Movies Highlander (1986) is an underated movie

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

I've never seen highlander

Perhaps I should try to give it a look

You should, because.

 

[Legumes]

It's a cult classic but it does have some weird scenes like the guy in the garage running away doing backflips that keep it from being rated too highly.

Christopher Lambert must have been impressed with those backflips and wanted to try them:

 

[Deleted member 110072]

Fasil at the start is actually played by the films swordmaster Peter Diamond who worked out all the fights.

 

[shinobimusashi]

I never really realized until a recent rewatch how great the Highlander tv series really was. I liked it back in the day but thought it was just a rinse-wash-repeat monster of the week show. Obviously it's going to have thick cornball layer for being a product of 1992 TV, but beneath that is a surprisingly well written series with great continuity, character development, some pretty shocking character deaths. excellent focus on sword craftsmanship and the art of sword fighting. Really got into it. Great show, better than any of the movies.

 

[shinobimusashi]

Fasil at the start is actually played by the films swordmaster Peter Diamond who worked out all the fights.

Didn't I read he was the same guy that did all the saber duels in Star Wars movies wearing the Vader suit? He also did all the fight scene choreography in the TV series and there are some great fights in there.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

Didn't I read he was the same guy that did all the saber duels in Star Wars movies wearing the Vader suit? He also did all the fight scene choreography in the TV series and there are some great fights in there.

That is Bob Anderson. He was also sword master for the first few seasons of the show.

 

[Yoel Bromero]

Highlander is a great fuckin time and Ramirez's peacock coat is bad af. Cheesey fun, great soundtrack and swords. Suprisingly fun movie, used to live the cartoon as a kid

 

[empsim]

Needs a remake for sure.

What for? It's a great movie.

They should start remaking shit movies not ones that are guaranteed to be worse than the original.

 

[PBAC]

the backstory of how they become immortal doesn't make much sense. So basically if you suffer a premature death you become immortal? So anyone who has been under attempted murders becomes immortal? Anyone who dies in a war gets to live forever? It seems sort of counter productive toward what death is all about.

 

[Kryptt]

Only liked the first flick the rest was pretty much junk. Didn't care much for (either?) series...

 

[BisexualMMA]

the backstory of how they become immortal doesn't make much sense. So basically if you suffer a premature death you become immortal? So anyone who has been under attempted murders becomes immortal? Anyone who dies in a war gets to live forever? It seems sort of counter productive toward what death is all about.

No, it is more like maybe one in a million is born an immortal and you only tend to find out you are one if you suffer a premature death.

Well, that or you are sent to earth from the planet Zeist to be immortal as a punishment, etc.

 

[PBAC]

No, it is more like maybe one in a million is born an immortal and you only tend to find out you are one if you suffer a premature death.

Well, that or you are sent to earth from the planet Zeist to be immortal as a punishment, etc.

This alternate timeline you come from where that movie exists sounds kind of dumb

well so basically there's actually no real reason for being immortal.

 

[BisexualMMA]

well so basically there's actually no real reason for being immortal.

Not really. Kind of like Luke or Obi Wan being born with the Force.

 

[PBAC]

Not really. Kind of like Luke or Obi Wan being born with the Force.

magic space parasites?

 

[BisexualMMA]

magic space parasites?

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

the backstory of how they become immortal doesn't make much sense. So basically if you suffer a premature death you become immortal? So anyone who has been under attempted murders becomes immortal? Anyone who dies in a war gets to live forever? It seems sort of counter productive toward what death is all about.

Immortals can sense when other people are "pre-immortal" If they die they will become immortal. That is why in the movie The Kurgan attempted to behead Connor before he was even "immortal" from his first death. And how Duncan and Connor in the show knew Ritchie would become one (which he did) if he died from anything other than natural causes. The reasoning is they don't know. One of the things Sean Connery explained in the movie.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

This alternate timeline you come from where that movie exists sounds kind of dumb

well so basically there's actually no real reason for being immortal.

The reason is right in the song duuuh.

 

[PBAC]

I found that scene I mentioned in the op. The angle and the way the sword falls makes good foreshadowing. Something about the scene seems very Shakespearian.

 

[BisexualMMA]

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I found that scene I mentioned in the op. The angle and the way the sword falls makes good foreshadowing. Something about the scene seems very Shakespearian.

Russell Mulcahy was a music video director before doing Highlander and had a great eye for individual shots.

Some of the shots in Highlander are among the best of the decade.

Like David Fincher he was very good at music videos. They both made some of the best videos of their era.

You can see some of the beginnings of certain Highlander scenes and transitions in some his videos...

 

[PBAC]

I have actually always heavily leaned on the "I have inside me blood of kings" line to illustrate they are sort of like a superior caste of society that are destined to outlive and rule standard humans.