Conference bookie::movies

    I don't think it's come out yet.
    
    Michael
    

    I don't know if this is what you are talking about or not..I haven't
    heard of a third movie yet.  However, I did rent a movie from
    Blockbuster which said on the back to be the next one after Two.  It
    turned out to be just an extended version of one of the TV shows.   
    I was desappointed because I was expecting more than just longer
    TV show.
    
    Renee

    Well, there's a 3rd movie that was reputed to have had a trailer during
    some showings of "The Crow".  (Not the showing I went too, though.) Got
    the folks on the Usenet all excited.  
    
    Last I heard, it was supposed to be released circa October, then got
    pushed back, and has apparantly been pushed back a couple more times.  
    
    This is a Christopher Lambert Highlander movie, not to be confused with
    the pilot/1st ep of the TV show (which had Lambert guest-starring). 
    Which is what POBOX::SEIBERTR mentioned, methinks.
    
    
    Cheers,
    
    kim
    
    

    Here in the U.K  highlander III is doing its rounds , it stars
    Christopher lambert and Mario van peebles as the baddie , havent seen
    it yet , but the previews looked good .!
    
    
    
    
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>     Well, there's a 3rd movie that was reputed to have had a trailer during
>     some showings of "The Crow".  (Not the showing I went too, though.) Got
>     the folks on the Usenet all excited.  

	I also saw a (maybe the same one) trailer for H3 on a recent video
	I rented (it may of even been "The Crow"?)

	From what I heard, Highlander III is suppose to take place right after
Highlander. I believe the writers wanted the audience to forget the second movie
ever happened. (That's good because I'm trying to)
	The plot: It seems that not all of the immortals died during the first
round. Three more immortals are still alive. Thawed out from their Artic prison,
these three bad guys -one of which is the leader of the bunch (Mario Van
Peeples)- do battle with our hero, Mr. Lambert. 
	Highlander III: The Sorceror is suppose to make up for The Quickening.
(I sure hope so) 

Until next time,
		Tv

    Subtitle for Highlander III - 'The Gathering'
    
    Already listed in 1995 Video Guides

    Nope.  Highlander: The Gathering is derived from the TV series,
    starring Adrian Paul, and came out a couple of years ago.  This is an
    entirely new effort, starring Christopher Lambert.

    oops
    

	Re. -.1 Hey, everyone makes mistakes.

	And I would like to retract my premature announcement of Highlander III.
The actual name of the movie is "Highlander III: The Magician". The movie stars
Christopher Lambert as Connor Macleod (of course). Macleod has finally settled
and living peacefully with a new family. That is, until the Magician (Mario Van
Peeples) is awakened.
	The Magician and his band of warriors were inadvertently unearthed by
scientists and stir to life from a 300 year rest under a mystical Japanese
mountain. Thus, the Highlander is forced to confront this new force of terror.
	The released date is suppose to be November???


Tv.

    This is out in the UK.  Not sure of the exact release date for the US.
    
    Gita

    
    	Yep,It is out in the U.K and it's one of the the worst films I've 
    	seen.It's really stinking.
    
    	Christopher Lambert is a decent actor and he must be cringing with 
    	this one.
    	
    	A rubbish plot ,unbelievably bad dialogue and Mario van Peebles 
    	looking more at home in a Carry on Films.
    
    	Some of the cinematography is quite good ,but other than that
        forget it.
    
    	Go and see Pulp Fiction (again?) .
    
    
     
    	

    I just read in Starlog that it's title will now be
    HIGHLANDER : The Final Conflict.
    
    Should be out this month.
    
    Michael

    I'm starting to see ads for this.  It looks hokey.  I'll probably
    see it when it goes to the dollar theaters.  I wish they wouldn't make 
    crumby movies out of good stories.  The Highlander tv show is actually
    pretty decent.  I hope the movie doesn't turn people off from watching the
    tv show.  

    
    Ah, but forget not that the TV show is inspired by what people
    generally regard as a mediocre movie (I think it's terrific, myself,
    but that's me).
    
    It has to be better than Highlander II.  Two hours of phone book pages
    would be better than Highlander II.
    
    DFW

It's also one of the very rare instances in which the television series is
better than the film on which it was originally based, imho.


Randy

The televison promo says it will be released nationally on 1/27.


Randy

    Considering this was supposed to have been released in October or
    thereabouts, the constant bumping backwards of the release date kinda
    makes me wondering about movie quality. :)
    
    
    kim

    
    It's also been through at least three title changes.
    
    I'm gonna go anyway, 'cause I'm a sucker for the idea and if its a dog
    at least it'll be fun to be with the big gang of people I'm scheduled
    to go with.
    
    DFW

This film is really getting a lot of advertising on TV adds. I don't know
if that's a good sign or not.


Randy

    I probably won't see it in a theater unless I'm part of a group, but
    I'll definitely watch it on video (unless I hear it's as stupid as the
    other sequel).

