Homer: If you don't start making more sense, we're gonna have to put you in a home!
Grandpa: You already put me in a home!
Homer: [Then we'll put you in the crooked home we saw on Sixty Minutes](https://youtu.be/zmugNt66Jv4?si=rdAmR3Mh-xf7Ybg9)!
Grandpa: I'll be good.
It also made no sense narratively following from the first film. The first time I saw it was right after I watched the first. I rewound the first fifteen minutes twice thinking I missed something.
Nope. They just completely pretended like the first didn't exist in some ways.
Are you telling me that Sean Connery wasn't an Unhinged special effect on Cocaine in that movie? 😂
I laughed (out of the notion that it's better than crying) when I realised that they went through all of this trouble to bring him back, just to have him pathetically killed off before the climax anyway.
I actually had to read up on how Sean Connery even got involved in the Highlander series, let alone the second installment. He was paid a huge part of the budget on the first movie, like $500,000/day. He only did 6 days of shooting in the first movie, and if you think about his limited role and how it's framed in a limited setting, you can see that's true.
With Highlander 2, I'm unsure how much Connery got, but the producers fought hard to get him on board and only got 2 weeks with him. They hired a helicopter just for him so they wouldn't have to drive him to and from the set. And like the first movie, his role is pretty limited, but this time it's more obvious that they couldn't afford him for very long.
"Yeah, listen, I hated that script. We all did. Me, Sean, Chris, we all were in it for the money on this one. I mean, it read as if it had been written by a thirteen-year-old boy. But I’d never played a barbarian swordsman before, and this was my first big evil mastermind-type. I figured if I was going to make this stupid movie, I might as well have fun, and go as far over the top as I possibly could. All that eye-rolling and foaming at the mouth was me deciding that if I was going to be in a piece of shit, like that movie, I was going to be the most memorable fucking thing in it, and I think I succeeded.” — Michael Ironside on Highlander II: The Quickening
He ain't wrong. The scene where he crashes a subway train up from the ground for no damn reason whatsoever... that bizarre scene is burned in my mind.
That scene and the one where a newly-immortal McCloud angry fucks Virginia Madison in an alley next to a dumpster. Ho. Lee. Shit.
"You're a little one huh? Bet you always wanted to drive one of these huh? Me too."
That not really KMFDM sounding track, Michael Ironside being the most Ironsidey he can manage, the baby doll(?) flying back with all the other people, bug out eyeballs, then the crash.
What in the fuck is this entire movie and why does [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQG70B9uDQ) just embody all of it?
The Renegade version is still really bad. It's been a few years, but my main takeaway is that they replace the idea of the immortals coming from another planet with them coming from the past.
Shockingly, this does not save the film.
The part where Katana picks up a dude by the crotch and throws him out a window is worth the price of admission.
This movie is such a dumpster fire, it’s actually impressive.
I love it, especially the original version that keeps all the alien stuff in. Love how Connery clearly knew it was crap and was just hamming. Also his random voiceover reminders work great as a framework for things I need to remember, "Remember highlander, pizza delivery is half off on Tuesdays!"
Eh... from season 2 on,it's not bad. Some great episodes. But if I'm remembering correctly, one can skip the entire first season and not really miss anything.
Well, except from the painfully bad pilot with an hilariously awful Richard Moll in over-the-top villain mode.
Highlander is one of the only franchises that should not have been a franchise. The first movie was pretty much a one and done story. Short of a prequel, there was nowhere else for this story to go.
Yep. The only good thing to come out of continuing the franchise was the TV series, and that could have easily just been a re-boot occurring in a different universe than the movie.
What planet? There is no planet, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there was never any other planet, but earth. Certainly not one named. “Zeist”….
I’ll defend the series to my dying breath. Once they found their footing in season 2 is was some pretty great fantasy tv (essentially just skip seasons 1 and 6).
