News... July 2005

Inbetween CaC posts, I figure I'll post any news I think entertaining or downright insulting.

Highlander

This could have been the single greatest stand-alone fantasy movie ever... it could have been the Blade Runner of fantasy movies. But no, they had to fuck everything up with a shithouse sequel Highlander II: The Quickening, suggesting that the immortals were actually aliens from another planet... who happen to have forgotten this fact throughout the first movie.

Then they throw the third installment at us, Highlander III: The Magician, with crappy Mario Van Peebles... then they make the shitnut Highlander the TV Series with Duncan MacLeod... WHO THE FUCK IS DUNCAN AND WHERE WAS HE MENTIONED IN THE FIRST THREE MOVIES... and as if to clear things up, we get Highlander IV: Endgame... with plenty of Connor and Duncan back-story... ARSE!

Now, if a franchise can happily piss all over their genius first movie, why should we be surprised if they then ignore the fact that they called a movie Endgame... as in that's it... no more... we're done... Bollocks.

Now it seems we have Highlander: The Journey Continues... and it's one of three further movies in the franchise, focusing more on Duncan.

And what annoys me far more than the fact that these movies exist... and even more than the fact Christopher Lambert made Beowulf... is that I will probably watch them... shite!