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Highlander 2: Rebuild - Fanedit Trailer
I've spent quite a bit of time undertaking fan preservations of the various versions of Highlander II before they are all lost...so I finally decided to put together my own take on the film:
Highlander II: Rebuild.
And then I got bored and put together this very tongue in cheek trailer.
Enjoy!
About the Highlander II: Rebuild (H2R)
This isn't an attempt to "fix" the film to make sense with the original, nor a kitchen sink edit where I try to include every possible shred of material available, nor just the Renegade Cut with Zeist put back in. This is an attempt to rebuild Highlander 2 from scratch to make the best film I can out all the material available. I went through each scene and rebuilt it shot by shot, cutting or adding lines/shots/frames where I thought they were needed. Using the shooting script as reference (but not gospel) I restructured the film and brought back a few abandoned subplots.
It would be impossible to list every change in this edit but here's a taste of what to expect:
-Zeist!
-Red Shield.
-I've tried to structure and pace the opening of the film to better introduce the viewer to the settings and crazy world of Highlander 2, without relying on a lazy opening text crawl. It's still a bit of wild ride as the film has to set up two worlds completely alien to the audience, but hopefully the viewer shouldn't feel lost for long.
-I've done what I can to restore the character of Louise. In all released versions of the film she has little purpous beyond the bland love story, but now she hopefully comes across as the independent terrorist leader she is!
-I've removed many instances of un-needed attempts at humour. This helps to concentrate most of the film's humour on Ramirez who is the comedic core of the film.
-I've done what I can to add a bit of depth and tension to the film's flimsy love plot. Part of this came naturally through repairing the character of Louise, but removing what the director calls the "banging against the wall" scene helped too. Now their relationship forms at a slower, more natural place, with their first kiss coming at a much more satisfying moment.
-I wanted to make Katana feel like more of a threat so I cut out all the pop-culture references I could and toned down his zaniness.
-I restored some missing subplots that were scripted, filmed, and dropped; mostly relating to the "sky writing" subplot, Zeist, and the power of the Quickening.
-I attempted to complete unfinished effects shots in a manner consistent with the 1991 look of the film.
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Komentáře

  • @erickleefeld4883
    @erickleefeld4883 Před 7 dny

    The two salespeople in the last 15 minutes had some good tips for making any kind of sale/proposal. You sell something based on the benefits it brings to people, not tech specs and numbers.

  • @thoughtsonnarrowboatingwit3882

    I could never get enough CAV discs in my country, pausing was not possible unless one had Constantly angled velocity discs…. more expensive.

  • @TueSorensen
    @TueSorensen Před 14 dny

    This is still not out, is it???

  • @GackFinder
    @GackFinder Před 22 dny

    22:32 "The way that you make money with MagnaVision of course is to sell it". Wow, really?

  • @Boofi-quat
    @Boofi-quat Před 22 dny

    It takes a confident man to wear white long underwear as pants unironically

  • @Helmo707
    @Helmo707 Před 2 měsíci

    Hello, I see tout job on FanRes but cannot found your incredible work for the 35mm of Highlander 2 😊 How can I found the 35mm version ? MANY THANK 🎉

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines Před 2 měsíci

    10:08 When your girl says: “Not Tonight”

  • @rickwj324
    @rickwj324 Před 2 měsíci

    Please make this happen....SOON!! Thank you

  • @purefoldnz3070
    @purefoldnz3070 Před 3 měsíci

    still remember this exactly from twenty years ago.

  • @WesleyWyndam-Pryce
    @WesleyWyndam-Pryce Před 3 měsíci

    Not the best movie, but far from the worst. Out of the Highlander films it is easily in second place, but if they added all that mojo from the trailer it could have been right up there with the worst which is shared equally 2 and 5. My headcanon is Highlander 1, The Series, Endgame. I kinda wish Endgame would have been season 6 for the TV show. The story would have had time to expand and who wouldn't love a lot more Christopher Lambert? Shit, could have even brought in Roger Daltrey as Fitz for a few flashbacks to see his chemistry with Connor. Oh, the possibilities.

  • @mackpines
    @mackpines Před 3 měsíci

    Technology Connections brought me here! Those DiscoVision sleeves that looked like a leisure suit were so ugly. They were already dated when this video was made. 27:40 Translation: Give us money!💰 Of course, these early machines were prone to being faulty. It was the 80s after all. Nothing seemed to work right back then.

