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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 18:40:14 GMT -5
Supposedly that's Tommy Wiseau's whole M.O. Rumor has it he got the money to film "The Room" from the Russian mob as a way to launder their dirty cash.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 13, 2016 19:11:55 GMT -5
Supposedly that's Tommy Wiseau's whole M.O. Rumor has it he got the money to film "The Room" from the Russian mob as a way to launder their dirty cash. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I just remembered though, a movie that could be considered a cult classic not because it's "so bad it's good" but because it's a truly strange, one of a kind film would be the Japanese movie Hausu. But even then that movie came out in the US in 2010, which was a while ago, but I can't think of anything more recent. |
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Post by 8 Bit Dreams on Oct 13, 2016 21:03:24 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. Does anyone here remember the snakes on a plane phone service?!?! it worked well, fooled me when my roommates used it on me. Samuel Jackson just called me guys??? |
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 13, 2016 22:00:57 GMT -5
IIRC, didn't Uwe Boll start doing movies to get some sort of tax writeoff from the German government?
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Post by toei on Oct 13, 2016 22:29:21 GMT -5
Supposedly that's Tommy Wiseau's whole M.O. Rumor has it he got the money to film "The Room" from the Russian mob as a way to launder their dirty cash. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I just remembered though, a movie that could be considered a cult classic not because it's "so bad it's good" but because it's a truly strange, one of a kind film would be the Japanese movie Hausu. But even then that movie came out in the US in 2010, which was a while ago, but I can't think of anything more recent. And it's originally from 1977 (and, accessorily, a masterpiece). In Japan it was a big commercial hit and launched Obayashi's movie career, though, not a cult phenomenon at all, so I don't know how much it fits, in so much as foreign movies can never really become mainstream hits in North America anymore. For example, is Battle Royale a cult movie? |
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Post by GamerL on Oct 13, 2016 22:36:33 GMT -5
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. I just remembered though, a movie that could be considered a cult classic not because it's "so bad it's good" but because it's a truly strange, one of a kind film would be the Japanese movie Hausu. But even then that movie came out in the US in 2010, which was a while ago, but I can't think of anything more recent. And it's originally from 1977 (and, accessorily, a masterpiece). In Japan it was a big commercial hit and launched Obayashi's movie career, though, not a cult phenomenon at all, so I don't know how much it fits, in so much as foreign movies can never really become mainstream hits in North America anymore. For example, is Battle Royale a cult movie? In the US Hausu was totally unknown until the Criterion collection released it on dvd, it's since certainly garnered a cult following. Battle Royale definitely counts as a cult classic in the US since it didn't get an official US dvd release until as recently as a couple of years ago but was already very well known through bootleg and import dvds. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 13, 2016 23:50:16 GMT -5
Battle Royale is sooooo good. Makes Hunger Games look like...this thing that is...far inferior...bad movie.
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Post by moran on Oct 14, 2016 8:29:41 GMT -5
Where's Roger Corman when you need him? We need a hero like him in these dire times.
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Post by lurker on Oct 14, 2016 10:39:25 GMT -5
Where's Roger Corman when you need him? We need a hero like him in these dire times. Making a sequel to the original Death Race |
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Post by vivianjames on Oct 14, 2016 11:25:29 GMT -5
When a movie is worth re-watching then it develops a following.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 16:15:38 GMT -5
Where's Roger Corman when you need him? We need a hero like him in these dire times. This would meld perfectly with Hollywood's penchant for just remaking old ideas these days. Legitimately surprised no one's trying to make movies out of Poe's stories again. |
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Post by toei on Oct 14, 2016 16:21:22 GMT -5
And it's originally from 1977 (and, accessorily, a masterpiece). In Japan it was a big commercial hit and launched Obayashi's movie career, though, not a cult phenomenon at all, so I don't know how much it fits, in so much as foreign movies can never really become mainstream hits in North America anymore. For example, is Battle Royale a cult movie? In the US Hausu was totally unknown until the Criterion collection released it on dvd, it's since certainly garnered a cult following. Battle Royale definitely counts as a cult classic in the US since it didn't get an official US dvd release until as recently as a couple of years ago but was already very well known through bootleg and import dvds. The point I tried to make was that any foreign film that gains traction in North America could be considered a cult movie if you look at it that way, but that's only because they have a restrained audience in the first place. In that sense they're different from American-made movies that become cult classics. Battle Royale, House (I don't know why people insist on spelling it Hausu, the title screen and end credits say House even in the Japanese original), those are big, mainstream hits from very famous directors in their country of origin. Americans don't watch many movies made outside of Hollywood, so they treat them like weird curiosities, but they're not the Rocky Horror Picture Show or whatever. --EDIT--Roger Corman was responsible for some of those recent Shark movies too. A documentary about him was released recently, it's worth a watch. |
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Post by kaoru on Oct 14, 2016 17:08:53 GMT -5
I don't know why people insist on spelling it Hausu There's an American Horror franchise with the title House, too. So I guess it is born from not mixing them up. Just like calling the Japanese original Ring Ringu to not mix it up with the American remake. And there's of course the "romaji/Japanese pronounciation are truer than the word they actually mean with it" mentality there for some too. |
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Post by toei on Oct 14, 2016 18:55:38 GMT -5
I don't know why people insist on spelling it Hausu There's an American Horror franchise with the title House, too. So I guess it is born from not mixing them up. Just like calling the Japanese original Ring Ringu to not mix it up with the American remake. And there's of course the "romaji/Japanese pronounciation are truer than the word they actually mean with it" mentality there for some too. Oh, I didn't know about the American franchise. I guess it could make sense to differentiate the two. The funny thing is that Obayashi made it a point to give his first movie an English title because he knew it would piss off some people in Japan at the time. That's why they always spell it out in roman letters and there's a voiceover clearly pronouncing it "house" in the trailer. |
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Post by GamerL on Oct 14, 2016 21:04:11 GMT -5
I call it Hausu to indeed differentiate it from the American 1986 horror movie of the same name.
I'm actually a fan of the American House and it's sequel House 2: Second Story as well, in their own way they're almost as crazy as the Japanese one, especially in House 2 where John Ratzenberger plays a repairman who nonchalantly exclaims "Oh, looks like you got a portal to another dimension in there."
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