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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 5, 2016 14:34:40 GMT -5
I'm talking about movies that weren't popular at the time and/or were panned by critic and they became a cult favorite later on. Of ones I've read that became cult favorites are Howard the Duck, Freddy Got Fingered, The Iron Giant, Showgirls, Rock and Rule, Killer Clowns From Outer Space, various Ed Wood ones and probably the most popular cult favorite, The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Can't really say what makes them so popular. Got any movies you like seeing as cult following?
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Post by kaoru on Oct 5, 2016 14:48:23 GMT -5
Showgirls is just one the biggest, most self-indulgent, messes of a movie. It makes zero sense, is baffling incompetend in all the right ways, while also being super entertaining off the wall crazy and sincere and big budget. It is the most bedazzled trainwreck you could ever witness. My love for it is strong. It's a The Rocky Horror Picture Show that doesn't know its campy schlock.
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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 5, 2016 15:06:30 GMT -5
Showgirls is just one the biggest, most self-indulgent, messes of a movie. It makes zero sense, is baffling incompetend in all the right ways, while also being super entertaining off the wall crazy and sincere and big budget. It is the most bedazzled trainwreck you could ever witness. My love for it is strong. It's a The Rocky Horror Picture Show that doesn't know its campy schlock. I've always been curious about something in Showgirls. The movie was rated NC-17. I figure this means there was sex in it but was it real or acted out. See triple X movies aren't really shown in most normal movie theaters but Showgirls was but not rated as such. I assume it was like one of those movies one would see on late night Friday Cinemax (Hard R) or was it a full blown porno.
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Post by kaoru on Oct 5, 2016 15:11:52 GMT -5
Nah, Showgirls is pretty tame. Lotsa naked breasts and butts, little fake grinding on each other and full frontal. Nothing explicit.
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Post by ZenithianHero on Oct 5, 2016 18:26:52 GMT -5
Suicide Club. It's messed up. It also has this character midway in named Genesis. He stands out from the rest of the cast and movie and has a musical number(!) which is rare for something this psychological in nature. It has a followup titled Noriko's Dinner Table. It was a pain to find cheap on DVD and unfortunately it is still on my watch pile...
Is Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse movies considered cult? I'm sure Mallrats and Dogma at least is. I find them funny. His movies outside the universe lack the charm to me, Zack and Miri for example is just a disguised Apatow film.
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Post by Kubo Caskett on Oct 5, 2016 18:55:28 GMT -5
Event Horizon, though some folks like myself and the Nostalgia Critic are quite baffled at why it got a cult following given how meh (and stupid) it seemed despite some frightening and disturbing imagery (especially on the uncut version...which I probably don't want to think about it right now) and that I haven't seen it. Perhaps its the premise of the gates of hell being opened in space and horrible stuff happening there as well that might be the reason why it got a cult following but I honestly find it contrived so to say given that well for one it's quite impossible to make an artificial black hole at all and that a black hole inside the titular spaceship thing would just "implode" it entirely.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 6, 2016 23:02:57 GMT -5
Cult movies? Hmm... I think that the Evil Dead series probably counts. Johnny Mnemonic like my go-to guilty pleasure flick. I like cyberpunk. But this movie doesn't seem to have that big of a cult. It is pretty flawed as a story, but it seems to be the victim of some typical Hollywood editing and meddling. I can kinda see it with Howard the Duck, but I also see it as rather bad. It does have a certain something, maybe an "I can't believe they did this" balls-out craziness. Big Trouble in Little China. It bombed upon initial release, but it's awesome. A surprising number of John Carpenter's films fall under the category of being commercial flops while also being influential as all hell. Blade Runner itself bombed in its initial release, but it developed such popularity and influence over time, it may now be too popular to count as a cult film anymore.
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Post by surnshurn on Oct 7, 2016 6:29:52 GMT -5
I suppose you could try categorizing movies with cult appeal, or make a list and look for common sources of appeal.
My opinion is that when a movie dares to be different, it's more likely to gain a cult appeal.
Using Rocky Horror Picture Show as an example: You have a cast and crew that are very talented, and willing to put serious effort into a movie that wasn't considered marketable in the least, and avoided making itself "tasteful cinema". The result was something that is way different than 99.9% of what's out there, while still being well done. I think Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail had quite a bit of this vibe going on, as well. As for Showgirls, that's just glorious.
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Oct 8, 2016 22:16:10 GMT -5
Masters of the Universe for me. I was and am a He-Man fan, but even on its own I've always enjoyed the movie, both as a little boy in the 80s when it was new and as a grown man now. I don't care if others hate it, I think it's great. (Funny story: I actually had someone try to goad me into a fight over this film once. I was in a target with my little sister, saw a copy on DVD and exclaimed to her that I was glad to have found it and was going to buy. a nearby asshole then said to me "I wouldn't piss on that film". I started to reply, but my sister was smart enough to drag me away)
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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 12, 2016 18:04:40 GMT -5
Wondering if anyone's heard of Troma. Like Ed Wood, this film studio is know for making really bad movies with low budgets and bad special effects as far as I know. There was a Saturday morning cartoon called Toxic Crusaders that my brother and I watched and I never knew it was based on a movie series called The Toxic Avenger until I saw the first film on USA years later. The only other movie I've seen by Troma was called something like Nuclear High 2 once on late night Cinemax. Also watching through most of the later episodes of The Angry Video Game Nerd they had a guest celebrity who create the Toxic Avenger reviewing the lousy games based on the cartoon series.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 12, 2016 21:18:26 GMT -5
Cult movies is a topic I've had a long fascination with, I own no less than two books on the topic.
The way I see there's two kinds of cult movies, ones in which did not find mainstream success but did still find a following and ones that were mainstream hits but still inspire a cult like following.
As to what makes a movie obtain a cult following well, when it comes to movies that were not mainstream hits it's either because they're flat out weird or offbeat movies that are bound to entertain people that like that sort of thing or they're movies that are simply really, really good and were bound to find a following even if they weren't initially hits (The Iron Giant is a perfect example of that, that movie is excellent)
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Post by chronotigger65 on Oct 12, 2016 22:30:46 GMT -5
Event Horizon, though some folks like myself and the Nostalgia Critic are quite baffled at why it got a cult following given how meh (and stupid) it seemed despite some frightening and disturbing imagery (especially on the uncut version...which I probably don't want to think about it right now) and that I haven't seen it. Perhaps its the premise of the gates of hell being opened in space and horrible stuff happening there as well that might be the reason why it got a cult following but I honestly find it contrived so to say given that well for one it's quite impossible to make an artificial black hole at all and that a black hole inside the titular spaceship thing would just "implode" it entirely. The whole "gates of hell being opened in space" was done better with the Doom games. A couple movies I've been wanting to see again form my childhood are The Monster Squad and Stay Tuned. The first one I know is a cult classic but the second is most likely not. Probably the best known part of ST was the animated Looney Toons like cartoon segment animated by Chuck Jones.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 0:13:53 GMT -5
Everyone stop what you're fucking doing right this second and watch "The Room" and "Birdemic".
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 13, 2016 2:14:20 GMT -5
I've watched videos about them, does that count?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 2:27:57 GMT -5
Everyone stop what you're fucking doing right this second and watch "The Room" and "Birdemic". O hai Jason, how's your sex life?
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