I'm sure you'll find people who won't class Donnie Darko as "cult". I've seen people class all kinds of things as "cult"...The Crow, Fight Club, Nightmare Before Christmas, this whole Spongebob Squarepants thing.
Originally posted by bedwin: i thought it would be interesting to find out people tastes
Hmmm LOL well I dont even know what 'cult' is!
I mean in my humble opinion no way for example can Reservior Dogs or Goodfellas or Halloween etc etc be classified as 'cult' - these films i think are much to popular to be 'cult'.
I suppose my fav cult films (Im not even sure if they are 'cult' though) would be maybe True Romance or Wild At Heart or Hairspray.
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In my eyes it totally depends on what people label as "cult".
Yea, I'm not sure where you draw the line between 'cult' and 'mainstream'. If you regard forien films as 'cult' I'd say "Chinese Ghost Story"! Excellent film!
Another one no one has mentioned "Harold And Maud". I usually hate rom/coms, but with it's pre-goth dark humor, and hippyish sence of rebellion, it is a must see film.
films are classed as cult films prime examples of cult films are:donnie darko,goodfellars
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Seriously, explain how in the hell Goodfellas can be classed as "cult". If anything it falls under "classic" or "mainstream success".
Your stereotypical "cult" success has a small following, that in time slowly grows. It doesn't have a big following, but it has a few die hard fans...I guess you can look at stuff like Donnie Darko, Wickerman, a debateable movie would be Evil Dead...that sort of falls under what I mentioned above.
In my eyes, saying Goodfellas is a cult movie/classic, is like saying American Pie is an "arthouse" masterpiece. Or Red Heat should have been an Oscar winner...
Thanks. The only thing that gets me about the film is they don't explain the characters properly. and of course being 1987 the diastrous absence of the fashion police. When Corey Haim first walks into the comics shop he's wearing something that looks like it's come of a deckchair!!
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can't believe no one's mentioned "Withnail and I", also love Bladerunner.
I think the 80's movies directed by John Hughes ie Ferris Buellers day off, sixteen candles etc are developing quite a cult following now. Like many other movies now deemed "cult", they were slated and/ or ignored when first released.
Withnail and I, Donnie Darko, The Wicker man, The 80's Brat pack movies, The Rocky Horror show, Heathers, Beetlejuice (is that cult?) and the nightmare before christmas.
Goodfellas is an all time classic IMO. Not cult at all. In fact I'm not exactly sure how many of mine are
All my other cult favs have already been said, so..