   > I probably won't see it in a theater unless I'm part of a group, but
   >     I'll definitely watch it on video (unless I hear it's as stupid as
   > the other sequel).
    
     I have heard that the entire premise behind this one is to pretend
    that the part 2 never happened.  We'll see.
    
    Jennifer
    

    
    	Oh, good ... does that mean it was a dream, and Bobby didn't
    	really die?
    
    	8^)
    
    	[I'm sure someone will get this one.]
    
    							GTI
    

    Just as a trivia point:
    
    While meandering around Blockbuster at some hour last night, I saw a
    video entitled "Gunmen" (or perhaps it was "the Gunmen", it was far too
    late to be in a video store...) that had Christopher Lambert and Mario
    Van Peebles in it.  I didn't look at the back of it to find out what
    it was about, but something about the cover reminded me of Highlander
    III (maybe a poster I've seen or something), besides the obvious fact
    that the two stars of that movie are the two stars of this one....
    
    Maybe it's a good opportunity to see how these two work together in one
    film.  Highlander with guns. :)   
    
    
    kim

    
    Capsule Review: It's better than the second one.  This is damning with
    		    faint praise.
    
    
    Once upon a time there was this movie called Highlander.  It featured
    one superstar and a gaggle of less-than-superstar-quality actors in a
    script that was a film student's final project directed by a man whose
    only previous credits were music videos.  Add to that a score that was
    a combination of songs by a then-not-particularly-well-known film
    composer and songs by a rock band that had probably done its best work
    in the late seventies.
    
    For some reason, this unprepossessing mix produced a movie that was
    greater than the sum of its parts.  Its opening sequence probably still
    ranks as one of the five most intriguing ways to open a movie ever
    filmed.  And the script, despite its flaws, had one overwhelming
    virtue: closure.  It started at the beginning, moved through the
    middle, and stopped at the end.
    
    Now don't get me wrong.  I loved the original film.  I loved the
    schtick.  And so did a lot of other people.
    
    Hollywood, of course, can't resist the urge to make a sequel.  Of
    course, the virtue of the original story makes a sequel difficult.  So
    they reach.  Way out.  And having abandoned most of the original
    premise and not having concocted one with any virtues on its own, it
    was a miserable flop.
    
    A few years later, someone decides to see if a TV show based on the
    orginal premise will fly, and it does.  This combined with a fan outcry
    of "you owe us for that second movie," doubtless moved the making of
    this third installment.  And they went back to their roots.  In fact,
    they went so far back to them that this is essentially a shadow of the
    first movie, without the intrigue of the original's opening.  Aside
    from a brief foray into Japanese mysticism, and a love interest
    introduced by way of a device that was quite franky better handled in a
    novel by Jude Devereaux, this is a replay of the first one.  We wanted
    it to be more like the first one, not *exactly* like it.
    
    Probably the most painful thing about this whole movie is the waste of
    Mario Van Peebles.  I mean, he can act.  He's not quite Denzel
    Washington, but he has enough of his own talent that he should not have
    been sentenced to reprising Clancy Brown's villian right down to the
    facial expressions.  One can see directorial and producorial (?)
    heavy-handedness all over this movie.
    
    There's a sequence that seems to be an homage to one of Hollywood's
    biggest mistakes: a stretch of panoramic views of the Scottish
    countryside (though I'm not sure they were on location) that are
    reminiscent of the let's-stare-at-the-Enterprise bit in Star Trek: The
    Motion Picture.
    
    And the ties back to the original were in some ways handled very oddly. 
    The love interest from the first movie is easily dispatched with an
    accident.  The police nemesis is played by what appears to be the same
    actor who played the obnoxious patrolman Garfield in the original. 
    He's a detective now, but he's got a different name.  What's the
    matter, did Jim Davis object?  And the story, of course, requires a
    lack of intelligence on the part of the hero that can only be decribed
    as cretinous.
    
    Unless you're a completist, I'd stay home and rent the original.
    
    DFW

    I saw H3 the other day.  Nothing special, same old stuff (the good guy,
    the mentor, the bad guy and the beautiful woman).  And the ending was
    as much of a surprize as the notion that rain is wet.  
    
    I also noticed several parallels to the first Conan movie.  Big poop on 
    forging a sword and I think the old wizard in H3 is the same guy who
    played the old wizard in Conan (I may be mistaken in that).  Several
    scenes of Lambert practicing his swordsmanship out there alone in the
    highlands, then rowing a boat, running through the hills... and all that
    was reminiscent of the Rocky movies.
    
    I'll be more than generous and give it two stars.
    
    -dave
    

    I rented this the other night, and I think they tried to capture the
    look'n'feel of the original movie, and failed just this side of
    success.  The story was a straight lift of the first movie, with whole
    sequences appearing the same.  Lambert appeared very tired throughout,
    maybe he just did it to erase the memory of the second movie <grin>.
    
    cheers
    
    	..klaas..