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HIGHLANDER
- Connor going for
that creepy stalker look with the beige raincoat and white trainers
- I approve of the
fact that to get the sparks flying here, they simply wired the actors up to
a car battery. Particularly safe in the dripping wet garage
- He's regretting
having that extra hamburger now, "if I was just a bit thinner..."
- Check out the flying
head
- You can't blame the
guy for not participating in his own drowning
- Poor, petulant
Connor, "Nobody will fight me!"
- "Don't even
breathe" I'd be tempted to hold my breath till I passed out, make him
carry me into custody
- You don't see may
priests with mohicans nowadays
- Do you get many
antique dealers with an in depth knowledge of weapons?
- If that was the
case, you'd think he'd pick someone a little prettier than Fasil
- "Lying on the
floor next to his own severed head". I just like the possibility that
he could have been lying on the floor next to somebody else's severed head
- He must have chipped
hell out the blade of that katana
- "Hey! Come back
here!" Stand still while we arrest you, damn it!
- She's changed her
tune
- Honestly, does no
one respect a good afterglow?
- His fish need a good
clean
- Great comedy moments
in film, Sean Connery asking what a haggis is
- He should have known
that stair was never going to hold
- "Eyes in the
back of your head", rubbish, he could see her reflection in the window
- That's a stunningly
large-eyed child
- How every girl
prepares for a romantic dinner
- Wouldn't that brandy
be better appreciated after dinner?
- All of which I've
had as "in what year..." pub quiz questions. And they say you'll
never learn anything from the movies
- If I'd been his wife
I'd have shot Connor myself
- Bit of Queen trivia,
this song ('Hammer To Fall') is from 'The Works', not 'A Kind Of Magic'
- Little old ladies
are usually a lot harder to scare than that
- Ah Tony, there's a
fringedweller in the making. "What does 'baffled' mean?"
- He went to all that
trouble to alter his name but didn't bother to alter his handwriting?
- I recognised him
- He's a big
chocolate-covered marshmallow with a walnut on top?
- Oh come on I sure
you can quote something a little more original than that
- No Brenda, they're a
figment of your imagination. The question you're after is "are the
claymores genuine?"
- Both MacLeod's are
always so dramatic. They couldn't show themselves healing a flesh wound?
- That's it Connor,
tell her you can't get involved after you've slept with her. Bastard
- Kurgan helpfully
pointing out the sights. Not New York's most convincing tour guide
- You mean all this
time she's been standing there not actually chained to the railing? At no
point did it occur to her to run?
- The bit with the
iron pipe was a nice try though
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HIGHLANDER II -THE QUICKENING
- Does August 1999
count as a flashback? (Although for all intents and purposes this film
doesn't exist, so it won't be appearing on any timelines)
- Love the petulant
tone from the weather reporter who's had all his potential for dramatic hurricane announcements taken away
- Connor wisely
sleeping through the opera
- They knew Sean
Connery was going to have to say the planet's name at some point, they
couldn't have picked one a little less comical?
- I forget how
ludicrous this whole planet Zeist bit is
- What had that eel
ever done to him?
- So where did the
hundreds of other immortals appear from?
- Why is this a worse
punishment than just blowing their heads off?
- Nice to see the
late-night personnel hard at work
- The standard
procedure for blue alert involves running round like headless chickens?
"Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb"
- There is a lovely
sub-'Blade Runner', noir-ish look to these scenes
- Like the
milk-drinking bartender
- Is he running for a
doctor or is he just going to beat up the rude old woman?
- Well you should have
tried hiring somebody who doesn't model their look on a porcupine
- Can't fault the
fight sequences though
- He's finally got to
play Hamlet, and dammed if he's going to stop acting now
- He's not talking to
the skull, he's talking to Horatio
- Yep, we're confused
too
- What would they do
if someone didn't pay? Surely they couldn't just let a bit of the shield
down
- 'The Wizard Of Oz'
made it to the planet Zeist?
- What's the top speed
of a subway train?
- The main problem
with this movie is that it's actually about three movies all going on at the
same time. If they'd stuck with the shield storyline, or for that matter
made the Zeist thing as an original film and not tried to shoehorn it into
the Highlander cannon, it wouldn't actually be that bad. Instead it's just a
total mess
- This isn't the most
comforting safety film ever made. It's more like one of those "don't
play on the railway" films they used to show at school
- It's not a bad way
of approaching your food
- Helpful model for
someone who couldn't picture what a shield around the earth looked like
- Saved knocking him
out
- Don't stand there
gaping woman! Start button pushing!
- There isn't an off
switch somewhere?
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HIGHLANDER
III - THE SORCERER
- It's an odd thought
that they were filming how Connor got his katana almost at the same time
that they were filming how Duncan got his
- Irritatingly again,
they don't give us an exact date for this, so I can't stick it on the
timeline
- Strangely enough,
the 16th century Japanese guy doesn't actually speak English
- Fire and water...oh, so this is one of those symbolic films
- Cool snake
- Do all the movie bad
guys have some kind of diction problem?
