"People always say, 'You can't kill this business, you can only bruise it.' But what happened with WCW is living proof that you can kill this business when the people running it know nothing about it."
— Bobby Heenan, WCW announcer 1994-2000
There are few topics in Doctor Who, or indeed, in the history of television in general as meticulously and forensically analyzed as the failures of the TV Movie. Everybody knows what went wrong here... Still, in the interests of completism, let’s go ahead and rehearse the autopsy.
Sure was a nice IP while it lasted
—Zero Punctuation, Alone in the Dark: Illumination review
Kazooie: Can I have my old abilities back? If this game isn't successful, we might need them for the next one.
L.O.G.: Good point. Although you may never get another game.
L.O.G.: Good point. Although you may never get another game.
This is one of the worst examples of a movie franchise that not only shot itself in the foot, it stuffed the shotgun down its pants and splattered its own genitals into the toilet with birdshot. Highlander 2 also marks the first ever movie I saw in a theater where I tried to kill myself by attempting to shove my own thumb through my forehead and swirling it 'round to turn my frontal lobes into mashed potato.
Matt: This is the only one of these films that has been on Netflix Watch Instantly, which is a good thing because I refuse to pay to see it. Netflix predicts I will give it exactly one star. It’s also the lowest-rated of the ’90s movies we’ve seen on IMDb: 3.1.
Chris: There is a good reason for that: It is Not Very Good.
Matt: More proof of that: This movie was so bad, it killed the comic that inspired it.
Chris: There is a good reason for that: It is Not Very Good.
Matt: More proof of that: This movie was so bad, it killed the comic that inspired it.
George and Amal Clooney have a panic room in their fancy London house. I’m guessing it’s just a regular room whose door has a Batman & Robin poster on it. Nobody wants to get near anything Batman & Robin related.
Conan the Destroyer may have killed the franchise, but this movie put a stake through its heart and stuffed its mouth with garlic.
One of the greatest franchises in the history of fighting games is now lost forever in the Dark Dimension of corporate red-tape and bureaucracy. I guess all that's left to do now is mourn the loss of this series and accept that it will never be back as we take one last toast in its honor...
