is a hard thing to do.
I have this so far
1. Fight Club
2. Requiem for a Dream
3. Donnie Darko
4. Rocky Horror Picture Show
5. ?????
I have a list of potential ones
clerks
reservoir dogs
american psycho
office space
trainspotting
pi
fear and loathing in las vegas(may have to move this up to 3 or 4)
the big lebowski
eraserhead
dazed and confused
I have to do a speec on this on thursday too
What are your choices???
1 big lebowski
2 psychomania
3 werewolves on wheels
4 cannibal apocalypse
5 tokyo drifter/tattooed life
honorable mentions:
the wild angels
trail of blood
any russ meyer movie
street mobster
truck turner
black ceasar
hells angels on wheels
the born losers
cobra
i could be at this all day.
my main problem with your list is that most of them are just obscure(ish) art/indie films, and not necessarily cult films.
not cult classic films...i'm going to say my top 5 favorite obscurish movies
1)the waking life
2)200 cigarrettes
3)reservoir dogs
4)the day the earth stood still
5)brick
...Perhaps you'd all like to compile a top 5 cult classic film definitions here.
From Wiki:
"A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. Often, cult movies have failed to achieve fame outside of the small fanbases; however, there have been exceptions that have managed to gain fame amongst mainstream audiences, including 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), The Warriors (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Blue Velvet (1986), and Pulp Fiction (1994).[1] Many cult movies have gone on to transcend their original cult status and have become recognized as classics; others are of the "so bad it's good" variety, and are destined to remain in obscurity. Cult films often become the source of a thriving, obsessive, and elaborate subculture of fandom, hence the analogy to cults. However, not every film with a rabid fanbase is necessarily a cult film.
The term cult film is used to describe a film that has had little to no success commercially and critically upon its initial release but has later spawned a small, but devoted and usually obsessive fanbase, however there are various exceptions. This has led to a misconception in Cult classic films that the definition is a film that 'you either love or hate'. The term was first coined in the early 1980s in the book Cult Movies, by Danny Peary and is continued to be used to describe the films to this day. Usually, cult films have limited but very special, noted appeal. Cult films are often known to be eccentric, and do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream—yet there are examples that are relatively normal. They are often considered controversial because they step outside standard narrative and technical conventions known."
my friends and i went to see that in a really tiny obsure theater in downtown tacoma, not knowing what it was.
every other person in the audience was taking it so seriously, but we couldn't stop laughing.
it was horribble.
pulp fiction
half baked
super troopers
drugstore cowboy
natural born killers
american psycho
fight club
garden state
donnie darko
city of god
requiem for a dream
kids
full metal jacket
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
bronx tale
blow
apocalypse now
dont be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood
SLC punk
Trainspotting
now these may all not be cult classics i believe most of them are.
Yay
:D
You guys actually helped a lot!
(Ok, so fight club might not be a cult classic but I will change the title of the speech to my absolute favorite movies or something.)
Oh and plus I think I have searched a lot of these up on net flix's and 3 of them should be coming in by Friday
:D
definitely blue velvet.
Ichi the Killer was ok, but I read the book first and it didn't really live up to its inspiration. I think the only other one of his movies I've seen so far is Gozu, which I think I liked more, but I don't really remember it.
Suspiria is great. I love the lighting effects and whole look / design of that movie...
Does anyone have any more recommendations for what Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci movies I should check out? Or would you say all of them worthy?
Empire records,
The jersery cronicles (i will exlude jay and silent bob strike back and clerks 2)
Boobdock Saints,
Evil Dead Series, all 3 are great,
Night of the living dead (the orginal)
Ichi the Killer was ok, but I read the book first and it didn't really live up to its inspiration. I think the only other one of his movies I've seen so far is Gozu, which I think I liked more, but I don't really remember it.
Suspiria is great. I love the lighting effects and whole look / design of that movie...
Does anyone have any more recommendations for what Dario Argento or Lucio Fulci movies I should check out? Or would you say all of them worthy?
all of them everyting he does is top notch, im a huge fan of Opera. and Deep Red, which are also two othe of his best known pieces
cutcopydestroy Said:
i'm going to say brazil
btw great call on Brazil. I forgot to add a Gilliam on to my list... Im a fan of everything he does ( even Brothers Grimm). His style is still so in tact in an age of computer generated bullarky. The few stuff he does use now still doesnt even seem that forced and contrite.
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nikkisneakers Said:
KCAPFLOW Said:
ITT: 10% OF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A CULT CLASSIC IS.
excuse me marshall.
1. Night Porter
2. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
3. Holy Mountain
4. Sante Sangre/ Suspiria
5. Blue Velvet
Bladerunner in a close 6th. Have to give Lynch the presidence.
you get it.
obviously marshall.. we are the same level...no brainer there. NAVY!
my friends and i went to see that in a really tiny obsure theater in downtown tacoma, not knowing what it was.
every other person in the audience was taking it so seriously, but we couldn't stop laughing.
it was horribble.
hah, one of my friends compiled a montage of every instance of the word 'fuck' in that movie, and it must've been about 3 minutes long :/
