Yeah, don’t watch the sequels, but watch the TV series if you can source it somewhere.
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.
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.
But he single handedly captured the brain bug on Planet “P”!
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.
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 of work, both as voice and actor.
Helllooo pretty…
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.
Wasn’t Ramirez originally Egyptian (as in born in Egypt 2000 years ago), but posing as a Spaniard?
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.
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”.
I’d love to see Brown play Jonathan Brewster in a remake of Arsenic and Old Lace.
Clancy Brown’s greatest role IMHO was as Brother Justin on Carnivale. A lot of depth to that character.
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.
There goes my groundbreaking study on good-guy genetics.
Between him and Gary Oldman playing Commissioner Gordon. Sheesh.
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!
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:
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.
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.
Flying monkeys? Highlander 2 had flying monkeys?