Nericus

Trust me, Highlander 5 IS worse then Highlander 2.

I even saw on youtube the "European ending" of Highlander 2 that had Connor floating in the air was he was slowly returning to Zeist and asking her to come with him. She took is hand and they floated away.

Very Peter Pan style ending of heading to wonderland.......ugh.

But as bad as that alternate ending was, as bad as being aliens from another planet, as bad as the renegade version of #2 that omits Planet Zeist completely.......Highlander 5 the Source, was WORSE.

No actually the whole Planet Zeist thing really killed the whole concept. There is a renegade director cut of the film that omits Zeist and does NOT help.


Well being buried "alive" is one way to stop an immortal, but Highlander 3 was basically a rewritten Highlander 1

Connor and Duncan both hail from Clan Macleod, albeit 50 years apart. Or to put it as Connor stated in the series pilot

"I'm Connor Macleod, same clan; different vintage."

Highlander 5: the source was hoped to be the start of a trilogy that dealt with the immortal origins but the movie was SO BAD ....(HOW BAD WAS IT) that not only did it skip theater and immediate DVD release, it premiered on the SYFY Channel then went DVD. Also due to how Highlander 4: ENDGAME turned out, Adrian Paul said he was done unless he gained more creative control for future movies, thus Highlander 5 was initially written as just being "4 new immortal characters seeking the origins of the immortals". No Methos, no Joe Dawson, no Duncan. So getting them back in must've cost some money but the script felt like they were pasted back into the story.

Highlander 5 = worse then Highlander 2.

Duncan took a bullet in the back of the head execution style in Season 1 and regenerated from it. Granted his head was still intact except for the wound, but he did heal and regenerate with no brain damage.

The floating cars, or floating body of the beheaded immortal from the movie was the quickening, but TV show budget precluded some of those FX, though there was the Season 4 Ep when Duncan returned to Scotland to slay Kanwulf the Viking and Kanwulf's body was seen starting to float before all the pyrotechnics started. I think the producers stated that the floating is either off camera or else is a rare event.

However the series DID confirm that proximity will count. In Season 1 Duncan fights a mafioso immortal on the villains yacht. They bumped the engine controls and the propellers start spinning. The villain gets knocked off the ship with his head still attached but got chewed up by the engines and the power still flowed into Duncan.

Season 4 had the episode with the "rain man" immortal that knew all about trains but was otherwise mentally impaired. He gave his life by lying on a railroad track and letting the train behead him. Richie was within range and received the power.

Season 5 Episode #100 with the Four Horseman establishes why fights are one on one. It was presumed to be a "code of honor" among the immortals. But Silas (War) and Caspian (Famine) double team Duncan. The plan was that IF Duncan got one of them, the other would finish off Duncan during the Quickening or just after as Duncan was recovering. Duncan got the fight to a bridge and dispatched Caspian and as Silas was closing in for the kill, Duncan dove off the bridge and Caspian's Quickening was following Duncan into the water despite Silas being only a few feet away. So the power goes to the one that does the kill.

The series also establishes that the age of an immortal is no major advantage in a fight. Darius was 2000+ years old before Horton killed him and he used to be a great warrior-general and conqueror similar to Alexander the Great. Yet had Darius decided after centuries of staying in his church preaching peace to reenter the game, he would have been beheaded by the first capable immortal that came along. Why? Because Darius hadn't taken a head in centuries and he was NOT practicing his combat skills. Not saying Darius would have been an easy kill but he still would have fallen.

Grayson: 1800 years old compared to Duncan's 400 and used to be Darius' lieutenant. Grayson fights Duncan and nearly wins until he got a bit over confident and Duncan then blocks the attack and beheads him. Duncan almost lost but he trains regularly and is an active player of the "immortal game". Also being the star of the show helps too.

Methos: 5000+ years old, allegedly the oldest living immortal. Possibly he is now that the three other horseman are gone. Tells Duncan he hasn't taken a head in 200 years which makes Duncan cringe since Kalas was at least as good in a fight as Duncan. Methos defends himself but is out of practice and doesn't have the will to fight like Kalas or Duncan would and nearly tricked Duncan into taking his head so that Duncan would have more then enough power to take down Kalas

Quite true. But....Ramirez did explain that one day they would feel an irresistible pull to a far away land to fight for the Prize. So presuming that is true then hiding in Holy Ground may not be viable.

