Part of The Kurgan's behavior can be attributed to his age. He was bored. 🤣 He was almost 3,000 year old. He's been everywhere and done everything. He probably killed thousands of people, laid with thousands of women, survived thousands of "deaths". It would be more strange for a person to act "normal" after all that, than for them to be weird. 🤪
"Who in the holy Skeletor is he?" Best reaction to the Kurgan EVER. Christopher Lambert has an odd accent. Born in New York City, lived in France for most of his childhood, then moved to Switzerland. He wasn't actually fluent in English when he took this role, but worked with a dialect coach to not only learn English, but develop a layered, non-specific accent, to lend the idea that, as he says, he's from "lots of different places." Connor has moved about enough and picked up enough accents and languages that it's formed a unique milieu. I always thought Connor's girlfriend turned on him so quickly either out of fear of being guilty by association or suspected of being the "witch" who put the Devil in him, unless she jumps straight to the head of the "BURN HIM!" line. That, or she feared he'd corrupted her somehow, and needed to die for her to be "cleansed." There was a deleted scene with Kastagir and Connor going out and having a party, and messing with one of the cops that was investigating MacLeod. Sadly, all the deleted scenes were lost in a fire, and only survive in a few production stills. An entire character, Yung Dol Kim, was cut. He fought the Kurgan, then chose to die because he was just sick and tired of Immortality and the Game, and the Kurgan cannot comprehend why he would do that. The Kurgan is a great villain, just chaotically unhinged evil, knows he's Immortal and has the worst kind of fun with it. In the Series, the Quickening is specifically one Immortal killing another, and gaining all that Immortal's knowledge and power. The film leaves it a bit more ambiguous, but a recent SF Debris review of the film points out, when Ramirez is teaching Connor about it, it's the ability to connect with other life -- the stag, in that specific case. At the end, Connor says "The Quickening overpowers me! I know! I know everything! I AM everything!" The Prize, therefore, is heightening the Quickening to the point where he can connect with anyone and everyone at will, as he says, know what people all over the world are thinking, help them understand each other, help them understand themselves. So it is a setup, but not for what you thought it was setting up.
Highlander was actually filmed in Scotland. The Macleod castle is Eilean Donan Castle in the west Highlands (rather appropriate). This might be why the Scotland scenes look beautiful! While they did film some scenes in New York City, most of the modern day scenes were filmed in London.
You have a French guy trying to do a Scottish accent. You have a Scottish guy trying to do a Spanish accent. If people get mad about the laughing... They know what this is.
Fun fact, Christopher Lambert had literally just learned how to speak English just prior to this movie. That's why his accent sounds so odd. It's Frenchman speaking English while trying to sound Scottish.
Part of the reason for MacLeod's accent is that Lambert didn't speak English then. This is an 80s movie, a lot of things are a bit cheesy. The Highlander TV series lasted 6 seasons and made a lot of aspects of being an immortal clearer. It follows the life of Connor's clan member and student Duncan MacLeod who was about 80 years younger.
They wanted Christopher Lambert's accent to be weird. The idea was for it to show how old he was and all the places he'd been. It doesn't explain why he sounds like that in the very beginning, but hey...
Highlander's my favourite film of all time, so every now and again I look to see if people have done reactions to it. This is one of the best ones. Laughed out loud so many times at the things yous came out with. Definitely agree that it's a great concept and "lore" that's executed quite poorly. As much as it's my fave, it's ridiculous - it really was the "what it could be" that captured my imagination decades ago.
I'm reasonably sure that Highlander is literally one of the greatest films of all time! Lol! Don't know your Mum, but I'm sure she is a very smart and wise woman. 😂 This film has been close to my heart since I was about 9. Contrary to a lie being currently told NO, black people do not need to see ourselves represented in order to appreciate a great story! Don't get me wrong, the character of Sunda Kastagir is awesome! I appreciate him. No, I don't😅 need it retconned for "representation!" I'm not that simple minded.
The swords sound weird because they weren't actually using metal swords during fights but plastic ones. Crhistopher Lambert suffers severe myopia (even at that time) and couldn't use contact lenses so fights had to be done with plastic ones to avoid him hurting or getting hurt and sound effects were added in post production. He sees barely nothing without glasses.
Americans only know 3 things about Scotland: Bagpipes, kilts, and haggis. It would be silly to insult someone by calling him a kilt or a bagpipe. That just leaves haggis.
The actor who plays the kurgan is the voice of mr.krabs from sponge Bob thr quicking allows you to sense other immortals to prepare for battle ,you got it right that the more immortals a immortals kills the stronger they become i.e. the fastet they heal from fatal wounds ect.
Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan. Has had a great career and perfect in Shawshank Redemption. The movie was low budget but still fun. Do not watch the sequel.
I've long wondered what Scots would think of this movie, and now I know!😂 But honestly, this wasn't a bad movie. "Highlander 2" was a bad movie. I'm not sure, but I've heard it was so bad that it's producers apologized for it. They issued a director's cut where they tried to fix it; but it didn't work. Now I have to hear y'all's opinion of "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
i'm a big fan of this franchise and trust me; the cheese is one of the big reasons. Every fan has a laugh with the cheese. It's what makes it entertaining on top of the love story and action.
This is my favorite movie, and that's based on having seen a few thousand movies over nearly 70 years. I've seen this about 25 times. The first time was accidental on TV in a hotel room while traveling on business in the 80s. At that time, the movie was unknown and it took about 4 or 5 years to develop a cult following. The movie sequels, certainly not planned when this made, are deplorable. The TV series (1992 - 1998) is quite good. This is based on the end of term project of an undergraduate film student at UCLA named Gregory Widen. A group of low budget movie producers, who normally looked through student scripts for anything good, bought it from him. Today Widen is a prominent screenwriter and director. He says that the largest difference between his script and the movie is the Kurgen. He says that in his original script, the Kurgen was just a very depressed person for whom the competition for the prize was a reason to get up in the morning. On the set, Clancy Brown, who played the Kurgen, used to complain to Widen about the farcical Kurgen scenes and Widen would tell him, "Hey, man, I'm just the author." Christopher Lambert, who plays McLeod, was a French actor who had a lot of trouble with English in general at this time, much less accents in English, but, in a way, that's at least partially okay since McLeod would have lived in, as he put it, "lots of different places." I'll accept your appraisal of his Scottish accent. I've never once seen Scottish people react to, review, or discuss this movie before. Real Scots are probably the only people who would notice deficiencies in the accents. Thanks for reacting to it. Good luck with your channel.
