57 reasons why Renegade version is WORSE than Quickening...

Alright I'm gonna be honest and state that I'm quite bored and will put a little bit of effort into sorting all of these renegade vs quickening version discussions and put an end to them.

Another poster from a different thread stated the difference between the two versions is that the renegade features "16 minutes of additional torture". A pretty bold statement, but I would take it a step further and go with "16 minutes of additional torture and STUPIDITY". you see after having watched both versions, I feel it is my obligation to enlighten the population of the Earth on the fact that contrary to what many believe, the renegade version (which is the cut the director was happy with) is EVEN WORSE than the butchered original one. I seriously admire the director for having the balls of saying that he's happy with the renegade version. That's pretty much the same as standing up on your graduation day and take the mike to say that your happy for graduating since your the most idiot student of the entire class. Anyway let's move on to business; I'm gonna do a scene by scene breakdown to compare both atrocities. I will keep a counter of all the reasons and add them up in the end.

First let's state the obvious.

The quickening begins with sort of a flashback scene that kind of puts in you into context of what is up and what is expected. Renegade on the other hand jumps straight ahead to some opera/pan to desert takes, where you don't know what the hell is going on.

Score: Q = 0, R = 1.

Then we have the flashback scene of the rebellion. Quickening drops the bomb with no anesthesia and stuns you with the Planet Zeist plot. So wow, immortals weren't from Earth, but from some planet in another galaxy? Wow that's odd, oh well... I guess I can buy that, despite the fact that Highlander 1 stated that nowhere. Here you have a bunch of "no-no's" such as the fact as Ramirez is alive and is also Sean Connery's character's name on Earth and in Zeist too. After the terrible choreography of the battle, McLeod and Ramirez face trial; fair enough, they're both found guilty of treason and banned to planet Earth. Again, poorly scripted but not as bad as what's to come. Let's take a look of this plot in Renegade

In Renegade you're at the opera and McLeod ponders between flashbacking/taking a nap/walk away from the show. Somehow he summons his memory and faces a similar scene than in quickening. The words "Zeist" and "Planet" are removed from Ramirez's dialogue, so everything looks like it takes place on Earth. However, when Ramirez and McLeod are taken to trial, here's where things get F@#$ed up: they are found giulty, but then the sentence makes NO SENSE AT ALL. "You are banned into the future, where you can choose to grow old and die or come back if you defeat all immortals". What the hell? What kind of punishment is that? Is the director retarded or triple retarded? Who came up with this crap?

Normal time-travel movies make good use of normal sense and logic, with a main character going back to the past, in order to change/prevent the future from happening. You see, the logic is you can FIX THINGS FROM THE PAST. Terminator does, Back to the future does, 12 monkeys does, and so on...

Renegade on the other hand defies this logic to the infinite. "Well, I'll send these guys to the future, and if they want they can come back to the past and live this living hell under our dictatorship"

Hold on a second: what happens if the idiots you banned into the future go to a freaking library (or google wikipedia) and pick up ANY history book? Won't they be able to find out whether if it is worth it to go back to the past or not? I mean after all everyone in the past is probably dead, so you know what happened to your enemies. Besides, what past is this anyway? In the future you have cars, subways, hot chicks, high life expectancy, airplanes... why the F@#* would you want to go back to the past?

Did the director ever think about this? How stupid does one have to be to come up with such an idiotic plot? Moreover, at one point in the movie Katana is shown in the "past" watching a plasma flatscren TV. Again, what year is this ? Plasma flatscreens didn't come along until very recently. So what year in the past are the immortals originally from ? 20 years prior 2025???

Q = 0....R = 27 !!