April 01, 2001
Movie Review - Highlander: Endgame
It was bad.
Baaaaaad.
And the DVD started skipping right before the "climactic" battles.
And it was strange, because the movie was really not good - bordering on incomprehensible - but it was still really frustrating to not see the climax.
It reminded me of the strangeness of watching "Slacker" for the first time, where my brain hurt because it kept trying to fit things together into a standard narrative.
Where does our standard idea of a narrative structure come from? Is it cultural? Do different cultures have different expectations for story structure?
Oh well.
The movie was bad. The acting was bad. The more you think about the way immortals work, the worse it got. Although, as Greg kept having to point out to me, just because you are immortal doesn't mean you are smart.
I think movies about people living hundreds or thousands of years tend to underestimate just how much that person would understand.
Posted by babar at April 1, 2001 01:12 AM