Lorna really enjoyed it and has been talking and quoting bits from the movie for the last few days not sure if it's going to be one of our favourites but I think she has joined the cult The accents were awful but we are okay with that! It's a tough one for a lot of actors and it doesn't help that Scotland there are so many different dialects.
HAHAHA!!! OK this reaction earned my subscription because you are both great!! Let me explain a few things. Most Americans can't identify a foreign accent at all, so if it sounds vaguely "Scottish" it's good enough for us. I HAVE actually had to explain to some American friends why his name is "Mack Cloud: but his sword says "Mc Lee-owed." When you said that I nearly pissed myself laughing!!! Kurgen (aka Skeletor) is also known for doing the voice of Mt Hrabs in Spongebob, Lex Luthor in the Justice League cartoon series, he is the drill instructor in Starship troopers, the guard in Shawshank Redemption, and a HOST of others. I also used to deliver his family's newspapers back in Urbans, Ohio. The entire movie is very 80s.....very dated....and VERY cheesy even when it first came out. Still LOVE it!! Now, however, I will never be able to watch without hearing "He-man-der" shouting I HAVE THE POWER during every quickening!!! And.....stabbing is highly...."erotic?"
Hahaha thank you for the lovely comment! I (Colin) am glad we made you laugh and you enjoyed the content ☺️. Ahhh yes! Turns out I actually know that actor more than I thought! Thanks again!
I think they wanted an actor with an accent that couldn't be placed, like he lived a long time in many places. But it doesn't make sense for when he was in the Scottish Village to start.
This was around the time when MTV video directors were getting jobs to film movies. Russell Mulcahy was one of those directors, along with Tony Scott, who directed Top Gun. The style screams 1980s rock videos. It’s definitely an interesting movie to watch in terms of cinematography and camera placement. It’s a lot of fun. PS - Christopher Lambert is a New York born French actor, hence the accent. He’s legally blind and couldn’t wear contacts, so the sword fighting scenes had to be choreographed. He couldn’t see a thing.
Oooh some great information! That definitely makes sense to why we felt the fight scenes seemed a bit clunky and rehearsed- thought it was just the style.
5:08 back in the day you had to have the main credits before the film if not you got fined heavily. George Lucas didn’t do it for the first Star Wars movie he did and was fined $250,000 which led him to resign from the directors guild of America. I really enjoyed this one. The second not so good cause they didn’t follow the storyline very well. The third one is a little better cause they went back to this storyline. The fourth one is better but you should check the tv series with Adrian Paul who is added to the story. The last one “Highlander: The Source” was a fun story. There was also another tv series called Highlander: The Raven. 19:59 the thing with accents with the immortals is they’re world travelers so their accents are muddled with multiple countries. 20:28 they were so superstitious back then. Anything that looked like witchcraft was bad and they needed to be destroyed. His wife turned on him so fast more cause she was hurt that the man she loved was (in their eyes possessed). This isn’t really a comedy. They have some funny bits in it like most movies. It’s basically a make believe. 23:37 the quickening is the power that the immortals carry and transfers all that an immortal is to the winner. 24:49 this scene really hurt the movie in my opinion cause immortals still die they just come back to life. No way should he be able to breathe under water. 25:46 Sean Connery died in 2020. 26:10 stunt double with horrible editing. 27:16 we had a teacher at our high school that would play the bagpipes before school in the quad. He also would play on the weekends at his house in the morning and at sporting events. It was fun listening and watching him. He also would wear a kilt.
A lot of 80's movies are weird on a good way out of my sight and Highlander is a great example for this, so I'm glad both of you liked it. Maybe you will give Braveheart a second chance in future, I mean a lot of Patreaons seemed to like this movie too when the result of the votes has a draw with Highlander, right?
In the TV series, they pinned down the vague meaning of "the quickening" to something specific - the event right after the death of one combatant in which the other gets his power.
Clancy Brown is a great actor, his portrayal of Kurgan is just another one he is known for. One of my favorites was his performance in the Starship Troopers movie as Sgt. Charles Zim.
This was a great reaction, including the jokes about the movie. The explanation girl Christopher Lambert's accent is they decided he would've lived all over and needed a unique accent that was a mix of others. Also, the fight choreography was decent here but really improved by Highlander: The Series.
There's a great episode of the Goldbergs in which Clancy Brown guest stars as a teacher. The premise was that there were two competing Highlander fan clubs and they had to whittled down, "There can be only one!"
Highlander was my favorite movie growing up, and where I was first introduced to Queen's music. I would watch the whole thing every time I found it airing on TV, which was fairly often back then. It is certainly dated, but I still love the mythology that was created. The first guy that Connor fights in the parking garage is played by the stunt coordinator of the movie. His unnecessary flips might've been a bit of showing off during the short screen time he got.
By the way Peter Diamond (Fasil) was also the stunt coordinator on Star Wars. He’s also the Tusken Raider who nearly kills Luke before Obi-Wan shows up.
Same for me, I used to watch it with dad, first saw it when I was 9, but he wouldn't let me see highlander 2 when it came out because he was worried it would be too violent....figure that one out...
The ability to know that Brenda had the revolver and the tape recorder are another aspect of the quickening, a hyper-awareness of his surroundings, at least in Connor's case. Perhaps not all the time, but it's there.
The quickening is just when the power gets transferred after you behead another immortal. But it doesn’t last. It only becomes magical when he’s the last one. And he explains then he can hear people’s thoughts all over the world. He can grow old and have children. That’s the prize.
@@weebitreacts Until recently it was going to be Henry Cavill but he had to exit because he's producing and starring in a new Warhammer movie. Maybe Richard Madden or Tom Blyth would be good fits. The movie is being made by the director of the John Wick movies.
They've been trying to get a remake going for the last 15 years. Back in 2014 it was supposed to be directed by Justin Lin(of the Fast & Furious franchise) and star Ryan Reynolds. Then they both dropped out of it. Back in 2021 it was going to be directed by Chad Stahelski(of the John Wick franchise) and star Henry Cavill, but now Cavill has left the project, and Stahelski has far too much already on his plate to be able to helm this project for at least another 4+ years. Don't hold your breath on seeing this remake. The franchise is dead.
I still feel sentimental about this flick since I watched it for the the first time when I was a "wee man" back in the 80's.. I tried to watch it again in my late 30's, but couldn't get halfway through. It does not hold up well, but it was interesting to see some Scots give their opinion. I agree it's hilarious that the only character with a proper Scottish accent is from a character who isn't even supposed to be Scottish ; ).
