I watched practically every episode of the Highlander TV show starring Adrian Paul. Don't know why. It just clicked with me for some reason. I pretty much ignored the movies, though. Something about Christopher Lambert was an instant turn off. Might've had something to do with Sean Connery stumbling his way as a Spanish dude with that thick Scottish accent. What I didn't expect was that enough people gave a damn about the franchise that any studio would feel compelled to relaunch it, but that's exactly what's happened and by the sound of it, it might suck a little. Just a little.
For those that don't know, Highlander tells the story of Connor MacLeod(OF THE CLAN MaCLEOD!!), member of a race of Immortals. These Immortals are destined to battle eacother in combat until only one remains, and that final Immortal will receive "The Prize" or somethin'. One of the coolest things about Highlander was that each fight was one-on-one, with a bladed weapon of some sort. So you got cool fights, cool characters, and so forth. Even the TV show managed to make this aspect watchable throughout it's years.
Apparently the new writers feel something different. Art Marcum and Matt Holloway both worked on the Iron Man film, and apparently they've become obsessed with having big guns and weapons in every movie they write from here on out. According to CC2K, this new Highlander features Immortals wielding sniper rifles and shit. That doesn't sound like any Highlander I wanna see.
