Highlander

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Summary: An interesting idea ruined by hopeless directing
Review: An immortal worrior from Medieval Scotland must confront a Black Knight in modern america to fight for the prize of being "the last" of their race. Although nothing incredibly special, it still offers a reasonable amount of entertaining action to keep the average viewer happy. But it could have been so much more if it wasn't for Russell Mulcahy's disgusting directing skills. His music video style is very showy through out the whole movie which makes it all the more childish. At least

Sean Connery is there for a majority of the movie to keep the story in place for a while. Definatelly Christopher Lambert's best performance ever.

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Summary: Disgusting image and sound quality
Review: *Edit* I don't know how this review got here, since I wrote it about the (awful) "10th anniversary edition" and NOT about this "Immortal" edition, which hadn't even been released by the time I wrote this. //
You will not find a worse image quality on DVD even if you tried! First, it is appalling to sell a letterbox transfer as "state of the art", as it says on the box. Only an anamorphic transfer derserves to be called that.... The picture is so bad, I truely have seen better looking VHS-tapes. The people at "Widescreen Review" must have been drunk or bribed to rate it 4.5 - there simply is no other reasonable explanation. The noise in some scenes is so bad, it looks like snowflakes - this cannot be attributed solely to the high-speed film used for some parts of the movie. Diagonal lines are completely torn up by the lack of resolution. There are artifacts of all kinds throughout the movie. It is a shame! The sound quality is very disappointing, too - this is what you get when you try to squeeze a stereo master into the 5.1 format - very unnatural sounds with artificial, reverberated ambience and dialogues. Some very disturbing noise (hiss) is clearly audible, too. I have to use all my discipline not to resort to very personal, R-rated comments about the studio and producers who are responsible for this terrible DVD. Too bad, because this classic movie would have deserved much better.

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Summary: This DVD blows!
Review: The movie is good, but this is without a doubt the WORST looking DVD I have ever seen. The picture quality is horrible and completely unwatchable. AND IT IS THX, WHAT IS UP WITH THAT?

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Summary: One the single greatest films of all time
Review: I cannot say enough about this movie. It captured me at an early age. I never really understood it though until I was older. This movie has it all, swords, people living forever locked in an eternal struggle against Evil. You need to see this film to understand everything I am trying to say here and can't. Just watch it. I can't see how anyone wouldn't like it. Compared the crap we see nowadays in the theatres, this is classic film. This is a stand alone, cult classic, you'll love it, or hate it. As for the sequels? I would stay away from them, but the series is good. This 10th Anniversay edition rules, the added scenes are great, they really round out the movie, and have it making a lot more sense, as far as characters go. I would have liked to have seen a more of the fleshing out of the Kastigere character. I mean we see him in one scene people he's capped. Oh well, can't have it all. Clancy Brown is so into his role it will unnerve you, the church scene will forever be "his." I guess the creators really believe it's better to burn out than to fade away, otherwise there would have been no sequels.

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Summary: How could they do this?
Review: Is this some kind of scam? Is the idea to sell this shoddy "remastered" version of the movie for those of us who will love the film and buy it, and then a few years from now actually come out with a good DVD, and then make us buy it again? How could they do this awful transfer with such a classic? I eagerly sought out Highlander, just about salivating at the thought of its gorgeous cinematography captured in crisp, perfect digital quality, and the sound and music given equal treatment. Highlander deserves no less! Yet what I got was a DVD that left me completely distracted by a picture that gives the impression a layer of grit was filmed over the actual scenes. Grainy, grainy, grainy! And the sound is a washout (although the poor picture distracted me more). Soft conversation would be a good volume, but then something like an explosion would be equalized to approximate the same volume. In other words, few dynamics. I mean, I do have to compare. The DVD version of the original Terminator, for instance - an older movie than Highlander - actually improved considerably through DVD transfer over its VHS counterpart. Highlander did not. My final gripe; it promised "never before seen" scenes. Well, pretty sure I saw them a couple years ago on the Director's Cut VHS. I hate to be so critical, but this is one of those movies for which DVD was made. Little justice was done!

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Summary: 3 Stars for the movie itself, not the quality of the DVD
Review: Ive never seen so many reviews for a movie that are almost entirely about the DVD audio and video quality. I remember seeing the movie when I was younger, and remeber likeing it, so I rented this movie the other day (for my VCR).I just don't see what is so special about this movie. It is a very cool story, I like how they go back to Scotland, and is a decent fantasy story overall but I would say that its somewhat dated. It was a little confusing as well. Lambert was a good hero, but overall I thought it was a little cheezy. That car scene at the end was pretty stupid. Why did the bad guy have to bring that girl all the way to the abandon factory? That last fight scene was pretty bad. I don't know, I wanted to like this movie, and I think I did when I was 13, but seeing it now, it just didn't impress me. I gave it 3 stars for the cool story, and for Connery.

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Summary: One additional item
Review: The original movie of Highlander was a good story, played nicely by the cast. The Collector's Edition promised extra scenes, which it has, but only one seems to add anything to the story (how he meets his secretary), the others are easily discarded. Additionally, the added scenes are of poorer quality than the rest of the movie, exhibiting a graininess that looks like old home movies, very out of place with the rest of the production. Can be worth it over the regular edition but barely.

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Summary: Great movie RUINED by poor sound
Review: I love the movie; that's why I bought it, but the sound is absolutely horrible. It gets in the way of enjoying the film so much that I've never viewed the dvd again. The sound goes from inaudible conversation to loud screeching effects. I can't emphasize enough how frustrating and horrible this dvd is.

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Summary: Phantasie Masterpiece
Review: Well, I gues everybody know this movie allready. Thus to the DVD: The sound sucks as the other reviews said before but it's not that bad that you can't watch it.BUT the runningtime is wrong. It's not 141MIN., it's 116Min but these are 5Min more than the old version and they are worth watching(some Top of the Pop, hmm sorry - Chop of the Head scenes).Picture is O.K. though I've seen better(try DVD's of the CRITERION COLLECTION!).The specials guarantie some fun especially the picture-gallery All in all absolutly worth the price.

Besides:You remember Corgan saying "It's better to burn out than to fade away!", in the church and wonder what he could mean? Ever heard of the letters I.N.R.I. at Jesus cross? Normaly translatet into "Jesus king of bla bla..." but you can translate it also Igne Natura Renovatur Integra which means "Within the fire everything will be born again!" So we have here Jesus on the cross and witches in the fire. Make your own conclusions. Good luck on all your journys!

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Summary: The greatest fantasy/action sci fi of all time!
Review: I'm not talking about the DVD when i am reviewing this movie i am talking about the original VHS non-director's cut version. This is one of the coolest movies with one of the greatest plots of all time, great acting from Lambert and Connery, great action sequences, great soundtrack which Queen rocked on, and i think it is cool the way the story can go to any point in time and it still stays well balanced. Buy the normal original version of this movies on VHS and u will be very pleased. Also check out Highlander: Endgame because it rocked when i saw it in theaters.