Hi Lorna & Colin!🙂Wow! I can't believe you guys are watching this for the first time. This is definitely a cult classic in the United States. It is 80's cheesy. Christopher Lambert is a French actor. Both Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert can't really do foreign accents. I knew you guys would have a problem with the accents or lack there of here. Nope, The Kurgan was not Jaws in James Bond, Colin. This movie became very popular after it was released on home video. Despite losing money at the box office this film spawned several sequels and a TV series with Duncan MacLeod's cousin. I think I heard you guys say you haven't seen Sean Connery in a James Bond film yet in another reaction. "Goldfinger" (1964) is generally considered his most popular Bond film. I am partial to "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971). Connery came back to do this final Bond film after leaving. He donated his salary from the film to a Scottish charity. I'm surprised both of you are split on your reactions for this. Nice reactions to the original Highlander film, Lorna & Colin!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Ahh nice bit of info there! Thanks! Some James Bonds reacts would be a great idea. Defo something for the future, well have a lot of content to make so could be fun. Tbh we been split a few times because Lorna is the lover of everything and I am the 'hater'. I will admit it was fun though. I had a good time. Thanks!
You have to remember this was the early 80s. Yes, the accent was bad. But you kind of have to suspend these little moments, and enjoy it for what it was. I was younger back, then and it really put Scotland front and centre, for me. The music from Queen, was great. Who wants to live forever. was an amazing song. But the score by the late Michael Kamen, was wonderful to me. The scenery was great, (Scotland, I mean) with Eilean Donan Castle, of course. And the Highlands. And I can say this, led the way for BraveHeart, and the Outlander series. So, it did achieve a great many things for Scotland, in my humble view. .
We definitely got that it was early 80's! Our humour is Scottish and maybe lost in translation. We loved the movie especially me (Lorna) but it was definitely always going to be a movie we could banter with :)
@@weebitreacts Not too far from you guys. So I know the great Scottish sense of humour. The great sage of the North, Rab C Nesbitt, is my hero. Younger viewer, should look him up.Yes, totally get what your saying. Its not everyone's cup of tea. But it was this long lost thing called VHS tapes, that made it a big hit after. Anyway, great reaction. Keep up the good work.
I like Christopher Lambert, he was one of my fav actors, even his movies are not among my fav movies, maybe only "Day of Wrath". I liked Highlander a lot when I was a kid, but now it's a funny movie to me; same is with Queen. But this movie is a great to meet you two, since you're Scottish. Great reaction, thx for sharing.
The Highlander is just the perfect storm. You have an absolutely AMAZING story. You have a brilliantly novel concept. Lots of stuff is really well executed. You have Queen making the music. Aaaaand then you have all the bad stuff. The wires, the accents, the occassionally bad acting. To call it bad is wrong, because it really isn't. To call it good however is not possible because it has too many bad aspects. However, for me, it is a cultural milestone. A cult classic with some really really bad sides to it.
Yes, it *IS* a katana👍 No, Alan North was not in Home Alone's movie "Angels With Filthy Souls" The motel clerk said that he hopes Kurgan gets his head chopped off because he was just watching a news story about the recent decapitations happening in New York & New Jersey
Back in the day of Devils and Witches, people believed if you were possessed they were doing you a favor by burning you to relieve you of your possession. Strange yes.
Highlander is so amazing, on so many levels. But so much of that is a contextual experience. Step outside those contexts, and the movie shows up as something else. There are a lot of movies that dazzle or connect with one person, while appearing flat or ludicrous to others. Don't worry if you didn't connect with it. We all speak different languages of perception. And we all have different interests in what languages we want to use and experiences we want to have or relate to. At least you now have your own experience. And you can also takeaway the value of knowing that if you ever do try to decipher it through other lenses, that you can uncover a treasure trove of contexts that conform to other types of people.
Connor's sword actually is a katana. the dragon head was screwed on and it broke off constantly. Sword Master Bob Anderson did a lot of Ramirez's sword fighting. He also played Darth Vader in the fight scenes in the Star Wars films. Anderson also did the distance shots on the cliffs
The screenwriter for this film also wrote (and directed) the Christopher Walken film from 1995 called The Prophecy. No fake accents, but still cheesy fun like this. And the director of this film also directed 1994’s The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin, which also cheesy fun.
First time watching your channel so, is the Mrs here to be the commentary while Mr is here to lose the plot every 9 seconds and make up for his thickness with injections of the least clever, most obvious and juvenile jokes along the way. Because if that's the format, you nailed it on this one. Cheers.
Lived in your beautiful country in 1982. Had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the Gatwick airport, would still be there if I could. I personally love this movie, with all it's failings. My personal favorite Scottish movie is "Local Hero", tho. Looking forward to watching your reactions.
I thought that was Rowdy Roddy Piper at first, when he's in the present... Lorna is a pure empath, feeling pity for broken wiper blades... We need to see Colin laugh more... Post plenty of pics from Japan!
Dated now, well, maybe 🤷🏻♂️ Back in the 80s and early 90s until CGI exploded it impressed us youngsters. The animated effects (early CGI I guess, the quickening etc) were quite good though. And the camerawork and the wild transitions were advanced for its time. Already in the first scenes with the wrestling it must have been one helluva work to film those circling around the arena scenes-nowadays that would probably be filmed with help of drones. The director Russell Mulcahy was actually best known as a high profile music video director back then, his only full length film back then was Razorback-a horror film about a wild boar. He did direct Queen’s videos for A Kind of Magic and Princes of the Universe, songs featured in the film (except A Kind of Magic is in another version in the movie credits than on the album).
