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With the release of the new Indiana Jones film comes some questions… We haven't seen it yet but we hear a lot of people don't like it and it's already being called a flop. But is that because it's actually bad, because people want it to be bad, or because it doesn't match people's expectations? What's the real story? It's hard to know at this point.
That got me thinking about cult classics, which are usually things that don't find an audience right away and instead pick them up over time. And then there are things that only YOU like but everyone else seems to hate for whatever reason. And lastly things that everyone loves but you dislike.
Some of the films we chatted about were Solo, Tank girl, Kinky Boots, The Rocky Horror picture show, Sucker Punch, TRON 1 and TRON and more. Tank Girl was my pick. When it came out it wasn't a big success mainly because audiences didn't know what to makes of it, it wasn't well marketed, it twisted its source material too much so that the relationship with it was thin, and it wasn't mainstream enough to work well as a major release. But along the way it found its own audience on video and DVD because even though it wasn't a good representative of the comic it was based on, it was something special and unique in its own right. Tank Girl is a beautiful representative of mid 90s alt culture and the Riot Grrrl movement. And in the end it was responsible for bringing many new readers to the comic it was based on.
Another film I picked was Sucker Punch. This film was pretty much universally disliked when it came out and is still broadly disliked. I think the main reason was that people were lead to believe it would be a comic book action fantasy film instead of a heavy and heavy-handed physiological allegory about severe mental issues, depression, sexual abuse, trauma, and self sacrifice contrasted with cartoonishly sexy outfits and insane fantasy sequences. Though I really loved it and it's still one of my favourite movies. Over time I believe it has started to find its own particular audience.
What are your fave cult classics? What do you think should be a cult classic. and what do you think does not deserve to be a classic?
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Ozoneocean at 8:06AM, July 13, 2023
That's a really fun movie ^_^
PaulEberhardt at 12:09PM, July 12, 2023
Down Periscope! It might not be considered a cult classic in the wider world, but for me and my family and friends it has become just that.
Ozoneocean at 5:20PM, July 11, 2023
@Jason Moon @marcorossi - that's really good to hear!!
Ozoneocean at 5:20PM, July 11, 2023
@Andreas_Helixfinger - Oh! I remember it being very typical of a film for Rutgar setting wise. He did a lot of those future films where he's the hero :) You're right in that this one was pretty unique and not nearly as bad as most of his later movies.
Ozoneocean at 5:18PM, July 11, 2023
@InkyMoondrop So glad you like it, it's a really cool sounding piece ^_^
InkyMoondrop at 10:58AM, July 11, 2023
Wow, thank you, what an interesting theme for BD! It's really good music actually!
Andreas_Helixfinger at 10:18AM, July 11, 2023
Also, just a fun note, the movie has Götz Otto, the guy who played the bond villain Stamper in Tomorrow Never Dies, playing a captain of the guard in it. One of the cheesier acts in the film too. I love how more german his accent gets the angrier his character gets in the film.
Andreas_Helixfinger at 10:10AM, July 11, 2023
Well, one movie that I know, watch and own on DVD is Beowulf (1999), starring Christopher Lambert as Beowulf. I'm fairly sure that movie doesn't have a cult following, yet to me it feels like it should have just for the setting alone. Movie has this post-apocalyptic techno-medieval setting, style and estethic that I don't think I've ever seen anywhere else that I think is pretty awesome and is the biggest reason why I really like that movie, though admittedly it isn't a good movie objectively:P
Jason Moon at 7:30AM, July 11, 2023
My grandma and her boyfriend just saw the new film and she said that she loved it. Reminded her of the older films.
marcorossi at 2:15AM, July 11, 2023
I went to see the Indiana Jones movie last weekend with some friends, and we agreed on a vote of 7.5/10, so not bad overall. A lot of action, fun scenes, characters are in character, the plot isn't bad (though it is 90% action). The old Indy movies were also like this, so I don't know what else people were expecting from an Indy movie, honestly.