HIGHLANDER (1986) TWIN BROTHERS FIRST TIME WATCHING MOVIE REACTION!
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- Highlander, the winner of the academy award for greatest movie of all-time lives up to it's name; from the amazing story, characters and one of the coolest soundtracks ever with Queen!
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You have probably the worlds most famous Scot, playing an Egyptian who's pretending to be a Spaniard. And he's mentoring a Frenchman who's playing a Scot. And *he's* being chased by a guy from Ohio, who's playing an ancient Russian barbarian. Then you set the whole thing to Queen.
And it is unarguably *AWESOME*!!!
and the "Barbarian" was more well spoken than any modern person in the movie. 😎
Casting a watch vote for "Ladyhawke", fantasy adventure with Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Matthew Broderick.
That's a great chic-flick. Because guys can enjoy it as well.
One of my favorite all-time movies
The sequel to this film is so universally considered bad that fans say it doesn't exist. "There can be only one" Highlander film.
Our beloved Freddie Mercury singing "Who Wants to Live Forever" in THAT scene is utterly heartbreaking. Great reaction boys to one of my all time favourite films since I was 16 in 1986. x
Ok, you've passed the first test and so you're ready to hear the most important thing about being a fan of Highlander. ......come over here...."never...and I mean NEVER WATCH HIGHLANDER 2"
I was one of the accursed fans who went to Highlander 2 thinking "How far are they gonna kick it up for this one...What will they even do???" and so me and my friends went to a bar across the street from the theater on premiere day and got drunk and played pool and talked about how great Highlander was/is! And then after 4 hours of getting worked up we go to the theater....and....I can't even...just PLEASE!!! DON"T WATCH HIGHLANDER 2!!!
You have been warned, friends!
This movie absolutely exists!
It's debatable whether anyone shares the same universe as the rest of the franchise.
There can be only one.
I liked "Highlander 3: The final Dimension (The sorcerer)," Endgame, & the anime Search for Vengeance. Didn't care for the 2nd.
There was only one Highlander. There can only be one.
@@HalfCracker4life Agreed. I can see an argument for the third movie.
There should had been only one.
@@willcool713 while the third one is a bit of a retcon it's so great hehe, I liked how it hdnled it, the show was great. The last two sucked hehe :>
Queen was originally supposed to only write the opening song, "Princes of the Universe", but after a screening of an early cut, Brian May apparently wrote "Who Wants to Live Forever" during the taxi drive back to their hotel. And then there are also the other songs as well :)
A great album
Not only greatest movie of all time it's a documentary filmed in real time!
It's Legendary
You're thinking of This is Spinal Tap.
@@ninjabluefyre3815 spinal tap was a rockumentary filmed in real time but did not win the award for greatest movie of all time, at least spinal can have a sequel, there's no such thing as highlander 2
Gotta luv aqua teen hunger force!!
So greatly it spawned a half dozen sequels that were total crap plus 3 fairly decent TV series.
My second favorite Queen rock opera. Flash Gordon should be on everyone's watch list.
This guy's got it!! ^^^
Indeed!
Oh definitely
Yo! Right?
Early 80’s junior high Christmas break I went to see Flash Gordon. They were having a raffle drawing for prizes. I saw Flash every day for almost two weeks for free
"It's better to burn out than to fade away." Loved Clancy Brown quoted "Rock of Ages" by Def Leppard. That was awesome!
Also, Clancy Brown told a wonderful story recently on a podcast in which he disclosed that he didn't get paid a dime for this film, he did it for free because the budget was spent, he was a young actor out of work and he was just really wanting to work with Sean Connery. Plus, the premise is a wild and wonderful one.
That's what another bald guy said.
Sure I guess, but Def Leppard took it from Neil Young.
@@tooluserYes, they did, but since "Highlander" came out in the '80s and Def Leppard was one of the biggest rock bands from that era, it just feels more right. 😎🤘
he got paid a fee for the film (not much though, something like 8k), but had no options on percentages on the profits, he got played on the contract, as the film made a ton over the years
The song was Rock of Ages by Def Leppard not pyromania
Just so you guys know, this movie won an academy award for GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE!!!!
