cult flicks, your favorites

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Thank ye.

They should have a channel that airs nothing but Marx Brothers films and B movies… I’d never leave the house :stuck_out_tongue:

The Red Shoes (1948)

Riddick trilogy was unexpectedly good.

Cowboys vs. Aliens. Star studded and pretty damn cool. I did not expect so many well known actors and actresses. The movie was cool. Right now watching Revolver(again) another great flick.

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His final interview while working on the film The Crow. He died in a strange accident on set not too long after this interview.

Like the character he portrayed, he was in the prime of his life and was shot dead before he could marry his fiance.

Toward the end (10:12), he quotes American author Paul Bowles:

The Wicker Man (1973)

The Man Who Planted Trees

Ten Favorite Cult Flicks:

  1. Repo Man
  2. Office Space
  3. The Big Lebowski
  4. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
  5. Clerks
  6. Reservoir Dogs
  7. The Warriors
  8. The Wicker Man (original
  9. Heathers
  10. Donnie Darko

Behind the Green Lights, with Carole Landis

A few Good Men

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I don’t know what a cult movie is but I recently watched two videos

One was Into the Wild - awesome inspiring. More so because it is based in reality. What courage and spirit he had.
A movie for all hedonists, pessimists, whiny people - not that it might make much of a difference to them.

and the other was The Shawshank Redemption. Forrest Gump won the academy award that year. Now I’ve seen both videos but can’t really tell which one I might have given the award to. They’re both different and inspiring.

I didn’t actually want to see TSR for whatever reason I don’t like prison movies - some mental block in me I guess lol but I watched it anyway. It was in some ways so inspiring – in showing/teaching just how capable we are as human beings able to survive in the worse environments and times even though it was also so tragic and reminded me of how we humans at times or many of us can be so brutal and barbaric, corrupt and corruptible, and sub-human really.

I cried at the end, I cried during the movie but the tears at the end were tears of joy. Life doesn’t always give us happy endings. Not to think of my cup as half empty, but sometimes it just doesn’t so we’re grateful that we even have the cup. A few really good sips works well though. Well I won’t give away the ending just in case someone wants to see it. I do feel too that Morgan Freeman at the end chose the much better choice, though either choice might have been understandable to me based on his life. It also called to mind how institutionalized people can be in prisons or other such places.

Next to November 22, 1963 I loved that book, it is probably King’s second-best book (picture) for me. I don’t know how closely faithful the movie was to the book.

Plan 9 from outer Space.

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I’ve been into classic Kung fu films from the 90s lately: Fists Of Fury, and The Man With The Iron Fists.

Someone told me awhile ago that the main character of Into the Wild reminded them of me. I still haven’t read it or seen the movie…maybe I will do that soon.

Character wise? I remember a thread you opened or contributed to pertaining to this beautiful kind of dark overcast sky which you loved - as I also love. I can see him loving that same kind of sky.
See the movie - it is awesome. He was awesome a bit lacking in practical wisdom at times but it was all a part of his journey, well, I won’t say anymore about it.

AMC has begun its FearFest between now and Halloween, so you can catch all the classic horror flicks of the last 40 years. Here’s AMC’s October schedule:

best-horror-movies.com/news? … tober-2015

These are mostly slasher films, which I don’t consider to be the best example of good horror. To me, a good horror movie is something like The Ghost and the Darkness (1996).

Peter Jacksons first movie sees to me the ultimate cult, and the title isn’t lying. I saw this when he had just made it [edit - more like 6 years after], I can remember wondering where he’d go from here. I don’t think it ever crossed my mind that he might become the highest grossing director of our time, but there was something inevitable to all of his shots.

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Bad Taste is something required a bit of a cult film, I think, that’s why I nominate the following:

Bad Lieutenant, Spaceballs, Ghostbusters II (this Vigo is terrifyingly), Home Alone (also the in-movie Angels with Filthy Souls) Disney’s The Black Cauldron, Kentucky Fried Movie, all Bruce-Lee movies, all Bond films with Sean Connery, The Hunt for Red October, Jacobs Ladder, Strange Days, Cape Fear, Basic Instinct, all movies by John mcTiernan, Tony Scott, John Landis, Ivan Reitman, everything with that guy who is miscasted as the computer genius in Jurassic Park and thereby saves that movie, gives it cult appeal.

Eraserhead. Probably because I knew Jack Nance.
This film by any measure did things no other film had done before. But I don’t think I can be objective.

As far as major visual and sequential impact, Pulp Fiction was and original masterpiece and is still peerless.