# There can only be one. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994 "2013-02-11T17:40:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/21 "2013-02-12T11:06:23Z")
Yeah, don’t watch the sequels, but watch the TV series if you can source it somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/22 "2013-02-12T11:20:52Z")
Hey, the pervasive 80sness is what made it way cool! I loved her hair piled high in a scrungie, her glitter sheer work shirt cinched sexily at the waist and her stretchy pants. The only thing missing from her ensemble were the leg warmers. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/23 "2013-02-12T15:09:42Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > You know I’m gonna have to watch the sequels now. Watch not the sequels. That way only lies madness and bitter, crushing disappointment. You have been warned. Seriously, they’re not bad in “so bad it’s good” way. They’re bad in a “so bad, it’s really bad” way. > [@Alessan](#): > > I think the main problem with the original movie, besides its pervasive 80’sness, is that Christopher Lambert is a horrible, horrible actor, and about as convincing a Scotsman as he is a Namibian. > > Incidentally, did you know that Clancy Brown (the Kurgan) (a) is the blue-blooded son of a congressman and newspaper magnate and (b) plays the voice of Mr. Krabs on _Spongebob_? He was also the evil prison guard in The Sharshank Redemption, and was the voice of Lex Luthor in the Justice League cartoons. I think he may be genetically incapable of playing a good-guy. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/24 "2013-02-12T15:27:44Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > He was also the evil prison guard in The Sharshank Redemption, and was the voice of Lex Luthor in the Justice League cartoons. I think he may be genetically incapable of playing a good-guy. But he single handedly captured the brain bug on Planet “P”! ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/25 "2013-02-12T15:38:56Z")
And he was the minister who saved James Bond in “Cowboys vs. Aliens” ! ETA: Now I’m wondering - could the Kurgan have saved, or at least salvaged, the sequels? Michael Ironside was a big part of the reason Highlander 2 was so awful, whereas the Kurgan is probably in the top 10 evil characters in action movies of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/26 "2013-02-12T15:42:35Z")
> [@Mollie\_Magill](#): > > Watch not the sequels. That way only lies madness and bitter, crushing disappointment. You have been warned. > > Seriously, they’re not bad in “so bad it’s good” way. They’re bad in a “so bad, it’s really bad” way. > > He was also the evil prison guard in The Sharshank Redemption, and was the voice of Lex Luthor in the Justice League cartoons. I think he may be genetically incapable of playing a good-guy. He also plays Darth Maul’s brother (or cousin, whatever) in the Animated Clone Wars. (Okay, read the scene, the brother part may be figurative, they are the same race though.) And one of the cats in the rebooted Thundercats. Also a bad guy. He’s actually done [a lot](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000317/) of work, both as voice and actor. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/27 "2013-02-12T15:46:31Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > And he was the minister who saved James Bond in “Cowboys vs. Aliens” ! Helllooo pretty… ---
**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/28 "2013-02-12T15:47:50Z")
Missed the window. Yeah, Christopher Lambert may not be the greatest, but he’s the Highlander, and Sean Connery, an actual Scot, played a Spaniard. With his Scottish accent. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/29 "2013-02-12T15:49:09Z")
Wasn’t Ramirez originally Egyptian (as in born in Egypt 2000 years ago), but posing as a Spaniard? ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/30 "2013-02-12T15:49:54Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I think the main problem with the original movie, besides its pervasive 80’sness, is that Christopher Lambert is a horrible, horrible actor, and about as convincing a Scotsman as he is a Namibian. When I first saw the movie, I didn’t even think he was trying to do a Scottish accent; I thought his sort of random not-anywhere accent was a deliberate choice to show that he’d been everywhere and done everything over the past x hundred years. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/31 "2013-02-12T15:51:56Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > 1. The sequels are horrible. They make no sense, add in a bunch of useless plot that wasn’t in the original (the immortals are really aliens exiled from their home planet for heresy ?). It’s a trope here on the Dope to deny they ever existed, they’re so bad. Stay away. In one of the sequels McLeod goes to the USA and when he arrives at Newark airport there is a big sign on the wall stating “Bienvenus à Montréal”. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/32 "2013-02-12T15:53:56Z")
I’d love to see Brown play Jonathan Brewster in a remake of _Arsenic and Old Lace_. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/33 "2013-02-12T15:54:33Z")
Clancy Brown’s greatest role IMHO was as Brother Justin on Carnivale. A lot of depth to that character. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/34 "2013-02-12T15:55:07Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > And he was the minister who saved James Bond in “Cowboys vs. Aliens” ! > > ETA: Now I’m wondering - could the Kurgan have saved, or at least salvaged, the sequels? Michael Ironside was a big part of the reason Highlander 2 was so awful, whereas the Kurgan is probably in the top 10 evil characters in action movies of all time. Clancy Brown driving across the bridge with the girlfriend captive, swerving directly at oncoming traffic and croaking the lyrics to “New York, New York” was one of the great movie scenes of all time. I laugh every time. ---
**Author:** ![Mollie\_Magill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mollie_magill/32/20882_2.png) [@Mollie\_Magill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mollie_Magill)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/35 "2013-02-12T15:59:49Z")
There goes my groundbreaking study on good-guy genetics. Between him and Gary Oldman playing Commissioner Gordon. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/36 "2013-02-12T16:04:00Z")
Clancy Brown _has_ played good guys before. Like in _Normal_ with Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lange, who play a married couple whose marriage is tested when Wilkinson transitions into being a woman. Brown plays Wilkinson’s boss who lamely Nice-Guys his way into sleeping with Lange. …hey, waitaminute… He was a good guy, though! ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/37 "2013-02-12T16:12:16Z")
Highlander 3 is a run of the mill bad sequel. Competently made, but an uninspired cash grab. Highlander 2 is… very strange. I challenge you to even read through the plot synopsis here: > **[Highlander II: The Quickening](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highlander_II:_The_Quickening)** > > Highlander II: The Quickening is a 1991 science fiction film directed by Russell Mulcahy and starring Christopher Lambert, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside and Sean Connery. It is the second installment in the Highlander film series and sequel of the 1986 fantasy film Highlander. Set in the year 2024, the plot concerns Connor MacLeod, who regains his youth and immortal abilities and must free Earth from the Shield, an artificial ozone layer that has fallen under the control of a corrupt corpor... ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/38 "2013-02-12T16:24:23Z")
Clancy Brown played Rawhide in _The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai_. Dude took a stinger in the back while saving the planet from red lectroids; you don’t get more good than that. ---
**Author:** ![gallows\_fodder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/39 "2013-02-12T17:37:21Z")
He was also in _The Bride_, where he played Frankenstein’s monster to Sting’s Dr. Frankenstein. (…I know, but seriously, he was the good guy!) BTW, no one should watch this one, either. Whoever told Sting he could act should have been challenged to a duel. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994/40 "2013-02-12T17:56:49Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > Seriously, just watch the _Wizard of Oz_ instead. It has as much continuity with the original _Highlander_ as _Highlander 2_ does, and it has better flying monkeys. > > But the TV series really was good, for most of its run. Flying monkeys? Highlander 2 had flying monkeys? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-can-only-be-one/649994.md?page=3)