Funny fact: a few years back there was an article about Beatty that purported to list all his movies.
Ishtar was not listed. Likely by Beatty’s own insistence.
I’ve occasionally joked about using Ishtar and a few other bad movies (that aren’t bad enough to be good) — Highlander 2, Maximum Overdrive ... The Son of the Mask (shudder) — as a form of punishment ... making them the only movies available for prisoners.
You just had to go and do it, didn't you? You had to resurrect the deeply buried memory of that horrid sequel from my repository of things best forgotten. I had hoped that I would never have to think of such an ill conceived and ill executed plot that completely threw out a well thought out plot device of the original movie to bring in an entirely idiotic idea of an idiotic alien race, idiotic in its changes to the mythos, idiotic in its embracing of the ecologic disaster of ozone holes and thinning, idiotic in its up-ending of the entire set-up of all that went before it, including MacLeod's own history and birth as an immortal on Earth among mortals and early ignorance of his nature . . . but, NNNNOOOOO! You went and did it. You brought up Highlander II: The Quickening, on of the worst movies ever released.
It was SSSSOOOO BAD it could never be ever close to "good" or even "camp". The studio kept revising and releasing newer and different versions in DVD in misguided attempts at fixing it to please the fans and never could fix that abortion of a movie!
LOL Great idea .... like it !