Overrated "Cult" Movies
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Why not? If Star Wars can be considered a cult movie, anything can be!
Edit: Just thought of one: Heavy Metal. When I was junior high age, everybody was saying you had to see this "adult" SF/F cartoon. But I never saw it till I was around 20 at a midnight movie. Not very good, it turned out.
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Fargo, Dog Soldiers, Rocky Horror,
Warning: super long post! I had already started replying before I noticed the thread was already 3 pages long...well, I started so I finished.
Blasphemer!
Second.
You don't need to be high to follow the plot, just like you don't need flippers and a rubber ring to go swimming in the Sahara desert.
But still, seconded.
I've heard this before from people who felt the film was over-hyped.
I wasn't aware that it was hyped at all, just happened rent it one day on the strength of the cover and quite liked it.
I think there should be a distinction between films that are overrated (not as good as some people seam to think) and films that are Over-hyped (good, but not as universe shatteringly important as a bunch of over enthusiastic fans like to claim.)
Weren't those both box office successes? Hardly cult films.
Apparently he was a superhero. Although I liked the film (as stated above) I have to admit that I found the director's commentary alongside Kevin Smith to be almost entertaining as the movie itself. Mostly due to Smith's bewilderment at the apparent subtexts being pointed out by the director.
I had a similar experience with a Yank co-worker that insisted I watch his Seinfeld boxset. Suffice to say after that experience I almost strangled the Git...but not before straight-facedly recommending he watch the entirety of the Carry-on films. Mmmm, revenge.
Anyway, I wouldn't call Snatch or Lock Stock cut film exactly, they're just films. But I suppose it depends on your perspective when it comes to foreign type films.
I wonder does that mean films like Seven Samurai and Nikita are cult films too?
To be fair to your classmates I think you have to be of a certain young age to truly appreciate the novelty of animated breasts. But yes, some quarters do seam to give this film undeserved regard. Still I think it should at least get points for daring to be different in a time when animation was just for Saturday morning cartoons.
Fargo: I'd disagree, but like with Donnie Darko I didn't realise it was overrated at the time.
Dog Soldiers: Only just saw it the other day. Laughed my arse off at the cow bit, but it all became a little too silly in the end. It is was it is, a somewhat amusing, slightly silly horror film.
Rocky Horror: Like many before me...seconded.
As for my own suggestions...I've had the dubious benefit of having worked alongside a film buff, so I'm not sure if some of the crap he insisted I watch is overrated in general, or just by him.
I remember he leant be a film called Primer...I fell asleep about 40 mins in and have since had no inclination to finish it.
He also insisted that I watch Twelve Angry Men with Gregory Peck, insisting it's the best film ever made. He looked crestfallen when I said I had seen it already and was aware it is an acknowledged classic. Apparently I was the first to say so as I had noticed his copy do the rounds at the office several times before.
Blasphemer!
Second.
You don't need to be high to follow the plot, just like you don't need flippers and a rubber ring to go swimming in the Sahara desert.
But still, seconded.
I've heard this before from people who felt the film was over-hyped.
I wasn't aware that it was hyped at all, just happened rent it one day on the strength of the cover and quite liked it.
I think there should be a distinction between films that are overrated (not as good as some people seam to think) and films that are Over-hyped (good, but not as universe shatteringly important as a bunch of over enthusiastic fans like to claim.)
Weren't those both box office successes? Hardly cult films.
Apparently he was a superhero. Although I liked the film (as stated above) I have to admit that I found the director's commentary alongside Kevin Smith to be almost entertaining as the movie itself. Mostly due to Smith's bewilderment at the apparent subtexts being pointed out by the director.
I happened to mention in the company of a British coworker that I like "The Office", so he proceeded to tell me what I already knew about it originating in the UK, then practically forced me to borrow two of his DVDs which he assured me I would find hilarious:
Snatch
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Hated. Them. Both.
I had a similar experience with a Yank co-worker that insisted I watch his Seinfeld boxset. Suffice to say after that experience I almost strangled the Git...but not before straight-facedly recommending he watch the entirety of the Carry-on films. Mmmm, revenge.
Anyway, I wouldn't call Snatch or Lock Stock cut film exactly, they're just films. But I suppose it depends on your perspective when it comes to foreign type films.
