# Personal cult movies **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 1, 1999, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541 "1999-09-01T04:20:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 1999, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/21 "1999-09-01T19:02:00Z")
The Stoned Age Animal House Blazing Saddles The Godfather Goodfellas ---
**Author:** ![realm505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@realm505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/realm505)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/22 "1999-09-02T05:35:00Z")
HELLO CULT MOVIE? can you say Ferris Beuler’s day off or 16 candles ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/23 "1999-09-02T05:56:00Z")
Raiders, Babe, Force 10 from Navarone, Last Crusade, Princess Bride, Buckaroo Bonzai. DrJackson, I must hook you up with my husband. He will be delighted to know that someone other than him can quote dialogue from the Trinity movies! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/24 "1999-09-02T06:09:00Z")
Jurassic Park. I can quote the ENTIRE movie. When it first came out on video, all four of my younger siblings and I watched this movie EVERY day after school, for an entire year…all into the summer. I’ve seen it at least 300 times all the way through, and another 200 times part way through. (You may think to yourself, “Come on, 300 times!?!” Yes, I’m not exaggerating) It’s pitiful. I adore this movie. That and Forrest Gump. I can quote that one through and through as well. Adam * * * “Life is hard…but God is good” ---
**Author:** ![Astroglide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6de8d8/32.png) [@Astroglide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroglide)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/25 "1999-09-02T06:35:00Z")
**Army of Darkness** **Spinal Tap** **Johnny Dangerously** **Clerks** **Ace Ventura II** ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/26 "1999-09-02T13:13:00Z")
Eden, I love “Strictly Ballroom”! I haven’t watched it enough to be “cult” one yet though. Always love the ugly-duckling turns into swan movies! ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/27 "1999-09-02T15:34:00Z")
ARGH! How could I have forgotten Spinal Tap! I love that movie! (And FTR, it’s even better when you’re slightly buzzed…) “It goes to 11.” ---
**Author:** ![PTVroman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bb73d2/32.png) [@PTVroman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PTVroman)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/28 "1999-09-02T16:09:00Z")
Blazing Saddles isn’t even mentioned until the 21st reply? I admit that Buckaroo Bonzi and Ferris Buhler are good movies, but, come on! And no one has mentioned Young Frankenstein. IMHO, no other Mel Brooks movie (except the Producers, and parts of History of the World) would even deserve to be mentioned. I am worried about my wife. Recently, her favorite video tapes are “The Birdcage”, “Mrs. Doubtfire”, and “To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar”. * * * _“The large print givith, and the small print taketh away.”_ Tom Waites, “Step Right Up” ---
**Author:** ![Jahender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d9b06d/32.png) [@Jahender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jahender)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/29 "1999-09-02T16:22:00Z")
The following movies I could (some I still can) recite any scene word for word in college: Animal House (now you’re on double secret probation) Ferris Buellers Day Off (goddammit call me sir) MP–Holy Grail (what’s the terminal velocity of a sparrow?) Caddyshack (see your future, be your future, make, make your future) Fletch (it’s all ball bearings these days, it’s so simple maybe you boys need a refresher course) Weird Science (he don’t even gots his license Lisa) Willy Wonka (Daddy, I most certainly don’t want a boat like this one) Airplane (I sure picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue) * * * The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. George Bernard Shaw ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/30 "1999-09-03T05:55:00Z")
I have more…curse you people for reminding me! 🙂 Ok, in addition to my previous post, I also should mention: Princess Bride Pretty Woman Who’s That Girl Desperately Seeking Susan The Three Amigos Grease (both of them) Dream A Little Dream Crybaby I don’t know if this one counts or not, but I have seen the Teletubbies Nursery Rhymes video more times than I care to count. When Bowen is acting up, it is the ONLY thing that will settle him for more than five minutes. He watches the whole thing. I’ve seen it so many times, I know all the Tubbie jibberish by heart. * * * Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought. ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 1999, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/31 "1999-09-07T23:19:00Z")
