Surely you mean "Assault".alice wrote: "Attack on precinct 13"
Favourite Cult Movie(s) ... ?
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this one
coat.
coat.
Another Shade of You.
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Classic movieTidal wrote:I don't know whether you'd call it cult...
But I have a deep appreciation and respect for "Cube"(1997).
It's worth watching, even if you don't like seeing people getting cut into tiny bits by a wire frame...
Would include Chasing Amy, Hardware, Audition and Silent Runnings even they all belong to different genre of movies
I had a face on the mirror
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I had a hand on the gun
I had a place in the sun and a ticket to Syria
I would have thought that it's obvious.DerekR wrote:I'm afraid it doesn't, not for me at least. You're gonna have to explain....Gollum's Cock wrote:Just a moment to explain cult film:
Star Wars is a cult film, The Phantom Menace is n't.
I hope that clears it up for everybody.
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The Wicker Man (original version!)
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho (Christian Bale - rawr)
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho (Christian Bale - rawr)
seconded. but it's a pointless to talk about thisDerekR wrote:I'm afraid it doesn't, not for me at least. You're gonna have to explain....Gollum's Cock wrote:Just a moment to explain cult film:
Star Wars is a cult film, The Phantom Menace is n't.
I hope that clears it up for everybody.
Jaws, the best film ever made
Cheech & Chong...........all of them
Trainspotting (is this a "cult" film?)
Hammer House of Horror, all the Old Ones with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee
Halloween.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show......................shut it Blast
An American Werewolf in London (Jenny Agutter....phwaaarrr!!)
Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Dog Soldiers
Cheech & Chong...........all of them
Trainspotting (is this a "cult" film?)
Hammer House of Horror, all the Old Ones with Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee
Halloween.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show......................shut it Blast
An American Werewolf in London (Jenny Agutter....phwaaarrr!!)
Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat
Dog Soldiers
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If the wikipedia entry is to be believed.....
My feeling is it should be the first description - which would mean if you haven't got the memory you would have to research the box office takings of all the films you've discovered and work it out......
That is such a broad genre of films we might as well just list our favourite films (as somebody said earlier).The term cult film is used to describe a film that has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its initial release but has later spawned a small, but devoted and usually obsessive fanbase, however there are various exceptions. A prime exception is Napoleon Dynamite (2004), which was a success at the box office. This has led to a misconception in Cultclassic films that the definition is a film that 'you either love or hate'.
My feeling is it should be the first description - which would mean if you haven't got the memory you would have to research the box office takings of all the films you've discovered and work it out......
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<---- duhh
a tidbit too successful to be cult along the strict line -- they've made 4 of 'em after all -- but this was the first of its genre, combining space and future with reality and non-plastic decoration.
And indeed, as pointed out previously by whomever, 'Airplane' definitely was the cultclassic idiot-with-a-brain movie.
I believe 'drugstore cowboy' was already mentioned. Another one in the same line [and I forgot which came first] and equally unsucessful iirc is 'rumble fish'.
a tidbit too successful to be cult along the strict line -- they've made 4 of 'em after all -- but this was the first of its genre, combining space and future with reality and non-plastic decoration.
And indeed, as pointed out previously by whomever, 'Airplane' definitely was the cultclassic idiot-with-a-brain movie.
I believe 'drugstore cowboy' was already mentioned. Another one in the same line [and I forgot which came first] and equally unsucessful iirc is 'rumble fish'.
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I wish to nominate these gems......
All of which I believe fit into my own decided vision of the Cult Movie.
All of which I believe fit into my own decided vision of the Cult Movie.
We forgive as we forget
As the day is long.
As the day is long.
Spaghetti Westerns, especially those with Franco Nero, and most especially the Django series.
This baby is a personal fave:
This baby is a personal fave:
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Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...
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... Whatever you like! I'm reading all of your replies with interest and hoping to learn something ... The eclectic tastes of Heartlanders never ceases to amaze and fascinate me! More please? I'm glad at last I've hit on a theme which appeals to a few of us, without offending anyone, eh?! ... Surely this is why we keep returning to our favourite website?Pista wrote:But reading the post, I am guessing it's referring to non-mainsteam Hollywood dross (but then not necessarily "straight to video") movies.
Or?...
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
Favorite? Mad Max.
Others cult films getting runner-up consideratiion: Pink Flamingos; Dark Star; Dark City; Rocky Horror; Eraserhead; Navigator
Need to see again (or for the first time) to consider: Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt; Drei genen Drei (yes, the Trio film)
Some not considering because they are too mainstream to be considered cult fims by me: 2001; several David Lynch films; Army of Darkness; John Carpenter films (except Dark Star); Blues Brothers (although this may be considered cult in some circles); dozens more but these are the ones which come to mind
Time to revive this thread on overrated or misunderstood cult movies?
Others cult films getting runner-up consideratiion: Pink Flamingos; Dark Star; Dark City; Rocky Horror; Eraserhead; Navigator
Need to see again (or for the first time) to consider: Nihil oder Alle Zeit der Welt; Drei genen Drei (yes, the Trio film)
Some not considering because they are too mainstream to be considered cult fims by me: 2001; several David Lynch films; Army of Darkness; John Carpenter films (except Dark Star); Blues Brothers (although this may be considered cult in some circles); dozens more but these are the ones which come to mind
Time to revive this thread on overrated or misunderstood cult movies?
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Erm...I posted my cult favorites "off the top of my head" on the first page of this thread.reactiv8 wrote:Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...
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... Just teasing/Goading Sinnie - I had read it, honest!SINsister wrote:Erm...I posted my cult favorites "off the top of my head" on the first page of this thread.reactiv8 wrote:Hmm, useful I agree, but I was hoping for a more personal 'list' ...SINsister wrote:Wikipedia's take on "cult" films...
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They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
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Ho Hum, this wasn't intended to be an exercise in lexicography ... I know we ('one'?) can't resist the temptation to prove our ('one's'?) wit/knowledge/intellect/brand of cool/whatever, but being a smart*rse has its own pitfalls in the 'valley of cool', eh? No, that wasn't a slight either, honest - Sometimes I just wanna take off my shades and watch a good movie I haven't seen before ...Badlander wrote:As I said : looks to me like a list of favourite movies, no more, no less.
Why call it "cult" then ?
Oh, and that's not an apology or explanation either ... So who's scoring in this 'bun-fight' then? ... and it was all going so well too ...
Next? ...
They (The Establishment) use sex as an addiction for control, just as they use alcohol and drugs ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...
- A programme of systematic frustration in order to sell this crock of s**t as immortality, a garden of delights and love. ...