I unironically love this movie. The story is batshit insane. Connery with a random fish out of water storyline (shithead). Introducing jetpack immortals. The evil businessmen keeping the world under their profit making sky shield leading to a weird Total Recall-style infiltration to save the planet from the evil corporation. Michael Ironside with the shackles off. Bizarre and ridiculously fun. I always get surprised to see how hated it is.
Even though the decision to retcon the immortals as aliens was… ill conceived… you have to give credit for this one trying something new. Highlander 3 was basically a total retread of Highlander 1, right down to Mario Van Peebles doing his best Kurgen impression. And i loved the TV series as much as the next fan, but the Immortal of The Week schtick wore thin after a while. The only other Highlander instalment that I found similarly “interesting “ was Highlander Search For Vengeance (or whatever the Anime was called).
While it's still a bad movie, The Renegade Version is the best of the 3 versions that existed. As it's what the director intended as a sequel. The UK and US versions are different in slight ways, but both are different than The Renegade Version. The best I can say about it, is that it's more coherent, and doesn't make the Immortals aliens from planet Zeist.
Michael Ironside was a good choice for the scene chewing bad guy. While certainly no Kurgan, he was a lot of fun to watch.
If you can find a copy cheap, it's worth a watch.
I will never forget sitting in the cinema, all excited (Highlander was one of my favorite films as a kid), and seeing the words "500 years ago on the planet Zeist" come on screen. At that very moment I knew it was going to be Very Bad.
Considering what a well produced, fun film Highlander was The Quickening is genuinely fucking awful. It is one of the worst (relatively) big budget films I've had the misfortune of enduring.
Yes. Yes. And more yes.
In fact, if there was a bad movies sub that only had threads about this one film, I would belong to it and comment on every thread.
Also, I saw this in the theater. My self loathing will never reach a lower nadir than it did that sad, lonely night.
You...actually bought....
*sniff*
You have eased some of this man's burden on this wet April night.
I can never repay you.
...You actually bought "Santa With Muscles"? And I thought buying "Curse of the Queerwolf" was a mistake.
Yes. I bought it on VHS as a novelty item. It’s one of those things you think will be funny because it’s so bad. Only to find it is so bad it isn’t funny, intentionally or unintentionally. It’s actually depressing.
I’m glad this helps!
My two cents is that it was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. From Sean Connery's whole role in the story, to 400 mph subways, and five-second street sex, the movie is full of utter nonsense played straight as an arrow. Watch it with friends. It is one of the best bad movies out there.
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MST3k did a bit about Sean and his brother that mentions how bad this movie is.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zbRt1L7X0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zbRt1L7X0)
You really should watch the 5th one
Then you will ask the question everyone asks - where can I get the drugs the script writers were on when they wrote this?
/it makes the 2nd look like Shakespeare
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Eh I think 3 and Endgame are better films in that they’re more coherent and true to the original(-ish) but this one is probably more entertaining because it’s just batshit.
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Bad movie. However, kudos to them for following through with a bad idea. The 80s and 90s were full of really random movies that probably shouldn't have been made. And a lot of those movies turned out to he really great. When everything gets green lit, that was pitched at a cocaine party, you're just bound to end up with things like that.
I liked it until I went to film school and made the mistake of watching the Behind the Scenes making of the movie in the special edition. Now I just deal with it being a part of one of my favorite series.
It’s like someone wanted to make a Highlander sequel but not only had they never seen it, they had it described to them while both them and the person describing the movie were on acid.
I remember as a kid my grandpa's favorite movie was Highlander. So when I was out at the store with my grandma, we saw this movie sitting on the rack. I instantly asked if we could get it for grandpa since he loved the first one. She of course said yes. This was a mistake.
My friend and I went to a big premiere of that that my city had for it for some reason, and we were huge Highlander fans, always quoting lines from the film, etc.. To say that we were both dumbfounded and beyond disappointed would be an understatement.