@@weebitreacts Lorna, in my opinion the Series is way better than the movie!! There's five seasons of it to watch, and they had to go into a LOT of stuff. For one, the actor is British, he's from London. So him doing a Scottish accent will hopefully be far less offensive and more authentic. 🙂 I would really like to know how you guys feel about his Scottish accent! 🙂 When they show Duncan MacLeod 400 years ago, he tries to do a more pronounced Scottish accent, but in the modern day his accent has become less pronounced. But yeah....basically each episode is Duncan MacLeod, the main character, running into an evil immortal that he ends up having to kill because they're doing bad stuff! He runs into former Nazis who were Immortal, serial killers, so many stories! And an awesome sword fight in every episode!! There's also a character named Richie who becomes immortal and Duncan becomes his teacher. Ok so there was an episode called Homeland where Duncan, the main character, who works as an art dealer, runs into a Celtic bracelet. It turns out it's the bracelet that he gave to his lover 400 years ago in Glenfinan, Scotland. So he goes back there and buries it with her, but it turns out there is an evil Immortal in the area, a guy whom Duncan fought right after he became Immortal, but didn't realize the guy was immortal. But yeah just search for "highlander the series" on your desktop/laptop. You'll something on the right that says "Highlander the series free with ads", those are the official uploads from the copyright owner, they are provided for free officially! All five seasons. 🙂
@@weebitreacts In fact since you mentioned it I just re-watched another episode here on TH-cam (I saw them all when originally broadcast when I was in high school, I graduated 1996). It's from season 1 "mountain men" where Duncan MacLeod's girlfriend (played by Belgian actress Alexandra Vandernoot) is kidnapped by these guys who live in the mountains outside of Vancouver, Canada....one of them is an Immortal, but he gets Duncan's kantana, so Duncan ends up killing the bad guy with the bad guy's own axe. Great katana vs axe fight 🙂 Most of this episode, Adrian Paul doesn't try to make his accent sound like yours because it's the modern day (the 90s) so his accent is more of a London one, but during the flashback to 150 years earlier he tries to make his accent more Scottish. He traveled all around the world as an Immortal for 400 years so he lost some of his accent. That episode "homeland" is better to hear Adrian Paul's attempt at a Scottish accent. Another good one for that is "the samurai" which explains how Duncan got his katana and learned jujitsu and kenjitsu. 🙂 Sorry! I just can't talk enough about Highlander the Series! I love it 🙂 and its nostalgic to me, hearkens back to my younger days 🙂
Sean Connery did die a few years ago, but he hadn't been acting for some time before his death. It's maybe an ego thing, but he acted well in to older age, and was still a pimp, but when it got to the point that he was too old to no longer get roles as the leading man, he said fuck it, and quit acting, I think because he didn't want to be remembered as anything else. I think he lived in the Bahamas, or some island in the Carribean, and just stayed out of sight.
The 1980s was the best decade for movies and music... it really was....just check out the number of blockbusters that came from that decade - then check out the variety of styles of music coming out of that decade ...More than any other
I can't even be mad if y'all didn't like it. I know how silly it seems. But we Highlander fans absolutely love this movie. The TV series is a bit more serious and way better acted lmao. So yeah, a super highlander fan here isn't mad at you guys. I know how it seems now.
Yeah we know but his character in the movie is Egyptian Spanish, I think that is the point we were trying to make, sorry if it didn't come across. Yeah Clancy was brilliant!
Great video. It’s funny how everyone gets hung up on the Frenchman playing a Scott and the Scott playing an Egyptian. But, no one ever wants to know why a proto-Indo-European Kurgan, from sometime shortly after the Neolithic era, is galavanting around the Middle Ages, dressed as a dog, and speaking in an accent typical of 20th century Ohio in North America.
amazing mates. i'm scottish american and i love that you guys done this'n, naer seen a scots couple react channel, i'm subscribed and lookin forward tae mare, should definitely shite all over braveheart as well. ken? giid movie, bad history - highlander is aboot as historically accurate
His accent is "Christopher Lambert", we don't question it.
ahahah love this comment
he didn't know English before he took this role!
He has the authentic accent shared by all Japanese thunder gods.
He was born in NYC, then as a small child moved to France then back again
Part of The Kurgan's behavior can be attributed to his age. He was bored. 🤣
He was almost 3,000 year old. He's been everywhere and done everything. He probably killed thousands of people, laid with thousands of women, survived thousands of "deaths". It would be more strange for a person to act "normal" after all that, than for them to be weird. 🤪
"Who in the holy Skeletor is he?"
Best reaction to the Kurgan EVER.
Christopher Lambert has an odd accent. Born in New York City, lived in France for most of his childhood, then moved to Switzerland. He wasn't actually fluent in English when he took this role, but worked with a dialect coach to not only learn English, but develop a layered, non-specific accent, to lend the idea that, as he says, he's from "lots of different places." Connor has moved about enough and picked up enough accents and languages that it's formed a unique milieu.
I always thought Connor's girlfriend turned on him so quickly either out of fear of being guilty by association or suspected of being the "witch" who put the Devil in him, unless she jumps straight to the head of the "BURN HIM!" line. That, or she feared he'd corrupted her somehow, and needed to die for her to be "cleansed."
There was a deleted scene with Kastagir and Connor going out and having a party, and messing with one of the cops that was investigating MacLeod. Sadly, all the deleted scenes were lost in a fire, and only survive in a few production stills. An entire character, Yung Dol Kim, was cut. He fought the Kurgan, then chose to die because he was just sick and tired of Immortality and the Game, and the Kurgan cannot comprehend why he would do that.
The Kurgan is a great villain, just chaotically unhinged evil, knows he's Immortal and has the worst kind of fun with it.
In the Series, the Quickening is specifically one Immortal killing another, and gaining all that Immortal's knowledge and power. The film leaves it a bit more ambiguous, but a recent SF Debris review of the film points out, when Ramirez is teaching Connor about it, it's the ability to connect with other life -- the stag, in that specific case. At the end, Connor says "The Quickening overpowers me! I know! I know everything! I AM everything!" The Prize, therefore, is heightening the Quickening to the point where he can connect with anyone and everyone at will, as he says, know what people all over the world are thinking, help them understand each other, help them understand themselves. So it is a setup, but not for what you thought it was setting up.
Highlander was actually filmed in Scotland. The Macleod castle is Eilean Donan Castle in the west Highlands (rather appropriate). This might be why the Scotland scenes look beautiful! While they did film some scenes in New York City, most of the modern day scenes were filmed in London.
He was meant to have a "weird" accent, he's essentially been around since the 1500s, and he's well traveled and not meant to have one specific accent.
You have a French guy trying to do a Scottish accent. You have a Scottish guy trying to do a Spanish accent. If people get mad about the laughing... They know what this is.
The accents are so bad they are brilliant ahahha
@@weebitreacts it makes the movie that much more fun.
One the best classic movie ! 👍😒🇺🇸🇮🇹🇲🇽
I think Sean Connery has the fake accent 😂
@@mikeymike1843 it's all kinda of messed up, and I love it.
People who don't like Highlander don't deserve good movies.
Fun fact, Christopher Lambert had literally just learned how to speak English just prior to this movie. That's why his accent sounds so odd. It's Frenchman speaking English while trying to sound Scottish.
According to Will Ferrell's character Ricky Bobby, this movie won a best picture Oscar back in the day. I'm not going to argue against that.
😂😂😂
"It won the Academy Award.... Best movie ever made." 😉👍
Part of the reason for MacLeod's accent is that Lambert didn't speak English then. This is an 80s movie, a lot of things are a bit cheesy. The Highlander TV series lasted 6 seasons and made a lot of aspects of being an immortal clearer. It follows the life of Connor's clan member and student Duncan MacLeod who was about 80 years younger.