RIP Sean Connery, the only person who can play a Russian and a Spaniard with a Scottish accent and get away with it 😍
Don't forget a British secret agent. 007
OMG Highlander is one of my favorites. Christopher Lambert is absolutely amazing in this. Sean Connery is just hysterical. The sword fighting is incredible. Enjoy
Incredible that Christopher Lambert had to memorise every sword manoeuvre precisely, as could hardly see a thing. Lambert has severe myopia, and his eyes can't handle contact lenses. Because his character doesn't wear glasses, Lambert was required to perform the role practically blind.
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Lambert also did not speak English before this movie. I don't think he understood all of his dialogue.
@@nightthornkvala94132 This is mostly true. His English was very broken, and had only starred in one English-speaking movie prior called "Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes." By "Highlander" he had an understanding but couldn't speak fluent. His dialect coach taught him to phonetically say each line in a specific way as to hide his French accent. This was written in the script when the beat cop Garfield said that Nash talked funny and where he was from. Lambert's Nash replied with the line, "Lots of different places."
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Yeah, I forgot about Greystoke. That line "Lots of different places" was so appropriate. One of the best.
Gentlemen, as a Scots man who was born in the Highlands and lives in the Highlands, I can't wait to catch up watching this episode. Thanks for all your uploads. love them. 🏴🇨🇦🏴
The Kurgan is one of the greatest villains to ever grace the silver screen. Clancy Brown's performance is iconic. Highlander is an amazing example of the 80s. It's one hell of a ride! Great reaction!
eh, i disagree... one note, fairly one dimensional, evil for the sake of being evil... clancy brown did a great job but the way the role was written, it's the cardboard cutout of a villain
And he didn't receive any payment at all.
@@stefanforrer2573 You've got him misunderstood. He's not evil for the sake of being evil. He's having the time of his life. Where other immortals grows tired of living or sad about their eventual fate he revels in it. And he plays it by the rules.
@@stefanforrer2573 I disagree. Kurgan is the embodiment of how a psychotic person would become if he was immortal and had lived for thousands of years among mortals. He would absolutely consider mankind to be akin to sappy rodents just made for his amusement.
@@stefanforrer2573 The Kurgan is far more disciplined than McLeod when it comes to "The Immortal Code". In the church, McLeod grabs the Kurgan by the coat, and then by the face. The Kurgan is the one who prevented a fight in the church by pushing McLeod away and reminding him that they are on holy ground, and the the respected rule of "no conflict on holy ground" is honored. There is also a reason the Kurgan let the veteran live.
There are far more layers to the character of the Kurgan when you look a little deeper.
Another great movie with Christopher Lambert is Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan (1984), adventure, romance, drama.
YES!!
THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!
Gregory Widen got the idea of writing the script after visiting a museum of sorts and saw a beautifully restored suit of armor in a glass case and thought, "What if the guy who wore this suit was alive right now, what if you owned all of this and you're telling your story?"
The script was titled Shadow Clan then The Dark Knight and finally HIGHLANDER.
The script was a lot darker and violent than the movie itself:
Connor McLeod was born in 1408, rather than 1518.
Rather than being banished, he decides to leave never to return after finding out he's an immortal.
Ramirez was in fact a Spaniard rather than an Egyptian and trains McLeod 3 years rather than 3 months as seen in the movie.
Immortals do have children and in one scene, McLeod attends the funeral of one of his sons while his other sons, all in their late 40's, early 50's see him as an immortal.
McLeod goes under the name Richard Turpin and is art dealer rather than an antiques dealer.
