Christoper Lambert: The Podcast 1.2 - The Quickening

CatBusRuss returns to the "Ninety For Chill Dot Com: The Podcast" archives to discuss five films from the original "Scottish" hero, Christopher Lambert. He hopes Henry Cavill and Chad Stahelski will provide genre fans with a great reboot of the "Highlander" franchise, but when are we going to get an actual Scotsman to portray the title role?When are we going to get a Latin actor to play a man named Juan Ramirez? Russell Crowe should be great as a Sean Connery stand in, but Pedro Pascal does plenty of dying on screen.Russ was trying to decide which actor he was going to pull up for this #RewindWednesday when he was going through Plex's action movie line up. To add something fresh to this 2022 episode, he saw the promotional material for "Highlander II: The Quickening". This was his first "Highlander" movie since 2nd Cinema Home Video in Morton did not have a copy of the original 1986 feature. Even then he could not call it a good movie, but it was just so silly, he could not help but revel is the absurdity.As it turns out, they were streaming the 1997 "Renegade Version" (Director's Cut) of the Russell Mulcahy film. It is a better constructed film, but CatBus has been arguing whether or not the changed story beats were better than the original "Immortals are Aliens" angle. With the Internet Archive, he may get to figure that out at some point.In the end, there can be only four other movies that will be discussed on this episode. CatBus ended up enjoying all three parts of the Connor MacLeod trilogy. How can anyone hate "⁠Fortress⁠", his collaboration with legends Stewart Gordon, Jeffrey Combs, Kurtwood Smith, Vernon Wells, and Clifton Collins Jr.?And until the sequel to the 2021 reboot is released, Lambert was the biggest name from Paul W.S. Anderson's "Mortal Kombat", the best adaptation of the franchise thus far (per our host & Beau from "Collateral Cinema".There is a lot of action that will be discussed. What better way to lead into another edition of the "1985 Action Movie Triple-Threat Match" on February 25?