- That head just
spoke!
- It's strange, but
given the (presumably) far superior budget, the movie quickenings never look
as good as the TV ones
- Kane's remarkably
composed for someone who's just been excavated
- It'd be just my luck
that the quickening would bring the cafe roof down again and I'd be stuck
there for another 400 years
- So this one's just
going to completely disclaim all knowledge of the series then?
- Someone actually
called an ambulance? That was very public spirited of them
- Are you allowed to
commit people on the strength of one pissed ER doctor's yelled opinion that
he's a lunatic?
- In every single TV
lunatic asylum there has to be a man who thinks he's Napoleon. Do they come
with the beds?
- Vive l'Empereur!
- Ooh, nasty
orange-hooded anorak
- Does that mean he
gets $60?
- This is just a cheap
way to avoid hiring another actress isn't it?
- That interviewer was
asking some very insightful questions
- I'm not sure whether
all the echoes of the original movie in the dialogue are effective or not,
but I think on balance that I like it
- Eh? What was that
bit about changing the tartan in aid of?
- Er, oops?
- And as far as I can
guess, she's going to ignore them both
- Nice plagiarising of
'A Tale Of Two Cities'
- He sounds like Sean
Burns
- He's Scottish, how
can he commit treason? And why would some revolutionaries be executing
someone for treason against the King? Someone didn't think that little scene
out properly
- Now that's better,
I've just taken a moment to wash my screen with a bit of vinegar and I can
actually see everything I'm typing for a change
- If someone tried to
identify my loved ones by the photos on my wall, I think they'd spend the
next few months trying to hunt down Gary Cooper
- This isn't the same
version of 'Bonny Portmore' that they use in the show is it? I'd check, but
for some reason my Highlander soundtrack tapes seem to have disappeared
- He wouldn't have
gotten away with shoving like that in the Glaswegian Airport
- I think he's seen
the plane John
- When did Kane learn
how to drive? It's not something you can just pick up and I can't imagine he
paid for lessons
- Don't fall for it
MacLeod, she's not real!
- How come his legs
don't fall over?
- That is a really,
really beautiful last shot, and I love that bit of doom-laden lightning
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HIGHLANDER
- ENDGAME
- Nice total
disclaimer of 'Highlander II' in the first ten seconds
- 10 years ago from
when? How far before the series does this come? (I can't get a definite date, so
this hasn't gone in the timeline)
- God, I am such a
sucker for this cross cut editing style, always looks fabulous
- Ooh, gawd, some
haircut
- Twice before,
surely?
- He should give those
bars another yank, they don't look too solid
- But surely they knew
Connor was a foundling, on account of (presumably) someone finding him
- Comedy blood!
- I love the visual,
monks with automatic weapons
- "Reflect"
and grow some pretty deadly fingernails as well
- Ah, the original and
best, master of the comedy tai-chi segment. Although mitigated by the GREAT
hair, and the fact that he really knows what he's doing
- Volunteer? She said
that in a way that made it sound pretty darn compulsory
- He always gets the
best houses
- Exposition ahoy!
- That flashback can't
be before the pilot then
- Really sugar-coating
these revelations isn't he?
- Flirt!
- No move is
unstoppable, well quite a few are, but none of them are unpreventable, or
unavoidable
- He was never
married, they make quite a point of it
- "Got a nail in
it at night too"
- You know, I don't
think this is speeded up. Jesus they're fast...
- Eww that's creepy
- The watcher's an old
'Raven' villain, the nutball astronomer from 'Dead On Arrival'
- Shame we didn't see
that, Methos is usually quite handy with that katana
- 174 seems a bit low,
he must have whacked nearly 100 just in the series
- I wonder what
Methos' total is?
- Oh, I've missed him,
"saying he wants to see the body"
- I could watch it for
a while if he needs a break...
- "Would you kill
an unarmed man again?" Hell yes! Notice nobody ever makes these offers
to Methos
- Nice to see Connor
using the sharp edge of the sword
- Well, that's 2 for
1, so I'm guessing Kell is actually in the red on this one
- This whole thing is
very similar to the graveyard scene in 'Revelations 6:8'
- Back to this violent
death bit that they mention in 'Dead On Arrival'
- I know there's been
a lot said about this, but I can kind of see Duncan doing this, not now, but
back then certainly, especially if Connor gave him a push. Yeah, I can buy
it, although he could have asked her first
- She would have taken
it if he'd offered
- Nice zoom in/track
out shot
- Well done Joe!
Although we should have seen more of that watcher during the rest of the
film for this to have had some impact
- Or she ducked under
the table at just the right moment
- Gosh, very nearly
some productive use of the Millennium Dome
- Nothing like nearly
dying to make you appreciate the guy who made sure you didn't
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