I’ll cast in my vote for Grease. What the hell is the appeal of this movie?
I feel the same about Fight Club. I saw it and I liked it; I just didn’t feel it was THAT great.
Lynch redeems himself with “The Straight Story”.
What?! Blaspheme!!!
Okay, well, “Pulp Fiction” I can understand. It’s one of those films where either you get it or you don’t; you love it or you hate it…that kind of thing.
But “Back to the Future”? I mean, not liking that one is nearly…un-American. I suppose having seen it so many times does qualify me for the status of uber fan. The third one really could have been a bit better, though, IMO. I do the time travel paradox with “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” (which could also qualify as a cult film). As in…if Bill and Ted never passed history and became famous, how would Rufus have known to find them and help them? Or if they were famous, why would Rufus have needed to? you can go on for hours like that…
I have to defend “Grease” too…It’s just a lot of fun. I can’t really say anymore than that, but I love it.
Bless you, watsowil. Bless you, bless you bless you. Another soul who can see through the Woody Allen ‘pay-no-attention-to-that-man-behind-the-curtain’ charade and is not afraid to stand right up and say it.
Does ‘Wild Palms’ count?
I can’t believe some of the titles that are being listed. I think some of them are amongst the best movies of the last 20 years. I don’t think I’m going to defend any of them this time, though.
Instead I’m going to throw one out that I know has a cult following on this board. I refer to the evil Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. I hate, HATE, HATE this lousy excuse for a teen flick. I was a child of the 80’s and a member of the target demographic of this movie. As such, I suppose it was intended to arouse some wish fulfillment fantasies that I could be as cool as the title character. Instead, I just wanted to cold-cock that smug, smarmy, obnoxious little prick.
Anyone else agree?..Bueller?..Bueller?.. Blecch!
Hodge
I’ll second Liquid Sky. It’s been nearly twenty years, and I’m still bitter about those ninety minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
The Monkees’ Head. I suppose it was my fault for not being on acid when I watched it.
And I know I’m in a serious minority here, but I absolutely hated A Clockwork Orange (the film only - I liked the book).
Grease?
PULP FICTION??
SEVEN SAMURAI???
and these are BAD movies??
I am in the wrong thread!
Hobgoblins! If you haven’t seen the un-MST3Ked version, you are in for a treat if you can find it. Hell, all of Rick Sloane’s movies count.
Wow, who knew so many people on this board disliked the offerings of David Lynch? And I thought I was going to be the only one to dis Blue Velvet.
I like Bladerunner, though, but I can see where it wouldn’t appeal to everyone. In fact, I don’t think I have ever reccomended to anyone to see it. Most of the people I know who I think would like it have already seen it, and the rest would hate it.
Mommie Dearest. I’ve seen the film on tv 3 times, and other than getting the impression, “Wow! Joan Crawford was a bitch!”, the film didn’t leave a mark on me.
::raising hand wildly from the back row::
[sub]Yay back row!!!..oops, sorry, couldn’t resist…[/sub]
I’ll second that emotion, Hodge. I thought it was moronic and lame when it was first released. It’s only gotten sadder every single time they’ve shown it on whatever cable-station-of-the-day chooses to air it.
My kids, however, adore it. We used to have a copy of it before our other house burned down. When we moved to the new one, they wanted to re-purchase it, but I said, no, I think it might have been a jinx…
They fell for it. We now are Bueller free.
One of the most amusing parts of threads like this is watching everyone be aghast at the choices of everyone else.
I would have liked Six String Samurai far more if it weren’t for the Kid From Hell in it. Gah. It does take something special to make me want to rip my ears off, though.
Aren’t cult films by definition films that didn’t do well at the box office but that small groups of people seem to love anyway? By that definition you are guaranteed to find that the majority of people will hate most cult films, otherwise they wouldn’t be cult films in the first place. I mean, how can Batman or Back to the Future ever be considered cult films? You don’t like them? Fine but they were blockbusters not cult films.
(steps off soapbox)
I nominate Tank Girl…awful!
Hmmm . . . I 'magine some people are going to get angry 'bout this.
Dune.
The original movie tries to cram too much plot into too little space, leaving out all the important minutiae that make the book so great. And what the heck is the deal with their interpretation of the weirding way? That’s just . . . weird.
I actually prefer the Sci-Fi Channel Miniseries that came out a while back.
Boo! Hiss!! I bet you don’t like eXistenZ, either. Heathen.
For the life of me I can’t figure out the appeal of The Doom Generation I didn’t hate it, but…soooo dark. The pruning shears ruined the movie for me. The sequel Nowhere (which I happened upon before even hearing of DG) was dark, but there were funny bits too.
eXistenZ was pretty stupid.
Add to that any movie with irregular capitalization in its title.
Highlander?
Blasphemer!
Dang it! bafaa stole my thunder. Batman, Pulp Fiction, Back to the Future, Seven Samurai, Ferris Beuller’s Day Off, Grease, Pretty Woman, There’s Something About Mary, Titanic and Saturday Night Fever were all hits, and a hit cannot by definition have a cult following.
And the very notion of a cult is that outsiders cannot understand the extreme devotion of fans, so the op pretty much ensures that most people won’t like cult favorites.
Someone mentioned movies inspired by song titles. Hmmm. I seem to recall a couple of movies called “Singin in the Rain” and “42nd Street”, which I think are pretty good.
On to the “Evil Dead” series debate. If you like a movie because it accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish, that makes it a good movie (as opposed to liking “Plan 9” or “Sleepaway Camp” because they’re fun to ridicule). I used to list “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” as a bad movie that I loved, but I’ve changed my position. “Killer Klowns” does what it intends to do, and does it well. It’s a good movie.
Though I think “Fight Club”, “Clerks”, and “The Usual Suspects” are all good movies, I cannot quite grasp what it is that invites the seeming obsession I see with them on this board.
But you can count me in as part of the “Evil Dead”, “Killer Klowns”, and “Memento” cults.
Others I’m not quite so sure about. “Way of the Gun”, “Blind Fury”, and “Gates of Heaven” are all less than successful movies I love, but I don’t think any of them have a cult following.
Oh, and add me to the “Rocky Horror” list. This is an awful movie, and for the life of me I cannot find anything, not even the musical numbers, to like about it. It’s supposed to be a comedy, I think, but I find no humor in it.
Not to mention that this film seems like 45 minutes of the middle section of the plot was cut out entirely, but no one cares.
Of course, Cronenberg appears to be getting more senile with every movie he directs.
I agree about the Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
And I also agree about Name of the Rose. It is for me a poor adaptation of the novel. My Spanish teacher last year praised it all the time, and since I had read the book, I decided to see the movie. Afterwards, I realize why my teacher wanted to know the actress’s name… :rolleyes: