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Highlander - The Source
Feb. 28th, 2007 04:39 pmOkay, so I'm still feeling a little under the weather (and on a side note I just wrote under the whether and that's making me wonder just what exactly that would mean... but that's a thought for another time) so I came home early from class after handing in one of my mini-papers (I am so taking a late on the other two, they're a package deal) and watched Highlander - The Source on the internets. Apparently it's the fifth Highlander movie and it was just as bad as I was expecting. C actually came into my room to see what the hell I was laughing at because "Nothing can be that funny."
But it is. So terrible.
I mostly watched it because of Duncan MacLeod (of the Clan MacLeod), Joe and Methos. Because I love them all and they're all really good actors too. There were many a scene in the Highlander Series that they saved solely because they were that good. Unfortunately for Highlander - The Source, no one is that good.
It held all the important things for a Highlander movie. Duncan had a new woman who was apparently the true love of his life (no, none of those other ones count) and apparently they got married, and then she left him because she really wanted to have his child (damn), so now Duncan was angsting over it (he's so good at it, but hey I'm not complaining. He's got soulfull eyes).
(Also her name was Anna which is just too close to Anne, methinks. A little more originality, please.)
Methos had joined up with a bunch of other Immortals searching for The Source which in true highlander fashion is some unexplained thing that involves the planets (and other celestial bodies) aligning and radiation and a gaurdian with ridiculous dialogue, which is apparently the Source of Immortality and will do something crazy when they find it (it also has something to do with the One but that was even less clear than whatever the hell it was). Of all of these other immortals the only one who would've been interesting to see again was Reggie but of course he died (as did them all, but that's not really unexpected is it?). He was a short brit astronomer with a cockney accent and that twitchy short person personality that says that he may be haf your size but he can still kick your ass. I liked him. There was also an annoying Cardinal with terrible hair and an archaeologist who died too quickly for me to have an oppinion about him.
It was set "in the near future" so it meant that they could have some cool new gizmos and have a weird (also unexplained) post-apocolyptic type setting. They also used this as an excuse to put Methos in a leather jacket and on a motorcycle (part of my fangirl says "Yes!" and part of me says "Oh that's so wrong.") which at least Joe and MacLeod madefun of him for.
This would have been an enjoyable terrible movie in the Highlander tradition except they commited two cardinal sins that I just can't ignore. And they did them at the SAME TIME. First they broke the katana!!!!! And second they killed Joe!!!!! (More accuratly Mac threw the katana into the Gaurdian's throat and then G pulled it out of his neck and then broke it in half before stabbing Joe with the broken blade. Totally uncool.)
Anyway now I want to go and watch some of the good Highlander eps that I have on my external hard drive.
But it is. So terrible.
I mostly watched it because of Duncan MacLeod (of the Clan MacLeod), Joe and Methos. Because I love them all and they're all really good actors too. There were many a scene in the Highlander Series that they saved solely because they were that good. Unfortunately for Highlander - The Source, no one is that good.
It held all the important things for a Highlander movie. Duncan had a new woman who was apparently the true love of his life (no, none of those other ones count) and apparently they got married, and then she left him because she really wanted to have his child (damn), so now Duncan was angsting over it (he's so good at it, but hey I'm not complaining. He's got soulfull eyes).
(Also her name was Anna which is just too close to Anne, methinks. A little more originality, please.)
Methos had joined up with a bunch of other Immortals searching for The Source which in true highlander fashion is some unexplained thing that involves the planets (and other celestial bodies) aligning and radiation and a gaurdian with ridiculous dialogue, which is apparently the Source of Immortality and will do something crazy when they find it (it also has something to do with the One but that was even less clear than whatever the hell it was). Of all of these other immortals the only one who would've been interesting to see again was Reggie but of course he died (as did them all, but that's not really unexpected is it?). He was a short brit astronomer with a cockney accent and that twitchy short person personality that says that he may be haf your size but he can still kick your ass. I liked him. There was also an annoying Cardinal with terrible hair and an archaeologist who died too quickly for me to have an oppinion about him.
It was set "in the near future" so it meant that they could have some cool new gizmos and have a weird (also unexplained) post-apocolyptic type setting. They also used this as an excuse to put Methos in a leather jacket and on a motorcycle (part of my fangirl says "Yes!" and part of me says "Oh that's so wrong.") which at least Joe and MacLeod madefun of him for.
This would have been an enjoyable terrible movie in the Highlander tradition except they commited two cardinal sins that I just can't ignore. And they did them at the SAME TIME. First they broke the katana!!!!! And second they killed Joe!!!!! (More accuratly Mac threw the katana into the Gaurdian's throat and then G pulled it out of his neck and then broke it in half before stabbing Joe with the broken blade. Totally uncool.)
Anyway now I want to go and watch some of the good Highlander eps that I have on my external hard drive.
