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Big Trouble in Little China is cult right? And every other Carpenter movie for that matter.

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I want to watch "party monsters" apparently it's whack like acid house or something which was cool and cult beans because you got to see danny boyle sweeping the floor and spud become a rubberized baby that sucked massive tit.

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and i think mad max 1 can be considered cult, it had a totally different feel from mad max 2 which everyone loved, hard to explain... i think movies become "cult" long after their time? hence cult classics? :arrow:
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A cult movie is basically a movie that may or may not have a huge audience, but the audience it has is hardcore - quote wars, Internet chat rooms, viewing parties, etc. An example of this is All About Eve, which was a huge hit and won all top 5 Oscars, but it's still a cult movie. Pulp Fiction is much less "cult" than it used to be, but it's still up there.

Basically, if the fanbase consists of obsessive whackjobs, it's a cult movie.
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Chan Is Missing is a good, very low budget cult movie, any of you assholes seen it?
suppose you're thinking about a plate of shrimp. suddenly somebody will say like 'plate' or 'shrimp' or 'plate of shrimp', out of the blue, no explanation.
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how is it cult if only 5 people have watched it?
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Pulp Fiction, cult? Most people I know have seen it and passed it off. Reservoir Dogs is much more cult but still isn't a true cult film.

To me, Blade Runner is an excellent cult film. It reeked of style, the writing was good, and the setting was awe-some. Yet, I haven't seen much of it in today's world. Nothing compared to Star Wars.

Alien was pretty cult for a while, until Aliens came out.
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Mr. Green wrote:Blade Runner
blade runner + industrial music = was behind the cyberpunk scene of the 80s-present

plus that one novelist dude who wrote a book about it? i dunno but those funky umbrellas in blade runner with the neon glowing rims and glowing handle = PWNGLGLEGE
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Yeah, Blade Runner is big-time cult.
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Mr. Green wrote:Pulp Fiction, cult? Most people I know have seen it and passed it off.
How the fuck does that prove, or even suggest that Pulp Fiction is not a cult movie? If anything, it shows that it IS a cult movie.
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Post by Ernesto »

So by that rationale, most summer movies are cult?
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Of course Pulp Fiction is cult, it has a small fanatic fanbase. If most people saw it and passed it off, and there's a group of people who consitently love it, then it's cult? Summer movies for the most part get forgotten about pretty soon after they gtfo the screen... and people don't talk about how great they are 10 years after they're made, so most of them wouldn't be cult.
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SuperH wrote:If most people saw it and passed it off, and there's a group of people who consitently love it, then it's cult?
I think you got it ;)
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The Trancers series is a good cult series.

But you guys wouldn't know anything about that because its too cult and you have to watch that Kubrick shit.
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How about Repo Man.

Oh and the Bill and Ted movies.
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Jack_Deth wrote:The Trancers series is a good cult series.

But you guys wouldn't know anything about that because its too cult and you have to watch that Kubrick shit.
I remember the first Trancers, but I don't think I've seen any of the others. Or if I did they weren't very memorable. How many have they made now? Something in double figures isn't it?
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There are 6 of them. 6 was awful though. And coming from me, that means its real bad right ?
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Didn't the first one have a great post apoc. scene where New York is in ruins and mostly flooded? I haven't seen it since it was first released on video over here, so I might be getting confused.
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Yea, It was LA actually.
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How dare you forget that which is Rocky horror picture show!!!
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Nightkin244 wrote:How dare you forget that which is Rocky horror picture show!!!
Hey newb, start reading the threads before you post. Same with your post in the Trilogy thread too.
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