   Rediscovered great movies
  We just watched Quigley Down Under, and it was fantastic.  Anyone else recently rediscover a great movie I should check out?   
Jacob's LadderMiller's CrossingLa Femme NikitaEuropa EuropaTie Me Up! Tie Me Down!Mo' Better BluesJu DouThe Rainbow ThiefRosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead... these are a few of the memorable films of 1990.   ;  Jacob's Ladder was so disturbing, that I couldn't watch it.It's time to get it again, and face it.BTW I have been watching Schwarzenegger classics all holidays.   ;  I watched all three Jurassic Park films last night. Monster overload. Seriously - don't do it. Parts 2 and 3 suck so in the end it'll be too much.As far as true classics go, I'd have to list a lot of Carpenter's stuff: most notably They Live (!), Big Trouble In Little China, The Thing, The Fog and Escape From New York.Also Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - both the original version and the 1978 remake, although I liked the remake a fair bit more.Videodrome by David Cronenberg.Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead++ by Tom Stoppard.The Abyss by James Cameron.2010 - The Year We Made Contact, an epic explanation to the nature of the monoliths by Peter Hyams. Has all the good stuff of 2001 and action!Aliens, also by Cameron.Legend by Ridley Scott - probably one of his most original and most overlooked films.The Breakfast Club by John Hughes.Lots more should your appetite go unsatisfied :)Oh yeah - what can I say, I'm slanted towards sci-fi and such :)   ;  Oh, of courseTaxi DriverDeer Hunter2001 Space Odyssey (already mentioned)Rambo series   ;Quote:Original post by szecsJacob's Ladder was so disturbing, that I couldn't watch it.It's time to get it again, and face it.BTW I have been watching Schwarzenegger classics all holidays.Total Recall was released in 1990.So was Goodfellas and Edward Scissorhands and Dances with Wolves and Die Hard 2. ;  Don't know if you like martial arts movies with parts of drama mixed in but Jean-Claude Van Damme was in the classics, Bloodsport and KickBoxer.  Also check out Tony Jaa's Ong Bak and The Protector, for non stop fighting with minor chase scenes in between.  The latter two movies are more recent but I recommend them to everyone I know.  Plus the fight scenes in it, are probably the best I've seen.  The camera doesn't always cut away when someone gets hit and it doesn't shift angles too much either.Then there is Red Sonja, which has medieval fantasy overtones and sword fights.  It's been forever since I've seen it but looking at some clips, it looks to be how I remember it.On the opposite side of the spectrum is Mr. Hollands Opus.  Very good story and acting.  They don't make movies like this anymore.  If I'm not mistaken, it was based on a true story.I would recommend more but these come to mind more than anything else.[Edited by - Swordmaster on April 5, 2010 5:01:44 AM];  I really loved Apocalypse Now. Amazing stuff.   ;  If you're looking for general film recommendations, I'd go for pretty much anything by David Lynch, John Carpenter, David Cronenberg or Terry Gilliam.In terms of rediscovering great films, ">House only recently became available on DVD in the UK. I've never seen anything quite like it before.   ;Quote:Original post by benryvesIn terms of rediscovering great films, ">House only recently became available on DVD in the UK. I've never seen anything quite like it before.I need to see that immediately.  I remember watching this--> ">House (1986) on TV when I was little.  That one is probably the American version of the Japanese one you linked to, which came out in 1977.  If it's true, I honestly had no clue to this day that the American version, was based off a Japanese film.  It's just like how the movie Ringu, was later adapted to make The Ring here is the US.