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Highlander: I can't even remember the last time I watched this film all the way through. It was probably when I was about 15 and thought the movie kicked so much ass. Now? Not nearly as much. If any movie deserves to be remade, it's Highlander. The storyline is great, but everything else sucks. The acting is terrible. Clancy Brown is great, but Christopher Lambert? He couldn't act to save his life. Even Sean Connery's perfomance is pretty lackluster and far too cheesy. I guess the fact that he's an Egyptian with his trademark "Shcottish acshent" doesn't really help. The special effects while passable at the time are severely dated now so a remake with good actors and proper special effects would rock all kinds of ways. Still a good watch, but I can't help but wonder how much better a remake would be.
Predators: Easily the best Predator movie. Holy crap. Take everything that was awesome about the first Predator movie and throw out the cheesy one-liners and rippling biceps. I was thoroughly impressed from start to finish. The only thing that had me worried was this: (spoiler) It seemed like they ditched the whole Topher Grace is a serial killer character angle and made him a doctor which might seem plausible. The predators might include a doctor just to keep the hunt more interesting? They really gave next to no clues that he was in fact psychotic until the very end. So in those regards it was well done, but throughout the movie I was worried that for some reason they decided that idea was too much or something? (spoiler)
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