Top 50 cult movies

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RegularKarate

#15
May 21, 2003, 07:45:28 PM
Yeah... it's hard to define "cult status"

I think there are two different categories of cult.  

One of them includes fims that are so bad they're good... a celebration of flaws...  a lot of films that fall into todays cult category intentionally do this,  Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness, Buba HoTep, etc...  This category would include Rocky Horror and the like.

The second category is the films that fly in under the radar like you were saying... films that are more appealing to "counter cultures"... not accepted  by the mainstream movie goers, but adored by a small group.

Of course there would be films that fall into both, which, I guess would make them extra "Cult-y".

I think quote-ability has a lot to do with it too.

don't know man... hard to say

Gold Trumpet

#16
May 21, 2003, 07:59:26 PM
I don't know about anyone, but I'm just glad to see Aguirre: The Wrath of God on there. For me, Klaus Kinski has to be the most fascinating actor out there ever. Easily in the top 5 of people I would like to have dinner with. And to just state it, most fascinating actress is Louise Brooks who may have been the only intellectual or most intelligent of actresses.

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MrBurgerKing

#17
May 21, 2003, 08:02:05 PM
Quote from: The Gold TrumpetI don't know about anyone, but I'm just glad to see Aguirre: The Wrath of God on there. For me, Klaus Kinski has to be the most fascinating actor out there ever. Easily in the top 5 of people I would like to have dinner with. And to just state it, most fascinating actress is Louise Brooks who may have been the only intellectual or most intelligent of actresses.

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Hey, The Gold Trumpet. I was just talking about Fitzcarraldo with a good friend of mine. I love that movie so much. Herzog's films in general are all great. Especially that remake of Nosferatu.

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#18
May 21, 2003, 08:05:28 PM
Any director willing to hold the camera on water for 3 minutes and get an amazing effect is great in my book.

Duck Sauce

#19
May 21, 2003, 11:45:37 PM
I always have associated CULT MOVIES with movies that arent really that great or accepted by the mainstream and even people like us, but finds a very small niche of people who love it. They just listed a bunch of offbeat movies...

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#20
May 22, 2003, 01:40:01 AM


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#21
May 22, 2003, 09:21:35 AM
Other cult films:

Sextette -- Mae West's last film, one of Timothy Dalton's first films.  Anything that features Dom Deluise and Keith Moon in the same movie has to be a cult film.

Myra Breckenridge -- Another Mae West film, co-starring Rex Reed and Raquel Welch.

Magic Christian, A Boy and His Dog, 200 Motels, Man Who Fell to Earth, Tommy, Zardoz
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#22
May 22, 2003, 09:43:29 AM
Performance?

Velvet Goldmine?

Centering your film around popular music/popular music figures seems to lend it some "cult"ness, maybe?
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#23
May 22, 2003, 12:24:18 PM
QuoteHow about creating our own list over top 50 cult movies?

All for it!

By the way, Withnail & I is waaay too low on that list  :P

USTopGun47

#24
May 22, 2003, 12:58:58 PM
I agree that a cult film is either pathetically bad and therefore aspires to some degree of appreciated humor or perhaps it just gathers a select and esoteric group of followers based on its subject.  They also somewhat become over analyzed and dissected films, forming somewhat of a cult group even on mainstream good films.  Somewhat like Pulp Fiction.
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#25
May 22, 2003, 02:31:30 PM
Shawshank Redemption ? A cult movie ? Stephen King inspired, Morgan Freeman as actor, no a glimpse of eccentricity ...

What the hell is this movie doing there ? Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, Office Space, Pi, Requiem for A Dream ...

joke08

#26
May 23, 2003, 10:20:24 PM
Pi can't be a cult movie, it won the sundance didn't it?
Requiem however, i agree.
Shawshank I think is, because it has a bigger following after it comes out on video, than when it first hit the theaters.
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#27
June 06, 2003, 11:50:41 PM
in their new issue they said they got so many pissed off letters they added 11 more cult movies to their list.  they are...

1. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
2. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
3. MOMMIE DEAREST
4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE
5. SWINGERS
6. UHF
7. VALLEY OF THE DOLLS
8. FIGHT CLUB
9. DEAD ALIVE aka BRAINDEAD
10. BETTER OFF DEAD
11. DONNIE DARKO
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#28
November 01, 2004, 09:55:33 PM
I could be wrong, but I remember Mac once saying "A mainstream movie is a movie that a million people see 5 times, a cult movie is a movie that 5 people see a million times."
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#29
November 01, 2004, 10:58:00 PM
hey thanks for the clarification a full year and 5 months after anyone stopped caring.
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