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!
Every which way but loose...
UNDERCOVER BLUES!
Dinner Rush
Ghost World
Hammett
Intacto
Bliss
Eraser Head
Pink Flamingos
Apocalypse Now
i liked Ghost World
Boondock Saints, obviously.
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.
The only thing Chuck Schumer knows about cattle is bullshit.
The Carry On series is fun.
“all cattle and no hat”.
We were hysterical. Maybe he’s dyslexic...?
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.
5 Summer Stories
“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.
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.
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.
235 comments and no mention of “The Fifth Element”? That’s one we seem to end up watching every time it comes on.
I second Escape from New York.
Ah, you beat me to it. I really liked Heavy Metal too.
I’ll never eat “Num Yum” after watching I’m All Right Jack.
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