Cult classics

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  1. Joe King

    Joe King WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

    Name them.
     
  2. Panchyprsss

    Panchyprsss Clogg's LORD PROTECTOR

    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

    El Topo


    end of the thread
     
  3. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    Most Cult Classics are just awful films enjoyed by either people with poor taste or ironic hipsters

    one I saw that I found myself actually enjoying despite going into it expecting to hate it was "The Ninth Configuration" ... Tremendous performance by Stacy Keach and an extremely uncomfortable bar brawl
     
  4. whiskey

    whiskey Czarcasm

    Reefer Madness
     
  5. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    The way Hut goes on about dope, he'd probably refer to that one as a documentary
     
  6. Xplosive

    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

    The Last Dragon
     
  7. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    LEROY!!!
     
  8. Xplosive

    Xplosive X-MOD Bad Motherfucker

    Keep ya money! You just get that sucka to the designated place, at the designated time, and I will gladly designated his ass for dismemberment!
     
  9. Panchyprsss

    Panchyprsss Clogg's LORD PROTECTOR

    The Last Dragon is a cult classic? :tick:
     
  10. Ugotabe Kidding

    Ugotabe Kidding WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

  11. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    :giggle:
     
  12. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    If a film as terribly written, acted and directed as "The Warriors" is considered one, then why not "The Last Dragon"?
     
  13. Neil

    Neil tueur de grenouilles

    did the warriors really comed out to played or did i imagined it?
     
  14. Anthony

    Anthony Admin Staff Member

    Yup. Big time
     
  15. Panchyprsss

    Panchyprsss Clogg's LORD PROTECTOR

    what is the modern definition of a cult classic? In the past it was a movie that usually bombed at the box office on its first run and later attained success in the midnight movie market. The cult film had usually loyal fans that watched the film multiple times, attend showing dressed as characters in the film and the audience either chorused the lines or answered back at the screen. The films usually became merchandise magnets for posters, t-shirts and other stuff. Besides Rocky horror Picture Show and El Topo and don't know of any movie with similar cult fanbase.
     
  16. Anthony

    Anthony Admin Staff Member

    A cult classic a is a movie that is loved by large number of people, but not enough to make a box office dent. The Last Dragon is the very definition of a cult classic.
     
  17. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    Yeah it's usually a film that performed poorly when released but gains a substantial audience in the years after... Some movies don't really lend themselves to faggot dress up parties like the ones panchy likes to imagined

    ninth configuration is a cult film... What are you supposed to do when you watch it, dress like a marine?
     
  18. ArturoGatti

    ArturoGatti WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

    Two Lane Blacktop
    Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia
    The Harder They Come
    Vanishing Point
    Withnail and I
     
  19. TKO

    TKO Administrator Staff Member

    Dead Presidents
     
  20. lb 4 lb

    lb 4 lb Fightbeat Gold Member

    Should we really be making threads that can be answered with a Google search? Step your thread game up JK.
     
  21. Anthony

    Anthony Admin Staff Member

    You should be a mod in this section
     
  22. lb 4 lb

    lb 4 lb Fightbeat Gold Member

    Why's that? I don't think I could, it would cut into my Call of Duty time. If anything you need to get back into the mod buisness. You took care of shit dude.
     
  23. Anthony

    Anthony Admin Staff Member

    Im still mod this place. but in reality, it doesnt need much modding anymore. I did such a terrific job this place runs pretty smooth :wo:
     
  24. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    Can you dressed up in costumes relate to the film and watched the movie at a party with other fans? No? Then it no a cult classic!!!!!!
     
  25. ArturoGatti

    ArturoGatti WBC Silver Diamond Emeritus Champ

    The Room, then.
     
  26. cdogg187

    cdogg187 GLADYS

    that is the worst film ever made

    nothing comes close

    I've only watched it with the MST3K guys ripping on it... I can't fathom how awful it would be without those guys making me laugh
     
  27. Panchyprsss

    Panchyprsss Clogg's LORD PROTECTOR

    Some of the films mentioned here did not bombed at the box office. The Last Dragon debuted at #4 with $5.2 million, remained in ther top ten list for six weeks and finished its run with over $33 million which is a moderate success for a $10 million budget film. The film is liked by many, but didn't generated anything else besides decent video sales. Taimak's career ended with this film. More in the definition of cult classic is Blade Runner 1982 a film that had a budget of $30 million, was trashed by the top critics and bombed with a lifetime gross of $32 million.
     
  28. Trplsec

    Trplsec Sleeps in a Cage


    When I was in my early 20's I dated this chick that was one of those 'Rocky Horror" crazies. However, she was smokin hot so I figured I could put up with watching the same movie every Friday night. After going 2 times and watching these loons dress up and act out scenes to possibly the worst movie ever filmed, I had to pull the plug.

    To this day, the sheer mention of that movie makes me nauseous.
     
  29. Nailed it.


    End of the thread.
     
  30. Best 'cult' movie?

    'The Offence'
    (with Sean Connery, just post-007)
     

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