Highlander 5?!
Argh! You’re absolutely right, I forgot about them…
Actually, if you follow the Trivia link on that page cited by Lord Ashtar, you’ll see that they aren’t making 5. They’re making 3.
Even the Highlander people deny those other two movies.
Well, they don’t actually deny the movies. I’ve heard them say that the movies (1,2&3) take place in a similar, but separate paralell universe to the series (and Endgame, and presumably “The source”.)
Yes, they do. Russell Mulcahy walked out of the premiere of Highlander II - which reputedly had a plot and no alien bollocks until the studio stepped in.
There was some occasional magic on the series, usually affecting minds of others, not physical stuff. In III, I believe both swords shatter, not just Connor’s. But I have only seen it once, so I might be wrong.
Has anyone seen the Renegade version of Highlander II? I heard they cut out most of the crap and re-edited it. Did it help any?
I actually saw the Renegade version before the original version. So I was left sort of vaguely confused rather than pissed off and disillusioned. I’d say it helped. It didn’t make it a good movie, by a long shot, but it got rid of a lot of the continuity crap.
“They aren’t movies. They are documentaries filmed in real time.”*
I’m not a fan of the series (TV or documentary), but have seen it quite a bit never the less. Including the episode Arden Ranger mentioned. I remember some line about “The last time an immortal was killed on holy ground was in 76 A.D.”
Since all attempts to stay true to the OP have been thrown out the window: what do Highlander fans think of “Endgame”? Not being a fan, I saw it and was underwhelmed to say the least. However, it sounds like it’s the only one of the sequels that isn’t actively hated and denied.
*10 bonus points to the first one to name the reference
I thought Endgame was pretty good, but I still wish they left the whole thing alone after the first movie. Highlander was just such a great film. The series was pretty cool, but I couldn’t get over the whole fact that, in 1985, there was only one left, then in 1992, the world seemed repopulated. Hard to keep continuity going with something so blatantly disjointed as that.
Plus, with Connor being the main focus of all the other films, and being the Last in the original movie, it really irked me they killed him off in Endgame. Of course, Lambert is too old to play an ageless immortal, so if they want to keep the series going, it makes sense to remove him from the storyline, but still…it did upset me some.
I saw Highlander 2 first, so my detest for it isn’t all that bad, but I have to admit, after seeing the first movie, it is rather dissapointing. Personally, though, I hated the third movie more. The visual effects sucked, the fact it was PG-13 annoyed my, and the whole premise was just dumb. And, the “Final Quickening” in that one was lame compared to the original film’s (which was really damn cool).
Did anyone see the cartoon series? I only saw one or two episodes, and for the most part, I thought it was rather tacky the way that one received an immortal’s quickening by taking/destroying their sword, but it was for kids, and overall, it seemed pretty cool. Just out of curiosity, though, how is it immortals came about in this storyline? Did the final quickening never happen, or after a period of time, were more immortals born into the world?
I regarded the holy ground rule as just that: A rule. There would be no bad consequences for breaking the rule, but as Ramirez said “No one ever breaks that rule. It’s tradition.”
I always thought those immortals were just an honorable lot and wouldn’t go around breaking their own rules 
Rephrase: “they” meaning Panzer/Davis, the guys in charge of the franchise now, not Mulcahy.
Elvis - there were two ways they could’ve gone with that, and the way they did was the less preferable one, IMHO. Until … I think it was the episode that introduced The Watchers, I was happy believing that the series was a prequel to the movie. All you have to do is ignore some dates. (simple enough, we do it all the time with franchises like Superman and Bond)
But in that episode, Joe Dawson explained that the gathering of the movie wasn’t THE Gathering, only “a gathering” and Connor killed the Kurgan, but it was just a really big quickening, not The Prize. He was the last one in the area, but not in the world. That’s where the “parallel world” concept has to be brought in.
Took me a while to get over it, but I did.
In any case, the series was what the sequals should have been. No need to introduce anything crazy, just explore this world you’ve set up. Learn about other immortals, the mortals they interact with…
I loved Endgame until the end… Kell killing off all his lackeys without a fight was just lame. Especially Jin Ke, I liked him, and would’ve liked to see him in the next one. I was sad when Connor died, but in a good way.
Someone on the net came up with a great ending for the series that sadly will never happen. It’s the end, only two are left: Connor and Duncan. they know what they have to do. They go to an old warehouse or something and fight it out for a while, in spectacular fashion… they come at each other one final time, and cut ot the outside of the warehouse, where we see only the quickening, never knowing who won. (Then of course, they’d have another movie that would invalidate it… )