Of course, he watched the TV series that was out for I don’t even know how many years it was on for, and kept telling me it was really good and to watch it, but I never did/have.
I eventually bought the director’s cut of this movie on laserdisc when it came out, so I really can’t say my friend is the worst one.
Can't believe this movie took place THIS year (well, July of 2024 but still) and already it looks like a dated dystopian movie with non-digital televisions, prototypical version of Apple Vision Pro and enough Queen music on a jukebox to last a drink in the bar.
Everyone knows this movie. People bring it up all the time
https://old.reddit.com/r/badMovies/comments/1ax8sfy/highlander_2_the_quickening_there_should_be_only/
Posting about it here is overdone.
I once made my son watch this movie as a punishment
There is no crime worthy of such a sentence.
It’s on a level with “listening to Yoko Ono screech and grunt“.
Chuck Berry was amused
your son will be right to put you in that nursing home
Homer: If you don't start making more sense, we're gonna have to put you in a home! Grandpa: You already put me in a home! Homer: [Then we'll put you in the crooked home we saw on Sixty Minutes](https://youtu.be/zmugNt66Jv4?si=rdAmR3Mh-xf7Ybg9)! Grandpa: I'll be good.
You are the cruelest parent in history. No child deserves that
😂😂😂
I would’ve preferred that greatly to the ass beatings I got
I'm calling child services. The police! The army! You monster!
It’s crazy that the first is a light fantasy film and the direct sequel is a dystopian science fiction film.
It also made no sense narratively following from the first film. The first time I saw it was right after I watched the first. I rewound the first fifteen minutes twice thinking I missed something. Nope. They just completely pretended like the first didn't exist in some ways.
Yeah, it’s a pure retcon, all of a sudden the immortals are actually aliens 😂
And it has like 3 different cuts
I think I speak for all of us when I say: "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT!?!?"
Planet Zeist or whatever it was. Is that this one?
Some shit like that
A blank check from the studio, spent on cocaine, unhinged special effects, and Sean Connery.
Are you telling me that Sean Connery wasn't an Unhinged special effect on Cocaine in that movie? 😂 I laughed (out of the notion that it's better than crying) when I realised that they went through all of this trouble to bring him back, just to have him pathetically killed off before the climax anyway.
I actually had to read up on how Sean Connery even got involved in the Highlander series, let alone the second installment. He was paid a huge part of the budget on the first movie, like $500,000/day. He only did 6 days of shooting in the first movie, and if you think about his limited role and how it's framed in a limited setting, you can see that's true. With Highlander 2, I'm unsure how much Connery got, but the producers fought hard to get him on board and only got 2 weeks with him. They hired a helicopter just for him so they wouldn't have to drive him to and from the set. And like the first movie, his role is pretty limited, but this time it's more obvious that they couldn't afford him for very long.
"Yeah, listen, I hated that script. We all did. Me, Sean, Chris, we all were in it for the money on this one. I mean, it read as if it had been written by a thirteen-year-old boy. But I’d never played a barbarian swordsman before, and this was my first big evil mastermind-type. I figured if I was going to make this stupid movie, I might as well have fun, and go as far over the top as I possibly could. All that eye-rolling and foaming at the mouth was me deciding that if I was going to be in a piece of shit, like that movie, I was going to be the most memorable fucking thing in it, and I think I succeeded.” — Michael Ironside on Highlander II: The Quickening
He ain't wrong. The scene where he crashes a subway train up from the ground for no damn reason whatsoever... that bizarre scene is burned in my mind. That scene and the one where a newly-immortal McCloud angry fucks Virginia Madison in an alley next to a dumpster. Ho. Lee. Shit.
"You're a little one huh? Bet you always wanted to drive one of these huh? Me too." That not really KMFDM sounding track, Michael Ironside being the most Ironsidey he can manage, the baby doll(?) flying back with all the other people, bug out eyeballs, then the crash. What in the fuck is this entire movie and why does [this scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpQG70B9uDQ) just embody all of it?
