Overrated "Cult" Movies

[PKTrekGirl]

My big one though is This Is Spinal Tap. People keep raving about it, but I remember watching it and never once even cracking a smile. Dull, dull, dull! One of the few dvd's that I've sold.

I fell asleep while watching this movie. I agree, not as good as the hype.

I actually agree with most of the comments in this thread, except for the one about The Breakfast Club. That movie rocks all over town, IMO. By far my favorite 'coming of age' flick, and funny as hell. I still can't get through a single episode of The Dead Zone without thinking about The Breakfast Club and the elephant lamp.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

"The Princess Bride"

Just don't get it. It is supposed to be all clever and post modern and stuff but "clever and post modern" most times means "random and silly" to me. Plus I really don't care for Billy Crystal.

The Princess Bride is simply one of the best fantasy movies ever. I love it. The casting was perfect and I never heard it was suppose to be clever or post modern. It was a great movie and the casting was spot on. Andre the Giant, Cary Elwes...The snivling Prince. I love the movie.

 

[Davros]

The Matrix

 

[Opus]

I have to agree about Pulp Fiction, whether it's "cult" or not. QT is just the WORST director ever. Disgustingly violent.

And with that, I'd put "Fight Club" in the same catagory. So many people recommended the movie, I rented it. Hate isn't even a close enough description of my emotions when describing this movie. Violent, disgusting and stupid all in one.

And you can put "Napolean Dynamite" on the list too. What a STUPID movie. GOSH! IDIOT!

 

[Harvey]

Serenity.

There. I said it. And I love Firefly.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

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.

lmao. Best post ever

 

[PKTrekGirl]

Regarding Tarantino:

I actually do like Pulp Fiction. It is too violent, like all of his movies are, but some of the Travolta/Samuel L. Jackson dialog is hilarious. And I like the ending, when everything circles back to the beginning. Clever way of ending the thing.

The rest of his films, I just hate. Reservoir Dogs, for example, is one of the most pointlessly violent films ever made. That movie could have been over in 10 seconds. Just have the entire cast line up and shoot each other.

 

[Orintho]

'Mars Attacks' seems to have a small following, and I don't know why.The movie is not funny. Two hours of bug-eyed aliens going 'ack ack ack' is not funny.

 

[NCC1701]

And with that, I'd put "Fight Club" in the same catagory. So many people recommended the movie, I rented it. Hate isn't even a close enough description of my emotions when describing this movie. Violent, disgusting and stupid all in one.

HERESY!

And you can put "Napolean Dynamite" on the list too. What a STUPID movie. GOSH! IDIOT!

This I agree with tho, fuck I hate that movie. Now I may not have the best taste in movies, but this crapfest just took the piss. I got 20 minutes into it and had to turn that piece of shit off. I'm off to have a ND bonfire in my backyard, anyone else keen?

 

[Gov Kodos]

Blade Runner, I love the film, practically have it memorized, but it isn't the worldchanging film that many of its zealot fans make it out to be.

 

[D Man]

I saw Blade Runner for the first time a few months ago at a little independent theater's midnight showing...I THINK I kind of liked it, but I'm really not sure. I can't tell if that means I need to see it again and it will then blow my mind, or if it was just "meh." I'm certainly not a big enough fan to care about the 80 or so different version available on DVD, nor do I even know which cut I saw in the theater.

 

[Brian]

I have to agree about Napoleon Dynamite. Worst piece of crap film ever, with lots of people saying it's comedy genius.

And the Matrix films. Slick look, dull as dishwater.

 

[Sagart]

Another vote for Blade Runner.

I watched it again about a month ago and it still leaves me cold.

 

[mvkemp]

I don't hate Napolean Dynamite, I just don't like it that much. I definitely can't watch it more than a couple times.

Someone mentioned the British Coupling (the only real one) which was awesome, I loved that. And on the Office DvDs(also british version) there's an outtake where the boss is doing something with his hands and it takes like 90 takes to get it right, that never fails to crack me up.

 

[M'Sharak]

My big one though is This Is Spinal Tap. People keep raving about it, but I remember watching it and never once even cracking a smile. Dull, dull, dull! One of the few dvd's that I've sold.

You have to have lived through the heavy metal years to get it; also, the humor is not the same as in an ordinary movie, as it's all about the downfall of a shitty heavy metal band (well, just a plain shitty band).

Agreed. No offense Cutter John, but the only way I can see someone finding this movie dull is if they are either uninterested in, or didn't understand the material. Almost every line is an in joke directed at either metal fans, arrogant self obsessed rock musicians (they were still booing him when we came on stage! ) or the music industry in general. I guess if rock music, or the industry in general is not something you are interested in, this movie would be pretty boring.

Yeah, if you were in a band (or just around bands a lot) during the 70s and 80s, this is some deadly-accurate commentary on the whole rock and roll industry and scene. I have met all of those people and seen all of those things happen; that's what makes it funny.

'Mars Attacks' seems to have a small following, and I don't know why.The movie is not funny. Two hours of bug-eyed aliens going 'ack ack ack' is not funny.

If that's all you got from it, I feel sorry for you. It's nothing less than a simultaneous send-up of and homage to the whole 1950s-60s sci-fi B-movie genre. Brilliantly-done, at that.

You probably didn't get Buckaroo Banzai, either. Oh, well.

 

[Brian]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

It had amusing moments, but on the whole just irritated me. I still don't know if it's told non-linearly or WTF is wrong with it. In one moment his lawyer friend is trying to knife him to death in their seedy room, he drives away from the city, drives back, and his friend is in a nicer room in a different hotel, living with an artist and welcoming him in. WTF? I'm sure I'll get some "if you did drugs you'd get it", but I guess in that case I'm glad I don't get it.

 

[Barbados Slim]

Another one for Donnie Darko. It seemed like Harvey meets Sliders.

I'm going to go there and say Hot Fuzz. I love Shaun of the Dead. Hot Fuzz has some funny send ups of action but you gotta admit it's slloooowww in the first hour and the big action finale isn't very well filmed. Doesn't really work for me in the way Shaun worked.

And the "I want to shoot myself every time someone thinks they're being clever by quoting this godawful, dull f-ing movie" award goes to: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Not funny whatsoever. Stop quoting lines from it, I hate you.

 

[CaptJimboJones]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

I agree with this one as well. What worked brilliantly in a '60s-era, experimental journalistic "novel" was just horrible as a very faithful -'90s movie. Scenes that were hilarious and edgy on the printed page came across as just awful when you saw them on the screen. Some books are just not good material for film, and "Fear & Loathing" is definitely one of them.

I thought Hunter S. Thompson's work was captured far more effectively in the '80s movie "Where the Buffalo Roam" starring Bill Murray as Thompson. That movie was at least smart enough to pull material from Thompson's "Fear & Loathing on the Campaign Trail" and some of his other work rather than solely from "Las Vegas."

 

[TheArsenal]

I've never been able to see the allure of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. At the same time, I've never seen it in a participatory theater on the big screen, which I understand is half the fun.

 

[Kryton]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Heh...came in the mail from Netflix today. Already seen it. Damn bat country!