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Post by moran on Oct 14, 2016 21:06:23 GMT -5
Oh man, House rules. The first two are great.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2016 22:31:37 GMT -5
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." This sounds sublime.
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Post by GamerL on Oct 14, 2016 23:17:11 GMT -5
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." This sounds sublime. It really is sublime. The first House also has George Wendt, so there's a weird recurring theme of Cheers cast members.
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Post by moran on Oct 15, 2016 6:32:30 GMT -5
The first one also has Richard Moll. I loved the cover art too when I was a kid. I would spend most of my time in a video store studying the horror section cover art, and the House series always stood out. Still some favorites to this day.
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 15, 2016 15:18:23 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? The Iron Giant was a great movie, the only reason it became a cult classic is this: Warner Bros. Animation spent a lot of money to promote their first feature film "Quest for Camelot", but it was a flop, so for their next film, The Iron Giant, they distributed it with little to no advertising. So only a few people watched it, but they loved it and spread the word. I can't really answer your question though: I know several weird movies that could be cult films like Freaked, Blood Diner or The Gate, but nobody cares about them. It's pretty much impossible to predict what will become a cult and what will be forgotten.
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Post by moran on Oct 15, 2016 17:14:45 GMT -5
Freaked is so good. A favorite of mine. Alex Winter's stuff from the 90s is very underrated.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2016 21:36:17 GMT -5
I'm on the first (out of ten) audiobook disk of The Disaster Artist.
I'm not even DONE with the first disk and already I am continually in disbelief that Tommy Wiseau *EXISTS*. He can claim he's a vampire all he likes, but I swear he's some sort of Slavic Terminator infiltration robot. And he thinks Greg is the future Resistance Leader. Except somewhere along the way his cheapass pre-Berlin Wall collapse '80s Russian computer programming became corrupted from "kill Greg" to "make movie with Greg".
Further evidence for said lethal robotitude---Sestero claims that despite the on-screen sissy fight looking ridiculous, Tommy left legit bruises on Sesty due to "cyborg-like strength".
And of course, Tommy refuses to ever, EVER quit the movie. Because he'll be back.
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 20, 2016 22:26:08 GMT -5
I'm on the first (out of ten) audiobook disk of The Disaster Artist. I'm not even DONE with the first disk and already I am continually in disbelief that Tommy Wiseau *EXISTS*. He can claim he's a vampire all he likes, but I swear he's some sort of Slavic Terminator infiltration robot. And he thinks Greg is the future Resistance Leader. Except somewhere along the way his cheapass pre-Berlin Wall collapse '80s Russian computer programming became corrupted from "kill Greg" to "make movie with Greg". Further evidence for said lethal robotitude---Sestero claims that despite the on-screen sissy fight looking ridiculous, Tommy left legit bruises on Sesty due to "cyborg-like strength". And of course, Tommy refuses to ever, EVER quit the movie. Because he'll be back. I understand the feeling of being in disbelief that Wiseau exists. It's kind of scary that he actually left bruises on another actor. Isn't that a no-no on most film shoots? ...At least, not the ones made by madmen?
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Post by Woody Alien on Oct 22, 2016 17:31:41 GMT -5
For example I don't understand why among all "animal attack" movies only Sharknado managed to get an incredible cult following despite not being that much better, or worse, than the others. But maybe that' s because I have no interest in watching it...
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Post by Resident Tsundere on Oct 24, 2016 21:47:34 GMT -5
I feel that Sharknado's cult appeal is a little too engineered for my taste. /snobbish
I sometimes enjoy cult appeal more if I'm not told over and over before checking it out that it's going to be an instant cult classic. Let me discover it for myself.
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Post by moran on Oct 25, 2016 7:02:04 GMT -5
That's not snobbish at all. Some companies are all about creating a cult film, not letting a movie become whatever it may be.
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