I didn't know when Highlander movies came out. Never interested me.
Me too. All I know of Highlander is... There can be only one.
Except later on that wasn't true?
Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books!
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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tommyrot - Sep 02, 2005 7:51:01 am PDT #7080 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gris - Sep 02, 2005 7:53:21 am PDT #7081 of 10002
Hey. New board.
I hear there's immortals and swords involved.
And yet, still, I'm not interested. Why, I don't know, because immortals? Swords? My kind of thing.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2005 7:53:40 am PDT #7082 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In the end there can be only one. Meanwhile there are scads.
In the end-end, there will probably be none.
Still, it's catchy.
tommyrot - Sep 02, 2005 7:54:27 am PDT #7083 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
And yet, still, I'm not interested. Why, I don't know, because immortals? Swords? My kind of thing.
My understanding is that the immortals were annoying....
Jessica - Sep 02, 2005 7:56:27 am PDT #7084 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Review/plot synopsis of Highlander 2: The Quickening from MoviePoopShoot.com. Swallow food before reading.
Kalshane - Sep 02, 2005 7:56:52 am PDT #7085 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
The evil immortals tended to be annoying. But Connor and Ramirez (and if you go into the TV-verse) and Duncan, Amanda, Methos and Darius were all cool. (Well, Amanda became annoying once she got her own show.)
Strega - Sep 02, 2005 8:15:06 am PDT #7086 of 10002
Oh, but see, it looks like a lot of those 0% fresh movies only got 5-10 reviews, total. That's cheating. Ballistic has 98 reviews, though, so that's excellent. I think Alone in the Dark had 140+. And the one positive review graded it a C.
Hee, The Crow: Wicked Prayer got 0%. But only 5 reviews, with the straight-to-DVDness.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 02, 2005 8:21:18 am PDT #7087 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
I think the total number of reviews that make up the % in Rotten Tomatoes goes down over time as periodicals and web sites remove or move the reviews to archives - I don't think RT re-links a review if it's archived, but I'm not sure. Some of the movies in the 90s list definitely had at least one or two positive reviews when they came out.
Jessica - Sep 02, 2005 8:22:27 am PDT #7088 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They definitely cull their reviews over time. (DH writes for several different publications, and his Tomatometer qualifications at each one change on what seems to be a random weekly basis.)
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 02, 2005 10:58:12 am PDT #7089 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Something exceptionally bad might find one goofball to think it's so bad it's awesome.
Thankfully, this didn't turn out to be the case with Kazaam.
Hee, The Crow: Wicked Prayer got 0%. But only 5 reviews, with the straight-to-DVDness.
All I need to know to rent this is that David Boreanaz appears in it dressed like a reject from The Rocky Horror Picture show.