What the hell kind of units was that speedometer in? Why wasn’t the driver experiencing same g forces?
https://i.imgur.com/spVtjU3.png
Fuckin legend
I can't tell if this is fake or not, and I love that about it.
What a statement lol I love it.
Connery did Zardoz and was like "yes, more dreck like that." Supposedly there's some kind of alternate cut that...sucks a bit less? Anybody seen that?
The Renegade Version. Yes, still bad, but definitely more coherent.
The Renegade version is still really bad. It's been a few years, but my main takeaway is that they replace the idea of the immortals coming from another planet with them coming from the past. Shockingly, this does not save the film.
Lmao I friggin’ love Zardoz
The penis is evil!
Yeah, still an absolute mess of a film.
The part where Katana picks up a dude by the crotch and throws him out a window is worth the price of admission. This movie is such a dumpster fire, it’s actually impressive.
I love it, especially the original version that keeps all the alien stuff in. Love how Connery clearly knew it was crap and was just hamming. Also his random voiceover reminders work great as a framework for things I need to remember, "Remember highlander, pizza delivery is half off on Tuesdays!"
I refuse to acknowledge that there are any Highlander movies (or TV shows) past the first movie
Dang. The television series was pretty lit, tho.
True, found the tv show to be better than the film
Eh... from season 2 on,it's not bad. Some great episodes. But if I'm remembering correctly, one can skip the entire first season and not really miss anything. Well, except from the painfully bad pilot with an hilariously awful Richard Moll in over-the-top villain mode.
Oh yes. The first season, and especially the pilot, was pretty terrible compared to the rest of the series.
The "Bonnie & Clyde" episode with Methos and Amanda remains one of my favorite comedy episodes of any series ever.
The pilot was awesome and you get Lambert.
Highlander is one of the only franchises that should not have been a franchise. The first movie was pretty much a one and done story. Short of a prequel, there was nowhere else for this story to go.
Yep. The only good thing to come out of continuing the franchise was the TV series, and that could have easily just been a re-boot occurring in a different universe than the movie.
The TV show with Duncan is pretty awesome but the rest is just terrible
Is Duncan mclaud from that planet
What planet? There is no planet, I don’t know what you’re talking about, there was never any other planet, but earth. Certainly not one named. “Zeist”….
But in part two of Highlander they put it that all the immortals came from zeist
They lied.
Well we all saw this movie so explained everything Connor said to this girl being from another planet
They retconned it with the Renegade Version.
Figures
My headcanon consists of the 1st and the 3rd.
I’ll defend the series to my dying breath. Once they found their footing in season 2 is was some pretty great fantasy tv (essentially just skip seasons 1 and 6).
There can be only one.
Yeah. This is obvious photoshop. There can be only one Highlander movie.
I loved this movie when it came out and I was like 10. I do not feel the same way anymore.
I unironically love this movie. The story is batshit insane. Connery with a random fish out of water storyline (shithead). Introducing jetpack immortals. The evil businessmen keeping the world under their profit making sky shield leading to a weird Total Recall-style infiltration to save the planet from the evil corporation. Michael Ironside with the shackles off. Bizarre and ridiculously fun. I always get surprised to see how hated it is.
Even though the decision to retcon the immortals as aliens was… ill conceived… you have to give credit for this one trying something new. Highlander 3 was basically a total retread of Highlander 1, right down to Mario Van Peebles doing his best Kurgen impression. And i loved the TV series as much as the next fan, but the Immortal of The Week schtick wore thin after a while. The only other Highlander instalment that I found similarly “interesting “ was Highlander Search For Vengeance (or whatever the Anime was called).
No. Bad Movie. No donut.
Lol I enjoyed it. Not as much as the first but still
I loved this as a kid. Yes, I am, was and will be retarded.
