Oh My God! What Are They Doing?
Anyone that knows me remotely well knows of my undying love for the original Highlander movie from 1986. I’m still eternally grateful to my father for indulging my petulant demands and taking me to a theater to see the picture during its original release. I’m not an especially big fan of its various sequels and television series. Now comes an advance script review of the remake. Oh Lord, the changes within are abominable! They’re so bad that I want my money back, and they haven’t even made the film yet!
Actually, on second thought, the proposed changes all seem like they’d be perfectly appropriate in a parody of the original Highlander, but I don’t suspect that the re-boot is intended to be one big self-referential joke.
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Speaking of Highlander, I like how all the LA sequels sucked, but anime fans call the Kawajiri version the “worst” in the series, while series fans consider it the best since the first one. The anime fans are just taking it out on the movie, because they expected it to be another XTV, and they got a modern-day Hokuto No Ken. Anyway, to screw up a remake, they’d have to insert a lot of gratuitous wire-fu into the fight scenes, cast some 20-something angsty and or wise-cracking pretty-boy as the lead, and make the Highlanders engage in a lot of gun-play with only one actual sword-fight scene near the end.