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Inspired by Badlanders topic, I ask around which "must-see" cult movies you never fully got.

For me:

Blues Brothers (must be rather a boys thing)

Stalker (should be a masterpiece by Tarkowski, but for me just the most boring movie I've ever seen in the cinema...)

Godfather: and this is very embarrassing, isn't it? I mean everybody must like the Godfather otherwise something is considered very wrong with you. (I heard that the second part is better, but I never took the effort....)

Withnail & I

Apocalypse Now

Blade Runner

canon docre wrote:Blues Brothers

Yes! I don't understand what's good about two fat men in sunglasses singing blues songs

Pretty much anything with Woody Allen in it. I know a lot of people like him, and think he's very funny and all, but I just can't BEAR him.

It took me half a dozen watches of Apocalypse Now to get it.
But I still don't get Easy Rider

I just don't like any movies really. If I tried hard, I might be able to come up with ten films I didn't totally dislike.

Erm, *cough, splutter*, the remake of King Kong.

Planet Dave wrote:Erm, *cough, splutter*, the remake of King Kong.

What the f**k? You can't be serious, Dave! Don't do that to me in my own thread.

Yes! I don't understand what's good about two fat men in sunglasses singing blues songs

I didn't care for those scenes either. What I loved was all the over-the-top, absurd car chases.

EvilBastard wrote:But I still don't get Easy Rider

What's to get? It's just two men travelling across America, seeing it as it is. (even the hippies were fascists, imo, rejecting Hopper's character.)

Pretty much anything with Woody Allen in it. I know a lot of people like him, and think he's very funny and all, but I just can't BEAR him.

He's made some of my favourite movies.

My favourite directors are Cronenberg and Svankmajer, but since this is about cult movies we hate and not like, I'm going to have to say all the Star Wars movies (I know they're not that cultish, but I can't think of any cult movies I dislike at the moment).

nick the stripper wrote: ... but since this is about cult movies we hate and not like, I'm going to have to say all the Star Wars movies (I know they're not that cultish, but I can't think of any cult movies I dislike at the moment).

Now that is more than I can take..... seriously.

canon docre wrote:

Planet Dave wrote:Erm, *cough, splutter*, the remake of King Kong.

What the f**k? You can't be serious, Dave! Don't do that to me in my own thread.

Jess, as you know full well, I don't get it. No-one has yet managed to successfully explain what the point of it all is. The original is a masterpiece, so why bother. It's like me releasing a recording of my version of Crash & Burn (okay, bit tooo far there, but you get the point). Sorry Jess. I'd say remakes generally, but The Hills Have Eyes bucks the trend.

Planet Dave wrote:

canon docre wrote:

Planet Dave wrote:Erm, *cough, splutter*, the remake of King Kong.

What the f**k? You can't be serious, Dave! Don't do that to me in my own thread.

Jess, as you know full well, I don't get it. No-one has yet managed to successfully explain what the point of it all is. The original is a masterpiece, so why bother. It's like me releasing a recording of my version of Crash & Burn (okay, bit tooo far there, but you get the point). Sorry Jess. I'd say remakes generally, but The Hills Have Eyes bucks the trend.

And The Thing.
And A Fistful of Dollars.
And The Magnificent Seven.

Hold on a mo - remakes are GREAT!!!!

mh wrote:

Planet Dave wrote:

canon docre wrote: What the f**k? You can't be serious, Dave! Don't do that to me in my own thread.

Jess, as you know full well, I don't get it. No-one has yet managed to successfully explain what the point of it all is. The original is a masterpiece, so why bother. It's like me releasing a recording of my version of Crash & Burn (okay, bit tooo far there, but you get the point). Sorry Jess. I'd say remakes generally, but The Hills Have Eyes bucks the trend.

And A Fistful of Dollars.


Hold on a mo - remakes are GREAT!!!!

Draw!

Pulp Fiction.

It had some good moments but was most definitely not the work of genius that everyone hailed it as.

2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

NooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Me heads off to MB's "memories" thread pronto-wise...

deep throat

too shy to ask for it, always regreted that

paint it black wrote:deep throat

too shy to ask for it, always regreted that

Now that's an interesting interpretation of 'you never got'

IZ.

mh wrote:

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

NooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Me heads off to MB's "memories" thread pronto-wise...

*comes running from the nostalgia thread*

BASTID!

IZ.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:

mh wrote:

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

NooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Me heads off to MB's "memories" thread pronto-wise...

*comes running from the nostalgia thread*

BASTID!

IZ.

Gotcha!

nick the stripper wrote:

EvilBastard wrote:But I still don't get Easy Rider

What's to get? It's just two men travelling across America, seeing it as it is. (even the hippies were fascists, imo, rejecting Hopper's character.)

Well, ok, so if the premise is that two men went looking for America, and couldn't find it anywhere, that's fine. So is that why they both get blown away by the rednecks at the end? That's the bit I didn't get.

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

I so agree. And I'm deeply ashamed of it.

another one: Alien all parts. several boyfriends tried it on me, but I was dozing off every time. You just never get to see the actual monster. (in the first part at least)

canon docre wrote:

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:2001 - A Space Odyssey.

It might be a work of astonishing quality....

...it is also bloody BORING.

IZ.

I so agree. And I'm deeply ashamed of it.

another one: Alien all parts. several boyfriends tried it on me, but I was dozing off every time. You just never get to see the actual monster. (in the first part at least)

Another boys thing I'm afraid.

Coz you get to the see the actual SIGOURNEY WEAVER

roarrrr.

IZ.

mh wrote:

Izzy HaveMercy wrote:

mh wrote: NooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Me heads off to MB's "memories" thread pronto-wise...

*comes running from the nostalgia thread*

BASTID!

IZ.

Gotcha!