The Kurgan goes under the name Carl William Smith, and rather than a savage warrior, he's a cold blooded killer
In the climax of the film, McLeod beheads the Kurgan but nothing happens as it's left ambiguous as the audience doesn't know if he's still immortal or not, as the Prize is not mentioned. The fight scene was going to take place on top of the Statue Of Liberty, the Empire State Building, an amusement park, and finally Slivercup Studios.
Where did you find the story of the original script ? I was never able to find it.
@@danielaferrari1380 You clearly haven't actually ever tried, then-one Google search, and I found it right away...
They hired Adrian Paul for the tv version, and it was good, too.
Met him.
It was good when they brought in Connor McLeod for an episode or 2
@@tjhorne82 I liked the Roger Daltrey episodes, too.
And there was a spin off "Immortal" with 2 season if i remember well.
@@pabloesco2007 More than that.
There can be only one
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There can be only one 🗡️
Until they find some more.
There can be only one.....or two...or like a smattering of a few dozen-ish or so...
Lambert and Connery became such good friends they started calling each other by their charcter names!
If you guys liked Highlander. I highly suggest The Last Dragon another 80's action cult classic movie.
The Quickening vs The Glow. My money's on Bruce Leroy.
Sho'nuff!
@@suicyconaut Met Taimak some years ago. Guy seems to have aged at half speed.
17:27 Just so you know that's what Queen also named the album that they made for this movie. It's a kind of magic. Songs like who wants to live forever, princes of the universe, So my personal favorite songs they've ever written
Gimme the Prize is pretty awesome too!!
Don't loose your head
Clancy F'n Brown. Man I love this film. As a kid in the 80's it blew my freaking mind.
Blew my mind that "The Kurgan" played Mr. Crabs in Spongebob Squarepants. 😂
@@PhantomFilmAustralia Lol. Blew my mind when she showed up in Lost.
A sergeant named Zim
The film is directed by Russel Mulcahy, best known prior to this for his music video direction. So the transitions and camera shots are extremely stylish. The sweeping down shot at Madison Square Garden required a custom-made computer-controlled camera rig, while the sweeping side shot during the final battle was the result of strapping the camera to an office chair and shoving it across the floor.
Sir Sean Connery recorded his opening monologue in his bathroom. And it made it sound epic as hell! He also only had a few days to film his scenes and he bet the director that it couldn't be done. Mulcahy won that bet.
Welcome to the Highlander rabbit hole. Avoid the second movie. The third is pretty good, even though it's basically a lesser repeat of the first. After that it just gets worse and worse. The TV series isn't bad, but it has its ups and downs, and trying to fit it into canon isn't worth the headache. The spin-off series, Highlander: The Raven isn't very good.
Wow, I completely forgot about The Raven!
^^^everything this guy said
Agreed, my friend used to call them "Highlander, Highlander 2: the Quickening, and Highlander 3: the Apology" LOL
I guess what your saying about the Highlander movies is that "There can be only one!"
Fully agree, maybe you can answer my question, the wrestling match, includes the Fabulous Freebirds, yet I remember seeing one of the wrestlers losing his head in the wrestling match, anyone else or was I too high ?
I loved the Highlander TV series, it's how I got introduced to the whole series. It's always fun to go back and watch some of the old episodes despite that they haven't aged the best.
Same. But I LOVED seeing Christopher and Adrian interacting like kinsman who are only a few years apart in age instead of a whole century.
@@jamilagulley8504 Connor was only 80 years older than Duncan.
@nightthornkvala94132 My bad, I forgot they were born in 1518 and 1592, respectively.
If I remember correctly, this was Clancy Brown’s first film. The movie was actually in danger of running out of funding at one point and he gave up his paycheck to save the project, because the loved the story so much.
Cool fact!
When this came out in the cinema, much like Terminator, Robocop, Event Horizon and all their kind, it was one of those fabulous movies which appeared out of nowhere. Props to Queen for picking up the call to co-create the soundtrack.
so the title "Highlander" refers to the Scottish Highlands. The casting department had SEAN FUCKING CONNERY, the MOST SCOTTISH PERSON TO EVER SET FOOT IN HOLLYWOOD and they said "You know what; let's have him play an Egyptian pretending to be Spanish."
