Highlander 2: The Quickening has got to be the worst film I've ever seen and possibly one of the worst films ever made. There was quite abit of controversy behind the making and the last director who took over the film (after many shifts during production) promised to finish it off under the condition that his name would not be credited on screen at all. The budget was blown halfway through production and the first director (after pleading with paramount for more money and then was denied) chucked a fit and in an attempt to ruin the promising franchise, changed the whole story from highlanders in Scotland to space Aliens from Planet frickin Zeist!. Paramount left him out to dry and eventualy placed a sucker in there to fix it up but in Paramounts infinant wisdom, only gave him a few weeks to do so, forcing him to leave the Space aliens from planet Zeist storyline in there to leave eventual viewers scratching thier heads as to WTF! happened since the first film and the days of ancient Scotland. The film was released in 1991 and was quickly forgotten. A few years ago the original director Russell Mulcahy released a directors cut of the film and removed all references to the planet zeist and instead confused fans even more with a "travellers from another time" twist to it. This film went from Highlanders to Space Aliens to Time travellers with a side story about the Ozone layer crumbling and a corporation trying to control the UV levels...trust me when I tell you that this movie is the definition of cheap and tacky...avoid this film at all costs.
The first one that pops into my mind is 'The Avengers'... mainly because I had such high hopes for it. You had Ralph Fiennes being suave in a pinstripe suit, Uma Thurman being slinky in a leather catsuit, and Sean Connery being evil in... well, a technicolor bear suit, okay, but you see what I'm getting at.. I thought it had real potential..
But Oh. I saw it in the cinema, and it's the first movie I ever seriously contemplated walking out of (and I've sat my way through many a bad movie before), just because I was so bored. It might have *looked* pretty here and there, but the whole movie was just... limp.
"Fry, this isn't TV, it's real life, can't you tell the difference?" "Sure, I just like TV better."
I knew I should have left after 5 minutes but I sat in the cinema and stuck them both out - both totally relied on CGI and not any form of story. Up unti this time Waterworld was the worst. But each to their own - I really liked O'Brother Where Art Thou.
I knew I should have left after 5 minutes but I sat in the cinema and stuck them both out - both totally relied on CGI and not any form of story. Up unti this time Waterworld was the worst. But each to their own - I really liked O'Brother Where Art Thou.
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