I tried twice to watch The Godfather and fell asleep both times. Nothing about it caught me at all.
So i’m not the only one.
It bored me. Tried the second one, didn’t get better.
Mean Girls is ok. It has some good meme quotes, but it isn’t really a good movie.
Heathers is better for that kind of movie
Maybe not a cult classic but the highly praised adaptation of Little Women (2019). It did not have the positive flow and feel compared to the 1994 version. Also, having a 22 year old actress playing the young version of Amy was not a good choice, her sitting between the other girls at school looked ridiculous.
I had a little personal crisis when I watched The Big Lebowski for the first time and just hated it. I was so bored.
I’ll have to give it another go and hope I get it .
A Clockwork Orange. I read the book first and was excited to see the movie but ultimately I found it really slow and boring. It’s not a great adaptation in my opinion.
I don’t understand this movie at all! Maybe I’m too dumb for it’s high score on imdb lol.
I can’t stand the Fifth Element. On paper, it should be perfect for me but I just find it really obnoxious.
lmao, I just recently realised I’ve seen that movie so many times and have no idea what it’s about.
Donnie Darko.
Not a terrible movie, just an extremely odd film of which I have never understood the cult following.
Nah, it was at least a little terrible.
I find there are few cult classics that can be found by future generations and maintain their cult status outside of the truly timeless greats like Rocky Horror Picture Show or similar. There’s a nostalgia associated with most cult films. I can’t imagine GenZ glomming onto Better off Dead or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off or The Goonies because so much of the camp and humor is tied to a time they don’t have a reference for.
I’m Gen-X and showed my Gen Z kids Better off Dead recently. They quite liked it. I think it’s just so goofy anyone could enjoy it. I DON’T think they’d like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off - too talky.
My 13-year-old enjoyed Better Off Dead too. Especially “I want my two dollars!”
Airplane! It’s okay just not my cup of tea
Not a cult classic. It’s a mainstream hit.
“Jim never has a second cup of coffee at home…”
So if the cult gets large enough it doesn’t count?
It was never a cult classic. It was a huge hit from the beginning.
“something, typically a movie or book, that is popular or fashionable among a particular group or section of society.” I’m going to say that exactly fits LOTR, Star Wars, Star Trek etc. You are just trying to say the group size matters, it doesn’t. I’d also say the Bible is a cult classic by definition.
You are being intentionally obtuse. A mainstream mega hit is in no way among a particular group. Those franchises you mention may be in a way, but their touchstone movies are all mainstream hits. Videodrome or Twin Peaks are cult classics, not Fifth Element or X Files. Like, Twin Peaks was a big hit for a very short amount of time, then its popularity nosedived. The continuing fans them were the cult. But Airplane! was a mega hit and never went out if vogue. It spawned a sequel and a whole genre of slapstick parody.
Big Lebowski … I mean I enjoyed it but not enough to join the cult
Give it another try, I was also confused during my first watch, but now it’s one of my favorite movies
Came here to comment this. I wanted to enjoy it but I just didn’t. I can see myself having good fun with it if I watched it 10-15 years ago but when I did it just didn’t hit where it should’ve
“That’s just, like… your opinion, man.
Second this. Did not enjoy watching that
The inglorious bastards. It treats a very serious subject matter with too much quirky humor.
Also the Nazi slaughter group is basically like an Einsatz Gruppe, but for slaughtering German soldiers. Literally locking people in a building (often a church) and then setting it ablaze was a technique used against Jews.
Just reversing the roles doesn’t make it an act that’s worth cheering for, like people did in the cinema when I saw it. I couldn’t detach myself from that, hence why I did personally not enjoy it.
“German soldiers”
Listen. It is one of the hardest cases to discern guilt in wartime situations. Membership of the nazi parti or being a german soldier is not per se a sign of guilt. Just like just being a jew is no reason to be killed, too. I’m all for sentencing war criminals, but the soldier killed by bear jew nor the people sitting in the cinema (aside from Hitlers direct circle) have been proven to be guilty of war crimes.
If you applaud them burning, you’re basicly using the same system of dehumanising a group of people as the nazi party and the SS used for making people belief sloughtering jews, gypsies, gay people is ok. That is very, very wrong.
Nope. It’s always based and cool to kill a Nazi. Not gonna let people like you equate a group of fascists who kill everyone but themselves to the groups that just want to exist.
Pulp fiction.
I think, like most of his work, you got to be really into characters, storytelling, and the interactions between characters.
I didn’t really like Kill Bill because of backstory. I like his films that just start and end. You know nothing about the characters, but by the end of the story you feel like you know a lot based on their actions and interactions. Reservoir Dogs and The Hateful Eight are my favourites for this. In-depth and complicated characters and story being told, but know little to nothing outside of the snapshot in time the film takes place.
That’s a very specific style of film to enjoy, so I can see why people praise Pulp Fiction while others don’t or just pretend to.
I dont know, characters and story were fine it also made me cackle a cuple if times. But all combined just didnt feel quite right, something was missing. I guess I should watch it againg, maybe I could pin point it better, but it just did not live up to the hipe it was and still is getting. Kill Bill is in my eyes more interesting because of cinematography
Breakfast club. It doesn’t age well. Bender commits sexual assault, and he’s the hero.
