Holy Shit its here!!!!!!!!

* awesome first post ever* :D

I haven’t even *seen* Highlander and this movie is offending me. Holy shit.

Also, Duncan totally reminds me of the emo Dante from DmC.

The Mithos and Film Brain line caught me completely off guard…great review altogether.

Please tell me that part two comes out oh so very soon

Dune by Sci-Fy channal was awesome…

Wow. That made my eyes, butt and heart hurt all at the same time! Thank God for Spoony because if not for the laughs he gave me I might have died. There must be a secret society of immortals that makes sure every new Highlander movie sucks worse than the last. Oh no… I hope I didn’t give then an idea for a 7th film! *cries*

And this is why when it comes to Highlander I try not to think of anything beyond the the first movie and the first four seasons or so of the series.

I thought, when I last saw Highlander, which wasn’t that long ago, They mentioned the source, but it was more like the way immortals couldn’t have children, or why they couldn’t fight on holy ground: It was just described as where the Immortals power came from (In some line, like “we all came from the source, and eventually we will all return there” during Ramirez’ training of Connor)

On a more relevant topic, I actually remember this on a used movie store shelf, but when I found out Connor wasn’t magically macguffined into it, I put it back.

You know you’re in for some Deep Hurting when the first thing you see is an intro text in Papyrus.

NEEEAAAAAAAUUUUUUGH!

lol. Great review as always. Pat’s singing at the end is embarrassing. Haha

Ok, so I cheated and went ahead and watched part 2 of this review on blip tv & the special effects late in this movie look as bad as the bullshit in the Mortal Kombat sequel. I’m not a big fan of highlander like Spoony, but after watching these reviews, I can see why he feels like he was anally violated without any lube!

wow..that fight was…i have no words to describe it

wow..that fight was…i have no words to describe it

As someone who loved to watch the Sci-Fi channel back in the 90′s, before the rebranding and relentless onslaught of ‘SyFy Originals’ (yeah, they still existed back then, but there weren’t as many and they weren’t QUITE as ass-rapingly bad as they are now), I would like to thank you for castigating the channel for alienating its fanbase almost as badly as the Highlander series has.

… Now I’m gonna go watch some Lexx, and Farscape. And maybe cry a little.

*starts rocking back and forth*

Can’t sleep.

SyFy will ruin more of my favorite franchises.

Stargate NOOOoooOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOO!!!!!!

Goddammit, I actually saw this on the SciFi channel, and couldn’t believe what was happening. Keep in mind that I was a big fan of both the first movie /and/ the TV series–I was even able to overlook a lot of the flaws in Endgame. But this…this abomination, this bit of Adrian Paul wankery was just. Too. Much.

Damn you, Spoony, for bringing the memories all back! :P

Wow, I’m happy to say I’d never seen this one before (though I’ve heard of it, unfortunately). It might interest you to know (or not, whatever) that the symbols on The Guardian’s forehead appear to be Hebrew (though it’s hard to tell; there’s no real good shots, and I can’t find anything even as good as I got from still frames of this video on Google image search). I think they’re mem, tet, nun (מטנ or mtn, except the n is the wrong form for that position), which doesn’t make any word that I know of… At first I thought it might’ve been a reference to the Golem, but when I looked that up apparently the Golem’s symbols were alef, mem, tav (אמת, ?mt), for the word “emet.” Yeah, I have no idea what’s up with the symbols on his forehead now.Since one place I checked for pictures of The Guardian’s forehead was Wikipedia, I can now say:@SlyDeathsHead: The reason for the cliffhanger probably has something to do with the fact that SyFy originally wanted this to be the first of a trilogy. Why they thought it could be a trilogy when the production quality appears even *worse* than their usual fare, I have no idea, but they’re well-known for taking good ideas and ruining them horribly (take their horrible misuse of getting Bruce Campbell to sign on for two movies as an example (for which, see Obscurus Lupa Presents: SyFy Double Feature)).

I watched Highlander : the source recently, knowing that you were going to review it, and I knew as soon as I saw Giovanni, the priest guy, that you had to mention Wakka. I think you missed a bit of stupidity at the beginning of the film, when Duncan attack the thugs, it actually because he thinks the woman is his ex-wife, he even apologize for saving her when he see that she’s a complete stranger. By the way, you do realize that you’ll have to review Mansquito sometime in the future now, right?

They are going to be making another highlander film. Called Highlander: The Reckoning, it is set to be a reboot of the original 1986 film Highlander. Guess you are going another round with this series then.

For some reason Cardinal Giovanni looked a bit like Albert Wesker.

Quote: “On March 2008, Summit Entertainment announced that it had bought the film rights to the Highlander franchise and is remaking the 1986 original movie with Iron Man writers Art Marcum and Matt Holloway writing the script, with release scheduled for 2011. In September 2009, Fast & Furious director Justin Lin was announced as director of the film while Neal H. Moritz will co-produce.”

this is actually the only Highlander movie I own

It’s nice to see that you’re taking your vitamins, there. Also: Thank you for refraining from calling the action in the movie “Cartoony,” though it’s harrowing to see that in all likelihood the bit preceding the video game is all we’re going to get of that horrible piece of animation abomination.

From you anyway. Some others of us may still consider it fair game, then.

I think I’m one of the few people that saw his piece of shit… Just one night randomly, “oh cool, scifi is showing highlander.” Thank you for tearing this thing apart, it’s way passed time.

