Every now and then

... I get a little bit lonely etc etc. Got in a weird mood the other night. Felt very nostalgic sort of. Smells and films and the like just trigger these feelings that feel so much like I remember the old feelings feeling like. I used to swim on a Sunday evening and then I would get some apple tart from my grandmother and then I would come home and sit a around and watch TV (just RTE in those days) and go to bed a little early - cos it was Sunday. Later after we had more than RTE I'd stay up later but that memory of the mood - the level of tiredness and the love of a really thin crust apple tart just sort of sticks with me. The remembered mood of the other night wasn't this one - I hadn't been swimming. But it was a mood I'd been in before. Rather than fight this mood and try to make my evening productive I embraced it and put Highlander (the original film) on. This brought it all back. The mood took hold and I became lethargic and not fun to be around (more so than usual). More to the point - I love that film. We are introduced to many characters, and given just a little bit of information about them to make them real to me. From Garfield the closet homosexual police officer, the hot dog vendor who has built a rapport with the police so far as he can joke about them, to the marine guy who tries to kill the Kurgen. The dialogue is revealing without becoming a pedantic narrative. More though than all of this, I love that in every "modern fight" he finds an opportunity to pick up a bar and seems to do better with it than with his sword - the first fight against Fezziel in the car park he gets unarmed and picks up some sort of bar from a fire extinguisher thing - Fezziel then runs away? The next fight is when Brenda follows him and the Kurgen attacks - he swings a hosepipe but then Brenda throws him a pipe and he knocks the Kurgen around a bit - the Kurgen then runs away when the police show up. Next we have fight that starts on the Silvercup roof top and ends in the warehouse. They fall through the upper window and highlander becomes disarmed. Kurgen kicks McLeod around and is about to take his head when Brenda thwocks him with a pipe. Kurgen is naturally pissed and is about to seek a terrible revenge when McLeod steps in and the action kicks into high gear. Fuck yeah. What I love about this ties in with the previous comment, you can see the strings when he's up in the air - honest to god strings. When Kurgen appears to take Ramirez' head there is a sudden storm which you know is some guy with a light flicking it on and off, the two man demolition of the castle. Fuck the film even had Sean Connery complaining about haggis. Genius. All these things combine to make a pretty enjoyable 80's film but what makes this a cut above the rest, pardon the pun, is Christopher Lambert's voice/laugh. I leave you with this - Garfield "You a faggot Nash?" McLeod "Why Garfield - you cruisin' for a piece of ass?" Conan Hehehe The original comments on this blog noted that I made no mention of the soundtrack, or the lovescene. I realise they are also great but I make no apologies for getting genuinely excited and typing.