Cult Classics

[Scott the Pirate]

For the first time? If so i envy you.

[Pythonist]

Well...

I read about a third of it and had to give it back to the school library. The thing that really annoyed me is that it ruins the end completely in the INTRODUCTION to the book!!!!! It tells you what was intended and the common misinterpretations.

I got so angry

[Roland Deschain]

...The thing that really annoyed me is that it ruins the end completely in the INTRODUCTION to the book!!!!! It tells you what was intended and the common misinterpretations.

I got so angry

I've not read that yet, but I hear it's really good. If I do read it, i'll be sure not to read the introduction until after reading the rest of the book. Thanks for the headsup on that one .

As for cult classics, I would also like to add a few more. Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) absolutely has to be in a list of cult classics, as does Being There. Both films contain sterling performances from all involved, especially Peter Sellers. The guy was a legend. Another film he excelled in was Lolita (1962) with James Mason, who delivered a solid performance as poet and pervert Humbert Humbert. The remake with Jeremy Irons was also superb.

EDIT: Yet another cult classic would be Deliverance. You sure gotta pretty mouth... .

[ChowMein]

I've been waiting for someone to mention Forbidden Planet , Fantastic Planet , Phantom Of The Paradise and A Christmas Story ( the last one , along with Up are the flicks I put on when I need a cure fo deep depression ,works all the time . )

@#!%$! THIS DAMN COMPUTE_'S BLOODY LETTE_ _ IS BUNGED UP !
Makin me c_azy it is .

[Roland Deschain]

Forbidden Planet definitely. Also Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Music, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Quatermass Experiment, DOA, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. All originals where remakes exist.

[PKMKII]

Also Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Music

Those aren't cult classics, they're just classics.

[Roy Hunter]

Withnail and I.

[Roland Deschain]

Also Citizen Kane, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sound of Music

Those aren't cult classics, they're just classics.

Ok, I shall concede that point, although The Sound of Music does err more towards cult classic than the other two. Only just, though.

[Almighty Doer of Stuff]

Phantom of the Paradise... One of my favorite movies, I sing the songs (written by Paul Williams) all the time. Now I want to sing one of them, but I'm in a bloody library! Thanks a lot for reminding me, ChowMein!

I hated Donnie Darko. It makes no sense. People are always going on about how "deep" and "meaningful" it is. It means nothing and it's not deep. It's a poorly written, poorly executed mood piece, and it only makes sense if you read the supplemental materials, and not in an "Oh, I see it now, I missed it the first time" way, but rather, in a "this book says things that are not in the slightest indicated in the movie" way. The story doesn't stand on its own at all, in other words. It's most certainly not Scottish.

[ChowMein]

yarrr . I'm singing ' Old Souls' to meself rite now , *sigh* , t'is a beeyoootifull song (IMHO) .

I'd like to sujjist a cuppel ove flicks I haven't seen posted yet , namely , 'The Gods Must Be Crazy' and ' Eating Raoul'.

[black bart]

Assault on Precinct 13...the original of course.

Electra Glide in Blue.

[pieces o'nine]

Blade Runner


Also, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is on rotation on cable again; I hadn't seen that one in years, but remembered most of the lyrics...

[Roland Deschain]

Blade Runner

Also, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is on rotation on cable again; I hadn't seen that one in years, but remembered most of the lyrics...

I both of those films. Let's go up to the lab and...see what's on the slab. I can see you shiver with...an...tici.........pation!

[Mad Willyum Bonney]

Yarr mateys !

Tampopo , a Japasneeze fillum about RAMEN an' food an various other subplots (that i had a harrrd tyme following) , but quite amusing none thee less.

Women On Thee Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown , Spanish language , very funny .

[black bart]

Women On Thee Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown directed by Pedro Almodóvar is a great film. I also like Volver.