A bit long in the tooth when trying to get females to buy tickets. But yeah. the entire casting thing was hilarious.
Okay, dudes quick synopsis:
When an immortal loses their head, the victor receives all of their knowledge and power. It is called the Quickening.
Their can be only one.
I just found this on Peacock the other night and rewatched it for maybe the 40th time in my life. This movie never gets old, and the soundtrack is amazing!
The point of Ramirez training McCloud is that there were a group that wanted to make sure that unlimited power would end up in the right kind of person’s hands
There is a Highlander TV series that kinda ignores the ending of this movie and it does a lot to build the mythology of the immortals… it’s pretty good
Great reaction! One of my favorite movies. Whatever you do, don't watch the sequels!
Yes - the curse of Hollywood. If it makes money - let's make MORE money. Few directors avoid this situation with good sequels.
This movie is so underrated. I remember seeing this in the theater and not having seen a preview beforehand. I was so pumped up after the movie and so were all of my friends.
Queen went in on that soundtrack. this was my movie as a kid. and I remember watching the show and enjoying the hell out of the intro. but the emotional blow of him living with his girl and you hear who wants to live forever. if love must die.
Connor's ability to know about the handgun and the tape recorder is an aspect of the quickening, the power that each immortal possesses, an innate hyper-sensitivity to their surroundings, including sensing the presence of another immortal
I grew up watching the Highlander Series, it was one of my fav. Can't wait to see the reactions to the others.
Epic fantasy goodness with an awesome soundtrack
Legend 1985 with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry is one of my favorite fantasy movies that no one ever talks about
Blix is my favorite part.
Tim Curry was in the zone in that flick. I have both sdtks but Tangerine Dream's is my favorite.
OMG Love you for not only knowing who Clancy Brown is but recognizing his voice
Everybody knows Mr Krabs! lol
This movie franchise was so popular when I was a kid. And my most favorite Queen album still is "A kind of magic"
The title was lifted from the film's dialogue by Brian May. I thought that was a pretty cool touch.
The Kurgan, played by Clancy Brown in Highlander, takes the head of the third living immortal, and says to McLeod, "Kastagir is gone. Only you and I remain." This line is echoed in John Wick, Chapter 4, when Harbinger (Clancy Brown) is conveying the rules of the duel to John Wick and Marquis, he says, "In the event that both parties survive, each will approach the other at increments of ten paces until only one remains."
Hey guys.. Greetings from NYC.. Yes, the Silvercup bakery was a real place.. Which later became Silvercup Studios.. The sign is still out there even today.. Far as I'm aware, they don't do movies anymore, but a shit-ton of smaller productions as well as TV shows..
This was the second movie soundtrack written primarily by Brian May and performed by Queen. The first was Flash Gordon. Though not an official soundtrack the album A Kind of Magic has all the songs from the film. One of my favorite albums.
What was really cool and kick ass was that the actress that played his wife was brought back in part 3.
12:50 -- You aren't immortal until the first time you die.. -- That's why there are immortals of different ages.
I was working in an office in a university. I was introduced to a new student-aide named....Candy. The first word she said were, "Hi, I'm Candy." The first words that came to my mind were, "Of course you are."
In answer to your question, yes when you kill an immortal, you gain their power. That is the Quickening. That is why there has to be only one left.
Another genre defining movie from my teenage years. God I loved the eighties! Queen's album release which contained songs from the movie is called,"It's A Kind Of Magic".
Clancy brown was like the red-headed stepchild of the cast. Didn't get paid a cent, no one was there to pick him up from the airport. Didn't get a trailer . . . . . he just wanted to work on the project and Sean Connery.
15:50 The theory is for each immortal you kill you absorb more power so in reality it is a game of dodging fights and getting the most kills so you have the advantage in power over the other guy.