  • @atticuskane6679
    @atticuskane6679 Před 3 měsíci

    Would LOVE to see this edit……is there a way that can watch it?

  • @Hollowshape
    @Hollowshape Před 3 měsíci

    Nice trailer! Is this version finished?

    • @LaserdiscTurtle
      @LaserdiscTurtle Před 3 měsíci

      Thanks! Yeah, I finished this edit at the start of the month. With a bit of googling you should be able to find out more 😉

  • @NickMichalak
    @NickMichalak Před 3 měsíci

    Nicely done, my friend! I like the reinstatement of the yellow shield from the original script! This is actually a welcome sight after hearing about Archangels and the second coming in the Highlander Heart discussion yesterday!

    • @LaserdiscTurtle
      @LaserdiscTurtle Před 3 měsíci

      Ha ha, thanks! The shield is still the original red/orange from the theatrical cuts in this version, but I've added back the "Shield graffiti" subplot that was cut early and never had its effects completed. I cannot overstate just how wild that Yellowknife script is! Sadly neither I or the Highlander Heart team are in a position to share it, but I hope fans get to read it some day...it's just nuts!

  • @TomeAlone
    @TomeAlone Před 3 měsíci

    It was all a pipe dream then 🙄

  • @andysummersthxcinemaandmyc7748

    laserdisc i mean magavision is logical for theatrical mixes , pionner laserdisc logical

  • @paulpolpiboon9535
    @paulpolpiboon9535 Před 4 měsíci

    R2D2 gimmick huh?

  • @superbn0va
    @superbn0va Před 5 měsíci

    I’m confused, can’t find this blu ray set anywhere? Is it canceled? Out of print? Or delayed?

    • @LaserdiscTurtle
      @LaserdiscTurtle Před 4 měsíci

      I don't really have much to share other than what's in the pinned comment. This Blu Ray set has not yet been released, but as far as I know it has not been cancelled either. At the time I was asked to make this trailer the understanding from all parties involved was that the release was "coming soon"...but that didn't turn out to be the case. I honestly wish I could say more...and as a fan of the franchise I wish the box set was sitting on our shelves right now.

  • @markderoller7645
    @markderoller7645 Před 5 měsíci

    Nimoy rules

  • @spockboy
    @spockboy Před 6 měsíci

    Even Spock was rockin' a mustache in the 70's.

  • @thebatt6183
    @thebatt6183 Před 6 měsíci

    obviously scratches wont effect the surface he never owned a playstation 2

  • @brianheriot8394
    @brianheriot8394 Před 7 měsíci

    When I was a kid in the 80's a friend of my from a well to do family had a laser disc player, it was like something straight out of Star Trek as far as I was concerned. I remember watching "Aliens" with them on disc and being blown away by the deleted scenes, something that seemed so new and exciting back then.

  • @noo9606
    @noo9606 Před 7 měsíci

    A scam. Disappointing.

  • @user-ps9zt4vq1c
    @user-ps9zt4vq1c Před 7 měsíci

    Спок с усами это странно. 😅

  • @nickalkire1187
    @nickalkire1187 Před 8 měsíci

    From 1981…..(R.I.P., Leonard Nimoy.)

  • @NickMichalak
    @NickMichalak Před 8 měsíci

    You can definitely tell thy they flagged off parts of the open frame that were meant to be matted out later. Great job on getting this one uploaded!

    • @LaserdiscTurtle
      @LaserdiscTurtle Před 8 měsíci

      Thanks! Yeah; that's part of why I love seeing open matte prints...all the bits we were neve meant to see 🤣

  • @MrAndroidData
    @MrAndroidData Před 8 měsíci

    330 lines of resolution!!?!??! ooooooohhhhhh

  • @Squall1980
    @Squall1980 Před 9 měsíci

    Wow im not crazy. Ive been looking for this for a long time. No one believed me when I said I saw the villain get siamese cut and morph into two on a tv spot. No one else remembered it and it started to feel like a Mandela Effect. Thanks for posting this.

  • @xrrrismickey
    @xrrrismickey Před 9 měsíci

    The beeping.

