Re: 1st Season Terminator: TSCC - Heavy Metal - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:00:03 GMT, "Joetheone"
<joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:19:53 GMT, "Joetheone"
>> <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>"erilar" <drache@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> "Joetheone" <joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> "Pete B" <xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> > joetheone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>>>>> >> "Pete B" <xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>>> >> > drache@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 says...
>>
>>>>> >> >> > "If you're going to save the world, you have to be able to 
>>>>> >> >> > drive a clutch."
>>>>> >> >> > (Or however she put it.)
>>>>> >> >> > Getting to be a lot of Terminators running around, but not
near
>>>>> >> >> > as many Terminators as there were immortals in Highlander,
and
>>>>> >> >> > that was a great show.
>>>>> >> >>
>>>>> >> >> Several times greater than this thing!!
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > Really? I thought I had heard it was a rather bad an
unimpressive
>>>>> >> > series?
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> > Good dialog? :)
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> Never seen it?
>>>>> >> Get it!
>>>>> >> There was a real, real bad movie on scifi a while back, but it
had
>>>>> >> nothing, really to do with the series. Or the original Highlander

>>>>> >> movie.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Perhaps I was thinking of that film instead. Perhaps I'll consider
it
>>>>> > :)

>>>>> Consider starting with the original movie, if you haven't seen it. I
>>>>> liked 3, but that's controversial. 2 was a bad mistake.
>>>>> The series was damn good television, that, of course, was carried to
>>>>> excess by the end of it's run.
>>>>> Get the European version, if you can. It has tits!
>>>>
>>>> I liked the first Highlander movie more because it had Sean Connery
in
>>>> it(who's biased?) than for its hero.  I preferred the early seasons
of
>>>> the series, which I was watching BEFORE I ever saw the movie.
>>
>>>Connery did raise it from a fair movie to a great one. That was back
when
>>>you could count on him to do that to a movie. It may have been his last

>>>good role. (Was Gawain And The Green Knight before or after?)

Before.

>> The Untouchables, Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, The Hunt For Red
>> October, Rising Sun and The Rock (just to name the ones I've SEEN from
>> after Highlander) all are indications that it was NOT his last good
>> role.
>>
>That Kipling movie may have been after, too. 

"That Kipling movie"?

I'm going to assume you mean The Man Who Would Be King.  That was a
1975 release (so *well* before) and was a very underrated movie.

>The Rock was just embarrassing. 

Then we disagree.

>Most of his problem is trying to do roles he's just too old to pull off, 
>trying to be Bond at 30 at 70. That cat burglar abortion, Robin and
Marion, 

Are you on some kind of drugs?  Robin And Marian was a 1976 release.
Connery was 46 then - not 70.

>that King Arthur piece of ****...
>You just can't count on his movies being good anymore.

Since he's retired (didn't even sign up for a cameo in the new Indiana
Jones movie), that won't be a problem for you.

>Did I mention the League of Lame Ass Jerkoffs?

You'll note I didn't cite that movie as evidence of excellence...

>>>I saw it when it first came out, so I was prepared to hate the series,
and
>>>was very pleasantly surprised when it was so good.
>>>But I'm big on swordfights and long flashbacks and the whole concept of

>>>the thing.
>>>And Widen wandering around the British Museum, several tokes over the 
>>>line, looking at the armor displays and thinking. "Gee, what would it
be 
>>>like if these guys were still around?"
-- 
"Same dances in the same old shoes
 You get too careful with the steps you choose
 You don't care about winning but you don't want to lose
 After the thrill is gone."
   Don Henley & Glenn Frey