Fasil, the guy that Connor fought in the parking garage, was played by the late Peter Diamond, an actor, stuntman and fight choreographer. It's funny that you guys mentioned Star Wars because he appeared in all three movies of the Original Trilogy.
Pure 80's baby!! Clancy Brown's Kurgan is one my favorite antagonist characters.
Fun fact about the guy having the Uzi, Highlander was filmed in 1986 and is set in 1984. Before the Hughes amendment May 19, 1986 fully automatic weapons were easily available. It required additional screening, a few months wait period, and a $200 tax stamp, but there was nothing prohibiting the manufacturer and sale to civilians.
The reason automatics are so absurdly expensive now is because after the ban, no new machine gun could be manufactured for sale to civilians, so their value has skyrocketed. What used to cost $600 forty years ago is now at the Cheapest around 15K, and on average 30-60K
The soundtrack of this movie, is basically the Queen album "A Kind of Magic" which kind of marks it as a soundtrack to Highlander.
Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever?
Forever, is our today.
Who waits forever anyway?
17:54 I love how she tries to sneak tape the conversation with a recorder
that probably had no microphone because it was designed to load/store computer data 😆
And the "flipping escape move" in the car park was back then the "standard ninja-style escape"
(ok, along with the smoke grenade)
Clancy Brown was amazing in this role.
Only his 7th appearance and he was establishing himself as a character actor film can use.
The immortals aren't *all* called highlanders, guys. XD MacLeod is "the Highlander" because he's originally from the highlands of Scotland.
“They’re watching wrestling and he’s thinking about Braveheart” 😂
Meanwhile Connor uncle-the blond one who freed him, was in Braveheart.
The Kurgen, kindergarten teacher and preschool operator. That evil demon voice; "Good morning, childrennnnn you will learn your times table's today. Yahhhhhh ha ha ha ha ha!"
The 90s TV show Highlander is great too, it goes even further into the lore. It stars another dude from Connor's Macleod clan 50 years later who dies in battle, gets found by Connor and trained up.
Love this movie! The soundtrack is sooo good and of course by Queen
When he says to Rachel: " Hey, it's a kind of magic" it refers to the Queen song
Clancey Brown
Christopher Lambert (Connor MacLeod) appeared in the first episode of the TV series and introduced his relative, Duncan MacLeod (played by Adrian Paul) Lambert then appeared as Connor MacLeod in the movie, 'Highlander: Endgame" which starred Andrian Paul as Duncan MacLeod.
Yeah man the highlander 😎🥹 1986 classic movie 🍿
"My name is Juan Carlosh, from Shpain" - Sean Connery's iconic Scottish accent.
Clancy's Kurgan voice would later become his Mr. Krabs voice.
I respect that this movie exists and laid the foundation for the franchise. This one obviously ended with no expectation of being anything more than a one and done but ended up having 6 movies, 4 comic book series, 2 television series, an animated series, two published video games and one unpublished, a card game, and more...
I never cared much for the movies, but the 1992-1998 television series was a must watch for me during most of its original run. The series followed Duncan MacLeod, not Conner. Although Christopher Lambert (Conner) did return for the pilot.
Season 4-7 of the series started with the following narration (along with Queen's "Princes of the Universe" song that started this movie off) prior seasons had slightly less descriptive variations of this script:
"He is Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander. Born in 1592 in the Highlands of Scotland, and he is still alive. He is immortal. For four hundred years, he's been a warrior ... a lover ... a wanderer, constantly facing other Immortals in combat to the death. The winner takes his enemy's head, and with it, his power. I am a Watcher, part of a secret society of men and women who observe and record, but never interfere. We know the truth about Immortals. In the end, there can be only one. May it be Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander."
Nice reaction boys... my advice here, consider reactions to the highlander tv show. Very much worth a watch through and am sure you guys would enjoy.
Yes I was gonna say the same thing the Highlander TV show was so much fun to watch!!
Yep. I always recommend skipping the other movies and just going straight to the TV series.