  • @Barbie_All_The_Way
    @Barbie_All_The_Way Před 9 měsíci

    Meat always chose Movies that Challenged him. I wonder why Meat Loaf did Dead Ringer The Movie? It's Comedy and he seemed to act like himself. I wonder why he did it

  • @WraithTDK
    @WraithTDK Před 9 měsíci

    What the hell happened to this?!

  • @fixman88
    @fixman88 Před 11 měsíci

    29:20 330x480 resolution? That sounds awful but she is correct about that being a 25 percent or so improvement over tape; VHS has about 280 lines or so of horizontal resolution, which is 280x480. Also, I know that 1990s LaserDiscs had *much* better color than VHS did.

  • @claytonbouldin9381
    @claytonbouldin9381 Před 11 měsíci

    I remember my friend buying a Pioneer Laserdisc player when they came out with his student loan money. He also bought an expensive, loud stereo to annoy the neighbors. I remember watching Top Gun with the sound turned halfway up thinking how cool it all was and wishing I could afford one. I wasn't willing to take out access student loans to get one.

  • @jamesl.anderson1384

    1:10

  • @jamesl.anderson1384

    0:45

  • @samanthastephens1907

    I still buy discs, and use my player all of the time. They are a bitch to move, but i love the bigger cover art.

  • @mycosys
    @mycosys Před rokem

    The repeated 'tape just cant be as good as a record (that is mastered from a tape)' really is hilarious.

    • @jessihawkins9116
      @jessihawkins9116 Před 6 měsíci

      It is recorded from a Umatic not a VHS or BETA tape.

  • @michaelturner4457
    @michaelturner4457 Před rokem

    Leonard Nimoy having interaction with a rock. Wasn't this originally the plot for an episode of Star Trek?

  • @Enchurito
    @Enchurito Před rokem

    How much were VHS tapes at the time? I remember when I was a kid a terminator 2 laserdisc was $79.99 where a VHS of the same movie was $19.99.

    • @philiphanan1493
      @philiphanan1493 Před rokem

      Terminator 2 originally cost $99.99 on VHS.

    • @TheJamesmario
      @TheJamesmario Před 4 měsíci

      Robin hood (1973) came out on vhs in 1984, msrp was 79.99

  • @Enchurito
    @Enchurito Před rokem

    I wish I'd been able to get Leonard Nemoy to sign a copy of "How to watch American football"

  • @asseertedwolf
    @asseertedwolf Před rokem

    I wonder if this is still being planned for a release?

  • @craigstjohn4470
    @craigstjohn4470 Před rokem

    early, development of the,d v d,as today!!/ what was the price of the,player + disks, back in 1981?. also R C A made some also!!/ but the bottom of the disks were black on bottom! ✝️💒💟🙏😊

  • @search_eternal
    @search_eternal Před rokem

    Did this ever come out?

  • @bedeodempsey5007
    @bedeodempsey5007 Před rokem

    Nothing on the VEI website. I am guessing that this is a "too good to be true" April fools joke on us. God forbid they put out something worthwhile.

  • @shamehairmetal
    @shamehairmetal Před rokem

    Still no release date apparently??

  • @ms_enj
    @ms_enj Před rokem

    “How high were you back in the late 70s, Grandpa?” “Well Jimmy, we were so high, we thought the best possible way to market our incredible new video format was half an hour of Mr. Spock talking to a blinking rock.”

    • @Fardawg
      @Fardawg Před 3 měsíci

      Your memory is slipping, grandpa. Spock only talked to the rock for ten minutes.

  • @RobertFranko-dy9ir
    @RobertFranko-dy9ir Před rokem

    This never coming out 😕

  • @sandradempsey4648
    @sandradempsey4648 Před rokem

    Nothing on the VEI site, except the awful 16:9 cropped DVD set. Disappointing to say the least.

  • @TomeAlone
    @TomeAlone Před rokem

    Any updates on this at all?

    • @FreddyKurganNimmo
      @FreddyKurganNimmo Před rokem

      Big 'ol NOPE on the updates🤷 As per usual for the last 15 years with this franchise🤦 In about 5 years we'll get another big "announcement", followed by months-to-years of silence, which will indicate that we should just give up on THAT one too🙄

  • @Gaspe19
    @Gaspe19 Před rokem

    Is this collection the reason why the episodes from seasons 2-6 where taken off CZcams?