They wanted Christopher Lambert's accent to be weird. The idea was for it to show how old he was and all the places he'd been. It doesn't explain why he sounds like that in the very beginning, but hey...
Greatest line in the movie: "Ahm noat Schpaaanush, ahm Egyuptyun"
Highlander's my favourite film of all time, so every now and again I look to see if people have done reactions to it. This is one of the best ones. Laughed out loud so many times at the things yous came out with. Definitely agree that it's a great concept and "lore" that's executed quite poorly. As much as it's my fave, it's ridiculous - it really was the "what it could be" that captured my imagination decades ago.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed it and I (Colin) hope our teasing of it wasn't too off putting for you ☺️
"I am Connor MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod. I was born in 1518 in the village of Glenfinnan on the shores of Loch Shiel. I am immortal."
I'm reasonably sure that Highlander is literally one of the greatest films of all time! Lol! Don't know your Mum, but I'm sure she is a very smart and wise woman. 😂 This film has been close to my heart since I was about 9. Contrary to a lie being currently told NO, black people do not need to see ourselves represented in order to appreciate a great story! Don't get me wrong, the character of Sunda Kastagir is awesome! I appreciate him. No, I don't😅 need it retconned for "representation!" I'm not that simple minded.
bless you. greatest? meh. but definitely one of my favorites. i've seen this at least 50 times by now.
I guess it's really a matter of perspective. Lol
The swords sound weird because they weren't actually using metal swords during fights but plastic ones. Crhistopher Lambert suffers severe myopia (even at that time) and couldn't use contact lenses so fights had to be done with plastic ones to avoid him hurting or getting hurt and sound effects were added in post production. He sees barely nothing without glasses.
Americans only know 3 things about Scotland: Bagpipes, kilts, and haggis. It would be silly to insult someone by calling him a kilt or a bagpipe. That just leaves haggis.
Ahaha loved this comment! Thanks for the giggle
i love this movie. make all the jokes you want. just glad somebody reacted to it. so few do.
Yeah we did go a little bit too far with the constant jokes. Learned a lesson and we will improve.
The actor who plays the kurgan is the voice of mr.krabs from sponge Bob thr quicking allows you to sense other immortals to prepare for battle ,you got it right that the more immortals a immortals kills the stronger they become i.e. the fastet they heal from fatal wounds ect.
Also the bad head guard in Shawshank Redemption. The drill Sargent in Starship Troopers. Those are probably his other most visually roles.
Clancy Brown plays the Kurgan. Has had a great career and perfect in Shawshank Redemption. The movie was low budget but still fun. Do not watch the sequel.
Yeah I thought it was lots of fun! Even though it was also pretty bad ahaha - Lorna
Clancy also is the voice of Mr Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants which is so weird! The Kurgon is my favorite villain ever!
Well, that’s what you get when you have a Frenchman trying to do a Scottish accent. Still, it’s a nostalgic thrill for me to see it again.
Queen's Kind of Magic album is basically a soundtrack for this movie.
I've long wondered what Scots would think of this movie, and now I know!😂 But honestly, this wasn't a bad movie. "Highlander 2" was a bad movie. I'm not sure, but I've heard it was so bad that it's producers apologized for it. They issued a director's cut where they tried to fix it; but it didn't work. Now I have to hear y'all's opinion of "So I Married an Axe Murderer."
Don't just take this reaction to mean 'all Scots'. I'm a Scotsman of 45 years and I love this movie.
i'm a big fan of this franchise and trust me; the cheese is one of the big reasons. Every fan has a laugh with the cheese.
It's what makes it entertaining on top of the love story and action.
100% agree
Every time you ask why Brenda did something, it can easily be explained with, "because she's a freakin' idiot."
Highlander and the first Terminator are my favorite "romantic" movies.
I'm a stupid nerd.
We love stupid nerds
This is my favorite movie, and that's based on having seen a few thousand movies over nearly 70 years. I've seen this about 25 times.
The first time was accidental on TV in a hotel room while traveling on business in the 80s. At that time, the movie was unknown and it took about 4 or 5 years to develop a cult following. The movie sequels, certainly not planned when this made, are deplorable. The TV series (1992 - 1998) is quite good.
This is based on the end of term project of an undergraduate film student at UCLA named Gregory Widen. A group of low budget movie producers, who normally looked through student scripts for anything good, bought it from him. Today Widen is a prominent screenwriter and director. He says that the largest difference between his script and the movie is the Kurgen. He says that in his original script, the Kurgen was just a very depressed person for whom the competition for the prize was a reason to get up in the morning. On the set, Clancy Brown, who played the Kurgen, used to complain to Widen about the farcical Kurgen scenes and Widen would tell him, "Hey, man, I'm just the author."
Christopher Lambert, who plays McLeod, was a French actor who had a lot of trouble with English in general at this time, much less accents in English, but, in a way, that's at least partially okay since McLeod would have lived in, as he put it, "lots of different places." I'll accept your appraisal of his Scottish accent. I've never once seen Scottish people react to, review, or discuss this movie before. Real Scots are probably the only people who would notice deficiencies in the accents.
Thanks for reacting to it. Good luck with your channel.
Lorna really enjoyed it and has been talking and quoting bits from the movie for the last few days not sure if it's going to be one of our favourites but I think she has joined the cult
The accents were awful but we are okay with that! It's a tough one for a lot of actors and it doesn't help that Scotland there are so many different dialects.
@@weebitreacts Tell me about it. There are many in the US too (I don't have one). Remember that in the end there can be only one.
HAHAHA!!! OK this reaction earned my subscription because you are both great!! Let me explain a few things. Most Americans can't identify a foreign accent at all, so if it sounds vaguely "Scottish" it's good enough for us. I HAVE actually had to explain to some American friends why his name is "Mack Cloud: but his sword says "Mc Lee-owed." When you said that I nearly pissed myself laughing!!! Kurgen (aka Skeletor) is also known for doing the voice of Mt Hrabs in Spongebob, Lex Luthor in the Justice League cartoon series, he is the drill instructor in Starship troopers, the guard in Shawshank Redemption, and a HOST of others. I also used to deliver his family's newspapers back in Urbans, Ohio. The entire movie is very 80s.....very dated....and VERY cheesy even when it first came out. Still LOVE it!! Now, however, I will never be able to watch without hearing "He-man-der" shouting I HAVE THE POWER during every quickening!!! And.....stabbing is highly...."erotic?"