It blew my mind all those years ago. Loved it and loved the series. I’ve heard rumors of a reboot. Just hope it’s done right to introduce a new age of fans.
I would love a good treatment of this script, or maybe even the original one, which actually sounds like an interesting, and possibly better, movie..
Such a stellar review guys! You got it! Only this and about 5 seasons of the series exist for me. One of my favorite soundtracks of all time. The late, great Michael Kamen and Queen 👍
Loved the Highlander TV Series growing up....got an autographed photo from Adrian Paul a few years back....he chopped the pony tail off but he's still fine AF
Couple years ago in my case. His actual accent threw me off.
"She likes them imortal... she REALLY likes them imortal i guess!"
That made me laugh so much. also this is oen of my favorate villians in all film, he's just so over the top but it's so well done.
Those transitions are a thing of beauty.
Great watchalong with you both!
The optical transition from the fish tank in 1985 to the loch in 1536 was ground-breaking for it's time.
Though there are other Highlander movies, this is, by far, the best one. Also the best soundtrack--Queen just nails it. Clancy Brown is just fantastic and Sean Connery is a hoot. Love this movie and love the reaction! Great!
Movie #2 was horrible! Changed the story/universe so badly. #3 went back to the original storyline.
This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Thanks for reaching to it...
Clancy Brown was also a great villain in Shoot to kill
Except this comment is a plot spoiler....
I don't if anybody mentioned this, but this is the only movie to ever win a Grammy award for Greatest Movie Ever Made (Grammys are strictly for music). Clancy Brown was inducted into the Guinness Book of Records for Greatest Villian Ever. The writer intended to make a movie of only one-liners, hence the phrase "There can be only one!".
I enjoyed the Highlander TV series.
I think you guys are right. I’ve always believed if kurgan had won the prize he would have stayed immortal and lived as a god among men leading with tyranny. Hence ramerez says if kurgan wins the world will basically suffer
I really enjoy "small acting moments" in movies and this one has one of my favorites. When the hotdog vendor is reading the paper and asks the detectives "What does 'baffled' mean? What does 'incompetent' mean?" He is trolling the detectives and laughing about it. Such a great moment.
“Nuns…no sense of humor.” Clancy Brown is perfect in this 😂
The flashback scene in WWII wasn't in the theatrical release & as I recall was filmed years later. It was in the original script but was cut for time. So for years of me watching the film that scene wasn't in the film.
Now that Highlander is in the bag, it might be time for The Beastmaster.
I love your movie reactions! That's why I want to watch you guys watch "Shawn of the Dead". But maybe you already know it, it's not that old yet.
This movie made my family real popular back in the day
The Highlander TV Series explains a lot more about what happens when they fight and 'cut off each other's' heads.....basically you are gaining the fallen person's power and adding it to your own....
And a mortal can kill them by beheading. You just don't gain their power. It just jumps to the nearest one of their kind. They aren't "immortal", just stubborn.
Great soundtrack! Queen is my all-time favorite band. Chris Lambert is the star of the movie and years later Brian May and Roger Taylor find Adam Lambert and start touring and still are to this day. Seeing them in October... circle moment???
They made a tv show out of this with a main character being Connors cousin. It was on in the 1990s. Pretty cool little show. Watch a few episodes.
🐢 The infamous Turtle Club scene in the film The Master Of Disguise was filmed during 911 ✈️
I love the use of Queen music in this movie. One of the rules of immortals is they can’t kill on holy ground
Ahh Highlander... Best movie ever.. (The Queen music alone guarantees it that status.. Well, along with Flash Gordon at any rate)
Fun fact. The castle in this movie was also used in the movie "Mio in the land of Faraway" which was one of two movies that 13yr Christian Bale made the same year. The other being that Spielberg one Empire of the sun.
Seen Flash in the theater in 2020. Now to see Highlander in a theater. Anniversary in a year or 2!
So underated. Unreal how they stuffed so much mythology and character development in such a short time.
