Any Highlander fans?

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I love all things Highlander. I used to have the tapes but lost them and am going to get my daughters bf to burn me the DVD's off the internet. I have the CD from the movie and I have all the novels, and have seen all the movies as well. I used to have the Connor katana, but my husband got rid of it after a little incident.

PaganMom

I really like highlander too, I only have two dvd's though. I didn't know that they did replica's.

There is some program where you can download and burn movies or tv shows or play them through the playstation. I'll find out the name of it if you want. It's free. It's a peer to peer program.

PaganMom

What was the little incident? If it's ok to ask?

Highlander is a total guilty pleasure for me. I've never read any of the novels, but I have all the movies and TV seasons on DVD. It's the kind of show that I'll sit watching it, laughing and groaning and all but yelling at the screen, "Stupid stupid stupid!" But the thing is, expecially for the show, it's just so bizarrely sincere and earnest in its attempt to be sweepingly romantic I can't help but have huge affection for it. As for the entire franchise, movies and shows taken as a whole, I think it's got to be unique in that every single installment doesn't just screw up continuity, but actively negates and contradicts everything that's gone before (and to top that, there are no two consecutive scenes in the second movie that actually make sense being next to each other). It's so hilariously great.

When we lived in the city even though we didn't live downtown, we were still close enough so there were a lot of bums, and one morning this one was trying to get in the backyard and I chased him up the alley with it.

PaganMom

Oh, I know. It contradicts itslef in so many ways. We would discuss all that on the fan boards too. What I loved the best, was the way they could be wearing a bathing suit or a skin tight outfit and suddenly pull out a sword that they had "hidden" somewhere. At least with the long coats it was plausable.

In the first movie Connor won the prize. In the second movie, there had been an immortal buried under a bunch of rocks and when he was set free, Connor lost the prize back. Then the series pretends none of that ever existed. Plus the whole Zeist affair. They even have a directors cut de-Zeisted version because hardcore fans like to pretend there is no Zeist. They were supposed to address the Zeist issue in The Source, but I haven't seen it yet.

PaganMom

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pure awesomeness, been one of my favs since i saw the original film as a lil kid.

edit: also a few years back i almost ended up buying the actual sword from the film from a shop in my town that had gotten hold of it but it had been sold by the time i got the money together!

Forgot to ask, have you all heard about the remake of this film? its supposed to come out next year from what ive heard.

Haven't seen the series but the movie you described is the 3rd one. the second one starts in the future when MacLeod is an old man having won the prize and thrus losing his immortality until another immortal from Planet Zeist come to earth causing MacLeod to loose the prize and regain his youth and immortality. the 3rd one was meant to be a stand alone sequel. ive seen endgame but only watched parts of it, didn't really know what was going on with all that stuff about watchers and what not, im guessing you have to see the series to appreciate that film.

I like the original 1986 movie with Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert the best.

The TV series was good. My favorite character was Methos, an ex-Four Horsemen.

I did not like the sequel movies so much.