Explaining Highlander To An 8 Year Old

It is at least as exasperating as you would imagine.  Kids who are reading the Hunger Games and Wrinkle in Time are not prepared to get high concept cinema about immortal Scotsmen fighting with swords in 1985.  Those children also have no idea just how silly and annoying Queen's music is during the film, and they really can't conceive of the glory of Chrisopher Lambert and Sean Connery and Clancy Brown chewing up and spitting out the scenery all over the fucking place.  Was that thing rated R?