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

"David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 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.
>
Yes. The Kipling story. Great 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.
>
I just watch them I don't obsess over them.
Indiana Jones has run it's course anyway.
Ford's not going to do it, is he?
That's getting as bad as Rocky or Rambo.

>>Did I mention the League of Lame Ass Jerkoffs?
>
> You'll note I didn't cite that movie as evidence of excellence...
>

Maybe you're smarter than you look.

>>>>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?"
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