FReeper Canteen ~ Favorite Cult Movies ~ August 2 2004

MoJo2001 and FRiends of the Canteen

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

 

My Tribute to Cult Movies

What does "cult" movie mean?

 

Cult means seen by few, but appreciated immensely by those in the know.

Do you know any of these movies?

 

If you didn't before you do now!  And now you will be in the know!  Run out NOW and get these flicks!!!

MY FAVORITE CULT MOVIES  /COMEDY CATEGORY ARE:

CAR WASH

MOVIE QUOTE:

Lindy: I'm more man than you'll ever be and more woman than you'll ever get.

Daddy Rich: The best place for money, is right here in my pocket.


 

MOVIE TRIVA

• The main location of this film was an actual Los Angeles car wash a few blocks from McArthur Park. It was torn down in the late 1980s. While it was open, the marquee of the car wash announced it was featured in this film.

 

CANNONBALL RUN

 

Filmed when the Fed imposed a national 55 mph speed limit, The Cannonball Run is based on the real–life "Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Dash." It’s basically a fast–moving – and at times, somewhat slapstick – comedy with a huge cast of stars: Burt Reynolds, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tillis, Terry Bradshaw, Adriane Barbeau, Jackie Chan, Farrah Fawcett, Jack Elam, Dom DeLuise, Jamie Farr, Roger Moore (who plays a character who thinks he’s 007 and even drives an Astin–Martin with gadgets), and more. From Adriane Barbeau using her – er, ah, assets – to escape speeding tickets to the big fight with Peter Fonda’s motorcycle gang to Jack Elam as the mad proctologist, The Cannonball Run is a fun and funny movie

MOVIE QUOTE:

California Highway Patrolman: Headquarters, we are still in pursuit of the black Lamborghini.
Dispatcher: Car 42, you've been in pursuit for two hours. Another five minutes and you'll be in Arizona.
California Highway Patrolman: Yeah, and we're going to stay in pursuit until we catch them.
Dispatcher: It didn't take us THAT long to catch Dillinger.

MOVIE TRIVA:

• Don Rickles was originally cast as Fenderbaum before the part went to Sammy Davis Jr.
• The ambulance used in the movie is the actual ambulance that Hal Needham and Brock Yates built and raced in the real Cannonball Run.
• The producers asked the governor of Georgia if the crew could shut down the center of a small town so that a plane could land in the middle of it. The police blocked off the section that the plane was to land in and a barrier can be seen in the background.
• The Ferrari 308 used in the movie belonged to director Needham, Hal.
• Roger Moore (I) has a different girlfriend every time we see him in this movie and they are all voiced by June Foray (uncredited).
• The first highway patrolman that pulls over Adrienne Barbeau and 'Tara Buckman" (qv) was Burt Reynold's stand-in (note the resemblance). race.
• Jackie Chan, who played a small role in this movie, was very upset when he learned his character was Japanese since he himself is Chinese.
• In one of the earlier scenes in the movie, Dom Deluise's character says "Maybe we could get a black Trans Am", and Burt Reynolds (I)'s character says, "No, it's been done before." This is a reference to Smokey and the Bandit (1977) which starred Reynolds, and was directed by Hal Needham, who directed this film. Deluise co-starred with Reynolds in the 1980 sequel, Smokey and the Bandit II (1980).

 

 

 

IT'S A MAD,MAD,MAD WORLD

MOVIE QUOTE:

If ever this mad, mad, mad, mad world needed "It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" it's now!

Released in 1963, the film became not only one of the longest comedies ever filmed (nearly 5 hours
in its initial cut), but boasted the most impressive casts of Hollywood comedic legends ever
assembled: Sid Caeser, Milton Berle, Phil Silvers, Ethel Mermen, Jonathan Winters, Buddy Hackett,
Terry-Thomas, Dick Shawn, Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy. If that weren't enough, the film boasted
nearly a dozen additional cameos by Hollywood legends that included Don Knotts, Jerry Lewis, and even
The Three Stooges.