Hahaha thank you for the lovely comment! I (Colin) am glad we made you laugh and you enjoyed the content ☺️. Ahhh yes! Turns out I actually know that actor more than I thought! Thanks again!
I think they wanted an actor with an accent that couldn't be placed, like he lived a long time in many places. But it doesn't make sense for when he was in the Scottish Village to start.
Lambert didnt even speak a word of English when he started this movie. I think he did a good job:)
@@endikaeche4359 Yes he was, but he moved to Switzerland at the age of two.
This was around the time when MTV video directors were getting jobs to film movies. Russell Mulcahy was one of those directors, along with Tony Scott, who directed Top Gun. The style screams 1980s rock videos. It’s definitely an interesting movie to watch in terms of cinematography and camera placement. It’s a lot of fun. PS - Christopher Lambert is a New York born French actor, hence the accent. He’s legally blind and couldn’t wear contacts, so the sword fighting scenes had to be choreographed. He couldn’t see a thing.
Oooh some great information! That definitely makes sense to why we felt the fight scenes seemed a bit clunky and rehearsed- thought it was just the style.
He is the same guy who directed The Shadow movie
Queens music made the film a hit, but the special effects look very dated now but don’t forget this film is 37 years old
5:08 back in the day you had to have the main credits before the film if not you got fined heavily. George Lucas didn’t do it for the first Star Wars movie he did and was fined $250,000 which led him to resign from the directors guild of America. I really enjoyed this one. The second not so good cause they didn’t follow the storyline very well. The third one is a little better cause they went back to this storyline. The fourth one is better but you should check the tv series with Adrian Paul who is added to the story. The last one “Highlander: The Source” was a fun story. There was also another tv series called Highlander: The Raven. 19:59 the thing with accents with the immortals is they’re world travelers so their accents are muddled with multiple countries. 20:28 they were so superstitious back then. Anything that looked like witchcraft was bad and they needed to be destroyed. His wife turned on him so fast more cause she was hurt that the man she loved was (in their eyes possessed). This isn’t really a comedy. They have some funny bits in it like most movies. It’s basically a make believe. 23:37 the quickening is the power that the immortals carry and transfers all that an immortal is to the winner. 24:49 this scene really hurt the movie in my opinion cause immortals still die they just come back to life. No way should he be able to breathe under water. 25:46 Sean Connery died in 2020. 26:10 stunt double with horrible editing. 27:16 we had a teacher at our high school that would play the bagpipes before school in the quad. He also would play on the weekends at his house in the morning and at sporting events. It was fun listening and watching him. He also would wear a kilt.
A lot of 80's movies are weird on a good way out of my sight and Highlander is a great example for this, so I'm glad both of you liked it. Maybe you will give Braveheart a second chance in future, I mean a lot of Patreaons seemed to like this movie too when the result of the votes has a draw with Highlander, right?
Lorna is still quoting bits from the movie! So she definitely loved it
In the TV series, they pinned down the vague meaning of "the quickening" to something specific - the event right after the death of one combatant in which the other gets his power.
Oooh that makes sense
Clancy Brown is a great actor, his portrayal of Kurgan is just another one he is known for. One of my favorites was his performance in the Starship Troopers movie as Sgt. Charles Zim.
This was a great reaction, including the jokes about the movie. The explanation girl Christopher Lambert's accent is they decided he would've lived all over and needed a unique accent that was a mix of others. Also, the fight choreography was decent here but really improved by Highlander: The Series.
There's a great episode of the Goldbergs in which Clancy Brown guest stars as a teacher. The premise was that there were two competing Highlander fan clubs and they had to whittled down, "There can be only one!"
This was just one of a lot of mid-80s fantasy movies that were a lot of fun but didn't make much sense.
In all fairness he was drunk when he had his dual on Boston common so it probably dulled the pain
Highlander was my favorite movie growing up, and where I was first introduced to Queen's music. I would watch the whole thing every time I found it airing on TV, which was fairly often back then. It is certainly dated, but I still love the mythology that was created.
The first guy that Connor fights in the parking garage is played by the stunt coordinator of the movie. His unnecessary flips might've been a bit of showing off during the short screen time he got.
By the way Peter Diamond (Fasil) was also the stunt coordinator on Star Wars. He’s also the Tusken Raider who nearly kills Luke before Obi-Wan shows up.
Same for me, I used to watch it with dad, first saw it when I was 9, but he wouldn't let me see highlander 2 when it came out because he was worried it would be too violent....figure that one out...
The ability to know that Brenda had the revolver and the tape recorder are another aspect of the quickening, a hyper-awareness of his surroundings, at least in Connor's case. Perhaps not all the time, but it's there.
The quickening is just when the power gets transferred after you behead another immortal. But it doesn’t last. It only becomes magical when he’s the last one. And he explains then he can hear people’s thoughts all over the world. He can grow old and have children. That’s the prize.
Highlander spawned four sequels, two series, and an upcoming reboot. This movie is the best of the lot, so far.
There is going to be a reboot? Now that could be interesting! Who would you have play Highlander?
@@weebitreacts Almost as important, who will you get to play Queen?
@@weebitreacts Until recently it was going to be Henry Cavill but he had to exit because he's producing and starring in a new Warhammer movie. Maybe Richard Madden or Tom Blyth would be good fits. The movie is being made by the director of the John Wick movies.
They've been trying to get a remake going for the last 15 years. Back in 2014 it was supposed to be directed by Justin Lin(of the Fast & Furious franchise) and star Ryan Reynolds. Then they both dropped out of it. Back in 2021 it was going to be directed by Chad Stahelski(of the John Wick franchise) and star Henry Cavill, but now Cavill has left the project, and Stahelski has far too much already on his plate to be able to helm this project for at least another 4+ years.
Don't hold your breath on seeing this remake. The franchise is dead.
still makes me laugh that Sean Connery is an Egyptian immortal with a great Scottish accent but the actual Highlander has such a bad accent
Riiiight!!
@weebitreacts a guy born in Switzerland, raised in France tring to play a immortal Scottish highlander try doing that today
People in the '80s thought it was cheesy too.
Haha glad to hear it. It was fun though il give it that!
Man, I adore a woman with a Scottish accent. I should go there and find my lifetime love.
I still feel sentimental about this flick since I watched it for the the first time when I was a "wee man" back in the 80's.. I tried to watch it again in my late 30's, but couldn't get halfway through. It does not hold up well, but it was interesting to see some Scots give their opinion. I agree it's hilarious that the only character with a proper Scottish accent is from a character who isn't even supposed to be Scottish ; ).
