Who saw this movie in the theater?

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I remember screaming in horror and trying to gouge my eyes out. Other than that, it's all a bit of a blur.

I did. Friends from college and I were HUGE fans of the original, could practically quote it line for line, and when a sequel was announced-- hoo, boy, were we excited.

Problem was, the nearest theater playing it was literally 150 miles away, so we piled our butts into a beater of a car and drove to Minneapolis despite a brewing argument between our driver and his girlfriend, making for a real happy 6 hours in the car. But at least we were bubbling with effervescent excitement on the way down...

When it became apparent that the sequel had discarded every good thing about the original except for Connery, set up wholly incompatible premises (how did the transportees get born as babies?!), and had that crazy contrived ozone plot, you could have scraped our jaws off the gum-covered floor.

The ride back home could only be described as an extended experience of enhanced glumness. Three hours is too long a time to be forced to discuss how betrayed and stupid we felt to have gone through so much trouble and held such high expectations, so we shortly fell into a dejectedly tense silence, and gritted teeth the rest of the way.

Ultimately, it was a good lesson about the problem with having expectations at all, and made every Highlander disappointment to come a cakewalk. After all, it's one thing to be able to turn off the Syfy channel, while being stuck for hours in a car after that stinker during a girl/boy fight is quite another.

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I didn't get to see the film in theaters but for some reason I can vividly remember my dad, who would have been in his late 20's at the time, being excited about going to see the movie with a buddy from work. I recall the nearly full-page ad for Highlander II in the paper, the poster art of Lambert and Connery standing back to back, and wishing I was old enough to see the film myself.

Anyhow, they went to see the flick and came back immensely disappointed. They didn't really go into detail but just said that it was a massive letdown compared to the first movie.

Several years later, the TV show came on and I was a big fan of that as a kid.

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This was the very first film I saw in a cinema and, just like my first sexual encounter, was a huge disappointment indeed. I went with one of my sisters and her boyfriend and we spent the walk back to the car slagging it off.

Later on that year I went to see Terminator 2; oh how I wish that was the first film I'd ever seen in the cinema.

I saw it in the theater when I was in college. As soon as it was revealed that Connor and Ramirez were aliens from Zeist, I was in WTF mode. And then it got worse from there. I remember seeing in horror the awful special effects (especially when you saw the plane carrying Ramirez), Michael Ironside driving the subway, and the ending scene where you saw the starry sky when the shield went down. That was like one of the most disappointing movies I saw before The Phantom Menace.

I did like the reveal of the young Connor. He looked like a badass then.

I was in grade 10. Went with my buddy. Just remember a lot of wtf moments and eye rolling. Very disappointing.