 

 

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Restoration

SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT

Bandit and Cledus are two truck-driving southerners who accept a dare from big-shots Big and Little Enos to pick up a truckload of beer from Texas and return it to them within a specified amount of time. Picking it up is simple enough, but as they are leaving Texas, Bandit unwittingly picks up Carrie, a hitchhiking bride-to-be who just left her groom, Junior, at the altar. Junior, however, is the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice. And when Buford and Junior discover what has happened, they go on a "high-speed pursuit" across the Southeast to catch the bandit.

MOVIE QUOTE:

What we have here is a total lack of respect for the law!

WATCH THE TRAILER

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S

Based on Truman Capote's 1958 novella of the same title, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (1961) is the story of a woman on her own making her way in the big city.  As stories go, it is short on plot but rich in characterization which may explain why its protagonist, Holly Golightly, has become Audrey Hepburn's most memorable screen persona.  In the hands of director Blake Edwards, the film neglects much of the book's foreboding edge, but gains an unforgettable comedic touch which actually helps accentuate the darker moments.  In addition, Henry Mancini's musical score and Hubert de Givenchy's gowns for Ms. Hepburn successfully uphold Capote's style when the story itself is forced to leave his writing behind. Like the protagonist at its heart, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S is quirky, funny, bewildering, serious, sophisticated and bittersweet -- and as movies go, great entertainment.

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) at Reel Classics

MOVIE QUOTE:

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

 

WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM

The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events.

MOVIE QUOTE:

"I hate to advocate weird chemicals, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone... but they've always worked for me"-Hunter Thompson

 

 

TGTH - BOOKS - OTHER - WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM

COMING ATTRACTIONS:

LOCK ,STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS

WAKING NED DEVINE

BEND IT LIKE BECKAM

FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

VALLEY GIRL

CLERKS

BLADE RUNNER

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

SO.. TELL ME... WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE CULT MOVIES?

 

[Darksheare]

Beware little old ladies with a squirt gun.
(Candid Camera..)

[Jon Alvarez]

always enjoyed "Where the Buffalo Roam"...Bill Murray is so under-appreciated. Love "Groundhog Day" as well...

Can't watch Fast times anymore...Sean "Baghdad" Penn ruins it for me...

[Darksheare]

A squirrel?
That wouldn't happen to have been the ninja suited dark squirrel assassins we have everywhere near here?

[Charles Martel]

Captain Chaos ping!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!

[BykrBayb]

Short bio on Toto (actor's real name - Terry.)

http://www.kansasoz.com/infototo.htm

[null and void]

Thanks

[Radix]

Kathleen Dorosh, of Tacoma, Wash., colors a poster for her uncle, Spc. David Ganyo of Wenatchee, Wash., as his mother, Patti Ganyo of Wenatchee, Wash., watches on Friday. The two were waiting for members of the Washington National Guard’s 1161st Transportation Company to return to Camp Murray, Wash., from Iraq.

 

Spc. Maureen Peltier, center, of Renton, Wash., runs to greet her son, Michael Aspen, left, after she and members of the Washington National Guard’s 1161st Transportation Company, headquartered in Ephrata, Wash., arrived at Camp Murray on Saturday. The unit served 15 of their 18-month activation in Iraq, where they completed nearly 14,000 missions and drove over 1,000,000 miles.

 

 

Lance Cpl. Keoni K. Hui-Hui, a mortarman with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, keeps a steady hand on his M-16A4 rifle during a vehicle-mounted patrol through Kharma, Iraq. Marines use patrols, checkpoints and ambushes to kill or capture terrorists in Iraq’s Anbar province.

 

Pfc. Kevin J. Matayka, a machine gunner with 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, mans his weapon during a vehicle-mounted patrol along a main supply route in Iraq’s Anbar province.

 

 

Four F-16C Fighting Falcons from the 18th Fighter Squadron fly in formation during a training mission over Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, on Tuesday.