All those explosions after a battle between two immortals are also known as quickenings.
i know it sux his accent isn't 100% scottish and correct but Christopher Lambert rocks as Connor! gotta give him some leway.
Hi Lorna & Colin!🙂Wow! I can't believe you guys are watching this for the first time. This is definitely a cult classic in the United States. It is 80's cheesy. Christopher Lambert is a French actor. Both Sean Connery and Christopher Lambert can't really do foreign accents. I knew you guys would have a problem with the accents or lack there of here. Nope, The Kurgan was not Jaws in James Bond, Colin. This movie became very popular after it was released on home video. Despite losing money at the box office this film spawned several sequels and a TV series with Duncan MacLeod's cousin. I think I heard you guys say you haven't seen Sean Connery in a James Bond film yet in another reaction. "Goldfinger" (1964) is generally considered his most popular Bond film. I am partial to "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971). Connery came back to do this final Bond film after leaving. He donated his salary from the film to a Scottish charity. I'm surprised both of you are split on your reactions for this. Nice reactions to the original Highlander film, Lorna & Colin!!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Ahh nice bit of info there! Thanks! Some James Bonds reacts would be a great idea. Defo something for the future, well have a lot of content to make so could be fun. Tbh we been split a few times because Lorna is the lover of everything and I am the 'hater'. I will admit it was fun though. I had a good time. Thanks!
You have to remember this was the early 80s. Yes, the accent was bad. But you kind of have to suspend these little moments, and enjoy it for what it was. I was younger back, then and it really put Scotland front and centre, for me. The music from Queen, was great. Who wants to live forever. was an amazing song. But the score by the late Michael Kamen, was wonderful to me. The scenery was great, (Scotland, I mean) with Eilean Donan Castle, of course. And the Highlands. And I can say this, led the way for BraveHeart, and the Outlander series. So, it did achieve a great many things for Scotland, in my humble view. .
We definitely got that it was early 80's! Our humour is Scottish and maybe lost in translation. We loved the movie especially me (Lorna) but it was definitely always going to be a movie we could banter with :)
@@weebitreacts Not too far from you guys. So I know the great Scottish sense of humour. The great sage of the North, Rab C Nesbitt, is my hero. Younger viewer, should look him up.Yes, totally get what your saying. Its not everyone's cup of tea. But it was this long lost thing called VHS tapes, that made it a big hit after. Anyway, great reaction. Keep up the good work.
The reason he did the back flips is so he can see underneath the cars as he traveled down the line.
Makes sense tbh
Back then, cars pre 85, were solid steel, steel body parts, frames, frame extensions to bumpers, and could take a beating!
As a lifelong Highlander fan, you don't deserve her ;) Shot badly? What?
I like Christopher Lambert, he was one of my fav actors, even his movies are not among my fav movies, maybe only "Day of Wrath". I liked Highlander a lot when I was a kid, but now it's a funny movie to me; same is with Queen. But this movie is a great to meet you two, since you're Scottish. Great reaction, thx for sharing.
The Highlander is just the perfect storm.
You have an absolutely AMAZING story. You have a brilliantly novel concept. Lots of stuff is really well executed. You have Queen making the music. Aaaaand then you have all the bad stuff. The wires, the accents, the occassionally bad acting.
To call it bad is wrong, because it really isn't. To call it good however is not possible because it has too many bad aspects.
However, for me, it is a cultural milestone. A cult classic with some really really bad sides to it.
Because of this movie, when I am in a parking garage I think of swords and immortals.
Yes, it *IS* a katana👍
No, Alan North was not in Home Alone's movie "Angels With Filthy Souls"
The motel clerk said that he hopes Kurgan gets his head chopped off because he was just watching a news story about the recent decapitations happening in New York & New Jersey
James Cosmo is in both Highlander and Braveheart.
Back in the day of Devils and Witches, people believed if you were possessed they were doing you a favor by burning you to relieve you of your possession. Strange yes.
The first time you switched to the blurred image I thought: " And this is from Christopher Lambert's point of view."🤭
Sean Connery died on 31 Oct 2020 unfortunately RIP.
When this came out my friends and I laughed our asses off, but we also thought it was cool af. Because back then it was.
It wasn't a round house kick. It was an outside crescent kick.
When he made this film, Christopher Lambert could not speak English. He learnt it as he went along and his native French accent was up front.
Highlander is so amazing, on so many levels. But so much of that is a contextual experience. Step outside those contexts, and the movie shows up as something else. There are a lot of movies that dazzle or connect with one person, while appearing flat or ludicrous to others.
Don't worry if you didn't connect with it. We all speak different languages of perception. And we all have different interests in what languages we want to use and experiences we want to have or relate to.
At least you now have your own experience. And you can also takeaway the value of knowing that if you ever do try to decipher it through other lenses, that you can uncover a treasure trove of contexts that conform to other types of people.
Connor's sword actually is a katana. the dragon head was screwed on and it broke off constantly. Sword Master Bob Anderson did a lot of Ramirez's sword fighting. He also played Darth Vader in the fight scenes in the Star Wars films. Anderson also did the distance shots on the cliffs
A concept with potential that's never been handled the right way
The screenwriter for this film also wrote (and directed) the Christopher Walken film from 1995 called The Prophecy. No fake accents, but still cheesy fun like this. And the director of this film also directed 1994’s The Shadow starring Alec Baldwin, which also cheesy fun.
“A Pepsi guy.” LOL
First time watching your channel so, is the Mrs here to be the commentary while Mr is here to lose the plot every 9 seconds and make up for his thickness with injections of the least clever, most obvious and juvenile jokes along the way. Because if that's the format, you nailed it on this one.
Cheers.
The Connor's sword is a katana, it belonged to a friend of his
note
Connor was not at the Battle of Culloden though his nephew Duncan was
Lived in your beautiful country in 1982. Had to be dragged kicking and screaming to the Gatwick airport, would still be there if I could. I personally love this movie, with all it's failings. My personal favorite Scottish movie is "Local Hero", tho. Looking forward to watching your reactions.
So the sword master on this movie was the legendary Bob Anderson. He also coordinated the lightsaber fights in the original Star Wars trilogy.
Oooh we didn't know that! Amazing!
Not sure if anyone else touched on it but it is a katana, just a unusual unique tsuka ( hilt )
I thought that was Rowdy Roddy Piper at first, when he's in the present... Lorna is a pure empath, feeling pity for broken wiper blades... We need to see Colin laugh more... Post plenty of pics from Japan!
Hahaha Lorna IS a pure empath! 😂. Thanks! I would like to laugh more so seems a winner go everyone! I am sure we will have plenty to share! Thanks!
