Did anyone catch the new Highlander movie on SciFi last night?

[thewayne]

I think I'm going to have to watch Highlander 2 to get the bad taste out of my brain. :P

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[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I don't have a huge problem with Highlander not making a lot of sense, but this went so far on that extreme that my wife walked away and went back to work, and she's a big Highlander fan (and slash writer). The son was telegraphed as soon as they spoke with the Elder, whom I still think is Baron Harkonnen.

The thing that really ticked me off was Hyperspeed Highlander! I just don't get that. And don't get my wife started on celestial mechanics! :P

[cteare.livejournal.com]

The celestial mechanics part was extremely hokey. Not to mention that they kept showing the planets as being visible to the naked eye, which they are not. (At least not in the way represented in the movie.) It was a cool graphic, but totally unbelievable.

It just seemed obvious that Adrian Paul was sick of doing Duncan MacLeod. His performance seemed to be just phoned in. The whole futuristic apocalypse thing was too over the top. The technology Methos and the others were using didn't make sense. I don't believe that we'll have that kind of technology readily available anytime soon, and the story can't be set too far into the future. Joe is alive, and he's only mortal. They didn't even show him as being that much older than what he was at the end of the tv series.

I don't think words can describe how utterly bad this movie was.