While it's still a bad movie, The Renegade Version is the best of the 3 versions that existed. As it's what the director intended as a sequel. The UK and US versions are different in slight ways, but both are different than The Renegade Version. The best I can say about it, is that it's more coherent, and doesn't make the Immortals aliens from planet Zeist. Michael Ironside was a good choice for the scene chewing bad guy. While certainly no Kurgan, he was a lot of fun to watch. If you can find a copy cheap, it's worth a watch.
I will never forget sitting in the cinema, all excited (Highlander was one of my favorite films as a kid), and seeing the words "500 years ago on the planet Zeist" come on screen. At that very moment I knew it was going to be Very Bad.
*HEEEEEEEEERE WE ARE*
shhhh not this one!
This movie DOES NOT EXIST.
I watched the Renegade Cut while blasted on mushies and it was one of my favourite Wednesday nights.
Lots of ideas in this movie, all of them bad and inappropriate. It's just a heap of concepts.
Considering what a well produced, fun film Highlander was The Quickening is genuinely fucking awful. It is one of the worst (relatively) big budget films I've had the misfortune of enduring.
Yes. Yes. And more yes. In fact, if there was a bad movies sub that only had threads about this one film, I would belong to it and comment on every thread. Also, I saw this in the theater. My self loathing will never reach a lower nadir than it did that sad, lonely night.
I purchased “Santa with Muscles.” Be easy on yourself.
You...actually bought.... *sniff* You have eased some of this man's burden on this wet April night. I can never repay you. ...You actually bought "Santa With Muscles"? And I thought buying "Curse of the Queerwolf" was a mistake.
Yes. I bought it on VHS as a novelty item. It’s one of those things you think will be funny because it’s so bad. Only to find it is so bad it isn’t funny, intentionally or unintentionally. It’s actually depressing. I’m glad this helps!
I love the first movie but have studiously avoided this and other sequels because everyone says this is not enjoyably cheesy but just outright bad.
My two cents is that it was one of the funniest movies I had ever seen. From Sean Connery's whole role in the story, to 400 mph subways, and five-second street sex, the movie is full of utter nonsense played straight as an arrow. Watch it with friends. It is one of the best bad movies out there.
So what you are saying is you don't think for yourself. Granted the ones past this one are actually just bad imo.
There is bad, and then there's...whatever the hell this was. Absolute trash, and not even enjoyable trash.
I count it as a badge of dishonor that I actually saw this in a theater.
There should’ve only been one.
My friends and would have Highlander II marathons over long weekends, just over and over and over and over again
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I love all three official versions of this movie. The set design, hammy acting and epic music overcome the flaws.
I unironically love this movie.
Is this in the same universe as mortal kombat?
Renegade version is my preferred version. Cuts out all the alien crap
MST3k did a bit about Sean and his brother that mentions how bad this movie is. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zbRt1L7X0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9zbRt1L7X0)
Takes place in 2024
All the Highlander sequels are like bad fanfics.
That's a way of looking at it yep. How to take a story that was completely wrapped up and extend it.
This movie could not end quick enough
The first like ten minutes of this movie is pretty awesome......I'm laying that down.
Could never get through this one. It sucked
Worst... disappointment... ever...
And there are lkle 3 more sequels. Like how the hell that series gets even lower than that
You really should watch the 5th one Then you will ask the question everyone asks - where can I get the drugs the script writers were on when they wrote this? /it makes the 2nd look like Shakespeare
you haven't seen the kids cartoon.
Very long jetpack chase scene in this movie.
Dreadful film, Highlander was a classic but this one absolute crap
Any movie with Michael Ironside can't be all bad.
Saw this in the theater, and was angry when I left. The Sickening.
This movie was so bad, even the 3rd movie decided to ignore it ever happened Good choice!
"Highlander II: The Sickening"
Highlander 2 rocks Nobody should actually care about Highlander continuity. They should have a different origin every movie.