@@weebitreacts Comedy suggestions: Blues Brothers (1980), What's Up, Doc?, Animal House, Borat (first one), Duck Soup, Buck Privates, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Some Like It Hot, The Producers. Enjoy!🤣🤣🤣Oh, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" & Stripes. More John 🍬🍬🍬!!
Conner's character was born in the 1500s.
This was a lot of fun, thank you from the US!
Raiden from mortal Kombat, James Bond, Mr. Krabs and special guest Lord Commander Mormont of the Knights Watch. What's not to love?.
Never noticed before but I think Christoph Lambert wearing sneakers with a suit is a nod to ‘Subway’.
Is he really 😂😂. I can't bring myself to check. Il take your word on it. Class film!
Dated now, well, maybe 🤷🏻♂️ Back in the 80s and early 90s until CGI exploded it impressed us youngsters. The animated effects (early CGI I guess, the quickening etc) were quite good though. And the camerawork and the wild transitions were advanced for its time. Already in the first scenes with the wrestling it must have been one helluva work to film those circling around the arena scenes-nowadays that would probably be filmed with help of drones. The director Russell Mulcahy was actually best known as a high profile music video director back then, his only full length film back then was Razorback-a horror film about a wild boar. He did direct Queen’s videos for A Kind of Magic and Princes of the Universe, songs featured in the film (except A Kind of Magic is in another version in the movie credits than on the album).
Gone in Sixty Seconds Baby!
Skeletor, the bad guy is Clancy Brown, the voice of Mr Crabs.
A stone cold classic, in my top ten of all time! (Probably 8 of the 10 will be eighties action films).
You guys gotta watch Highlander the Series now!! 🙂
So many people have recommended the series! Is it good? - Lorna
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Lorna, in my opinion the Series is way better than the movie!! There's five seasons of it to watch, and they had to go into a LOT of stuff. For one, the actor is British, he's from London. So him doing a Scottish accent will hopefully be far less offensive and more authentic. 🙂 I would really like to know how you guys feel about his Scottish accent! 🙂 When they show Duncan MacLeod 400 years ago, he tries to do a more pronounced Scottish accent, but in the modern day his accent has become less pronounced.
But yeah....basically each episode is Duncan MacLeod, the main character, running into an evil immortal that he ends up having to kill because they're doing bad stuff! He runs into former Nazis who were Immortal, serial killers, so many stories! And an awesome sword fight in every episode!! There's also a character named Richie who becomes immortal and Duncan becomes his teacher.
Ok so there was an episode called Homeland where Duncan, the main character, who works as an art dealer, runs into a Celtic bracelet. It turns out it's the bracelet that he gave to his lover 400 years ago in Glenfinan, Scotland. So he goes back there and buries it with her, but it turns out there is an evil Immortal in the area, a guy whom Duncan fought right after he became Immortal, but didn't realize the guy was immortal.
But yeah just search for "highlander the series" on your desktop/laptop. You'll something on the right that says "Highlander the series free with ads", those are the official uploads from the copyright owner, they are provided for free officially! All five seasons. 🙂
@neutrino78x oooh brilliant thanks os much for all the information, that was really kind. Hopefully I get a chance to check it out soon - Lorna
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In fact since you mentioned it I just re-watched another episode here on TH-cam (I saw them all when originally broadcast when I was in high school, I graduated 1996).
It's from season 1 "mountain men" where Duncan MacLeod's girlfriend (played by Belgian actress Alexandra Vandernoot) is kidnapped by these guys who live in the mountains outside of Vancouver, Canada....one of them is an Immortal, but he gets Duncan's kantana, so Duncan ends up killing the bad guy with the bad guy's own axe. Great katana vs axe fight 🙂
Most of this episode, Adrian Paul doesn't try to make his accent sound like yours because it's the modern day (the 90s) so his accent is more of a London one, but during the flashback to 150 years earlier he tries to make his accent more Scottish. He traveled all around the world as an Immortal for 400 years so he lost some of his accent. That episode "homeland" is better to hear Adrian Paul's attempt at a Scottish accent. Another good one for that is "the samurai" which explains how Duncan got his katana and learned jujitsu and kenjitsu. 🙂
Sorry! I just can't talk enough about Highlander the Series! I love it 🙂 and its nostalgic to me, hearkens back to my younger days 🙂
It could be a brilliant remake..
17:17 mean
the humor of the Scots 🤨
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As an American, watching Scots watch Highlander is pure gold!
I love how you laugh and honestly say they sound exactly like hard Scots today.
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Sean Connery did die a few years ago, but he hadn't been acting for some time before his death. It's maybe an ego thing, but he acted well in to older age, and was still a pimp, but when it got to the point that he was too old to no longer get roles as the leading man, he said fuck it, and quit acting, I think because he didn't want to be remembered as anything else. I think he lived in the Bahamas, or some island in the Carribean, and just stayed out of sight.
The 1980s was the best decade for movies and music... it really was....just check out the number of blockbusters that came from that decade - then check out the variety of styles of music coming out of that decade ...More than any other
I did not realize in the Scottish dialect, "horrendous" meant "best movie ever."
Ahaha we loved it this movie! Don't be fooled by our satire and Scottish ways! 💖
Funny you should mention it, there actually was a Highlander tv show.
I can't even be mad if y'all didn't like it. I know how silly it seems. But we Highlander fans absolutely love this movie. The TV series is a bit more serious and way better acted lmao. So yeah, a super highlander fan here isn't mad at you guys. I know how it seems now.
Well in fairness, Lambert is French, Connery is Scottish not Egyptian nor Spanish, but Clancy really sells the role as The Kurgan.
Yeah we know but his character in the movie is Egyptian Spanish, I think that is the point we were trying to make, sorry if it didn't come across. Yeah Clancy was brilliant!
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Great video. It’s funny how everyone gets hung up on the Frenchman playing a Scott and the Scott playing an Egyptian. But, no one ever wants to know why a proto-Indo-European Kurgan, from sometime shortly after the Neolithic era, is galavanting around the Middle Ages, dressed as a dog, and speaking in an accent typical of 20th century Ohio in North America.
amazing mates. i'm scottish american and i love that you guys done this'n, naer seen a scots couple react channel, i'm subscribed and lookin forward tae mare, should definitely shite all over braveheart as well. ken? giid movie, bad history - highlander is aboot as historically accurate
Heey welcome in! We are so happy to have you 🥳🥳
What's better than watching Scottish people watch The Highlander...
oh and if you haven't seen it yet...you should watch the Masters of the Universe 1987 film.