When I saw this movie as a teenager, my head nearly exploded over the irony of Scottish actor Sean Connery appearing in a movie that is about as Scotland-ish as they come... and he plays a character who wasn't Scottish.
Awesome old classic movie! First watched it when I was a kid in the early 90s and enjoyed it! Seen it alot and still never gets old! Also the TV series. There can be only ONE! ☝⚔
Old? 1986 wasn't that long ago. *checks calendar* OMG 37 years ago.
@@clowncoupon5821 cool
Highlander is awesome. I've seen this movie so many times. Loved your reaction.
Some extra knowledge about the Highlander world.
The first movie was good, and the TV series was good too. It was produced/writen by the same people as the film.
To make the series link with the movie, they had Christopher Lambert aka Connor MacLeod come back for the first episode.
The series focuses on Connor's kinsman Duncan MacLeod.
In the show Duncan says that there were stories about a kindsman in his grandfather's time called Connor that didn't die.
The show delves deeper into the the back story of Immortals. They also improved somethings that they skipped over in the movie. Like all future Immortals are either foundlings or orphans, no one knows how they are conceived/born/made, as Immortals can't have kids, they start off as normal human babies that grow as any other person does.
As in the movie, when another Immortal is near, their "spidy senses" go off. And they know either another Immortal or a pre-Immortal is near.
Just as Connor had his first death in battle against the Kurgan, and never aged beyond that age, it's the same with Pre-Immortals. Until they have their first death, which has to be a "violent" death, you can't just die of old age, cancers etc, they age normally. But if a baby, or and old person is killed, that violent first death is the age that that Immortal will remain forever more.
Unlike the movie, one of the things they "tidied up" was getting killed. Instead of not being able to die, unless you lost your head. The scene where Connor was alive underwater, was changed in the series. Just as humans can die from stab wounds, gunshots, car accidents etc, so can Immortals. They just dont stay dead, they would revive, unless the thing that killed them was stopping them from coming back. They'd start to revive, and the knife in their chest, say, was still there, untill it was removed, they couldn't revive properly. Limbs once removed stay removed, they don't grow back.
Immortals take on new Immortals to train them how to fight, the rules etc, some take on Pre-Immortals, watch out, and pretect them, so they can train them later, after they turn, if they turn. Others seek pre's out, to turn them and get their Quickening. This is all their knowledge and live force that they have gathered, either from other Immortals they've killed or just their short life force.
In the TV show, it's said that Connor was mistaken, that he wasn't the last Immortal, which is why Connor turns up in the show.
I first saw this film back in 1995, and it was a couple of years later, I finally managed to catch the show, and fell in love with it.
I was very lucky to get to meet the actors that played Ducan MacLeod, Adrian Paul, and Methos, Peter Wingfield. Even after nearly 30 years, I love the concept of the Immortals and l love to show.
Even if you don't do a react on the show, the show, for when it was made, mid 90s is still worth a watch.
I heard recently that Panzer and Davis actually said Highlander 3 - which leads into the 6 seasons of the TV show, then finishes with (my favourite) Highlander Endgame, is set in an alternate reality in the multiverse where The Gathering never occured in '80s New York. Because of this, Connor didn't get the prize, so the story can continue normally. All your other info is spot on though, mate.
I know die-hard fans don't care for it, but I'm interested in how Henry Cavill's reboot will turn out. 👍🏻
The soundtrack makes this film outstanding. The funny thing about this film is you have a Scottish actor playing a Spaniard and a French actor playing a Scot.
The only scream more piercing that Brenda's in this film is Isabeau's in the film "Ladyhawke" (1985), with Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer.
"Hey, it's a kind of magic!"
A little bit of trivia.
Lambert didn't speak a word of english when he got this role so he actually learnt all his lines phonetically.
This movie is fun on its own and is an amazing prequel to a fairly-awesome Canadian television series. Anything resembling a movie after this that claims this heritage is an imposter and should be avoided.