I almost forgot: In Highlander if the guy's sword had over 100 layers, how did part of it come off when he sliced at a concrete pillar? And why, even if it did, was there no rolling or deformities in the blade afterward?
DON'T WATCH HIGHLANDER OR ROBOCOP
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What are you talking about? Both films are great fun.
I think you might be taking them a bit too serious in terms of things like continuity errors and logic.
Robocop in particular has leanings toward being a dark comedy. Both are over the top 80's actions films and always worth a watch.
Highlander 2 is genuinely awful, but in a "so bad that it's kind of good" sort of way.
Highlander 3 is just plain bad with no redeeming features. It's boring and it sucks.
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Problem5826 wrote:
What are you talking about? Both films are great fun.
I think you might be taking them a bit too serious in terms of things like continuity errors and logic.
Robocop in particular has leanings toward being a dark comedy. Both are over the top 80's actions films and always worth a watch.
Highlander 2 is genuinely awful, but in a "so bad that it's kind of good" sort of way.
Highlander 3 is just plain bad with no redeeming features. It's boring and it sucks.
I've watched plenty of other '80s classics, and these two are the lowest of the low. "If your head gets separated from your neck, its over." What kind of plot is that?
The themes center more around mortality (hence the Queen soundtrack, and the excessive time given to his love interests considering that it was an 80's action flick).
I think you probably just weren't into it lol, which is fine.
Jan 7, 2021
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Problem5826 wrote:
The themes center more around mortality (hence the Queen soundtrack, and the excessive time given to his love interests considering that it was an 80's action flick).
I think you probably just weren't into it lol, which is fine.
If you put it that way, it must be a deeper movie than I expected.
Recently, I watched both Highlander and Robocop, Highlander a few weeks ago, and Robocop just a few days. Despite both being considered amazing classics, they really sucked to me. I'm just glad Robocop didn't have a sex scene.
Even though Highlander 2 gets all the credit for being garbage, Highlander is also lame. Why the hell would these immortal swordsmen fight with one-handed swords that are about one foot long? The guards look like they are made of plastic! And you'd think that the guy Shaun Connery plays (sorry, forgot the character's name), who had been sword fighting for centuries, would at least remember to sharpen his blade once in a while. Why the heck would all these people stand and fight against the barbarian when he is a foot taller and has a blade twice the size of their own? Makes no sense at all!
Now, Robocop. Ok, I understand that it is an old movie and it was difficult to film something that is set in the future, but really? The elevators are on the outside, so a sniper could easily pick off a ton of executives, not to mention they could easily be damaged by storms. Also, what is this dumb stigma that low gas mileage cars are better: "I want one of those cars with a crazy low gas mileage", "This baby showed up at my house! 8.2 MPG!"? Going back to the beginning, the cop survived for crazy long while being pumped full of lead by SPAS shotguns. A single shot from 10 feet away blew off his arm, so why didn't a shot from 6 inches blow off his head? Or at least leave some kind of damage other than a few fountains of blood? At the end, during the fight scene, how did toxic waste mutate the dude's body so quickly? If he were that deformed from the toxic waste, he would have died! Why would his body blow apart like the dude in the scene "Son of Jackass"?
All I'm saying is, DON'T WATCH THESE TWO MOVIES.