When I was younger, I thought Highlander 2 was awesome. Would anyone think I would still like that movie?

Let me put this as gently as I can. There was only one Highlander movie. It starred Clancy Brown as the Kurgan, not Mr. Crabs, and Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery was killed. There was no sequel done. That is my answer. Zeist is not the name of a planet and there are no rogue editions. Mario Van Peebles did some tv.

Highlander 2 has been redeemed in my eyes after I made the mistake of watching The Source (Highlander 5).

Breaking away comes to mind ...
Saw that as a young man and it was filmed close by to where I then lived at the time !!!
Hey...I still like the Billy Jack Movies !!! LOL
Godzilla... well they were ate up as a kid anytime on the tube .....
Gamera as well !!
No vhs in those by-gone days....
Had to catch the titles at the movies or randomly on network stations.....
My O my how things have changed over the years.....
Have to mention the Hammer films that scared me silly as I was too young to watch them for very long.....
Christopher Lee.....
Always a vampire to me !!!!
Thanks all for this thread !!!

Impossible as there was never a highlander 2, 3, 4, or 5. There was a good tv series and one movie and you will never talk of the 8 hours of blacked out life that I can never remember for as long as I live.

as they seem to try and convince you themselves ...

there can only be one

I actually had that memory drilled out of my head as there is only one Highlander Move! lol. No you will not like the second movie, nor the third, or 4th, nor 5th. It wa like Panzer/Davis went to the head, dumped out a large pile of dung and threw it at a wall and filmed it. They then called it a movie. When that didnt work, they went to a cow farm. Scooped up some cowpies and put a camera on them for an hour and a half and called it a movie. When that didnt work they went to a sewage treatment plant, went to the poop catcher, put a rose in it and filmed it and called it a movie. Finally when that didnt work they took a camera, followed an elepant around and when it took a dump they filmed that, put a rose colored filter on it and called it a movie. That is my personal opinion of the whole discussion.

Two that hold up for me.
Incredible Shrinking Man, The (1957) [23004]
and
Black Stallion, The (1979) [ML105109]

No from my childhood but I still think is funny as heck today
LA Story Steve Martin is funny as heck and for anyone that lives around los angeles, you know how true the story is.

I loved the mini series Martian Chronicles and also World War III when they were shown on TV about 30 years ago.
I've since rebought both and enjoyed them still.

Right on laserdisc_fan !
That Martian Chronicles production was most sublime!
One of Rock Hudson's last appearances ....
Gotta love Ray Bradbury brought to life in cinema !!!
Thanks for reminding us of that epic creation !!!

I was only 10 years old when I first sat and watched Martian Chronicles. I have to admit it scared me - it was sending across a very gloomy message about humans and the earth in general.

There were so many visual scenes in that series that have stayed with me my whole life - it was quite chilling to rewatch.
- the scary looking martian weapon that looked like a closed umbrella.
- watching the earth getting destroyed by nuclear war.
- the surviving alien who mutates into different humans to hide his real identity.
- the alien ship.....who could forget that coming across the martian landscape.
- humans polluting Mars - one of the first thing they do when they arrive chucking junk into the pristine environment.
- the survivors left stranded on Mars who did not return to earth before war broke out.

It was definitely a very powerful series to sit and watch again.
I've since rebought the laserdisc version as I liked it so much on DVD.
It also has a unique soundtrack which is equally memorable.

Thanks for that as well laserdisc_fan...
Decided to watch the entire production again.
Very striking points you brought up.
Brought back stark memories from my childhood and can relate on those same scores.

-Another poignant part was when one of the crewmembers from a later mission went "native".
Hiding in the terrain and dressing like a Martian ,taking out his other crew members before slipping away.
Quite disturbing to me at the time.
Makes me respect the imagination of Ray Bradbury all the more......

Other great LaserDisc titles from this master are

-Fahrenheit 451. circa 1966
-The Illustrated Man. circa 1969
-Something Wicked This Way Comes. circa 1983

Sorry for the late reply, but you have to remember this was when Jackie was young and it was his first US production. So I don't believe he had much of a say in the choreography or the takes or the editing.

You could argue that his experience making movies in the US, persuaded him to demand more control of the movies he made when he returned to Hong Kong!

I'll check out those titles you've mentioned as I've never seen them - thanks.

The next film I dared to revisit was Last Action Hero, The (1993) [27936]. I actually had just read an article in Empire about how the production was riddled with problems and the film was a commercial failure, which is funny when you read the blurb on the back of the laserdisc and how much Arnie and John talk up the flick.

Having said this, I'm happy to say that for me this is another film that still holds up. In fact I feel that it has been giving an underserved reputation. Whilst it is obvious that one of the biggest flaws in the film is that it wasn't sure who its audience really was; if you can go with the fantastical reality and ignore the fact that the film really just becomes another example of what it is trying to parody, then it is one action packed, ballbreaking, wisecracking piece of entertainment.

The amount of money that went in to this is totally visible with the extreme stunts and effects. Plus, as a boy who grew up on movies I could really identify with the whole concept. In this way I put this film up next to The Cable Guy, as they both deal with this idea of a life developed or idealised through representation in film.

It's like the cliche of scoring with the prettiest girl in school. It may be a bit smug and sure of itself, but it's gonna take you for a wild ride. And even if you do feel a little dirty and used at the end of it all, you are satisfied for at least the next hour or so.

Last Action Hero is awesome, I obtained the Japanese Superbit version DVD as it was never released in DTS elsewhere.

One reason why it flopped box office wise is on IMDB :-

Another movie that had a big impact on me when I was younger was the 'The Day After'.
I remember that one being shown on TV back in 1983 on a Saturday evening.
Although it was a TV movie it was one of the most shocking films I'd ever seen depicting the harsh reality of all out nuclear war.
Whilst it was clearly a low budget movie it got the message across loud and clear - there would be no winners if nuclear war were to ever occur.
The school I went to taped it so I remember getting the opportunity to rewatch it several times again in the 80's in different classes.

Up until the DVD re-issue in 2004 I had not seen that film for almost 20 years.
Just this year I rebought the laserdisc version (Day After, The (1983) [ID3156CC]) for the extra commentary from Nicolas Meyer not on the DVD version.

Powerful film still which doesn't fade from your memory.