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8 Awesome Cult Classics
PJ Media ^ | 13 June 2018 | Lauren Spagnoletti

Posted on 06/13/2018 2:37:56 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Good (and bad) movies come and go, but some films garner such a fierce, loyal following that they reach cult status. People watch them over and over and over again. They host parties to watch them some more. Midnight showings at movie theaters draw incredible crowds, and oftentimes, fans "act out" the scenes in front of the screen.

Actors who happened to have been in cult movies enjoy lifetimes of stardom (to one extent or another) and can probably make a living signing autographs at events and Comic-Con ad nauseam.

Are you a huge fan of any cult classic? Here are some favorites below. Weigh in with the ones you can't get enough of!


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To: Mom MD

Every which way but loose...


221 posted on 06/13/2018 5:09:15 PM PDT by Mom MD ( .)
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To: Rummyfan

UNDERCOVER BLUES!


222 posted on 06/13/2018 5:14:48 PM PDT by Toadman (To anger a Conservative, tell a lie. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.)
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To: Rummyfan

Dinner Rush
Ghost World
Hammett
Intacto
Bliss


223 posted on 06/13/2018 5:19:19 PM PDT by Pelham (California, Mexico's socialist colony)
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To: VTenigma

Eraser Head
Pink Flamingos
Apocalypse Now


224 posted on 06/13/2018 5:20:36 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: proust

Try “Samurai Cop” for really terrible viewing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMzoRxx38qg


225 posted on 06/13/2018 5:23:19 PM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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To: Pelham

i liked Ghost World


226 posted on 06/13/2018 5:24:51 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Kartographer

Boondock Saints, obviously.


227 posted on 06/13/2018 5:25:02 PM PDT by steve8714 ("My name is Rod Blagojevich and I need cash now!" (all) "Call JB Pritzker, 87DirtyCashNOW!")
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To: Texas Songwriter

There have been THREE remakes of this movie ( so 4 films of this name now ) and the original one is still the BEST one. And the novel is the best of all.


228 posted on 06/13/2018 5:25:35 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: miss marmelstein
"All cattle and no hat"?

The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about cattle is bullshit.

229 posted on 06/13/2018 5:28:46 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Nothingburger

The Carry On series is fun.


230 posted on 06/13/2018 5:29:19 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: miss marmelstein

“all cattle and no hat”.

We were hysterical. Maybe he’s dyslexic...?


231 posted on 06/13/2018 5:30:49 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Spartan is good. Anything by David Mamet qualifies as “cult.” Also, stuff by Michael Mann, “Heat,” “Collateral,” and I think he did “Manhunter,” too, the first Hannibal Lechter flick.


232 posted on 06/13/2018 5:34:18 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: Rummyfan

5 Summer Stories


233 posted on 06/13/2018 5:35:50 PM PDT by Gman
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To: nopardons

“I didn’t know ANYONE, back then, who became anti-war/anti-nukes/ban the bomb, pro-USSR after seeing that movie, when it came out.”

A media slug blubbered about Reagan’s election: “I didn’t know *anyone* who voted for him.”

Guess you hung out with a better class of person, but that movie embedded in the public consciousness the idea that dummies and loonies could accidentally start a nuclear war that would destroy us all.

It embedded the notion that if anyone ever launched, everyone everywhere would inevitably use *all* their nukes in an orgy of destruction, completely without restraint.

It was the first portrayal I can remember of the military as mentally ill and stupid.

It presented the Soviet nuclear threat as immensely more dire than it really was.

It presumed the failure of mutually assured destruction, creating the illusion that Americans were totally unprotected from nuclear holocaust.

Perhaps no one you knew fell for this, but a lot of people did. Even in the 1980s I heard talk radio whining about the scenario. When a caller told them that the best minds on both sides had been working for decades on methods to prevent it, they were actually surprised to hear it.

They thought the world was just like Strangelove, and it could happen at any second.


234 posted on 06/13/2018 5:36:09 PM PDT by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: miss marmelstein

Wow, what a story! I loved that movie when I was too young to really be seeing that movie. I saw it a zillion times. I tried to watch it as an adult and there are some funny moments but mostly I cringed that I loved it as a kid.


235 posted on 06/13/2018 5:37:07 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Red Badger

Airplane!
Blazing Saddles
Being There

I didn’t see the other two you mentioned but these three are perennials. Th first two, I could not watch without laughing. There is no way.


236 posted on 06/13/2018 5:39:39 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Rummyfan

235 comments and no mention of “The Fifth Element”? That’s one we seem to end up watching every time it comes on.


237 posted on 06/13/2018 5:42:31 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Mad Dawgg

I second Escape from New York.


238 posted on 06/13/2018 5:43:01 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Political Junkie Too

Ah, you beat me to it. I really liked Heavy Metal too.


239 posted on 06/13/2018 5:43:44 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: Nothingburger

I’ll never eat “Num Yum” after watching I’m All Right Jack.


240 posted on 06/13/2018 5:51:45 PM PDT by henkster (Monsters from the Id.)
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