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I'm a huge Connery fan but every scene of his in this was cringeworthy. It says a lot about H2, to me, that including Sean Connery into it actually succeeds in hurting the film even more than it already is.
Now you sound like my nephew. He prefers land himself. He doesn't trust the science behind the heavy tin cans in the air. Especially since so many of them are decades old.
As for the Ramirez scenes I took them all as tongue in cheek after seeing that they chose to make immortals from another planet. I never expected anything but B movie plot with the rest of the film. It was all just a big bad joke and I decided to just enjoy the silliness by telling myself Connor was experiencing a crazy dream after falling asleep at the opera. Even seeing Brigit Nielsen as the opera singer just added to the craziness we were being given. Boy, was I glad I went to the matinee instead of the evening show.
I love his spar with Connor. "Now you ARE being ridiculoush!" But my fave moment of him, which may be my fave funny moment from all the films, is his argument with Connor over who got the most bullets.
It does. He really doesn't have a fuction other than to be sacrificed in the film, but he's so delightfully realized by the sparkling dialogue they gave him and Sean Connery's fun turn, that I forgive them slightly.
I mean, I just love his delivery of "Greetings, Highlander. You called?"
"Most people have a full measure of life, yet most people just watch it slowly drip away. But if you can summon it all up at one time, in one place... You can accomplish something glorious!"
When he's setting next to that Fox on the plain! and watches that safety video, Come on Andrew, tell me that wasn't some funny shit
This, but the pre-2004 version of the scene, where his subsequent, "...[Like] to sit on men's faces" dialogue isn't downmixed to nothingness, due to the producers later chickening out on that bit.
"Really? We are trapped in a room with a machine that can cut off my head. Now that's a longshot."
--Connor MacLeod in Peter Bellwood's original Highlander II script
I'd have to agree with Takk, Ramirez interrupting the Hamlet play and stealing all the applause gets the biggest laugh from me, followed by his visit to the tailor.
I always thought the tailor must also own an antique shop or be a jeweler because as soon as Connery takes his earring off and offers it in exchange for clothes, the tailor instantly recognizes it as being extremely valuable. How would your average tailor know something like that? Of course, there's something about most scenes in this film that beg questions like that.
Hard To Say Which Scene Was My Favorite. Although I His GRAND Entrance During Hamlet Made Me Laugh -
Here Hung Those Lips I've Kissed I Know Not How Oft
Sir... Whatever You Gentlemen Felt For Each Other When Your Friend Was Still Alive... Is Certainly None Of My Affair.
What About Them?
No. They Were Both Dead Before The Car Stopped. I'm Surprised They GOT As Far As They Did. Ya Know, They Must've Collected Over 100 Bullets Or So.
-Conner Awakens- 108
-Ramirez Awakens- 112 Myself
Ah Come On, You're Not Counting That Little SCRATCH Right There Are You
What Are You Talking About? It Passed Right THROUGH Me
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