Highlander, again
I’ve made no secret of my love of the movie Highlander (as well as the TV show, but not Highlander 2 or ‘The Source’, which somehow outdid H2 as one of the worst movies I attempted to watch more than once) but even I had to laugh at the music video for Princes of the Universe I just saw:
A great song, yes, one of the best movie score songs, but cannot get past the bad lip-synching, and the ‘cameo’ by Connor MacLeod. Pure cheese.
One other tidbit I didn’t know before:
The opening scene was intended to take place during an NHL hockey match, but the NHL refused to allow the crew to film there because, by the crew’s own admission, they were intending to emphasize the violence of the hockey match.
That’s odd, I had a hard time telling the dark, gray parking lot apart from Nassau Coliseum…
Tags: bad movie, connor macleod, duncan macleod, highlander, highlander the series, Hockey, imdb, movie, nassau coliseum, NHL, princes of the universe, queen
For the Good of the World: Cadbury VS Boll
May 12, 2008 Media
In a fit of awesomeness, Cadbury Adams’ Stride brand gum has thrown it’s support behind the Stop Uwe Boll effort. Movie City indie has the details.
On April 4, 2008, Uwe Boll remarked to legendary horror site FearNet that he’d consider acquiescing to his critics and abandoning making films in this genre if an online petition reached one million signatures. As of press time, the petition is just about 234,000 names, which is why Stride has decided to jump in.
Boll, known for making horrifically bad video game adaptations (Bloodrayne, Postal, Alone in the Dark) and for punching out his critics, takes advantage of tax breaks in his native Germany to pump out his dreck.
