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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 13, 2016 2:32:31 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? It took me a second to remind myself that that's a line from the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 3:00:41 GMT -5
<obligatory joke about Jason being anti-teen sex and pro-machete goes here>
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Post by moran on Oct 13, 2016 8:23:44 GMT -5
I've never actually seen The Room, but I have played the Newgrounds game adaptation of it which was great.
How does a movie become cult nowadays though? It used to be that you had to scour the dregs of a video store or know someone who had an older brother who taped Evil Dead off Cinemax at 3 am. With streaming and Youtube, will current movies have a chance to become cult favorites the way they used to? Its also a pretty sad state of affairs with cult movies from the last two decades being stuff like Space Jam and Bee Movie. I miss the glory days of Troma, or coming across bootlegs of Canibal Holocaust, and when current remakes didn't dilute the appeal of stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 11:15:36 GMT -5
<obligatory joke about Jason being anti-teen sex and pro-machete goes here>
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 13:50:27 GMT -5
Awwww, shit, the library's got the audiobook of The Disaster Artist (the making-of book of The Room by Greg). This should be glorious/a trainwreck.
To answer the title question, I think Snakes on a Plane was a pretty good cross-section of modern cult-filmdom.
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 13, 2016 13:57:20 GMT -5
I've never actually seen The Room, but I have played the Newgrounds game adaptation of it which was great. How does a movie become cult nowadays though? It used to be that you had to scour the dregs of a video store or know someone who had an older brother who taped Evil Dead off Cinemax at 3 am. With streaming and Youtube, will current movies have a chance to become cult favorites the way they used to? Its also a pretty sad state of affairs with cult movies from the last two decades being stuff like Space Jam and Bee Movie. I miss the glory days of Troma, or coming across bootlegs of Canibal Holocaust, and when current remakes didn't dilute the appeal of stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. Well everything becoming a meme nowadays, it's hard to say anything's cult. Anybody who's been on the internet's heard of The Room. I mean you no longer have this thing that only a handful of people have ever heard about. But, nobody makes dumb cheap movies anymore. As somebody who made his best friend watching Jean Claude Van Damme movies, this is depressing. Because have you ever watched Bloodsport? So amazing.
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Post by moran on Oct 13, 2016 14:13:14 GMT -5
Bloodsport is a goddamn classic.
(Edited for Karate Champ copyright I imagine)
Thats why old b-movies and other cult like films are great. Getting together with a friend or two to enjoy them. I have a couple of friendships that started the same way. A love for Schwarzenegger films really opens a lot of doors. Particularly Commando. And I once had a band based solely on The 'Burbs.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 14:16:04 GMT -5
I would go so far as to say that Bloodsport is the only "good" Van Damme movie.
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Post by moran on Oct 13, 2016 14:30:09 GMT -5
Sounds like someone hasn't seen Legionnaire yet.
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Post by jackcaeylin on Oct 13, 2016 14:36:14 GMT -5
The book of the "the room" will get a movie adaption. The name is "the masterpiece". It is a Seth Rogen and James Franko movie.
I agree with Klaid's argument. Some movies had a strong fangroup for a time, but it is now kinda unknown.
for example Smokin Aces or Hobo with a Shotgun had a small, but dedicated cult group for a short time as well as experimental movies like Enter the Void, Cannibal Holocaust or Slaughtered Vomit Dolls. DON'T google and scroll down on the last one. A friend of mine tricked me and I watched the whole movie.
One thing that I really don't understand are the productions of "insert name" shark movies. There are tons of shark movies, for example
Shark Exorcist, Mega Shark vs. Octopus, Ghost Shark, Sharktopus, Sharktopus vs. Werewhale, 3 headed shark attack, raging shark, shark swarm, Jurassic Shark, Snow shark. There is even a Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark movie. I guess shark movies have also a cult following? Otherwise I don't know why these movies exist.
Yours sincerely
Jack Caeylin
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Post by The Great Klaid on Oct 13, 2016 14:51:58 GMT -5
Sounds like someone hasn't seen Legionnaire yet. I have not seen this. But Van Damme movies that look like this just suck I find. The ones that pretend to have a plot as opposed to him just doing the splits and beating the shit out of people tend to be the worst. Like I didn't like Time Cop or that one with the Templars or some shit. The only exception is Street Fighter. I love that movie. But, Kickboxer, Double Impact, and Bloodsport are just the greatest movies ever made. This is a fact.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 15:58:14 GMT -5
Sounds like someone hasn't seen Legionnaire yet. I think this was on USA a lot right after I got out of high school. Always seemed to not catch it, though.
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Post by toei on Oct 13, 2016 16:35:18 GMT -5
Awwww, shit, the library's got the audiobook of The Disaster Artist (the making-of book of The Room by Greg). This should be glorious/a trainwreck. To answer the title question, I think Snakes on a Plane was a pretty good cross-section of modern cult-filmdom. The Disaster Artist is easily the funniest book I've read in my entire life. I enjoyed the experience of watching The Room, but this is better, because you get so much more Wiseau.
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Post by lanceboyle94 on Oct 13, 2016 18:11:52 GMT -5
Awwww, shit, the library's got the audiobook of The Disaster Artist (the making-of book of The Room by Greg). This should be glorious/a trainwreck. To answer the title question, I think Snakes on a Plane was a pretty good cross-section of modern cult-filmdom. The Disaster Artist is easily the funniest book I've read in my entire life. I enjoyed the experience of watching The Room, but this is better, because you get so much more Wiseau. Also Greg's impressions of Tommy are absolutely top-notch, of the portions of it I've heard, which is a big plus.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 13, 2016 18:37:19 GMT -5
Everyone stop what you're fucking doing right this second and watch "The Room" and "Birdemic". I have most definitely seen The Room, I haven't seen Birdemic though and to be honest don't have a ton of interest, I've seen clips of it, I get it, it's terrible acting and terrible CGI birds, what makes The Room so fascinating is it's not just terrible movie, it's a glimpse inside the psyche of a certifiably crazy person, there's literally no other movie quite like it. I've never actually seen The Room, but I have played the Newgrounds game adaptation of it which was great. How does a movie become cult nowadays though? It used to be that you had to scour the dregs of a video store or know someone who had an older brother who taped Evil Dead off Cinemax at 3 am. With streaming and Youtube, will current movies have a chance to become cult favorites the way they used to? Its also a pretty sad state of affairs with cult movies from the last two decades being stuff like Space Jam and Bee Movie. I miss the glory days of Troma, or coming across bootlegs of Canibal Holocaust, and when current remakes didn't dilute the appeal of stuff like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Halloween. That's a good question, I think the only movies that really qualify as "cult" nowadays are the "so bad it's good" stuff like The Room and Miami Connection. Shark Exorcist, Mega Shark vs. Octopus, Ghost Shark, Sharktopus, Sharktopus vs. Werewhale, 3 headed shark attack, raging shark, shark swarm, Jurassic Shark, Snow shark. There is even a Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark movie. I guess shark movies have also a cult following? Otherwise I don't know why these movies exist. Yours sincerely Jack Caeylin I don't know if this is actually true, but I have heard that a lot of direct to video type b movies like those aforementioned shark movies are produced not because they're expected to make any actual money, but because somewhere there's a rich person who funds them as a way to get tax write offs.
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