A Few More Highlander Remake Thoughts

[ithildyn]

On one of the Highlander email lists, I glanced at a few emails on the subject today. There seems to be the sentiment that if only the two sequels had gotten the big budget that the remake's getting, things would have been different. And people seem quite bitter about it. But is that really true? Can you turn a sow's ear into a silk purse? If 'The

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[strangevisitor7]

*applaudes you* Yes!Story is everything. The second HL sucked because the story about aliens and was a stupid story - more money would have just gone into to making more special effect for a crappy movie.

Happens all the time look at the 2nd Matrix movie - three times the budget 10 times the stupid

[lastrega]

55 million bucks worth of crap is still crap.

[darthhellokitty]

I'm so sick of the Dance of 1000 Remakes. How about somebody make an ORIGINAL movie? If we want to see the original HL movie again, WE CAN RENT IT.

[unovis]

Yes.
But -- I'm curious about what was behind the urge to remake this, in particular. Was there love for the idea behind the original movie and its descendants, anywhere? Was there an urge to make it better by rebuilding from the ground up? I mean, god knows the last one was a flop, so Highlander the franchise isn't an automatic money-maker. Why? Remake the founding movie so that there *isn't* only one at the end?

[darthhellokitty]

It doesn't make any sense to me, but then I'm in one of those nothing-makes-sense-to-me moods.

I can see remaking a movie if you're planning on improving on it in some way, or changing it in a way that makes it work better. But arguably, the first movie is the best of the bunch, certainly the most popular, and done as well as anybody could do it. It's a classic. As far as I can see, they're just doing this because they can - and I don't know how they can, considering the last one was released direct to BitTorrent. Who would put up money for this project?

[darthhellokitty]

Some of the best movies I've seen have had a great script, and practically no budget at all.

[unovis]

$55 million could have meant a better director, more footage shot to choose from, and fewer disasters in the endgame of editing and distribution. Unless it had some impact on the choice of script or script writer, then no, the movie would still have been pretty bad. Unless it influenced them to move away from the horror genre, then no, the movie would still have been bad. But we might have had decent lighting and more pretty source material for vids.