Greetings to Sci-fi Fantasy Week!! I thought we would commence this Monday with
a story old as time, men that live and die by the sword for their king and
country, money, vengeance or test their skills.
But if I told you of warriors that returned from the final battlefield,
living on in secret lives?? So sharpen
your sword, hone your skills and don’t get distracted or it’s your head. This is Highlander.
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| Immortal slug bugs games are brutal. |
Connor MacLeod: Ramirez’s
blade did not cut deeply enough. He was right about you. You’re spoiler.
Over 400 years ago, a young Highlander warrior was placed
into battle for the very first time. His name was Connor MacLeod of the Clan
MacLeod (Christopher Lambert of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the
Apes, To Kill a Priest, Fortress, Gunmen, The Hunted and Beowulf) and
he faces a clan war when an giant knight in an obsidian helmet with a voice
that sounded like something from Hells itself, mortally wounds the lad. During the range skirmish the two are
separated and all looks lost for the young fellow. The next day he is well and uninjured. His people claim it to be witchcraft and
drive him from their village.
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| Now you die, Willow!! |
Connor becomes a blacksmith and takes a young woman name of
Heather (Beatie Edney of Lost Empires, Wild Flower, Uncle Silas and Highlander:
Endgame) and all seems well enough until Connor is visited by an
eccentric and outlandishly dressed man on horseback calling himself Juan
Sanchez Villa-Lobos Ramirez (Sean Connery of Dr. No, Goldfinger, The
Anderson Tapes, Hunt for Red October, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and
Sir Billi). He knows of Connor’s
plight and his resurrection. Connor
finds out that there are others like him. Some good and some evil but to
survive he must know the game. The rules
are simple: one on one challenge to the death by taking the other’s head, holy
ground can be a refuge and in the end, there can be one. Yes good and evil alike with battle to the
last for the unknown prize. The combined power of all the other immortals
to be used in whatever fashion the winner chooses to.
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| Alright, Zardoz was a horrible film. Happy now? |
Centuries pass and it is 1986 the time of the Gathering when
the immortals feel the need to travel to the final conflict. Connor encounters the black knight of his
past, the Kurgan (Clancy Brown of The Bride, Extreme Prejudice, Shoot to Kill, Blue
Steel, Earth 2, Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League) is an
ancient malevolent man that he delights at mortal suffering. He must be a huge Darwin Awards fan. The very idea of this repugnant and soulless
man getting the prize would men of reign of tyranny the likes to humanity has
never known. After a battle Connor a.k.a. Russell Nash is
questioned by the cops about a headless man in a Versace suit. They believe Nash’s antique dealings were
over a rare sword and he killed a rival collector and to be fair that does
sound nicer than the truth.
Will Connor be able to fend off the cops, stop the villain and
get the girl?? Find out yourself! Sheesh go rent it or buy it already…
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| What's in yer Wallet??!!! |