I wonder does that mean films like Seven Samurai and Nikita are cult films too?
To be fair to your classmates I think you have to be of a certain young age to truly appreciate the novelty of animated breasts. But yes, some quarters do seam to give this film undeserved regard. Still I think it should at least get points for daring to be different in a time when animation was just for Saturday morning cartoons.
Fargo: I'd disagree, but like with Donnie Darko I didn't realise it was overrated at the time.
Dog Soldiers: Only just saw it the other day. Laughed my arse off at the cow bit, but it all became a little too silly in the end. It is was it is, a somewhat amusing, slightly silly horror film.
Rocky Horror: Like many before me...seconded.
As for my own suggestions...I've had the dubious benefit of having worked alongside a film buff, so I'm not sure if some of the crap he insisted I watch is overrated in general, or just by him.
I remember he leant be a film called Primer...I fell asleep about 40 mins in and have since had no inclination to finish it.
He also insisted that I watch Twelve Angry Men with Gregory Peck, insisting it's the best film ever made. He looked crestfallen when I said I had seen it already and was aware it is an acknowledged classic. Apparently I was the first to say so as I had noticed his copy do the rounds at the office several times before.
Anything with Bruce Campbell in it, really.
I wish he would lose that schtick he's on, with all these smart-aleck jerks he keeps playing (good thing he doesn't star in Joss Whedon stuff, there'd be critical mass!
). He can do serious drama - anyone who's seen Homicide: Life on the Street knows that. Unfortunately that was only one time he did that. 
Yeah. Everyone I know worships this movie. Honestly, aside from Willhem Defoe, it didn't impress me. The directing was terrible. The dialogue wasn't nearly as clever as the writer thought it was. The character motivations needed more fleshing out. And it kind of just winds down towards the end.
Pulp Fiction.
Oh, yeah, I just went there.
Oh, yeah, I just went there.
I'm also going out on a limb and mentioning:
The original theatrical versions of the SW films.
I mean, I can see why some might prefer them over the Special Editions (I am not one of these people, obviously), but to hear some of the more self-obsessed crowd, the originals are absolutely perfect in every way and George Lucas should be beaten senseless for daring to mess with perfection. Even though, you know, it's his own work and all that.
And, God help me, I SO do not give a flying FUCK about whether or not Han Solo shoots first.As Christopher Titus might say, these people should get down off the cross, use the wood to build a bridge, and GET OVER IT.
I heard optimus prime prefers the original
So does Pikachu.
I've heard that when Pikachu saw the Special Edition of ANH, he pulled his old, long dead VHS copy out of the closet, and zapped it, hoping to bring it back to life. "Pika?" he cried, eyes brimming with tears. "Pika!" he said, realizing only then that his original version had bitten the dust.
I just about lost it.
You may have a point there. I may have titled my thread incorrectly.
Ginger Snaps, any Scream movie and The Lost Boys: all as turgid as Dracula 2000.
Any Matrix film
Especially the first one.
I think Comedies can be really hard to translate across cultures, even cultures as similar as the USA and the UK's. I'm an american and I watched the first runs of the British "The Office" and "Coupling" on the BBC during college. I hated The Office but loved Coupling.
Then they did american versions of each, and I loved the American "The Office" but hated the american "Coupling." Weird
Fargo, RHPS. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind (and I see I'm not alone).
I haven't seen a huge number of cult films, and the rest that I can think of that I've seen weren't too bad.
I haven't seen a huge number of cult films, and the rest that I can think of that I've seen weren't too bad.
Here's every Tarantino movie ever made:
A bunch of people shoot each other while saying "Fuck". The end.
That's some quality entertainment right there.
Since when are Tarantino movies "cult"? Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or for heavens sake!
Not saying to have to like them (I do, though it usually takes a second viewing to grow on me) but I hardly think any of them qualify as "over-hyped cult films".
Overrated mainstream independent films, perhaps, but that's a matter of opinion and not one sought by the OP.
Not saying to have to like them (I do, though it usually takes a second viewing to grow on me) but I hardly think any of them qualify as "over-hyped cult films".
Overrated mainstream independent films, perhaps, but that's a matter of opinion and not one sought by the OP.