Originally posted by Boroda
Unfortunately, there is a serious gap in my "education" - I don't know most of the "famous" modern actors... And I have never seen any movie with John Wayne.... 
Last year I became absolutely disappointed with American movies. I only watched Episode 2 and "Two Towers", mostly with educational purposes. I try to watch European films, mostly French, but some new French movies, especially comedies are almost as bad as American No offences, please, it's just my personal opinion, but I don't like endless horror films or stupid farting humour of Jim Carrey comedies...
Have you seen any movies by Robin Williams? "Mrs. Doubtfire", "Moscow on the Hudson", or "The World According to Garp"?
There is also "Used Cars" and "GhostBusters".
There is two horror movies that surpass them all: "Alien" and it's sequel "Aliens." You may also want to look at "Army of Darkness."
"Army..." is different than the others because it mixes comedy and horror(something that is difficult to do correctly).
Now, for some older movies. Two come to mind immediately and one was a direct rip-off of the other.
"The Seven Samurai" and "The Magnificent Seven"
"True Grit" is a classic John Wayne movie. Highly recommended. But also get "Rooster Cogburn."
Do you like science fiction?
"The Day the Earth Stood Still." the movie above "Army of Darkness" makes a reference to this movie.
"The Forbidden Planet"
"War of the Worlds"
"The Time Machine," the orginal movie.
I'm sure you've seen "Planet of the Apes" but if you haven't, do so. The original POTA, not the remake starring Micheal Jackson as Vera.
There was two movies made a while back that were based on Lovecraft stories. Based as in they were Hollywoodized and ultimately lost most of the flair of the stories. But they were still ok.
"Reanimator" and "From Beyond"
EDITORS NOTE: if you want to read the original text of Lovecraft goto
hereI also know little about modern movie stars. I prefer the days when it was all still good.