Now the Watchers in Highlander 4 Endgame seemed to circumvent that with the Sanctuary by keeping immortals in drug induced comas. Talk about a gross violation of the non interference oaths of the Watchers. Too bad that Endgame suffered from sloppy editing as well as a weak script. There are I think three versions of Endgame and I'm not sure which is considered accurate, but I think they all failed to properly convey if Sanctuary was on Holy Ground considering that Kell came in and destroyed the place and all but Connor. The movie doesn't show if Kell took them all outside or not or just killed them inside so if it WAS holy ground then he broke the prime rule of the immortals.

Also I think we are to presume that IF it indeed comes down to the last two, and one walks away with the Prize that no new immortals can ever be born again.

The Third Movie expanded the Holy Ground rule a bit: Kane confronts Connor in a Buddhist Monastery in New York aka Holy Ground. Connor reminds him of the rule, Kane doesn't care and the fight begins. Kane goes for the kill, Connor blocks but his sword shatters and the shrine starts glowing this rather ominous red glow....Kane then says "After 400 years, patience IS a virtue" and flees with Connor also fleeing the scene as neither wanted to be there for what may have been coming.

Season 5 of the series, episode Little Tin God. Villain of the week has a messiah complex and is killing pre immortals and pretending to be God as they wake up as immortals. He teaches them a twisted version of the rules and tells them Duncan is the personification of the devil. He's chased into a cemetary where they still tried to kill him until one remembered that they were told not to kill in holy ground. Joe Dawson of the Watchers later tells Duncan of a legend in their Chronicles of two immortals fighting in a temple right before Mt. Vesuvius wiped out Pompeii. Villain of the week is beheaded off holy ground but near the old church he based out of and a lightning bolt struck the cross on the church which glowed ominously. Duncan sees it and decides its a good idea to leave the area......

Plus in the series there were about as many immortals as there were mutants in Marvel, so the final gathering was still a long ways off

Given how tangled and twisted the Highlander universe has become due to the screwy movie sequels a reboot is needed.

No more dayjobs though, please.

Even if the Avengers movie does the Kree-Skrull war, that's no guarantee they will throw Mar-Vell into the story, even though he was a big part of it in the comic.

Yes Batman Beyond should be after the Nolan's are done.

Perhaps instead, they should show Lara's estate or home and in a room she has mementos and souvenirs of her adventures and among the items we see a glass case that contains a brown leather jacket, a fedora, a pistol and a whip......

Be a nice tribute and get people churning up ideas for how Lara could have known Indy.

Define.....general tone

Seriously, things seem okay.

This. Still a classic and will be for years. Last Crusade was excellent since it had the talent of Sean Connery and he and Harrison Ford were one of those rare teamups that produce some excellent movie magic, kind of like Danny Glover and Mel Gibson (back when he was sane) in the Lethal Weapons.

As for Lara Croft, to me she's just Indiana Jane. Give us a good plot, an artifact worthy of her pursuit and have at it.

Also going by myth's and legends, every pantheon seems to have created the universe. At least from their viewpoint. Gets confusing, doesn't it?

Must be Rated R or fail. Also I can't see him sustaining a movie on his own.

I have only seen the complete series set available from the SHOUT! website. Best Buy should have the Season 1 and 2 set.

If you don't have Season 3 and Daemon War/Two Bobs then you need the complete set as they are long out of print from ADV.

Yes, Garth did an excellent job of revitalizing the character after Marvel killed the Punisher and brought him back as the Zombisher.


Too bad the character was recently trashed by that STUPID concept: FRANKENCASTLE

Nah, the monologue from the Dolph movie can be discarded.

My main beef with the Tom Jane Punisher was that Travolta seemed to forget how to act.

No major objections to the story and I appreciated how it was expanded to include all his relatives being wiped out, so now the audience can truly appreciate his levels of pain, anguish and desire for revenge.

Yes, Lucas did catch some heat for implying/stating that Shmi Skywalker had no husband or lover and that Anakin was conceived via the Force. A few religous folk took exception with that.

As to THOR being a jerk, that IS why in the comics all those years ago that ODIN stripped him of the hammer and cast him down to Earth in the form of Donald Blake. THOR needed some humility and ODIN felt this was the way to teach him.

It finally took the arrival of Beta Ray Bill and his subsequent defeating of THOR to get that lesson over with.


I can't see certain gods such as Hercules, or Apollo being the final word on such a thing as their powers don't seem to include healing or resurrection. The ruler of a Pantheon of gods on the other hand or the "god" that rules over their netherworld would be such authorities.

Which actually is slated for this year and can be pre purchased.