not smoking
I was watching Highlander at the weekend and I was thinking about the immortality thing. They bleed, right? So if you cut off all of their arms and legs and burned them, and then if you did the same for their internal organs - would they still be alive? And Connor MacCloud breathes, but when he's in the loch his lungs are presumably full of water, so why does he breathe at all if he doesn't need oxygen.

And why don't they all just wear a steel neck brace so that it's impossible to cut their heads off?
(frankspencer, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:00, 34 replies)

Highlander
You may be thinking about this too much Frank.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:01, closed)

Because...
it's just a fillum!

...and a damn good bit of eighties gratuitous screen violence too.

*edit* I was watching Predator the other day, I'd never seen the ending before with them all smoking cigars and giving the camera a thumbs up as their extremely heterosexual names come up on screen.

Chad Mannington ;D
(tiger blood and Adonis DNA, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:02, closed)

I have thought about those things too
although the thing that troubles me most is Sean Connery's 'Egyptian' accent.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:03, closed)

The thing that troubled me the most
was the fact that it led to the creation of Highlander 2.

Huurrrrggh *shivers*
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:04, closed)

Scotsman
playing Egyptian prince in film where Frenchman plays Scotsman.

...?
(tiger blood and Adonis DNA, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:04, closed)

I've never seen the film
nor indeed have I seen Braveheart.

When I go to the colonies on holiday people I meet, on learning I'm a Scot, always quote bits from Braveheart and ask me about it. Then they can't believe I've never seen it.

But the immortality thing does seem a wee bit unlikely.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:05, closed)

Feel the stag, Connor.
Ah, Highlander... Great direction, brilliant soundtrack but an absolutely shocking script seemingly cobbled together by pissed fifteen year olds.

Two things save the script; Clancy Brown's OTTness and Sean Connery's ad-libbing.

Edit - nothing could save Highlander II. This was a great, steaming monkey-turd of a film which alsmost makes My Best Friend's Wedding look watchable. Almost...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:12, closed)

I think the film is an excellent bit of escapist fantasy...

But it really pisses me off that you can see the strings at the end...
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:17, closed)

It has my most favouritist Queen song
Not being a huge fan of Queen....but I *adore* 'Who wants to live forever' and think it has extra poignancy because poor old Freddie popped his sparkly clogs.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:24, closed)

Strings?
Buggeriscious bollocks - you'll be telling us Yoda was a puppet next!

Haven't seen either film since the late 80's, but they were FIRM favourites of mine at the time.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:26, closed)

@ Chickenlady...

*puts on nerd hat*

Brace yourself for crap 'pop triv'...but I understand that song was written in the back of the taxi after Queen went to see the first (musicless) screening of Highlander.

The whole thing took Brian May less than 10 minutes.

what a git.
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:28, closed)

^^
and at least 8 of those minutes was perming his hair.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:33, closed)

Trivia pt 2 - Brian May
has a doctorate in astrophysics. Had he not become the fluffy barnetted, home made guitar strumming rock legend he is today, by all accounts he'd have made a very promising physicist.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:33, closed)

^^Chickenlady
I've been pallbearer at a funeral of someone who had that played as we were coming into the church with him in his box at twilight, the church lit only with candles.

Had I not been close to tears already that would've sent me over the edge easily.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:35, closed)

^^
Me and the ex sent her mother off into the furnace to the strains of 'Return to Sender'. Half of the congregation, who weren't in on it, were slightly bemused. The rest of us were pissing ourselves laughing.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:37, closed)

Oooh I'd like a comedy exit too.
Something from the Doors would suffice. Actually, there are two tracks which fit the bill, one admittedly much funnier than the other.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:40, closed)

Break on through
has to be one of them...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:41, closed)

exit
I'd like my corpse to be tipped out of a wheelbarrow on to a landfill site. That would tally perfectly with my beliefs on religion and philosophy.