His Holiness Cardinal Wesker?

DON’T YOU THINK?

I personally thought (10:50) he had the hairdo of Albert Wesker and just replaced the aviator glasses with the rose tinted glasses of Elton John

when he got hit by that truck did he say “hello joe?”

“There can only be one…good Highlander movie and that was the first one!”

Funny. I recently thought about why Immortals don’t use massive neck protection – and I’ve never seen The Source Oo

Although, why he even uses such a protection if he’s the Flash is anyone’s guess. I mean, he purposely lets himself getting hit just to show off this armor…

Hahaha. That picture of Wakka is me. I love you reviews and I’m flattered that you’d use that. Kind of a weird place to have a “small world” moment, to be honest. Anyways, keep up the hilarious reviews.

Can I get a link to your toilet’s twitter?

What the hell is Thekla Reuten doing in this movie? She plays Anna! With all the great dutch movies she has done, and a couple of international movies, you would think she would think twice before involving herself in shitty movies. Wow… I can never see a Thekla Reuten movie ever again, without thinking ‘She played in a goddamned highlander sequel!’ I mean how can you go from ‘Twin Sisters’ to this!?

The dystopian future looks suspiciously like a crappy Mortal Kombat movie….

hehe I got the kung pow joke :)

I soooo have to see this for myself. Thankfully (?) my local library has a copy, because I’d hate to add to this movie’s sales.

IMO the stupid thing about the password thing is that only an Immortal would use “There can be only one” as their password. But if someone was trying to get into their computer they would probably be an Immortal too. And so they would likely know/guess the password!

It’s the equivalent of making your password “password” XD

oh your wrong Spoony someone did see it Me I saw it twice

Look at 15:51. The Guardian passed right THROUGH A CHAIR as he receives the Quickening™. Bad effects at its finest/worst…

“There can only Be 1!” Hah, Porn popped up

Hey, now I know what happened to the franchise!!! There could be ONLY ONE good Highlander script, and they used up all of it for the first movie!! That’s the reason the other stuff is so @%&$$% horrible. Doing otherwise would have been betraying the most sacred principles of the Highlander Codex.

Ok, I dunno about the rest of the fans but here is what I got from the first movie as “rules” Note: I disregard all other movies and the TV show.

1. Immortals ARE born with father and mother but then are abandoned?
2. Immortals after claiming the “prize” become normal mortals that CAN have a children.
3. The quickening gives them the power to be in tune with all living things around them.
4. When the “prize” is claimed the “winner” has the power to know all the knowledge of all people on earth if they focus hard enough
5. Immortals can seek each other out with the powers they gain from others.

I may be leaving some things out but with knowing this a sequel and a shit load of prequels could have been done really well.

My issue with the second movie, and I know Spooney may have touched on this, why is Macleod a failure?? He is probally or IS the smartest man on the earth. Instead of a asshole of a future they could have placed the movie in a pre-utopian time (thanks be to Macleod)

Macleod could have had a kid and then he/she could have been immortal. Would this work? Who says the Immortals can only exist in the first 2000 years of this planet. This would put a new generation to work on what I will ask next.

Maybe the PURPOSE of the immortals to pass knowledge into the future generations to ever grow the human conciseness or enlightenment. Thus this game for the prize is to push human existence to new heights.

Let me know if any of this is as awesome as I think it is.

At 16:23 in the review – The Guardian has a David Ryder/David Puddy moment…

Alright, got that out of my system – who’s up for some Arby’s? High-five…

At 16:23 in the review – The Guardian has a David Ryder/David Puddy moment…

Alright, got that out of my system – who’s up for some Arby’s? High-five…

Welcome back. :)

I completely lost my shit at the Guardian getting hit by the truck and then screaming, “HELLO JOE!”

Orbital Wobble.

Goddamn, those green screen effects on the vatican are horrible

i think my adaptation to highlander 2 would be it would just be called highlander 2, anyway id have it open with connor looking over the city looking at petty crimes using the prize to find those who choose to do evil, u would see connor jump off a building altair style and kill one guy and kill two other guys and have the title spash out highlander 2 in blood across the screen, have the main bad guy a bit like the kurgen but human and wanting to be an immortal but can never be thts why he chooses to kill all other immortals to win the prize (witch could never happen thats the point) so what do u think spoony ? :P

Watching Syfy/Scifi originals is awesome, they’re so corny.

Yeah, given the reviews up here, I’d say that “Highlander: The Search for Vengeance” is probably better than most of the Highlander sequels. I wouldn’t say it’s wonderfully awesome, but it’s got some interesting bits. Plot is pretty basic; this guy (who is Yet Another MaCloud) is out for revenge against this other, older immortal. Another post-apocalyptic theme going on. But Colin’s been after revenge for 2000-ish years.

The opening is Colin fighting against some freakish mutant Immortal with a chainsaw-sword. I think that’s a good thing to know, to be in the proper mind frame to watch this movie.

The Big Bad is an Immortal from Ancient Rome, who’s been going through history trying to recreate Rome’s “perfection” on a societal level. Colin jumps him repeatedly throughout history, and either gets pwned and barely escapes or the Big Bad just laughs him off and runs away.

I just thought of something: If he’s the Guardian of the Source, why wasn’t he, y’know, guarding the Source until the very end?  He’s just stalking these guys around the world for shits and giggles.  What would happen if someone got to the Source while he was dickin’ around with Duncan?