Highlander II: The Quickening (1991)
HIGHLANDER II: THE QUICKENING this week…what the fuck was that?
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When you're 5 years old, a year is 20% of your life. When you're 40 years old, a year is 2.5%. Time seems to speed up, but everything is relative.
Every Immortal alive absorbs the dying immortals power. All the 'quickening power' is equally divided among all the living immortals.
Razorback is so good!
We should all move to Japan. Before writing for Conan!
Hell yeah
You can’t beat a good bad movie
We all need more “remember when” UCB stories in our life
Porcupine bros are what I associate most with this movie. Them and their stupid chuckle. Also, ABZ got a shout out from Dough Boys and guest Tami Sagher. She was a real fun guest for them last week.
For the love of god, let Connery do his pig thing
You should look into the Casca book series by Barry Sadler. It is about an immortal and tells stories of him at various times through history.
Stanger is my favorite action boy in the whole world.
I tried to get through it again. It wasn’t the weed or the booze this time. It was the food. Ate too much. Fell right asleep. I’ll try again tomorrow.
“Long Live Walter Jameson” is the Twilight Zone episode Rodgers referenced; an all timer. Starring ABZ alumnus Kevin McCarthy of The Howling.
Carl Quacks
I genuinely like Connery's tailored suit. Looks slick as hell.
Please, ABZ, do "Razorback" -- mentioned in this ep during a convo on director Russell Mulcahy -- as a future episode. Razorback has been on my brain for a few days after just learning another killer pig movie, "Boar," existed.
It's nuts how good that movie looks for being about a killer boar. The skeleton dream scene alone makes it worth it.
Last week, I was driving over the bay bridge (Stanger might know that bridge). There was this tiny little asian chick with a full 2’ glass bong between her legs, just blazin’ in traffic on the bridge. She almost rear ended three cars. I gave her a thumbs up. I kinda remember at least three attempts to watch this movie since its release, including the renegade cut the other day. Each time I was either drunk, stoned and/or tired and fell asleep. I will try again tonight. Great episode. Later.
I was that tiny Asian chick.
Nice Earth 2 pull, Rodgers. Haven’t thought about that show for some time.
Rodgers is right; it's porcupine hair.
Can we start a go-fund-me to buy the rights to R.O.T.O.R. so The Action Boyz can write and direct R.O.T.O.R. 2 starring Betsy Sodaro as R.O.T.O.R. the 2nd? I just want to hear her say "I am R.O.T.O.R."
I work in a print shop. The owners are Trumpers so we mostly print Punisher shirts for cops and badly designed shirts for shitty Karen boutiques.
Happy birthday Gabrus!
you're not fully clean until you're zeist fully clean
in regards to the getting older time relationship at my hs graduation the thing i remember being said most frequently “life’s like a toilet paper roll, it goes faster at the end” some truthbomb for an 18 yo
Never too late to Learn new skills
If Rogers made a production company that made practical effect driven 80s style action movies named Four Score Productions that’d be great.
Instead of 'Sit Ubu sit', it'd be something like 'my dog told me you're a serial killer'
Looking through Connery’s filmography the only outright (intentional) comedies he did are Time Bandits, which I’ve never seen, and On the Fiddle, which I’ve never heard of and seems to be some Carry On/Sgt. Bilko mix. I remember The Man Who Would Be King with Michael Caine making me laugh as a kid but that’s action/adventure…and would fit nicely as a possible future episode. Ahem.
Darby O'Gill and the Little People
On Prime, the thumbnail says "Higlander 2"
Did they watch the renegade or original
I had the closed captions on and during the Ramirez plane scene it says he said dark haired women "like to sit on men's faces." Classic Ramirez.
Macleod being in minstrel shows made me LOL. I really like the way Netflix's Old Guard does the immortal stuff. Particularly the scene with the French guy visiting his dying son-- heartbreaking.
"deepfakes are the hackiest, lamest shit ever" - Rodgers "100% agree" - Gabrus, Stanger *Rodgers goes to bathroom* Gabrus and Stanger do 5 min on digitally inserting Lauren Lapkus into the Kumite
Possible upsides to deepfakes: no more child actors. No more molesting child actors.
Reading from the sauna website I think it’s worth making a comedy-drama based on the production alone. How long do they have to be there for a stuntman to develop and be fired for a coke addiction?! 😅 Top episode, I especially enjoyed: “Arthur Bishop’s schemes keep me up at night.” “You’re in one!”.
The disaster artist, but not sure if this movie's as good as the room.
Having briefly worked with Christophe Lambert I can say that that man is a huge drunk.
This is a great movie.
Birthright for Guineas made me laugh out loud on the street. What a Long Island specific.
SNL did a parody of this when Sandler hosted a couple years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbwlC2B-BIg
Also I was shocked they got Connery to actually do the squib shooting scene. They really get lit up in a small car. Seems like something Connery would have said no to
Between purchasing the Bette Davis Eyes 45 and the “shut up, shut up, shut up” bit, Rodgers is the MVP of the episode.
Stanger vanishes from the podcast at around the 20 to 30 minute mark for a while. After a while I scrubbed ahead to hear his voice again to make sure he came back at some point so I could listen with my mind at ease. I wish I were joking.
worried he died and they just kept going without him?
Before listening to the episode: man I hope they all watched the renegade cut. Or that only Stanger watched the original cut.
Guys...i watched the wrong cut. Also my client died.
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This movie won me over right from the jump with all the Wagner music at the beginning. Richard Wagner is easily the most problematic artist that I love.
Every time an immortal is decapitated. Their power is divided among the remaining immortals. Until there is only one.
I started waxing this old guy's car at the start of the pandemic, now in a few months I'm gonna compete in the All Valley Over 35 Karate Tournament!
This movie is a student film love letter to Paul Verhoeven.
HERRE WE ARE! BORN TO BE KINGS!
This has to be one of the craziest sex scenes ever. They literally don’t know each other at all, and she just saw him kill two bird people on the set of Streets of Fire. But sure let’s fuck!
I dunno... is it crazier than Sarah Connor boning a crazed homeless guy raving about robots from the future?
They made us watch Flight in rehab. It was nice to see some tits.
Man from Earth seems like it would've made a better Highlander sequel. That movie fuckin rules
I like this movie a lot. It’s like a stage play.