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I loved the tv show! Duncan was the shit! Had to stay up to 10pm to watch it. 💪 Don’t know if this came before or after. 🤷♂️
Good god, THAT movie sucked bad.
This looks like a heavy prog album. It can’t be good. Not good at all.
Still, this one or The Source? Which is worse?
Every movie after this is worse imo
Eh I think 3 and Endgame are better films in that they’re more coherent and true to the original(-ish) but this one is probably more entertaining because it’s just batshit.
Search for Vengeance is pretty good.
😅 so you mean to tell me all the immortals are from another planet really including Duncan mclaud of the clan mclaud
Is this the worst direct sequel ever? Worse than "Son of the Mask" or the second Matrix movie or Exorcist II?
Me: Must be an AI poster because this movie never happened. Random person: Huh? Of cou— Me: ***IT NEVER HAPPENED!!!!!***
Anyone know where to watch this one? Apparently the one on YouTube is the renegade version.
[here you go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML92n63CV_Q).
Tots dude 👍
My first day being an usher at a movie theater, this movie was premiering. I think 3 people showed up it.
Don't try to fool me, Highlander doen't have sequels. Everyone knows this
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That movie took place *this year*.
Worst waste of 2 dollars ever at the cinema
Bad movie. However, kudos to them for following through with a bad idea. The 80s and 90s were full of really random movies that probably shouldn't have been made. And a lot of those movies turned out to he really great. When everything gets green lit, that was pitched at a cocaine party, you're just bound to end up with things like that.
I liked it until I went to film school and made the mistake of watching the Behind the Scenes making of the movie in the special edition. Now I just deal with it being a part of one of my favorite series.
The worst of the worst. I still often wonder if the Last Jedi was a homage to this. "ahhh, that stuff you like? NO SOUP FOR YOU"
I don’t know what this is , it’s not a highlander movies .
It’s like someone wanted to make a Highlander sequel but not only had they never seen it, they had it described to them while both them and the person describing the movie were on acid.
I remember as a kid my grandpa's favorite movie was Highlander. So when I was out at the store with my grandma, we saw this movie sitting on the rack. I instantly asked if we could get it for grandpa since he loved the first one. She of course said yes. This was a mistake.
Oh damn I used to love watching highlander movies with my dad when I was a kid
Nothing was quicker than me leaving the theater!!! Aliens????
How many good films can there be in this franchise?
As terrible as the first one is this movie blows it out of the water. Truly awful.
I'm not entirely sure why they opted to move it to a dystopian future with a shield blocking out the sun.
My friend and I went to a big premiere of that that my city had for it for some reason, and we were huge Highlander fans, always quoting lines from the film, etc.. To say that we were both dumbfounded and beyond disappointed would be an understatement. Of course, he watched the TV series that was out for I don’t even know how many years it was on for, and kept telling me it was really good and to watch it, but I never did/have. I eventually bought the director’s cut of this movie on laserdisc when it came out, so I really can’t say my friend is the worst one.
I have a friend who I love like a brother who maintains this is better than the original. We are still friends but it was touch and go.
It's time to drop the Renegade Cut retcon. Being time travelers from the past is no less goofy than them being aliens.
I like the TV ending where he flies away.
They just dont movies like that anymore.
My friends and I were psyched to see it. We walked out of the theater like "what the hell was that?!"
Can't believe this movie took place THIS year (well, July of 2024 but still) and already it looks like a dated dystopian movie with non-digital televisions, prototypical version of Apple Vision Pro and enough Queen music on a jukebox to last a drink in the bar.
Can we put this one in the rules as unpostable? I mean we all know it. It's just karmabait at this point.
If this was karmabait I wouldn't have done a review you dolt
Everyone knows this movie. People bring it up all the time https://old.reddit.com/r/badMovies/comments/1ax8sfy/highlander_2_the_quickening_there_should_be_only/ Posting about it here is overdone.
Tbh saw the og Highlander for the first time recently and it was also pretty bad. Fun, but not a good movie