In what may become a continuing feature in this forum, I feel compelled to note that there is one highly underappreciated type of writing out there: the movie description on the TV Guide channel (or alternately, the guide function on a DVR). Tonight's winner: HBO's description of The Highlander, which may be one of the best movies ever made, although I know at least one of my regular readers will disagree.
This film has everything: swords, Christopher Lambert, highly quotable moments ("He's in league with Lucifer!"), a bad mid-eighties easy-listening soundtrack, and Things That Are Scottish, not to mention a villain who looks like a goth/punk pro-wrestler who eats arsenic on the weekends.
This is how my DVR guide describes the film: "A New Yorker beheads a swordsman in a parking lot, continuing a battle of immortals."
There's something about the way it completely misses the point, while simultaneously perfectly capturing the film's essence, that makes it so great.
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