 

A crew chief from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Air Wing performs pre-flight checks on an LC-130H aircraft at Lajes Field, the Azores, on Tuesday as the crew prepares to depart the area. The crew is returning from the Royal International Air Tattoo at Royal Air Force Fairford, England, where they won the prize for best-kept military aircraft. Theirs was one of 150 aircraft from 30 countries at the event.

 

 

 

Soldiers stand guard aboard an armored vehicle as they secure the area of two apparent suicide car bombings at Christian churches in central Baghdad on Sunday. The attacks appeared to be the first targeting churches during the 15-month violent insurgency.

 

 

Sgt. Kurt Ramsey, of Wheelock, Texas, an infantryman with the Marine Security Guard Detachment Baghdad, checks the ID badges of people entering the American Embassy Annex at Post 1 on Thursday.

 

Infantrymen Sgt. Randall Farmer, left, from Anderson, S.C., and Sgt. Nicholas Simmons, right, from North Lauderdale, Fla., walk through the chapel at the Embassy Annex in Baghdad’s Green Zone on Thursday as they perform a drill to search for intruders.

 

 

Sgt. Kenneth Lu, of Bozeman, Mont., and Cpl. Jose Martinez finish a three-mile run during physical training on Thursday. The two men had just completed an evening graveyard shift on the grounds of the American Embassy Annex in Baghdad’s Green Zone.

 

 

 

Soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division march during a ceremony at Dongducheon, South Korea, on Monday marking an end to their mission in the country. The United States plans to send a brigade of 3,600 troops from the division to Iraq for a yearlong deployment.

 

 

 

An American child watches soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Division march at a military base in Dongducheon, South Korea, on Monday during a ceremony marking the end of their mission in the country. The troops are scheduled to be deployed to Iraq.

 

Artillerymen from the 2nd Infantry Division fire cannons during a ceremony in Dongducheon, South Korea, on Monday marking an end to the soldiers’ mission in the country. The troops will be relocated to Iraq to begin a yearlong deployment there in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

 

 

Spc. Maureen Peltier is hugged by her son, Michael Aspen, after she and other members of the Washington National Guard’s 1161st Transportation Company returned to Camp Murray, Wash., on Saturday after a 15-month deployment to Iraq.

 

Just another day at the office for our Troops!

No comments today. Perhaps tomorrow will be better.

[TheLion]

Thanks Kathy, glad to be a part of this.

[Fedora]

Party on stupid, Californian Earthlings. For while you party, Thanos will be extirpating carbon-based life forms from your puny solar system. MUWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bill:

Bogus!

Ted:

Well, I guess that means there's only one thing we can do. Thanos, to save our solar system, on behalf of Earth, I hereby challenge you to a game of Battleship!

[tomkow6]

Thanks for the pics, Radix!

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[Ladysmith]

(wonder if that one can be used in an ad against Kerry???)

You're not going to believe this!! LOL!! John Edwards is from the 8th. Dimension! You can bet your oscillation overthruster John Kerry is, too!!

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John Barnett
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John Edwards
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John Guardian
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John Jones
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John Lee
John Littlejohn
John Many Jars
John Milton
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John Nolan
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John Parrot
John Rajeesh
John Ready to Fly
John Repeat Dance
John Roberts
John Scott
John Smallberries
John Starbird
John Take Cover
John Thorny Stick
John Two Horns
John Whorfin
John Wood
John Wright
John Ya Ya

[tomkow6]

Hi, Ladysmith!

Welcome to the Canteen!

Wanna buy a burka?

 

 

[StarCMC]

ROFLOL Lady Jag! I think I might be tempted to take off with those bikers...if they'd promise to stop waxing their chests....

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening Tonk, thanks for the pings!

[StarCMC]

Good evening. Getting ready to go see Guys & DOlls at the Muny!

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Your Welcome

[Ladysmith]

We really need some talented FReeper to the two John's heads on this one! One on the left, one on the right! hee! hee!!

[Lady Jag]