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

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VALLEY GIRL

CLERKS

BLADE RUNNER

BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE

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

 

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, razorback-bert, for sharing your movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, BlueLancer, for sharing your movie pick.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, 6323cd, for adding your movie pick.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, I'm ALL Right, for adding you movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you, freekitty, for sharing your movie choice.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Wonderama, for stopping by the Canteen and sharing your movie picks.

[cowboy_code]

My idea of a "cult film" is one that generates large numbers of fans who get involved and study every aspect of the film and production.

The public's notion has been peaked by such cult movie phenomenas as Star Wars and such conventions. But that is only in an instance of large commercial convention phenomena.

Other films have a more quieter cult film devotees and celebrate their "Fav" films in smaller personal ways. Monty Python comes to mind in this example. Because those fans exhibit more individual actions of cult film fandom.

My personal cult films are: The Thing '53. The Adventures of Robin Hood '39. It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Tombstone. Sling Blade. Khartoum. LimeLight.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Even tho I'm a day late, which isn't unusual, thanks for posting this article. And thanks to Rob for all he does to help teach the Iraqis about freedom, and keeps us free and safe.

[Christian4Bush]

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[Cathy]

Princess Bride - one of my favorites - I just saw it yesterday!

Wuv, True Wuv.......

Meathead (Rob Reiner) also directed another cult classic :THIS IS SPINAL TAP!

Of course the ultimate Chick cult classic is "When Harry Met Sally." Reiner may be a liberal puke but his movies are most excellent.

[Ladysmith]

Thank you, Kathy!

[Uncle Fud]

Buckaroo Banzai

They Live!

and all the Chris Guest mockumentaries (esp. "Waiting for Guttman")

[Ladysmith]

(...psst! Check out posts 633, 639, and 649!...)

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Repo Man

Man Bites Dog

Kentucky Fried Movie

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Lust for a Vampire
The Horror of Frankenstein
Zardoz
Soylent Green
The President's Analyst
Eye of the Devil
The Devil's Own
The Devil's Bride

Just make sure NOT to watch the last three while home alone on a dark night....

[Elsie]

...on a dark night....

But, if it were NOT 'dark'; wouldn't it be DAY!?

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Ever seen a full moon? [irony]

[Elsie]

Oh yeah!

I being from central Indiana, the thick air here filters a LOT of the night lights.

But when I vacationed out West in CO & UT - WOW!!

Recognized constellations disappeared among a vast ocean of far-flung worlds! I could even DRIVE by full moon light! (As long as no one was coming; of course.)

I once hiked out of the Grand Canyon by moonlight, making the rim by 3:30 AM!

[Armedanddangerous]

I WAS WAITING for someone to mention The Final Option. It is the Towering Inferno of Beseaged foreign embassy movies. Basicallly, the plot is as follows.

A group of anti nuclear activists led by Judy Davis and backed by sinister figures with eastern european accents attack and take over the US Embassy in London. Their chief demand is for Nato to detonate a nuke over a naval base in Scotland.

After an ill advised shooting of a hostage, the British Special Air Service Counterrevolutionary Warfare team mounts a rescue mission on the embassy.

Lots of flash bangs, doors kicked down and men in black outfits with gas masks, hoods and MP-5s kicking ass.

The cool part was the way they did it. No agonizing death scenes its just commando kicks in door, shoots and says "Third floor, terrorist dead, still clearing sector."

For us gun guys, it is an essential movie. Especially the scene where the commandos rescue a man and woman by blowing a ribbon charge, breaking through a wall and killing two terrorists with double taps from Browning High Powers.

[Chode]

yeah... with lines like "I'l allowed a certain mortality rate in this outfit and I'm well below my quota..." it had to be great

the scene with guys hanging from the heli was great

little things like picking up extra mags made it all the more real but the best was the gas mask over the camera lens with the respirator breathing sound!