EDIT: there's little dignity in life, so it's foolish to pretend in death.
(frankspencer, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:41, closed)

Burn Baby Burn for me
Anyway, back to Highlander. Cheesy 80's malarkey, fun in its way, but then....Highlander 2. Dear suffering Bob. Winner of "Worst Accent Ever Award" for M. Lambert who at least tried in the first one, and a script so dumbed down that they couldn't even include the word decapitated. Sheesh.
(osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:41, closed)

Davros's Grandad
Well spotted sir...
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:42, closed)

@ lostitsolongago
That brought tears to my eyes - just the thought of it! How beautiful.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:42, closed)

@PJM
but you're neither a women nor from LA?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:43, closed)

Because:
Like in the Matrix, Neo is 'breathing', but like Morpheous points out, he really isn't breathing air. His lungs still function because he has the body of a human, but one that cannot die through drowning. Did you see him breath any water in? Nope, so his lungs wouldn't be filled with water.

How his muscles function without oxygen is another matter.

And i would presume that if you cut the arms anf legs off, yes they would still be alive, as the head is still attached to the torso.

I love the film, never made it all the way through the 2nd, and will watch the 3rd this weekend thanks to Lovefilm. Not as bad as the 2nd by all accounts.
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:44, closed)

Viking Funeral
Push petrol soaked me out to sea on a raft while a troup of buxom Valkyrie women in horned helmets fire flaming arrows in my general direction to the strains of Wagner.

Wouldn't go down too well with Clacton Borough Council though.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:44, closed)

I rather like frank's suggestion
I think I'd like to have my lifeless body bent into an amusing shape, then catapulted off the end of a pier.

Then the fishes could eat me, and get their own back.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:47, closed)

@ PMJ
You're from Clacton?

You must drop the average age of local people by a good 20 years overall then, haha!
( Cawl, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:48, closed)

I've actually thought far too much about my funeral
I want a decent send off, not an overly religious one, song to include Barber's Adagio for Strings. Cremated in my lacrosse kit (my true love) and then at least a grand behind the bar so I can buy everyone a drink. Hopefully a few grand and a everyone can get smashed on my behalf! Ashes, might as well fertilize a lawn or something, might as well be useful for once in my life!
( Moonraker isn't the droid you were looking for, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:50, closed)

My Uncle wants...

'Comfortably Numb' by Pink Floyd as he goes through the crem curtains...
( Pooflake braces for an onslaught..., Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:52, closed)

Ah, I'm no Clactonian
But have lived nearby, so can give first hand accounts of the shittiness of the town. It makes Southend On Sea look like Monte Carlo.

Imagine - if you will - said viking funeral taking place on a beach strewn with discarded cartons which once contained jellied eels, semi-literate neds sipping Strongbow from cans and second generation cockney wankah bleached blonde lady clactonians sporting picasso arses and thong straps up to their chests.

Then there's Frinton. Full of biddies, the only road in and out is blocked by old school railway gates which act as a kind of border post to keep the riff-raff out. There was much furore in Frinton a while back when the town got it's first chip shop. I kid you not, it's a bastion of old school Tory blue rinsers.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:52, closed)

Killed by Death
by Motorhead.

So loud that it vibrates my coffin up the aisle without the need for pallbearers.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:53, closed)

PMJ
I see...
I've been to both Clacton and Frinton.
Rubbish places!

The horrors of living in Essex I suppose.

And has anyone considered what a funeral would be like if you had the song of choice rick-rolled?
( Cawl, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:58, closed)

But I love Rick
So frankly that would be a bonus!
(Bazongaloid, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 11:59, closed)

I've downloaded "Who wants to live forever"
Using Cr3's handy little widget thingy.
Now I can listen and cry til my heart's content!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 12:23, closed)

@Davros
Like it...

If a suitably sized trebuchet could be organised, and aimed (naturally) at France then this sounds like a bit of a winner.

Don't forget, take one of them with you!
(osok Rebel without a clue, Thu 27 Mar 2008, 12:54, closed)