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Re: Warning: Highlander 2 Sucks

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From: michael.bbs
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1991 03:13
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fau@po.CWRU.Edu (Francis A. Uy) writes:

> 
> Sorry to interrupt, but this is an emergency.  I have to prevent
>  huge amounts of needless psychological trauma.
> 
> Please, read this message quickly, then log off and tell everyone
>  that you know.  DO NOT SEE HIGHLANDER 2.  
>  
> It was easily the most disappointing failure of a movie that I
>  have seen in several years.  Imagine going to the The Gate,
>  thinking that it would be a horror film.  Highlander 2 goes
>  far beyond that level of worthlessness.
>  
> We cannot imagine how the studio convinced the actors to do this.
>  Christopher Lambert, Michael Ironsides, SEAN CONNERY?  It was
>  painful to watch them go through this farce.  
>  
> I survived by imagining that they were being blackmailed and 
>  drugged; my companions were not so fortunate.  They were filled 
>  with incredible masochistic compulsions, hoping that the pain 
>  would blot out the memory of this awful event.  They're upstairs
>  right now striking each other with large objects.  I am not 
>  joking.  It was that bad.  
>  
> I repeat, do NOT go to this movie.  The writer + director must
>  be punished at all costs.
>  

The continuity guy should be flogged, too.  The Highlander's sword kept
changing for no particular reason between scenes, car windows kept getting
repeatedly smashed and partially healed, and the editing in general sucked.

"There can be only five?"
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