Worst Movie EVER
Ok so back in the day I was a huge Highlander fan. I have 5 seasons on VHS and a couple of the movies on VHS and DVD (ok I only have the collectors tin can edition of the first on DVD, the rest are VHS), hell I even bought both versions of Highlander 2. I never thought there could POSSIBLY be a movie worse then the Zeist crap (Highlander 2 aka the movie that never was).... but then there was an Anime made that I saw a couple weeks back on SciFi. So then I thought "well thats bad but its still not as bad as Zeist" so I still had faith in Highlander as a franchise.
But here I am, 6 minutes into the direct to SciFi Channel movie Highlander: The Source.... and I can tell all ready that this takes Zeists "worst movie" title and not only blows it to smithereens but it forms its own category of suckdom and creates little suck babies from withing that suckdom. The writing.... bad, the acting.... bad, the shots.... bad, the effects... bad, the music.... bad. At least Zeists effects were bad because back then Highlander had no budget and it was like the 80's, not much good comes from the 80's when it comes to special effects. And I'm ONLY now 10 minutes into it. Now I went in with the expectation that it can't be that bad. I mean Zeist was just awful so this just can't be that bad.... wow. Even with no real expectations I can't help but vomit. Its soooo bad that I'm just about to the point that I'm not even going to do the train wreck thing, you know where you can't turn your head from a train wreck 'cause you're hoping for that bloody head to roll.... but I can't take this... this is just BAD.
And just to prove the badness of this movie, the bad guy (the guardian or whatever the fuck he's called) that appears to have super sonic speed cuts off the head of an immortal and announces to the audience that the light beems going inside him is "the quickening" and man I wish letters on a computer screen could justly do just how badly those two words were just acted. I mean this guy has to be the worst actor EVER. Now I'm watching him fight Duncan right before joe hits him with the car and.... good god.... I feel bad for Peter Wingfield and jim Brynes. And I also can't help but thank the powers that be that they had Ritchie killed off in Season 5 (which is funny since back then I hated that they did that) as Stan Kirsch didn't have to worry about being asked to do this crap.
Its not even "so bad its great" ala movies like "evil dead," "time bandits," or one of my personal favs the original "he-man" movie with Courtney Cox staring in her first role ever. Its not so bad you watch it anyway just to make fun of it. Its so bad that you now feel stupider having invested ANY time into it.
I mean my GOD this has EVERYTHING that is cliche about being a bad movie. It has the horrible music playing over a useless montage. It has overacting and overemphasizing of words. It has random slow mo or speeding up scenes. Hell they even use a freaking MOTION BLUR just to emphasize that these guys are moving fast. I mean this is right up there with some of the crap I produced in the film classes I had to take that's how BAD it is.
Now 26 minutes in and I've had enough. i can't take anymore of this shit. Not when I have "Bones, Season 2" sitting there waiting for me. Yummy Agent Booth, Yummy Zack Addy, piles of bones and rotting corpses.... or poorly written, poorly acted, only thing redeeming is Yummy Peter Wingfield... sorry Peter, you lose.
What happened to my Highlander? You know the Highlander that was so bad it was good?
But here I am, 6 minutes into the direct to SciFi Channel movie Highlander: The Source.... and I can tell all ready that this takes Zeists "worst movie" title and not only blows it to smithereens but it forms its own category of suckdom and creates little suck babies from withing that suckdom. The writing.... bad, the acting.... bad, the shots.... bad, the effects... bad, the music.... bad. At least Zeists effects were bad because back then Highlander had no budget and it was like the 80's, not much good comes from the 80's when it comes to special effects. And I'm ONLY now 10 minutes into it. Now I went in with the expectation that it can't be that bad. I mean Zeist was just awful so this just can't be that bad.... wow. Even with no real expectations I can't help but vomit. Its soooo bad that I'm just about to the point that I'm not even going to do the train wreck thing, you know where you can't turn your head from a train wreck 'cause you're hoping for that bloody head to roll.... but I can't take this... this is just BAD.
And just to prove the badness of this movie, the bad guy (the guardian or whatever the fuck he's called) that appears to have super sonic speed cuts off the head of an immortal and announces to the audience that the light beems going inside him is "the quickening" and man I wish letters on a computer screen could justly do just how badly those two words were just acted. I mean this guy has to be the worst actor EVER. Now I'm watching him fight Duncan right before joe hits him with the car and.... good god.... I feel bad for Peter Wingfield and jim Brynes. And I also can't help but thank the powers that be that they had Ritchie killed off in Season 5 (which is funny since back then I hated that they did that) as Stan Kirsch didn't have to worry about being asked to do this crap.
Its not even "so bad its great" ala movies like "evil dead," "time bandits," or one of my personal favs the original "he-man" movie with Courtney Cox staring in her first role ever. Its not so bad you watch it anyway just to make fun of it. Its so bad that you now feel stupider having invested ANY time into it.
I mean my GOD this has EVERYTHING that is cliche about being a bad movie. It has the horrible music playing over a useless montage. It has overacting and overemphasizing of words. It has random slow mo or speeding up scenes. Hell they even use a freaking MOTION BLUR just to emphasize that these guys are moving fast. I mean this is right up there with some of the crap I produced in the film classes I had to take that's how BAD it is.
Now 26 minutes in and I've had enough. i can't take anymore of this shit. Not when I have "Bones, Season 2" sitting there waiting for me. Yummy Agent Booth, Yummy Zack Addy, piles of bones and rotting corpses.... or poorly written, poorly acted, only thing redeeming is Yummy Peter Wingfield... sorry Peter, you lose.
What happened to my Highlander? You know the Highlander that was so bad it was good?