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Songseeker
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Cult Films
Have you got a favorite film with a cult following? Which?
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Fri Sep 23, 2005 8:43 pm |
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acca
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I have lots of domestic cult movies as my favorite, but I doubt you know about any of them. I will write title of just 1 of them - "Balkan spy" .
And about world famous cult movies, if some of Hitchcock movies, like "The man who know too much" or "Dial M for murder" counts, its my choice.
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guysmy
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Cult films are my fav...just a few:
The Big Lebowski
Clockwork Orange
Brazil
Rocky Horror Picture Show (yeah, screw off, I like it) 
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ghostman
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My favorites are Halloween and the Evil Dead Trilogy.
Someone also mentioned The Big Lebowski. That's another good one. Oh, and you can never count out Reservoir Dogs.
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quote:
Originally posted by cinemaKid:
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Originally posted by ghostman:
That's another good one. Oh, and you can never count out Reservoir Dogs.
Many say that Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's best.
Indeed they do.
I rate Pulp Fiction on a higher scale, but you can't take anything away from Reservoir Dogs. It's one of the few independent films that are accessible to mainstream fans. You don't usually get action-dramas in film festivals, let alone ones worth your time.
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Zerabira
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Rocky Horror Picture Show all the way
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Desilvio
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Donnie Darko!
And I wouldn't count Kevin Smith's work as cult. Clerks, maybe... but his other films have been too well known right off the bat with too big of budgets to be cults.
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cinemaKid
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quote:
Originally posted by Desilvio:
Donnie Darko!
Hmmm ...
Doesn't seem like a cult film. Jake Gyllenhaal is a pretty well known actor now, and the film was released relatively recently. So, it's not exactly the most unknown film.
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Zerabira
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So what is the ultimate definition of 'Cult'? - I don't necessarily agree that a cult film has to have a miniscule budget and the actors/director not be well known.
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Originally posted by Zerabira:
So what is the ultimate definition of 'Cult'? - I don't necessarily agree that a cult film has to have a miniscule budget and the actors/director not be well known.
Cult film is a colloquial term for a film that has accrued a small but devoted group of fans, having failed to achieve any fame outside that group. Sometimes, the group is bound to the film by a shared sense of ridicule for it, rather than because of finding any artistic merit. The term itself came into usage during the late 1970s - perhaps in part among fans of cheap horror films dealing with devil cults [citation needed] - and popularized in a series of three books by a Danny Peary, beginning in 1981 with "Cult Movies".
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"Plan 9 from Outer Space" and other films by Ed Wood, Jr. were among the earliest films to attract devotees who reveled in the incompetence of the products and delighting in finding new ones on repeated viewing, and to be said to have a "cult following". Indeed, Wood may be said to be the first identified "cult auteur". Other extremely low-budget science fiction and horror films of the 1950s ("Robot Monster", e.g.), along with exploitation films of the 1930s which surfaced in the burgeoning public domain home video marketplace during the 1980s ("Reefer Madness", e.g.) were added to the informal canon.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show is possibly the best-known and longest-running cult film in the U.S. The movie satirizes conventions of science fiction and horror films of its time, and includes elements of transvestitism, incest and homosexuality — all within the context of a Musical film. Rocky Horror (as its fans casually refer to it) received little critical attention or mainstream cinema exhibition when first released in 1975 but, in short order, found fans who repeatedly showed up at midnight screenings at inexpensive neighborhood cinemas, dressed in costume and "participating" in the film by doing such things as throwing rice during its wedding scene. In this case, the film intentionally ridiculed its own subject matter, therewith entering into the spirit of sarcastic fun surrounding the "attainment" of cult status.
Many significant cult films are independently made and were not expected by their creators to have much mainstream success. Like Rocky Horror, Night of the Living Dead, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, The Hills Have Eyes and Eraserhead have all been commonly acknowledged as having become cult films.
The 1992 Disney musical Newsies, a box-office flop, gained a passionate cult following, largely based online in the form of electronic mailing lists, fanfiction, and complex historically-inspired Role Play websites known as "lodging houses". This following may have been a factor in the eventual release of the movie on DVD and of its soundtrack.
Network television, cable television and pay-per-view stations have also changed the nature of cult films. Despite failing to meet box office expectations, Blade Runner was a favorite of early pay-per-view and HBO. Repeated showings on Comedy Central helped popularize Office Space and Half Baked.
In most cases, these films tend to enjoy long runs on video, thus being issued in more video "runs" with more copies than other movies.
The box office bomb Office Space managed to financially redeem itself when word-of-mouth made it a popular video rental, and Fight Club and Mulholland Drive have earned considerably more in DVD sales than they did in movie theaters. Also, cult movies are more likely to be issued on newer video technology in the technology's early days than other films.
Although films of all types of genres and plot conventions may become cult films, the horror and science fiction and experimental film genres have become the focus of those wanting to identify a film as a cult film, perhaps due to the relatively young and cynical nature of these genres' fan bases. The identification of a film as having "cult status" is particularly dependent upon genex, whose members are most invested in the concept and its agreed-upon films.
Some contend that, in rare cases, a film can be both a huge, major studio release and a cult film, because a small, devoted following exists within the film’s larger audience (i.e., 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Matrix, Taxi Driver and the Star Wars series.) With advances in web-based film distribution, films such as Jamie Cope's Life of a Tennis Ball can develop a cult following even without being commercially distributed.
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ghostman
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quote:
Originally posted by Zerabira:
So what is the ultimate definition of 'Cult'? - I don't necessarily agree that a cult film has to have a miniscule budget and the actors/director not be well known.
Well the definition of a "cult film" is really up to the viewer's opinion.
Personally, my definition's very lenient. If it's got a "cult following," it's a "cult film." For instance, Star Wars has a cult-like following, so I would call it a cult film. It's the same deal with TV shows like Family Guy, Simpsons or Angel. Despite criterias that may not fit under certain people's idea of a cult film, what they've all got in common are its ardent followers.
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I do hope it is BubbaHoTep 