“Kelly’s Heroes” (1970-71?) Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, Telly Savalas, Carroll O’Connor, Donald Sutherland. It still makes me laugh my ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 1999, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/32 "1999-09-07T23:55:00Z")
## Wayne’s World Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Pass the Ammo Amazon Women on the Moon West Side Story What About Bob? “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy ---
**Author:** ![Narile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@Narile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Narile)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/33 "1999-09-08T00:03:00Z")
**Support your local Sheriff** * * * \>\>Being Chaotic Evil means never having to say your sorry…unless the other guy is bigger than you.\<\< —The dragon observes ---
**Author:** ![KCB615](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@KCB615](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KCB615)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/34 "1999-09-08T00:57:00Z")
I’ll start off with the required Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, Ferris and Airplane. Added to said list by myself: The Great Race The Naked Gun (only the first one, the other 2 weren’t bad, but the fist one was just plain great) And a hearty agreement to The Great Escape and Sink the Bismarck…darn good movies, if I do say so. * * * Jeremy… I can think of no more stirring symbol of man’s humanity to man than a fire engine - Kurt Vonnegut ---
**Author:** ![ThisIsHell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@ThisIsHell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisIsHell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/35 "1999-09-08T02:00:00Z")
ahhh…it’s so nice knowing that I’m not alone when I go around quoting from my favorite movies. Or perhaps those stares are because I quote at the most inopportune times… Monty Python and the Holy Grail “Get back here you yellow bastards! I’ll bite your legs off!” The Princess Bride “Inconcievable!” "You keep saying that. I do not think it means what you think it means. Empire Records “Well Sinead o’ Rebellion. Shock me, shock me, shock me with that deviant behaviour!” A Clockwork Orange (actually, not the movie, I memorized the book but I love the movie too!)"and I thought to myself, hell and blast you all, if you all are on the side of good then I’m glad I belong to the other shop. (from the book) ---
**Author:** ![keystream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a3d4f5/32.png) [@keystream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keystream)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/36 "1999-09-08T03:23:00Z")
ok, here goes: as a kid: disney’s Robin Hood Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Red Sonja Conan Willow The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly A Fistful of Dollars For a Few Dollars More Midway Kelly’s Heroes The Dirty Dozen (I watched a lot of movies with my dad, who’s a big fan of western/WWII movies, esp. Eastwood and Wayne) as an older kid: Ferris Buhler’s Day Off SpaceBalls Star Wars (IV, V, and VI) BloodSport Weird Science Army of Darkness Monty Python Princess Bride Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (NOT Bogus Journey!) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Half-Baked Clerks Fast Times at Ridgemont High i think that pretty much covers it ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/37 "1999-09-08T13:53:00Z")
I’ve seen each of these at least 10 times: Kentucky Fried Movie Aiplane! Top Secret (Bless you, ZAZ!) ## The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly A Fish Called Wanda Princess Bride Raiders Ruthless People Ladyhawke Souvenieeeeers, nov-elties, par-ty tricks ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/38 "1999-09-08T16:57:00Z")
The Man With Two Brains! yeah! anyone else seen this movie? * * * [http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/39 "1999-09-08T18:51:00Z")
I have seen The Man with Two Brains, but my Steve Martin cult movie is The Jerk. There are lots of great lines to quote for just about any situation, but our favorite is when we’re trying to get out the door and we keep having to go back for stuff. Eventually it devolves into, “All I need is this chair. And this thermos. This chair and this thermos are all I need. And this remote…” * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy ---
**Author:** ![Frankie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/258eb7/32.png) [@Frankie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frankie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 1999, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541/40 "1999-09-08T21:31:00Z")
Well I’ll put in my two cents. I have to be honest and tell you i assumed that these woulda been mentioned long long ago. Oh well maybe I’m crazy! Major League-‘I look like a banker in this’ Dazed and Confused-‘Boys, 50 of you are going into the jungle. Only 25 of you are coming back!’ Man i love those movies! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/personal-cult-movies/7541.md?page=3)